"You can count on defeat in your life if you neglect prayer. Failure to pray always makes us insensitive to sin. If you pray in the time of victory you will never have to plead in a time of defeat. One of the greatest temptations that can come to you after you have proved that God
is able to give you victory, is to neglect to pray. When you think that you are strong and don't need to pray any more, then you will have dulled your sensitiveness to sin. It is only prayer in the hour of victory that makes a man of God realize that he will face defeat again unless he maintains contact with the Lord Jesus Christ.
The moment of victory is the moment for humiliation. When one experiences the excitement and thrill of God giving him a new deliverance from sin, that should be the moment, not for ride, but for humility. I wonder how many of us as Christian people have gone out into defeat and disillusionment in Christian life because we didn't pray -- when our senses were dulled, and we were no longer acutely conscious of the fact that sin was still there, and that Satan would gain the upper hand unless we clung to the Lord Jesus." from VICTORIOUS CHRISTIAN LIVING by Dr. Alan Redpath Revell Publishing.
My friend, Jesus said in Matthew 26:41 "Stay alert; be in prayer so you don't wander into temptation without even knowing you're in danger. There is a part of you that is eager, ready for anything in God. But there's another part that's as lazy as an old dog sleeping by the fire."
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