Stumbling in your walk with Jesus!

“What! Could you not watch with Me one hour? Watch and pray, lest you enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.” Matthew 26:40-41

As believers, you and I have good intentions and desire to be obedient to Jesus. Unfortunately, we all stumble away from Jesus at times.

Jesus simply asked His three disciples to watch and pray in the Garden of Gethsemane for one hour while He prayed to His Father. They fell asleep and Jesus rebuked them by responding the Spirit is willing but the flesh is weak.

The disciples failed Jesus at the most difficult time in His life. This happened because they were weak men and lacked the Spirit of God.

You and I do not have any excuses for falling away from Jesus. We are filled with the Holy Spirit who desires to guide us into the pathway of Jesus.

What happens is we lapse out of oneness with Jesus and allow the flesh to have control over our actions. We succumb to the temptation because we are not abiding in the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus.

The troubles of life come when you step out of the protection of the Holy Spirit and attempt to satisfy your inner urges. When this occurs you fall out of the safety net of God and you diminish the power of the Holy Spirit.

This is why it is so important to invite the Holy Spirit to have authority over all of your life and walk in oneness with Him.

He who is in you is greater than he who is in the world!