‏‏‎ ‎90 Day Bible Challenge

Day 16 of 90: Silent days are scheming days

Opening Song: Champion by Tye Tribbett

Closing Song: Jesus at the center of it all by Isreal Houghton & We give you glory by James Fortune ft Tasha Cobbs

Night 15 of 90: Face the Facts and Correct the Fiction

Opening Song: TBA

Closing Song: No gray by Jonathan McReynolds

Day 15 of 90: Untwist Your Faith

Opening Song: I believe by Micah Stampley

Closing Song: Faith by Melinda Watts

Night 14 of 90: if it is fruitless, then it is useless.

Opening Song: Clean this house by Isaac Carree

Closing Song: Faith by Melinda Watts

Day 14 of 90: Real cleansing begins with healing

Opening Song: Balm in gilead by Richard Smallwood

Closing Song: Holy Ghost by Kim Burrell

Night 13 of 90: His Word has you under ARREST!

Opening Song:  Speak the word and The word of the Lord by Donald Lawrencee

Closing Song: Let the word do the work by Donald Lawrence

Day 13 of 90: Hosanna in the Highest

Opening Song: Magnify the Lord by Jonathan Butler

Closing Song: Hosanna by Isreal Houghton

Night 12 of 90: When YOU are the SACRIFICE

Opening Song: Sitting with me by Mary Mary

Closing Song: Oceans by Hillsong

Day 12 of 90: Your next upgrade may be a downgrade.

Opening Song: Expect the great by Jonathan Nelson

Closing Song: (same as opening)

Night 11 of 90: Temptation is like tic-tac-toe

The Tic-Tac-Toe of Temptation

Opening Song: Break every chain by Shana Wilson

Closing Song: Apology by Shaun Saunders

There is no game quite like tic-tac-toe. If you’ve never played it, you might need some brief instructions. First, you draw two vertical parallel lines. Then, you intersect those lines with two horizontal lines. One player uses the X. Another player uses the O. The object of the game is to have all 3 X’s or O’s in a row (without interception) to win.

My sister and I played this game religiously when we were younger, and I always beat her—not because I was older, but because I had a strategy. I knew how to go for the corners first. I went for the corners no matter what her moves were. I could always block her win, close her in, and make it impossible for her to beat me. It was simple. It was quick. It was a lot like temptation.
Did you know that there is a strategy to temptation? Did you realize that the opponent of your tic-tac-toe game has a plan to annihilate you? If you haven’t realized it yet, let me give you three ways that temptation comes to destroy. First, it convinces you that: “it’s only a game.” And if you think that what you’re doing is only a game, you will also forget that the people you incorporate into this “game” have real lives, real issues, and real families.

Secondly, the opponent gets us into the game by saying: “Don’t worry! It’s quick and easy.” We would have never indulged if we realized how long temptation would incarcerate us. Let’s be honest. Some of our worst habits began with a quick open door mixed with a little curiosity. We never thought we would become addicts. But it was quick. It was easy. And it overtook us before we even knew it. Now, we look up and we’re entangled in this quick game of tic-tac-toe but we can’t get help because we’re in denial. We step away from it, from him, or from her for a limited time, but when the pangs of withdrawal start tapping our shoulders again, we’re back in the game.

The third thing the enemy tries to do when we are caught in the tic-tac-toe of temptation is what I tried to do with my sister: corner us in. It works all of the time. He corners us in by figuring out ways to get us alone. He convinces us to leave from a place that we should be staying in, and stay in a place that we should be leaving from. He puts books and talk shows and crazy ideas into our heads. Now, we’re thinking so much differently, and not before long, we have no options left. We have no one to talk to, nowhere to go, and the enemy has won the game. And trust me: there is no worse feeling than to feel like you have nowhere to go. There’s no worse pain than to feel as if no one understands. If your adversary gets you there, he doesn’t even have to play tic-tac-toe anymore. He’s won your heart. He’s taken control of your mind. He’s altered your perspective so much that you’ve completely lost faith in everything True.

When James writes, “Blessed is the man that endures temptation,” he doesn’t mean blessed is the man who wins the game. He means, blessed is the one who decides not to play at all. You are blessed when you can persevere beyond the trial. You are blessed when money is not the object of your faith, but ministry is! You are blessed when you can say “no” to what you actually want to say “yes” to, because you realize “the crown of life” is more important than the games of temptation. Everybody who plays this game ends up losing. So don’t play with it another day. Instead, make a decision, “I’m not going to let anything get in the way of my crown!”

James 1:12- Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried , he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him.