STOP IT!!!!!!!!

Do you ever have one of theos periods in your life where it just seems that you every temptation is coming your way? There are somethings that just seem to be a constant struggle for me. I pray and I pray but they are still there. I try to occupy myself with other things - they are still there. I try to study God's word and praise Him in prayer and music - they are still there. I wish there was an "easy" button that would just make life easy when it gets rough. The people that are there to just try to make you miserable would just become nice and leave you alone. Better yet, they would become your friend and you would learn to get along. The temptations you feel would just go away and you would have rock solid self control. That is not the real world though. That is not they life God has promised us. He did though, promise us that he would not allow any temptation that we were not capable of withstanding. Therefore that puts the pressure on us, God makes us capable of withstanding the pressure, we just make the choice to cave in. Just pray, pray, pray. The book of James tells us that ..."the prayer of a righteous man is powerful and effective."