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Key Bible Verse: You should consider yourselves dead to sin and able to live for the glory of God through Christ Jesus (Romans 6:11). Bonus Reading: Romans 6:1–14

The summer before my high school junior year, I lived in San Clemente, California, and helped with a church youth program. I slept on the hide-a-bed in the youth director's living room. After the family went to bed, I read the Scrip-tures and asked God to teach me. One night, as I read [today's Bonus Reading], I realized I no longer had to sin. Not only was I free to say no to Satan's temptations, I was responsible to say no.

After work the next day, I headed for the beach on a narrow, sandy trail lined by waist-high weeds. Ahead, a fellow was sitting in a beach chair smack dab in the middle of the trail. As I approached, I saw that he was reading a "girlie" magazine. The enemy attacked, tempting me. "I ought to be able to get a good look at the pictures on my way by," I thought.

Just as quickly the Holy Spirit offered an alternative. "I don't have to look," I thought. "God said so in Romans 6. I'm dead to sin." Recognizing the truth of God's Word from the night before, I turned off the path and walked deep into the weeds, avoiding the snare Satan had set for me.

—Preston Gillham in Decision

Adapted from: Decision (Billy Graham Evangelistic Assoc., 9/01) by permission.

Prayer for the Week

Dear God, I need Your Spirit's help to resist the sexual temptations all around me.

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