Five powers that I am asking the Lord

Everyone, aren't there times when you're tired and exhausted? What should we do then?

I pray to God for power.  In particular, I have five powers that I personally seek from the Lord.

It is ‘the power of grace’, ‘the power of love’, ‘the power of the word’, ‘the power of the prayer’,

and the ‘power of the Holy Spirit’.

The reason I seek these five powers is because I feel that I really need them.

For example, the reason I seek the power of God’s grace is because I believe that

If I keep on understand that ‘I am what I am because of God’s grace’

Then I will be able to labor even more for the Lord’s work (1 Cor. 15:10).

Also, the reason I seek the power of love from the Lord is

because I realize more and more deeply and a lot that I cannot even love my wife with my own strength.

I believe that I can love my wife only with the power of love from the Lord.

I believe that when I become more aware of the Lord’s love for such sinner like me

more deeply, broadly, widely and highly (Eph. 3:19) and become the garden of love (Jere. 31:12),

then I will be able to love the Lord with all my heart, all my soul and all my mind

and love my neighbor as myself (Mt. 22:37-39).

But the problem is when I ask the Lord for these 5 powers,

Satan is constantly tempting me to live contrary to these 5 powers.

For example, Satan is keep on trying to plant the merit consciousness than grace consciousness

When I keep on seeking the power of grace from the Lord.

So after I did all the things that the Lord commanded me to do,

Even though I supposed to say, ‘I am unworthy slave;

I have done only that which I ought to have done’ (Lk. 17:10),

Satan tempts me to be like Diotrephes who loves to be first among the church members (3 Jn. 1:9).

In the end, Satan wants to put in my mind that ‘I am what I am because of my own power’

Instead of ‘I am what I am because of God’s grace’ (1 Cor. 15:10).

Perhaps in the case of Christians in business men and women,

Satan is tempting them to say in their hearts,

“My power and the strength of my hand made me this wealth”,

even though it is the Lord who is giving them power to make wealth (Deut. 8:17-18).

Satan also put hate in my heart and tries to make me to hate even my wife

When I seek the power of the Lord.

Although the Bible clearly says that “Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer” (1 Jn. 3:15),

Satan not only tries to prevent me from loving my wife

but also he makes me to hate her constantly in my life.

Beside these, when I ask the Lord for the power of the Word,

Satan tempts me not to open the Bible and to keep me far away from the Word of God.

Therefore, Satan prevents me from learning to fear God

So that I may not carefully observe all the words of God

And makes my heart to be lifted up above my brothers and sisters in Christ (Deut. 17:19-20).

Not only that, Satan tempts me to add or subtract from the truth

When I keep on trying to draw closer to the word of God.

So is prayer.  Satan not only prevents me from continuing to pray

so that I cannot gain the power of prayer, but also seems to make me sleepy when I try to pray.

Although Jesus said, “Keep watching and praying that you may not enter into temptation” (Mt. 26:41),
Satan’s purpose is to make me to fall into temptation so he keeps on making to fall sleep.

In addition, Satan keeps on stirring me up and tries to make me to solve a problem with my own strength, power and experience when I try to do so with my knee bend down before the Lord and pray.

When I seek the power of the Holy Spirit, Satan is encouraging me to live with the power of sinful flesh.

In other words, Satan is keep trying to make me to be led by the flesh

which sets its desire against the Spirit and to do the deeds of the flesh (Gal. 5:16-21).

In this way, Satan works diligently in my life as opposed to the five powers I am asking the Lord.

Furthermore, Satan is constantly trying to keep me away from the Lord, who is the source of all these powers. 

Satan is keep on attacking my faith towards the Lord

 and is trying to throw the questions in the realm of my thoughts,

and in the end make me to doubt in my heart.

Also, Satan keeps turning my gaze from fixing my eyes on Jesus, the perfecter of my faith (Heb. 12:2)

to the circumstance such as “the wind” (Mt. 14:30)

in order to make me to driven by fearful situation instead of by faith in the Lord.

What should I do to avoid falling into Satan’s temptations?