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Come, Holy Spirit.

Give me grace. to resist. The enemy at the very beginning of the temptations. I ask. for power from you to be bold and decisive and rejecting temptation. Quick to reject it.

Help me to do diametrically the opposite.. of what the enemy. proposes. Help me to see the truth that. If I give the enemy a little ground, it becomes so much harder to resist. That to give him. some ground. gives him more power and. increases the fury of his wrath against me. Help me to remember.

I think of a a snowball, and how it is so. easily stopped at the very beginning of its rolling down the mountain and so difficult if it has gained some speed and some momentum..

Help me think about how great a forest is burned by such a small spark. Help me to see. evil thoughts. Evil desires. Small evil actions. as containing that same potential for destruction. and by your grace and power and protection. Help me to reject evil. not at the very beginning. fully, decisively.

And helped me too. find. kind of contentment and peace. knowing that there's. nothing of vitality about it, that it is.. It has nothing to offer me. Amen.