Jesus stated several times in the Bible, to pray in order to not be tempted. In the garden of Gethsemane immediately before He was to be crucified, He asked His disciples to: “Watch and pray that ye enter not into temptation; the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak” (Matthew 26:41, Mark 13:48, and Luke 22:40, KJV). It is quite impressive that this is recounted in three of the gospels as instruction on how to prepare for a difficult circumstance. Our Lord also spoke the same words when the disciples asked him how to pray and He gave them what we call the Lord’s Prayer in Matthew 6 and Luke 11. “And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil” is prayed commonly all over the world, but do we realize the ramification of this? Jesus is showing us that if we ask the Father in his name to keep us from being tempted to do bad things, He will answer that perfect prayer. There is so much more to this, but what we need to see here is that prayer itself, which is communication with God, will keep us from the evil one, and our minds from his ability to bring thoughts and situations that will deceive us and get us into sin. Pray, pray, pray!