1 Corinthians 10:13 ... There hath no temptation taken you but such as
is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be
tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a
way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.
Exhortation: Joan Boney ... apostle/prophet
People often go about desiring to sin, looking for fornication partners. But we, who are of God, turn to God if we are tempted in any form of sin and God makes ways of escape for us because we want to escape and also because God is faithful.
No matter what the temptation, God is faithful and does not allow us to be tempted above that which we are able to handle ... and God does make a way to escape for us. I recall several times (in various temptations) that I called on God and asked HIM to help me and HE always did make a way of escape from that temptation.
Those who end up committing adultery and fornication want to commit adultery and fornication. They do not look for a way to escape nor seek God for way to escape because they want to do what they do and do not want a way of escape.
But for those who want a way of escape, God arranges it, one way or another.
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Here we have this remarkable report from Pam Padgett ...
My older sister had been at college two
years when I started attending the same school. She dated a man who
was a member of a fraternity, and she had become a member of the
fraternity's "women's auxiliary", assisting with fraternity social
functions. She was very excited for me to join the social circles she
was in, and especially wanted me to meet members of the fraternity.
The first week of school my sister invited me to go to a student bar
where many of the fraternity guys gathered on Thursday nights. I went,
but found what was going on there to be so bad (lewdness, drunkenness,
etc.) that I was unable to stay and I walked back to the dormitory.
A week or so later my sister asked if I'd go to an outdoor luau with
one of the freshmen "pledges" at the fraternity. The luau site was
about 20 miles away near a river, and there would be a campfire. The
setting was very appealing to me, plus I was excited about having a
date, and I agreed to go.
Then, a few days before the luau, my sister told me that arrangements
had been made for one of the other fraternity guys to take me to the
luau because my date would be spending the day at the luau site
building a hut for us ... a young man I had never even met was building
a hut "for us"!
Suddenly the reality of
this luau became very clear to me. This was not going to be people
sitting around a campfire roasting marshmallows.
The lewdness and drunkenness I had seen at the student bar was
probably mild compared to what would be going on at this luau ... and I
wouldn't be able to walk home.
I told my sister that I couldn't go along with this and did not want to
go, but she kept insisting that it was too late for me to back out,
that it was too late for this guy to find another date.
I turned very strongly to God, asking Him to somehow get me out of this situation. There seemed no way out.
At one point I asked God to let me have appendicitis, preferring to be
in a hospital having surgery than to go to this luau.
The morning of the luau I woke up and checked to see if I might have
any pain that would indicate appendicitis, and was disappointed that I
felt fine. I kept praying for God to somehow work this out. Time was
really running out! When I looked outside, it was raining a little,
but not much. However, the rain became heavier and heavier as the day
went on.
Around 2 pm I received a call from the fraternity guy who planned to
take me to the luau site. He told me how sorry he was to have to tell
me this, but the luau had to be cancelled. The luau site had been totally flooded, washing away all the huts that had been built, which would include the hut my date had built for us. He told me how long the luau had been held at this same site (many years) and,
although there had been rain at times in the past, nothing like this
had ever happened before, flooding and causing the luau to be cancelled.
I rejoiced, knowing that God had delivered me.