Every man must have a battle plan. Either by negligence or rebellious to knowing God’s standard on purity, when we mix it with our own standard, it can lead us into slavery. Mixtures can destroy people. The Israelites left Egypt for the Promised Land. They were instructed to destroy everything in their new homeland across the Jordan River. The Lord warned them that if they did not, they would adopt the unbeliever’s sinful practices. The Israelites did not take heed. God’s children found it easier to stop short and the very things they left undone became their trap. The Israelites became adulterous in their relationship with God.

Eph 5:3 But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints;
KJV

But among you there must not be even a hint of sexual immorality, or of any kind of impurity, or of greed, because these are improper for God’s holy people
NIV

Let there be no sexual immorality, impurity, or greed among you. Such sins have no place among God’s people.
NLT

Mat 5:28 But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart

God’s standard is clear. We need to avoid every hint of sexual immorality in our lives. Every man must have a battle plan!

I must pray. Look at the importance of prayer stressed in Ephesians 6:18 “Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints.” Will you join me in my repentant cry that I must pray! I must pray more. I must place all my heart and energy into prayer. Prayer at all times, with all perseverance, and for all saints. Prayer was prominent for Jesus during His earthly ministry. After long days of teaching and serving, being spent for the people, He would devote Himself to prayer. Even after serving the multitudes, He would seize early mornings for prayer and surrender sleep at night for our behalf. Our risen Lord, Jesus, still prays for us today. He maketh intercession for us. Romans 8:34 “Who [is] he that condemneth? [It is] Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us.”