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I read something very powerful in Rankin’s book on Spiritual Warfare, and found it fitting as it relates to having a battle plan, and developing strategies to defend the knowing temptation in my life, and those that are on the way. Rankin wrote, “I’ve come to the conclusion that there is only one solution that guarantees success in maintaining a holy lifestyle that brings glory to God. It is to have such a desperation and heart for God that we can never take that first step in allowing our minds to nurture a temptation or a lustful thought that would divert us from the holiness and purity to which God calls us.” As I read this section of the book, I wrote in the margin – “Get to this