Good morning, our Fire-starter comes from 2 Kings 16. Our Fire-starter
thought is Besieged but  not beaten!!!!
Our Fire-starter verse is verse 5.
Have you ever been besieged? What does it mean to be besieged? To be
besieged is to be surrounded or beset by hostile troops.

Although Ahaz was besieged he was not beaten because the Bible states in
verse 5 that they besieged Ahab but could not overcome him.
For a few moments I want you to think of the soldiers as being
temptations for a spiritual application if you will.
We are living in a day where there are temptations on every side. People
are tempted by the internet, they are tempted on their cell phones they
are tempted watching TV but do we let that temptation overcome us? I
pray we don’t. We can be besieged by temptation if you will but we do
not have to be overcome by it.
Friend, it’s not wrong to be tempted but it is wrong to give into
temptation!!!!
Although we are besieged by temptations all the time doesn’t mean we can
be overcome by it. There is a way to stop it and that is to fight it.
When something is on the TV that shouldn’t be on turn it off if
something is on the internet that you shouldn’t be looking at shut it down.
We, as Christians, are not only besieged by temptations but sometimes we
are overcome by it.
Friend I want to encourage you today Ahaz was besieged but not overcome.
May we live like that in the Christian life!!! Besieged but not overcome!!!
Hope you have a wonderful day of victory!!!!

2 Kings 16:1-20 KJV
In the seventeenth year of Pekah the son of Remaliah Ahaz the son of
Jotham king of Judah began to reign. [2] Twenty years old was Ahaz when
he began to reign, and reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem, and did not
that which was right in the sight of the Lord his God, like David his
father. [3] But he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, yea, and
made his son to pass through the fire, according to the abominations of
the heathen, whom the Lord cast out from before the children of Israel.
[4] And he sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places, and on the
hills, and under every green tree. [5] Then Rezin king of Syria and
Pekah son of Remaliah king of Israel came up to Jerusalem to war: and
they besieged Ahaz, but could not overcome him. [6] At that time Rezin
king of Syria recovered Elath to Syria, and drave the Jews from Elath:
and the Syrians came to Elath, and dwelt there unto this day. [7] So
Ahaz sent messengers to Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria, saying, I am
thy servant and thy son: come up, and save me out of the hand of the
king of Syria, and out of the hand of the king of Israel, which rise up
against me. [8] And Ahaz took the silver and gold that was found in the
house of the Lord, and in the treasures of the king’s house, and sent it
for a present to the king of Assyria. [9] And the king of Assyria
hearkened unto him: for the king of Assyria went up against Damascus,
and took it, and carried the people of it captive to Kir, and slew
Rezin. [10] And king Ahaz went to Damascus to meet Tiglath-pileser king
of Assyria, and saw an altar that was at Damascus: and king Ahaz sent to
Urijah the priest the fashion of the altar, and the pattern of it,
according to all the workmanship thereof. [11] And Urijah the priest
built an altar according to all that king Ahaz had sent from Damascus:
so Urijah the priest made it against king Ahaz came from Damascus. [12]
And when the king was come from Damascus, the king saw the altar: and
the king approached to the altar, and offered thereon. [13] And he burnt
his burnt offering and his meat offering, and poured his drink offering,
and sprinkled the blood of his peace offerings, upon the altar. [14] And
he brought also the brasen altar, which was before the Lord, from the
forefront of the house, from between the altar and the house of the
Lord, and put it on the north side of the altar. [15] And king Ahaz
commanded Urijah the priest, saying, Upon the great altar burn the
morning burnt offering, and the evening meat offering, and the king’s
burnt sacrifice, and his meat offering, with the burnt offering of all
the people of the land, and their meat offering, and their drink
offerings; and sprinkle upon it all the blood of the burnt offering, and
all the blood of the sacrifice: and the brasen altar shall be for me to
enquire by. [16] Thus did Urijah the priest, according to all that king
Ahaz commanded. [17] And king Ahaz cut off the borders of the bases, and
removed the laver from off them; and took down the sea from off the
brasen oxen that were under it, and put it upon a pavement of stones.
[18] And the covert for the sabbath that they had built in the house,
and the king’s entry without, turned he from the house of the Lord for
the king of Assyria. [19] Now the rest of the acts of Ahaz which he did,
are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of
Judah? [20] And Ahaz slept with his fathers, and was buried with his
fathers in the city of David: and Hezekiah his son reigned in his stead.