Don't Skip the First Step!

Many quote the Bible verse James 4:7 Resist the devil and he will flee from you. However, that is step number two! The first part of that verse is step number one - Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you.
Christ knows firsthand the power of temptation and He offered this to His disciples: Watch and pray so that you will not fall into temptation. The spirit is willing, but the body is weak. (Mark 14:38).
It is not our strength and willpower that will lead us to victory over temptation; It is our submission to God and relying on His strength and not our own. The key is not trying, it is dying.

There are few stronger indications of ingnorance of the
power and evil of sin than the confident assertion of our ability to resist and
subdue it - Charles Hedge.