Christ comes back to the sleeping disciples the night of his arrest and says to them: "Why sleep ye? Rise and pray lest ye enter into temptation" (Luke 22:46, KJV). I find it interesting how he links prayer so closely to resisting temptation.
It is not altogether clear what Christ means when he refers to temptation. Does he mean the temptation to fall asleep in their fatigue? The upcoming temptation to flee away from him when he is arrested? Christ doesn't explain and the disciples do not ask so it was probably obvious to them both. That is not the main point.
The main point is that resisting temptation is linked inextricably with prayer. There are a lot of opportunities to fall into temptation of all sorts in our modern world. It would appear that prayer ought to become that much more important to us.
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