Luke 4:1-3 (ESV)
The Temptation of Jesus
And Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit in the wilderness for forty days, being tempted by the devil. And he ate nothing during those days. And when they were ended, he was hungry. The devil said to him, “If you are the Son of God, command this stone to become bread.”
In the above passage we start reading about the temptation of Christ, by Satan, in the wilderness. There are all kinds of truths to learn from this story. One take-a-way is to look at the temptation and learn how it can help us prepare for life. For my own prayer life, I took this temptation of Christ as a way to focus on praying seven things over my life, when temptation comes:
MON
Even being the Son of God did not exempt from temptation - but being the the Son of God empowers you through temptation.
TUES
Even being “full” of the Spirit does not exempt from temptation - but being full of the Spirit of God equips you to fight temptation
WED
Even being “led” by the Spirit does not exempt from temptation - but being led by the Spirit escorts you through the temptation
THUR
Even being in an act of worship (fasting) does not exempt us from temptation - but being in an act of worship enables you to resist temptation
FRI
Satan will tempt us in our time of vulnerability - but being in a state of vulnerability empties us of ourselves to be filled by the Spirit
SAT
Satan will tempt us with what we may “need” most by tempting us how to obtain it in the wrong way (Genesis 3) - but being in a place of need makes us eager for something from God satisfied the right way.
SUN
Satan will tempt us with “if” propositions to doubt our identity in Christ - but it is in those if times of life we find ways to escape danger through Christ.
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