Have a Blessed 1st Wednesday in August with Jesus.☀️Seek Him First. Meditate on Matthew 4. Jesus was hungry and weak after fasting 40 days, but He chose not to use His divine power to satisfy his heightened desire for food. Food and eating are good, but the timing was wrong. Jesus was in the wilderness to fast.
Jesus gave up the independent use of His divine power in order to experience humanity fully (Philippians 2:6-8), he wouldn’t change the stones to bread as the devil suggested.
Jesus waited on God to provide for His needs, not take matters into His own hands. We may also be tempted to satisfy a perfectly normal desire in a wrong way, or at the wrong time.
The devil tried to get Jesus to doubt God’s love, protection and provision. Jesus was able to resist all the devils temptations because He not only knew the Scripture but also obeyed it Ephesians 6:17 says God’s Word is a sword to use in spiritual combat.
Satan knew Scripture too, but he purposely misquoted it, disregarded its meaning, and had no intentions on obeying it. We must continue to study what the Bible says to know what it really means to follow God’s desires rather than the devil’s. Many of our desires are normal and good, but God wants us to satisfy them the right way and at the right time.🙏🏾
“But He answered and said, “It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.’ ””
Matthew 4:4 NKJV
(Study from Life Application Study Bible)
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