Thursday... How do you feel after this happens?

Luke 4:14 (NLT), "Then Jesus returned to Galilee, filled with the Holy Spirit's power. Reports about him spread quickly through the whole region."

Thursday... How do you feel after this happens?

Luke writes in 4:1-2 {NLT), "Then Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan River. He was led by the Spirit into the wilderness, where he was tempted by the devil for forty days. Jesus ate nothing all that time and became very hungry." And that was the devil's first temptation.

Verses 3-4 says, "Then the devil said to him, 'If you are the Son of God, tell this stone to become a loaf of bread.' But Jesus told him, 'No! The scriptures says, '"People do not live by bread alone"'"

Each of us will be tempted. It happened to Jesus 3 times at this particular time but he handled it and we also will be tempted and we too can handle it with God ion our lives. No and scripture makes a big difference in how we handle it.

Yes, the devil tempted him three different times in three different ways and Jesus handled each one of them by saying "no" and sharing a scripture.

So my question is, how do we feel after we have been tempted? How do you feel if we have given in to the temptation or if we have not given in? Yes, there are choices and the choices usually have something we desire in there but we know that it isn't what God would want us to do.

Now if we give in then there will be a sense of failure but in doing what God wants us to do there will be a sense of victory. Giving in to temptation does feel good for a moment but then there are emotions of failure after doing it by giving in.

Luke 4:14 (NLT) says, "Then Jesus returned to Galilee, filled with the Holy Spirit's power. Reports about him spread quickly through the whole region."H e didn't give in and we don't need to either.

Now God knows what is ahead and how we need Him.

King David says in Psalm 69:16-18, "Answer my prayers, O Lord, for your unfailing love is wonderful. Take care of me, for your mercy is so plentiful. Don't hide from your servant; answer me quickly, for I am in deep trouble! Come and redeem me; free me from my enemies." There is so much freedom and confidence if we don't give in to temptation and break our bond with God through disobedience.

Temptation always comes that is why it is so important to know how to handle it. Verses 42-44 in Luke 4 says, "Early the next morning Jesus went out to an isolated place. The crowds searched for him, and when they finally found hm, they begged him not to leave them. But he replied, 'I must preach the Good News of the Kingdom of God in other towns, too, because that is why I was sent. So he continued to travel around, preaching in synagogues throughout Judea." He knew why he had come.

Yes, the people wanted him to heal and heal and heal but that wasn't why he came to earth. He came to "preach the Good News of the Kingdom of God." And we too must not get off track from what God has for us to do. Yes, yes! #todaysbeginning

Friday... We have this hope of expectancy.

Psalm 5:3 (NLT), "Listen to my voice in the morning Lord. Each morning I bring my requests to you and wait expectantly." Friday... We have this hope of expectancy. Now David found a great way to start his day. He says in Psalm 5:1-3 (NLT), "O LORD, hear me as I pray." And that is a great place to start. It really is. Morning sunrise He goes on, "Listen to my cry for help, my King, my God, for I pray to no one but you." And that is so important. We don't try to pump ourselves up by ourself. No, we pray to no one but you, God, my LORD, my King. Now this relationship with God is so, so very important. And then David says, "Listen to my voice in the morning, LORD. Each morning I bring my requests to you" And that is so great. And then he says, "and wait expectantly." Yes, we have this hope of expectancy. We are experienced. That is what a relationship with God and a moment by moment connection does. It makes a difference in our daily wa...

Friday... Yes, we can know this to be true.

Psalm 12:6 (NLT), "The Lord's promises are pure, like silver refined in a furnace, purified seven times over." Friday... Yes, we can know this to be true. Maybe this is what you want to say in this day in which we live. Psalm 12:1-2 (MSG) says, "Quick, I need your helping hand! The last decent person just went down, all the friends I depend on gone. Everyone talks in lie language; lies slide off their oily lips. They doubletalk with forked tongues." Do you ever feel that way?" Have you found that to be true? Well David the writer of this Psalm continues and says in verse 6 something to encourage us, to lift us up, to give us hope. Psalm 12:6 (NLT) says, "The Lord's promises are pure, like silver refined in a furnace, purified seven times over." The Message Paraphrase says verses 6-8 this way, "God's words are pure words, pure silver words refined seven times in the fires of his word-kiln, pure on earth as well as in heaven, God, keep ...

Friday... So what is it that you really fear?

1 Corinthians 15:57 (NLT), "But thank God! He gives us victory over sin and death through our Lord Jesus Christ." Friday... So what is it that you really fear? Yes, fear holds us back. It seems to take hold of us so that we can't even really enjoy living. Now I have found that one of the best ways to handle fear is to solve the problem of what we fear. Let's say that death is what we really fear. Everyday we wake up afraid to get up because we are afraid to do anything because we are afraid to die. And that is so understandable. Now I have found the solution to fearing death. I have through faith taken care of my fear to die. 1 Corinthians 15:57 (NLT) says, "But thank God! He gives us victory over sin and death through our Lord Jesus Christ." Verse 22 (CEV) says, "Adam brought death to all of us, and Christ will bring life to all of us." Death was not God's plan. Adam was created for an eternal life but he and his partner, Eve blew it and sin a...

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