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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


 



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