HEAL - God's Heart for Healing in LukeSample

It Is Written

Matthew, Mark and Luke write of Jesus being tempted by the enemy immediately after His baptism. Jesus was led into the desert to spend time alone before He began His full-time ministry. In this region, if one travelled away from a water source, he/she was setting himself/herself up for some serious suffering! Jesus was there for 40 days. He was hungry, thirsty, and tired. And His enemy, the same enemy as ours, repeatedly tried to get Jesus off course during a time when He was so physically vulnerable. Satan said things like: “If you are the Son of God, tell this stone to become bread,” when He was really hungry; “I will give you all the [referring to the kingdoms of the world] authority and splendor,” and “throw yourself down from here…” when Jesus must have physically been completely exhausted. Satan even used parts of scripture in his temptations!  

Isn’t that what happens to us sometimes, too? When we are physically sick, tired, exhausted or just weary in our journey, our enemy seems to speak the loudest, “Just give up, give in, step on off the cliff.” But we know what we must do in these situations. We must follow Jesus’ example, and speak the Word back to our enemy. The spoken Word will fight the battle for us and it will always win. Jesus said repeatedly, “It is written… .” Jesus knew that we would need His example many times in our lives, and He sacrificed His comfort so that we could know what to do in times of great temptation. Let’s don’t let His suffering go to waste. Combat the enemy’s lies with the truth of God’s Word.

QUESTIONS:

1. Are my thoughts coming from the echo of what the enemy says to me?
2. Am I reminding myself of what God actually has said to me?
3. What will happen if I speak the truth of God’s Word back to the enemy?