DEVO. 01.07.25
“Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, left the Jordan and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness.” (Luke 4:1 NIV)
- Today is our third day of our church fast. Some have fasted longer and some less but today I want to focus on why Jesus fasted. What was the purpose?
- In Luke 4:1 we find that Jesus, who was full of the Spirit, was led into the wilderness.
- The Wilderness?
- A place of testing!
- A place of solitude and loneliness.
- Subject to the extreme elements of heat during the day and cold at night.
- And the Spirit of God led Him there?!
- So that can only mean one thing. There is a purpose in your wilderness.
- Usually we run from the wilderness but Jesus runs to it.
- Jesus embraced it.
- It says that, “for forty days he was tempted by the devil, to break His fast, His response was, He ate nothing during those days.”
- That’s Extreme!
- Jesus took on extreme conditions so that He could offer you extreme love!
- He embraced emptiness so that you could receive of His fullness!
- When He was tempted by the devil, He quoted Deuteronomy 8:3 which says, “Man does not live by bread alone, but man lives by every word that comes from the mouth of the Lord”
- His source of fuel was the Word of God.
- His greatest weapon against the enemy was the Word of God.
- He encountered extreme temptation in order to offer you the power to overcome any temptation that comes your way.
- He went into the wilderness full of the Spirit but He left in the Power of the Spirit.
- Verse 14 says, “Jesus returned to Galilee in the power of the Spirit”!
- The purpose was the power!
- The wilderness presented Him with the opportunity to defeat the enemy.
- To take his best shot and show him that no weapon that was formed against Him could prevail.
- He did it to reveal to you the secrets of overcoming the enemy!
- He showed you that the Word of God is the best weapon of God.
- He revealed that you can be triumphant!
- You can succeed.
- You don’t have to live subject to everything the enemy throws at you.
- You are an overcomer because He overcame!
- Today, if you find yourself in a wilderness, don’t run from the difficulty, embrace it!
- Use His Word to overcome every attack.
- Romans 8:37 says that, you “are more than conquerors and gain an overwhelming victory through Him who loved us [so much that He died for us].”
- Overwhelming victory is waiting for you today!
- Step into it!
- Have a great Tuesday!
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