I just love how words or subjects in a devotional strikes a cord or makes you stop and think and draws you closer to God. Do you ever wonder how a devotional knows what your going through on that particular day? Like how did it know you needed to read those words just to make it through the day.
That's why I love devotional's. God speaks through them if you don't rush and carefully read and try to understand what the author is trying to bring forth in their heart. If you let it, you can almost hear God's own voice speak. This is why I love to share the ones I get the most out of.
I long for God to speak to me and to others so they might be uplifted.
God Bless.
Then saith Jesus unto him, Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve
- Matthew 4:10
It is striking that Jesus, who later asserts that he could call down twelve legions of angels to assist him at any time, chooses to face the temptations of the devil in the wilderness with nothing but the Word of God -- which is the same, and only, weapon that we have against Satan's temptations, as well.
It is as if Jesus is showing us just how powerful, just how effective, God's Word is in the midst of spiritual battle, so that we will trust it's strength for our own struggles. Jesus three times faces Satan's three temptations by quoting the Bible. What other tool could we hope for than the very one Jesus himself wielded in times of personal temptation?
But these verses do not just magically appear to our minds in the moment that we need them. We must be reading, memorizing, listening to, absorbing God's Word in every way we possible can. We must be people of the Book, Bible-steeped soldiers in the kingdom of Christ.
Jesus knew the right answer, from God's Word, at the right time for the right temptation; we must strive to know and do the same. It is only then that we will be able to, with authority and conviction, repel the approaches of Satan effectively.
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