Have you been struggling with the devil?

“Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil.

And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungered.

And when the tempter came to him, he said, If thou be the son of God, command that these stones be made bread.

But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth from the mouth of God.

Then the devil taketh him up into the holy city, and

Setteth him on  a pinnacle of the temple,

And saith unto him, If thou be Son of God, cast thyself down: for it is written, He shall give his angels charge concerning thee: and in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone.

Jesus said unto him, it is written again, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord  thy God.

Again, the devil taketh him up into an exceeding high mountain, and showeth him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them;

And saith unto him, All these things will I give thee, if thou wilt fall down and worship me.

Then saith Jesus unto him, Get the hence, satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the lord thy God and him only shalt thou serve.”

(KJV)

Now if you LOOK at the above bible verse you will notice something in verse 1

“then was Jesus led up of the spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil”

Here I am emphasizing on this “led by the spirit” the HolySpirit

Now even if Jesus wasn’t led by the spirit He was still to conquer the devil. Yes

So the main thing here is being a Christian you need to filled with the Holyspirit

That is one and secondly according to the verse we just read .

In verse 4

“but He(Jesus) answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God”

Here Jesus answered the devil using the words of the scriptures. (The word of God)

And on subsequent temptations He used the scriptures. This shows the significance of the Word of God.

We need to read the word of God.

We need to study it

We need to meditate on it

These three things are important in the life of a Christian who wants to overcome the devil.

Let me tell you something, sometimes some ugly pictures are brought up in your mind without you thinking of it, now that’s the devil trying to capture your mind, yea,  but there is something different, if you nurture that thought then He has you, but when you fight that thought with the word of God then you flush Him.

The devil doesn’t come on physical temptation again He comes through so many things: lust, addiction, fornication,sickness etc

You may be wondering why I wrote sickness, yes sickness , the word of God  tells us that God has good thoughts for us.

So here the devil uses sickness to bring people down, but when you understand “that by his stripes I am healed” sickness will be a thing of the past.

Now back to being filled by the Holyspirit that can only be possible when we are baptize in the holyspirit.

I URGE YOU ALL TO READ THE WORD CONSTANTLY, STUDY IT, MEDITATE ON IT.

AND YOU WILL HAVE AN EDGE OVER THE DEVIL

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GOD BLESS.