All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the servant of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work. ~2 Timothy 3:16-17 (NIV)
The bible tells us all scripture is designed, furnished, and preserved by God to perfect the child of God. One of the biggest tactics of the enemy is to keep God’s children away from God’s word. If the enemy can’t keep you from learning what God has to say He will try to keep you from believing it. We have to believe God’s word in faith. We have faith in gravity and other natural laws of the universe that we are able to see and understand with our own human reasoning, but God and His word supersedes what we know or can reason in our own mind. God’s word is the foundation of our faith, and it is where we draw our authority by knowing who we are in Christ, and it is where we draw our power over the enemy. Scripture teaches we will overcome by the blood the Lamb and the word of our testimony. Our words must line up with God’s words in every area of our lives if we want victory in every area of our lives. But even more importantly those words that line up should be coming from a heart of “knowing” faith, not from our mind’s “agreement” to it. We read in Matthew 4:4-11 how Jesus fought every temptation the devil brought to Him in the wilderness with “It is written”. Satan tempted Jesus with the same temptations that we are exposed to every day; the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life. God promises us in 1 Corinthians 10:13 that He will help us overcome temptations and He has done that by providing His word and His Spirit in you to bring His word to remembrance. He says "No temptation has overtaken you except what is common to mankind. And God is faithful. He will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, He will also provide a way out so that you can endure it.” (NIV)
If we do not know what God has to say or we do not believe what He says, we are not able to endure and overcome temptations. That means we will walk in defeat instead of victory. Living an overcoming life is what we are both blessed and called to do. If we do things God’s way, we walk in His blessing’s verses having to have a miracle around every corner. Spend time with God in His word and find out what He has to say about what is going on in your life. Jesus promised in John 14:26 “the Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have said to you.” (NIV) When you fill your heart with the Word of God you are prepared to resist temptation because the Holy Spirit will rise up within you and remind you of the exact word from God that you will need to defeat the devil. We need to become proficient at defeating our enemy by Jesus’ power and authority so that we can help those around us do the same. Aren’t you tired of losing ground with bad habits and bad attitudes? You don’t have to be. God says He has provided supernatural weapons to help us walk in victory every single day of our lives.
The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds. We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ. ~2 Corinthians 10:4-5 (NIV)
What temptations have you prayed you will not fall into?
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