Fighting Temptations

Personally, I have anticipated the release of this article; it has in its raw form blessed a whole lot and has ministered to me as well. For easy assimilation we have decided to break it down into factions and release them in bits, so this week we will walk around the intro and then, get into the sub-headings next week. Little by little we will let it out. This should allow for easy understanding, proper feedback, questions and comments. Be blessed as you read.

One fact about God is the impossibility of his making a mistake. Every minute of all that happened in the bible is of relevance to our everyday life; from the separation of the red sea to when he changed water to wine and on and on. These chain of occurrences stands for purpose.

Recently, the lord opened my spirit to the understanding of Mathew 4 and Luke 4. We all are familiar with that story when Christ was tempted by the devil. And the very understanding the Spirit gave me in that happening is that God has communicated the three major categories of temptations and most of all taught us how to overcome every one of them. And yes that’s why I titled this “FIGHTING TEMPTATIONS”. So here we are discussing a kingdom way of fighting temptations.

First, bear this in mind: the devil is a trickster; he is the cunniest being known to man. Without doubt, he has penetrating strategies strong enough to sweep practically anyone off their feet. Nevertheless, having an understanding of these tricks and possessing the ability to discern them, helps to shake loose of their hold on you.

To further explain the trick star phenomenon, we would take a quick leap to the near end of one of our study text Luke 4:13. Which reads “and when the devil had ended all his temptations, he departed from Him (Jesus) for a season” i.e. when the devil had exhausted the entire tricks he prepared for Christ, he had to leave, then again for a season. You see, when the devil plans an attack, what he does is just plan strategies to confuse you to do wrong, this strategies are what turns out to be temptations, it turned out as temptations for Adam, it turned to be temptations for Christ and yes it will turn out as the same for you but Christ has not only taught us but showed us how to be an over comer amidst all. Then again the fact that the devil was said to have left only for a season shows that the life of a Christian is filled with temptations, but the good thing is that the Lord has promised not allow temptations we can’t handle come our way. 1Cor10:13; “But God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able.” Now note; all kinds of temptations fall under the three Christ faced leaving it as our basis for warfare against temptations and basically teaching us that only with the word can we likewise outsmart the devil

Remember that Christ was born simply to die for our sins... He only lived 

those 33 years of His in order to show us how to live. Christ is our model, a typical example of the life of a true Christian. He felt our pains, saw our fears and understood our human weakness; He then taught us how to handle these. Little wonder Paul said in Heb 4:15:  “For we have not a high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin”. Through His experience, we acquire a template of how to deal with our own situation.

Now we are gliding into our discuss gradually, so to make this interesting and also to ease the understanding process, I coined out three words to name each category of this temptations gotten from the basic idea of each. Namely: TemptiDespiricio, TemptiReligio and TemptiGreedise. I would therefore analyze them each with respect to the account in Mathew and basically as the spirit leads. 

But this is as much as this week’s package can take; stay tuned to BTL to further get the rest of this teaching.

Remain Blessed

deji ONADEKO

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NB; except otherwise stated every bible text is taken from NKJV