Victory in Jesus

Good morning! My name is Charlotte and I am writing to help us give our first thoughts to the Lord.

I am trying something new, trying to expand my horizons. This is a picture we took on vacation in Tennessee. I thought it was beautiful. If you click on it, it will become full screen size. I will try and get some pictures of Bill and I on here if I am successful.

We have been studying the birth, early childhood and in between and before Jesus ministry began.

Jesus was thirty years old when he began his ministry. He ministered for three years and at the age of thirty three, he completed the work God sent Him to do by dying on the cross, taking our sin upon Himself, setting captives free and rising from the dead victorious over sin and death.

The first thing that happened after Jesus was baptized was in chapter 4 of Luke. Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led around by the Spirit in the wilderness for forty days, being tempted by the devil.

And He ate nothing during those days, and when they had ended, He became hungry.

And the devil said to Him, "If you are the Son of God, tell this stone to become bread."

And Jesus answered him, "It is written, 'Man shall not live on bread alone."

And he led Him up and showed Him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time.

And the devil said to Him, "I will give you all this domain and its glory; for it has been handed over to me, and I give it to whomever I wish. Therefore if You worship me, it shall all be Yours." When Adam and Eve sinned, they handed the world over to the devil.

Jesus answered him, "It is written, 'You shall worship the Lord your god and serve Him only.'"

And he led Him to Jerusalem and had Him stand on the pinnacle of the temple, and said to Him, "If you are the Son of God, throw Yourself down from here; for it is written 'He will command His angels concerning You to guard You,' and, 'On their hands they will bear You up, so that You will not strike Your foot against a stone.'"

And Jesus answered and said to him, 'You shall not put the Lord your God to the test.'"

When the devil had finished every temptation, he left Him until an opportune time.

And Jesus returned to Galilee in the power of the Spirit, and news about Him spread through all the surrounding district.

Jesus (the Word) is the example to us in everything. Here He was tempted far above anything you or I could be tempted. He withstood the temptation with the Word.

Does that not ring heaps in our ears? The power of the Word of God to have dominion over all spiritual matters, all temptations in all areas of our life.

Somehow we become complacent with the happenings in our lives, and that is what the devil is hoping to accomplished. To bring to null and void the Word, the morality, and the things of God. He has won a victory when we crumble under what he has put on us.

But (there's the but) there is victory in Jesus. He overcame the devil and the devil's kingdom when He died and rose again. He put the devil to shame and we now can live in freedom, IF we learn and keep before us the Word of God, so much so that when temptation or ugly things happen, the Word of God springs forth from our heart and keeps our victory.

Thank you, Lord, for Your Word. Thank you, Jesus, for providing victory for us and showing us the way to live in freedom. In Your name we pray. Amen (it is done)

Have a great day!

Charlotte