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From Pathway to Victory, Dr. Jeffress<\/p>\n
The tempter came and said to Him, \u201cIf You are the Son of God, command that these stones become bread.\u201d But He answered and said, \u201cIt is written, \u2018Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.\u2019\u201d
\n\u2013Matthew 4:3-4<\/p><\/blockquote>\nGrowing up, when I heard the story of Jesus\u2019s temptation in the wilderness, I had in my mind that the reason He quoted Scripture was to make Satan run away. I thought, \u201cThe Word of God is such a powerful weapon that whenever you quote Scripture, Satan just runs in the opposite direction.\u201d Hogwash! Satan is not afraid of the Bible. In fact, he knows the Bible better than most Christians do. When he was tempting Jesus to jump down from the pinnacle of the temple, he even quoted the Psalms. But Jesus quoted Scripture right back to him, not for Satan\u2019s benefit, but for His own benefit. Quoting Scripture gave Jesus the strength to recognize Satan\u2019s lie and replace it with God\u2019s truth, so that He could act on that truth. That is what He was modeling for us. When wrong thoughts come into our lives, we need to know God\u2019s Word so well that we are able to call up the appropriate Scripture and replace those wrong thoughts with God\u2019s thoughts.<\/p>\n
For example, let\u2019s say you are overwhelmed with a particular fear related to your job, or to your future, or to your family. That fear has paralyzed you. It is not enough to say, \u201cI am just not going to think about it.\u201d Instead, you need to take that wrong thought\u2013that fear\u2013and replace it with God\u2019s thought. Call up 2 Timothy 1:7: \u201cFor God has not given us a spirit of timidity, but of power and love and discipline.\u201d Or Philippians 4:6: \u201cBe anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.\u201d<\/p>\n
Maybe you are concerned about your financial future, and you are thinking about money way too often. What do you do with those thoughts of greed? It is not enough to say, \u201cI am not going to think about money.\u201d Instead, quote 1 Timothy 6:7-9: \u201cFor we have brought nothing into the world, so we cannot take anything out of it either. If we have food and covering, with these we shall be content. But those who want to get rich fall into temptation and a snare and many foolish and harmful desires which plunge men into ruin and destruction.\u201d<\/p>\n
Maybe you find yourself attracted to somebody to whom you are not married. You begin to wonder, \u201cWhat would it be like to be with that person?\u201d It is not enough to say, \u201cI am just not going to think about it anymore.\u201d You have to confront that temptation with the truth of Proverbs 6:32: \u201cThe one who commits adultery with a woman is lacking sense; he who would destroy himself does it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Do you see the pattern here? Recognize wrong thoughts and replace them with God\u2019s thoughts. That\u2019s what Paul meant when he said, \u201cHaving girded your loins with truth\u201d (Ephesians 6:14).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
From Pathway to Victory, Dr. Jeffress The tempter came and said to Him, \u201cIf You are the Son of God, command that these stones become bread.\u201d But He answered and said, \u201cIt is written, \u2018Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.\u2019\u201d \u2013Matthew … Continue reading “29.g. “Confronting Temptation With Scripture””<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-prayers"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130643"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":130647,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130643\/revisions\/130647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}