Luke 4:13 PHILLIPS
And when he had exhausted every kind of temptation, the devil withdrew until his next opportunity.
As important as it is to FIGHT by STANDING in your VICTORY, it’s just as important to LABOR to REST in the REFRESHING that Jesus has supplied.
Hebrews 4:11 KJV
Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief.
Hebrews 12:12-15 NASB
12 Wherefore lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees;
13 and make straight paths for your feet, lest that which is lame be turned out of the way; but let it rather be healed.
14 Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord:
15 looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled;
As powerful as pursuing peace, holiness, and grace reveals the character of God to all people, so is the destructive contaminating force that the root of bitterness brings to all people around you.
The conclusion to every painful experience of our past is, “I don’t trust God.
Ephesians 4:30-32 KJV
30 And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.
31 Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:
32 and be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ’s sake hath forgiven you.
Matthew 4:17 KJV
From that time Jesus began to preach, and to say, Repent: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.
Your allegiance to past anointings or doctrines are over. The kingdom is empowered when you place the needs of God’s heart – people – above your own.
Luke 4:18-21 NLT
18 “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me,
for he has anointed me to bring Good News to the poor.
He has sent me to proclaim that captives will be released,
that the blind will see, that the oppressed will be set free,
19 and that the time of the Lord’s favor has come. ”
20 He rolled up the scroll, handed it back to the attendant, and sat down. All eyes in the synagogue looked at him intently.
21 Then he began to speak to them. “The Scripture you’ve just heard has been fulfilled this very day!”
