Christian Healing Ministry - Devotionals

Devotional for October 3, 2025

YOU SHOULD BE PAST TEMPTATIONS

SCRIPTURE READING - 📖 Matthew 4:10-11

Then Jesus said to him, “Away with you Satan! For it is written, “You shall worship the LORD your God, and Him only you shall serve.”

Additional Verses

📖 1 Samuel 17:26-58; Psalm 23:1-6; Matthew 4:1-11; 1 John 4:1-6

Temptations are from the Devil just as Matthew 4:1-11 teaches us. In the same text, Jesus Christ teaches us how to respond to every temptation of Satan. You must know that temptations are the Devil’s strategies of winning you from glory life which the Father freely gave you through His Son Jesus Christ. In all the three ways in which Satan tempted Jesus Christ, the LORD defeated the Devil by using the Word of God. The devil was not at all any match against the Son of God. Hebrews 4:12 says, “For the Word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.” Each time you use the Word of God in response to temptations of the devil, you cause the Devil to bleed. However for you to be able to defeat the Devil with the Word, you must be so full of the Word itself just as Jesus Christ Himself is the Word of God. Using the Word of God which is not a part of you is just the same as attempting to fight a vicious and hungry lion with a spear which you never used before. Certainly the lion will defeat you and turn you into its lunch or supper. This is what happened to the sons of Sceva, a Jew and chief of the priests who tried to cast out an evil spirit from a man in Acts Chapter 19:13-17. They said to the demon possessed man, “We adjure you by Jesus whom Paul preaches.” And the evil spirit answered and said, Jesus l know, and Paul l know, but who are you? And the man in whom the evil spirit was leaped on them, and prevailed against them, so they fled out of that house naked and wounded. Many children of God always want to quote the Word of God out of context just because they are in a crisis. Let me tell you that this does not work at all. It is only when you are skilled in the Word of God just as the LORD Jesus Christ taught that you will be able to overcome temptations. In 1 Samuel 17:39 David refused to go into battle against Goliath wearing Saul’s armor which he had never used before. He actually said, “I cannot walk with these, for I have not tested them.” He was able to defeat Goliath only with a simple weapon which he had used as a shepherd to defeat lion and bear. This simple weapon was his unwavering faith in God. In 1 Samuel 17:37 David declared, “The LORD, Who delivered me from the paw of the lion and from the paw of the bear, He will deliver me from the hand of this Philistine.” It is only when you know Who your deliverer is just as David did, that you can walk over any temptation which the Devil may put in your way. 1 John 4:4 says, “You are of God little children, and have overcome them; because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.” Be wise therefore and yield yourself to the Word of God which reveals to you who is inside you, your Deliverer and Savior and you will be a victor and an overcomer all the way. Alleluia!

Prayer

Dear LORD Jesus Christ, thank You for teaching me how to resist temptation. Help me to never give in to temptation and that I should be able to resist the devil so that he flees from me. In Jesus Christ’s name, Amen.