Turn These Stones Into Bread (Daily Devotional)

Greetings and welcome to Living Supernaturally. Thank you once again for giving us the opportunity to come together, to meditate on God’s word and pray. This week, we have been talking about choices. Mathew chapter 4, verses 1-3, ‘Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. And when He had fasted forty days and forty nights, afterward He was hungry. Now when the tempter came to Him, he said, “If You are the Son of God, command that these stones become bread.”’ The Lord Jesus performed many amazing miracles during His earthly ministry. He multiplied food- feeding thousands, walked on water, He raised the dead, He brought sight to the blind, He delivered the oppressed. Why would Jesus have refused to turn the stones into bread? Well, the answer is, Jesus had a mission, and that mission was to glorify God in all that He did, that would include not giving into temptation of the devil. Jesus refused to be manipulated and use His power as the Son of God to His own benefit or for His own advantage, instead He was obedient in every way, showing us how-to live-in God’s will. As we are tempted, we can draw from our close relationship with God. The bible says that Jesus woke up early in the morning and He went to pray, He was in constant communion with the Father, and it was this communion or relationship that helped Him to overcome temptations. You and I can draw from our relationship with God, but in doing so, we must remember that we are honoring God and when we fall into temptation, we are dishonoring God. Jesus demonstrates to us how to resist temptation, all three times when Jesus was tempted, He said ‘it is written’. He stood on God’s word; He stood on the promises of God’s word. Today, even as we maybe tempted in various seasons in our lives, we can hold fast and stand by on God’s word, on His promises which will help us to overcome. Let’s pray, Father, we thank you once again for this wonderful opportunity to come together and pray. We thank you for your presence in our lives. Lord, we pray that no matter what temptations come our way, that you will help us to stand on your word, that we will overcome the enemy by the blood of the lamb and the word of our testimony. We thank you that your word is true, it is alive and powerful. We pray that we will rest on your word and give you the glory, honor, and praise, in Jesus’s name we pray, Amen.

Thank you for tuning in to living supernaturally, for more resources to strengthen your spiritual strengthen your spiritual walk, please visit apcwo.org.

Daily devotions to strengthen your faith each day. Daily Devotional for Spirit filled living. Each daily devotion is about five minutes in duration. These daily devotionals are centered around a weekly theme. So there are seven daily devotions that focus on the theme and bring you insight, understanding and revelation from the Bible. Each week’s theme is listed as a series. So you can listen to the current week’s devotions or go to any previous theme/series that speaks to your present need (https://apcwo.org/resources/daily-devotions ). Also available free sermons (https://apcwo.org/sermons), and free Christian books (https://apcwo.org/books) to nourish and strengthen your faith.