“And Jesus being full of the Holy Ghost returned from Jordan, and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness, being forty days tempted of the devil. And in those days he did eat nothing: and when they were ended, he afterward hungered.”
Luke 4:1-2 KJV
From the moment of His baptism, Jesus overflowed with the Holy Spirit. He was taken by the Spirit from the Jordan into the wilderness of Judea to experience for forty days the ordeal of testing by the accuser. He ate no food during this time and ended His forty-day fast very hungry. The Holy Spirit’s leading is not always into comfort and ease. The Spirit may lead us, as He did Jesus, into places where we will be proven, tested, and strengthened for our future ministry. After Jesus’s greatest affirmation from heaven came a great time of testing. This test was more than proving that Jesus could overcome this ordeal. It proved that satan was defeated by Christ’s appearing. Jesus’s baptism and the forty day of wilderness temptations that followed evoke parallels with the historical narrative of the Hebrew exodus through the Red Sea and the forty years of wilderness testing. As the living Word used the written Word against satan, so we need the revelation of what has been written to stand against satan, the enemy of our soul. Amen!
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