Powerful Weapons

Powerful weapons. The devil will tempt you using his three most powerful weapons. They are so powerful that they were the ones that he used to tempt Jesus.

The first weapon he will use to temp you is to distract you so that you only take care of your body and do not attend to your spirit, forgetting your priority to care for your spirit. So, he tempted Jesus: Then Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan River. He was led by the Spirit in the wilderness,  where he was tempted by the devil for forty days. Jesus ate nothing all that time and became very hungry. Then the devil said to him, “If you are the Son of God, tell this stone to become a loaf of bread.” But Jesus told him, “No! The Scriptures say, ‘People do not live by bread alone.’

The second weapon that the devil will use against you is seducing you with ambition for wealth and power, so that you follow your own ambition and do not follow God. When you are not following God, you're following the devil, but you do not realize it. This is what he told Jesus: Then the devil took him up and revealed to him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time. “I will give you the glory of these kingdoms and authority over them,” the devil said, “because they are mine to give to anyone I please. I will give it all to you if you will worship me.” Jesus replied, “The Scriptures say, You must worship the L ord your God and serve only him.”

The third temptation is to make you think that God "has" to help you to do what you want to do. The devil makes you forget that you must always do the will of God and you end up "testing" God. This is what happened with Jesus: Then the devil took him to Jerusalem, to the highest point of the Temple, and said, “If you are the Son of God, jump off! For the Scriptures say, ‘He will order his angels to protect and guard you. And they will hold you up with their hands so you won’t even hurt your foot on a stone.’ ” Jesus responded, “The Scriptures also say, ‘You must not test the Lord your God.’ ” When the devil had finished tempting Jesus, he left him until the next opportunity came.

These temptations are so powerful that the devil used them to tempt Jesus. But Jesus defended Himself using the most powerful weapon, much more powerful than the devil's temptations. He defended Himself and came out in victory, repeating Bible verses. Jesus did not entered in arguments with the devil, He only repeated the word of God. Follow His Example and achive your victory.