Devotional
40 Days of Seeking God
And after fasting forty days and forty nights, he was hungry.
And the tempter came and said to him,
And the tempter came and said to him,
“If you are the Son of God, command these stones to become loaves of bread.”
Matthew 4:2-3
Matthew 4:2-3
After His baptism, Jesus went into the wilderness for forty days. No doubt He spent that time seeking the will of the Father, praying, preparing His soul for the work ahead. Yet at the same time He was tempted. There were three temptations mentioned in this journey but all were used by Satan to tempt Jesus to bypass God’s will for Him by taking the easy road; stones to bread, prove His authority, and to rule without sacrifice. Jesus resisted all those by being focused fully on the will of the Father.
During our forty days of prayer we may also be tempted to bypass God’s will for us. Perhaps our own priorities, our own ideas, our own fears, may be used by the devil to move us away from God’s plans for us. Our purpose in praying is so that we can hear God together. The most important thing in this journey is to reach a point where together as a church we have a strong sense of what God is saying. Let us open our heart to God and let Him speak.
Brett
During our forty days of prayer we may also be tempted to bypass God’s will for us. Perhaps our own priorities, our own ideas, our own fears, may be used by the devil to move us away from God’s plans for us. Our purpose in praying is so that we can hear God together. The most important thing in this journey is to reach a point where together as a church we have a strong sense of what God is saying. Let us open our heart to God and let Him speak.
Brett
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