One of Satan\u2019s favourite schemes is getting us to use legitimate things in an illegitimate way. During the wilderness temptation, he tried to take advantage of Christ\u2019s hunger by saying, \u2018Tell these stones to become bread.\u2019<\/i> (Matthew\u00a04:3\u00a0NIV) But Jesus knew the Scriptures, so He replied, \u2018It is written, \u201cMan shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.\u201d\u2019<\/i> (Matthew\u00a04:4\u00a0NKJV) <\/p>\n
Had Jesus given in to His human impulses, He would have gone along with Satan\u2019s scheme and forfeited His heavenly Father\u2019s supply that was just about to arrive. We all need money, but Satan will tempt you to cheat on your taxes, short-change your customers, cut corners on the job, or withhold your donation. We have all been created with the need for companionship and sexual fulfilment. But Satan will tempt you to fulfil those needs by having an affair or trapping you into online pornography. We all long to be successful in our career. But Satan will tempt you to achieve it through lying, manipulating, or blowing someone else\u2019s light out in order to let yours shine. <\/p>\n
One of his oldest schemes is to confuse our values so that good appears to be evil, and evil appears as good. So what\u2019s the answer? Paul says, \u2018Put on the full armour of God, so that you can take your stand against the devil\u2019s schemes.\u2019<\/i> (Ephesians\u00a06:11\u00a0NIV) There is only one way to unmask Satan and defeat his schemes, and that\u2019s through a close walk with God, a daily study of the Scriptures, and a consistent prayer life. That\u2019s how you guard your mind<\/i>, your mouth<\/i>, and your morals<\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
One of Satan\u2019s favourite schemes is getting us to use legitimate things in an illegitimate way. During the wilderness temptation, he tried to take advantage of Christ\u2019s hunger by saying, \u2018Tell these stones to become bread.\u2019 (Matthew\u00a04:3\u00a0NIV) But Jesus knew the Scriptures, so He replied, \u2018It is written, \u201cMan shall not live by bread alone, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1708"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1708\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}