The Bible says, \u2018Jesus was led by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil.\u2019 Notice who led Jesus there: God! You\u2019re in training for your destiny, and a good trainer has one thing in mind\u2014turning flab into muscle. So he takes you into the gym and increases the weights until you break a sweat and start thinking, \u2018I don\u2019t know how much more of this I can take.\u2019 But God does. It\u2019s only when you look back that you realise you\u2019re handling situations today you couldn\u2019t have handled a year ago. Sometimes old temptations will return with a vengeance. They\u2019ll hound you until you think you need some new, novel, quick\u2013fix strategy. Like the Israelites at the Red Sea, just when they thought they were finally free from a life of slavery, here comes Pharaoh. At that point they cried out to God in fear, saying, \u2018It would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians…\u2019<\/i> (Exodus\u00a014:12\u00a0NIV) \u2018Then the Lord said to Moses, \u201cWhy are you crying out to Me? Tell the Israelites to move on. Raise your staff and stretch out your hand over the sea to divide the water…\u201d\u2019<\/i> (Exodus\u00a014:15\u201316) God used Moses\u2019 rod\u2014again! Victory over the Egyptians didn\u2019t come from discovering something new; it came from using what God had already given them. You have the power inside you today to overcome the temptation you\u2019re facing right now. You just need to tap into it. Paul said, \u2018Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us.\u2019<\/i> (Ephesians\u00a03:20\u00a0NKJV) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Bible says, \u2018Jesus was led by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil.\u2019 Notice who led Jesus there: God! You\u2019re in training for your destiny, and a good trainer has one thing in mind\u2014turning flab into muscle. So he takes you into the gym and increases the weights until you […]<\/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\/2149"}],"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=2149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}