The tempter is the person you relinquish your power to when you chose to listen and be taken captive with his lies. Many of you have made the mistake of trusting your rival as if he or she has your best interest at heart, but the opposite happens to be a hidden agenda.
While some of you are obsessed with exterior beauty, lucrative wealth, and having a lifestyle of status, in the pursuit of these elements, many of you are forced to alienate yourself from the purpose you were created. It is our inheritance to walk with God. In the scripture, Isaiah 41: 8 (it is written)…Abraham my friend. What an honor for God to call him friend.
Satan, God’s rival, won’t let anything stand in his way to deceive you to keep you from achieving God's purpose, the thing you were born to do. If it means showering you with worldly riches and pleasures to cut off your power, he considers you a worthy challenge. “What power?” You ask. Your power is the ability to allow God to inhabit you, and walk continuous with him in faith, through grace.
You see, we have the power to refuse our tempter, no matter what shape or form it appears. Adam and Eve had the power to refuse, but simply didn’t know how to use their authority. God had given them power over everything that creep and crawl. Each of us has a tempter in our life to conquer, for surely that tempter is more than determined to defeat us.
Every since the Garden of Eden, Satan lies to keep you from refusing him, Genesis 3:4-6 And the serpent said unto the woman…”Ye shall not surely die:" ...she took of the fruit thereof, ...and did eat, ...and he did eat. God put enmity between woman, and the devil. Satan hates us and he hates God, he is determine to defeat us, but we can make him the liar that he is, by not yielding to temptation.
Jacob’s son, “Joseph,” (the dreamer) when tempted by his master’s wife to lay with her; Genesis 39:7-8 he refused the tempter. Eventually, his purpose to came to pass, and he interpreted the King’s dream, and God gave him the plan to preserve his family, Israel, and Egypt from years of famine; he fulfilled his purpose and walked in his destiny.
Samson, when tempted by Delilah to tell where his strength was... gave in to her worthless lies of love and revealed his secret; Sadly, God’s Spirit departed from him and he became weak and helpless as a natural man; he was taken captive and mocked. But because of Samson’s prayers, he found mercy and grace in the eyes of God, and God’s Spirit was restored back to him. In the end, Samson accomplished his purpose, which was to triumph over God's enemies.
When the tempter came to Jesus, he said, “All these things I will give thee, if thou will fall down and worship me.” Then saith Jesus unto him, “Get thee hence, Satan; for it is written Thou shalt worship the Lord God, and him only shalt thou serve.” Matthew 4:1-11 Jesus refused the tempter; and for his obedience, …every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth; Philippians 2:10 “This is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased; St. Matthew 17:5
We have the incredible power within us the power to refuse the tempter and to please God. By resisting our tempter, and not yielding to temptation, we will find our crowns of honor in completing the charge that God has purposed.
