Keep in mind, your decision making and correct priorities protect your discipline. Once again, it is that domino effect. People without priorities usually are undisciplined people. As you have noticed, Jesus always was cool, calm and collected in responding to the pretender (the devil). Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. And when He had fasted forty days and forty nights, afterward He was hungry. Now when the tempter came to Him, he said, “If You are the Son of God, command that these stones become bread.” But He answered and said, “It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.’” Then the devil took Him up into the holy city, set Him on the pinnacle of the temple, and said to Him, “If You are the Son of God, throw Yourself down. For it is written: ‘He shall give His angels charge over you,’ and, ‘In their hands they shall bear you up, Lest you dash your foot against a stone.’”
Jesus said to him, “It is written again, ‘You shall not tempt the Lord your God.’”
Again, the devil took Him up on an exceedingly high mountain, and showed Him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory. And he said to Him, “All these things I will give You if You will fall down and worship me.”
Then Jesus said to him, “Away with you,[d] Satan! For it is written, ‘You shall worship the Lord your God, and Him only you shall serve.’” Then the devil left Him, and behold, angels came and ministered to Him. He always quoted His Father's Word in responding to the pretender (Satan) This is exactly what we as citizens of the Kingdom must do. King Jesus is our perfect example. Not Paul, not Peter, not John, but Jesus the Son of the living God.
Since individuals without priorities do not know which direction to go, they shoot out in every direction, following every whim, going nowhere and dissipating any possible effectiveness they could have. Establishing correct priorities injects automatic discipline into your life because it gives your life a sharp and narrow focus with a laser-like intensity. After Jesus left the wilderness, He was focused on His message. From that time Jesus began to preach and to say, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.” And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all kinds of sickness and all kinds of disease among the people.
Remember, it was the gospel of the Kingdom, not the gospel of Himself (meaning Jesus didn't preach about Himself). Priority induces discipline and protects you from wasting your valuable time, energy, effort, talents, gifts and especially your life.
Matthew 4:1-11 Matthew 4:17 & 23
~~W.R. Luchie
Jesus said to him, “It is written again, ‘You shall not tempt the Lord your God.’”
Again, the devil took Him up on an exceedingly high mountain, and showed Him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory. And he said to Him, “All these things I will give You if You will fall down and worship me.”
Then Jesus said to him, “Away with you,[d] Satan! For it is written, ‘You shall worship the Lord your God, and Him only you shall serve.’” Then the devil left Him, and behold, angels came and ministered to Him. He always quoted His Father's Word in responding to the pretender (Satan) This is exactly what we as citizens of the Kingdom must do. King Jesus is our perfect example. Not Paul, not Peter, not John, but Jesus the Son of the living God.
Since individuals without priorities do not know which direction to go, they shoot out in every direction, following every whim, going nowhere and dissipating any possible effectiveness they could have. Establishing correct priorities injects automatic discipline into your life because it gives your life a sharp and narrow focus with a laser-like intensity. After Jesus left the wilderness, He was focused on His message. From that time Jesus began to preach and to say, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.” And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all kinds of sickness and all kinds of disease among the people.
Remember, it was the gospel of the Kingdom, not the gospel of Himself (meaning Jesus didn't preach about Himself). Priority induces discipline and protects you from wasting your valuable time, energy, effort, talents, gifts and especially your life.
Matthew 4:1-11 Matthew 4:17 & 23
~~W.R. Luchie
