RTW 2022

“So, my enemy, you have found me!” Ahab exclaimed to Elijah. “Yes,” Elijah answered, “I have come because you have sold yourself to what is evil in the LORD’s sight.“
1 Kings 21:20

Satan’s temptations of Jesus in the wilderness

What is my soul worth to me?

• What my flesh craves? (Basic needs and a little bit more)
• What my flesh fights my soul for? (Notoriety, fame, power- followers, likes)
• What my flesh eyes others have that looks so great? (The stuff of the world)

I can’t be a sold-out disciple of the Lord, and while also prostituting myself to what the world offers.

Then Jesus said to His disciples, “If, anyone desires to be My disciple, let him deny himself [disregard, lose sight of, and forget himself and his own interests] and take up his cross and follow Me [cleave steadfastly to Me, conform wholly to My example in living and, if need be, in dying, also].“…”For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his life [his blessed life in the kingdom of God]? Or what would a man give as an exchange for his [blessed] life [in the kingdom of God]?“
Matthew 16:24,26 (AMPC)

Satan comes disguised as light, a wolf in sheep’s clothing when I am:

• Standing in the wilderness, places of this world hungry – physically, relationally, and financially.
• Down in my career options, not getting head, even though I’m working so very hard.
• See the sparkly and shiny things of this world.

Stand firm.

• Be on guard.
• Be prayed up.
• Resist the devil (and all he offers). He will flee from you.

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Wow! Poole on Ahab’s repentance. Reader beware!

“But this humiliation or repentance of Ahab’s was only external and superficial, arising from the terror of God’s judgments; and not sincere and serious, proceeding from the love of God, or a true sense of his sin, or a solemn purpose of amendment of his life, as appears, because all the particulars of his repentance here, are external and ritual only; nor is there the least intimation of any one sign or fruit of his true repentance, as that he restored Naboth’s land, or reproved his infamous wife; but in the very next chapter you find him returning to his former vomit.” –  Matthew Poole

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Determine that my soul was to die for. Jesus died for it, and the kingdom of God is worth dying for, my daily death.