Master Cravings, Maintain Identity, Align Your Worship

All of us, at some point in our lives, will have to deal with a battle that we sometimes don't understand. Things that just happen because life is filled with battles. Battles of peace and purpose. Battles of integrity and obedience. Battles of faith and different mindsets. Some of us even deal with identity battles, trying to figure out who we are in Christ Jesus. We struggle backwards and forth. We look over here. We look over there. We battle with our thoughts. We battle with decisions and desires. Battles come from everywhere. [00:39:01] (50 seconds)  #EverydayBattles

Not because god is absent in your life, not because your faith is false, not not not because the scripture is weak, it's simply because the devil is constantly fighting you with things that that that you're dealing with in life and so so so in this in this text, we find out that that we got some some some strategies that that Jesus laid out for us to to help us deal with these battles. You know, you know, I'm guilty of it sometimes because when people push me, I can only be pushed so far. [00:40:55] (32 seconds)  #JesusGivesStrategy

Y'all heard your pastor say on numerous occasions, I'll turn the other cheek but sometimes when I come around, you may not like the person you see. Because I'm dealing with stuff often times. I I have to make myself realize. I have to keep on fighting and these strategies are not just for me but it's for y'all too. Matthew shows us that Satan attacked Jesus in three universal forms. First thing he attacked was his appetite. [00:41:27] (29 seconds)  #AttackOnAppetite

His identity and then he tried to attack his worship and church, those are the three areas in our lives that we battle with the most. You know, let me just put it simply. You want what you want. You need to know who you are and you need to know who lose you. In life, we have to make decisions sometimes and sometimes the condition of our environment causes us to make inappropriate decisions because we don't have a model that we are using to to to to work through things. [00:41:57] (38 seconds)  #KnowWhoYouAre

You know, if you've ever watched this new crave that's going across the country, this MMA fighting and mixed martial arts, they they have various strategies that they use to make victories but if you know anything about MMA, it is called mixed martial arts because they take pieces of various different martial arts and incorporate them into the fighting skills to give them the ability to move with whatever opponent may face them. [00:42:35] (34 seconds)  #FightLikeMMA

Sometimes, sometimes our our battles is with the crowd. Sometimes, our battles are with lack of approval. Sometimes, our battle with lack of applause. Sometimes, we'll battle with activities but whatever it is, we're all going through a battle. But I just want you to take a few minutes and and it's the old saints, the old saints who will remember this song, the songwriter said, don't let the devil ride because if you let the devil ride, he don't want to drive. [00:43:08] (27 seconds)  #DontLetTheDevilRide

tell these stones to become bread. And Jesus gave them an answer. It is written man shall not live by bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of god. Church, this is the first battle that you face in life. It is deeply human because Jesus is going through something and been through something that would cause you to change your heart and your mind because he was drained. Amen. He was tired [00:47:01] (38 seconds)  #MoreThanBread

He was depleted allowed us to see everything about him that who he was. The Bible made it clear and you know, if you ever been on any kind of a fast, three day, two day, one day, just if you're going from decide from twelve to twelve, there's always going to be some pressure in your life. Yeah. Yeah. But notice Jesus in the text says, the devil says, tell these stones to become bread. Satan does not tempt Jesus with something obviously sinful. [00:47:38] (38 seconds)  #SubtleTemptations