Luke 4:1-13
Jesus has overcome the world through His supernatural strength and power. The gift of overcoming comes through a relationship with Jesus Christ. It comes through His fullness entering your life. The key to supernatural living with God is through the Holy Spirit. When you are filled with the Spirit of God, God wants to do great things for you. To be filled with the Spirit you must repent of your old ways and be born again, you must be renewed in your mind.
Romans 12:1
Your mind is renewed through the word of God. When we begin to read the word it begins to tell us who we are. When you fill your mind with the word of God it will give you supernatural authority to stand in the face of temptation. The enemy comes to kill, steal, and destroy but Christ came so you could have life more abundantly.
Who are you? What is your identity in Christ? The bible calls you saints. Born again. I'm a new creature, old things are passed away. I'm a child of God. My name is written in the Book of Life. I have eternal life. I'm not a loser I'm a winner, God redeemed me from the curse.
We still act like we are an old creature when God has made us a new creature. When you face temptation you have to face it as a new believer not an old sinner. Satan is always going to create things in your mind that will cause you to be confused. You have to understand who you are in Christ.
John 3:21
Everyone that is full in the Spirit has an open Heaven. When you were baptized in the Holy Spirit, God sent the Spirit to you and now you have an open heaven. The Holy Spirit opens up a place for you in God's kingdom. You are not a victim of your circumstances when you have an open Heaven to go to. We are all caught up in our problems. We are trying to face our problems by ourselves, but we have a helper. We have a strengthener. We have a stand by. Even in life's darkest hours I have one there that will comfort me, love me, help me, and pray through me to the Father, because I don't know how to pray for myself. So I begin to pray in my spiritual language. I recognize His Lordship over my life. I begin to trust that the Holy Spirit was helping me face the trial I was in. I couldn't see it, I couldn't feel it, but I had to believe it.
I would begin to feel healing, peace, and strength in my life. When I was overwhelmed I would pray in the Spirit and the Holy Spirit would comfort me. There is a spiritual battle going on in our lives and the one that will give us victory is the Holy Spirit. We have to depend on Him. We have to have our mind renewed to know who we are as a child of God. I have to know my rights and my authority in the name of Jesus. I have to learn to stand in faith.
