At Jesus’s baptism, the Father declared: “This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased” (Matthew 3:17)!

Just a few verses later, Satan’s first words to Jesus were: “If you are the Son of God…”

Look at how crafty and cunning the devil is: the devil tried to sow doubt about Jesus’s identity. He does the same to us—making us question whether we are really loved, chosen, forgiven, or worthy when he sees that we are in season of a draught.

But Jesus never debated or argued with Satan. He simply responded with Scripture, grounding Himself in truth.

Likewise, when temptation challenges who we are, we must stand firm in what God has already declared: we are His children (Romans 8:16).

The thing that I have learned is that today Christians do not know who they are—they have identity crises that is why there is so much noise and confession that is not necessary and weak that we can clear out if we know who we are....

It does not matter to the Devil that God declared who you are if you do not know who you are, what I mean is that even if God says that you are something and you do not know that, knowing who you are, you are doomed before you can do or go anywhere.

The Lord Jesus Christ was tested by the King of Darkness whether He knew Who he was, and if he failed all His miracles that he would do would be all a waste of time. Why you ask? ...Simply because the Devil would have defeated him in the wilderness long before he was known in Israel.

What his Father declared about Him would be a nothing but a lie that promotes a Son that bends when faced with trials of life. That is exactly what it real means if Christ turned the stone into bread.

The point of the enemy is not for him to help himself and neither was he caring about him...all he wanted was for Him to fail in in His purpose and worldwide ministry before He even began!

Many believers of today are simply turning stones into breads because they believe their father the Devil more than God's Word. They may justify themselves thinking that God understands when they are just selfish and naive, how shameful.

Compromise is their lifestyle, and the Word of the Lord has no place in them at all. Do not be fooled by the constant church attendance, they are fooling themselves and the Devil is feeding them with lies that as long as they attend church and warm sits they are on the right track, but when it comes to the word of God the are still infants after all those years....

Where are they really going, what then is the use of coming to church, what is all the point of going to church...? They are slaves of the Devils tactics and the will not change because they Devil has made them to believe that as long as they go to church all is well.

But when we look why the Devil tempted Lord Jesus in the first was not in a synagogue or on a church building, even more, not in the temple, but in the desert.

The Devil does not care about people who do not know who they are and undermine the Word of God. He fears people that live the Word and know who they are.

So it is time to awaken, wake up before it is too late! Judas Iscariot dead as a sinner because he did not know who he was and listened to the devil and ended up as a cursed man (cursed is the man that hanged on the tree!) when Christ made him one of the Twelve Apostles.

He ended his oen life by his own hands as a murderer who sold the Lord unto His enemies for temporal things. THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT MANY SO CALLED CHRISTIANS ARE DOING IN THE NAME OF THE LORD!

Each of Satan’s three temptations was met with the same response: "It is written..."

He did not shout, fight or try to justify Himself that He was the Son of God, He only spoke the word! Take note: He did not read the word but spoke it, "Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh."

The Lord Jesus is far way better than the "first man" Adam! The Devil thought that since he has succeeded in defeating the first man Adam he thought he would win again (Genesis 3). Too bad for him because the "Second Man," the Second Adam (1 corinthians) is the man who lived and did everything by depending fully in God the father.

This Man does not compromise neither has He confidence in the flesh at all, after all He made himself of no reputation and nothing. While Adam on the other hand wanted to be wise and to be like God and he fell, he wa chased out of the Garden.

And you might have realized that the person who led him there was the Devil, he listened to the father of lies than his Father Yahweh, Jehovah, Elohim and The Lord God I AM!

Jesus did not rely on clever arguments or His own willpower. He leaned on the unshakable authority of God’s Word—this is what we should be doing instead of spending a lot of time making up excuses and lies that we use to cloak our lack of responsibility, careless and laziness.

Many people have made many claims in this life, but very few live their lives by the word of God. You can cram and memorize it like the Pharisees and Scribes, but you will end up like them.

The Lord said to them, "You generation of vipers how can you escape the damnation of Hell?" That is the question one should ask before you find yourself being thrown out of the garden of Eden metaphorically....

This is crucial for us: temptation cannot be defeated by self-help slogans or raw determination. Only the truth of Scripture silences the lies of the enemy. That is why hiding God’s Word in our hearts (Psalm 119:11) is not optional—it’s spiritual survival!

Simply put good things take time, patience and sacrifice! The Lord Jesus did all of those things, for example, our salvation demanded those things....

In other words: a shortcut.

We all want to chill and relax all day long enjoying ourself under the beautiful sunset in beautiful private beaches that cost an arm and a leg. Haah, just breathing in the breath of relief...sinking in and forgetting all your problems—having a good quality time with the people you only care about...!

The Devil is feeding the minds of people that they need to relax, take it easy, you will win the lottery, you will do this and that...

And the end of the year you look back only to realize that you did nothing—you were just LAZY, PROCRASTINATING & AVOIDING PAIN AND SACRIFICE!

Then here is what you say to yourself, "This new year I will do this and that...I promise myself." The other ends even more worse!

The Heavenly Father in Heaven is still waiting for you to preach the gospel, evangelize, support the ministry with more resources and other many things that you promised Him that you will do If He gave you something. The painful thing is that He answered your prayers but you are delay and making excuses all the time. The Devil says you will do it tomorrow, next week, next month...on and on, and on...

Why are are not doing what you said or what You know God expects from? It is because you want the easy road, the perfect time, enough resources and many other things. But if you burn it all down you will see that what you are asking for is a shortcut!

You may not admit it, but it is the TRUTH! You have not won souls because you are afraid of what people will say; you do not want to lose your family, friends, respect, work, and etc. You still on the fence looking for a shortcut...

...even today you are still on the fence waiting. And your father the Devil (you still do not want to admit because you still believe that in your hypocrisy you are doing God service), is whispering in your ears saying it not yet the right time, wait a little bit, blah blah blah!

While you still dancing to his tune you are sinning against God, and souls are dying out there without being saved! Let me make it more clear, all those souls the Lord is going to require them in your hands.

You may think that you are not called to the five-fold ministry but you have an important role that you need to play in the body of Christ one way or the other. There is no one who will be a sit warmer and spectator in the House of God, we all work and NO ONE IS GOING TO GET A EASY SPECIAL TREATMENT NEITHER A SHORTCUT, FORGET IT AND WAKE UP!

Furthermore, shortcuts always come at a cost. They promise ease but lead to bondage. They offer satisfaction but deliver emptiness. Jesus refused the shortcut because He knew the Father’s plan was better.

We face the same temptation today—avoiding obedience because it seems too costly, or reaching for comfort instead of character. Jesus shows us that real victory is not in the easy way but in the faithful way.

Learn and understand that there is no other substitute for all that the Lord teaches us, they are life and eternal, hallelujah!

Ultimately, the wilderness was a preview of a greater battle. Jesus’s resistance to Satan foreshadowed His final victory on the cross. Where Adam fell in a garden, Jesus triumphed in the desert. Where humanity gave in, Christ overcame.

This matters for us because His victory becomes our victory. Hebrews 4:15 assures us:

That means we can approach Him with confidence, knowing He understands our struggles and supplies grace for our battles.

He is our father and he lives us so much, He went to the cross for us not for Himself, come close to him he is always waiting to accept us no matter how much we have messed up!

Lets rise up and carry our cross an follow him everyday. It is painful, hard and unbearable but He will enable you because His yoke is not heavy but light. In Christ we can do all things through him....

He has overcome the world, noe it is our time to overcome every temptation that may come your way. Whether you are rich or poor temptation will always be there, but only those that do the deeds of the Lord Jesus and overcome as he did will be worthy of Him and His Kingdom.

May the Lord help us in the name of the Lord Jesus!

The story of Jesus’s temptation is not just ancient history.

The desert is not just Jesus’s story—it’s ours too. We all face seasons of testing, whispers of doubt, and promises of shortcuts. But like Jesus, we can endure and overcome.

The good news is that we don’t stand in the wilderness alone. The same Spirit who led Jesus into the desert now lives in us. The same Word that silenced Satan is in our hands today. And the same victory that Jesus won on the cross is ours through faith.

So the next time temptation whispers, remember: You are not powerless. You are not alone. And in Christ, you already have the victory; do so until the return of the Lord Jesus, because He is standing at the door ready call His Bride home! Take care and God bless, In Jesus Name, Amen!