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Last Saturday I jumped ahead of my self by going into Matthew 7, I will digress today. Let’s examine Matthew 4:3-4 concerning Jesus temptation in the wilderness. Jesus spent 40 days in the wilderness. The 40 days is a symbolic number which means until completed. The 40 days in the desert and the 40 years in the wilderness just means until what needed to be done was done. (We just don’t write like this anymore).

Whatever the actual length of time, Jesus was hungry. Turning the stones into bread seems like a good thing to manifest when you are hungry. But in so doing you are limiting what God maybe wanting to give you. Jesus had to hold The Faith that God had something better for him and He did. At the end the Angels came and cared for him. The Angels probably provided a lot better than bread.

Verse 4 says “people ….. must feed on every word of God.” To me that is holding the faith. Believe that God has something better for you. The word of God is creation. Remember Genesis, God spoke and his word manifested. The word of God is the manifestation of what you need and want.

Thousands of years ago, people believed that the spoken word held much power. Even today we have power in our words. We can create or destroy; we can uplift or bring down. I worked for someone who would talk about one of his sons. This man said that he always told his son that he would end up flipping burgers and guess what the 40 year old son was doing… flipping burgers. Someone else hearing this man talk commented that it was a good thing he never told the son he would end up in prison.

I have been known to have what negative thing I said to come true. This quirk prevented me from saying anything linking tornadoes and mobile homes in the same sentence when we were living in one. I can say it now since we no longer live in a mobile home — “Tornado bait” there I said it. (Why do I feel like looking over my shoulder?)