Fill Your Tool Box

Appropriation defined by dictionary.com is the act of setting apart or taking for one's own use. So in this manner of appropriation we as believers have to read the word of God in order to know which scriptures we should use to cast down every imagination that tries to exalt itself over the word of God. We all know that the enemy was not happy with our acceptance of the salvation through grace from God that we received in Jesus Christ. Each day Satan sets out to render us in effective for the kingdom by taking our focus off the mission we were created for and setting our focus on temptations, fires, and accusations. The only weapon we have to fight and defeat him in any given season is the word of God rightly divided. Jesus Christ our champion modeled this while He was in the wilderness when He quoted scripture from the book of Deuteronomy, which applied to each of the three temptations that Satan was bringing before Him. If we continue to search these marvelous scriptures, we equip ourselves with a wonderful tool box were we can continue to appropriate God’s word in order for us to fight the good fight. Fill up your tool box, “having the right tool for the job, makes the job that much simpler!!!” Have a wonderful life of appropriation on purpose!!!!!

Matthew 4

The Temptation of Jesus
1Then Jesus was led by the Spirit into the desert to be tempted by the devil. 2After fasting forty days and forty nights, he was hungry. 3The tempter came to him and said, "If you are the Son of God, tell these stones to become bread."
4Jesus answered, "It is written: 'Man does not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.'[a]"
5Then the devil took him to the holy city and had him stand on the highest point of the temple. 6"If you are the Son of God," he said, "throw yourself down. For it is written: " 'He will command his angels concerning you, and they will lift you up in their hands, so that you will not strike your foot against a stone.'[b]"
7Jesus answered him, "It is also written: 'Do not put the Lord your God to the test.'[c]"
8Again, the devil took him to a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their splendor. 9"All this I will give you," he said, "if you will bow down and worship me."
10Jesus said to him, "Away from me, Satan! For it is written: 'Worship the Lord your God, and serve him only.'[d]"
11Then the devil left him, and angels came and attended him.