Daily Little Victories

Luke 4:13

Now when the devil had ended every temptation, he departed from Him until an opportune time (NKJV).

The account of the Temptation of Jesus by Satan in the book of Luke chapter 4 where Jesus triumphed over the devil is no new story. But verse 13 draws serious attention that should be practical to us today. It says that the devil retreated temporarily, for a while, for a season, for an opportune time. After trying to tempt Jesus to renounce his Lordship and worship him (Satan), scripture says that he retreated so that he will come back again some other time to tempt.

What we learn from this is to be ready to fight for victory at all time in little areas of our lives. As we face situations, we can only defeat the devil through conscious dependence on God’s word and the move of the Holy Spirit within us.

One thing that is inevitable is that temptation can come at any time but victory is also sure every time. Victory is sure because we are not the people who fight our battles; Christ fought and won our battles over two millenniums ago.

When you want to fight a mighty man, you do not look out for his strengths and feel satisfied but more importantly, you focus on the person’s weaknesses because it is only through these weaknesses that you will overcome him. In the same manner, our enemy looks out for our weaknesses because we are vulnerable in those areas. 

Daily victories therefore imply that we focus on little steps we take on a daily basis. It is the little victories that we gain on a daily basis that gives us total victories in major areas of our lives. Jesus was hungry and so vulnerable to food but He won the battle. The same lesson can be applied in our situations today.