Exposing Satan's Playbook The Perry Stone

Satan spoke to Christ, who in return rebuked the tempter by using revelation from the Torah (Luke 4:2–12). Forty consecutive days of fasting in a desert require two important biblical virtues that are the “power twins” undergirding a believer’s life: faith and patience. Faith can start you on your long journey, but patience will keep you walking on that journey through the potholes, delays, and possible roadblocks. Faith can motivate you to engage in the battle to see, but patience will undergird your faith during times of failure, wounds, and sudden conflicts. Faith can lead you down a road of healing, but patience will keep hope alive while you are waiting for the manifestation of your healing to emerge. We hear great teaching on faith but little on faith’s twin brother, patience. The Greek word for “patience” is hupomone and exemplifies the virtue of “happily and hopefully enduring in a steady and consistent manner—in faith .” The key word is consistent . . . meaning to not waver in unbelief or in your determination. There are many reasons why patience is a must virtue for every believer to carry in the battle arsenal and strategy. As I mentioned previously, all spiritual testing is for a set time period. When we as believers are in the heat of a major testing or temptation, our desire is that the crisis and conflict will cease soon, that it will depart from us as quickly as it may have suddenly appeared. However, when the test continues for months, or even years, without patience we will make unwise decisions attempting to escape the struggle.