Daily DEVOTIONAL

Luke 4:13-30: The Power of the Spirit

June 12, 2025

1 Kings 21-22, Psalm 119:89-96, Luke 4:13-30, Ephesians 4:13-30 Luke 4:13-30: The devil’s temptation has finished—for the moment. Note: when we pass one set of temptations, we are not to think that thereby such temptations will not return. While we are in this world, temptations will come. We are, as William Gurnall, the great Puritan commentator on the…

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