Some of the learning from the temptation of Jesus recorded in Mathew 4. 1. Fasting is a personal choice in the spiritual battle. We must understand that God has not placed a rule to fast when we are facing a spiritual attack in life, but its a personal choice to opt to fast and face the spiritual attack in life or family or ministry. Jesus Christ was willing to follow that willingly and therefore we find that many times He confined himself to mountain tops and solitary places to face the battles of His life. 2. Proving yourself as a Christian is a temptation in itself One of the questions that the devil asked Jesus to do was to prove His divinity by turning the stones into bread. We may face this many a times in our life where we are asked to prove our faith instead of following and practicing it. 3. Our focus should not be on physical need/growth rather it should be on the growth of our inner man. When Jesus was asked to feed His hungry flesh with freshly prepared bread-