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1 Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted and tested by the devil.
There always comes a fresh attack from the enemy right after the empowerment or experience with the Spirit of God. Jesus was led to face this alone and by going into the wilderness where nobody else was, He could go through this hidden from the public eye.

The same thing will happen to you when you go through this experience. You will need to face it all alone.

2 And after fasting for forty days and forty nights, he became hungry.
This is the longest a person can fast. The hunger goes away early in the fast, but when it returns, then the body enters starvation. Jesus body was telling Him he must eat again.

3 And when the tempter came to him, he said, If you are the Son of God, then speak a command to turn these stones into bread.
This was an attempt to get Jesus to use his anointing for Himself before others. Later He used it to provide for others and also for Himself at the same time. This is a key to flowing in an external mantle. You must first use it for others before you can tap into it for yourself.

4 But he answered and said, It is written, Man will not only live [zoe] on bread but on every [rhema] word that flows out of the mouth of God.
Bread is often used as a symbol of the Word, but here Jesus compares it with another kind of word. He does not say we should live on the Bible, the Word of God, which is logos, but He says we should live on the active spoken word of God which is rhema.

This comes from inside us via our spirits, rather than by reading the Scriptures.
- RHEMA - WORD - SUCCESS

5 Then the devil took him up into the holy city, and got him to stand at the top of the temple,
6 And said to him, If you are the Son of God, cast yourself down: for it has been written, He will give his angels orders concerning you: and in [their] hands they will lift you up, in case you dash your foot against a stone.
Here is a classic case where the written Word, the Logos is not enough for us to act on. Satan quoted the Logos, but there was more involved. Jesus heard first the rhema word spoken to Him directly from the Father. And this rhema word pointed out that this Scripture must be understood while keeping another Scripture in mind. So the rhema will sometimes override the logos.
- SUCCESS

7 Jesus said to him, It has been written on the other hand, You are not to put the Lord your God to a test.
8 Once again, the devil took him up into a very high mountain, and showed him all the kingdoms of the world, and the magnificence of them;
9 And said to him, I will give you all of these things, if you will bow down and worship me.
Satan was given control of the world when Adam handed it over to him through sin. He has a legal right and is now the god of this world. Part of why Jesus came, was to buy this back for us. Here Satan offered him an easier way to do it without having to face the cross.
- SUCCESS

10 Then Jesus said to him, Go away, Satan: for it has been written, You will worship the Lord your God, and you will serve Him alone.
11 Then the devil left him, and angels came and took care of him.
The angels could not help him overcome the temptation, but once He had overcome, they were there to give him strength and any help He needed. Since Calvary, this has changed and we can now mobilize the angels to do warfare on our behalf to overcome the attack of the enemy.
- ANGELS

12 But when Jesus heard that John had been taken into custody, he returned to Galilee;
13 And leaving Nazareth, he came and lived in Capernaum, which is by the sea, in the regions of Zebulon and Naphthali:
14 In order to fulfill what was spoken by Isaiah the prophet, saying,
15 The land of Zebulun, and the land of Naphtali, on the way to the sea, beyond Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles;
16 The people who live in darkness have seen a great light; and to those who live in the region that is shadowed by death light has dawned.
Jesus was like a bright light shining in the darkness. Now as believers in Him, we are the same and we spread the light wherever we go.

17 From that time Jesus began to preach, and to say, Repent [change your mind]: for the kingdom of heaven is near.
18 And Jesus, walking by the sea of Galilee, saw two brothers, Simon called Peter, and Andrew his brother, throwing out a net into the sea: for they were fishermen.
They were throwing nets, which is similar to the kind of ministry they had afterward - one of mostly evangelism or reaching the lost.

19 And he said to them, Come and follow behind me, and I will make you into fishers of men.
20 And they immediately left [their] nets, and became His disciples.
21 And going on further from there, he saw two more brothers, James [the son] of Zebedee, and John his brother, in a ship with Zebedee their father, repairing their nets; and he invited them.
They were repairing their nets, which can also be a picture of the kind of ministry they had afterward, which was more of a ministry to believers than unbelievers. John was a counselor and pastor more than an evangelist.

22 And they immediately gave up the ship and their father, and became His disciples.
23 And Jesus went around the whole of Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the good news of the kingdom, and healing all kinds of sickness and all kinds of disease among the people.
Jesus. carried out three activities - teaching, preaching, and healing. His healing embraced all kinds of sickness and disease. Jesus did not have just one mantle of healing or limited mantles for specific problems. He could handle all of them

- HEALING

24 And his fame went throughout all Syria: and they brought to him all sick people that were suffering with various different diseases and acute pains, and those who were possessed by demons, and those who were insane, and those that had paralysis; and he healed them.
Once the people believed He could heal, they all came to Him for healing. This is an essential element to functioning powerfully in healing. Initially, Jesus did not have this fame, but He also did not have those who did not think He could do it. That problem only came later from His own friends and family.

25 And huge crowds of people followed him from Galilee, and Decapolis, and Jerusalem, and Judaea, and the other side of Jordan.