Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit in the wilderness, 2where for forty days he was tempted by the devil. He ate nothing at all during those days, and when they were over, he was famished. Jesus is hungry so Satan attacks him where he's weakest. We have some area of weakness or stress in our life and Satan homes in on it and usually he scores a direct hit. The share market drops and our superannuation fund starts to look a little shaky and he tells us we're in trouble.
Anxiety starts to rise.
We have some success at work and he tells us it was all due to our hard work and our ingenuity. And pride wells up inside us. So Satan often attacks us at our point of weakness. But then Satan's next ploy is to plant a doubt in Jesus' mind. He doesn't deny it.