Every day I hear Christians talk about the day’s festivities. Sometimes it’s a good day depending on how it went but sometimes we discuss how stressful the day could have been due to stresses at work, stresses with family friends, finances, and any number of attacks we all receive during the day. During my meditation, I asked why this happens to us when we pray, we read our Bibles, and we listen to encouraging messages and music, everything we know to do. Well the answer I heard in my spirit was to “PUT ON THE FULL ARMOR OF GOD!” That answer came to me early this morning waking me up out of my comfortable sleep. I felt conviction when I heard it. Now if you have been in church any amount of time you may have read or heard this scripture. If not, I pray you will take another look at it today.
The Armor of God
10 Finally, be strong in the Lord and in his mighty power. 11 Put on the full armor of God, so that you can take your stand against the devil’s schemes. 12 For our struggle is not against flesh and blood,but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms. 13 Therefore put on the full armor of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you may be able to stand your ground, and after you have done everything, to stand. 14 Stand firm then, with the belt of truth buckled around your waist, with the breastplate of righteousness in place, 15 and with your feet fitted with the readiness that comes from the gospel of peace. 16 In addition to all this, take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one. 17 Take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.
18 And pray in the Spirit on all occasions with all kinds of prayers and requests. With this in mind, be alert and always keep on praying for all the Lord’s people EPH 6:10-18
In my case, and what I feel maybe a lot of what other Christians deal with on a daily bases is that word FULL. Imagine waking up and only putting on a few garments each day. Today, I have on a nice hat, nice shoes and that’s it. Awkward picture huh. Or the next day let’s say you have the pants on but forgot the belt and your pants keep falling down. Even better, let’s say you are going to battle and you forget your sword, or your helmet. The thing that is resonating in my spirit is the fact that we need the FULL outfit. Every peace has a function in getting us though the day. It’s not sufficient to just put on the convenient parts of our armor or just the parts of our armor we find easiest for us to put on. For example, some of us are prayer warriors, and we feel we can pray everything away. Some of us gravitate more to praise and worship, some of us lean more to reading the word of God, all of which are good, but God said put on the FULL armor of GOD to stand against the DEVILS schemes. Every battle we face will not be handled by just one piece of armor every time. The enemy will attach from different directions, point of views, people, problems, past memories (you get the picture). You need to be fully covered at all times and ready to fight back! To save time, I won’t go into the meanings of all the pieces of the armor of God, but I dare you to research it for yourself. Very interesting study! I will however challenge you to take time before you continue your day, to make sure you grab every piece of your armor and put it on. The devil is after your peace and joy. PROTECT IT WITH THE FULL ARMOR OF GOD!
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MORNING MANNA by
Shelton Seworth
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