Are you a person who likes to dress for success? Do you wear the right type of clothes for the conditions of the day? Wear a coat, scarf and gloves when it is cold or carry an umbrella when it is raining? If so, well done...it shows that you want to be prepared and keep yourself safe from the elements.
Now in saying that, do you also do the same for your spirit? Every day we wake up and prepare to go out into a world that is growing darker and darker with evil. Are you suiting up before you go out? God knew that His chosen would need help and He gave us that help in Ephesians 6:10 -20.
From now on you must right away become strong in the Lord and in the power of His strength. You must continually be clothed with the full armor of God to enable you to stand against the strategies of the devil: because the wrestling for us is not with blood and flesh, but with the rulers, with the powers, with the world rulers of this darkness, with spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenlies. Because of this you must immediately take up the whole armor of God, so that you will be able to resist in the evil day and when you have completely achieved all things, to stand. Therefore you should stand, after you have girded around your waist the belt of truth and have put on the breastplate of righteousness (Isa. 11:5, 59:17) and to have put sandals on your feet in preparation for the gospel of peace, (Isa. 11:6-10, 52;7, Nah.. 1:15) in all things having taken up the long shield of faith, with which you have been enabled to extinguish all the burning arrows of the evil one: (Ps. 7:13) and you must immediately take up the helmet of salvation (Isa. 59:17) and the sword of the spirit, which is the Word of God. ( Isa. 11:4, 49:2, Hos. 6:5) through every prayer and entreaty, by praying always in the spirit, and being alert in Him, by means of every perseverance and entreaty concerning all the saints and on my behalf, that a word would be given to me as often as I open my mouth to speak, to make known the mystery of the Good News with boldness, concerning which I am an ambassador in chains, so that in this I would have boldness as there is need for me to speak.
When we put on the armor of God every day, we are protecting ourselves from evil. They see the armor, they know we are soldiers of God and they will come after us with a vengance. Be not afraid, you have everything you need to win whatever battle comes your way.
Likewise, you should teach your children to put on the armor too. They need to be protected too. When they learn to protect themselves as children, they will be mighty warriors for God as adults.
Go forth in knowledge and truth this day, suited up in the whole armor of God, my friend. May there always be Shalom in your heart and in your home.
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