How God Prepares Us to Stand Against the Darkness
God calls us to stand in joy, peace, hope, and love.
Satan, the world, and our flesh call each of us to fall into anger, anxiety, fear, and selfishness.
We face the unseen but real world of kosmocrators. Spirit beings of immense powers of evil. These enemies are already defeated by Christ, but their deadly powers are only resisted by us when walking in step with the Spirit of God.
Are you walking today in step with the Spirit? You know that you are if you invite His Word (the sword of the Spirit) to richly dwell in your mind each day.
Any day the truth of God’s Word is not eaten, as the defensive food for our minds, Satan’s team gains ground in the war.
Are You Standing or Falling?
The most complete guide to standing and not falling into sin, discouragement, hopelessness, uselessness, and emptiness is right here before us in Ephesians 6.
The key to powerful ministry is right here.
The way God has planned for our lives to magnify the Lord and unleash His Word is right here.
There are six pieces of Roman armor to which God adds the spiritual power of prayer.
What an amazing setup God has designed for fruitful, powerful, and lasting ministry.
But everything hinges upon our conscious choices to obey what God has asked us to do.
Paul said it three times in Ephesians 6: stand, stand, and stand.
• Stand in the abundant life God gave us when His Spirit filled us, or fall into the empty life of grieving and quenching Him.
• Stand in the life of peace that passes understanding that Christ purchased for us, or fall into the anxiety of the cares of this life.
• Stand in the life of hope that God’s all-powerful attributes offer us, or fall into doubting God’s goodness and questioning God’s plan.
The Armor God in Which We Stand
Simply stated, standing in all that Christ offers to us was summarized by Paul in Romans 13, as “putting on Christ” (v. 14) as our “armor of light” (v.12). Here in Ephesians 6, that armor is detailed, piece by piece.
What are those six pieces of armor?
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