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ARMOR OF GOD SERIES
“. . . having put on the breastplate of righteousness, . . . “ (Ephesians 6:14b).
In Blog #11 (July 2017), entitled Getting
Right With Me, we conversed that Jesus is your righteousness. When you completed your 7 Steps to Salvation,
you allowed Him into your heart (soul) as your Lord and Saviour. So now He
lives in you. You alone can never be
right with God—for flesh we are; but Jesus in you makes you all right in God’s
sight! And if you believe in your heart
that Jesus Christ is the Son of God, that He died on the cross, rose again
three days later and is seated right now at the right hand side of God as the
second in the trinity of the Godhead, then your faith (this belief) is counted for
righteousness (Read Gen. 15:6 and Hebrews 11:7).
Whew!
Amen. You can now stop beating
yourself up for the sins you’ve made in the past, or the devilish temptations
you are feeling today. The devil is always
at work attacking you so that you fall off the righteous road, straight into
sin and back into his bosom, defeated and hell-bound. That’s why you must PUT ON THE BREASTPLATE OF
RIGHTEOUSNESS! This is a
protective covering over your heart and lungs.
God put His own breath of life into you and now He lives in your
heart. This piece of God’s Armor is to
keep you upright, in right standing, with Him.
This piece of God’s Armor is to protect your heart from that lying
spirit; and to protect your lungs so that His breath keeps you alive as you
battle the forces of that lying spirit.
Girded in the BELT
OF TRUTH your faith in God, the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit and His
promises is rooted, but without the BREASTPLATE OF RIGHTEOUSNESS the rest of you—your
thoughts and ideas about who you are in Christ—can be swayed to and fro, making
you insecure (unsure) about which way to go in life: But let
him ask in faith, with no doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea
driven and tossed by the wind . . . . he is a double-minded man, unstable in
all his ways (James 1:6-8).
To ask God for something is to have faith in Him
that He will answer and give it to you.
Satan makes you doubt or question yourself: “Do I really deserve
this?” “Did God really forgive me? Will He even hear my prayer?” Then, when the answer to your prayer is
delayed, Satan makes you blame God by telling you, “God won’t answer me because
of my past. I am not worthy of His
blessings.” This is what is known as
being driven and tossed by the wind (moving air)—according to the prince of the
power of the air, the spirit who now works in the sons of disobedience
(Ephesians 2:2).
The BREASTPLATE OF RIGHTEOUSNESS, just like the BELT OF TRUTH, pulls down strongholds which bind you in unbelief
about your righteousness status; casts down arguments that go against your
confidence in yourself and in your ability to bring other souls to know God; takes
into captivity that lying spirit and makes it obey what is in the mind of Jesus
Christ; and punishes all disobedience as you fulfill your obedience to the
Great Commission (2 Corinthians 10:3-6).
GO
OUT, SOLDIER OF THE LORD, AND WORK FOR JESUS! What must
you ask for? Lord,
help me to open my mouth and let Your Holy Spirit talk through me to win more
souls to Your Kingdom.
Can Jesus say, “no” to such a request made in perfect obedience to His will?
But seek first the kingdom of God and His RIGHTEOUSNESS, and all
these things [what you need to have life
more abundantly on Earth] shall be added to you (Matthew 6:33).
If you believe this promise, shout, “Amen!”
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