Take My Hand Inspirations
ARMOR OF GOD SERIES
There
is one more essential component, or piece, which completes God’s Armor. As a young Christian, I often asked myself,
“God tells us to gird our waist, put on a covering for our heart, shod our
feet, take a helmet for our head, take a sword and shield to cover our
front. But what about my back? Can’t the enemy also come at me from
behind? Sneak up on me without my
noticing, like a surprise attack? Where
is the covering for my back?”
I
would meditate on this obvious exposure, this ‘hole’ in God’s Armor, till one
day, when the pain in my heart was too much to bear, I got on my knees and just
cried to the Lord. Sometimes the pain we
experience in our lives is so ‘big’ that we can’t even speak. We want to speak, but just can’t because we
don’t want more pain to be piled up on us until we break. For, in Christ, our breaking point comes when
we lose all hope for the good to come out of our pain.
And as I was on my knees praying like Hannah, in utterances and tongues without sound because I was in a place too deep in depression like a spiritual black hole, then I felt the presence of God moving all around me, hovering over me, and AT MY BACK! The Lord God Almighty was holding me up so I would not fall out of faith. He wiped away my tears (I stopped crying), put a burning my heart, and told me to “forgive.” GOD HAD MY BACK! That’s why the Armor of God scriptures tell us that after we’ve girded, shod, taken and put on the whole armor, we must keep praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, being watchful with all perseverance and supplication for all the saints (Ephesians 6:18).
Prayer
is the saint’s—we believers in Christ Jesus—back
covering, side covering, above
and below covering. So as we go out into
the world, what we can see ahead of us, God is seeing all around and behind
us. And, if we are truly watchful for
our Christian brothers and sisters, we can see their backs for them as they are
also watching our backs. Perseverance
means to never give up when the pain seems unbearable; never quit on looking
for the goodness in people who hurt you; never lose faith or hope for a better
today and tomorrow; never to let your dreams die under the wearying weight of
rejection.
. . . that you may be able to stand against the wiles [evil attacks] of the
devil. For we do not wrestle against
flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against rulers of
the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness . . . (Ephesians 6:11-12).
The
Armor of God makes you more than conquerors through
Him who loved
us . . .that neither tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or
nakedness, or peril or sword; death nor life nor angels nor principalities nor
powers, nor things present nor things to come, nor height nor depth, nor any
other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is
in Christ Jesus our Lord (Romans 8:35-39).
JESUS
LOVES YOU AND HE’S GOT YOUR BACK!
CHEER
UP, CONQUERING CHRISTIAN; IT’S TIME TO GET UP OFF YOUR KNEES OF DESPAIR AND
DANCE TO THE SONG OF YOUR SUCCESS AND VICTORY. LET ALL THE SAINTS SHOUT, “AMEN!”
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