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Take Your Shield of Faith We continue in our study and fight against our arch enemy, Satan and his hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places. It is a daily battle and our Captain, the Lord Jesus has already won the war. We are only enforcing the victory, thus we are more than conquerors through Christ. Put on your whole armor today. Let’s look deeper into the armor of the “Shield of faith”. The Lord is our “Shield”. Let’s read the charge from Apostle Paul in Ephesians 6:10-16. 10 Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord and in the power of His might. 11 Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. 12 For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age,[c] against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places. 13 Therefore take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.

Put on Your Gospel Shoes I did not say put on your dancing shoes though that may do well to some of us who are so uptight and depressed. Some believe “real Christians” don’t dance. Maybe they have not read the Bible. “Make a joyful noise to the Lord’. “Let them praise His name with the dance; Let them sing praises to Him with the timbrel and harp”. That is just a by-the-way conversation on dancing, another weapon in our arsenal. We are focused on spiritual warfare and today, we are being asked to put on our shoes of the gospel of peace for the purpose of standing strong. Satan, our enemy wants to trip us to fall. Let’s read it directly from Apostle Paul in Ephesians 6:10-15: 10 Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord and in the power of His might. 11 Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. 12 For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this

Wear Your Breastplate of Righteousness With the snow and salt slush of past weeks, I decided to give my car a birth this past weekend. Most of the cars on the road are so dirty and are begging for a wash. The problem is that after the wash, the car shines very clean; however, there is still salt and melting snow slush on the road. The decision to wash the car is based on the need to remove the salt from the car which could cause damage. Yes, it will still get dirty again. The temptation is not to drive the car after it is washed so it will continue to look clean. Then it defeats the purpose for the car, to transport one from point A to B. We all have dirt and slush of sin that if not cleaned, we will be corroded and ruined forever. We all need a thorough birth to be made whole and clean. We need cleansing from sin though we still live in a sinful world that can still cause us to get dirty again. There is only one solution for being clean and right with God – Christ’s righteousness.

Put on Your Armor – The Belt of TRUTH. We have seen the recent barbaric acts by ISIS, the beheading of 21 Egyptian Christians in addition to the other past beheadings. Horrific and must not be tolerated and must be condemned and brought to justice. ISIS is a concoction from hell inspired by Satan - the "spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places". We must also accept the "TRUTH" that the beheadings are no different from the worldwide extermination of millions of innocent babies in the womb. WHO estimates 40-50 million annually (125,000 abortions per day). In the United States, it is about 3000 abortions per day. Instead of the ISIS knife, we are using a different kind of surgical abortion knife to sacrifice the unborn at the altar of convenience. Abortion is equally as heinous as ISIS and inspired by Satan and must be condemned and not tolerated and not practiced. The unfortunate thing is that our governments as well as the educated, the uneducated,