Day: April 29, 2023

Armor of God

Put on the full armor of God, so that you can take your stand against the devil’s schemes

Ephesians 6:10

In tamil translation & KJV English version we can see the word wiles used in the place of schemes of the devil meaning cunning or tricks of the devil.

In our life some people would have conned us. We perceive them to be good at first but later we find them cunning and lying to us. If these people are cunning how much more satan will be whose is behind these people to deceive us and take us away from God.

How do we protect ourselves from these devil schemes?

The answer as per the above verse is to put on the armor of God

In the Navy warships when the soldiers to go to bed they keep their uniform, shoes and other things ready. When there is an emergency and when the siren rings they get ready within a minute and get ready for the emergency. This practice is followed all  365 days even when there is no war or threat near them.

Are we putting the armor of God when we get up from bed?

 We are in a war with satan and every morning when we wake up satan is planning schemes against our family, our travel, our job etc.

But when we get up and sit with The Lord we can put on the armor of God. The first part is to praise and thank God for all he has done and the second part is to examine our life about the previous day what we have missed and what we have done wrong against God  & confess our sins &get cleansed by the blood of Christ . Because everyday we may miss something and sin against God & may not know it . But on the next day when we examine ourselves in the light of The Holy Spirit we can find our short comings & when we confess it God is good & faithful to forgive & cleanse us.

We are all humans & we may sin knowingly & unknowingly & each sin gives enemy to advance or gain more power against us. When we confess then we can put on the 4 armors of God

1.Belt of truth

2.Breast plate of righteousness

3.Helmet of salvation

4.Feet with the readiness of The Gospel

When we pray & mediate on the world of god we will be prepared with the 5. the sword of the spirit & 6. shield of faith to attack the enemy when he comes to us with a spiritual attack

Everyday morning when we wake up we have to do this. Once I saw a prayer group having this beautiful quote “Part time Christians cannot fight full time devil” . Yes this is true because we cannot fight a devil who is planning evil schemes at us day & night without sitting with the lord in prayer.

Prayer

Our loving heavenly father we pray that we have wear your armour & stand against the devil schemes & gain victory over the enemy, In Jesus name I pray , Amen.

Sol.Leo

Do not limit God

Our wrong belief systems can limit God in our lives.

Proverbs 23:7 tells us that as the man things in his heart, so is he . The way we think decides the way we live our lives (Romans 12:2).

God is no respecter of persons (Acts 10:34) and He wants to do absolutely miraculous things in each of our lives

( Jer 29:11; psalms 139:14) !! God has called you for something beyond yourself and reach the people around you; The people in your sphere of influence like your family members, neighbours, friends and co-workers. ‘Yeah, they turned back and tempted God and limited the holy one of Israel’ Psalms 78 ;41. None of us have exhausted, Gods ability, resources, and power for our lives.

God is infinite and huge! And he calls us to do something that is beyond yourself ! ‘For you, see your calling Brother , how that not many wiseman after the flesh , not many mighty, not many noble are called’ 1 Cor 1:26 .

Healing is one area where we can limit God .

According to 3 John 2, God does not want a sick yet we often limit God in how he can heal us. ‘And Moses was 120 years old when he died and his eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated’ Deut 34:7 . If God will do that for a person in the old covenant, imagine how much more he will do for those of us, who are under the new covenant !! We limit God by thinking that things have to be a certain way just because that is the way others are experiencing it. ‘If thou shall say in thin heart, these nations are more than I ; how can I dispose them?’ Deut 7:17 . When the Israelites doubted God’s promise , they limited God and He couldn’t drive out the enemy nations ( Heb 4:2) For the good news was preach to us as well as to them . But the word preached did not benefit them because it was not mixed with faith in those who hear it. ( 2 cor 10:12)

Some of you are praying for your life to be different, and you have no joy. You are depressed because you are not doing what God called you to do. God is pulling you one way, but you have decided to go another since that is what you have learnt so far from the world, from others!

God wants to flow through you …. ‘ now unto him that is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think according to the power that work in us.’ Eph 3:20

‘But you will love and build yourself up in your most holy faith ; pray in the Holy Spirit .’Jude 20 . Likewise, in the area of finances too, we are given the choice. We do not have to let the world dictate over our finances. Our finances are dictated by heavens economy, not the system of this world . If we are average, that means we aren’t good or bad, we are lukewarm (Rev 3:16).

Believer should be doing better than the average person since Jesus died to deliver us from the present evil world( Gal 1:14) . God said we Are the head and not the tail ( Deut 28:13)

We are supposed to be rejoicing in the midst of our problems. There is no excuses, but there are reasons we face certain problems.

Sol.Deepthi Jones