GOD'S ARMOR !

THE ARMOR OF GOD: The believer must continually be arrayed with spiritual armor. (Ephesians number 6:10--11) Says, "Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might. Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil." The Christian who puts on this, and engages and spiritual warfare is marked. By spiritual warfare I simply means doing the works of Jesus and taking our authority over the devil as we go about our daily lives. I am not talking about purposely trying to go head-to-head with Satan in some kind of prayer combat. The devil will do everything in his power to keep you from coming into this knowledge of authority over him. He'll fight you more over this than any other subject. The, after you have come to the knowledge of this truth of the authority of the believer, he'll oppose you and try to steal it from you. There will be a tests, and sometimes people fail those test. The devil wants you to throw up your hands and say the authority of the believer won't work for me. A man wants came to me in a meeting where I was preaching on this and said the authority of the believer wouldn't work for him. I told him if it doesn't work, God is a liar. This man was, in essence, calling God a liar. In fact this is the spirit of unbelief. I'd rather die than say God's Word doesn't work. If it doesn't work, it's because you don't work it. We may fail, but God's Word doesn't fail. I believe His Word is true. The enemy will resist your interference in his sphere, because he's exercising authority over the power of the air, and he wants to continue to do so. When you interfere with Satan's kingdom by exercising your spiritual authority, he will attack you in an attempt to get you to back down from using that authority. If you successfully resist Satan's attacks in one area, he will come against you in another area. You may as well get ready for these attacks, because they're coming. In other words, your privileged spiritual position makes you an enemy to the devil. However, the word of God is the power of God unto salvation. Which the word salvation depicts the idea of soundness, holiness, preservation, healing, and deliverance. You see, the devil realizes he cannot hold in bondage a believer who knows his authority in Christ Jesus. Such a believer is aware that he or she is seated with Christ in heavenly places and that the devil is a defeated foe under his or her feet (Ephesians 1:15- 2:6). Furthermore, this believer is convinced that no work of the enemy can prevail against him in carrying out the will of God on the earth. HOW TO REMAIN UNDEFEATED: if believers take advantage of the spiritual armor provided for them, the enemy cannot defeat them. I don't believe that anything that's of the enemy should be able to defeat those of us who are members of the Body of Christ. Remember whatever you are submitting your members to to get you all the slay, and it takes an act of your will for the devil to operate in any area of your life. The believer must continually be arrayed with this armor. The Holy Spirit praying through Paul that the eyes of the people would be open to know this full provision that has been made for their safety. Spiritual armor is outlined in (Ephesians 6:)