Don’t Leave Home Without It

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Before you leave home every day, you need to prepare yourself for battle. If you leave home without your armor, you’re in for defeat. We’ve talked about the belt of truth and the breastplate of righteousness, two important pieces of our spiritual armor.  The next one from Ephesians 6 is the gospel of peace to be worn on our feet. 

Peace on your feet will protect you from the conditions of the path on which you are walking.  Doesn’t matter where that road takes you—into a lonely place or a dry place or a really difficult place—if you’re wearing the boots of peace you can keep going because your feet are protected.

Then you need to carry the shield of faith with which you can extinguish all the flaming arrows of our enemy. Faith comes by hearing the word of God, and it also comes through exercise. Exercising faith today—which means you decide to trust God—will build your spiritual muscle so you can carry that shield of faith much better.

Don’t leave home without the helmet of salvation.  The Bible tells us that we are what we think. Little wonder that Satan makes his greatest effort to control our thinking.  Protecting our minds with the salvation which we have from Christ means that we don’t allow anything into our minds which contradicts or violates or offends that salvation.

We have been given only one offensive weapon to use in this spiritual battle, but it is all we need.  The Word of God is our sword.  Remember how Jesus defeated Satan when he was tempted.  He quoted scripture back to him, and though Satan tried three times to trick Jesus, he finally had to give up because the Word of God is far too powerful for him.