(Use Your Shield Against The Enemy)
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Thursday, September 12th 2024
Pastor Chris Oyakhilome Ph.D
TO THE BIBLE
Ephesians 6:16 AMPC
“Lift up over all the [covering] shield of saving faith, upon which you can quench all the flaming missiles of the wicked [one].”
LET’S TALK
When the Scripture tells us to take up the shield of faith against the enemy, it means our faith is a shield. With your faith, you’ll be able to neutralise or put out all the fiery darts of the wicked one. There are fiery missiles directed at you, and they’re coming from demonic forces. But with your faith, you can put them out. Discouragement and anger, for instance, are missiles from the enemy.
Some people could be by themselves and suddenly have anger and discouragement assault their minds. Those are the darts of the enemy. Some suddenly feel something like a hard object hit them from the side, yet there was no physical object or person present; that’s a fiery dart of the enemy. For some others, it comes as a sudden, sharp pain somewhere in the body. But thanks be to God! These darts from the enemy can be neutralised with your shield of faith.
The Bible says, “Little children, you are of God [you belong to Him] and have [already] defeated and overcome them [the agents of the antichrist], because He Who lives in you is greater (mightier) than he who is in the world” (1 John 4:4 AMPC). 1 John 5:4 says, “For whatever is born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world—our faith.” Your faith is what you need. This is what puts you over and above Satan and the circumstances of life. Remember that you don’t have to look around for a shield called faith; faith is in your spirit, as Paul succinctly puts it in Romans 12:3.
Keep building your faith strong by learning and acting on the Word. Irrespective of what happens around you, refuse to fear; speak the Word in faith. That’s how to use your shield of faith to put out Satan’s wiles and strategies. Stand on God’s Word, and your victory will be as sure as the Word is. Hallelujah!
GO DEEPER
Ephesians 6:13–17 AMPC
Therefore put on God’s complete armor, that you may be able to resist and stand your ground on the evil day [of danger], and, having done all [the crisis demands], to stand [firmly in your place]. 14 Stand therefore [hold your ground], having tightened the belt of truth around your loins and having put on the breastplate of integrity and of moral rectitude and right standing with God, 15 And having shod your feet in preparation [to face the enemy with the [a]firm-footed stability, the promptness, and the readiness [b]produced by the good news] of the Gospel of peace. 16 Lift up over all the [covering] shield of [c]saving faith, upon which you can quench all the flaming missiles of the wicked [one]. 17 And take the helmet of salvation and the sword that the Spirit [d]wields, which is the Word of God.
Romans 4:19–20
And being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body now dead, when he was about an hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sarah’s womb: 20 He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God;
SPEAK
My faith is alive and prevails today, irrespective of the perils and tribulations in the world! I’m shielded and protected. I’m like a tree planted by the water that spreads out its roots by the river. I’m triumphant always in Christ Jesus! I’ve overcome the world and its systems because I dwell in the pavilion and safety of the Most High, soaring on the wings of the Spirit, in Jesus’ Name. Amen.
DAILY BIBLE READING
ONE YEAR
2 Corinthians 11:16-33, Ecclesiastes 1-2
TWO YEAR
Luke 22:35-43, 1 Samuel 31
ACT
Declare faith-filled words directed to areas of your life and the lives of those in your sphere of influence.
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