Ephesians 6:16 (NIV) In addition to all this, take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one.
In the book of Ephesians the writer Paul gives us a list of spiritual armor we need to wear in order to stand up against the bad things in life. Although all the pieces are vital, the belt of truth, breastplate of righteousness, helmet of salvation I think the shield of faith is very important.
A shield is something you hold out in front of you to protect yourself. Paul tells us it’s the one piece that will put out all those flaming arrows coming your way. The flaming arrows full of anger from another person, a bully at school, a brother or sister at home. Flaming arrows of criticisms telling you you’re no good, you’ll never amount to anything. The flaming arrow of temptations telling you its okay to do this, don’t worry about doing that, it’s okay to steal something or lie about stuff if we keep them “little.”
Whenever you feel those flaming arrows coming your way hold up your imaginary shield in front of you that really isn’t imaginary and stand strong. Tell yourself I have faith in Jesus. I have faith in His love for me. My faith is in His promise to never leave me nor forsake me. I have faith in what God said about being my help and stronghold. “I stand behind my faith in knowing I am something in God’s eyes even though others don’t see what He sees in me.”
Faith in Jesus is the handle we hold on to attached to the shield. The shield itself is built with all the other things attached it. The shield grows as our faith grows as we stand behind the promises of God. There are a lot of them and you need to get into God’s treasure chest of the Bible and look for them. I’ll help. For the weeks ahead we’ll be looking for the promises of God we can stand behind and build up our shield of faith.
Dear Heavenly Father, thank you Lord God for giving us this tool we can use to fight off the bad in this world. What a blessing it is that by simply having faith in You and Your promises we are protected by Satan’s flaming arrows. It doesn’t stop them from coming, it doesn’t stop the sting of them when they hit but it will stop them from doing further damage beyond the sting. May we never lose heart and drop our shield knowing Your strength will keep us strong enough to hold it up high before us. We love you Jesus. In your precious name we pray. Amen (So be it).
© 2010 Karen J. Gillett @ Pencil Marks and Recipes Publishing
In the book of Ephesians the writer Paul gives us a list of spiritual armor we need to wear in order to stand up against the bad things in life. Although all the pieces are vital, the belt of truth, breastplate of righteousness, helmet of salvation I think the shield of faith is very important.
A shield is something you hold out in front of you to protect yourself. Paul tells us it’s the one piece that will put out all those flaming arrows coming your way. The flaming arrows full of anger from another person, a bully at school, a brother or sister at home. Flaming arrows of criticisms telling you you’re no good, you’ll never amount to anything. The flaming arrow of temptations telling you its okay to do this, don’t worry about doing that, it’s okay to steal something or lie about stuff if we keep them “little.”
Whenever you feel those flaming arrows coming your way hold up your imaginary shield in front of you that really isn’t imaginary and stand strong. Tell yourself I have faith in Jesus. I have faith in His love for me. My faith is in His promise to never leave me nor forsake me. I have faith in what God said about being my help and stronghold. “I stand behind my faith in knowing I am something in God’s eyes even though others don’t see what He sees in me.”
Faith in Jesus is the handle we hold on to attached to the shield. The shield itself is built with all the other things attached it. The shield grows as our faith grows as we stand behind the promises of God. There are a lot of them and you need to get into God’s treasure chest of the Bible and look for them. I’ll help. For the weeks ahead we’ll be looking for the promises of God we can stand behind and build up our shield of faith.
Dear Heavenly Father, thank you Lord God for giving us this tool we can use to fight off the bad in this world. What a blessing it is that by simply having faith in You and Your promises we are protected by Satan’s flaming arrows. It doesn’t stop them from coming, it doesn’t stop the sting of them when they hit but it will stop them from doing further damage beyond the sting. May we never lose heart and drop our shield knowing Your strength will keep us strong enough to hold it up high before us. We love you Jesus. In your precious name we pray. Amen (So be it).
© 2010 Karen J. Gillett @ Pencil Marks and Recipes Publishing
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