YAHWEH’s People, when you’re confident of the benefits that are associated with being in The Kingdom of GOD, you’re prone to rely on those benefits when difficult times arise. You use your faith to activate a motivation to keep progression amidst adverse situations, knowing that GOD will supply every need according to His riches in glory, Philippians 4:19! Understanding that GOD has won the war equips us with the knowledge needed to depend on His Power to get us through another battle.

It’s an amazing comfort and great relief to rely on the Peace of God that surpasses all human understanding to keep you, to preserve you until your change comes! It’s imperative that “build our hope on things eternal, hold to GOD’s unchanging Hand.”

It’s satisfying to our hearts and minds to know that those that keep their minds in perfect peace, says Isaiah 26:3. He gives us way to ease our worrying, to calm and quiet Our Spirits. This type of peace allows one to remain steady when the waves of life come crashing against us. Remember the Disciples in the boat? When the storm came, Jesus was sleeping good. They were in an uproar, waking Jesus and asking why He was sleep amidst the winds and the waves beating against their boat [Matthew 8:23-27]. Jesus asked them why they were afraid. He calmed the sea which is a reminder to us, today, that nothing that beats against our lives shall win when we have a confidence in Our Creator, Our Great Protector. Therefore, we can rest peacefully and be calm in every situation because the outcome is swayed to our advantage when we place our hope in Christ.

“You will keep in perfect and constant peace the one whose mind is steadfast [that is, committed and focused on You- in both inclination and character], Because he trusts and takes refuge in You [with hope and confident expectation]. Isaiah 26:3 Amplified Bible

What’s it cost you to have full, complete faith in GOD? The enemy (satan and all his evil messengers: fallen angels) wants to distract, detour, and isolate you from fixing your mind and your heart on the things of GOD, which includes but is not limited to faith. It’s faith which gives you endurance, tenacity, perseverance, STRENGTH, the will to not just live, but to live in GOD’s abundance! [Ephesians 3:20]

The thief comes to steal, kill, and destroy. But I came so that my sheep will have life and so that they will have everything they need. John 10:10 | GOD’S Word Translation

Understand that the enemy means us harm; he wants us to be in a place where we feel hopeless (in despair and beyond repair). Rest assure that The Holy Spirit leads and guides us into all truth and shows us things to come, John 16:13, so you can be assured that HE WILL NEVER LEAVE YOU IN THE DARK, EXPOSED TO THE WEAPONS OF SATAN!!! 

“You must WORK THE WORD SO THAT THE WORD WORKS IN YOUR LIFE!” – Pr. E. Nelson

Your Posture

Condition yourself to receive the blessings of GOD! How do you position yourself? You study His Word to show yourself approved unto GOD and not to people, 2 Timothy 2:15. You pray without stopping and constantly give thanks, 1 Thessalonians 5:16-17. You fast, which purifies your heart and mind, thus, allowing you to hear and see more clearly. You’re awakened! It opens you receive more because you’ve made a conscious sacrifice to abstain from a food choice or a behavior which shows GOD you’re willing and ready to take on HIS WILL for your life! (Ezra 8:23, Acts 13:2, Exodus 34:28).

Finally, you praise and offer worship unto GOD so that He knows that you appreciate His boundless grace and unmerited mercy given to you [it’s nothing that you’ve earned, it’s all because His lovingkindness], Psalm 34, Hebrews 13:15, Lamentations 3:22-24. We offer our lives as a living sacrifice that is Holy, to be The Temple of GOD [Romans 12:1-2]. This is true worship: living as GOD requires. It’s not just lip-service (saying to GOD you’re thankful), it’s our actions that determine our zeal for Him. Our dedication to His precepts equates to worship.

Our Weaponry: The Whole Armor of GOD (Ephesians 6:14-17)

1. Chest (Heart): Breastplate of Righteousness (Right-Living) [to the best of our ability, while not making excuses for our habitual sins, but rather being remorseful, asking for forgiveness, and working towards sinning less.
   • It’s ultimately a question of: Are we taking advantage of the grace & mercy applied to our lives while we make excuses for our continued sinful activities?]
2. Feet: The Gospel of Peace (Good News: Because Jesus Christ died for our sins and arose, He offers salvation to all who believe in Him, which brings assurance that we will no longer die to/in sin but will live eternally [with GOD])
3. Waist: Band of Truth (All truths which are God’s commandments, His mandates of right-living that His People (we) live by and are rooted in)
4. Hands: Shield of Faith (Left-Protection: evident hope professed in The Holy Trinity: GOD, The Father; Jesus (The Son) and The Holy Spirit) & Sword of The Holy Spirit (Right-Correction): denounces satan’s schemes & plots to destroy us
5. Head: Helmet of Salvation (Firm belief that Jesus Christ & resurrected)

Let this post energize and empower your Spirit!

Today’s Scriptures:

Ephesians 6:10-12 NASB | New American Standard Bible

Finally, draw your strength from the Lord and from his mighty power. Put on the armor of GOD so that you may be able to stand firm against the tactics of the devil. For our struggle is not with flesh and blood but with the principalities, with the powers, with the world rulers of this present darkness, with the evil spirits in the heavens.

Psalm 28:7 MEV | Modern English Version

The Lord is my strength and my shield; my heart trusted in Him, and I was helped; therefore my heart rejoices, and with my song I will thank Him.

2 Corinthians 10:4 NLV | New Life Version

We do not use those things to fight with that the world uses. We use the things GOD gives to fight and they have power. Those things GOD gives to fight with destroy the strong-places of the devil.

Romans 8:35, 37-39 GW | GOD’S WORD Translation

What shall separate us from the love Christ has for us? Can trouble, distress, persecution, hunger, nakedness, danger, or violent death separate us from his love? The one who loves us gives us an overwhelming victory in all these difficulties. I am convinced that nothing can separate us from GOD’s love which Christ Jesus our Lord shows us. We can’t be separate by death or life, by angels or rulers, by anything in the present or anything in the future, by forces or powers in the world above or in the world below, or by anything else in creation.