Stand up and Fight

For this reason take up the full armour of God, so that you may be able to resist in the evil day, and having prepared everything, to take up your stand."                                                   

                                                                                      Ephesians 6:13    CSB

Things may come at you fast and furious. Trials from God have a hope attached to them - a way through. Spiritual attacks don't! They are aggressive and have the ability to grind you down until all you want to do is give up. Don't do this, keep standing.

Ephesians 6:10 tells us to 'be strengthened by the Lord and by His vast strength.' How do we do this? By putting on the armour of God, - v11-18. You will then be equipped. Note what Tony Evans says:

'Standing firm in the armour of God, doesn't stop the spiritual warfare raging. It stops it from defeating you.' Tony Evans Study bible

You see our battle is not against flesh and blood. The people who wrestle against us are real; the problems are real but, they are not the root problem - the devil is. So, we need to fight the spiritual with the spiritual; and we do this by putting on the armour of God.

Notice the word, 'resist', in our text above. We go forward in God's strength - in His power - in His armour and we resist every negative thing that comes our way. We are soldiers; soldiers get shot at but, they also shoot back. We shoot back with God's Word. It should be so rooted within us that, no matter what is said, no matter what is done against us, we resist and continue to stand.

Have you got that? Bottom line is, the devil doesn't like you, he never has and he never will. So he will use people to hurt you and wind you up. He will take your money, your health and whatever else he can. Don't let him - resist:

'Resist him firm in the faith, knowing that the same kind of sufferings are being experienced by your fellow believers throughout the world.'  1 Peter 5:9

'Resist the devil and he will flee from you'  James 4:7

Get to the point where God's Word flows naturally from within you!

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