#134 - Kyle Thompson // St. Patrick’s Breastplate: The Deer’s Cry

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Joby Martin & Kyle Thompson

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🗓️ 7 July 2025

⏱️ 5 minutes

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We explore St. Patrick's Breastplate, an ancient Irish prayer used for spiritual protection in battle. This powerful "lorica" has deep connections to Ephesians 6 and the spiritual armor Christians need for daily battles. • St. Patrick's Breastplate (or Deer's Cry) was used by men going into physical and spiritual battle • The prayer focuses on Christ's presence in every direction: before, behind, above, beneath • According to tradition, this prayer made St. Patrick invisible to assassins who...

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Daily Blade. The Word of God is described as the sword of the spirit, the primary spiritual weapon in the Christian's armor against the forces of evil. Your hosts are Joby Martin and Kyle Thompson, and they stand ready to equip men for the fight. Let's sharpen up.
0:20.4	Welcome to the New Week of the Daily Blade. I did want to give a shout out to Pastor Matt Chandler.
0:24.0	Thank you so much for doing last week. We are very, very thrilled to have you in the fight with us.
0:28.1	So guys, this week we're going to be looking at a traditional Irish prayer attributed to Maywin
0:33.4	Sukkut, but most of you will know him by his his other more popular name, St. Patrick. So this prayer
0:39.1	is called St. Patrick's Breastplate or the Deers Cry. So it is a prayer of protection or a breastplate
0:45.7	prayer. And it was meant to give spiritual armor to those that prayed it. And it was prayed by
0:50.4	men in battle and those fighting sinful temptations and stuff like that. And I would
0:54.2	encourage you to look up the entire prayer so that you can read it for yourself. But this week we're
0:57.8	going to focus in on the beginning of the prayer and the end of the prayer. I'll read them both now.
1:03.1	I arise today through a mighty strength, the invocation of the Trinity, through beliefs in the
1:08.2	threiness, through confession of the oneness of the creator of creation,
1:12.4	I arise today, through the strength of Christ with his baptism, through the strength of his
1:17.9	crucifixion with his burial, through the strength of his resurrection with his ascension,
1:22.6	through the strength of his descent for the judgment of doom. And now the end of the prayer.
1:27.7	Christ with me, Christ before me, Christ behind me. Christ in me. Christ beneath me. Christ
1:33.8	on my right. Christ on my left. Christ when I lie down. Christ when I sit down. Christ when
1:40.6	when I arise. Christ in the heart of every man who thinks of me. Christ in the mouth of
1:44.8	everyone who speaks of me. Christ in every eye that sees me. Christ in every ear that hears me.
1:50.7	Now, guys, as I mentioned earlier, this prayer was prayed by men before going into battle. And some
1:54.8	people refer to this prayer as the dears cry. So according to Irish tradition, St. Patrick and his followers were on their way to
2:02.1	confront King Leary at Tara. He was kind of the high seat of pagan power in Ireland at the time.
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