Welcome to enjoying everyday life with New York Times best selling author Joyce

Meyer. On today's program Joyce will be teaching from her series The Book of

Ephesians. When we look at the book of Ephesians, Paul's words are foundational

for every believer. They help us to understand who we are in Christ, how much he

loves us, and how we can grow a stronger, more intimate relationship with God.

So today let's go deeper in God's Word. Listen as Joyce walks through Ephesians

chapter by chapter, showing us how we can apply its truths to our lives. Now

here's Joyce with today's series on the Book of Ephesians. In Revelation 16

15 it says, Behold, I'm coming like a thief. Blessed happy to be in, be it is he who

stays awake, alert, and who guards his clothes. Now what kind of a what is that

saying? He's not saying I need to stay up at night and get a shot, gonna go

sit in my clothes and guard my clothes. You know what God is telling us? He's

talking about spiritual clothing and you're gonna see what they are. Their

righteousness, peace, faith, the belt of truth, the helmet of salvation, and let

me tell you something. When we put our spiritual armor on Satan can see that

we've got it on or that we've got it off. And that means where the Bible says

tighten the belt of truth. Well what does that mean? What does it mean to tighten

the belt of truth? It literally means that when you are in going through a

trial or you're having some kind of a difficulty in your life. Man that's when

you need to hang on to the word that you have more than any other time in your

life because that is the truth. The truth is the word of God. And so when you

when you've had a loss in your life that's when you need to believe that God will

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