If the first thing you look at when you get up is your phone, then the foundation of your whole day is going to be the demands that others have on you, what social media thinks about you, how you don't measure up, or what some scientist in China or Seattle want you to be thinking about.

I don't know about y'all, but I want Jesus, not Mark Zuckerberg or Elon Musk or Xi Jinping shaping my thoughts each day.

Welcome back to the Summit Life podcast with J. Jee Greer. I'm Molly Vitovich. Just in case you haven't heard, Pastor Jady has a brand new book coming out in a couple of weeks called Everyday Revolutionary.

He wrote it to equip readers to live boldly for Jesus in a world of compromise.

With biblical depth and cultural clarity, it will challenge you to move from silence or outrage to a faithful public witness rooted in grace and truth. Check it out and

pre-order at jd.gere.com. Now, today, Pastor J.D. returns to the issue of spiritual warfare

to show us the importance of putting on the armor of God. The truth is that if we try to fight

out of our own strength, we will most likely fail only by properly

dressing ourselves for battle. Armed with the strength of God, can we overcome our unseen enemy.

So let's join Pastor J.D. for today's message titled, Get Dressed and Get Out There.

So Ephesians 6, if you have your Bibles, Ephesion 6, one of the most well-known spiritual warfare passages in the Bible, and Paul's final words to the Ephesian Church. Final words are important,

right? Several years ago, I had my wisdom teeth removed,

and evidently in the consultation leading up to the operation, the last thing that they told me

was that I should not eat or drink anything in the 12 hours leading up to the surgery.

Well, that morning when I woke up, I completely forgot about what they

had told me, and I drank two sips of hot tea and took one bite of a piece of sausage, and then I

remembered what they had said. Literally just two sips and one bite of sausage. Well, in the little

pre-op console right before the surgery, they asked me if I had eaten or drunk anything, and I dutifully said yes, thinking that I would just get a, you know, for that teeny tiny amount, I would just get a disapproving glance. And that would be it, kind of like when I tell the dentist that I don't floss enough and they give me that look and then we just move on. But they go back into the back room to whisper with each other.

And they come out and they tell me, they're like, you cannot be put under anesthesia for this

surgery. If you want to go forward with the surgery, you're going to have to do it wide awake

using local anesthesia only. I thought, well, I definitely don't want to put this off any longer.

And I mean, how bad could it be?

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