Ah the battle living the Christian life isn't easy and we have a powerful enemy

but aren't you glad for the armor God gives us to fight with you know the shield the shield of faith, the breast plate of righteousness, the belt of truth.

According to author and speaker Judy Dunigan, that spiritual armor points us to a person.

I believe the armor, I know the armor is Jesus. It's Jesus who covers us.

It's his righteousness that can be like our breastplate.

It's his salvation that covers our mind like a helmet.

And then it's his belt, it's his truth,

that's a belt that holds this armor on us.

We'll hear about how to live in the unshakable victory of Christ. Today on the

Revive Our Hearts Podcast. It's July 3rd, 2023 and and I'm Dana Gresch.

Our host is the author of A Place of Quiet Rest.

Nancy DeMasse, welcome.

You know, it sometimes seems like a lot of us as Christians operate as if we're

helpless in the face of the onslaught of evil that's going on all around us and And I get that. Sometimes I feel that way myself.

It can be easy to try to hunger down and protect ourselves in our little Christian holy

huddles, so we don't have to deal with all of it.

Like, keep that out there, but barricade our walls and our homes and our churches,

so none of it can get in here. But as we're going to hear today,

scripture calls us to resist, to be firm, to engage with the powers of darkness,

to take on the full armor of God, to withstand, and to be used by

God to extinguish the works of the evil one.

Does that sound overwhelming or impossible?

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