Welcome to the in touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Thursday October 24th.

There's more to spiritual warfare than knowing who your enemy is.

Today's podcast finishes the Real War Series with an essential

diagram for victory from Ephesians chapter six. If our warfare is real and all of us have been defeated enough times in our life to understand

to realize we are indeed in the warfare.

Well if the war is real, then the weapons must be real and the battle

fatigues must also be real. So when he says put on the full arm of God, he

literally means to put on the full arm of God, he literally means to put on the full arm of God.

Now you say, well, when do you put this on?

I can tell you the best time to put it on.

Put it on before you ever get out of bed in the morning.

Don't wait till you get halfway down the expressway or on your job or somewhere else. Put it on

before you get up. And you can lie there in the bed and put it on piece by peace you say well

how in the world you put on something that's invisible and not materially you

put it on the way you put on other spiritual things and that is by faith

you put it on by faith. So what I want to

do is to go through this armor and then let's apply it to our own life and I want

you see how very important every piece of it is. Notice he didn't say put on some of it. He said

put on what? The full armor of God. So how and why put it on? Let's think about it for a moment. Let's say that tomorrow morning you

awaken and you say well I'm going to put on this armor. Well how you're going to

put it on? So let me just give you a suggestion of what to think about and how to think about it in

putting it on. And let's start from top to bottom. Lord I choose to put on the

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