When your Faith, that is like a seed, is planted in the garden of your heart; if there were no adversary; all you would have to do is tend to it naturally and it would spring forth and produce a harvest. We are faced with the enemy of our souls. The enemy to all that is good. An enemy to all that is right. And if you are unaware of his presence, you will be baffled when at first you speak God’s words of life, then it looks like all hell breaks loose around you. Jesus said persecution and affliction arises for the word’s sake. That’s Satan trying to snatch that word out of the ground of your heart before it can take root. Many not knowing this, have become offended when they spoke God’s word and darkness seemed to prevail. That’s why you need the full armor of God found in Ephesians the 6 chapter. And above all you must take the shield of faith, so that you can put out, stop, quench; not some of the fiery darts, but all of them. Faith calls things that be not as though they were. That’s not lying, that’s saying what God says about the situation. Faith is not moved by contradictatory circumstances, it only speaks what God speaks. Faith doesn’t cave in under emotional battles, it brings the emotions in line with the word of God. It’s by faith you receive a harvest, because, you believed the whole way through the process. Come on, develop your faith now, so that you will be a force to be reckoned with in the future.
Eph. 6:10-17
10. Finally , my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might. 11. Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. 12. For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. 13. Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand. 14. Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness; 15. And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace; 16. Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked. 17. And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God In his service:
Minister Alberta Richard