Armor of God

We are talking about emotional health. This week we have been doing a tour on the subject of how to live healthy lives in the Lord, how to be healed of our wounds, of our deformations of the past, and how to also maintain emotional hygiene throughout our career. And we have said that the Word of the Lord has so much medicine, so many resources, so that we can be free, so that we can be healthy, so that we reflect the image of Jesus Christ in our lives.

I was telling the brothers this morning that when we come to the ways of the Lord, we have to come to be transformed, amen? we have to come for God to change us and treat us. We cannot come with a magical mentality, as so many people come to Church, to go there and sit down, and make some faces, and some gestures, and then go to the street and to the house, and live as if nothing had happened. .

The children of God are athletes of the Spirit, amen? That's why when the Bible compares us it compares us to the soldier, it compares us to the marathon runner, it compares us to the hard-working farmer, it compares us to people who are well involved in their process.

And unfortunately I believe that many of us, and it is something that God is saying to His people at this time and to our Church, that God wants consecration. God wants surrender of the whole being so that Christ can do the Work that He wants to do in our lives. The Bible talks about giving our bodies as a living sacrifice, holy, pleasing to the Lord.

And when the apostle says that we give up our bodies, "soma" what he is saying is that we give up our flesh, we give up our psychology, we give up our emotions, our mind, all the human part of us that needs to be dealt with by God. Those areas of our life that if God doesn't deal with them, will cause us to stumble over and over again in life.

And I have said that the Word of the Lord has teaching for us, it has resources, it has truths that if we allow it, they will do that restorative work that God wants to do in us when we enter the paths of the Gospel. The apostle Paul writes and says in Galatians I believe chapter 4, he says: "My little children for whom I travail until Christ is formed in you."

Do you know what God wants to do in your life? make the image of Christ real in you, that you reflect Christ in your way of speaking, your way of feeling, your way of walking, your way of treating those around you, that you be like Christ walking in Earth, and what was Christ like? an eminently healthy being emotionally, spiritually, a balanced being, a being who knew who He was and who He is in the Lord, a being whose virtues were perfectly concatenated with one another, with good food that has the precise amount of seasonings and they all work together to produce a delicious taste. Wow, that's nice, write it down for me please.

That is what God wants to do in your life, God wants to form the image of Christ because when you enter the Gospel you enter with all kinds of deformations and defects, and the Lord wants to remove them one by one, and replace them with the virtues of the God's word.

So remember that, that the general topic of all this that I am talking about is the topic of health, of healing, of how to heal ourselves from the wounds and deformations of life, because we have said that we live in a deforming world. We live in a world that is permeated by sin. We live in a world that, if we let it, will twist our emotions, our minds, our attitudes, and it has already twisted them because we are all twisted in one way or another, and part of the Work of the Holy Spirit is to renew us, and each day make us more and more healthy. That is God's purpose, that we be prosperous in all dimensions of life.

And I want to rip that cobweb out of our minds. Being a true Christian, being a disciple is the most expensive thing you can imagine, and I think that because we have such a superficial attitude about what the Christian race is, that's why we don't grow more, because we believe that everything is just so that God give me, do this to me, do that to me and we do not understand that the first thing is that we have to go up to the altar and constitute ourselves in a holocaust, a sacrifice to the Lord, like a victim that is on the altar burning under the reforming fire and transformer of the Lord, and that hurts.

Do you remember what I told you last Sunday? that I got stuck in that thing that says: "And having finished everything stand firm." When we submit to God's treatment or when we submit to a test that comes into our life and we let the Lord fulfill all the purpose that He has in that event in our life. When we interpret it in the light that: this is not just the devil doing something, but it is God allowing this to come into my life for a healing and restorative purpose.

And so all the things that happen in our life, all the tests, the sufferings, the difficulties, there is something that we can take advantage of if we see it through the eyes of the Holy Spirit and the Word of God. So that's it, I was saying that we have to stay there in the crucible fire of God's treatment until God fulfills His purpose, because what God wants is to extract impurities from us, extract defects and deformations from us so that then we can run with more lightness the race of faith, amen?

I ask you to please note there from time to time something in your spirit, in your mind, if God speaks to you, touch there and write something or simply say: Lord, I receive that Word in my life. And I have said that we are going to discuss a number of things, and this is like an extended monologue that I am doing here. I finish where I finish and next Sunday I pick it up in what God gives me, I can remember what I said.

I have a clear reminder of what I said last Sunday, but I want to continue. Because again, what I'm going to be doing, so you guys understand the framework right? it is extracting from the Word of the Lord concepts and principles that help us to live healthy lives. And in the 6th chapter of Ephesians we have a number of things there, and what I wanted to provide was just an example of how the Bible gives us a prescription of things that we can use to live healthy and healthy lives and heal from our wounds. But as I begin to preach, as is often the case, I find that there is a wealth of information there that we can't just pass by but have to stop a little bit.

In chapter 6 of Ephesians the apostle Paul, after saying that we have to resist on the bad day, in difficult situations in our life and that having finished everything, then we can stand firm. He told us before that that we have to take the whole armor of God, and we said that we cannot afford to only see a part and take what we like, but we have to take all the resources that God provides in His Word.

And then he gives an example of what some of those armors are, rather what are some of those pieces of God's armor for our health and our emotional healing. And he talks about we have to gird up our loins with the truth, and I believe I told you before, I'm going to get through this as soon as possible, gird up our loins with the truth.

The Roman soldier, and if someone can put that illustration on there for me about the Roman soldier's armor, the Roman soldier had different pieces to his armor, and the first thing he had was a leather belt around here that allowed him to grab his sword and that held all the other parts of his armor together and unified. And the apostle Paul begins with something that I think is very well directed by the Holy Spirit; It is like the very center of the Christian's life and what allows us, because the loins, says: girded the loins, means like: prepared to assault, strengthened. The loins is the hips, the waist and is what you use to jump forward, defend yourself or whatever.

And what is it that gives us that strength in life to fight against the forces of evil and all the influences that want to harm our lives? the Truth of God. I was saying that we have to fall in love with the Truth of God, we have to make a pact with the truth. We have to stop playing little games there, blaming others for our problems and our situations, and we have to be people of integrity. I don't want to be saying the same things all the time so I'm going to run but wow, there's so much information in there.

I have always told you that, to the extent that we suppress the truth, to the extent that we refuse to see the things that we have to see, to that extent the Truth of God will always be trying to assert itself in us. and make itself felt, and if we resist it it becomes a sting that causes us harm. All the neuroses and all the problems of humanity in one way or another arise from the rejection of the truth.

And I want to tell you that we are in a century and in a time, humanity has entered, I believe, in a stage in which I believe that a spirit of lies and seduction has fallen on humanity, and on this nation for example, and today Nowadays lies, falsehood are excused in so many ways, and this nation, this society is resisting the Truth of God.

And unless we make a death pact with the Truth of God, we will not survive what is coming. Many Christians are going to fall into lies and heresy because they have not equipped themselves well, and they have not tied themselves well to the mast of truth. And we have to stop looking around to see what others are thinking, what the culture is thinking, what my friends are thinking, and how I can adjust to what my friends say so as not to clash, to retain them. No, look, if you have to stay alone, stay alone, but follow God's Truth.

I always remember the words of Joshua, Joshua said: "Choose who you serve, but I and my house will serve the Lord." When God tells you something and when you discover something of God's Truth, look, write it down with blood and don't get away from there even if it hurts, but live like a man, a woman immersed in God's Truth because that's what you love. it will allow you to be healthy. To the extent that you repress and suppress God's Truth to that extent you are going to have problems, or any kind of truth. So the loins with the truth is important.

"Dressed with the breastplate of justice" the breastplate is that upper part, the chest, covering vital organs, it was made of leather or it could be metallic, but that justice, the breastplate of justice. And these concepts have many different applications, because in one dimension Paul is talking about bare-fisted war with the hosts of hell who want to harm our lives and destroy us.

But I have also told them that these concepts are applicable to a type of war that is much more everyday, much more of daily life, that we also have to apply it in that dimension. And for me that justice that the apostle Paul speaks of is that justice is that way in which we have to live in relation to others around us, that we have to treat others.

We have to live in the justice of God, we have to be just people, we have to treat others fairly. What we owe to someone we have to pay, not only speaking of money, but to whom honor, honor, to whom recognition, recognition, to whom love, love, to whom words of affirmation, words of affirmation, to whom we have to protect guarding their backs. How many times someone comes to tell us harmful things about another person and we rub our hands and also add more material, instead of saying: do you know what brother? me, or if you can't confront just shut up. Let's not gossip about others because we hurt, we treat people sometimes unfairly.

In our marriages we don't treat our spouses fairly, we don't treat our children fairly, our co-workers. We have to be the most just people in the world, we have to live in God's justice, we have to be upright in the way we treat each other. And all this justice, equity is very important because many of the problems in life come when we exploit others, we use others, we treat others badly.

For example, what does the Bible say? He says, and excuse me for taking husbands, but if there is a woman who is also harsh with her husband, well, it also applies to you, he says: "Husbands: do not be harsh with your wives so that your prayers may not be impeded." right yes?

So if we are treating our spouse, husband or wife unfairly, because sometimes there are wives who abuse the meekness of the husband, don't believe it, they have a meek and humble husband, and simple and they ride on him, that is not from God, rebuke the devil right now; The spirit of Yiye Ávila got into me for a moment like that (laughs).

The Bible says: If we do not forgive those who offend us, God cannot forgive us. So God's justice demands that we treat others that way so that we can then enjoy a healthy life and a healthy emotional life.

He also talks about how, on our feet, the Roman soldier had a kind of boot that was attached to the ankle and then around the leg so that he could hold onto it tightly, and he also had some kind of nails on the sole to be able to hold on to it. well to the floor and the ground that he stepped on. And it is interesting that Paul puts here: "The preparation" that is to say with the preparation of the Gospel of peace.

And again: I think that this idea, for me what immediately comes to mind, Paul chooses the Gospel of peace because what is the Gospel? the Gospel is reconciliation with God, the Gospel is good news that God is no longer at enmity with us and we with Him. The Bible says: "Therefore, having been reconciled by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ."

So it is a Gospel of peace. Paul focuses: the Gospel has many aspects but here it is interesting that he chooses that aspect of the Gospel of peace, of reconciliation. And I believe that here is something very important for emotional health that we have to take into account, and it is this idea that when I learn to dwell and rest in God's love for my life, in God's approval for me life. When I stop feeling guilty like God is a foreman who always has the scourge there ready to slap me if I don't like it as He wants at all times, ready to shoot me lightning that splits me in half when I have a bad thought or whatever.

So many times we live in anxiety with respect to God and there are holiness churches that many times become neurotic churches because there is this sense as from the Old Testament, and we have not learned to rest in the peace of the Lord, since we are already approved through Christ Jesus and that we have a beautiful daddy who loves us, and who wants to have good dealings with us.

And you know what? that many times when we stop seeing God as a fair and just being, and we begin to see him as a reconciled and loving Father, you know what? sometimes we can do more than when we see Him as always suing us, do you understand? We have to abide in the Gospel of peace.

I told Meche that when we go to our church there is a place that sells cars, and they had a, perhaps some of those who go around Summerville have seen it, a smiling gorilla about seven feet tall, ugly but smiling, and it's in front of the entrance to this place that sells used cars, and it has a sign next to it that says: "park here, you're already approved" meaning that if you have bad credit, good credit, whatever, don't Don't worry, come and take a car that we give you credit for, then park here, you are already approved, in other words, for your credit application.

So I stare at that gorilla that says: "park here, you are approved" and I say that I would love to take a photo of the gorilla and next to it put a very long cross, the size of the gorilla, and apply that word: park here because you are already approved. You get it? did they catch it? (laughs). In other words stick to the cross, park next to the cross because God is already happy with your life through the cross of Calvary, God is no longer upset with you. On the cross of Calvary you find healing, blessing, hope, peace, reconciliation with God.

And then when you learn to dwell in that good Will of the Father for your life, that God wants to give you many blessings and good things that sometimes changes our destiny. I would like to have more time to develop that and when you are having lunch after the service think a little more about it.

It says: "Above all, take up the shield of faith." How interesting, he says: above all. The Roman soldier's shield was like that, it was very large and could be made of wood, leather, metal and obviously it was to protect himself from blows, it was a defensive weapon against blows from an enemy soldier, "above all."

Why does faith have such importance as well as superabundant? Brother: because faith is the platform for every transaction in the Kingdom of God. The Bible says that without faith it is impossible to please God. Santiago says that if we lack wisdom, we should ask God for it, but that we should ask it with faith, not doubting, he says, because he who doubts is like the waves of the sea that go wherever he wants. He says: do not expect that the one who prays in this way will receive anything from God.

Faith is the very essence of our life and every day we have to ask the Lord to increase our faith and to help us grow in faith. How do you grow in faith? brother grows with a bare fist, reading the Word, worshiping the Lord, staying focused on the things of God, memorizing Scripture. It's not like you ask the Lord to open your brains out and ask Him to put faith in you, it's not like that. Faith is something that you learn through experience, through a rapport with the elements of the Kingdom of God, this is how you gradually become a person of faith.

You are becoming a person of faith through experience when God deals with you and you see God throughout your life doing things as He promises, you are confirming the principles and means of the Kingdom of God, then you grow in faith then. But if you are over there, aplatana'o, living a hundred miles away, going to church like this from time to time, you show up on a Sunday and then six months later we see you again, forgive me, but you don't grow in your Christian life that way. You have to pay the price, you have to be a soldier there continually marinating, there plunging into the seasons of the Kingdom of God.

But why is faith important? because faith, look, what faith does is that it allows us to live in the dimension of the Spirit instead of the dimension of space. Faith is what allows you in any circumstance of your life to see what God is doing and not what the world is doing.

I very respectfully took as an example a young couple who arrived here this morning at Church, we are going to officiate the funeral of their three-month-old baby this Tuesday. And I told them like this from here, from the pulpit, if we live through such a painful experience like this, if a person only looks at the circumstances of what has happened to him at that moment, the enemy will want to use it to deform our emotional life, when Losses happen to us, when we suffer great tragedies in our lives, the enemy will want to take advantage of it and fill us with resentment against God, to make us bitter, to instill in us a sense of guilt: could it have been because I did not do something, because I did not pray? enough, because it was in sin that my baby died? or whatever; the devil wants to take those things and use them to do harm in our lives.

We have to go beyond the circumstances and stick to the Word of God, the Truth of God, what God is saying in our lives. That is why Paul also speaks here of the sword of the Spirit, which is the Word of God, because these two things go together: faith, the Truth of God, the Word of God. When difficult situations come to our life, of great loss, we cannot focus on the circumstance we are going through, the experience we are suffering. We have to rise above the vortex of the storm that we are experiencing and try to see what is God saying through this, what is God doing, what is God's purpose in this? What has God declared about my life?

And it is where we have to take the truths of the Gospel and apply them to ourselves in that moment. Because if you only look at the circumstances of your loss you will be overwhelmed by the enemy, but faith is what allows you to go beyond your circumstances. When Peter was in the boat and sees Jesus walking on the water, he asks the Lord to allow him to walk on the water as well. And the Lord says to him: Well, amen, jump out of the boat and walk on the water, and Peter begins to walk. And while keeping his gaze fixed on the authority of the Lord he walks on the water.

But the Word says that: "Looking at the rough sea and looking at the storm with all its power, it began to sink." When he was not able to use faith to look at the Christ who was above gravity and the laws of physics, he began to look only according to his mind and what he knew of the physical reality around him, when he stops living by faith then begins to sink. And the Lord says to him: "Why did you doubt, man of little faith?" We have to live brothers with our eyes set on what the Lord has declared, not the experience we are living.

In order to mature, Christians have to disconnect more and more every day from what people say, from what the world does to me, from the circumstance that is happening, and they have to ask the Lord: Lord, give me the strength to live. attached to You and what You have declared in my life. I believe that I am going to get out of this time of trial. I believe that You are faithful in what You promise and I know that this is just a slight momentary tribulation but that I am going to get ahead in the Name of Jesus.

And that is what allows us, brothers, to stop looking at what we are going through, what is happening in our lives, what happened to us twenty years ago and learn to see what the Word of God says?

Later I am going to deal with another point, and that is that one of the ways in which we can find emotional health is knowing that we have value in Christ Jesus, that no one gives value to us but that value is given to us by God in what that we are in Him.

And one of the things that I am also going to talk about is that another of the ways in which we learn to grow spiritually and have emotional health is by detaching ourselves from the world, and setting our sights on the celestial Kingdom and on the world of the spirit. Because while you are glued to the world and you are glued to what others say about you, then you are like a puppet that the world takes you up and down, and forwards and backwards, and jiggles as the world gives you. the win The child of God learns to set his sights on every Word that comes out of the mouth of God, on the Truth of God.

And that is why we have to practice those muscles more and more each day, those skills of living in the spirit and not so much in the flesh. As the child of God grows, one of the things that God wants to do in us is to detach ourselves less from the flesh and stick more to Christ Jesus.

I was watching a documentary this week about the Carthusian monks in a monastery in the French Alps, a documentary that I recommend you watch if you can, it's called: Into great silence, and it's two hours and forty minutes almost like getting into a monastery, one of the most austere and demanding monasteries in the world, where these monks live almost all their lives in a cell and only go out for a moment to have a mass at midnight, and they see themselves as a community only once a week, but the rest of the time they spend in their cell, reading the Bible, reading religious texts, praying, and it's like the purpose of these men is to kill the flesh completely, and turn off the senses by getting into an artificial environment of silence and total abstraction from the world in order to come into contact with the infinite, with God.

And it's amazing what these men. Imagine living that you no longer have a name, when you die there is no grave that has your name, you disappear from the world completely because your purpose is like being an Olympic athlete of the spirit, and for you to be able to feel God and meet God you have to go like turning off the lights in every way; the memories of all his ancestors and his relatives, all sexual appetite, all desire for success in the world, all sense of manhood, all emotion, all attachment to the world and turn off the lights until what is left is a being that is in search and in contact with the infinite. Silence twenty-three hours a day.

And I say: well that is admirable, it fascinates me. The truth is that it is a wonderful documentary in many ways and the dedication of these men is admirable. But on the other hand, do you know how beautiful the Gospel is? it is that you do not have to do that to have an encounter with the Holy Spirit, with the Spirit of God. You can, even in the middle of the world, not be of the world. Even while you have a demanding job and you are successful in your work, you are a teacher, a doctor, a housewife, a laborer, even while you are living in the world you can, through faith, go every day by penetrating more with the world of the spirit.

And then you can have the blessing of both privileges. You can be a husband, you can be a worker, you can be a person immersed in the world but live as if you were in a monastery because little by little you are extinguishing that dependence that you have on the flesh and on reason, and you are learning more and more to read the world through the eyes of faith, through the eyes of the Word, through the eyes of the spirit; you are becoming more and more a spiritual being every day.

And that is what God wants, that we learn to process life according to the dictates of faith and not only according to the dictates of experience or emotions. We cannot let the distortions of the past, the bad memories of the past, dictate who we are. We live by what we are, not by what the world tells us we are. We cannot live attached to the world, according to that look of faith, to that deep spirituality that God wants us to have.

One last weapon that the apostle Paul mentions here in verse 18: "Praying always, with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints." What is Paul talking about here? of the sentence. Prayer is something that we cannot do without in our life, and we have to, in a sense, live in prayer twenty-four hours a day.

The Apostle Paul says, "Pray without ceasing." It is like breathing, prayer has to be like breathing. Wherever we are we have to be in contact with the Lord and if you feel that time is passing, of the day, and you have stopped being in communication with the Lord, somehow, take thirty seconds and put your mind in the Lord.

We must be engines of prayer, engines of prayer, continually crying out and praying to the Lord, and presenting our needs and the needs of others to the Lord. And you don't only have to be on your knees like four hours every day, very few of us have time to do that, but there at work, when you're driving on 93rd, when you have a traffic jam there instead of putting on to curse and deny God take that time, cry out to the Lord, pray, present the needs of the people of God. I ask the Lord: Father, give me more and more of an intercessory spirit every day, there are so many needs that we can present before God.

One of the things that monks do when they retire to monasteries is, they see themselves as people who are praying for the world, that is their calling, to be people of prayer who are continually praying for the needs of the world and for redemption. of the world. Well you know what? you can be a monk there in your work, in your marriage, not so much in your marriage but in many different dimensions, you can live a life of continuous prayer; you can cry out to the Lord and present your needs, continually renew that dialogue with God in your life.

Because prayer is not simply to make a shopping list for the Lord: Lord, I want this, give me this, give me that, prayer is also to keep us in communion with God, and take advantage of those times. That is what allows us then to see how God sees things, to keep us spiritually healthy. From time to time take a half day to fast, or a full day, three days or whatever, present our needs to the Lord, cry out to God for those things we need to do. Without prayer we cannot have the vitality we need in the Christian life.

When we pray, we sacralize the negative experiences of life, and then we can see them through the lens of faith and spirit, and those things keep us healthy, healthy in the Lord. I'm going to ask that the musicians and worship leaders come through here.

So brothers, there you have some tools. The Bible says that the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but powerful in God for the destruction of strongholds. These tools that God has placed there, truth, justice, faith, the salvation that we have in Christ Jesus, the Gospel of peace, prayer, are things that are going to keep us healthy at all times. When life's attacks come, when threats against our health come, we will then know what to do.

I'm not going to repress an experience I had last night, a dream I had, can I have five more minutes? I want to share with you. So that you can see how it is that we have to live every day in spiritual hygiene, and when the enemy wants to do things in our life and the Lord reveals something to us, then we have to access the things that God has provided in our life. because the devil is always trying to do harm. And sometimes it will be a clean war, clearly spiritual, sometimes it will be more subtle.

But last night, I couldn't even share this with Meche this morning, but that's how God speaks to me. When there are times when Satan wants to enter or my defenses have been penetrated, or there is something that I have to be careful about in the ministry, in my life, the Lord always warns me. And when I discern those moments of attack that can manifest in something circumstantial in some way, then God is telling me: Prepare yourself, strengthen yourself, so that the enemy does not have an entry into that area of your life.

I was like this, it was an image of a single moment, where the living room of our house was, and I turned my gaze for a moment to the other side of the window, several windows that are in the living room, and when I turned my gaze to another Once, there was a, and I say this, look, the people, the homeless, the homeless people, you know how much we love them, this has nothing to do with it, it was just a symbol so nobody assumes more than necessary in this because God uses symbols to a certain extent.

But when I turned around, there was a question, how did he get in? I understood in the spirit that, when I turned my gaze, the idea was: I neglected myself for a moment, something entered, and there was a homeless man lying in the middle of the room with one of those quilts they use, with a sleeping bag one of those open, well wrapped and well covered, sleeping, seeking refuge in the living room of our house. And I wondered: how did this man get in? and it came to my head: when you turned around, he entered through the window and made himself comfortable there seeking protection.

And then in the dream I told him: Lord, I was a little conscious, and I said: Lord, what are you saying to me with that? And then I understood that this character was a symbol of some kind of spiritual attack, contamination or contagion that had entered our house or my life, or the ministry, I'm not sure what. And then I understood that the Lord was giving me an assignment: Now go to war and defend your life and your ministry, and neutralize that.

Now you know what? I kept sleeping like I always do. It's not like now I'm neurotic and paranoid, and I'm not going to eat or drink, it's that we are always at war with the enemy. Now what I have to do is pray to the Lord and make sure that this is neutralized, because if I don't pay attention to that, the enemy is going to do something negative in my life.

And I believe that this is how we have to live brothers. How I say that does not fill me with panic or anything because the Christian life is a life of war continuously. It is what the Word says: "Be sober and watchful because your adversary, the devil, walks around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour." We are at war with the powers of the devil twenty-four hours a day and in the lives of those who serve the Lord there will always be moments of attack.

And that negative energy that entered or wanted to enter my sphere of life, if it is not rejected and neutralized, can turn into something emotional, something spiritual, something matrimonial, something financial, something health, something ministerial, that diabolical energy can manifest as a virus in many different harmful forms. So what one has to do is put on the armor of God; begin to pray, to rebuke, to look in the Bible, what is the Lord saying to me? ask for discernment from God, sanctify ourselves more, put down deeper roots.

When those things come into my life, you know what? I instead of feeling fear what I feel is joy; thank you Lord because you are speaking to me. Thank you because there are defenses that alert me about how I should, in order to maintain health, in order to maintain health. It is not the first time that this has happened.

And you are in the same battle that I am, and what you have to ask yourself is: how can I live that alert life twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, so that the devil does not manage to penetrate my armor with his fire darts? I have to use the sword of the Word, the shield of faith, the helmet of salvation, the shoes of the Gospel of peace, those tools that God has provided, live within them, cry out to the Lord continuously, give my life to may God sanctify it more each day so that the devil does not have a foothold in my life, he does not find, he does not know where to grab me because every day I am giving my spirit, my life, my body, my mind to the Lord. That is my wish and it should be your wish every day so that you can live a healthy and clear life every day.

May the Lord bless you. Father: we bless this Word, thank you for the armor of the Spirit that You have given us. Thank you for all the resources, Lord, that You provide us in our walk and You have provided us with protection in so many different ways. Open our understanding so that we are not like innocent children entering the Father slaughterhouse, but that we are men and women clothed with all the tools and all the resources of faith.

Make us a dangerous Church for the devil and hell Lord, a Church of men and women delivered and sold to the Gospel and the Kingdom of God, and teach us how to resist the enemy when he wants to destroy us, when he wants to harm our lives. We sanctify ourselves in You Father, we consecrate ourselves to You.

Lord: we die to self and embrace the fullness of Your desire for us. We yield to You Father, with the help of the Holy Spirit lead us to that point of death, where we might humble every aspect of ourselves and submit every impulse to You alone, and to Your Truth, the Truth of Your Word, we submit ourselves to You like a sacrifice Father, consumed by Your fire until all that is left of us is Jesus in His form and image. We praise You, we adore You and we give ourselves to You Lord once more, as that holy and pleasing sacrifice before You.

Mark our spirits with this Word Lord and glorify yourself in us, and get all the benefit that You want, in Jesus Name, amen. God bless you, the grace of the Lord be with you, amen.