Tag Archive: Armor

Pray for All Believers in Christ Together Taking Up the Same Armor–The “belt of Truth”

When the battle comes to us, we are commanded only to “stand” our ground together. We are to have prepared each other beforehand by arming ourselves for the battle. The first item mentioned is “truth.” We are to have fastened the “truth” securely all around us… The “truth” which holds us together as a Body, and which holds our armor together, goes far beyond never telling a lie. It is a sincere mind and a character which continually listens to God’s truth and rejects even the thought of speaking on its own, without God directing, or of being deceptive. It is this truth as a frame of mind that we are to fasten all around ourselves before battle…

Pray for All Believers in Christ because We ALL Wrestle Against the Same Darkness

The command to pray for all believers is given in the context of the command to be armed, and to arm each other, with the full armor of God. We need to stand together in God’s armor because we are all wrestling with the same darkness and cannot stand against it on our own and without God’s strength.