What to Do when your faith is being attacked
This is Ryan Malaluan from ARMOR OF TRUTH… I just wanted to pass this on.. I pray that this can help anyone that is being tested or is battling with someone or something that is stretching their faith in GOD.. Please pray for me and my family as we have been going through a battle and I must CLAIM VICTORY in this area of OUR lives IN JESUS NAME…
The apostle Paul has outlined for us three steps we must take if we expect to “be strong in the Lord” and to resist the attacks of Satan. Thee first, as we have been discussing “is to put on the armor of God–the whole armor–”that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the Devil.
And the second step, Paul says, is to pray:
Pray at all times in the Spirit, with all prayer and supplication. To that end keep alert with all perseverance, making supplication for all the saints, and also for me, that utterance may be given me in opening my mouth boldly to proclaim the mystery of the gospel for which I am an ambassador in chains; that I might declare it boldly, as I ought to speak (Ephesians 6:18-20).
There is a very strong and powerful relationship between putting on the armor of God and praying. These two things belong together, in fact, one grows out of the other. It is not enough to put on the armor of God–you must also pray. It is not enough to pray–you must also have put on the armor of God.
As we. have seen, putting on the armor of God is far from being merely figurative–it is an actual thing you do. It is remembering what Christ is to you and thinking through the implications of that relationship in terms your present struggle and experience. Essentially, putting on the armor is done in the realm of your thought life. It is an adjustment of the attitude of your heart to reality, to things as they really are. It is thinking through the implications of the facts revealed in God’s Word.
Our problem with life is that we do not see it as it is; we suffer from strange illusions. This is why we desperately need and must have the revelation of the facts of Scripture. Life is what God has declared it to be. When we face it on that basis, we discover that revelation is right, it is accurate, it does describe what is happening. And more, it tells us why things happen and what lies behind them. All this is part of putting on this armor, of appropriating Christ to the life in terms of your present situation. It is all done in the realm of the thought life.
What do you do when you put on the breastplate of righteousness? You think of Christ and what his righteousness means as it is imparted to you. What do you do when you take up the of the Spirit? You give heed, as we saw, to those flashes of Scripture, those portions of the word of God that come to your mind that immediate application to the situation you are facing. But again, this is all done in the realm of thou lit
At first it takes time to work this all through, but as we learn how to do it, the process becomes much more rapid. We can almost instantaneously think through this line of approach to the problems we are facing. This is what Paul means in the letter to the Corinthians when he says, take every thought captive to obey Christ” (2 Corinthians 10:5).
I will update with more step as to growing your faith when under attack.. GOD BLESS YOU ALL
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