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There’s Holes In Your Armour

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There’s holes in your armour

Brendan Mc Crossan

There’s Holes in YourArmour Chapter one

Checking our armour for holes

For quite a while now the lord has been showing me the necessity to believe what he says about us in reference to holiness and perfection and his graces poured out on us who belong to him, he has shown me many different sides to believing in his word that says, we are made in thelikenessand natureofhisown dearSon Jesus, and thathehasactually madeuslikeJesus, to be equal to and in the same standing as his Son Jesus; and it was all his work not something of man that he can boast; “look at me I am holy.” Only God could make us holy and no one else. The truth is we are made holy in God’s eyes forever perfect in the sight of God as Hebrews-10-14- tells us; and the word of God neither changes for you or for me or anyone but remains the same forever and for eternity, and so what God says about us is true forever into eternity, and in eternity we are still holy in God’s sight.

He has been showing me how important it is to believe what he says about us in his word no matter how unbelievable it may seem to be. He showed me in another book I wrote that faith becomes effective in acknowledging everything God done for us through Christ Jesus, and it is the same scriptures that he used to reinforce what he says, in this book he is sharing the very same scriptures only from a different angle and how not believing in these words of God can effect us spiritually.

I hear Christian’s say they are wearing the armour of God and each day they get up and put that armour on, first the helmet of salvation then the breastplate of righteousness, then they put their shoes of the good news on, and then they put around their waist the belt of truth, and they carry with them the shield of faith, and they carry with them the sword of the spirit in their hand. “Rubbish!” I say it again, “Rubbish!” They have none of these armours on, or have put armour with holes in it on them.

Thefirsttruth isthearmourmustbeworn atalltimes, you don’tsitdown and takeyou armour off when you go to bed at night do you? Of course not, so why do you put your armour on in the morning, if you don’t take it off at night? Are you putting layer after layer of the armour on every day, of course not?

Jesus said, “the truth will set you free,” you need to be aware of this truth, or you are in bed at night with no armour on and you are naked before Satan who can attack you at will because you don’t have any armour on, that is if you believe that you get up in the morning and put your armour on; or even if you remember to put your armour on in the first place. During the night, the scriptures say the enemy comes to sow darnel among the wheat; you are vulnerable during this time if you have no armour still on. I never took my armour off at any time night or day since I came to the lord, it is on me always because I read the scripture that said, “put the armour of God on,” and I realised it never said, “take it off when you go to bed,” so it has remained on me ever since. During the night you are at your most vulnerable. As any terrorist or soldier knows, about four in the morning a man is most vulnerable as he is in his deepest sleep, and the enemy army uses this very time to attack in the natural world; ask any soldier who has had battle experience, and they will tell you this is true. Do you not think that Satan knows this about man? After all he has been here since the fall of the first man and in fact even before Adam was banished from Eden. Satan has had thousands of years learning mans weakness and knows you are at your most vulnerable at around four o clock night time. So if you have no helmet of salvation on,

or your breastplate of righteousness on, you are open to attack; if you have no armour on your naked as the day you were born and open to anything Satan or one of his evil spirits decides to put into your mind. The first thing you as Christian’s needs to do, are correct your way of thinking about your armour, and never take it off during your sleep, and if you think you don’t take it off during you bedtime then why do you put it on in the morning, use your logic here.

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There are holes in your helmet of salvation

The second thing every Christian needs to know is, if you don’t believe all that God’s word says about you then your armour is full of holes, and I want to show you where there are holes in your armour, where you may not have realised your armour was faulty. It is in your believing, if you don’t believe that God says you are holy, and you think of yourself as unworthy, you have a very large hole in your armour, in your breastplate of righteousness, read carefully the following scripture and see everything I have highlighted in different colours to show its importance and see if this is what you believe about yourself. Or do you feel unworthy, or even unworthy to be worthy, that means exactly the same but one I hear many Christians confess with their mouth.

Ephesians-1-4-Even as [in His love] He chose us [actually picked us out for Himself as His own] in Christ before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy (consecrated and set apart for Him) and blameless in His sight, even above reproach, before Him in love. 5For He foreordained us (destined us, planned in love for us) to be adopted (revealed) as His own children through Jesus Christ, in accordance with the purpose of His will [because it pleased Him and was His kind intent] 6[So that we might be] to the praise and the commendation of His glorious grace (favour and mercy), which He so freely bestowed on us in the Beloved.

7In Him we have redemption (deliverance and salvation) through His blood, the remission (forgiveness) of our offenses (shortcomings and trespasses), in accordance with the riches and the generosity of His gracious favour, 8Which He lavished upon us in every kind of wisdom and understanding (practical insight and prudence), 9Making known to us the mystery (secret) of His will (of His plan, of His purpose). [And it is this:] It was In accordance with His good pleasure, (His merciful intention) which He had previously purposed and set forth in Him.

Come on admit the truth do you think that honestly you believe that you are holy (consecrated and set apart for Him) and blameless in His sight, even above reproach, before Him in love.

Be honest with yourself and admit it, most Christians don’t “feel” holy, or blameless in his sight, or above reproach, most Christians I have heard confess that they are sinners or unworthy. If you don’t believe with all your heart, {you can believe with your head but not with the heart} that you are holy blameless, and above reproach, then you have holes in your armour. You have to have conviction that you are holy, you must believe with every ounce of your being that what God says about you is true. If you don’t then there are holes in the armour. We say as Christian’s that “we are the righteousness of Christ Jesus,” but do we even believe

that this gives us full access to God so we can actually come to the throne room with confidence, boldly, assured of a truly glad welcome. And that we are righteous in our own right because of what Jesus done for us. If you confess that you are a sinner or unworthy then you don’t believe that you are holy or righteous, and have a double mind. We can come with the righteousness of Christ Jesus before the father, but can we actually come before the Father confidently boldly in our own right as righteous, the exact same as Jesus, to the father? Do you have this conviction in you, that you can just walk into the holy of holies before God and say, “hi dad.” If you truthfully answer this then you will know if you haveyourarmouronwithoutholesinit.IknowfromexperiencethatthemajorityofChristians don’t believe that they are spotless as the driven snow; most believe that one day they will get there just before death gets them, and then they believe they will have reached perfection when they die.

If you don’t believe now this very moment that you read this that you are holy just like Jesus and that you are the very same as Jesus and actually are Jesus in this world then you have large chunks out of your armour.

] He chose us [actually picked us out for Himself as His own] in Christ before the foundation of the world, Do you believe that you were actually picked out by God long before he made the foundations of the earth, to be holy in his sight? If you find this hard to believe then you have another hole in your armour.

Do you believe that you were foreordained before time even began to be holy before God always, and that he actually picked you to be his very own child? {Foreordained means to determine future events, to arrange or determine future events in advance of their happening.}

If you don’t then you have another hole in your armour!

5For “He” foreordained us (destined us, planned in love for us) to be adopted (revealed) as His own children through Jesus Christ, in accordance with the purpose of His will [[b]because it pleased “Him” and was “His” kind intent]—{amplified bible}

You see if you don’t believe “all” that God says about you then your armour is virtually useless, it is riddled with holes, and through those holes the enemy can attack and get through your defences.

If you don’t believe with all your heart the word of God then you have vulnerabilities in your armour, it has holes in it.

Do you believe that you are actually in heaven right now even as you read this? That though you sit and read this book now, a part of you is in heaven, and it is not your flesh it is your spirit. There was only one person who had that place of highest privilege and his name was Jesus; then he joined himself to you in the spirit- 1-Corinthins-6-17- if you give yourself to the lord you and Christ are joined together as one person. And in Joining with him in spirit he gave you full access to his place of highest privilege. If you don’t believe you and Jesus are actually one person spiritually, then your armour is leaking like a sieve.

Romans-5-2- for because of our faith, he has brought us into this place of highest privilege where we now stand.

Who brought you into this place of highest privilege, Jesus did no one else. Do you believe this with no reservations, without a shadow of a doubt? If you do then your armour is strong, if not, it has holes in it.

Why you may be asking is all this so important, as you believe in Jesus. Well so does the devil and he believes in him even more than you do, and he knows if you don’t believe the awesome things done for you then you are like a leaking sieve full of holes in which Satan can get at you. Believing is not enough, the devil and evil spirits believe, believing in some this in the bible is not enough; you have to believe all that God says.

Through the night I thank God for all he has done for me he is never far from my mind, every moment I awake during the night, and I awake quite a lot, {to Pee, I’M getting older, lol} I walk out to the toilet thanking him for all he done for me by making me what “he” made me.

I know he is reinforcing in me the convictions of all Jesus done for me and for you, and he is making me aware in many different ways the power in knowing what Jesus done and in having my armour on always never taking it off for a moment even. As I have said earlier in this book, God is showing me the multisided sides of scripture there are and how important it is to believe that scripture secret’s are being revealed in this day to all God’s people who are sharing in God’s favour.

I wrote these same scriptures many times over the last six months, and put them into different books as the spirit directed me, then he comes along and tells me that not believing those scriptures means that our armour has holes in it.

If you don’t believe that you are holy in the sight of God then your helmet of salvation has a hole in it, because salvation does not just believe that you are saved, it believes that you have a new life in Christ Jesus. Christians think, “I am saved I am going to heaven,” that’s what salvation means. But that is not the full message of salvation being saved is only a small portion of the new life that Jesus talked about. You are saved by accepting Jesus as lord and saviour, that is the greatest message that we can proclaim, but it does not stop there, salvation is believing what Jesus said about you now that you are officially saved, Salvation is the beginning of the new life that you just received, but it is not the be all and end all, it is the beginning of something that is so awesome it is hard to take in, that God could take a human being and change him or her into his own personal image filled with holiness shining like the noonday sun, as scripture says; we are the worlds light, the salt of the earth, a city on a hill. Previously Jesus was referred to as the light to the world, now Jesus said “we” are the light of the world; and this is because we are joined to him as one person, do you believe this? If you don’t then you have holes in your armour. We have become the light of the world where as Jesus was the light to the world, then he joined himself to us and we became the worlds light, a city on a hill, do you imagine that little old you are the worlds light, that you are a city on a hill or that you personally are the salt of the earth; come on answer this truthfully do you believe that you yourself are the light of the world, you can possibly believe that all Christian’s are the light of the world collectively but singularly are the worlds light, if you can answer that truthfully and say not me just on my own then you have holes in your armour.

Matthew-5-13-you are the salt of the earth; but if the salt loses its flavour, how shall it be seasoned? It is then good for nothing but to be thrown out and trampled underfoot by men. 14 “You are the light of the world. A city on a hill.

Salvation is “everything” that Jesus done for you, because you were given everything at theprecisemoment that you accepted Jesus into your life, and you did not even do this off your own bat, but because it was foreordained that on such and such a date you would become

aware that you needed God to help you. As I said salvation is acknowledging everything that Jesus done for you when you become aware of it, refusing to believe that you shine like a million 100 watt light bulbs means that you have a hole in your armour. So your helmet of salvation is not fully covering you is it, when you think of it?

Satan does not want you to become aware that you have holes in your armour; he is terrified that you find out this truth. As Christians it is our duty to let everyone know that just getting into heaven is not the only thing salvation means. You received everything at the moment of salvation, every gift every power, every blessing that God had for you, and you received all these massive amounts of blessings, powers, and gifts at the moment of impact, that precious moment when you allowed Jesus into your heart to be your lord and saviour. You did not receive these extras later on when you did this or that, you got the whole package when you accepted Jesus as lord and your saviour, and you accepted the kingdom of heaven into your heart. If you don’t believe this then you have holes in your helmet of salvation.

I used to believe many years ago that we got these things later on when we become better living Christians, when we became more “holy” Using the term Holy like a state of existence that you get when someone makes you a saint.

You got even more extras when you received the baptism in the Holy Spirit, you got the Holy Spirit living inside of you now, and he brought gifts and powers and blessings when he arrived inside you, you received supernatural gifts and powers for doing God’s will when he arrived. But do you really believe that you have God’s own Holy Spirit living in you, and that he can use you to do anything, like raise the dead? Or create a new brain in someone with a diseased brain? If we don’t believe this we have holes in our armour.

Do you believe for instance that you are a Saint? If not then you have a hole in your armour a holein your helmet, thescriptures in theNew Testament arewritten to theSaints, and scripture refers to you as Saints, but do you really believe this about yourself that you personally are a Saint, if not a hole exists in your helmet of salvation.

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There are holes in your breastplate of righteousness.

If you do not believe that you personally are righteous and righteous means that you are blameless in God’s sight, to be in right standing with God, or if you have doubts, or your not too sure, then you have a hole in your breastplate. If you feel unworthy then you can’t feel righteous no matter what you may think.

I heard a lady say one time in church the we were all sinners, this is a lie told to her by Satan, we are not all sinners, sad to say the church clapped her and agreed they were sinners also, inside I was cringing and wished I could stand and say, “no we are not sinners because Jesus died for us while we were sinners,” to quote the scripture she quoted, but she left out the part that said, “but now he has declared us to be righteous, how much more will he do for us “now” {present tense} that we are saved. When she quoted that particular scripture she misquoted it, she said Christ died for us while we “were” sinners, if she had used her brain she could have realised that the word “were” is past tense, “now” is present tense; were is in the past. To be a sinner is to be condemned to eternal damnation, to be declared righteous means that you will live forever in eternal happiness in paradise in heaven.

Romans-5-1-Therefore since we are justified ([a]acquitted, declared righteous, and given a right standing with God) through faith, let us [grasp the fact that we] have [the peace

of reconciliation to hold and to [b]enjoy] peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed One). 2Through Him also we have [our] access (entrance, introduction) by faith into this grace (state of God's favour) in which we [firmly and safely] stand. And let us rejoice and exult in our hope of experiencing and enjoying the glory of God.

Do you believe that you are justified, declared righteous, and given right standing with God now this very moment, or do you think this will come later on when you have become a better person? Do you feel that you personally stand in the grace and favour of God right now? If you find this hard to believe, then there is a hole in your armour. Could you walk right into the very throne room of God where he sits on that throne surrounded by millions of angels and angelicbeings, beforeall themultitudes in heaven singing his praises and before the elders who prostrate themselves before him day and night giving him glory, and walk right up to him and say, hullo Father, “I just come here to ask a favour of you?” If you can sincerely praise the lord, if you honestly answer no then you have holes in your armour.

Do you believe that you are a king on this planet that you are actually reigning on this earth? If you do not then you have a hole in your armour, because the word of God tells us that we are kings of life and that we reign on this earth, where we are is our kingdom, we rule all around us, not over people but over powers and principalities and demons and all the power of the enemy. We reign as kings of life through Jesus Christ; we reign through him, with him and in him that is how we reign and we reign “over the earth.”

Romans-5-17- 17For if because of one man's trespass (lapse, offense) death reigned through that one, much more surely will those who receive [God's] overflowing grace (unmerited favour) and the free gift of righteousness [putting them into right standing with Himself] reign as kings in life through the one Man Jesus Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed One).

Revelation-5-10- 10And You have made them a kingdom (royal race) and priests to our God, and they shall reign [as kings] over the earth!(E)

If you find it hard to believe all of this then how is your breastplate of righteousness going to be able to withstand all the fiery darts aimed at it by demonic forces?

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There’s holes in your sword of the spirit your greatest weapon!

How can I possibly have holes in my sword of the spirit, it is a weapon we use to drive Satan and every demonic force back and claim the victory in every situation? The sword is a weapon that is placed in the mouth and is wielded by its user to drive back the enemy by the words of your mouth and by the word of God.

If you do not know or believe what God says about you then your sword is full of holes, and is virtually useless. Most Christians know some scripture to use when driving back the enemy, but when Satan comes against you and you don’t believe that you and Jesus are one person how can you drive him away, if you don’t believe then you cannot proclaim from your mouth that you are one in Christ Jesus and cannot boldly and confidently drive Satan away. The sword is your only weapon of attack, the rest are defensive armour, first the belt of truth, then the breastplate of God’s approval, shoes that speed you on with the Good News, then the shield of faith, and the helmet of salvation, all defensive armour, then the sword of the spirit which is the word of God, the only offensive weapon at your disposal. If you do not believe all that the word says about you then how in the name of God will you be able to wield it successfully?

You have to know and understand the word, “your sword,” to be able to use it effectively, if you cannot accept that you are, “holy without a single fault” in the eyes of God then you have holes in your sword. God gave us his word to be used against the enemy to be a solid strength that you can wield with tremendous power. If you do not believe that you have all authority over the enemy, or that you think Satan is omnipotent, {everywhere} then you are fooled by Satan and you have been deceived in the word of truth, by Satan’s lies, Satan is defeated, in everything, not in something’s but in everything, Jesus defeated him for you and I for ever more. He cannot defeat you when he has been defeated already by Jesus, and unless you believe this then your sword is not much use it is full of holes. All scripture is spirit breathed and is for our good, we can’t go and take little bits that suit us out of the word of God and try and use them with full effect because it doesn’t work like that, you may have some victories because of the grace of God but not because you can successfully use your sword with power. Satan will come against you with what he knows are your weakness in the word; he knows exactly what you believe. He knows that most Christian’s don’t understand salvation in its fullness; salvation is not just one act but a complete fulfilment of God’s work in you and me. Salvation is the beginning of a new life, and the life does not end at, “I have been saved,” it is a continuing eternal living, as Saint Paul said, It is not I who live but Christ Jesus who lives in me, and if you do not believe that you and Jesus are now living that new life then you have holes everywhere in your armour not just in your sword.

1-corinthian -6-17- The person who is united to the Lord becomes one spirit with Him.

You have become one person in Christ Jesus; you are not separate from him but have become a part of him in the spirit, your living the life of Jesus now on earth. Being saved is the beginning of your new life it is an ongoing salvation, not a stopped salvation with you now “saved.”

Romans 8-37-Overwhelming victory is ours through Christ who loved us enough to die for us.

Do you believe that you have overwhelming victory over Satan and all the power of the enemy? If you are not sure or think you are fighting a battle and sometimes you win and sometimes you lose, then you have a hole in your sword, scripture says in the previous scripture, that overwhelming victory is ours, through Christ Jesus. Victory is knowing that

even when you are defeated that God will turn that defeat into victory later on; it is in knowing this that you cannot be defeated by Satan or by demonic power even if he wipes you out at the time. That defeat when given to Jesus becomes your greatest victory later on in another battle; you may loose a battle but overwhelming victory over everything that Satan throws at you brings overwhelming victory later and in knowing that, I say again, it is knowing that, that makes it the victory and is the victory. Victory is knowing for certain that our great and wonderful God turns that defeat you suffered to a certain victory later on, it is the knowing this truth that gives you overwhelming victory always! And is a sword to use against demonic forces, reminding them that you have the victory anyway and you are proclaiming it to them and to all of creation with your mouth.

Romans-8-28-We are assured and know that [God being a partner in their labour] all things work together and are [fitting into a plan] for good to and for those who love God and are called according to [His] design and purpose.

Do you believe that? Do you believe that you have been called according to his design and purpose? That you are not just someone that is just living on planet earth just getting along at your own effort

ICorinthians-6-2-Do you notknowthatthesaints(thebelievers)will[oneday]judgeand govern the world? And if the world [itself] is to be judged and ruled by you, are you unworthy and incompetent to try [such petty matters] of the smallest courts of justice?

Do you believe that you personally will judge the world or are you too unworthy to try such things? If you believe that you are unworthy then my friend you have serious holes in your armour, and those holes are in your helmet, your breastplate and your sword, and they are also in your belt of truth and in your shield of faith, they are in your total armour, you have holey armour, not Holy armour. God’s word is true, and what God says is forever true, and never changes, and scripture says “my people perish for lack of knowledge.” If you don’t know the word of God how then can you put Satan and his demonic force to flight? The devil knows the word of God better than you, and he is a legalist he will dare to confront God with his own word against you, did he not do it to Jesus in the desert for forty days, tempting Jesus with the word of scripture? Are you any different than Jesus? Do you think he won’t attack you with the word of God with a little twist in it; he feeds us a little bit of truth and adds lies because he cannot help himself, as he is the father of liars.

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There are holes in your belt of truth?

Jesus said, “You shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free.” Do you know the truth in the word of God? Do know what God says about you personally? Do you know that God calls you holy, sinless, spotless, forever perfect, a light of the world, a city on a hill, the salt of the earth. Do you know that you will judge the very angels after the end of the world as we know it? Do you know that you and Jesus are joined together as one person? Do you believe that you have boldness to enter the throne room of God, and call to him Father, Father? Do you know that you have power and authority over the very devil himself, and every evil spirit or demon or principalities? Do you know that you are already seated in heaven in Christ Jesus? Do you know that the devil is terrified of you because he can’t tell the difference between you and Jesus unless you run from him when he challenges you in some battle? Do you know that

you are a king of life? Do you know for sure that you are a priest of the king? Do you believe that you are without stain of sin and that you are a white as the driven snow? Do you believe that you are a jewel in the crown of God the Father? Do you know that you are a mirror reflecting the glory of God? Do you know that you are Christ’s ambassador? Do you know God loves you unconditionally as does Jesus as does the Holy Spirit? Do you know that you are filled with God the Father, that you are filled with Jesus and that you are filled with the Holy Spirit and all three are living in you permanently? If you honestly answer these questions with a no! Then you have holes in your belt of truth. Does your belt of truth that holds up your spiritual trousers have so many holes in it that your spiritual trousers are in danger of falling down?

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There are holes in your shield of faith?

Do I really need to go over all those scriptures again, to show that your armour is riddled with holes? How can we hold up a shield of faith when we are filled with unbelief in the word of God or disbelieve some of it or most of it, As I said in the beginning Christians that I have known for years are still stuck with, “I am a sinner,” or “I am unworthy” or too unworthy to be worthy, and this saddens me so much. Some Christians say that, they are a sinner washed in the blood of the lamb, this is declaring first that they are sinners therefore not saved, then they speak a contradiction, they confess they are washed in the blood, you cannot be washed in the blood and still be a sinner. A sinner is hell bound and a saint washed in the blood is heaven bound, you can not have a conflict of interest here! Either you are a sinner, or you are washed in the blood, to say “I am,” means that it is now this moment that you are declaring what you are. You are contradicting yourself all the time when you say such things, because you confess that, “I am,” meaning now this moment, a sinner, your spirit is confused are you a saint or are you a sinner, make your mind up, and scripture also says a doubtful mind shall not have his prayer answered.

James -1-6- 6Only it must be in faith that he asks with no wavering (no hesitating, no doubting). For the one who wavers (hesitates, doubts) is like the billowing surge out at sea that is blown hither and thither and tossed by the wind. 7For truly, let not such a person imagine that he will receive anything [he asks for] from the Lord, 8[For being as he is] a man of two minds (hesitating, dubious, irresolute), [he is] unstable and unreliable and uncertain about everything [he thinks, feels, decides].

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There are holes in your shoes that speed you on sharing the good news,

If you don’t understand the good news fully then your shoes have holes in them and you faith is ineffective. In this section I try and explain fully what salvation and the good news really is. Philomen-6 says,”faith becomes effective by acknowledging every good thing you are and have in Jesus.”

I see Satan running rampant through his children’s lives, tearing everything down around them, destroying their families creating havoc, messing with people’s minds.

God is sick and tired of Satan pushing his children around as he wills, he wants them to rise up and declare who they are in Christ Jesus and declare what God says about them in his word, he wants his children fighting back with his word on their lips declaring that victory that Jesus won for them on Calvary. He wants them putting Satan and every evil spirit to flight, in fear of you when you come around. He wants us to use his armour to cover ourselves and his sword to attack violently, violent men take the kingdom of heaven says the lord, and he does not mean those with a violent nature, no, he means those who violently take the kingdom of God in peoples lives back of Satan the looser.

Ephesians-6-11- Put on God's whole armour [the armour of a heavy-armed soldier which God supplies], that you may be able successfully to stand up against [all] the strategies and the deceits of the devil.

Look at who’s armour you are supposed to put on, you are not supposed to put on “your” armour, as you can see from this book your armour is riddled with holes and is defective, but God’s armour is non porous and is fully insulated against every attack from the enemy. So put on the armour of God, it is his own personal armour, the scripture says, “put on God’s armour.” So who owns the armour you’re supposed to put on? Do you think that God’s armour believes that is unworthy, or sin filled or a waste of space.

Ephesians-6-11-Put on God's whole armour [the armour of a heavy-armed soldier which God supplies], that you may be able successfully to stand up against [all] the strategies and the deceits of the devil.

Do you understand what this scripture says to do? Put on “God’s” whole armour, the armour of a heavily armed soldier which God supplies, so you can withstand the deceits and tricks of the devil, the devil will tell you that you’re a sinner or that you cannot withstand him because you’re not worthy, or that you sinned yesterday, or let you down in some way. If you do not believe that God made you holy in his sight, and forever perfect in his sight also, and that he made you in the divine image of his divine son Jesus, that you are just a clone of Jesus with every part of Jesus in and through you, then that armour of God’s that your putting on is leaking all over.

12For we are not wrestling with flesh and blood [contending only with physical opponents], but against the despotisms, against the powers, against [the master spirits who are] the world rulers of this present darkness, against the spirit forces of wickedness in the heavenly (supernatural) sphere.

Your not fighting people you are fighting an invisible army who knows your every weakness and sin and fault and of course failure and will use those things to demoralise you if they can, you have to soak up every bit of scripture that tells you what God says about you.

I talked with someone the other day and I told him that the Holy Spirit is driving me into reading his word in regard to how looks at us and wants us to realise that we are holy people just like Jesus as scripture says, and the first words out of his mouth were a trivial down turning of what I just shared with him. He said, “Sure we the holiness groups we have the gifts of the spirit groups and we have the Christian normal groups and they are all separate,” and he laughed and dismissed me by saying he had something else to do. This man teaches

people scripture, yet he refused to allow his spirit to hear what I was saying because he was so intent in belittling what I just said. I know he has a problem with me and the problem is his, not mine, but I was so saddened to listen to him belittling me that he was blinded to the revelation I was giving him in regard to how God sees us as his children, he criticised those groups as being separate from each other and I could see how amazing it would be if those three parts of the one body could become one in understand God’s divine word. He did not realise that he allowed the devil to steal from him the word of God, from his heart, because he has hardened his heart against me, and if you look at truth then you will realise that his armour was holey and not holy.

I wanted him to share the same revelations that I was receiving from the Holy Spirit in scripture, so that he in turn could share sometime with the church, because a few months before a lady had stood up in this church and declared herself to be a sinner and included everyone else with her, {except myself who was rebuking the words she declared over the whole church} because the majority of the church embraced her words by saying yes, amen. This person had holes in her armour and so does all who agree with her. The evil forces of darkness and evil spirits, against the powers; against [the master spirits who are] the world rulers of this present darkness, against the spirit forces of wickedness in the heavenly (supernatural) sphere won the hearts and minds of those church people, because the saw them with holes in their armour.

13Therefore put on God's complete armour, that you may be able to resist and stand your ground on the evil day [of danger], and, having done all [the crisis demands], to stand [firmly in your place].

This man whom I talk of should have known that I wanted to share with him something God was teaching me, all he had to do was look up the same scriptures that I shared with him, In fact I knew he knew them, but he chose to let the holes in his armour divert him away from what the lord was saying to him in those divine words of scripture. That is one way of allowing holes to manifest in your armour, closing your heart against someone. How can we stand fast when the enemy comes if we refuse to allow the word of God in what ever form it takes to penetrate us deeply? All scripture is spirit breathed and if you or someone else refutes the word or ridicules diminishing what it says when you or I share with them, then I ask myself who is leading and guiding them; the Holy Spirit never contradicts himself or God’s word. Those words that, you are forever perfect in the sight of God- Hebrews-10-14, and Ephesians -1-4 long ago, even before he made the world, God chose you to be holy and spotless in his sight; these words are our lifeblood to our new life in the divine plan, and are words of salvation.

Salvation is not just accepting Jesus as lord but it is accepting “everything” “Jesus done for you” giving you access to the Father in heaven through his divine new life which is in you and him also insoluble. If you think that salvation meant just that you are saved, and going to heaven you are so wrong, salvation is saved into a new life, the new divine holy righteous life of Jesus which he shares with us. Colossians -2-13- When you were dead in your sins and in the un-circumcision of your sinful nature,God made youalive with Christ.

Salvation is not just a one off happening, no! It is a brand new beginning of a brand new life shared together with and in Christ Jesus, you are not just saved for heaven later on when

you die, you died with Christ when he died, then arose when he arose, you are immediate seated in heaven with Jesus in that place of highest privilege and the life you are now supposed to be leading is Jesus life in you, as Saint Paul said it, It is not I who live now but Christ Jesus who lives in me, this is salvation in its entirety.

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Let’s go through all these again looking at them in a deeper way

Christ, who is your real life, Colossians-3-1-Since, then, you have been raised with Christ, set your hearts on things above, where Christ is seated at the right hand of God. 2Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things. 3For you died and your life is now hidden with Christ in God. 4When Christ, who is your real life, appears, then you also will appear with him in glory. {If you don’t believe this then you have holes in all of your armour}

5Put to death, therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires and greed, which is idolatry. 6Because of these, the wrath of God is coming. 7You used to walk in these ways, in the life you once lived. 8But now you must rid yourselves of all such things as these: anger, rage, malice, slander, and filthy language from your lips. 9Do not lie to each other, since you have taken off your old self with its practices 10and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge in the image of its Creator.

Look at what the words say that I have highlighted, study them for a long time see what they say about you and if you believe them then it’s time to declare your holiness, it is only then that the rest of Ephesians can come into effect, Ephesians-6-14-Stand therefore [hold your ground], having tightened the belt of truth around your loins and having put on the breastplate of integrity and of moral rectitude and right standing with God,

Look at the words of Colossians 3-3- you died and your life is now hidden with Christ in God. 4When Christ, who is your real life, appears, then you also will appear with him in glory. Who is your real life? Christ is your real life, but you’re so busy being “unworthy and a sinner” that you cannot see the new life in you is Christ Jesus himself, he is living your new life, if you don’t believe or even know this then you’re armour is riddled with large holes!

We sing a song called, “Nothing but the blood of Jesus” and the words are. “What can wash away my sins, nothing but the “blood of Jesus?”

“What can make me white as snow, nothing but the “blood of Jesus? We sing those words but don’t believe that were white as snow, that’s brilliant white, and if you don’t believe that you’re white as snow you have holes in your armour. We sing we are the righteousness of Christ Jesus but if we don’t believe that we personally are righteous then we have holes in the breastplate of righteousness. Look at what the breastplate is called; “The breastplate of righteousness.” It’s not called the breastplate of unworthiness

or the breastplate of sinner ship. It is called the breastplate of righteousness, and that is what you are supposed to put on- righteousness. No righteousness no breastplate - never mind having holes in it.

The blood of Jesus washes us white as snow nothing else; you do yourself no favours by declaring yourself to be a sinner or unworthy, and in effect you call Jesus and God and the Holy Spirit liars, because you do not believe that the Holy Trinity can make you all those things that God calls you. Therefore you have serious holes in your armour. Colossians -3-2- Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things.

You have to set your mind, to set your mind means that you refuse to allow it to change or dominate you, and you have to set your mind on things above, and not on earthly things. Where is your spirit sitting? In heaven in Christ Jesus, in that place of highest privilege where he now stands and where you also stand in him, this is truth and this is where you should be thinking about always, not when is the next football match on, or the next TV soap. God’s word is telling us Christians to think of the things Jesus done for us and where we are now residing; and we reside in heaven and reign in life as a king, and we serve God as a royal priesthood, not to think of ourselves as sinners or unworthy. Would Jesus join himself with something that was unworthy or would he join himself to a sinner who scripture says is going to hell? I doubt that Jesus would join himself to a sinner or someone who is unworthy. 1-corinthians -6-17- if you give yourself to a prostitute you become one flesh with her but if you give yourself to the lord then you are joined together as one person! If you are now joined together with Jesus Christ do you think that he would allow someone who is unholy, sin filled or worthless, or garbage, or dirty, to join as one with him? Come on you can’t be serious if you still believe that you’re unworthy. If you do then you have no armour on at all and you’re completely naked as the day you were born, and you have absolutely no protection. Not only are there holes in your armour but your naked, you have no armour on at all. These things are serious, Satan knows what you believe and what you don’t believe and if he sees you naked he will attack you with a vengeance, and it has been nothing but the grace and mercy of God that you have not already been wiped out.

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The armour of God is what we are supposed to put on and keep on permanently.

Ephesians-6-10- 11Put on God's whole armour [the armour of a heavy-armed soldier which God supplies], that you may be able successfully to stand up against [all] the strategies and the deceits of the devil. 13Therefore put on God's complete armour, that you may be able to resist and stand your ground on the evil day [of danger], and, having doneall [thecrisis demands], to stand [firmly in yourplace]. 14Stand therefore[hold your ground], having tightened {1st} the belt of truth around your loins and having put on the {2nd} breastplate of integrity and of moral rectitude and right standing with God,

15And having {3rd} shod your feet in preparation [to face the enemy with the [a]firmfooted stability, the promptness, and the readiness [b]produced by the good news] of the Gospel of peace.(B) 16Lift up {4th} over all the [covering] shield of [c]saving faith, upon

which you can quench all the flaming missiles of the wicked [one]. 17And take the {5th} helmet of salvation and the {6th} sword that the Spirit [d]wields, which is the Word of God. 18Pray at all times (on every occasion, in every season) in the Spirit, with all [manner of] prayer and entreaty. To that end keep alert and watch with strong purpose and perseverance, interceding in behalf of all the saints (God's consecrated people).

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“God’s armour” not your armour

I have said this previously, you have to put on “God’s armour” not your armour. How do you put on the armour of God? The armour of God is put on by faith in the word of God, believing everything God says, the armour is made up of spiritual material, not physical things.

First put on the belt of truth around your loins {1st} The belt of truth is the truth of the word of God, Jesus said, “I am the way the truth and the life!” You put Jesus and all that Jesus done for you by his act on the cross around your waist he is the belt of truth; you must acknowledge before God and the devil all that Jesus done for you, because he is truth, every act that Jesus accomplished on Calvary and in hell afterwards he did for you and you have to acknowledge this truth before your father in heaven especially. On Calvary Jesus took your sins away, he took your sickness away also, he made you holy in the sight of God, he made you sinless spotless, forever perfect, righteous, he made you a light of the world, he made you all those things I have already told you. This is truth and this is supposed to be around your waist, guarding your middle region from attack from Satan. You have to think of this seriously for it to go down deep into your spirit; then knowing these things that God says about you, you have to stand resolved never to budge an inch when Satan attacks you.

Stand therefore [hold your ground], having tightened {1st} the belt of truth around your loins

I noticed in the armour of God there are no trousers mentioned, thereby making no differences between man and woman. {That’s my thinking anyway, I may be totally wrong.}

The second thing you have to do is put the armour of righteousness around you, it covers your vital areas like your heart lungs and chest area.

Second put on the breastplate of integrity and of moral rectitude and right standing with God, {2nd}

You are supposed to put on righteousness, the right standing with God that you have been given. Righteousness does not come from any thing you have done or may do, but was actually given to you from before even time began. Ephesians-1-4, so there are no way you can put on your own righteousness, because you have no righteousness of your own merit. Righteousness is a gift from God and is a mental and spiritual attitude, to know that you are in right standing with God the Father all the time even when you fall down and sin, and repent, you are still in right standing with God. Falling down does not take away the righteousness of

God from you, it is in you permenant, unless you reject it, refusing to believe that a loving God could do this for you a weak human being. This righteousness is a state of being and condition in Christ Jesus, you have exactly the same standing with God that Jesus has, no different or less but of equal standing as scripture says. This righteousness must never come off you, no matter what the devil tells you, you have been given a portion of the mind of Christ, and Christ never thought of himself as unworthy or any other rotten thing the devil tells you, he has a righteous attitude, its his personality, and should be yours also, because you have been joined together with Christ Jesus as one person; not two living together but as only one person and you can bet your life Jesus is not living as you, but your living as him, in this world. Righteous means that you know and fully understand the awesome things that God done for you through his Son Christ Jesus, it does not mean you believe some things or a few things; it means believing all things that the word of God declares you to be. Your thinking must be fixed in your heart, that no matter what the devil says to you, that you have complete confidence to walk into the throne room of God your Father and call to him Father, Father as scripture says, with confidence and holy boldness. Holy boldness is not arrogance but is because you’re Father said to come to him boldly, because he made you righteous, giving you equal standing as your brother Jesus who was the first born Son, of a new race of men and women made from the same material Jesus was made from, the very same as the word says.

The third thing you must put on is the shoes of the Good News, {the gospel of Christ Jesus} And having shod your feet in preparation [to face the enemy with the [a]firm-footed stability, the promptness, and the readiness [b]produced by the good news] of the Gospel of peace. {3rd}

You must be ready at all times in season and out of season as scripture declares to preach the Good News, {tells someone} about what Jesus has done for you. Have you noticed that when the angel let the apostles out of the Jail, he said to go to the Temple and preach this New Life? He didn’t say go and preach salvation as if salvation was the beginning and end of all that the new Christian has become, no he said go and preach this new life. Tell them how Jesus gave them a new life in him in heaven for eternity, we need to learn to preach the full gospel of Christ Jesus not just a portion, maybe then we will see the signs and wonders that God promised when he said “go out into the entire world and preach the Good News,” lay hands on the sick and heal them, baptising them in the Holy Spirit, and the signs and wonders would follow you.” If your not prepared to go and share with others the Good News of this New Life in Christ Jesus that we now have, then we have holes in our shoes, It is even worse I think if you don’t even know that you have a New Life in Christ Jesus, there’s gaping holes in your shoes.

Acts 5-17-Then the high priest and all his associates, who were members of the party of the Sadducees, were filled with jealousy. 18They arrested the apostles and put them in the public jail. 19But during the night an angel of the Lord opened the doors of the jail and brought them out. 20"Go, stand in the temple courts," he said, "And tell the people the

full message of this new life." 21At daybreak they entered the temple courts, as they had been told, and began to teach the people. {NIV Bible}

The angel couldn’t go to the Temple and tell people about the New Life in Christ Jesus, that task was given to man alone, not to the angels. What a glorious honour this is, that God gave to us, the privilege of preaching the Good News of this new life in heaven in Christ Jesus, that we share with and in Christ Jesus. That this New Life was not just getting saved and going to heaven when we die, no this new life means that we are actually seated in heaven right this very moment while still alive in this mortal body, and when Jesus sits we sit down with him and when he stands, we stand with him in the place of highest privilege reserved for Jesus alone previously, but now is shared with us in him. That angel said, “Tell the people the full message of this new life.”Have Christians told the full message of this New Life? I haven’t heard many teaching this message in over thirty years walking with the lord. We are supposed to tell the full gospel, which means telling about the New Life in “heaven” we have “in Christ Jesus.” If you would just open your mind to the word of God you would see that this New Life is total salvation, and is an ongoing happening, it didn’t stop when you accepted Jesus as lord and saviour, it was just the beginning of a wondrous New Life in Christ. When Jesus died on the cross on Calvary believe it or not your spirit died also with him, then he arose from death after defeating Satan and his demonic forces and rose to a New Life and you share in that New Life. This is awesome, sometimes mind boggling, seemingly too hard to believe, but then believing is a decision and not a feeling nor emotion; it believes that God can do what he says he did.

Colossians-3-1-Since, then, you have been raised with Christ, set your hearts on things above, where Christ is seated at the right hand of God. 2Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things. 3For you died and your life is now hidden with Christ in God. 4When Christ, who is your real life, appears, then you also will appear with him in glory.

Read this scripture

Colossians-3-1 again and again, until it registers in your spirit. Pray constantly about it, asking for revelation, your life is now hidden “in Christ,” and it says “Christ who is your real life.” When you became born again this strange development happened, you merged into Christ Jesus as one person in him and he in you in your spirit, not your flesh. It stands to reason if Christ is your real life, then the one you’re living in your faulty sinful flesh, is not your real life. And scripture says we must die to the old life we used to live and live now as if it were Christ living in us, and the amazing fact is he is! Where is Jesus seated? At the right hand of God so where are you seated if you are hidden in him? At the same right hand of God! That place is the place of highest privilege as the next scripture will tell you. If you don’t believe this are you wearing any armour at all?

The word of God is your armour, different scriptures are the different pieces of armour, and if you don’t know about these scriptures, then how can you possibly have any armour on? The armour of God is not made up of tin or iron or wood, like the armour of old, or chain mail either, it is made up of his word, each piece is carefully chosen by God to have the greatest protection and the sword is your greatest weapon. Scripture says our weapons are not fleshy {carnal} to the tearing down of strongholds; the weapons are the “word of God.” God does not say I will give you a sword made of steel or a machine gun, or a hand grenade to destroy

the enemy’s strongholds, there is no mention of physical types of weapon mentioned in scripture for the believer to use, it is all by the word of God, and if you are in ignorance of the word of God then you have no armour, and no sword in your mouth either, probably. “Ignorance of the word is ignorance of Christ.” {Pope Paul} scripture says, “My people perish through lack of knowledge,” “God.”

Romans-5-2-2Through Him {Jesus} also we have [our] access (entrance, introduction) by faith into this grace (state of God's favour) {the place of highest privilege} in which we [firmly and safely] stand. And let us rejoice and exult in our hope of experiencing and enjoying the glory of God.

People need to know that they stand in the favour of God because of what Jesus done, he didn’t just save people; No! He gave them a New Life, a New Life to live now, not when they are dead. This is the life is Christ in them. And this is the gospel of salvation that we are supposed to go into the entire world and preach, and when we do that, preach the full gospel, not little bits then we have the shoes of the gospel of peace with God on you. It is not important what type of shoes you prefer, flip flops, or running shoes, or trainers, or leather sole shoes, or doctor Martin boots, or bikers boots, the shoes you have to wear spiritually are the shoes of the Good News of this New Life in Christ, they fit over all shoes sizes and shapes.

Do you have the shield of faith in your hand?

The fourth piece of God’s armour you have to put on is the shield of faith. Lift up over all the [covering] shield of saving faith, upon which you can quench all the flaming missiles of the wicked [one]. {4th} A shield is something you carry in your hand and arm; it protects you from missiles fired at you by Satan. These missiles are fiery darts aimed at destroying you.

Romans-5-2- 2Through Him also we have [our] access (entrance, introduction) by faith into this grace (state of God's favour) {the place of highest privilege} in which we [firmly and safely] stand.

Knowing that you have access into the grace of God always, lets you carry your shield of faith. And knowing that you stand in that place of highest privilege where only Jesus stood before but now you stand with him in the place of highest privilege because you are in him, as a part of him, increases the size of your shield of faith. If you have only little faith then your shield is little and doesn’t offer much protection, if you have large faith then your shield is large, because it is your shield of faith, and God’s shield of faith is a enormous size and you diminish it by unbelief, or ignorance of the word of God. You have to know that God is on your side and is not against you but for you, builds your faith up, and strengthens your shield and increases its size.

What gets you into a state of grace? Romans 5-2 By Faith; Faith gets you access to God to get into that place of highest privilege, Faith is your shield, and if you have insufficient knowledge of the word of God then you can not have enough faith built up on the word of God,

because faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God, you have to hear the word of God to get faith. And thankfully faith grows as you get deeper involved in the word.

2-Corinthians -6-16- What agreement [can there be between] a temple of God and idols? For we are the temple of the living God; even as God said, I will dwell in and with and among them and will walk in and with and among them, and I will be their God, and they shall be My people.

ItisinknowingthatGoddwellsinyouandmethathecallsushistemplewherehelives,Wow! This is the good news that you are to tell people, that God lives in you and you are living in him since the day you got saved. Knowing that you are the actual temple of God and believing this is faith and is your shield, we say we are the temple of the living God but do we even understand this with our spirit never mind our minds. We have to dwell and dwell and pray on these scripture for them to drop down from our minds into our spirit. Look carefully at this scripture, what does God himself say in it? “I will dwell in them and with them and walk with them.” This is an awesome statement for God to make that he, the almighty awesome everlasting to everlasting God, chooses to dwell, {live} in me, and walk with me; sure I am just a weak human being, but I am filled with the awesome presence of the everlasting God always, that means he never leaves me ever! Come on, do you believe that the incredible living God who created the galaxies and universes by the word of his mouth is actually living {dwelling} in you? If you did then you would be walking in the awesome power of God and miracles and healings and those sign and wonders he promised us would be happening through us. And of course if you don’t believe that God could do what he said in you, then what shield do you have to defend yourself when Satan attacks. If we don’t believe what God says, then what armour are we wearing, because it sure isn’t God’s own personal armour? God gaveus his word, thescriptures, to know theplans hehas for us, hehad everything written down so we could study it for ourselves and read it time after time, until it becomes a part of us in our minds and especially our hearts {our spirit}.

In the book of Jeremiah, God states; “I know the plans I have for you, they are plans for good to give you a future and a hope. In Ephesians 1-4- God again states, Long ago even before he made the world that he would make you holy in his eyes without a single fault, blemish, or wrinkle. The Amplified Bible states it even more clearly, giving greater detail.

Ephesians-1-4-

4Even as [in His love] He chose us [actually picked us out for Himself as His own] in Christ before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy (consecrated and set apart for Him) and blameless in His sight, even above reproach, before Him in love.

5For He foreordained us (destined us, planned in love for us) to be adopted (revealed) as His own children through Jesus Christ, in accordance with the purpose of His will [[b]because it pleased Him and was His kind intent] 6[So that we might be] to the praise and the commendation of His glorious grace (favour and mercy), which He so freely bestowed on us in the Beloved.

7In Him we have redemption (deliverance and salvation) through His blood, the remission (forgiveness) of our offenses (shortcomings and trespasses), in accordance with the

riches and the generosity of His gracious favour, 8Which He lavished upon us in every kind of wisdom and understanding (practical insight and prudence),

**9Making known to us the mystery (secret) of His will (of His plan, of His purpose). [And it is this:] In accordance with His good pleasure (His merciful intention) which He had previously purposed and set forth in [c] Him,

10[He planned]* for the maturity of the times and the climax of the ages to unify all things and head them up and consummate them in Christ, [both] things in heaven and things on the earth.

11In Him we also were made [God's] heritage (portion) and we obtained an inheritance; forwehad been foreordained (chosen and appointed beforehand) in accordancewith His purpose, Who works out everything in agreement with the counsel and design of His [own] will, {Amplified Bible}

Look at every scripture word that I have highlighted and stop long enough to take it deeply in to your self. 10- {He planned}* for the maturity of times, that simply means when the time was right to unify all things in Christ, which includes you and me.

**9 Making known to us the mystery (secret) of His will (of His plan, of His purpose). God planned to make known to you and me the mysteries of the will of heaven, what he planned to do in the right time and moment and season, and that season is now, as we approach the end times. God wants his children to become aware of all the secrete things about the kingdom of heaven to us who are alive at this time, we have been chosen to know the perfect will and plans of God. And if you chooseto ignorethis or rubbish all this then you haveserious holes in your armour or simply don’t have any armour on at all.

I did not write the scriptures; I quoted them to you; I did not say what was said in them, I made you aware of their content, it was and is God who says what he said in them, he reveals his will to us through his word, and his word is his armour, this is what we have to put on and never remove. Put on the armour of God, Now and keep it on permanently, strengthening it by studying the word of God Amen