God has given Christians spiritual armor described in Ephesians 6 to protect them from Satan's attacks. The armor includes the belt of truth, breastplate of righteousness, shoes of peace, shield of faith, helmet of salvation, and sword of the spirit, which is the word of God. Prayer holds all the armor together. It is important for Christians to put on this armor every day so that they are not weak and can successfully fight against Satan with God's help and promise to be with them in the battle.
4. Keys to confidence
Can we have confidence in victory by ourselves?
What does the Bible say:
• It is better to trust in the LORD than to put
confidence in man, better to trust in the LORD than
to put confidence in princes – Psalm 118 v 8-9
Does faith in God make our troubles disappear, or
our enemies smaller?
• Faith in God makes them less scary.
God gives us everything we need to fight the
battle against Satan.
9. Belt of Truth
• Why do you need a belt?
• Holds everything together.
• We must be firmly secure in the
Truth.
• God loves us.
• God is always with us.
• Jesus is our salvation.
What is the source of truth?
• God's Word - THE BIBLE.
THE ARMOUR OF GOD
God has given us pieces of armour to
protect us.
- Ephesians 6 v 11 -
18
10. THE ARMOUR OF GOD
Breastplate of Righteousness
• Why do you need a Breastplate?
• It protects our heart.
• What is Righteousness?
• The right thing in God's eyes.
• Even though we all sin, when we
put our trust in Christ, we are
forgiven.
• Having righteousness means that
we’re able to stand before God,
because God sees the perfection of
Jesus instead of our sins.
11. THE ARMOUR OF GOD
Shoes of Peace
• Why do you need shoes?
• We must be ready to go! Shoes protect
our feet so that we can run bravely
where God wants us to go.
• We are grounded - because of the good
news that we can have peace with God
through Jesus Christ.
• This peace keeps us calm and standing
strong when storms come into our life.
12. THE ARMOUR OF GOD
Helmet of Salvation
• What does a helmet protect?
• Our head / mind.
• Our minds are attacked with ideas
from the world, ideas that do not
draw us closer to God.
• The helmet helps to guard our
minds. Our salvation keeps us from
believing lies and giving up.
13. THE ARMOUR OF GOD
Shield of Faith
• What does a shield do?
• It goes out in front of you.
• It is the first point of contact with
the opposing force.
• What is faith?
• Now faith is confidence in what we
hope for and assurance about
what we do not see (Hebrews
11v1).
• Faith is not being able to see, but
trusting the One who can.
• The world often throws arrows and
swords at us. The best way to keep
away these blows is with the shield of
faith.
14. THE ARMOUR OF GOD
How can we fight Satan?
Sword of the Spirit
• The Word of God is a powerful weapon.
• How can we use the Sword?
• Identify what's right and wrong.
• Test what the world says vs what God
says.
• Fight against the lies of the devil.
• This Sword is so powerful that
nothing can beat it!
15. THE ARMOUR OF GOD
Prayer
• Prayer holds all our armour
together.
• Nothing is too big or
impossible with prayer
because God can do
anything that He wants to.*
Why is it important that we that we put on our spiritual armour
everyday?
• Without it we will be weak and easily defeated.
• God has given us amour to fight against Satan and He has promised to
always be with us in this battle – He will fight with you.