Monday, November 13, 2006
Wearing The Armor
My word of testimony today is : I praise God for His armor.
Although David did not wear Saul's armor when he went out to fight Goliath, he did indeed have armor on . He said to Goliath, "I come in the name of the LORD."
Today I come in the name of the LORD.
What exactly does that mean, you might ask ?
To me it means that I come entirely reliant on the LORD as my Savour. I come in His name because I am His. I come in His name because unlike Saul's armor which had not been tested, the name of JESUS stands above all names.
It is because of JESUS that I can even be here.
Jesus is Who says, "I can live here." Jesus says, "I am righteous because of what He has done." Notice that it has nothing to do with how I did before ,or how I am doing now, or how I will do in the future. Jesus is the Truth. Because I stand in His name I am able to know that the giant is lieing. Jesus is the Truth. When you know something is a lie , in our fleshly thoughts and reason , we may not know exactly how to verbalize the truth. It just bears witness to our spirit man , this is a lie. This is where we stand and wait. We wait until we hear from Him to give us THE TRUTH . Then when we have the TRUTH we go and let that giant have it right between the eyes.
When I am dealing with real people, and that giant comes down, I then have an opportunity to tell that person the truth.
For however long I have, in the name of JESUS, been able to knock that giant unconscious, I can tell them what they need to hear and if it bears witness to their spirit man, they too will know that the lies they have been believing are just that, LIES.
Together we can pick up that sword and cut that giants head off. He will not be able to even speak anymore lies after that.
Standing and waiting is the hardest part of this story.
If I go in after that giant, just simply because I know he is a giant and he is lieing to my friend, I really do not do much more that aggravate the giant.
I suppose that is what he thought was going to happen when he saw David come up to him. I suppose he thought David was going to be nothing more than a dog yapping at his heels and all he would have to do is give it a big kick.
Well, those who come in the name of the LORD may not look powerful , or big. Fortunately looks have nothing to do with who will win.
It is the voice of TRUTH that I wait for today.
I stand confident it will come.
Although David did not wear Saul's armor when he went out to fight Goliath, he did indeed have armor on . He said to Goliath, "I come in the name of the LORD."
Today I come in the name of the LORD.
What exactly does that mean, you might ask ?
To me it means that I come entirely reliant on the LORD as my Savour. I come in His name because I am His. I come in His name because unlike Saul's armor which had not been tested, the name of JESUS stands above all names.
It is because of JESUS that I can even be here.
Jesus is Who says, "I can live here." Jesus says, "I am righteous because of what He has done." Notice that it has nothing to do with how I did before ,or how I am doing now, or how I will do in the future. Jesus is the Truth. Because I stand in His name I am able to know that the giant is lieing. Jesus is the Truth. When you know something is a lie , in our fleshly thoughts and reason , we may not know exactly how to verbalize the truth. It just bears witness to our spirit man , this is a lie. This is where we stand and wait. We wait until we hear from Him to give us THE TRUTH . Then when we have the TRUTH we go and let that giant have it right between the eyes.
When I am dealing with real people, and that giant comes down, I then have an opportunity to tell that person the truth.
For however long I have, in the name of JESUS, been able to knock that giant unconscious, I can tell them what they need to hear and if it bears witness to their spirit man, they too will know that the lies they have been believing are just that, LIES.
Together we can pick up that sword and cut that giants head off. He will not be able to even speak anymore lies after that.
Standing and waiting is the hardest part of this story.
If I go in after that giant, just simply because I know he is a giant and he is lieing to my friend, I really do not do much more that aggravate the giant.
I suppose that is what he thought was going to happen when he saw David come up to him. I suppose he thought David was going to be nothing more than a dog yapping at his heels and all he would have to do is give it a big kick.
Well, those who come in the name of the LORD may not look powerful , or big. Fortunately looks have nothing to do with who will win.
It is the voice of TRUTH that I wait for today.
I stand confident it will come.
