Fighter Verses

Did you notice how many times the word “all” appears in these three verses?  Six times here and 20 additional times in the entire book of Ephesians.  It means the same thing every time: the whole amount or quantity, without exception. It is making a great statement about the sovereignty of God!  That sovereignty extends [...]

Do you find it curious that while preparing for battle, we are told to “put on the readiness given by the gospel of peace”? What sort of readiness is that? Are not peace and battle contradictory? It is important to remember what and who we are fighting. There can be no peace with the enemy [...]

Before I embraced the sovereignty of God over all things, I lived in fear of the ‘spiritual forces of evil.’ It was easy to see evil as powerful – it surrounds us! And knowing how weak I was, spiritually and morally, taking up the ‘whole armor of God’ didn’t provide much hope that I would [...]