Sue J Love
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“Therefore, take up the full armor of God, so that you will be able to resist in the evil day, and having done everything, to stand firm. Stand firm therefore, having girded your loins with truth, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness, and having shod your feet with the preparation of the gospel of peace; in addition to all, taking up the shield of faith with which you will be able to extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one. And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.” (Ephesians 6:13-17 NASB1995)
So, what is the armor of God? And how do we take up the full armor of God? Well, it isn’t some kind of religious ritual we go through. And it isn’t just in the words that we speak. And it isn’t reciting the written words in some kind of ritualistic religious exercise. But it is done in every day practical living, i.e. in putting the word of the Lord into practice in our daily lives. So, it is all that God has provided for us to live holy lives, pleasing to the Lord, in service to our Lord, and in spiritual warfare against our enemy, the devil.
For what are the devil’s schemes against us? His main goal is to get us to distrust God and his word and to believe the lies being spoken in the name of Christ and in the name of the gospel. He wants us to believe that faith in Jesus Christ requires nothing of us other than a verbal profession of faith in Christ and an acknowledgement of belief in Jesus’ bodily resurrection. He wants us believing that we are not required of God to die with Christ to sin and to walk with God in obedience to his commands, by the Spirit.
But Jesus Christ taught that to come to him we must deny self, take up our cross daily (die daily to sin), and follow (obey) him. For if we hold on to living in sin and for self, we will lose our lives for eternity. But if we deny self, die daily to sin, by the Spirit, and we walk in obedience to our Lord and to his commands, in his power, then we have eternal life with God. For not everyone who calls him “Lord” will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one DOING (obeying) the will of God (see Luke 9:23-26; Matthew 7:21-23).
For by God-gifted faith in Jesus Christ, which is not of our own doing, we are crucified with Christ in death to sin and raised with Christ to walk in newness of life in him, no longer to live as slaves to sin but as slaves to righteousness in walks of obedience to God’s commands. We are no longer to permit sin to reign in our mortal bodies to make us obey its desires. For if sin is what we obey, it results in death. But if obedience to God is what we obey, it results in sanctification, and its end is eternal life with God (see Romans 6:1-23).
So, we must cling to the truth of God’s word, and we must refute the lies of the enemy coming from the mouths of some pastors and book authors and famous people and evangelists and actors and government heads. For so many people today are teaching a half-truth (false) gospel created in the minds of human flesh via removing Scriptures from their appropriate context and twisting them to say what they do not say if taught in the correct biblical context. And many people are following the lies all the way to hell.
So, if we are putting on the armor of God daily so that we can fight against the schemes of the devil, then we need to be students of the Scriptures, taught in the correct biblical context, who are putting them into practice in our every day lives. We must be those who have, by faith in Jesus, died to sin and who are now walking in obedience to our Lord’s commands, all in the power of God, and not in human flesh. And we must be those who are sharing the truth of the gospel with others for their salvation from sin.
And we must be living righteously, in surrender of our will to the will of God for our lives, no longer living as slaves to sin but as servants of our Lord Jesus Christ. Our faith in Jesus Christ must be biblical faith which is of God and which convinces us of our sinfulness and of our need to die to sin and to obey our Lord and his commands. And we must stand strong in our faith and on what the Word of God teaches, in context, so that we can refute the lies of the enemy and share with the people the truth from God’s holy word.
[Matthew 7:13-14,21-23; Luke 9:23-26; Romans 6:1-23; Romans 8:1-14; Galatians 5:16-24; Ephesians 2:8-10; Ephesians 4:17-32; Ephesians 5:3-6; Titus 2:11-14; 1 John 1:1-10; 1 John 2:1-6; 1 John 3:4-10; Acts 26:18]
To My Beloved
Based off I Peter 5:6-9; Ephesians 6:10-20; James. 4:4-10
An Original Work / November 14, 2011
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love
Be strong in the grace of Christ, and
Put on His full armor in your fight
Against the enemy of your souls,
And resist him with all your might.
Take up the shield of your faith within you.
Salvation’s helmet – you put it on.
Put on the belt of truth,
And walk in the Spirit,
And you’ll not be ashamed.
Love your Lord Jesus; call His Name.
Call on your Lord and Savior, Jesus, and
Make Him Lord and King of your hearts.
Obey all of His teachings He has given
To you to follow in all His ways.
Repent of your sins. Return to your God.
Follow Him where’er He leads you now.
Humble yourselves in full
Surrender to His will
For your lives today.
Bow before Him, and humbly pray.
Be strong in the grace of Christ, and
Obey your Lord in ev’rything, always
Keeping His teachings in your hearts near you.
Walk with Christ in ev’ry way.
Resist the devil. He will flee from you.
Draw near to God, and He’ll be near you.
Wash your hands you sinners
And double minded.
Weep and wail o’er sin.
With Christ, your new lives begin.
The Full Armor of God
An Original Work / January 27, 2026
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love
So, what is the armor of God? And how do we take up the full armor of God? Well, it isn’t some kind of religious ritual we go through. And it isn’t just in the words that we speak. And it isn’t reciting the written words in some kind of ritualistic religious exercise. But it is done in every day practical living, i.e. in putting the word of the Lord into practice in our daily lives. So, it is all that God has provided for us to live holy lives, pleasing to the Lord, in service to our Lord, and in spiritual warfare against our enemy, the devil.
For what are the devil’s schemes against us? His main goal is to get us to distrust God and his word and to believe the lies being spoken in the name of Christ and in the name of the gospel. He wants us to believe that faith in Jesus Christ requires nothing of us other than a verbal profession of faith in Christ and an acknowledgement of belief in Jesus’ bodily resurrection. He wants us believing that we are not required of God to die with Christ to sin and to walk with God in obedience to his commands, by the Spirit.
But Jesus Christ taught that to come to him we must deny self, take up our cross daily (die daily to sin), and follow (obey) him. For if we hold on to living in sin and for self, we will lose our lives for eternity. But if we deny self, die daily to sin, by the Spirit, and we walk in obedience to our Lord and to his commands, in his power, then we have eternal life with God. For not everyone who calls him “Lord” will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one DOING (obeying) the will of God (see Luke 9:23-26; Matthew 7:21-23).
For by God-gifted faith in Jesus Christ, which is not of our own doing, we are crucified with Christ in death to sin and raised with Christ to walk in newness of life in him, no longer to live as slaves to sin but as slaves to righteousness in walks of obedience to God’s commands. We are no longer to permit sin to reign in our mortal bodies to make us obey its desires. For if sin is what we obey, it results in death. But if obedience to God is what we obey, it results in sanctification, and its end is eternal life with God (see Romans 6:1-23).
So, we must cling to the truth of God’s word, and we must refute the lies of the enemy coming from the mouths of some pastors and book authors and famous people and evangelists and actors and government heads. For so many people today are teaching a half-truth (false) gospel created in the minds of human flesh via removing Scriptures from their appropriate context and twisting them to say what they do not say if taught in the correct biblical context. And many people are following the lies all the way to hell.
So, if we are putting on the armor of God daily so that we can fight against the schemes of the devil, then we need to be students of the Scriptures, taught in the correct biblical context, who are putting them into practice in our every day lives. We must be those who have, by faith in Jesus, died to sin and who are now walking in obedience to our Lord’s commands, all in the power of God, and not in human flesh. And we must be those who are sharing the truth of the gospel with others for their salvation from sin.
And we must be living righteously, in surrender of our will to the will of God for our lives, no longer living as slaves to sin but as servants of our Lord Jesus Christ. Our faith in Jesus Christ must be biblical faith which is of God and which convinces us of our sinfulness and of our need to die to sin and to obey our Lord and his commands. And we must stand strong in our faith and on what the Word of God teaches, in context, so that we can refute the lies of the enemy and share with the people the truth from God’s holy word.
[Matthew 7:13-14,21-23; Luke 9:23-26; Romans 6:1-23; Romans 8:1-14; Galatians 5:16-24; Ephesians 2:8-10; Ephesians 4:17-32; Ephesians 5:3-6; Titus 2:11-14; 1 John 1:1-10; 1 John 2:1-6; 1 John 3:4-10; Acts 26:18]
To My Beloved
Based off I Peter 5:6-9; Ephesians 6:10-20; James. 4:4-10
An Original Work / November 14, 2011
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love
Be strong in the grace of Christ, and
Put on His full armor in your fight
Against the enemy of your souls,
And resist him with all your might.
Take up the shield of your faith within you.
Salvation’s helmet – you put it on.
Put on the belt of truth,
And walk in the Spirit,
And you’ll not be ashamed.
Love your Lord Jesus; call His Name.
Call on your Lord and Savior, Jesus, and
Make Him Lord and King of your hearts.
Obey all of His teachings He has given
To you to follow in all His ways.
Repent of your sins. Return to your God.
Follow Him where’er He leads you now.
Humble yourselves in full
Surrender to His will
For your lives today.
Bow before Him, and humbly pray.
Be strong in the grace of Christ, and
Obey your Lord in ev’rything, always
Keeping His teachings in your hearts near you.
Walk with Christ in ev’ry way.
Resist the devil. He will flee from you.
Draw near to God, and He’ll be near you.
Wash your hands you sinners
And double minded.
Weep and wail o’er sin.
With Christ, your new lives begin.
The Full Armor of God
An Original Work / January 27, 2026
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love
Beautiful poem by the way!
