"God's Whole Armor"                           

Rickey Macklin

About the Book

 

God's Whole Armor is about winning the war! Are you a Christian who struggles with making right choices? Are you accustomed to the "agony of defeat" rather than sweet victory in your life? If so, God's Whole Armor was written with you in mind. God's Whole Armor is a book that was written out of my very own struggles with right and wrong. As a Christian and one brought up in the church, I understood God's requirements for his people, but at times found it rather difficult to carry them out. As young as age nine, I can remember struggling with right and wrong. When I joined the Navy after graduating from college, I did not realize that God was about to teach me an invaluable lesson that I would never forget. During my stay in the military, our country was engaged in the Gulf War. I learn many war skills. As the military taught how to win wars, God began to teach me how we win spiritual wars. Not only was the Gulf War a victory for America, but it was also a personal victory for me.

I discovered that we win wars because of the "5P's principle" I heard someone quote years ago: "Prior Preparation Prevents Poor Performance." The U.S. is victorious at winning wars not only because of the latest weaponry and the best training on how to use them, but because we study our enemies; learning their strengths and vulnerabilities. I would have to apply these same principles to our enemy, the devil, to be as victorious and more than a conqueror.

Well, this worked good for me, but the burden to win wars was not removed because many other Christians I knew were experiencing this same struggle: how to win the war against the devil. Thus, this book was birth. This book discusses the following with practical application:

1. Who is our enemy?
2. What is in the mind of our enemy?
3. When will our enemy attack?
4. Where is our enemy located?
5. How will our enemy attack?
6. Why does our enemy so desperately want to destroy us?

More importantly, there's an entire chapter dedicated to discussing the location and or area of battle - The Mind. I then proceed to the crux of the book and discuss one by one each part of the Christian's weaponry provided by God. A short prayer is given demonstrating how to put on and apply each part. The book concludes with a short dialogue between the devil and a child of God giving at least 16 examples of how to reverse the attack of the devil and put him on the run every time just like we did in the "Gulf" and Jesus did in the "Wilderness"! Hallelujah!

The 6 principles of God's Whole Armor are available in a handy bookmark. Perfect reminders of how we need to suit up for battle each day. Keep one for yourself and buy others to give as gifts. Order the bookmarks at www.ambassador4christ.org. Click on "Other Products."

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Introduction

You must understand that your fight is not against the devil per se. The Lord Jesus has already made an open show of him, and he is a defeated foe. Your battle is against his wiles, tricks, deceptions, illusions, concealment of the truth, and the evil spirits that he sends on assignment to your life. Say -- you’ve been around for a long time and you know every trick in the book... Well, my dear friend, I submit to you that Satan has been around much longer. He has 6,000 years of experience under his belt. He’s been studying mankind from the Garden of Eden - through the crucifixion of Jesus - to our present age. He knows every trick in the book as it relates to pulling man off course. Don’t fool yourself! Listen to Paul’s words to the Corinthians who thought they had arrived at a specific mark in life.

So then, Satan operates undisturbed by your ideas of spiritual awareness - regardless of your title or age. He focuses most of his attention on your mind. It is his desire to allure you to question your identity. You see, if he can get you to question your identity, then he can and will use this to cause you to forfeit the inheritance that the Lord Jesus has made available to you. However, the Bible says that the devil is a liar and the father of it (John 8:44). We cannot continue to succumb to the devil’s lies. We must walk in the truth of whom God has called us and by faith in Him, allowing Him to bring us to His expected end. These two principles of spiritual warfare demands us to study the Word of God to discover who we are and what God has predestined us to become in Him.

The word of God tells us in Hosea 4:6 that God’s people are destroyed for the lack of knowledge. This does away with the old adage, "what you don’t know, won’t hurt you". The truth of the matter is "what you don’t know, could kill you". We must understand that there is a constant battle going on and that as Christians, we cannot just sit back and expect to gain the victory. Please, keep this principle in mind: There can be no victory without confrontation. As my Late Bishop, James R. Peebles Sr., would say, "That which you compromise you are going to lose" and "if you don’t stand for what’s right, you will fall for anything."

Part II: Excerpt from Breastplate of Righteousness

This leads me to the next point; "our standing." Are we in right standing with Him? Are we faithful to Him? Are we obedient to Him? This is where I believe the devil deceives so many of God’s people. How? Because it is true that we often fail in our commitment to him either through omission or commission. As a result thereof, the believers are lead to believe that they are just reckless, messed up, proned to sin, helpless, and unworthy creatures. Well this is a lie from the father of lies himself. Yes God requires that we walk upright before him. He requires that we live holy and sanctified lives unto him. If however we should fail one day to meet up to his standards, he doesn’t reverse the curse over your life. He does not send Jesus back to the cross, remove the thorny crown, dry up his blood, and stay the Roman legionnaires’ hand from whipping him with 39 lashes. It would take all of that to make you a sinner again. Unless of course, you willingly forfeit the whole thing by turning your back on him permanently. At that point you will have nullified the efficacy of the cross on your behalf. There would then remain no more sacrifice for your sin. The bottom line here is - God requires that we walk upright before him but does not kick you out of the family if you just happen to make a mistake. Here’s a practical example that I think will bring this point on home. Let’s say, there is a father who has a son who has become very rebellious. The son can no longer tolerate the rules that his father has set in the home so he leaves. My question to you is - although they have an estranged relationship with no communion and no fellowship - is he still his son? Your answer of course is yes. The reason why is because their relationship is not predicated upon his son’s action but solely upon the blood. So it is with us. Our transition from sinner to saint was based solely on the blood of Jesus Christ. Afterwhich, God laid out his requirements in which we find our responsibility.

Psalm 84:11

For the Lord God is a sun and shield: the Lord will give grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.

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