Armor of God Prayer

To Be Put On Daily   Ephesians 6:10-18

1) Helmet of Salvation

Ask for protection over everything that encompasses our heads - mostly our minds, eyes, and mouths. Ask God to help us seek Him first, His kingdom, His righteousness, and know that everything will fall into place when we do (Matt 6:33). Pray Philippians 4:6-7 - do not be anxious about anything, but in everything through prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, make your requests known to God - and then ask God to take over our thoughts and take away our anxieties - and the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard our hearts and minds in Christ Jesus. Ask for that to be true for us-as we change our thoughts to His thoughts, that His peace would guard our hearts and minds. Then  continue on in Philippians 4:8 and ask that God fill our minds with whatever is good, right, just, praise worthy, excellent, lovely, and admirable (paraphrase). Since temptation starts in the mind, now ask that God keep us from temptation (Matt 6:13). And that when we are tempted that He provide a way out before it becomes sin (I Cor 10:13). Ask that He guard our mouths and make only good things come out of them.

2) Breastplate of righteousness

Since the breastplate covers our hearts, Pray that God will help us love Him with all of our hearts, souls, minds, and strength (Luke 10:37); to pursue Him with passion; to fall in love with Him;  and make Him the first love of our lives. Ask that He help us to love others as ourselves and to remember that actions without love are nothing. Ask that He help us to confess our sins and repent daily. Ask that He help us by His Spirit, which dwells within us, to live righteous lives. And to remind us this is our act of sacrifice & worship to Him (not our will by His will), to live righteously and allow Him to sanctify us through and through, to stay close to Him daily.

 

3) Sword of the Spirit

Since the Sword is the Word of God; take this time to recite the memory verses from the bible study  we are in. Start with the week we are on and then work in random order. Or choose verses yourself & memorize them.

4) The Shield of Faith

Say out loud, "In the name of Jesus, Satan be gone!" And really mean it. Say it with emphasis. Ask for protection over every part of us in every place that we might be. Ask for protection over our families, friends and everyone our churches and bible study groups. Say out loud I believe God is who He says he is, through Him I can do all things including the task He sets before me, He can turn all things bad that happen to me into good & use it for my benefit, He can protect me from my enemy (Satan), I believe in God.

5) Belt of Truth

Ask that God's truth surround us and hold us together; that His truth be our boundary and what hems us in. Ask that we always be able to discern His truth & what is from Him & from Satan. Ask that we live His truth out daily & that others see Him (& His truth) by the way we live our lives.

6) Shoes of Peace

Ask that that God direct our path (Psalm 199:105), that He make our way straight (Proverbs 3:6). And that as we walk down His path towards Him, He would provide His peace that surpasses all understanding (Phil 4:7) Ask that we seek to be peacemakers in lives not troublemakers.   AMEN