“Stand firm … having put on the breastplate of righteousness”. – Ephesians 6:14
old school Holiness y’all
you’re gonna have to make a decision to
live right
to choose to live holy
because you can be in your War Room
praying until you’re blue in the face
but if you come out of that prayer
closet and you live in a raggedy Wayward
lifestyle that is out of alignment with
the truth of God
then your prayers will have been wasted
you gotta be holy
if I were your enemy more than anything
else I would want you going into battle
without a breastplate
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because if a Roman soldier had Brawn and
had muscle if a Roman soldier had
previous Victory so he had great
experience in battle if the Roman
soldier had great knowledge and and knew
the formations for the Battle of Rey but
he went into battle with all of that
stuff
but without a breastplate
one shock to the heart would take him
out
so if I were your enemy I would
constantly be dangling the right carrots
to try to get you to live without a
breastplate on if I were your enemy I
would be dangling the carrot not the one
that would bother her or bother him it
ain’t they carrot I would dangle the one
that I have studied and I have seen true
that will Allure you away from walking
and Holiness have you ever noticed that
that carrot is always dangled when you
are most vulnerable
when you’re most lonely when you feel
most isolated when you’re most hungry
when you’re most frustrated when you’re
most in a season of longing yo that’s
because it’s not coincidence it’s a
scheme
the enemy wants us bound living in every
kind of wayward lifestyle and habit he
wants us addicted he wants us walking in
sin and walking in Rebellion he don’t
mind if you’re a church goer he don’t
mind if you’re a thong singer he doesn’t
mind if you’re a hand waiver he doesn’t
mind if you come to the conference once
a year what he doesn’t want is you
walking in Holiness on Monday and on a
regular Tuesday and in your decision
making on Wednesday and then on Thursday
and Friday and Saturday he don’t want
you choosing Holiness because Holiness
means you have brought him out from a
full frontal attack on your life
oh I’m telling you to be holy I’m
telling you to lay aside every weight
and every sin which so easily entangles
you
there’s a race to be run you’re running
a race we have a Finish Line to cross
aren’t you tired of carrying all that
baggage
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