Topic: STRENGTHEN YOUR BREASTPLATE  [Church of God Mission International] Above Only Daily Devotional 1 JUNE  2023

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ABOVE ONLY DAILY DEVOTIONAL

THURSDAY JUNE 1ST, 2023

STRENGTHEN YOUR BREASTPLATE

Proverbs 4:23 (KJV, GNB), 1Thessalonians 5:8, Ephesians 6:14

Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life. Be careful how you think; your life is shaped by your thoughts. But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation. *Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness; 

The breastplate is a very important part of the Roman soldier’s armour and it is used for protecting the chest and the organs of the body located inside the chest. Like you know, the heart is one of these organs. Most times when the word heart is used in the Bible, it refers to the mind.

As we see in our text above, there are three things the Bible tells us this breastplate represents – faith, love and righteousness. The way to strengthen our breastplate, therefore, is to strengthen our faith in God, strengthen our consciousness of God’s love and strengthen our consciousness that we are the righteousness of God. These three things guard our hearts/mind. The basic way we do these three things is by focusing on Christ and filling ourselves with the revelation of Christ.

The real way we put on the entire armour of God is by putting on Christ (Rom.13:14). We do this by continually increasing our consciousness of Christ and what He has done for us. You do this by knowing that because of Christ you are sincere and loyal to God’s truth, you are righteous, you are eager to preach the Gospel, you are full of faith, you are saved and you can know and accurately declare and apply God’s word to life’s situations by the Spirit (Eph.6:13-17).

Faith Declaration:
Because of Christ, my heart is full of faith and the love of God. I am the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus.

God bless you.

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