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Righteousness
is an armor in the presence of the most terrific onslaught. Whether in an actual battle or just seeing someone "war" against us, means the righteousness within us should be working. As someone can war against you on the interstate, within the work-place or even in the place of leisure like a walk in the park or a work-out at the gym.
But understand Satan's
arrows cannot pierce through the armor of Righteousness. We are the wearers of
Righteousness.
Ephesians 6:14, reminds us of this :"Stand therefore, having girded your loins with
truth, and having
put on the breast plate of righteousness."
The devil never rests. He is always trying to figure how to get into our lives. And he will use anything and anyone to do it! But ours is to remember that God is for us and He has given us His word for strength and for courage!
We must do something and by putting on God's Word we are armed. We are armed with what may be on our pathway for that day, whether the sun shines or it rains all day. So in putting on Righteousness we confess that He is our Righteousness.
We live our confession. We fearlessly face the forces of darkness with the
consciousness that no arrow can pierce the breast-plate of Righteousness.
2 Timothy 4:8, "Henceforth there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which
the
Lord,
the righteous judge, shall give to me at that day; and not to me only, but also
to all
them
that have loved his appearing."
In the Amplified Bible, this says: 8 [As to what remains] henceforth there is laid up for me the [victor's] crown of righteousness [for being right with God and doing right], which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will award to me and recompense me on that [great] day----and not to me only, but also to all those who have loved and yearned for and welcomed His appearing [His return].
Are we those who are seeking His return with a great love to see Him? For the crown goes to the believer who is the righteous seeking His Master.
By expecting Him with great love then we would carry a "great love" for Him!
If we
walk in this new Righteousness sense, and do as John tells us in I John 2:29,
we
become
"doers of Righteousness." In the Amplified Bible reads this way: "If you know that He [Christ] is [absolutely] righteous, [conforming to the Father's will in purpose, thought, and action], you may also know (be sure) that everyone who does righteously [and is therefore in like manner conformed to the divine will] is born (begotten) of Him [God].
We can
do the works of Righteousness. What does it mean? We can participate with God in A fearless prayer life. We can participate with God in A
fearless giving. We can participate with God in A fearless testimony.
1 John 3:1 See what [an incredible] quality of love the Father has given (shown, bestowed on) us, that we should [be permitted to] be named and called and counted the children of God! And so we are! The reason that the world does not know (recognize, acknowledge) us is that it does not know (recognize, acknowledge) Him.
You cannot offer any one love if you don't know what it looks like or even how it acts. But God's love is displayed for all to see. And to participate with Him by His Word allows us to see with our eyes a love that permeates every situation. Loving others by His standard of love means, I can see through the brokenness of another and know God created this person for wholeness where there is nothing broken, nothing lacking and nothing missing. It is not because they sin, but because God of love is their answer. But most feel free just to give another themselves and not the truth of what God can deliver us all from.
In our testimony, we are giver's of God, His truth and His love. You cannot give His love without giving the truth of why He came.
1 John 3:23-24 And this is His order (His command, His injunction), that we should believe in (put our faith and trust in and adhere to and rely on) the name of His Son Jesus Christ (the Messiah), and that we should love one another, just as he has commanded us. 24 All who keep His commandments [who obey His orders and follow His plan, live and continue to live, to stay and ] abide in Him, and He in them. [They let Christ be a home to them and they are the home of Christ]. And by this we know and understand and have the proof that he [really] lives and makes His home in us: by the [Holy] Spirit Who He has given us.
We speak by the Holy Spirit. When we speak by Him, we speak about the love of the Father, the shed blood of the Lamb of God and how we are moved from being a sinner to a "child of God". Only those who can speak to another of that good in God is he who is a true son indeed!
They worship God before the partake of a meal, to show to Whom they give thanks to for that meal. They tell others of the love that was shed, by a broken body and how by that brokenness He surely bore our sicknesses and weaknesses and distresses. He carried our sorrows and pains of punishment, for He was wounded for our transgressions, and He was bruised for our guilt and iniquities; the chastisement [that needful to obtain] peace and well-being for us was upon Him and with the stripes that wounded Him we are healed and made whole. (Isaiah 53:4-5)
The fearless know God, they perceive His goodness and are on the alert to give a Word of His goodness, of the love poured out through His broken Son that we would have life everlasting when we believe on Him.
What quality of love is that? Only when you can speak of it to another will you truly know that quality and the benefit of that special love for us. Only then you can walk through life fearless in prayer, in giving and in testimony! Amen!
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