{"id":11050,"date":"2013-04-11T00:01:51","date_gmt":"2013-04-11T04:01:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/?p=11050"},"modified":"2013-04-10T22:19:14","modified_gmt":"2013-04-11T02:19:14","slug":"girls-with-swords-chapter-three-heroes-have-something-more-to-them-pages-49-51","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/2013\/04\/11\/girls-with-swords-chapter-three-heroes-have-something-more-to-them-pages-49-51\/","title":{"rendered":"Girls with Swords: Chapter 3 – “Heroes Have Something More to Them” (pgs 49-51)"},"content":{"rendered":"

When I read this part of the chapter, I wrote down five words and put them next to my bed.\u00a0 Each night before I close my eyes for the day I am reminded of these words:<\/p>\n

TRUTH, RIGHTEOUSNESS, PEACE, FAITH,<\/b> and<\/i> SALVATION\u2026<\/b><\/p>\n

\u2026with the words, \u201clive by these, apply these\u201d underneath.\u00a0 As I was reading The Message version of The Full Armor of God found in Ephesians 6:10-20, these words stuck out the most.\u00a0 I love how this version tells us that these five words are more than words<\/b>.\u00a0 We must learn to apply them.\u00a0 I have been thinking each night as I fall asleep, \u201cWhat does it look like to apply these words to my life?\u201d\u00a0 Each morning as I awake, God shows me exactly what it looks like to use these words in my life by helping me put on His full armor.<\/span><\/p>\n

Has God ever placed something in your life at just the right time?\u00a0 This study has come into my life at just the right time.\u00a0 I had been feeling this nudging to put on the Armor of God daily<\/i>, but I was not sure what to do with this nudging.\u00a0 Thanks to Lisa\u2019s book, God is showing me what to do!\u00a0 God is showing me how to be a hero.\u00a0 No joke, some days I sit in my apartment and imagine myself with the prettiest pink, bedazzled sword you could ever imagine.\u00a0 I picture my perfectly pink armor filled with sparkles, and I get this joy deep down in my heart because I imagine so clearly God\u2019s words and actions of truth, righteousness, peace, faith, and salvation covering every inch of that bedazzling pink armor and weaponry He has handpicked for me to use.\u00a0 The Armor of God is out there, ladies, just for you!\u00a0 What does yours look like?\u00a0 Take the time to find out.\u00a0 Take the time to use and apply God\u2019s truth, righteousness, peace, faith, and salvation to your life.\u00a0 If you find yourself becoming more aware of Satan\u2019s attacks and less aware of how to defend yourself against them: you must spend some much needed time learning what the Armor of God looks like in your life.<\/b><\/p>\n

\"Ephesians6_10thru18\"<\/a><\/p>\n

I love so much when Lisa says, \u201cAs the daughters of God draw their swords, the enemy draws back.\u201d\u00a0 Do you know where your sword is, what it looks like, how to use it?\u00a0 There is no time for guessing; we MUST be quick to pull out all of God\u2019s truth against Satan.\u00a0 The last thing the enemy wants to see is the person God created you to be standing firm against him each morning.\u00a0 Satan will do anything and everything in his awful power to keep you from seeing who God sees when He looks down at His precious hero.\u00a0 However, God is doing everything in His mighty<\/strong> power, even at this very moment, to show you the something more you have been in search of: Himself<\/strong><\/em>.\u00a0\u00a0If your whole heart desires to meet with God, think about how much more God’s heart desires to meet with you!\u00a0 Don’t let Satan get in the way of meeting with the One Who loves you and created you\u00a0to be His hero.<\/p>\n

As impossible as this task may seem, with<\/strong> God we know all things are possible (Philippians 4:13).\u00a0 Lisa tells us that prayer is not optional.\u00a0 I believe prayer is what ties this all together and makes this all possible.\u00a0 When you are finding yourself in that nearly impossible task, pray and ask God to show you His possible way.<\/p>\n

Our prayers are our life-line to God: this is how we can keep in constant contact with Him. \u00a0I am learning that prayers are powerful and they are to be used constantly for all kinds of things.\u00a0 Prayers are one of the best gifts we can give to our brothers and sisters in Christ.\u00a0 When we pray for them, we are giving them Jesus\u2019 aid, not ours.\u00a0 Can you think of anything better that anyone would ever need?\u00a0 Prayers keep God in the loop.\u00a0 Prayers help us all get out of the prison Satan tries to keep us in daily.<\/p>\n

I picture all of us: swords in hand, shields in place, bedazzled in GOD\u2019S TRUTH, RIGHTEOUSNESS, PEACE, FAITH, AND SALVATION; standing tall, shouting prayers of all kinds to our Holy God in Heaven, as\u00a0we leave behind all of Satan’s lies that fall in crumbles with the chains that kept us tied down from the something more we have been craving: God Himself<\/strong><\/em>.\u00a0 Can you picture it?<\/p>\n

*****<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s Pray:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Lord Almighty, thank You for the armor that You have prepared for each and every one of us.\u00a0 Thank You for the privilege we have to come to You in prayer.\u00a0 I ask that You help each and every one of us stand firm with our feet fitted with Your peace to crumble Satan\u2019s evil\u2019s schemes.\u00a0 Lord, we need You every moment of every day for this battle.\u00a0 Thank You for being there for us each and every moment.\u00a0 We love You so much and desire Your truth, righteousness, peace, faith, and salvation to be displayed in our lives for others to see, so that they will be drawn to You alone.\u00a0 Please help us.\u00a0\u00a0Thank You, Lord, that You are always there for us.<\/p>\n

In Your Precious and Powerful Name, we pray,\u00a0 Amen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When I read this part of the chapter, I wrote down five words and put them next to my bed.\u00a0 Each night before I close my eyes for the day I am reminded of these words: TRUTH, RIGHTEOUSNESS, PEACE, FAITH, and SALVATION\u2026 \u2026with the words, \u201clive by these, apply these\u201d underneath.\u00a0 As I was reading […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":11053,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[218,308,2207,357,365,425,1985,436,1986,723,746,762,791,881,2206,928,1617,2071,2152,2208,1085,1135,1140],"class_list":["post-11050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-womens","tag-christianity","tag-diane-meyers","tag-ephesians-610-20","tag-evil","tag-faith","tag-girlfriends-coffee-hour","tag-girls-with-swords","tag-god","tag-lisa-bevere","tag-online-bible-studies","tag-peace","tag-philippians-413","tag-prayer","tag-religion","tag-righteousness","tag-salvation","tag-satan","tag-spiritual-warfare","tag-sword","tag-the-full-armor-of-god","tag-truth","tag-womens-bible-studies","tag-womens-online-bible-studies","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Ephesians6_10thru18.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p39pHp-2Se","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11050"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11055,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11050\/revisions\/11055"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}