The Toolbelt

Just as I was getting snug in bed, in the quiet of the night, the answers to all of the recent big GOD questions started coming in like a flood. I could have jumped up and stayed up all night filtering through this new revelation, but for the first time in many nights, the post-it-note-pen-and-bible-by-the-bed-routine pays off.

#1 What does it take to really fight the enemy?

#2 How can we truly be delivered / set free from our struggles that so easily beset us?

I have been personally experiencing the unexplainable roller coaster myself, this past winter. And, somehow recently the Lord led me to three conversations with young women just like myself who have struggled with the winter blues (I prefer to call it the mean reds) or the roller coaster ride of life struggles . The word says no weapon formed against will not prosper. Which tells us that even though they may come close or even snag us, they will not last, their mission will not succeed. Thank you Jesus for giving us success over our adversary.

Growing up the daughter of a Children’s Pastor, I am often reminded of simple little illustrations to help even my biggest adult dilemmas. This week, I’m reminded of one of dad’s many real-life characters, “Tom the Toolman” *arrgh, arrgh* – a spin off of Tim ‘The Toolman’ Taylor from Home Improvement. He was equipped with power drill, tool belt, safety glasses – and seemed to always get himself in trouble by making the adults choke with laughter…but that’s another story.

Question one and two, are found in the tool belt, the all powerful belt of truth. The Lord showed me that without this belt we are defenseless to the enemies lies. It’s a vital peice of our armor, and we can be destroyed, our well-being, our mental and emotional state, and even our life can be destroyed if this one tiny piece of armor is not in tact.

What’s in the spiritual tool belt that I wear everyday? My bible of course…I actually physically take it with me most places. Note cards & Sharpies to jot out moment altering scriptures. A book called, “God’s Creative Power” by Charles Capp (learning to declare the word of God) along with other Christian study books, online podcast messages and of course plenty of worship tunes — a YouTube or Itunes Worship Playlist (Jason Upton, Hillsong, Rita Springer, Christ for the Nations). Without these tools active in my life I become defenseless to the “lying arrows” that are coming my may.

God’s truth in our life is amazing. His perspective is the best one to possess, because it’s the only RIGHT, TRUE one. If things in your life are turned upside down, start activating the belt of truth tools and reclaim all the benefits they behold: true joy, true wealth, true love, real relationship, real peace, real life!