Amanda BethSharing the Truths Behind the TRUTH

Jul 25th Monday’s Blog: Helmet Of Salvation

We continue our “Armor Of God” series with the helmet of salvation. If you’ve missed any blogs in this series click here.

Helmets are meant to protect our heads. Our minds are where Satan attacks us the most. When we don’t cast down the lies he tells us, we welcome him in to set up strongholds in our minds. If we don’t put on our helmets of salvation to guard our minds, we’ll start to believe his lies.

John 8:44 says the devil “was a murderer from the beginning, not holding to the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, for he is a liar and the father of lies.”

Satan has sewn countless lies in the minds of man since the beginning of creation. I was talking to my sister recently. I told her I wanted to buy a royalty free picture for the cover of my book. The company wouldn’t allow me to buy the picture since my book was Christian. We talked about how sad it was that God’s creation denies Him. We can’t freely talk about our Creator because He’s considered “controversial.”

God is real. Jesus is real. Heaven and hell are real. Whether we want to believe that or not, it’s the truth.

Salvation is only found in accepting Jesus’ atonement for our sins. Anything the world says other than that is a lie. Satan wants the world to believe his lies. He knows his fate. He knows he can’t beat God. His only way to get at God is to drag us down with him. Satan knows it’s excruciating for God to watch His creation die separated from Him. Satan’s mission is to deceive the world into denying the existence of God so they’d ignorantly follow him to his fate.

When I first started following Christ and started reading the Bible I was shocked at how many lies I believed. It took many years for God to tear down all the lies the enemy sowed in my mind.

Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is–his good, pleasing and perfect will.

—Romans 12:2

We are not supposed to think and act like the world does. The world is blinded by Satan’s deception. When we follow their ways, it’s like the blind leading the blind. Jesus said, “Can a blind man lead a blind man? Will they not both fall into a pit? A student is not above his teacher, but everyone who is fully trained will be like his teacher” (Luke 6:39).

Do we want the world to be our teachers so we can be like them? Or do we want Jesus to be our teacher so we can be like Him?

To renew our minds we need to start filling our minds with the Word of God. God has given us His Word to tear down the lies Satan sows in our minds. We can’t let our guards down once we learn the Truth. We need to continually keep our minds filled with the Truth so there’s no room for deception.

For though we live in the world, we do not wage war as the world does. The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds. We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.

—2 Corinthians 10:3-5

I told this story in one of my first blogs. I think it’s worth repeating since it fits perfectly with this message. Last year I noticed my daughter was becoming negative toward herself. When it started happening more frequently I became concerned. Then one day she broke down in tears telling me how bad she was.

One of the things she was negative about was her schoolwork. She said she wasn’t smart, she couldn’t read good enough, and she wasn’t good at anything. It suddenly hit me as God revealed what was happening. I asked her…what does God say about you? I started sharing all the things God says about her. I told her God says we can do ALL things through Him who gives us strength. He equips us with everything we need to be the best we can be. I told her we are each gifted in a different way to do what God’s called us to do.

I said, “If God says these things about you, those things you believe are lies.” I told her Satan tells us lies. And I asked her if she was going to believe what Satan says over what God says. She looked at me and right away said “No!”

That moment she tore down the lies the enemy sowed in her mind. She recognized the lies, and chose to believe the Truth. Once she made that choice, she was back to her happy, joyful self.

We need to expose Satan’s lies and continually guard our minds against his deception.

Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

—James 4:7

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**Prayer for the week**

Lord,

Thank you for showing us the Truth. Help us to submit our minds to you and resist the enemy’s lies. Help us to tear down every stronghold the enemy has set up in our minds. Continually fill our minds with Your Truth and keep us free of deception.

In Jesus’ precious name, Amen!

Have a blessed week growing in Christ!

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Come back next Monday as I share more of God’s Truths and the reasons behind the Truths.

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