The Helmet of Salvation
Armor of God - Part 7 (Ephesians 6:10-17)
We want everyone to understand that the Helmet of Salvation is God's vital protection for our minds, guarding us against the corruption of our sinful nature and the lies of the enemy. Because our established thought patterns are often immature or erroneous, we cannot rely on our own understanding but must actively pursue the renewal of our minds through the Holy Spirit. The practical application is to identify one specific area of toxic thinking or irrational emotion this week and surrender it to God in prayer. By doing this, we reject our old ways of life and put on the new nature that leads to clarity and spiritual freedom.
Supporting Scriptures
Challenge for the Week:
- Identify one wrong thinking pattern in your life
- Questions to help you identify it:
- In what areas of life do you most often make bad choices?
- What are you telling yourself before you make those choices?
- What emotions are you feeling before you make those choices?
- When have you recently had an emotional response that didn’t make sense?
- What were you thinking?
- What were you feeling?
- What did it remind you of?
- In what areas of life do you most often make bad choices?
- Questions to help you identify it:
- Pray through those thought patterns you’ve identified each day this week
- Ask God…
- to help you understand what’s going on in your mind and heart
- to help you identify the origin of those thoughts and feelings
- to reveal the truth to you and correct the underlying beliefs and assumptions that are causing those thoughts and feelings
- Ask God…