Breastplate of Righteousness

 Greetings everyone,

I hope you had a restful Sabbath on the 13th.  I apologize for the tardiness of this article, I've been struggling spiritually with some things.

This article is going to talk about the breastplate of righteousness.  This covers a vital part of body.  If our heart would be attacked.  Our heart is the center of our soul, it not only attacks our heart, our soul, our will,  but also our mind, our emotions, to cause fissures in your relationship and your life and our conscious which is the microphone to God. 

Unrighteousness is upside down behavior that creates an environment for the enemy to come and hang out and feel welcome to stay for awhile.  He is going to make himself at home in your home, in your family and in your marriage.  Righteousness is right side up living that aligns with God's word.  If you pray and speak in one manner but you live in a totally different manner, the enemy is on his way.   

Isa. 59:17-God put on a breast of righteousness and a helmet of Salvation.  

The priests of the temple in the old testament would put on a breastplate when serving in the temple.  

1 Cor. 1:30-Faith in Christ who is our righteousness

The spiritual armor is protect our hearts from the attacks of evil during spiritual warfare. 

Putting on the belt of truth is affirming God's standard you just said you would follow.  Living righteously, is aligning your standard to what you just said you would do.  

Holiness is like a breastplate to prevent an attack from the enemy.  Paul tells us to live right, this puts a breast plate over our heart & protects us from the enemies advances. 

What our physical heart is to our physical body, so is the spiritual heart to our physical body.  Our heart is the center of our soul.  Our mind is what we think, our will is what we purpose to do, your emotions are what you feel and our conscious is the microphone to hear God.  

The enemy will go after our heart more than anything else.  As it will affect our thinking that we will be discontented with reality which will get us out of alignment with God.  Our emotions will make us feel off base with God.  And the enemy will short circuit the wires to hear God so that when we are doing a bible study, the study is dead, it's just ink on the page.  

Ps. 4:23-Guard your heart, for out of it flows the well springs of your life. 

Ps. 27:14-Wait for the Lord, be strong and let your heart take courage.  

So, guard your heart with the breastplate of righteousness.  Stay away from things that could corrupt your thinking & your emotions.  

A few things would be-watching porn, romance books, certain kinds of romance tv shows/movies and avoid getting involved with someone who could lead us astray from our eternal life. 

Do you have on your breastplate of righteousness?

The next article will cover Shoes for the preparation of the gospel.  I hope to have this out the evening of Sept. 19th.

Have a great week,

Lori

P.S.  The new moon of the 7th month is expected to be seen the evening of Sept. 23rd.  Practice blowing those shofars.