And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death. (Revelation 12:11) Before you were saved, you were a slave to sin. That meant you were destined to live a life filled with shame and spiritual blindness. But when you accepted Jesus, His blood redeemed you from captivity, nullified the devil’s legal rights, and marked you as God’s own possession. The word John used when writing in Revelation 12 fo

Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand. Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness. (Ephesians 6:13-14) The armor described in Ephesians 6 is not automatically put on you when you are saved. You don’t wake up wearing the breastplate of righteousness; you put it on yourself. Paul did not say, “Wait for the armor to appear,” but

For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. (Ephesians 6:12)   If you could lift the veil from the visible world, you’d see that nothing happening around you is truly random. Every difficulty, conflict, pressure, or distraction originates from the spiritual realm first. Paul didn’t write that you might wrestle or that it may be possible;