{"id":12469,"date":"2024-11-10T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-10T02:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/satchurch.lv\/?p=12469"},"modified":"2016-10-14T21:38:02","modified_gmt":"2016-10-14T18:38:02","slug":"the-breastplate-faith-love-helmet-hope-salvation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/the-breastplate-faith-love-helmet-hope-salvation\/","title":{"rendered":"The breastplate of faith, love and the helmet of the hope of salvation"},"content":{"rendered":"Good day to you,\u00a0dear friends! I bless you on this day and pray that you receive a renewing touch from the Lord!\r\n\r\nYesterday we started discussing three types of weapons that the Lord has given us for victory in these last days. Today we are going to look at them in more detail.\r\n<h6>\u201cBut let us who are of the day be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and as a helmet the hope of salvation\u201d\u00a0(1 Thessalonians, 5: 8)<\/h6>\r\n<strong>The breastplate of faith, love and the helmet of the hope of salvation\u00a0\u2013\u00a0<\/strong>these are extremely valuable forces that can help us in these last days. That is why our efforts should be directed towards building up faith, walking in love and having hope of salvation. How can we build and cultivate faith, hope and love in our lives? It becomes possible as we feed on the right food, which is the Word of God, and as we practise the Word.\r\n\r\nIt says in the 13th\u00a0chapter of 1st\u00a0Corinthians that these three types of spiritual weapons (faith, hope and love) remain, that is to say, they abide through all the trials, persecutions, tribulations, hatred, personal ambition, offenses, treachery, rumours, deceit etc.\r\n<h6>\u00a0\u00abAnd now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love\u00bb\u00a0(1 Corinthians, 13: 13).<\/h6>\r\nYes, love is the greatest of the three, but all of them are important for walking in victory in these last days. Without faith it is impossible to please God.\r\n<h6>\u00abBut without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him\u00bb\u00a0(Hebrews, 11: 6).<\/h6>\r\nHope is steadfast expectation of the future; without hope our faith lacks its foundation. That is why the Bible says that\r\n<h6>\u00a0\u00abfaith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen\u00bb\u00a0(Hebrews, 11: 1).<\/h6>\r\nBy faith our expectations and hopes come true. Without hope, faith has nothing to work with.\r\n\r\nAlso faith does not work without love; it says that\r\n<h6>\u00abfor in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision avails anything, but faith working through love\u00bb\u00a0(Galatians, 5:6).<\/h6>\r\nSo God is calling every one of us to strengthen our faith, to feed our hope and to perfect our love walk; for our ability to enjoy God depends on these things, and through them we are able to gain victory in these end-time battles.\r\n\r\nWe will discuss this in more detail tomorrow.\r\n\r\nAbundant blessing to you from the Lord!\r\n\r\nPastor Rufus Ajiboye","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cBut let us who are of the day be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and as a helmet the hope of salvation\u201d (1 Thessalonians, 5: 8)\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nThe breastplate of faith, love and the helmet of the hope of salvation \u2013 these are extremely valuable forces that can help us in these last days. That is why our efforts should be directed towards building up faith, walking in love and having hope of salvation. How can we build and cultivate faith, hope and love in our lives? It becomes possible as we feed on the right food, which is the Word of God, and as we practise the Word.","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36932,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-word"],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":12,"label":"Daily Word"}]},"featured_image_src_large":["https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/depositphotos_199706700-stock-photo-complete-combat-equipment-of-the-e1670616666980.webp",600,427,false],"author_info":{"display_name":"Pastor Rufus Ajiboye","author_link":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/author\/rufus-ajiboye\/"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":12,"name":"Daily Word","slug":"daily-word","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":12,"taxonomy":"category","description":"Daily word for spiritual strength","parent":0,"count":650,"filter":"raw","term_order":"0","cat_ID":12,"category_count":650,"category_description":"Daily word for spiritual strength","cat_name":"Daily Word","category_nicename":"daily-word","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12469"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38858,"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12469\/revisions\/38858"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}