Do you have a clear-cut vision of what part you have in doing your Heavenly Fathers business? Maybe you have a void in your life and feel lost. Many people I have talked to over the years, feel like they really have no calling on their lives. They can't imagine being as important to God as Jesus. When we identify with our relationship as God's child we become aware of our absolute sameness with Jesus the God man. Our two spirits have been joined and we have become inseparable. We are in God's children and in the family forever.

Paul reminds the Christian in Ephesians 2:6 when he says. "God raised us up to sit together with Jesus and we have joint seating with Him now in the heavenly sphere." This is what happened to us the day we became born again. Heaven is a real place that we will live in for eternity, however; now because the spirit of God lives in us through the Holy Spirit, we can now have a very real relationship with Him and we will know Him when we meet face to face. If you're not aware of this fact, then living the Christian life has no true meaning. I ask you as I ask myself, how much time do we spend daily having our thought life focused on talking and reasoning with the Holy Spirit on how He would deal with our everyday decision-making. This is not us having feelings of obligation but it must become a hungering after a relationship with Him.

1 John 2:6 tells us "Anyone who says that Jesus Christ lives in him, has a personal debt to Him, and needs to walk and conduct himself in the same way Jesus did when he walked on the earth." Let's define this word walk.
1.) It means to live and have Jesus as a constant companion in all of our everyday surroundings with all the people we come into contact with.

2.) To be in God's employment and be totally aware of our position as God's ambassador, knowing that we have the privilege and the right to give a word of encouragement to those people, that are just weary of their everyday battles.

3.) We live with a hunger, hope and awareness from within, that we are receiving new revelation and insight of God as He shares His plan with us on his purposes for our lives. The psalmist King David said it best. "O taste and see that the Lord is good. The man who trusts and takes refuge in Him is to be envied." We taste and see when we meditate on God's word day and night empting our mind of caring worldly thought in order to aid mental or spiritual development, contemplation, or relaxation. This is us seeking Godly wisdom which secures our soul.

Hebrews 4:12 tells us "For the word God speaks, is alive and full of power making it active and energizes us. It is sharper than any two edged sword and penetrates to the dividing lone of the breath of life of our soul and immortal spirit. It searches the deepest part of our nature and sifts, analyzes and judges our very thoughts and the purposes of our hearts."

Realizing that we must be equipped; allows the Holy Spirit to reason with him and let Him check them out and see if there are any motives or ideas that they are believing; that might be contrary to kingdom living. He is the one that inspires and equips us because as God's children were called to warfare.

Jesus came into the world to seek and to save people who oppose them selves and we were called to do the same. We are to be the salt and the light in the arena of life that we operate in. Christianity becomes nothing more then a survival mode mentality if the born again believer is not focused on being a God seeker and looking for every opportunity to present the gospel to a bruised and hurting world. We are to be doing the work of an Evangelist in all of our travels.

Seeking God's righteousness has us putting God's word as our top priority and His word is actually written in our inner make up and becomes a part of us. When we are doing our Heavenly Father's business; the Holy Spirit has a computer bank that He can tap into in our inner thought life that tells us to turn to the left and turn to the right and it enables us to give a word of wisdom to people who cross our path where ever we travel.

The body of Christ needs to become a rebel with a cause. These causes must be Holy Spirit inspired.

I have for some time been running into born again believers, who have been called out from their particular assemblies to come aside and be taught by the Holy Spirit away from denominational influences. This is happening because; it is God's plan to bring them along side Himself and for them to become warriors for God and operate with their own personal giftings given to them by Him.
I never thought that God would have to call people away from their particular denomination assemblies to get their attention to be trained for battle as I perceived some forty five years ago. I always thought back then that, being a part of an assembly was the thing to grow up into so God could give them the opportunity to represent Him in the earth in these last days.

The Holy Spirit wants God's children to be set free to purse their God given right to an independent relationship with Him. Not knowing who is reading this. I would suggest that if you are being prodded and want a change, don't be afraid to challenge God and ask Him for what's missing in your life. This unrest in you is His way to get your attention so you can find your destiny and the personal freedom to worship him.

Now the scripture defines the weapons that have been given to us by God and how they are to be used. I will define from scripture these weapons however, you have to be empowered by the Holy Spirit and know when and how to use them when they are needed. Just like a person learns a trade like building houses and how to read blue prints and use a measuring tape, hammer or saw, so as real and sure must be our knowing our weapons of warfare in the Spirit world.

Paul in Ephesians 6:10-18 describes what our weapons are that God has given us to overcome evil. He says, "Be strong in the Lord and draw your strength from Him as your having fellowship with Him. Allow Him to put His armor on you so you can be a heavily armed soldier and then, you can successfully stand up against the strategies and deceptions of the devil. We are not fighting against people in our own human understanding of things, but against a tyrant, master spirits and world rulers of this present dark and wicked age who live in this heavenly (supernatural) atmosphere.

Therefore, by having God's armor on; we will be able to stand firmly in place and be able to handle all crises. First tighten the belt of truth around your loins and having on the breastplate of righteousness, you will be able to make correct judgments that will keep you in right standing with God. You will be able to stand on your feet so you can face the enemy and be ready because, you have a peace in you put there by God. Lift up over all the shield of faith, which will enable you to put out all the flaming missiles of the wicked one. Take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the spirit that is the authority of the Word of God. In addition, be praying at all times on every occasion and in every season in the Spirit in all types of prayer. To the final end, keep alert and watch with a strong purpose and holding fast interceding in behalf of all the saints or all of God's consecrated people."

The first weapon stated is the weapon of truth. Only the Holy Ghost speaks God's truth and we must learn to recognize His voice. God's truth will not only set us free to do His bidding but it will also empower us to do it. When we live in denial by lying to our self about the true condition of our heart, we cannot participate in kingdom living and our life is wasted on trivial pursuits that have no consequences in eternal matters. It is only God's judgment of things that makes up truth. If you're not listening to His truths and acting on it, life has no real meaning. It says; we are to tighten the belt of truth around our loins.

The word for loin in the Greek is osphus: It means hip or procreative power. God is the author of procreative power and this is how He brought all of exists into being. We need to know God's truths from His word and use it as Jesus did against the devil when He was tempted. Since the devil is a liar and the father of liars, he can't stand the truth and he shakes when we use it, however, only when it is being inspired by the Holy Spirit. It's only as we have our daily fellowship with the Holy Spirit, recognize His voice, and say what He tells us to say that, we can use this weapon. God's word is the power of God to the tearing down of strong holds in our life and the life of others.

Next weapon stated is the breastplate of righteousness. This word breastplate in the Greek is thorax: It means; an upper chest protector or a corset. This represents a heart protector where the issues of life are formed and take place in our being. Its how we get our assurance and deep rooted connection between God as our Father and us knowing that no matter what happens in our life; nothing can ever separate us from His love and holding power. I never cease to say this over and over again; we need to know without a shadow of a doubt that, when we made Jesus our Savior, we were permanently adopted into God's family. Righteousness means that, when God the Father looks at us; He sees Jesus His perfect son and there must be an end to these childish teachings of God loves us when we do this and He forsakes us when we do that.

These conditional love themes are the most destructive and blasphemous teachings ever perpetrated by the devil through men of ignorance in explaining God‘s holding power.
Believing in our Eternal security in Christ has to cease from being interpreted as a doctrine of devils or a license to sin, as it is being preached in many circles. We are eternally secure but, we can through faulty teaching and bad choices be living out of fellowship with God and grieving the Holy Spirit because, we stop Him from comforting and strengthening us in our daily warfare.

There is a security, which builds a source of integrity within us; as we become deep seated in our understanding of our permanent relationship with God. If we do not have this security, the devil would make us believe through his subtle persuasion that; the God we serve is an indecisive person of mere opinion and His mood changes with circumstances.

Not knowing how secure we are in Christ; keeps us in a double mindedness and a person and we have no staying power when the devil comes to steal, kill and destroy our calling given to you by God. When the warfare gets to hot; you fold and run for cover and deny your savior as Peter did in his childish years of growing up. Without integrity in ones life; you have no example to represent the Love of Jesus Christ to the world. The word of God tells us that our statements in life should be either yes or no. The Holy Spirit doesn't compromise. He tells it like it is and we can do nothing less. Its time to put our childish thinking away and! Grow Up!

The next weapon is the shield of faith. The word for shield in the Greek is thureos: It is a shield shaped like a door that can be opened and closed. The word for faith is pistis: It means us having a consistency of confession, being persuaded and the truthfulness of God. As God showed me this concept it made me realize, what a commitment and trust God has for His children to give them a powerful weapon like this. As we use it, we are able to have the ability to control our thought life by being able to close and open this door type shield when we need to. To me it was a very practical application that was simple to understand. When the devil shows up to dump his garbage in our mind we keep it closed. The real issue, are we grown up enough to recognize his devices or doctrines when he shows up.

Jesus also tells us that, "He stands at the door of our hearts and knocks and if we respond to Him and open ourselves up to Him when He shows up, He will come in, discuss with us His plans, and train us in the warfare that we need to go through. In turn, we will be over comers and will be able to sit beside Him as a sovereign King and Priest having great power to rule and reign with Him."

You have to really be living in extreme darkness in your life or have a serious sin conscience brain deficiency to not want to be close to Him and be in His company at all times. I can write unending volumes on the definition of faith because of the fact that, Jesus Himself is our faith. Every thing He thinks, feels, and His very being and intense passions rubs off on us as we hang out with Him. Our first priority must be to be just like him.

The next weapon is the helmet of salvation. The word for helmet is perizonnumi: It means to prepare one self for action and to tighten a belt around our mind. The word for salvation is soterian: meaning, our defender, rescuer and savior Jesus the Christ. There has to be created in us a security and total persuasion by God in our inner most feelings that, there is no way we can lose this war no matter what ever the adversity. This helmet or attitude of confidence cannot be tightened around our mind unless we are totally sold out with a concentrated effort in our seeking after the Lord and His counsel because the battle we are fighting is in our mind.

Romans 12:1-2 states that, "we are to present all our mental reasoning and will power and dedicate our lives to be earnestly and totally devoted to God's causes. When we do this, it makes God rejoice over our enthusiasm. We having this attitude makes sense because, of what He has done for us. We are not to conform to these wordily ways of outward shallow customs. Therefore, we are to be inwardly changed by the entire renewing of our mind and in turn by this happening in us, we will know what God's perfect and acceptable will is for our lives."

The next weapon is the sword of the Spirit, our authority of God. The word for sword is machomai: It means to fight for the administration of justice. The word for Spirit is pneuma: meaning, superhuman or Christ's Spirit the Holy Spirit. I don't know how God can make the interpretation of this any clearer. This gives us the authority as God's children to rise up in the authority of the Holy Spirit to fight these demonic forces in this present age. This is what God's kids are supposed to be doing, going about doing their Heavenly Fathers business administering His justice in the lives of people on this planet. We are not to do this in our own fleshly self-righteous attitudes by sitting in judgment and portraying God as some kind of control freak wanting to inflict punishment and pain.

This type of warfare has to be administered through us by the author and lover of our souls; who became a servant and ultimately died on a cross for our sin and the sin of the whole world. We need to get a hold of what it means to die to self and unless we do, we have the capability of becoming the devil's disciple coming in the name of the Lord and ministering self-righteous concepts that, we have been reaping on ourselves for years.

When we try to minister in self righteous ways; it has no power to deliver others or our self. Scripture tells us that; "the devil disguises himself as an angel of light." It says only Jesus is the true Light of the world. We cannot expose the darkness in others or in us by our false and fleshly interpretations of God's ways. It's time for us to not be afraid and let the Holy Spirit check us out and see if there are any wicked harm full ways in us that, we don't know about that is holding us back from all that He wants to give us.

We now come to the last weapon that is talked about in this scripture. The weapon of prayer, (Intimate conversations with God) and this is what it's all about. Prayer is our endless conversation with God now and forever. It's His life and our life becoming one life. Therefore, we see that there is no end to this weapon. It's the weapon that makes all the other weapons work. Moreover, to me this is our greatest weapon. It is also the weapon that we need to discipline this fleshly body to lay down and die. It's where we receive our stability, and sound minded thinking. Wisdom in the day and night hours of our life, His hugs, rebukes and chastisements, that are needed for our safety and guidance. It's the way we search for His presence, play, and joke and carefully listen for Him to reveal new wisdom's of His ways as we learn to be comfortable with His friendship. I have found that over the years my prayer life more than anything has changed.

It has become more of a natural all hours of the day and night conversation that continually goes on at all times. It's like living with another person that you're learning to get comfortable with and trust.

The word for prayer is proseuchomai: It means to be in a humble state before God in worship, adoration and requesting. The prefix of this word is pros: meaning, on all occasions and together with at all times. The scripture that we have been using says that we are in warfare against spiritual wickedness and a force in the supernatural atmosphere. Let's realize that this is an outward force trying to impregnate us with ideas, emotions and principles to do its bidding. It is a spirit of anti-christ.
 
Now that we're God's children and the Holy Spirit lives within us; let's learn to trust Him to keep the door of the house of our temporary stay on this planet locked, when the devil shows up to bombard our thought life with condemnation and guilt and things of no eternal value. We need to know how to keep our armor on and allow our Commander and Chief to inspect us to see if we are equipped to go into battle and wrestle for the kingdom of God that lives with in us. Walking with the Lord doesn't have to be a chore in our lives. What we have to do is lay down our lives and allow Him to live big