When I was 11 years old me and my younger brother and our friends would do jobs for this guy that lived in our neighborhood.

He owned property about 80 miles away which was just a strip of woods that went downhill. He would drive us down there and pay us each $2 to clear out all the rocks, weeds and logs.

There was a big old wooden outhouse, a 3-seater, that stunk to high heaven and always had a battle between bees and poop-flies going on in it. Most people just crapped...

Ephesians 6:17 - "And the helmet of salvation..."

If your salvation is not worn tightly around your mind like a helmet, the enemy will come to chop the multiple blessings of your salvation right out of your theology. He will try to hack away at your foundation, telling you that healing, deliverance, preservation, and soundness of mind were not really part of Jesus' redemptive work on the Cross.

Many believers try to do the work of God without making it a personal...