Are you fighting a spiritual battle right now? Are you feeling like you’re drifting from belief in God and his promises for you?

Don’t give up.

The Christian life wasn’t meant to be easy. We need to actively wage war, in Jesus’ name, against “the rulers, the authorities, the powers of this dark world – and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms,” as Ephesians 6 tells us.

We need to “put on the full armour of God, so that when the day of evil comes we might be able to stand our ground”.

We need to stand with “the belt of truth buckled around our waist, the breastplate of righteousness in place, and with our feet fitted with the readiness that comes from the gospel of peace.”

“In addition to all this, we need to take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming arrows of the…