Your Supernatural Shield

When we are walking in love, a supernatural shield of protection, called the shield of faith will be active.  As if right out of a superhero movie, we have a very real shield that will put out all the fiery darts of the enemy!  

1 John 5:18 "We know that whoever is born of God does not keep on sinning.  But whoever has been born of God guards himself, and the wicked one cannot touch him." 

When we are obedient to God and walk in love we are supernaturally protected.  I talked about it in last week's Facebook Live teaching in our Love Series.  I've included it here with this blog for you to watch in case you didn't see it because I went through a number of Scriptures about why love never fails.  I showed you how walking in love actually protected Jesus physically and can do the same for you.  Just click the play button at the top of this post.

This shouldn't surprise us.  One of my all-time favorite chapters of the Bible is Psalm 91 and it is filled with promises about our physical protection.  I particularly love verse 4 "He shall cover you with His feathers, and under His wings you shall find protection; His faithfulness shall be your shield and wall."  We all know if we are being honest with ourselves, that at times our faithfulness gives out, but God's faithfulness will be our shield.    This is backed up for us in 2 Timothy 2:13 "if we are faithless, he remains faithful—for he cannot deny himself."

And why does He do this for us?  Psalm 91:14-16 tells us.  After the Christian has professed his faith in God in verses 1 and 2 and after Jesus has responded with what the Christian can expect because of this faith (verses 3 - 13), the Father says, "Because he has set his love upon Me, therefore I will deliver him; I will set him on high, because he has known my name.  He shall call upon Me, and I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble, and I will deliver him and honor him.  With long life I will satisfy him and show him My salvation."

I just feel like shouting and praising God!  Do you get as excited as I do when I read this?  Do you see how wonderful He is towards us?  What a loving and caring Father we have! 

When we walk by faith, the supernatural shield of faith, which is God Himself, goes up to protect us.  We can count on it every time.  Notice the Father says I will deliver him from trouble.  He doesn't just be with us in trouble, which on its own is great, but He delivers us from trouble.  And the wicked one can't touch us!  

Luke 10:19 "Look, I give you authority to trample on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy.  And nothing shall by any means hurt you."  We have authority over all the power of the enemy.  That means we no longer need to put up with stress, worry and fear.  Those are all from Satan and the curse.  We've been redeemed from the curse.  We need to hear these things over and over until we really believe them.  They are either true or they aren't.  If we believe God's Word like we say we do, then let's expect this supernatural shield to be in operation in our lives!

I've put together for you a list of 24 of my favorite Scriptures about this shield in a PDF you can download for free.  Click here for immediate download. Then read the Scriptures one right after another.  Hear it over and over how God has promised to be your shield.  You will feel your confidence grow.  Not in yourself but in the awesome God we serve!  Feel free to share the video, the blog and/or the Scriptures with a friend you know needs to hear this.