Eat Your Spinach Before The Fight
Friday, May 19, 2023
When the Saints
As a child, I watched Popeye, a one-eyed smoking sailor with a speech impediment. If you saw one Popeye, you knew the basic plot for all of them. He gets beaten up until finally he eats his spinach, and then he triumphs. You have to wonder, doesn't it make more sense to eat your spinach at the beginning, before the fight? But no, he would always wait until he could just barely get the can of spinach open. As believers we make the same mistake. We wait until we are in the middle of warfare before deciding to fight. We live defensively. But champion fighters never do that. They don't wait to be in the middle of the fight to figure out how to fight. They train for the battle. God didn't call us to live defensively, but offensively. That's the way you win. Don't wait to be tempted or until your back is against the wall to fight the enemy. Live so your back is never against the wall. Put on the full armor of God and be victorious, and you won't end up being beaten up like Popeye.

Today's Mission
Don't let the circumstances of the day catch you off guard! Let the Word of God be spiritual nourishment and protection for you today.

Ephesians 6:11
11 Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.
A Fight to the Finish
And that about wraps it up. God is strong, and he wants you strong. So take everything the Master has set out for you, well-made weapons of the best materials. And put them to use so you will be able to stand up to everything the Devil throws your way. This is no weekend war that we’ll walk away from and forget about in a couple of hours. This is for keeps, a life-or-death fight to the finish against the Devil and all his angels.

HAVE A BLESSED DAY AND WEEKEND!