Faith is another important piece of weapon we are instructed to wear as depicted in our opening scripture. He tells us the function of faith in relation to spiritual warfare. With faith you are able to put out or extinguish all the burning arrows shot towards you by Satan. This lets you know that if you relax on faith, you create vulnerability to satanic attacks. Don’t ever compromise on faith. Simply put, faith is about agreeing with God in words and actions. This means saying and acting in line with what God has said concerning you. Hebrews 11:1 (APMC) gives us a perfect definition of faith: “Now faith is the assurance (the confirmation, the title deed) of the things [we] hope for, being the proof of things [we] do not see and the conviction of their reality [faith perceiving as real fact what is not revealed to the senses]”. In faith you are assured, confident and have conviction about the existence and reality of whatever God has said even though naturally it may not seem so.

In faith you don’t wait for physical appearance or manifestation to conclude that a thing exists. If sickness tries to attack you and you can visibly see some symptoms, what do you do? Faith stays with what God said or says. Isaiah 33:24 (AMP) declares: “And no inhabitant [of Zion] will say, “I am sick”. So, despite the feeling in your body, you declare, “I am not sick, am perfectly sound in health”. Don’t say you are sick. 2 Corinthians 4:13 (ESV) tells us of the operation of faith: “Since we have the same spirit of faith according to what has been written, “I believed, and so I spoke,” we also believe, and so we also speak”. We speak what we believe and not what we feel. And we believe what God has said more than what men say. Then you have to align your actions with what you believe. Faith has corresponding actions. James 2:26 says faith without works is dead. Always boost your faith by the Word of God, because faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God (Romans 10:17). It is with faith you extinguish all fiery darts of Satan. Don’t compromise on faith.