As a child, learning lessons in Sunday school about the armor of God in Ephesians 6:10-18, I thought it was just an analogy or an illustrative pump-you-up kind of message. I carried the passage with me by memory. I probably even quoted it a time or two when I was alarmed by a mysterious presence. The armor seemed like a representation of spiritual strength. It was a doctrine used to defeat the demons. It wasn’t until I was an adult, assailed by dark spiritual forces in the middle of the night,...

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