In Stand Your Ground: Shoes and Shield (Ephesians 6), this message is a

rallying call for 2026: stand firm when life and the unseen fight back. It

opens with a story that feels way too familiar, that moment when you

realize you have zero control and the stakes feel high. From there, it pivots

to a different kind of pressure: David at his breaking point in 1 Samuel 30.

Home burned. Family taken. His own men ready to turn on him. Yet the

turning point is simple and shocking: David found strength in the Lord.

Paul’s words in Ephesians 6 make the mandate clear: stand your ground,

not with hype or self-help, but with God’s strength and God’s armor. This

teaching focuses on two pieces that decide whether you hold your ground

or keep slipping.

First: the shoes of the gospel of peace. Peace with God gives you stability

when fear tries to shake you. And the peace you carry to others changes

how you move through conflict. The gospel is not just what you believe, it is

what you stand on.

Second: the shield of faith. Faith is not optimism. It’s trust that lifts God’s

promises like a barrier between you and the attack. The enemy’s darts are

designed to ignite thoughts and emotions, but faith catches the lie and puts

out the fire. And you were never meant to fight alone. There is cover in

community that you cannot get in isolation.

Check out this message to get the gospel under your feet daily, and get

under the shield wall with your people.