The Financial Markets are shaken and the Marketplace is going through challenges that vary from survival, downsizing and merges to seizing new opportunities. During such turmoil we seek answers, expecting to hear a promise of hope that things will change for the better.

This has not been the first financial crisis and it will certainly not be the last. We go through cycles of rising and falling money markets. We know them as the years of plenty and the years of famine.

As I fellowshipped with the Lord, discussing these seasons and how to go through them, He showed me the mental picture of our invisible spiritual Armour in the Marketplace! It consisted of a helmet, breastplate, two edged sword, and shoes of bronze.

Marketplace Application:

Helmet of Salvation:

Through salvation He brought us deliverance. He has not only given us salvation for eternal life but also for all the trails and adversity we face in every day life. It brings solutions to the problems we need to face today.

Wisdom starts by knowing and seeking God; He gives us thoughts and ideas that will prosper us during good times and through difficult times. It is through these thoughts that He gives us hope and direction.

He directs us through the years of plenty and the years of famine. During turbulent seasons, He provides the way out. Our decisions are based upon His direction and actions taken will produce the desired outcome.

Solutions, innovative ideas and vision all takes place in our thought processes. By wearing the Helmet of Salvation we submit to His direction and we are assured of an outcome that will prosper us through seasons of scarcity and abundance.

Breastplate of Righteousness:

The Breastplate of Righteousness represents our conduct. When we act righteously in all that we do -with integrity, uprightness, fairness, being trustworthy and honourable, the darts of the enemy will bounce off our breastplates.

Proverbs 13:6a Righteousness guards him whose way is blameless,

Deceptions, gossip, backstabbing and dishonest conduct; all these will not stand against righteousness. When any of these darts are fired against you from colleagues or business partners, they will bounce off and fall to the ground. Like a flitting sparrow, like a flying swallow, so a curse without a cause shall not alight. Proverbs 26:2

Belt of Truth:

Truth is the raised standard against which all else is measured. No lie can stand against it. When you wear the belt of truth, you are protected against any chains that the enemy wants to use to bind you with or to keep you in captivity. 

John 8:32 “And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make your free.”

We need to test all things against the standard of truth. Much of the financial turmoil in our day has taken place due to a lack of measurement against true financial principles.

Two edged Sword:

The Word of God is our two edged Sword. We have His written word in the Bible and His spoken word through the Holy Spirit. It is our double edged sword that cuts to the bone with wisdom, knowledge, insight, guidance, understanding and discernment.

Hebrew 4:12 For the word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

When using this weapon wisely, we will be able to make decisions and take actions that will prosper us and not harm us in all business and career endeavours.

Shoes of Bronze:

“Shoes of bronze” I asked?

 ”You will be able to walk through the heat and move forward, your feet will not melt or faint in the face of opposition. You can stand your ground and walk forward with the solution.” He replied.

Do we not all need the ability to stand our ground and be the carriers of a solution needed in our market place? We need shoes of readiness that can take us through the rough terrains that we tread. God will not only give us the solution but He also provides us with the Armour to take the good news into our workplace.

Therefore Go!:

Equipped, armed and clothed with protection, we can walk forward through each challenge and opportunity to bring solutions and obtain victories!