We Do Not Fight Alone

We Do Not Fight Alone

 — By M.T. Clark — P-1989, 06/13/2026 — Today’s Audio Podcast
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Today’s photo of a pink, gold, and orange blazing winter sunset above a snow-covered field, bare trees silhouetted against the fading sky, with the Catskill mountains holding the horizon, comes to us from yours truly, as I captured this view from a customer’s driveway while making deliveries during a season when I was doing my part and trusting God to do His.

Well, it’s Saturday, and I share this photo as a reminder that beauty does not wait for your circumstances to improve before it shows up. The Lord is good in the hard seasons just as He is good in the easy ones — and if we slow down long enough to look up, He will remind us of that, even from a stranger’s driveway in the middle of a December delivery route.

It is my prayer that anyone reading or hearing this message will find the time this weekend to rest, look around to notice the beauty of God’s creation, and speak to Him in prayer.

Our series, “The Armor of God,” closes its second week today with a truth about the one thing no armored soldier can afford to do — fight alone.

We Do Not Fight Alone

The armor of God is not designed to be worn in isolation.

Paul makes this clear in the final instruction of the armor passage — an instruction that most treatments of Ephesians 6 rush past on their way to the individual pieces. After naming the belt, the breastplate, the shoes, the shield, the helmet, and the sword, Paul adds one more thing in Ephesians 6:18 (NKJV), which tells us: “…praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, being watchful to this end with all perseverance and supplication for all the saints…”

Even though our spiritual battle can be very personal, Paul tells us to pray for “For all the saints.”  

We don’t just pray for ourselves alone.  We don’t just pray for our immediate family or those who are near and dear to us. We are called on to pray for all the saints, the whole body of believers, the people who are walking the same road we are. Paul calls us to pray for other believers who are carrying their own weight and fighting their own battles on the same side of the same war.

The armor is individual equipment, but the battle is a corporate endeavor.

This is a truth the enemy works actively to suppress because an isolated believer is a compromised one. The soldier who breaks from the formation, who decides that his fight is too private or too shameful to bring into the community, who convinces himself that no one else would understand, is a soldier who is fighting from a profound tactical disadvantage. Their disadvantage is not that their armor is gone. It’s just that the armor was designed to function inside a formation, not alone in the field.

The Roman soldiers who carried the large rectangular thureos shields, the same shield Paul references as the shield of faith, were trained to lock shields with the soldiers beside them. A single shield deflects a dart. Locked shields form a wall that an army cannot break. The image is not incidental. Paul knew the military culture of his world. The shield of faith is more effective when the saints are standing together than when each believer is standing alone.

What does this look like practically? It looks like a recovery group that meets on Wednesday nights and tells the truth about what the week was like. It looks like a trusted brother or sister who knows your real battle and prays for it by name. It looks like asking for prayer when the armor feels heavy instead of pretending you are fine. It looks like praying for the people in your life who are carrying what you can see, even when they have not asked.

The battle is real. The armor protects us when we put it on, but the Lord designed us to fight our spiritual battles together, “praying always… for all the saints”.

So be sure to take advantage of your connection to your local church and Christian small group communities to help you in your fight and to help others in theirs. We were never meant to fight our battles alone, and with God and the people that He put into our lives, we don’t have to.  

Keep on walking and talking with God.

— M.T.

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