{"id":4880,"date":"2026-08-18T13:39:22","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T13:39:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davesali.wordpress.com\/?p=4880"},"modified":"2026-08-18T13:39:22","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T13:39:22","slug":"the-helmet-of-salvation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/18\/the-helmet-of-salvation\/","title":{"rendered":"The helmet of salvation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Ephesians 6:17 KJV \u2014 And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God:<\/strong><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The helmet covers your head, which is the location of your brain, the centre of your thinking. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The helmet is the context within which a solider thinks on the battlefield. As long as they&#8217;re engaged in battle, they don&#8217;t get to take off that helmet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We are engaged in battle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And so all our thoughts about everything are to occur within the context of salvation&#8230;your new life in Christ.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Any thought that would separate you from that context &#8211; i.e to have you remove your head from the protection of your helmet &#8211; is a wile of the enemy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Every thought happens within the context of salvation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Keep your head within your helmet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ephesians 6:17 KJV \u2014 And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God: The helmet covers your head, which is the location of your brain, the centre of your thinking. The helmet is the context within which a solider thinks on the battlefield. As long as &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/18\/the-helmet-of-salvation\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The helmet of salvation&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4880"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6722,"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4880\/revisions\/6722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savedali.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}