Don't Go Through Life Naked: How to Clothe Yourself in God's Power to Walk Through the Challenges of Life and Step into God's Promises Every Day

by Susan B Mead

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Don’t Go Through Life Naked: How to Clothe Yourself in God’s Power by Susan B. Mead


The focus of this short book is to equip Christians to not just survive the attacks of Satan, but to understand how he attacks and how to fight back. The author shares some personal experiences, Bible verses and reflection questions to this end. In many ways, the book reads like a conversation with a friend.

Overall, the author does a good job in covering this. She also makes it very clear that the promises of Scripture apply to the Redeemed and explains the way of salvation. Yay!

I expected this book to be mostly about the spiritual armor mentioned in Ephesians. I was wrong. The author uses Scripture from the Old and New Testament to back up her teachings, and for the most part, I agree with her interpretation and application.

A few things gave me pause, but they aren’t significant enough for me to suggest you not read the book. She quotes what Wikipedia says about who Lucifer is. While I use that resource frequently, I don’t suggest using it as a source of learning Biblical truths without verifying the facts from other reliable sources. Anyone can have input in the articles there, and thus you don’t necessarily know if it was posted by a Christian, atheist, Mormon, etc. That is an important distinction because we all come to look at these things with a very different perspective.

She also suggests that the reader search Bible Gateway or another online Bible to find truth that applies to their circumstances from Scripture. Personally this worries me, because it is so easy to take Scripture out of context and use it to prove things that are simply not true. Therefore, dear reader, please be diligent when you read Scripture and always read it in full context.


This review was originally posted on Among the Reads

Be sure to read Susan's Guest Post and get a preview of Don’t Go Through Life Naked at AmongTheReads.net


I would like to thank Celebrate Lit for giving me this copy of the book. This gift did not influence my opinion or review.