spiritual warfare

What is Spiritual Warfare Prayer?

Dear Friends, In this teaching I would like to focus on what spiritual warfare prayer is about, and in another teaching, I will share some strategies on how to pray warfare prayers. This is one thing that many many Christians find very difficult to do, much less understand.  This type of praying is what is needed to effectively deal with the deep problems we face. In this message, we will examine, what warfare praying is and how to fight and win warfare through prayers.

Revelation 12:7-8 says, “And there was war in heaven, Michael and his angels fought against the dragon and the dragon fought and his angels. And prevailed not; neither was their place found anymore in heaven.” Verse 12 says, “Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabitants of the earth and of the sea! For the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time.”

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As you can see in the above scripture that Satan and his devils are working overtime during this short time. You see evil spirits understand that their time is short and that they must make haste in claiming as many souls for hell as possible. And although they can’t take a believer to hell, they can certainly cause them much suffering while they are in this world and neutralize them so they are ineffective Christians.

The Battle Is Going On Around Us

There is a raging battle going on day and night between two opposing forces. The two forces are the power of the almighty God and the dark forces of Satan. This is a difficult subject to understand and even for many to believe but whether you believe it or not, you are involved in that battle anyway. This battle is going on between positive and negative powers, good and evil the real genuine and the counterfeit, light and darkness, right and wrong. It may surprise you to know that even before you were born while in your mother’s wombs you were in the fight. Some of us never made it out of our mother’s wombs because the evil one killed them before they were even born. Some started as soon as they were born. It is a serious battle where no one can be neutral. We have been born into it and we have got no choice but to fight it out. We cannot run away from it. This is not a matter of choice, you are already in the battle. Not only are you in it, you are part of it. It is a fiercely contested conflict.

Who The Enemy Is

Satan is an intelligent strategist and an obstinate fighter. He refuses to acknowledge defeat until he is completely defeated. Therefore, all the lost grounds must be recovered from him. Because he sometimes renews his attack, any ground that you have recovered from him must be properly defended. It is not enough to find yourself in the promised land, you must also defend it. Satan never gives up, he keeps trying. If he fails on the first day, he will come back on another day. You have to consistently defend your ground.

I don’t tell you these things to frighten you, I understand that  this sounds distressing after all many think “why should I get involved?” ” If I keep to myself I will be left alone!” Nothing could be further than the truth, in fact, the enemy prefers you do not understand the war you are in. He prefers to use sneak attacks and He fights with a vengeance as if he is fighting his last battle in eternity… because he is. We, however, are not to be afraid, we are after all God’s children and we have eternity to be with Him! We Win! The Lord Jesus said very clearly in scripture that we would have trials and tribulations, and He also assured us that He would never leave us or forsake us.  So we must expect trials and tribulations.

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Prayer Is The Fight

Prayer is not preparation for the fight, Prayer itself is the fight. It is no surprise that the enemy of your soul will try to make your prayers useless, and keep you defeated in praying. Once you lay down your weapons of warfare which is prayer you are all but finished. We can’t be sleeping when the Holy Spirit is alerting you with a loud alarm indicating that there is a renewed battle against you. Understand that the flesh does not want to pray. It isn’t interested in it, so you must force it to pray. This means you must develop a warrior mentality and train when the battle isn’t raging to be prepared for when you are in battle.

2 Corinthians 10:4-6 The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds. We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ. And we will be ready to punish every act of disobedience, once your obedience is complete.

Our weapons are spiritual in nature because we are fighting a spiritual war. The spiritual always affects the natural, so you must not fight in the natural even though this is how we are trained to think.

The Bible says the whole world lies in the hand of the evil one. 1 John 5:19 We know that we are children of God, and that the whole world is under the control of the evil one. It also says that the prince of the power of the air is the spirit that now works in the sons of disobedience.

No matter how good a person seems, if he is not born again, the spirit controlling him is the spirit of the prince of the power of the air. Many people believe that there is a grey neutral area. That’s not what the word of God says. The reason we struggle is that our greatest enemy is left unchallenged. Satan keeps harassing us because we don’t stop him. Satan’s success depends on two things: darkness and ignorance. Therefore, when you turn on the light to expose him, you destroy his operations.

Spiritual Warfare Is Not Preached As Much As It’s Needed

Spiritual warfare is not a popular subject and many pastors do not want to preach it. They either are afraid of offending their congregations or are believing that by focusing on warfare prayers they are somehow giving the devil too much attention. Nothing could be further from the truth, and many people are sitting in church week after week defeated in their lives. I know this as we have ministered to many many Christians that needed deliverance. We need warfare prayers to successfully fight the battle that is facing us. It is only warfare prayers that can defeat the enemy.  A lot of educated people do not understand this. This is why the devil attacks them so easily. Many preachers, too, do not understand this and the devil attacks them up just as easily.

The apostles understood warfare because the Lord Jesus told them about it. And after He ascended He sent The Holy Spirit to continue the war and also to comfort us so that we would never be alone or forsaken. This subject is so detailed that I would like to continue it in future teachings.  Be blessed and know that Jesus is for you! Be encouraged He has sent the Holy Spirit to be your helper.

In brotherly love,

Troy

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