About this Message
✨ Prayer is the greatest weapon we have for spiritual warfare. Without prayer, we cannot wage spiritual warfare. The role of prayer is central and indispensable. Prayer is priceless to the one who engages in spiritual warfare.
If one looks at the life of Jesus, there is no doubt that his success in ministry and spiritual warfare was linked to his prayer life and his practices of other spiritual disciplines - Hebrews 7:25
Paul tells Christians to pray without ceasing.
1 Thessalonians 5:17 pray without ceasing,
The best way to apply that passage is to have a disciplined scheduled daily prayer time over which one should then have spontaneous all-day prayers.
When one reads the letters of Paul, one cannot miss the centrality of prayer in both the Christian life and spiritual warfare.
Ephesians 6:10-20
“According to Paul talking about spiritual warfare in Ephesians 6, prayer is the 7th piece of armor. It activates all of the rest of the spiritual armor. When we refuse to pray, it’s like having a refrigerator without plugging it in. Prayer is the divinely authorized mechanism God has given us to tap into His power. Without prayer, we’ll be ineffective in spiritual warfare. But with it, we will be victorious.”
In 2 Kings 6:17, we see a simple but powerful prayer that the prophet Elisha prayed. He said, “O Lord, please open his eyes that he may see.” Every spiritual warrior ought to pray this prayer for themselves. It is only when our spiritual vision is good that we can see the strategy of the devil unfolding in front of our eyes and we can see and have faith in God’s full armor discussed in Ephesians 6
2 Corinthians 10:2-5 that Christians are to take every thought captive and make it obedient to Christ, how do they do that except through dependent prayer and the power of God?
James 4:7 “Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.” Where do Christians actually get the strength to do all that except through prayer?
Prayer is everything.
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