Warfare Prayer

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Jesus accomplished all victory at the cross. The enemy was totally defeated positionally, but it is up to us, both as individuals and as the body of Christ, to manifest this victory in our lives. To begin with, we must know who and what our enemy is.

These are spirit beings that do not sleep, so our warfare can be almost continuous. As we understand more and more of the revelation concerning the "age to come", or the immortal church triumphant, it becomes the priority of the enemy to defeat us. So what do we do? What is our part? I Thessalonians fifth chapter verse seventeen gives a short, but precise, answer.

As in any time of prayer, we must open in praise. One, we need His presence and the word says He is enthroned in the praises of Israel. And two, praise releases the spirit of prophetic revelation showing us who the enemy of the moment is and how God wants us to move in prayer to defeat it. The prophetic gifting of the Holy Spirit is absolutely necessary for us to do victorious warfare. Word of Knowledge tells us what the problem is, Word of Wisdom tells us how to pray to solve it, and discernment of spirits discloses what evil force is behind it all so we can loose its assignments from us.

For truly good prayer there must be miracles. Satan has had much time and the leeway to ruin most areas of our life, holding us in bondage to sickness, poverty, bad relationships etc. But, with God all things are possible, and it is His desire that His children succeed, so our prayer can overcome these things. Miracles are for today. There are a few conditions however.

We must not doubt, be double-minded, or hold anything against anyone. For the miraculous to work, the flow of power from God's realm must not be broken by human weaknesses such as resentment, bitterness, lack of forgiveness, jealousy, envy or whatever. Miracles flow from God to this physical earth through love.

We must be focused to do good warfare. Satan's forces will do all in their power to divide God's people. For instance, as life goes on, people are chastened, shaped and molded, yet there should be no division in this. Leadership is instructed by God to love enough to correct, and so those being corrected must receive the correction in the spirit it was meant. There should be no division as these situations happen, and there won't be if we are all focused on the Kingdom. Leaders want to raise up vessels to be the very best for God, and His people should want to be the best they can be for the Lord. There is unity in that thinking. The greatest of prayers are destroyed by division. In fact, nothing works, no strategy can succeed where there is disharmony. Satan understands this much better than we do. This is why he causes us to see each others weaknesses and faults. Satan knows it breaks the power that flows through love and that we will lose.

Even the evil will succeed if united, as unity is a spiritual law to success. Look at how the evil ones built the Tower of Babel and a city God did not approve of. Number one, how did God stop it? He confused their language, they could not understand one another and division came about. Had God not done this, let us look at what could have been in Genesis 11:6.

This law of unity is true for the righteous as well as they do warfare. Think of the success in prayer if God's people were united under His blessing, and governed by that same Kingdom spiritual law! Nothing would be withheld!

Good and productive warfare prayer is executed through your whole being. All is involved. Your attitude, emotions and actions, should be geared towards winning! We must forget how we look and how we sound to battle successfully. When we are at war in the natural realm, do we care what others think of our actions, how we are dressed, or what our hair looks like? No, we roll up our sleeves and go at it! It should be the same in our supernatural battles in Prayer. Jesus chastened the religious leaders of His day for pride and long, stuffy, ineffective prayers. He said they actually shut the Kingdom up for men rather than opening it, and its blessings, to them.

Shouting at the enemy and crying out to God as in real warfare prayer embarrasses the prideful. They do not want to look silly, even for God! You can't be in neutral and win battles for the Kingdom however, so we must forget what we look or sound like and humbly do what the Spirit tells us to do. The spiritual law in James 4:6 automatically defeats the prayer of those that operate in pride.

So clap, shout, cry out loud, weep, get mad, forget your pride and get the victory! The humble possess the land.