My encouragement to every believer who feels attacked is to pray this daily until they find themselves back in a smooth place, and then to pray it weekly or monthly thereafter. I find that praying it out loud has a two-fold benefit: God hears and responds, and demons hear, and flee.
God can hear our inner-most thoughts, but Satan can’t. The Believer’s Warfare prayer is a sound spiritual exercise. A lot.Įvery Christian leader I know feels attacked, discouraged, disparaged or hopeless from time to time. Leaders are pro-active, so we start by addressing the symptom of our problem, but it makes sense to go deeper and attack the root. Good call! I dug out my Believer’s Warfare Prayer and began praying it again. “You should remember that these attacks you’re experiencing have a spiritual basis to them.” Proverbs 15:22 tells me that plans fail for lack of counsel, so one day I went to see a counselor. The church and I have experienced spiritual attack over the last two decades, but never like this. That seemed to paint a target on my back. Then, a few years ago, New Song appeared on the Outreach 100 Fastest Growing Churches list.
This went on for years.Īs New Song grew and our members matured, more and more people were lifting me up in prayer, so that I began to experience their “prayer shield.” I prayed my Warfare Prayer less often. It was like the Lord and I were pushing back Satan, claiming territory and victory. I found that every time I prayed the prayer, I felt relief. The pressure returned the next day, so I prayed it out loud again. I prayed his prayer out loud, verbatim that first day and the spiritual pressure I was feeling abated. Matthews, but his prayer has contributed significantly to my ministry. Someone handed a printed prayer to me by seminary professor Victor Matthews called, “The Believer’s Warfare Prayer.” I haven’t met Dr. In the early days of New Song, I felt spiritual pressure constantly and some sort of threat to the church’s existence daily. If that’s the case, then maybe the best place to start in resolving whatever is coming against you is in a warfare prayer. “Our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms” (Eph. It can attack your reputation, your finances, your health, or your family.īut because of your position in the Kingdom, there’s always a tie to the spiritual world. That battle can be initiated by people or circumstances. If you’re in the Kingdom, you’re in a battle.
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