PRAYER FOR SPIRITUAL WARFARE, PART III

Dr. Kenneth W. Jones, Pastor, Practical Living Ministry

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What Are You Fighting For?

Your Faith is in the Balance – Satan wants your faith

1st Timothy 6:12 – A good fight is a fight that we win

Your Family is in the Balance - We must become

GUARDIANS for our families! (Nehemiah 4:14)

Satan is attacking our homes each day through social media,

ungodly influence, attacking our resources – What are you

doing about it!

Your Friends are in the Balance – Pray ye for one

another – Are you fighting for the kingdom of God,

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What Are You Fighting For?

Nehemiah 4:14 - And I looked, and rose up, and said

unto the nobles, and to the rulers, and to the rest of

the people, Be not ye afraid of them: remember the

Lord, which is great and terrible, and fight for your

brethren, your sons, and your daughters, your

wives, and your houses.

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What Are You Fighting With?

2 Corinthians 10:4 - (For the weapons of our warfare

are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling

down of strong holds;)

2 Corinthians 10:4 - For the weapons of our warfare

are not physical [weapons of flesh and blood], but they

are mighty before God for the overthrow and

destruction of strongholds,

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Carnal Weapons Used in our

Relationships With Others

Silence Treatment & Avoidance

Vindictiveness

Denying/ Withholding Oneself from One Another

Allow the Other to Fail

Manipulation through Shame, Guilt, or Fear

Unkind and Hurting Words

Can you think of other

Weapons?

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Mighty Weapons to Destroy

Strongholds and Achieve Victory

The Word of God

Submission to the Spirit of God

Prayer and Confession of God’s

Word

Righteous living and thinking

God is guaranteeing that if you use

His weapons, you will win. They are

“mighty through God to the pulling

down of strong holds.” Use them, and

things will fall before you, is what He

is saying.

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Strongholds

Imaginations

BLOW IT UP!

Prayer Ammo

To Fight and Win Decisively in Battle, Every Fighting

Unit needs bullets, food, and fuel to sustain oneself

in battle

The Word of God serves as ammo and food to the believer

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• Many Christians are like “Barney Fife” a character from the “Andy Griffith Show,” a long time ago. He portrayed the Deputy Sheriff of Mayberry who was allowed only one bullet for his gun

• The reason why some can’t pray long and proper is because they have NO AMMO or Word in their spirit. They can’t be trusted even with one bullet in their gun because they are unskilled in the Word of God.

Prayer Ammo – Fuel (Power) of the

Spirit

Without the power of the Holy Spirit active in our lives, we

cannot pray effectively (Romans 8:26,27 & Jude 1:20) – We

Need Power to Pray

Rear Support – In war, those who are fighting on the front line

need rear support to sustain themselves in battle (i.e. supply,

admin, food, etc.)

Intercessors act as our rear support providing prayer support to sustain

spiritual leaders and to provide spiritual covering for the saints

In battle when requesting artillery fire, people need to know where you

are in order to best support you.

That means that there should a bit of transparency in our Christian walk

so that others can pray for us and be available to minister to us

spiritually, emotionally, and physically

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Who’s Fighting For You?

Exodus 14:14 - The Lord will fight for you, and you

shall hold your peace and remain at rest.

Deuteronomy 3:22 - Ye shall not fear them: for the

LORD your God he shall fight for you.

2nd Chronicles 20:14-19

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God Will Fight For You

God assured Jehoshaphat and the children of Israel that He

would fight for them

He said the enemy would come and that we would have to

stand against them – Yet he ensured He would be with

them

Our response should be worship and praise

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Scripture

Isaiah 49:25 - But thus saith the LORD, Even the

captives of the mighty shall be taken away, and

the prey of the terrible shall be delivered: for I

will contend with him that contendeth with thee,

and I will save thy children.

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Allowing God to Fight For You

Position yourself – In prayer, before the Lord

Stand still – Cease all unnecessary movement and

activities

Watch the Lord’s victory – Praise Him in Advance

for What God is doing and about to do

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God Won’t Quit On You!

God Will Not Throw in the Towel On You

Throwing in the towel is, in boxing terms, an

acknowledgement of defeat. When a boxer is too beat up to

continue, his coach throws a towel into the ring to signal that the

fight is over.

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• You don’t have to struggle in this fight alone. for God will bring in a help meet; one called alongside to help you - the Holy Spirit to help you fight this fight.

• When you are too overwhelmed, God will say, Step aside and let me fight for you.

Pass the Banner – Teaching Others to

War

2 Timothy 2:2 - And the things that thou hast heard

of me among many witnesses, the same commit

thou to faithful men, who shall be able to teach

others also.

Your salvation experience is not just for you alone.

Find someone that you can speak favorably in their

lives

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Prayer Has Power

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Scripture

Luke 22:31,32:

And the Lord said, Simon, Simon,

behold, Satan hath desired to have

you, that he may sift you as wheat:

32 But I have prayed for thee, that

thy faith fail not: and when thou art

converted, strengthen thy brethren.

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Satan Seeks to Sift All of Us

To “Sift” means an inward agitation to try one's faith to the

verge of overthrowing them

Christ says to Peter that Satan desires to sift him; to place trials

and temptations before him; “to agitate him” to see whether

anything of faith would remain

So many of us are being shifted daily and feel that we are all

alone and powerless, even afraid to share with another

Discouragement can result from different scenarios, but Satan

is the instigator. He will do anything he can to dishearten us

and keep our focus on negative things instead of on God.

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But I have prayed for thee

Jesus prayed for Peter – Satan wanted to do more to Peter,

but he couldn’t because we have a praying Savior. He ever

liveth to make intercessions for us today (Hebrews 7:25)

That your faith should not fail: Peter’s faith would falter but

not fail. As believers, pastors, our faith may falter, but God

will see us through until Victory is achieved if we faint not

When you have returned to Me, strengthen your brethren.

The one who returns or endures after faltering isn’t encouraged

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Practical Living Ministry

Practical Living Ministry mission is to impact the lives of God’s

people by providing biblical concepts for practical, spiritual,

living. To fulfill the Great Commission appointed to us by the

Lord Jesus Christ through witnessing, discipleship, and equipping

the saints of God.

You can reach us on our website at:

www.practicallivingministry.org

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Scripture

2nd Chronicles 20: 14-19:

Then upon Jahaziel the son of Zechariah, the son of Benaiah, the son of Jeiel,

the son of Mattaniah, a Levite of the sons of Asaph, came the Spirit of the

LORD in the midst of the congregation; 15 And he said, Hearken ye, all Judah,

and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem, and thou king Jehoshaphat, Thus saith the

LORD unto you, Be not afraid nor dismayed by reason of this great

multitude; for the battle is not yours, but God's. 16 To morrow go ye down

against them: behold, they come up by the cliff of Ziz; and ye shall find them

at the end of the brook, before the wilderness of Jeruel. 17 Ye shall not need

to fight in this battle: set yourselves, stand ye still, and see the salvation of

the LORD with you, O Judah and Jerusalem: fear not, nor be dismayed; to

morrow go out against them: for the LORD will be with you. 18 And

Jehoshaphat bowed his head with his face to the ground: and all Judah and

the inhabitants of Jerusalem fell before the LORD, worshipping the LORD.

19 And the Levites, of the children of the Kohathites, and of the children of the

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Scriptures

also helps our weakness; for we do not know how to pray as

we should, but the Spirit Himself intercedes for us with

groanings too deep for words; 27 and He who searches the

hearts knows what the mind of the Spirit is, because He

intercedes for the saints according to the will of God.

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