The Power Of Prayer | God Is With You In The Battle (MOTIVATIONAL)
when studying spiritual warfare there is
no better section of the Bible than
Ephesians 6 where we instructed to put
on the six pieces of spiritual armor God
has given us from those six pieces of
armor the only weapon listed is the
sword of the Spirit which is the word of
God however today we come to another
weapon which is just as powerful and
maybe even more powerful in certain
situations the weapon of prayer most
believers don’t view prayer as a weapon
this may be because poor does not align
it to a piece of weaponry like he did
the other six elements of the armor of
God this was not because the roman
soldier did not have any of the weapons
they did besides the sword the soldiers
also had Spears
bow and arrows battering rams and
catapults but Paul does not compare any
of these to prayer because none of them
can even come close to the power
precision and effectiveness of the
weapon of Prayer so since Paul doesn’t
give us a piece of battle gear to equate
to the weapon of prayer maybe we could
even refer to it as our secret weapon
this is why Paul says in second
Corinthians 10 verse 4 for the weapons
of our warfare are not carnal but mighty
through God to the pulling down of
stronger in this verse the weapon he’s
referring to is prayer none of the other
pieces of the armor of God was described
the same way as prayer is described as
mighty meaning that prayer is the
ultimate weapon for a believer it must
never be forgotten that Almighty God
rules this world he is not an absent God
his hand is ever on the throttle of
human affairs he is everywhere at all
times and what you need to know is that
there is nothing more important to God
than a believers prayer and faith prayer
is the heartbeat of each and every
believer Warren whizby said everything
that God does is an answer to prayer
and that’s the truth because James said
do you have not simply because you asked
me god helps believers through prayer he
who does not pray therefore robs himself
from God’s help Philippians 4:6 be
anxious for nothing but in everything
but by prayer and supplication with
Thanksgiving let your requests be made
known to God what we need to understand
is the power that we have in prayer now
the weapon of prayer is a force it
touches eternal powers and sets them
into motion it moves God into action and
the devil into retreat because when
there is no prayer the devil advances
did you hear me
where there is no prayer the devil
advances this is why we are told in
everything and in every area we should
pray God will only give to you what
you’re willing to pray for are you in
trouble are you in deep waters has the
enemy come in like a flood let me tell
you my friend there are situations in
life that you cannot overcome any other
way except through prayer no other way
except through prayer and prayer alone
Ephesians 4:27 says do not give the
devil a chance God is telling us himself
do not give the devil a chance are you
given the devil a chance in your life
today it has to stop don’t allow the
devil to ruin your life get on your
knees and fight back stop allowing the
devil to destroy your help the Bible
bring you help stop allowing the devil
to break up your family the Bible says
let no man separate what God has told
together stop allowing the devil to tell
you your life is only the Bible says
your God will restore everything you
have lost everything you applause stop
allowing the devil to inject the spirit
of fear into your life the Bible says
God has not given you the spirit of fear
stop allowing the devil to tell you that
God only answers the prayers of the
righteous the Bible says the
righteousness of Jesus has been imputed
into you stop allowing the devil to tell
you your situation is hopeless you need
to know that Jesus is your hope you
don’t have to take your stop you don’t
have to take it call on God through
prayer use the weapon that you have been
given the weapon of prayer prayer opens
up the gates of heaven and closes the
gates of Hell prayer up routes and
destroys demonic power and influences
prayer lift you higher to a place you
cannot go by yourself
praying folks the supernatural power of
God prayer opens of resources not known
to men you have a host of angels ready
waiting to intervene in your situation
but you are silent why are you silent
suffering in silence in pain in silence
dying in your sin in silence living with
a broken heart in silence
putting a smile on for the world but
crying yourself to sleep at night this
is something I struggle with myself even
when I am NOT alright if someone asked
me I always say I’m fine
but we don’t have to live like this each
and every one of us have been given the
ability to call on God he can end your
suffering he can ease your pain he can
save you from your sin he can heal your
broken heart he can heal the damage that
man did to you he can heal that damage
that woman did to you because he loves
you and cares for you the truth is life
is not fair it really is not fair at
times not everybody gets the same breaks
and the same opportunities and with life
the burdens and the stalls will come and
they can get so difficult that you even
struggle to breathe and life can break
your heart in a multitude of ways your
spouse or your loved one leaves you and
moves on with their life and fast
forward two years on your still then
left trying to pick up the pieces and
then moved on your business experiences
difficulties through no fault of your
own you went to every meeting you
treated your customers right you did
everything right and it just doesn’t
work out and you’re left with a broken
heart your loved one dies unexpectedly
and you don’t know what to do with
yourself and you’re left with memories
and a broken heart
your health gets taken away from you
completely out for blue and you’re there
left with a broken heart I don’t know
what’s broke in your heart today but
there’s only one that can
a broken heart the one who said cast
your care upon me for I carried for you
Jesus cares for you Jesus cares for you
he can heal your broken heart I’ve not
lived your life and you’ve not lived my
life I don’t know the burdens the pain
that you’ve had to enjoy but one thing
we do have in common is that we’ve got
one precious Savior one precious Jesus
and he can heal your broken heart all
you have to do is ask Jeremiah 33:3 says
call on me and I will answer you did you
know prayer is the language of calling
upon God the devil will do everything in
his power to stop you from praying and
he will try to even block your prayers
look at Daniel 10 verse 12 when an angel
was speaking to Daniel he said then he
said to me do not fear Daniel from the
first day that you sent your heart to
understand and to humble yourself before
God your words were heard and I have
come because of your word but the Prince
of the kingdom of Persia withstood me
for 21 days and behold Michael one of
the chief Prince came to help me for I
had been left alone there with the king
of Persia
notice how the angel said because of
your words your breakthrough is on its
way but you need to carry on fighting
using the weapon of prayer you need to
have an aggressive fiery relentless
attitude with your prayer life but
unfortunately any time our prayers are
not answered instantly we give up we
need to persist with crying out to the
Lord we need to have or whatever it
takes attitude with our prayer life all
Jesus all Jesus
you to come through I need you to come
through on your promises you said to me
call on me in the day of trouble I’m in
trouble if you don’t do something for me
here I won’t survive I need you to
conclude from me
God you promised me you promised me that
you’d be with me you promised me that
you would fight for me that you’d give
your angel charge over me
God will answer your prayer you don’t
have to fight the battles of life alone
you have God on your side but he’s
waiting on you to ask when was the last
time you used the weapon of prayer and
I’m not talking about that soft prayer
that you always recite every single day
I mean the type of prayer where your
whole spirit is involved where you throw
everything you have inside of you and
you don’t even need to shout it can just
come from the heart you have a prayer
warrior inside you you need to stop
letting life and the devil kick you
around call on God tell yourself I might
be old but I’m a prayer warrior I might
be young but I’m a prayer warrior I
might be a saint but I’m a prayer
warrior if my people called by my name
shall humble themselves and pray and
seek my face and turn from their wicked
ways then I will hear from heaven and
will forgive their sin and will heal
their land what’s involved in this God
expects us to pray but we must not
forget what Jonathan Edwards said when
he said to promote explicit agreement
and visible union of all God’s people in
extraordinary prayer what do you mean by
extraordinary prayer when you find
people getting up at six o’clock in the
morning to pray or having a half night
of prayer till midnight that’s
extraordinary prayer when they give up
their lunch time and go and pray at a
noonday prayer meeting that’s
extraordinary prayer
but it must be united and concerted it
doesn’t mean that a Baptist becomes any
less of a Baptist or the name and the
Pisgah pagan is less loyal to the
thirty-nine articles or the Presbyterian
turns his back on the Westminster
Confession not at all but they recognize
each other as brothers and sisters in
Christ and they’re prepared to pray
together in concerted prayer that God
may hear and answer we haven’t reached
that stage yet but you folk you are here
those who listen to my voice must take
it back to your churches and when
they’re prepared to set aside time to
pray for a spiritual awakening that’s
when God is going to answer now some
people say that means then it’s up to us
oh no we can’t say that either Matthew
Henry said when God intends great mercy
for his people he first of all sets them
appraised even God is sovereign in this
matter but we must respond he has chosen
never to work without our cooperation
and prayer is an important part of our
lives in fact
I think we can say without fear of
argument that you and I are what our
prayers are our Christian life cannot be
divorced from our prayer life if our
prayer life is weak our Christian life
is weak
if our prayer life is unintelligent our
Christian life is unintelligent you
can’t divorce praying from living jesus
said men ought always to pray and not to
faint it’s a very simple thing you must
pray then God will work may God help us
so to pray amen
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