2 years ago
Spiritual Battle
God is calling every one of us to move into the realm of the Spirit to do battle. It's time. God is calling us to move out of the world—the things of the flesh—and to move into the realm of the Spirit.
When you start praying in tongues, you'll cross over the line into the realm of the Spirit. You'll forget time—time has no meaning. The only thing that will concern you is pressing on, getting closer to God. You'll keep fighting to get the answer.
That's why praying in tongues is so important. The natural mind has no spiritual power; it's the Holy Spirit who causes the devil to flee. Demons fight tongues like crazy because they know praying in tongues is the hotline to God.
No demon can prevent a prayer in tongues from reaching the Throne Room of God. A prayer in tongues is spoken out of the spirit, and that spirit has power—lots of power. The devil knows that, so he deceives people about tongues, because he's afraid of it. It's one of the greatest weapons the Christian has.
When you don't know what to pray, pray in tongues. The Holy Spirit always knows what to pray. When you start praying in tongues, the answer is on the way and the devil is on the run! As you pray, you'll put devils to flight and move over into the realm of the Spirit.
There are a lot of spiritual battles going on right now in the world. They must be fought in prayer. The Lord once said to me, "I need believers who will go out in the realm of the Spirit and fight." He said, "Angels can lose if there are not believers in the battle, too."
God is calling us to get our lives straight and to do what we need to do to go out and battle—to win. He wants us to walk and talk with Him as a personal friend. He is calling us to separate ourselves unto prayer. The only way we'll ever experience God and His glory world is by staying on our faces before Him.
People ask me if I believe in seeing angels. I certainly do. They ask me if I believe in seeing devils. I certainly do. And do I believe in going into spiritual battle? I certainly do.
I backed off from saying these things for a long time because I didn't want people to think I was strange. I finally decided it didn't make any difference what people thought; I had to preach what I know to be the truth. (God will take care of the people who think I'm strange, just as he'll take care of me.)
When I flew into Zimbabwe in 1984, God showed me a spiritual battle that was going on over that African nation, and He said, "If believers don't fall on their faces and start praying for the nations, the nations are going to fall to the devil." Nations are going to fall if we don't pray!
We have a responsibility to pray for this world. Let's quit playing games. Let's get into the midst of the spiritual battle and do warfare. Let's get serious with God. Let's get real. God has called us to this spiritual battle. Let's do what He's called us to do.
If we don't pray, this world isn't going to make it, and we won't make it in our lives and ministries. I don't care how much knowledge you might have of the Word of God —I don't care if you are a Greek or Hebrew scholar—I don't care how influential you might be—if you quit praying, you're headed for defeat!
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