9 Keys to Effective Spiritual Warfare

Twenty years have passed, and a whole lot of accumulated hit-and-miss prayers have been sent through the heavenlies, only to continue their flight through endless horizons of deep space.  Carnal prayers of

panic, desperation, doubt and well-wishing never really find their way to the throne room of God, I’m afraid.  Finally though, I've settled in my mind and heart, that those who have gone before me, pioneering paths of prayers to God and achieving great results, must have a special connection to Him!  They must KNOW something, or HAVE something that I don’t; Keys, perhaps?  And they know how to use them! 

Here is a short list, I've comprised in hope of helping out those who find themselves praying, and achieving little or nothing, as a result.  Outside of ‘waiting on the Lord’s perfect timing’, there is little else one can do.  Use this short list to help evaluate whether or not you are in the ‘waiting on God’ season, or just stuck. 

1.  Know the Power of your God, and Father and His willingness to come through for you, and those you pray for.  Peace to endure the battle, and ward off battle fatigue will follow.

2.  Know the Season in which you are standing, currently.  Strategy will come.  Strategic insight will come, that can be included in your prayer.  Confidence creates a heart of gratitude; a shift in the force of your prayer to God, unleashing the power of a merciful Father. 

3.  Look for the Timing of God, as you pray; He often quickens you, to know ‘duration’.  You will need patience, endurance, strength, and the knowledge of long-suffering, in your stand.  Experience provides that.  Pull from the resource of your experience with the God and Father of perfect timing.  The on-time God.  You will need to know times and seasons, and how the Lord takes people through them, often with only your Intercessory Prayers preserving and sustaining them.

4.  Recognize the enemy of “Routine”, and “Limitation”, and distance yourself from it.  Nothing will douse out the fire of God faster than routine, or doubt.  Doubt puts limits on God, and is a step away from fear.  Faith filled prayers, are not prayers that conform or settle for the easy way out.  Faith filled prayers are out of the ordinary, and will stretch you beyond the limits you have become comfortably familiar with.    

5.  Identify Distractors:  Increase deliberate self-discipline, in maintaining momentum, consistency, and achieving prayerful outcomes that usher in healing, comfort, liberty, and life transforming salvation.  Distractions are an enemy in spiritual warfare.  Eliminating them causes the effectiveness needed in spiritual warfare.  It offers the spiritual fine-tuning needed to hear and align yourself in prayer, with the Lord and His will, concerning the issues we face in prayer.

6.  Identify Points of Entry:  Close, Remove and Eliminate means of access to the enemy, by both word (prayer), and deed (action).  We do our part, as the Lord leads and He will do His part (what we cannot do), all the while maintaining prayer.  How is the devil getting through to your loved one?  Through anger, sickness, recklessness? A deaf and dumb spirit?  In prayer, shut those doors.  In prayer, shield and protect your loved ones with a thick hedge of God’s Word.  In action, let those loved ones know you are praying and not going to stop.  Nothing will go right for anyone not aligned with the will of God for their lives, when Effective Spiritual Warfare is at work.  People are out of timing, out of step, out of alignment with the Lord and have STOPPED living for Him; key point of entry.

7.  Fully Utilize the Word of God, in your prayer and petition.  Skim off excess verbiage, and unnecessary wordage in prayer.  Fine Tune your prayer by adopting the use of praying the Word of God.  Choosing to pray the Word of God stored up in your spirit man, over the use of words that fill your mind and have been memorized, is all powerful. 

8.  Eliminate Vain Repetition.  Pray the “sticking points”, and make clear your definite, specific request; your need.  Praying the specific Scriptures that pertain directly to your situation of need, will eliminate vain repetition in prayer.  Vain Repetition is a form of godliness, producing no power. 

9.  Know the Will of God, for the situation.  This comes from spending time: quality, undiluted, uninterrupted, precious time in an atmosphere that promotes stillness before the Lord, confidence and fervency.  

10.  Did I say nine?  Walk in the Spirit, and you won’t give flesh, or carnality, a place in your prayers.  Promptings from God are not the same as impulses from the flesh/emotion of man.  There is a very distinct difference that can only be detected in the spirit, by your relationship with the Lord.

Of course, this is only a short list of key’s that will help keep you on the victorious side of Effective Spiritual Warfare.  Reminding ourselves that others, as well as our own specific needs are worth fighting for in vigorous, fervent even violent prayer before the Lord, helps promote motivation. 

Motivation strengthens us three-fold: Spirit, Soul and Body.  By this we go from the simplicity and more laxed position of a prayer partner, into the rewarding prayer-filled life of an Intercessor skillful in Effective Spiritual Warfare.  Intercessors prayer you all the way through to victory no matter how long it takes.

Taken from the book, SPIRITUAL WARFARE: The Fight, The Freedom, The Fire ©2015 Sandra Cerda   Available on Amazon and Barnes & Noble.  No part of this literature may be reproduced in any part or form, without the express written permission of the copyright owner, or reference in writing to the copyright owner.

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