Intercession Tuesday

PRAYING ON THE ARMOR OF GOD

In our Prayer and Fellowship Meeting on this past Friday we learned how there is a battle raging in the earthly and heavenly realms. And we learned that we must learn how to do warfare. In spiritual warfare, we  are not battling over carnal things, but we are battling over eternal things. And we can see that the spiritual battle has intensified when we look at the news and reflect on the various battles we are facing in our lives. Do not be surprised or shaken by the intensity of the battles. Jesus paid the complete price for your freedom and for your victory over sin. But you have to appropriate or assign everything he did for you. You and I were destined to be great warriors in God's kingdom. Satan will be fighting tooth and nail to prevent you from taking possession of your spiritual inheritance. Don't worry; you win. God intends for the battle for our good and simply uses Satan in his plan to make us great warriors. Through the various conflicts he makes us strong and spiritually mature. He uses the battle to promote us to higher positions in his  kingdom and to press us into intimacy and dependence on him alone. He wants us to win and  he has provided all the equipment we need to do so.

Can you accept that battle is inevitable and lifelong? Then if you have been  whining and complaining and having a pity party over the hard places in  your life, stop right now and do something constructive instead. One of your greatest assault weapons for the battle is PRAYER. You know that a soldier would never enter a battle without proper clothes and equipment but must  be  fully suited in appropriate battle attire. Let's head over to the biblical  outfitting room which is located  in Ephesians 6:10-18 and see about putting on the full armor of God. The devil is trying desperately to hold on to every inch of ground, both in your life and on the earth. It is our job as God's warriors to make him give up everything he is holding illegally and  establish the kingdom of God everywhere in our life and all over the earth. Join the battle. Pray to put on the FULL ARMOR OF GOD!

◊INTERCESSION PRAYER ◊

Heavenly Father, I desire to be obedient by being strong in the Lord and the power of Your might. I see that this is Your will and purpose for me. I recognize that it is essential to put on the armor that You have provided, and I do so now with gratitude and praise that You have provided all I need to stand in victory against the adversary and his kingdom. Grant me wisdom to discern the tactics and sneakiness of Satan's strategy against me. Enable me to wrestle in victory against the princes, powers, rulers, and wicked spirits who carry the battle of darkness against me. I am pleased and honored to take the armor You have provided and by faith to put it on as effective spiritual protection against the spiritual forces of darkness in heavenly  and earthly places. 

I confidently take the loin girdle of truth that You offer me.  I take Him who is the truth as my strength and protection. I reject Satan's lies and deceiving ways to gain advantage against me. Grant me discernment and wisdom to recognize the subtle deceiving ways in which Satan seeks to cause me to accept
his lies as truth. I desire to believe only the truth, to live the truth, to  speak the truth, and to know the truth. I worship and praise You that You lead me only in the ways of truth. Thank You that Satan cannot stand against the bold use of truth.

Thank You for the breastplate of righteousness which you offer me. I eagerly accept it and put it on as my protection. Thank You for reminding me again that all of my righteousness comes from You. I embrace that righteousness which is mine by faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. It is His righteousness that is mine through justification. I reject and repudiate all trust in my own righteousness which is as filthy rags. I ask You to cleanse me of all the times I have counted my own goodness as being acceptable before You. I bring the righteousness of my Lord directly against all of Satan's workings against me. I express my desire to walk in righteousness before God today. I depend upon the fact the righteousness of my Lord to be my protection.

Thank You, Lord, for the sandals of peace You have provided. I desire that my feet should stand on the solid rock of the peace that You have provided. I claim the peace of God. I desire the peace of God which touches my emotions and feelings through prayer. Thank You that as I walk in obedience to You that the God of peace promises to walk with me (Phil.4:6-9), that as the God of peace You are putting Satan under my feet (Rom. 16:20). I will share this good news of peace with all others today that Your Spirit will bring into my life and witness.

Eagerly, Lord, I lift up the shield of faith against all the fiery dart that Satan and his hosts fire at me. I recognize that You are my shield and that in Your crucifixion and incarnation. You took the arrows of Satan which I deserved. By faith I count upon You to shield me from above and beneath; on my right and my left; in front of me and behind me, that I might be protected, walled in by You that Satan may gain no way to hurt or destroy me from fulfilling Your will in my life. I know that any fiery darts of Satan You wish to touch me should do so, but I shall look upon them as refining fires permitted in Your providence for my refining and glory (1 Pet. 1). Thank You,  Lord, that You are a complete and perfect shield and that Satan cannot touch me apart from Your sovereign purpose. 

I recognize that my mind is a particular target of Satan's deceiving ways. I take from You the helmet of salvation. I cover my mind, my thoughts, with Your salvation. I recognize that the Lord Jesus Christ is my salvation. I helmet my head with Him. I invite His mind to be in me. Let me think His  thoughts, feel His love and compassion, and discern His will and leading in all things. Let my mind be occupied with the continuing, daily, saving work of my Lord in and through my life. May the salvation of my Lord meet and defeat all Satanic thoughts that come to my mind. 

With joy I take hold upon the sword of the Spirit, which is the Word of God. I affirm that Your Word is the trustworthy, infallible Word of God. I choose to believe it and to live in its truth and power. Grant me the love for Your Word which comes from the Holy Spirit. Forgive and cleanse me from the sin of neglecting Your Word. Enable me to memorize it and to meditate upon its truth. Grant me the ability to proficiently recall and use Your Word against all of Satan's subtle attacks against me, even as my Lord Jesus Christ used the Word against Satan. Enable me to use Your Word not only to defend me from Satan but also to claim its promises and to wield the sword strong against Satan to defeat him, to push him back, to take away from him ground he claims, and to win great victories for my God through Your Word. 

Help me to keep this armor well oiled with prayer. I desire to pray at all times with depth and intensity as the Holy Spirit leads me. I reject all fleshly  praying. I trust the Holy Spirit to enable me, to intercede for me and through me, grant me a great burden for others in God's family. Enable me to see their needs and to assist them through prayer as the enemy attacks them.

All of these petitions, intercessions, and words of praise I offer up before the true and living God in the name of my Lord, Savior, Jesus Christ. Amen.

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