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Highway to Christian Victory

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Prayer is certainly the highway to Christian victory and is God’s way of developing a loving relationship with His people. However, prayer is also the chosen vehicle to change the plans of Satan for your life, family, community, church, city and country. Isaiah shows there must be a time of waiting before God in prayer, (Isa. 40; 31). The apostle Paul gives a plea to the church to pray, (I Tim. 2:8), “Men everywhere should pray.” The apostle James tells us the potential and powerful prayer in James 5:16. There is no limit to the power of the prayers of the righteous. The early church started with patient prayer in Acts 1: 3. They prayed for ten days. This was Christ’s command, (Lk. 24:49). We see the experience of prevailing prayer in (I Thess. 5:27). Christians should always be in the attitude of prayer. However, we see in (Matt. 6:6), a call to personal prayer and secret prayer is the miracle of the Christian life.

Daniel Prays For His Nation

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Daniel prayed to God for the return of his people to their own land. In Daniel’s prayer for his nation, he confessed his own sins using the pronoun, “we” throughout. Daniel knew how to pray. As he prayed, he fasted and confessed his sins, in (Dan. 9:3-19). (In verses 9: 11-13), he mentioned the blessings and curses shown in (Deut. 28). God had given the people a choice of obedience to blessings or disobedience to the curses. The purpose for their affliction was to turn the people back to God.

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When Daniel prayed, he asked for God mercy, but not for His help. Daniel knew that God’s people had done wrong and they deserved punishment. While Daniel prayed and fasted, a war was going on in the heavenlies and a heavenly being appeared to Daniel in (verses 10: 5,6), “Behold a certain man clothed in linen, whose loins were girded with fine gold of Uphaz. His body also was like the beryl lightning, and his eyes as lamps of fire, and his arms and his feet like in color to polished brass, and the voice of his words like the voice of a multitude.” The book of Hebrews tells us that God’s angels are all ministering spirits, sent forth to minister to those who will be heirs of salvation.

Daniel alone saw the vision of the angel, but the men that were with him, though they did not see the angel, were possessed of great trembling, so that they fled to hide themselves, vs. 8. Daniel was left weak although this was an angel of low rank, a lieutenant in the forces of God. When Daniel was stopped by a major angel of the forces of Satan, he could not go on with his mighty ministry until God sent a ministering angel to his aid.  Daniel caught a glimpse of a supernatural battle between good and evil in verse 10:13. The angel had to fight against the Satanic Prince of Persia and the Satanic Prince of Greece. The demonic powers had tried to stop the answer of Daniel’s prayer from getting through. This supernatural battle proves that even though the devils tried to stop his prayer, angels were warring to bring the answer. Daniel’s weapons were repentance, fasting, faith and prayers.

Spiritually cleaning your home or office

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“When you go into battle in your own land against an enemy who is oppressing you, sound a blast on the trumpets. Then you will be remembered by the Lord your God and rescued from your enemies,” (Num.10:9).

PEACE IN THE HOME

Your house must be cleaned from articles, occult jewelry, occult books, etc., for you to enjoy complete freedom. Spiritual house cleaning should be done by anointing with olive oil in the name of Jesus. Jesus taught us that we have the power to bind demonic spirits. Binding and commanding all powers of darkness to leave is shown in (Matt. 18:18).When driving evils spirits out, anoint the doorways, windows, discard all statues and images of animals. Many unknowingly invite demonic attack by dabbling in jewelry with occult symbolism and power.