Hi Ladies,
Here are more Rules of Engagement for warfare prayer. These are God’s guidelines on how to proceed with warring on behalf of your future mate. Your prayers always connect you with our Father, but when you begin Binding, Loosing and Intercession for a spouse-to-be, you must understand and follow His instructions. When you’re obedient and submitted to His Will, both you and your husband-of-promise will reap the benefits.
RULES OF ENGAGEMENT (Continued)
Your warfare prayers are a private matter. This is an essential directive to heed, despite the urge you might feel to spread the good news! When God has placed it upon your heart to launch binding, loosing and intercession for a spouse, you are not confronting a man but are dealing with the enemy instead. This concerns only you, God, and the devil. This restriction applies to the situation covered last week, when a fellow you may already be acquainted with can suddenly start acting distant or uninterested when you commence intercessory prayers.
There are two reasons for this: (1) Satan is trying to deter you from following the course you’ve embarked upon. (2) You have made the error of revealing to the man that you are praying for him.
Never announce, boast, or otherwise notify anybody, especially the guy, that you are interceding for him unless he has publicly acknowledged a need and has requested prayers. If he has, feel free to let him know that you are praying on his behalf. Otherwise, if you serve notice that a man has become your personal prayer project, your announcement will almost certainly backfire. You’ll lose your effectiveness as a prayer warrior, and possibly even hinder a potential relationship from fully developing.
Why? Because you will be moving out of God’s timing. Taking matters into your own hands never works out well. Don’t try to make a relationship happen…instead relax and let Jesus Christ do the work. But when you open your mouth to voice your plan, you give Satan the opportunity to turn your words and motives around, and to plant negative thoughts against you. Even if your goal is his welfare, most men fail to comprehend exactly why you feel that concern is needed, and are likely to react suspiciously to your intentions, however good they may be.
Place your trust in the Lord and in His promises, and leave the outcome to Him. Hold your peace and keep your spiritual activities private, because as Philippians 4: 6, 7 advises, “Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God; and the peace of God, which surpasses all comprehension, will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.” He will also guard your tongue.
Never pray against another person. In spiritual warfare, you are not coming against individuals, but are doing battle against foes in the spirit realm. You must intercede for someone in the tangible world by confronting the forces that seek to hinder him in the spiritual. “For we do not war against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against the spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places.” (Ephesians 6:12). Other women, his family, friends, etc. are not the enemy, only the negative spirits that may reside in and control them.
All warfare prayers must be rooted on a foundation of trust in God, knowing that you can depend upon Him to answer. Satan will tempt you to compromise in spiritual warfare, but follow God as He directs, doing what He said in exactly the way He said to do it, because only His Way can bring victory. When you truly believe that every situation is already under the Lord’s control, you can relax and have faith in the results, even without yet seeing them manifested in the material realm.
Proverbs 3: 5, 6 – “Trust in the Lord with all your heart and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will make your paths straight.”
Until next week…Joy and Shalom!
Jo Lynne Pool
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