Magnificent Prayer #204
Magnificent Prayer #204
Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the LORD God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God really say…”
Genesis 3:1
Often [when we pray] there is a wrestle. A thousand invisible enemies will seem to fill the air and crowd between you and your Lord. Each of them has a stinging or depressing word. We shall be reminded of prayers to which no answers have come yet (or what we call answers), and told that it will make no difference whether we pray or not. We shall be shown our own dreadful nothingness so clearly that we shall hardly be able to bring ourselves to believe that such prayers as we can offer will rise to God at all. Our wrestling is with these whispering or shouting spiritual foes. We must press through, fight through, and the sword with which to fight is the blessed word of God.
AMY CARMICHAEL
Pray About It: When we pray, the accusations of the enemy are endless. Either we’re not worthy to have our prayers answered, or God isn’t listening or can’t do what we want, or, worse yet, hears us but won’t give us what we need.
It’s the Word of God that we must use in such times to rout the enemy from our prayer closets. At the first hint of doubt or accusation, find a relevant Bible verse and stand unflinchingly on it. Don’t let Satan respond. He has no standing when the Sword of the Spirit pierces him.
Know your Bible; learn to wield the Sword with effectiveness.
Destroy the enemy!
It is the sword of the Spirit, because He is the great Master in the use of it. Oh, that He would come and show us how He can thrust and cleave with it! In this house of prayer we have often seen Him at His work. Here the slain of the Lord have been many. We have seen this sword take off the head of many a Goliath doubt, and slay a horde of cares and unbeliefs.
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON
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