In these dark times, praying for our enemies is essential. I
want to offer some guidance on praying for those outside
of the family of God. The scriptures below were shown to
me after interceding prayer for several families. In one family,
I was not allowed to cast out what was there, and it actually
materialized forcefully in the spirit and told me so, since the
individuals had given it legal right to enter. I backed out of
the prayer and later, the Lord gave me a different way to pray
for them...using the Lord's prayer.
Even as we have no right to go into another person's home
and remove something that they brought in and are tied to,
so in the spirit, this is also true. They need to humble
themselves and set aside willful disobedience, and turn to
Christ and then He will break every chain and make the evil
leave. Without His authority in that life, we lack authority in
our prayers, so we have to pray for the hearts themselves to
open and turn to Him.
and remove something that they brought in and are tied to,
so in the spirit, this is also true. They need to humble
themselves and set aside willful disobedience, and turn to
Christ and then He will break every chain and make the evil
leave. Without His authority in that life, we lack authority in
our prayers, so we have to pray for the hearts themselves to
open and turn to Him.
Keep this in mind when praying for your enemies, or those
who are willfully disobedient to God. We can pray....
"let Your kingdom come in ______'s heart and home and
Your will be done in them, as it is done in heaven.....Give
them their daily bread....forgive them and help them to
forgive...lead them from temptation and deliver them..."
using His prayer as a model of how to pray for them.
This was humbling for me and the encounter with the
demonic was startling and disturbing, since I was praying
for a friend, who had rejected her early faith. The verses
the Lord gave me afterwards were comforting:
Psalm
131 Oh Lord my heart is not proud or my eyes
haughty nor do I involve my self in great matters, or
in things too difficult for me. Surely I have composed
and quieted my soul. Like a weaned child rests against
his mother, my soul is like a weaned child within me.
Oh Israel, hope in the Lord from this time forth
and forevermore.
haughty nor do I involve my self in great matters, or
in things too difficult for me. Surely I have composed
and quieted my soul. Like a weaned child rests against
his mother, my soul is like a weaned child within me.
Oh Israel, hope in the Lord from this time forth
and forevermore.
Matt 6:13 and do not lead us into temptation but deliver us
from evil, for thine is the power and the glory forevermore.