Guest Post by Freed Radical
Stand firm on this passage from God’s word as we do spiritual battle to recover and rebuild our nation and world, and defeat the evil that seeks to destroy us.
23 O love the Lord, all you His godly ones!
The Lord preserves the faithful
And fully recompenses the proud doer.
24 Be strong and let your heart take courage,
All you who hope in the Lord.
Prayer:
Lord, you preserve the faithful. Teach me what it means to be faithful to you, to trust you, to do your will in every situation. Let me hear your voice in my heart as I move through every day, guiding my thoughts and actions. I want to be a man after your own heart, having the thoughts and desires of your heart second by second, even as I do battle with the wickedness that poisons our planet. Make me strong and courageous, for my hope rests in no man, but only you. Preserve me, my family, and my country for your service.
We engage in spiritual warfare by first consulting the scriptures to learn what God thinks about himself, about us, our situation, and his adversaries, and what he is doing today and is planning to do. We come into agreement with what God thinks, and his plan, and ask him to do battle on our behalf in the ways he has stated. These prayers are intended to change situations in our natural world, but they also change our hearts as we come to know the heart of God. As we pray together to defeat the forces of evil, we become a closer knit family of God, intent on accomplishing his purposes and living in Christian community. Please join in this spiritual battle by praying the scripture above, out loud, confident that God hears us and loves us, his children.
The prayer above is only a suggestion. Pray as you are led by the spirit. No need for eloquence as our Father simply loves to hear the voices of his children as we bare our hearts to him.
Take time to read this passage in context, to get the bigger picture, by clicking on the link at the beginning of the passage. The Christian life is not all about spiritual warfare, and there is always a bigger picture!
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Meanwhile, in my church today, the sermon was 1 Peter 2:11-25.
Maybe time to find a new church.
Many people are at their breaking point and i keep hearing something like this where ever I go:
“Look if God wanted to stop evil, history would be riddled with miracles and unexplained success over evil, instead we all need to quit praying or hoping or waiting on Q or Trump or someone else to come save us and realize if it’s to be it’s up to me and man the fuck up and do whats got to be done”