Prayer – The Battle is Real

The Battle is Real

• There is a very real battle between good and evil and you help to determine the outcome

How you have fallen from heaven, morning star, son of the dawn! You have been cast down to the earth, you who once laid low the nations! You said in your heart, “I will ascend to the heavens; I will raise my throne above the stars of God; I will sit enthroned on the mount of assembly, on the utmost heights of Mount Zaphon. I will ascend above the tops of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High.” But you are brought down to the realm of the dead, to the depths of the pit.

Isaiah 14:12-15

• In his pride Satan rebelled against God
• His rebellion was short lived
• Satan’s hatred towards God and all that He loves still continues
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The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full.

John 10:10

• To steal all of God’s glory
• Keep mankind lost in their sin
• Make mankind miserable
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Then he continued, “Do not be afraid, Daniel. Since the first day that you set your mind to gain understanding and to humble yourself before your God, your words were heard, and I have come in response to them. ¹³ But the prince of the Persian kingdom resisted me twenty-one days. Then Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help me, because I was detained there with the king of Persia. ¹⁴ Now I have come to explain to you what will happen to your people in the future, for the vision concerns a time yet to come.”

Daniel 10:12-14

• Your prayers were heard
• I have been fighting for 21 days
• The prince of the Persian kingdom resisted me
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For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.

Ephesians 6:12

• There is a hierarchy of spiritual authority
• The mission is to stop whatever God wants to do
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You, dear children, are from God and have overcome them, because the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world.

1 John 4:4

Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.

Galatians 6:9