What To Pray Against

Islam and encroaching socialism are God's judgment on America. We can pray for God's mercy and restraint but we have to pray against the causes of God's judgment if we want Him to withhold it, we have to practice repentance and we have to pray for it.

10/10 I take it back, a little. At least I want to clarify. We should pray for Muslims to be saved, and we should pray against the power of Islam which is after all a stronghold of Satan's, same with socialism, and our spiritual weapons are designed to pull down such strongholds. My point is that these problems are the consequences of sin and that has to be faced first or primarily.

But our pathetic weakness in prayer, in wielding the weapons of spiritual warfare, needs addressing before all the rest of it anyway.

I continue to listen to sermons about these things -- Leonard Ravenhill, Paul Washer, Keith Daniel I've already mentioned. Strengthening stuff, faith-building stuff. Add Gerhard Du Toit to that list. And I just heard one by a Pentecostal preacher who has a style of talking that I normally have problems with, and he makes some doctrinal errors I have problems with, and I can't go with him about how speaking in tongues is proof of the baptism in the Holy Spirit, BUT I have to admit the man knows what spiritual warfare really is and isn't, knows the foolishness of most of what is called spiritual warfare, knows what prevailing prayer is, what "praying through" means (something I've always wanted to understand), so his preaching is important. This is B.H. Clendennen on Prayer is Warfare. How easily we are seduced away from prayer by the devil. Then go hear Clendennen on What It Means to Pray Through as well as others at that link.

(10/18 moved here from Faith's Corner, there dated Oct 9)