Praying Against the Devil

Another message in Min. David Pawson's series on prayer.  This message deals with praying against the devil.

• Sometimes it is harder to pray as a Christian than as an unbeliever.
• Satan hates Christian prayer because that is what affects him.
• Don't underestimate the devil and don't treat him as a joke.
• Never pray against people because we war not against flesh & blood.
• The Bible does not portray the devil as a horned creature with a forked tail.
• The Bible portrays the devil as a real person with a heart, mind, and will; he is not simply a generic force of evil.
• Every rebellion against God can be traced back to one motive: the desire to say "mine" (of ourselves) instead of "Thine" (of God). 
• Satan is the god of this world, and he is the one most people in the world worship...whether they know it or not.
• God allows Satan to be the god of this world., because He gives His creation freedom to rebel.
• A true Christian takes the devil very seriously.
• The two books of the Bible the devil hates most are Genesis (which describes his devices) & Revelation (which describes his doom).
• Satan is already a defeated foe.  If he gets hold of you, call his bluff!
• Satan's territory lies between me & Heaven and I have to break through enemy territory to communicate.  So the devil will try to either stop you or spoil your prayer.
• Prayer is often the power of mind over mattress.
• The most valuable prayer can be when you don't "feel" like it, when you're having to battle to do it, or when your mind is confused.
• Satan will even try to spoil your prayer once you have started by getting you unbalanced in your prayer life. 
• We can lay the devil flat in prayer.  We are commanded in the New Testament to take the initiative against him.
• Jesus told us to pray about the devil every day by asking the Father to deliver us from the evil one.
• The devil can do the following to man, but prayer can deliver men from these devices:
• Bind people's bodies in sickness.
• Blind people's minds.
• Can capture the spirits of men and imprison them in religion.
• By prayer and through the blood of Jesus we can bind the strongman and then spoil his goods.
• Prayer is a battle to get to the front line.  It is like wrestling and at times may feel like a hand to hand combat where evil is so close you can almost touch it.
• In prayer, a Christian must be properly dressed in the whole armor of God.
• The sword of the Spirit is not the whole Bible, but is the word which God's Spirit puts in your mouth to speak (a rhema word) in specific situations.
• More than anything else, Satan hates the name of Jesus because it is the name above all names.
• Pray that the blood of Jesus will protect and enlarge the work of the church globally to the glory of God.  Pray against Satan who is attacking members of the church to try and lay them low, confuse their minds, or give them a substitute of religion.  And pray that God deliver us from the evil one.