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BATTLE AXE PRAYER MEETINGS CONTINUED - WE HAVE BEEN GIVEN AUTHORITY TO BIND AND TO LOOSE
Matthew 18:18 states: “Verily I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever ye shall loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.”Our prayer meetings should be more than a sweet, cozy, chitchat with pious platitudes that sound religious. OuR prayers must have teeth in them. They should have backbone, fervor, and faith.
If we do not pray it through, we will most likely not see it through. That means we will not see our enemies broken in the natural realm until we have first broken them in the spiritual realm through strong battle axe praying.
Psalm 81:10: “Open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it.” Ask big things from God and He will give big answers.
Our prayer meetings must trample down our enemies. Our prayer meetings must become war rooms. We saw this explained in The War Room movie.
A battle ground is the ground of earnest, prevailing prayer. It is the desperate cutting power of a righteous man when he chops down the towers of the enemy in prayer. It is the earnest, effectual, prayer of a righteous man that availeth much (James 5:16).
May God save us from blunt axe warfare with no zeal, no heart, and no fervor. James 5:16 says: “The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.”
No standing on the promises equals no victory. Do we understand the importance of pleading His promises? It’s better to stand on the promises than sit on the premises!
Before we pray, we should examine our hearts as to whether we really mean business with God, whether we rally care that much if He hears and answers. Do we have a strong desire for what we are praying?
Battle axe prayer meetings should include biblical, imprecatory prayers, e.g. Psalm 69:22-28. David’s enemies are God’s enemies.
Our battle axe prayer meetings break the spiritual chains from off our leaders. When you pray next, ask the Lord to break the chains of darkness of evil doers.
Jesus calls us to pray for those who persecute us in Matthew 5:43-45. We can bless them with prayers for their repentance, but if they will not repent and for the sake of many innocent people being destroyed and tortured, we must pray that the wicked will be toppled off their thrones so that will not be able to continue their evil atrocities.
Whatever the means God uses to topple them off their thrones will lessen the judgment when they stand before God and give an account for their wicked deeds. This type of praying will in fact spare them from being accountable for crimes they would have committed if they were continuing their wicked ways. Our prayers to topple them off their thrones will lessen their evil deeds.
Many of David’s prayers contained battle axe ingredients. We must pray against principalities and powers and the rulers of the darkness of this world through imprecatory praying (Ephesians 6:11-20).
Keep your battle axe sharp!
Ecclesiastes 10:10 TLB says: “A DULL AXE REQUIRES GREAT STRENGTH; BE WISE AND SHARPEN THE BLADE.”
Be encouraged.
Colin Campbell
P.S.
A list of imprecatory psalms: Psalm 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11, 12, 17, 25, 28, 31, 35, 37, 40, 41, 52, 54, 55, 56, 58, 59, 63, 68, 69, 70, 71, 74, 79, 83, 94, 109, 129, 137, 139, 104, and 143.
