Prayer: The Ultimate Weapon

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Prayer The Ultimate Weapon

• Sue Bohlin
• November 5, 2002

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• With all prayer and petition pray at all times
  in the Spirit, and with this in view, be on the
  alert with all perseverance and petition for all
  the saints, and pray on my behalf, that utterance
  may be given to me in the opening of my mouth, to
  make known with boldness the mystery of the
  gospel, for which I am an ambassador in chains
  that in proclaiming it I may speak boldly, as I
  ought to speak.
• Eph 618-20

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• Girdle of truth belt
• Breastplate of righteousness bulletproof vest
• Helmet of Salvation helmet
• Shoes of peace cleated boots
• Shield of faith riot shield
• Sword of the Spirit gun
• Prayer walkie-talkie

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• The Wemmicks
• My own unsticky label
• The goal intimacy with God

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• Prayer is not bending the will of a reluctant God
  so that He gives in and says, "Oh, all right. You
  can have it."
• It's the invitation of a loving Father who says,
  "Come up close and tell Me what's on your heart."

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• Prayer is two people who love each other, talking
  to each other.
• Prayer is two people who love each other,
  listening to each other.
• Prayer is two people who love each other,
  enjoying each other's company.
• Prayer is two people who love each other, saying
  how much they appreciate each other.

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• Prayer is two people who love each other, sharing
  their delight in each other.
• Prayer is two people who love each other, being
  honest when one messes up.
• Prayer is two people who love each other, asking
  for what they want.
• Prayer is two people who love each other, loving
  and supporting another.

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• In C. S. Lewis's The Screwtape Letters, Screwtape
  counsels Wormwood on ways to keep Christians from
  praying to God
• The simplest is to turn their gaze away from Him
  towards themselves. Keep them watching their own
  minds and trying to produce feelings there by the
  action of their own wills.

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• When they meant to ask Him for charity, let
  them, instead, start trying to manufacture
  charitable feelings for themselves and not notice
  that this is what they are doing. When they meant
  to pray for courage, let them really be trying to
  feel brave. When they say they are praying for
  forgiveness, let them be trying to feel forgiven.
  Teach them to estimate the value of each prayer
  by their success in producing the desired
  feeling.

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• Prayers you pray only once
• Prayer of salvation
• Prayer of confession and receiving forgiveness

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• Prayers you pray persistently
• God, show me where Im being deceived.
• Prayer for protection of ourselves and others
• Prayers that God hasnt answered yet
• Luke 181 Now He was telling them a parable to
  show that at all times they ought to pray and not
  to lose heart