Healing Prayer

You're Not Fighting People, You're Fighting Darkness

• Healing Word Ministries • Season 2 • Episode 5

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We explore the spiritual armor God provides for daily battles, focusing on Ephesians 6:11-12 and the powerful truth that our struggles are not against people but against spiritual forces of darkness.

• Put on the whole armor of God to stand against the schemes of the devil
• Our battles are not against flesh and blood but against spiritual powers
• The shield of faith protects us from worry, doubt and overwhelming circumstances
• The sword of the Spirit (God's Word) cuts down the enemy's lies
• The helmet of salvation covers our minds from stress, fear and depression
• What we speak from our mouths is powerful - declarations activate our faith
• We must invite God into difficult situations where human effort falls short
• God's presence causes everything to bow before Him
• Daily declarations help us remember and apply spiritual truths

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Good morning and welcome to prayer, thanking the Lord that this is the day that he has made. We are glad in the day. We are yet rejoicing in the day. Our scripture for today is Ephesians, the sixth chapter, verse 11 through 12. The sixth chapter, verse 11 through 12. It reads put on the whole armor of God so that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers of this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in heavenly places. That again is Ephesians, the sixth chapter, verse 11 and verse 12. 11 and verse 12. Put on the whole armor of God so that you may be able to stand against the wiles, against the cosmic powers of this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places. Our declaration today, what we declare, is that I put on the full armor of God so that I'm able to stand against the schemes of the devil. So that I'm able to stand against the schemes of the devil, I know that my struggles are not against flesh and blood, but against darkness and satanic forces. Amen, that will be our declaration today.

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Father, god, we thank you. Lord, we praise your name. You are Alpha and Omega. You are Alpha and Omega. Hallelujah, oh God. There at the beginning, there at the end, hallelujah. We thank you because you stand alone and you are God. You are God all by yourself, lord, and we thank you. We thank you for who you are, god, abasha. You are God all by yourself, lord, and we thank you. We thank you for who you are. We glorify your mighty name today, abasha, in the name of Jesus, lord, have your way here, have your way here amongst your people, have your way here in your people, have your way here in your people. In the name of Jesus, oh God, even as you're having your way, have your way in our hearts, have your way in our minds. Lord, clean us, father. Clean us, lord, purge us, father, in the name of Jesus, lord, examine us. Finding anything that is not right, lord, take it out of us. In the name of Jesus, oh God, we thank you. We thank you, lord. We thank you, lord, for forgiving us of our sins. God for forgiving us, lord, of our wrongdoings, even our thoughts that were not pleasing to you. Oh, father, I pray that you'll wash us under your blood. I pray that not only that you wash us, not only that you purge us today, but, god, that you'll take, hallelujah, every habit, oh God, every situation or every thing that we do that is not like you. That you'll take the habit of it, father, and that you'll give us to walk freely and delivered from whatever it is, god, that displeases you.

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Shabbat boshah, in the name of Jesus, oh God, we come before you and we thank you and we praise you. We praise you that we are not out here in this world, dealing with all types of issues, without your full armor. Oh God, we thank you that you gave us a way, you gave us a way to be protected from the wiles of the enemy. You gave us a way to be protected, lord, father, from whatever it is that is going on in this evil day. Oh God, we thank you for the full armor of God. Lord, we put on your armor today, full armor of God. Lord, we put on your armor today, lord, we put on your armor today and, father, we're asking Lord hallelujah, that you'll give us to walk your word today.

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Give us to walk your word, give us to walk your word In the name of Jesus, oh, oh God. I thank you, I thank you, I thank you, lord, that you are our help. I thank you, lord. I thank you that you have not left us exposed, oh God, and just left us to deal with the darkness of this time. Father, I thank you. I thank you, god, for giving us to use the shield of faith today, In the name of Jesus, oh God, knowing that there are things that try to infiltrate our minds and cause us to worry, and cause us to be overwhelmed, oh God. But, god, we thank you that you let us know that if we activate our faith, oh God, that if we begin to speak faith, that if we begin to sing faith, oh God, that it serves as a shield against the wiles of the devil, that it serves as a shield, god, oh God, it serves as a shield, oh God, from disappointment, to cover ourselves with the shield of faith, regardless of what headlines and what news becomes available. Today, we're asking that you'll give us to use the shield that you have given us, lord, oh God, we thank you even for the sword of the Spirit, father, lord, we're thanking you, god, we thank you that the word of God. It is sharper than any two-edged sword.

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Oh God, I thank you for bringing scripture back to our minds, oh God, bringing biblical concepts back to our minds. Biblical concepts back to our minds, oh God, as we go through our day, oh God, beginning to cut down, lord, the lie of the enemy. Oh God, cutting it down, lord, cutting it down from being exalted in our minds, cutting it down, oh God, from giving us to feel that there is no hope, from giving us to feel that there is no hope. Iyabashanda daboho, in the name of Jesus, I thank you and I'm asking, holy Spirit, that you'll do the work of bringing the word of God, bringing the mysteries of God back to our minds. Oh God, give us to recall, lord, your word that we can apply in the midst of situations that are difficult.

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In the name of Jesus, oh God, you never told us, god, that this would be an easy way, oh God, but you said that you'd be with us all throughout the way, all along the way. I thank you, father, for your armor, but, god, I thank you that we walk with you. I thank you, lord, that you lead us and you guide us. I thank you, lord, that you have us covered, lord, even under your wings. God, I thank you, lord, I thank you for guiding us. In the name of Jesus, oh God, I'm asking, father, that you'll touch today. Lord, oh God, I pray that you'll set free in the mind, in the name of Jesus.

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Stress you have no place here. Fear, you have no place here. Worry you have no place here. Depression you have no place here. Oh, trauma, you have no place here. Oh God, I thank you.

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Oh God, I thank you for power over those things. I thank you that the helmet of salvation covers the minds of your people today. The helmet of salvation, your blood, cover our minds. In the name of Jesus, oh God, your blood deflect every lie of the enemy, oh God. Your blood deflect, oh God, everything that the enemy is trying to infiltrate our minds with.

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In the name of Jesus, oh God, give us to look and see what the Lord has done. Oh God, give us to contemplate, give us to reflect on what you've done, oh God. You've done so much, lord, and you will not fail today. You've done so much, you've done so much and you will not fail us today. In the name of Jesus, oh God, I thank you, oh God, for filling our cups today. Filling our cups, lord, with fresh oil, god, with fresh, anointing Lord, to pour into others. I thank you that you're the well that never runs dry and, god, if you pour into us, lord, god, if you pour into us, lord, we'll have capacity to pour out your virtue.

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Today, in the name of Jesus, and we thank you for another filling. We thank you for another filling today In the name of Jesus. Oh God, I thank you that our steps are ordered, that our steps are purposed. I thank you, lord, that nothing, lord, catches you by surprise. Oh, god, nothing, lord, is something that is given to be perplexing to you, father, but God, you know, you know the beginning from the end and everything in the middle.

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Father and God, you will be God in every situation that we allow you to be God in. So, father, we're inviting you, oh, shabba ha'iyah, we're inviting you into our situation, we're inviting you into that thing that we worry about, and we say, lord, god, have your way, lord, god, have your way. My hands are too small, my arms are not long enough, oh, my mind is not wise enough to deal with the situation. But, god, you're able. And if you step into the situation, oh, at your presence, everything must bow. Oh, god, at your presence, god, at your presence, god, everything must come subject to the word of God. So, god, we invite you into our situations of God. So God, we invite you into our situations. We invite you into the hard things. God, we invite you.

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Lord, lord, oh, yes, lord, your blood prevailed in the lives of our loved ones. Lord, in the name of Jesus, oh, cover them under your blood, lord, oh God, even those that will not realize, oh God, the greatness of who you are. Lord, cover them, father. We ask that you'll cover them and that you'll give them a change of heart. Lord, in the name of Jesus, oh, god, cover God and draw them in, lord, draw them closer to you. In the name of Jesus, oh Lord, I thank you. No-transcript. We call you healers. Yes, god, heal even those places, even those places.

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God, that God in the lives of your people, in the name of Jesus, make whole God. In the name of Jesus, god, we're thanking you, we're thanking you, god, and we delight in you. God, have your way, god, have your way and provide. Have your way and provide. Lord, In the name of Jesus, I speak provision over the line, I speak favor over the line. In the name of Jesus, I speak divine revelation over the line, giving us what we should do and how to handle a situation. Oh God, I speak wisdom In the name of Jesus.

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Lord, have your way, have your way, have your way, god. We submit to you, god, god, we submit to you, god, and we're asking that you'll let us be the vessels, the vessels of your anointing, the vessels of your peace that you want here on the earth. God, we thank you that this day is not a mistake. We thank you that this day is not just a row of other days but, god, today is a new day that you have given us and we thank you for it, and we thank you for it, god. Give us to utilize the time that you have given us today, oh God, and to steward our time. To steward our time to make sure that our time hallelujah, that our time, hallelujah is hallelujah effective and productive in the things that you're calling us to do In the name of Jesus. Oh God, we're asking all of these things in Jesus' name, thank God and amen, hallelujah, thanking the Lord for our declaration and our scripture today.

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Ephesians 6, verses 11 and 12. Put on the whole armor of God so that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil, for our struggle is not against enemies of flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers of this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in heavenly places, the spiritual forces of evil in heavenly places. Our declaration is I put on the full armor of God so that I am able to stand against the schemes of the devil. I know that my struggles are not against flesh and blood, but against darkness and satanic forces. Amen, hallelujah.

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We declare from our mouths that we are clothed in the armor of God. We declare from our mouths, hallelujah, that we are covered, covered with his blood. Hallelujah, we're covered with his armor. I thank the Lord because what stands out to me again in that scripture is that we're fighting against not flesh and blood. We're not fighting that person that has a nasty attitude. We're not fighting them. We're fighting that demonic power that influences them, that stronghold, hallelujah, that is active in their lives. But I thank God that, as we put on the full armor of God, he even gives us how to handle those individuals, how to handle those situations. So we're thanking the Lord, hallelujah, I have been giving you declarations over the last couple of days because we understand that what we speak from our mouths is powerful, the power of life and death is in our tongue. Hallelujah, hallelujah. We speak those things that be, not as though they were. So we have declarations now.

Speaker 1:

We have declarations, things that we say that are rooted in the word of God, to carry us through the day and through hard situations. You know, I know you're probably like how am I going to remember that? Well, we do have a podcast. So every time we come together and pray, it's stored somewhere and you can go back to it throughout the day. If you're interested or if you need the link to that podcast, just let me know. I'll get it to you. All right, god bless you and we are going in God's grace today. Amen, have a wonderful day. God bless you.