Wednesday, December 5, 2012

Praying Scripturally To Thwart the Kingdom of Darkness

If believers only prayed in regard to the harvest, but no one ever sowed the Word, there would never be a harvest of souls - no one would come out from Satan's dominion. A person can pray for a crop all year long, but if he doesn't get out and plant some seed in his garden, he will come up empty-handed at harvest time. And I don't care how good the seed is or how well-prepared the ground is - if there is no water or rain, there will be no crop and no increase. In the Bible, water is a type of both the Word and the Holy Spirit.

James 5:7 says the Husbandman has long patience for the precious fruit of the earth, until He receives the early and the latter rain. The rain mentioned in this verse is a type of the Holy Spirit. And in Zechariah 10:1, the Bible instructs us to ask the Lord to send the rain - the spiritual rain of the Holy Spirit: "Ask ye of the Lord rain in the time of the latter
rain..."

To prepare the ground for the seed of the Word to be planted, we can pray for an outpouring of the Holy Spirit upon all nations. But then someone will have to go preach the gospel in order to set people free because it is the Word that sets people free (John 8:32). That is the scriptural way to change nations.

You are not going to be able to deal with the devil in nations any other way than by praying according to God's Word and by sowing the incorruptible seed of God's Word.

Therefore, it is scriptural to ask for the rain - the Holy Spirit - to be poured out upon every nation to cause the seeds of the Word that have been planted in people's hearts to grow. Another way to pray scripturally to pull souls from the kingdom of darkness is to ask the Lord for the harvest to send forth laborers into the harvest (Matt. 9:38).

No matter how good the harvest is, if there are no laborers to reap the harvest, the precious fruit of the earth will not be gathered in. So just keep asking the Lord for the rain of the Holy Spirit, keep preaching the Word to people, and keep praying for laborers to be sent forth. Then there will be a harvest of souls that will be brought into the Kingdom of God. That's how to scripturally change cities and nations, and because it's based solidly on God's Word, God will bring the increase (1 Cor. 3:6).

* Excerpt taken from The Triumphant Church by Kenneth E. Hagin

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