Revelation Driven Spiritual Warfare

I subscribe to a variety of newsletters and RSS feeds. This is one of my favorite. As you may know, we’ve dealt with so much bizarre and supernatural reality in Manitou Springs over the last several years. The hidden and secret tends to be made visible when we are advancing in the Holy Spirit.

The very important idea that we must keep in mind is that while we do engage in warfare on an individual level, our goals also include city transformation. National transformation. To press for transformation when the wills of man are aligned with the enemy (the unsaved, but more specifically those who are stragetically in opposition to God) we must have clarity in the invisible realm. We don’t wrestle against man (flesh and blood), but we do in fact wrestle against the enemy. So, on a city level, for example, we must do much to legally gain ground.

If an occult bookstore is to close and be replaced with a Kingdom-driven business, there is a lot of work to do. First, we must understand that there is a legal right for the enemy to move freely on that property. So, we pray for strategic insight. We stand in unified, apostolic authority. We pray for the owners and patrons of the shop. We pursue revelation. Are we to silently pray outside of the shop for 40 days in order to disrupt the plans of the enemy? Will God reveal a person not even connected with that shop that we are to pray for? Someone who will encounter the shop owners at some point down the road? What about repentance on the property? Researching the history of that property helps as well.

So, the point here is that we must fight in unity. If we do, we’ll take ground and see strongholds broken. If not, our influence will be limited. Here’s the article in full:

Warfare Prayer Part One

“Revelation for Warfare”

Elvis Iverson

http://www.elvisiverson.com

In this spiritual war there are many battles to be won. However, our enemies are demons and fallen angels who we can’t see with our own eyes, only through the Holy Spirit we can see them, and know how to take them out. -(Eph. 6:12)

This is why we must not be ignorant of the demons that war against us, and their devices. We need our eyes open so we can see the wiles of the devil. There are those spiritual devices that we can see, and there are those that we can’t see, that are hidden in darkness. -(2 Cor. 2:11, Eph. 6:11)

This is why we should pray for revelation and wisdom; revelation to see our enemies and wisdom in how to war against them and overcome them. When demons come against us, they try to put upon us spiritual blindness, darkness, ignorant, arrogance in order that they can control us through our fears, unbelief, and the lies that we believe in, this is all called deception. -(2 Cor. 4:4)

There are whole groups of people, churches, and even cities and nations that are under strong delusion, for the reason they believe in lies. This is why we need to walk in grace, truth, and light in the Word and in the Holy Spirit in times of holy combat.

This is why we need revelation in order to fight our enemies, revelation and wisdom in how to war against them. Once when the Holy Spirit opens your eyes and shows you the truth you can overcome these spiritual strongholds, and take out the evil spirits that war against you. -(Eph. 1:17-18)

We must pray for the Lord to teach us how to war and how to do battle.

Ask Him to lead you, and to guide you in the Word of God, and through prophetic revelation. We must be faithful to the written Word of God, pray for revelation and insight, be faithful to pray in the Spirit, and ask the Lord for wisdom. -(Psa. 144:1)

Ask the Lord to show you who is warring against you, asks the Lord to show you the legal rights, and how to be set free. The Lord wants freedom for us in our lives. Not only He wants freedom for us, also for the church, and the cities we live in.

Therefore, we cannot war, we cannot do battle without revelation from the Holy Spirit flowing in our lives, leading us and shows us how to war, and how to fight.

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Warfare Prayer Part Two

“Basic Training”

Elvis Iverson

http://www.elvisiverson.com

Basic training; learning the basics in spiritual warfare will prepare us to move beyond these basics to deeper lessens in warfare. These basics go from the full armor, to the weapons of warfare, and foundations to spiritual warfare.

First and foremost we already have the victory through the power of the Cross that we have victory over all sins, demons, Satan and darkness. We are warring from the winning side, from the battle at the winning battle at the Cross to the battles throughout the history of the church and today, and the ones in the future and the ones in the end times.

We must war and do battle from this foundation truth and this holy ground upon the Rock of Christ. Beside, we are to war in rest and in peace. This battle must be warred when we are in the peace of God and resting in the Lord. For all these battles belong to the Lord, and war with the Lord.

Apart from this, before we go into any spiritual battle we should put on the full armor of God. The full armors means certain truths that we need established in our lives before we enter into holy combat. Then we are to put on the whole armor, this is for real and it is an act of faith. Put on the spiritual armor by faith before going to war. -(Eph.

6:10-18)

Before we enter into spiritual warfare, before we enter into warfare prayer, we should always have established prayer life. A healthy prayer life comes before warfare prayer. -(Eph. 6:18)

Know and learn how to use the spiritual weapons that are giving to every believer to war against the demons and set those free around you. The first group of spiritual weapons is giving to every believer, and every believer must know and learn how to use them, and to be good at using them. -(2 Cor. 10:4)

General spiritual weapons are; the Name of Jesus, The Blood of Jesus, The Word of God, The weapon of Love, the power of praise and worship, and praying in the Spirit.

Then there are special spiritual weapons those that we must pray and ask the Lord for them, and each one will walk in some of them. These are the gifts of the Spirit, revelation, wisdom, prophecy, prophetic action, and revelational keys. But everyone is to have wisdom and revelation.

Apart from that, in certain times and some times we will have to fast in order to bring forth breakthroughs in times of spiritual combat and battles. There is a power that opens up in our lives when we fast according to the Holy Scriptures. -(Isa. 58:6)

Apart from that, in order to really move forth in spiritual warfare, we must establish the deliverance ministry for it goes hand in hand with warfare prayer.

Let us not forget the apostolic element in warfare. Apostles have a special anointing to war and do battle against the spiritual darkness in our cities. We need there council, and leadership when we go from personal battles to the battles over our cities.

Furthermore, spiritual warfare is not just for prayer it is for everyday life, through minutes and hours that we could face temptation, and trials, and through the Lord we can overcome them all, for we have already overcome them all.

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Warfare Prayer Part Three

“Unity in Warfare”

Elvis Iverson

http://www.elvisiverson.com

Yes there are special missions when the Lord sends out a few or one on a warfare mission. These are special warriors sent on special missions to carry out or to prepare for the rest of the army of the Lord.

When we go from personal warfare to city warfare, etc. we need the army of the Lord, the Body of Christ warring side by side in Christ’s oneness. Even in personal battles we need the help and prayers of other warriors to stand in the gap and war on our behalf.

We must not forget the unity element in warfare. Demons and Satan will always try to bring divisions among brothers and sisters in Christ. We need to walk in unity and agreement, for the Lord works mighty through unity and agreement.

When there is a division Satan has more doors and can walk in more weapons, but if there is unity, his power is weaken, and certain weapons are useless.

It takes maturity in each one of us to enter into warfare prayer, and it takes maturity to enter into warfare in unity. This is why you must watch out for your own weakness, and keep your own body in order so that demons do not use us in our own errors to attack a fellow believer in Christ.

We need maturity, we need the church, and we need a company warring with us through prayer and unity. When these two elements come together you will see breakthroughs happen most of the times.

You are not called to war as a lone gun, instead you war with the body of Christ, for we pray for one another and we are to stand with one another.

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Warfare Prayer Part Four

“Informed Warriors”

Elvis Iverson

http://www.elvisiverson.com

As we move forth in spiritual warfare, and warfare prayer we will become an informed warrior. When we war in spiritual warfare and warfare prayer we war in wisdom, revelation, information, and knowledge, instead of warring in ignorant and spiritual blindness.

We must do our research about city pasts, sins, people, and history to learn how to pray for them today, in order to do warfare today, Spiritual mapping, identificational repentance, key-lines, and power points. Spiritual mapping is learning the spiritual landscape of a city, through the study of history of a city, etc.

As we study and as the Lord leads us through revelation we will know what are the spiritual strongholds of the city, etc. then we can do prayer expeditions, prayer journeys, and prayer walking.

As we do spiritual warfare and warfare prayer we will enter into strategic level spiritual warfare, for this kind of warfare we need the apostolic element and even the unity element.

Now can we apply this to our own live, in our own personal spiritual battles? Yes we can, through study of our family history, etc. and being lead by the Holy Spirit we can do warfare and deliverance in our lives.

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Warfare Prayer Part Five

“Praying Apostolic Prayers in Times of War”

Elvis Iverson

http://www.elvisiverson.com

In the New Testament there are apostolic prayers that we can use today in our own lives and in spiritual warfare and warfare prayer. Praying Apostolic Prayers in times of war will bring the fruits of those prayers into your life and into the times of battle.

The first apostolic prayer that is used in warfare is the Lord’s Prayer in Matthew 6:9-13. Pray this to release the will of God, the Kingdom of Heaven, and for deliverance in times of war.

The second apostolic prayer we will use in war is when Jesus prayed for the church to be one. We need Christ’s oneness and true unity in times of war, in order to see breakthrough come and manifest. -(John

17:20-23)

The third apostolic prayer is found in Ephesians 1:15-23 when Paul prayed for the church at Ephesus for the Spirit of wisdom, and the Spirit of revelation. See we need wisdom and revelation in times of war in order to see our enemies and how to overcome them.

The forth apostolic prayer is found in Colossians 1:9-18 when Paul prayed for the church of Colosse for knowledge, wisdom, and spiritual understanding, in times of war we need to know God’s will and purpose in the battle to give hope and faith to be patience and steadfast in the battle.

These four apostolic prayers will aid us and move us forth more faster in warfare prayer. These are apostolic prayers that will release the will of God, deliverance, unity, wisdom, revelation, knowledge, and spiritual understanding. These prayers are the will of God, and will give us faith to believe for these spiritual aids in warfare prayer.