The devil has tried to curse America and bring destruction to her people. But by God’s grace and mercy through the body of Christ, satan is a failure. Just as Balak failed in his attempt to destroy Israel by having Balaam prophesy and declare curses over them, satan is failing today to destroy America. [VB085 Podcast]

Battle Line

How does the devil attack you? He accuses you. He suggests things to you. He strikes with flaming arrows into your thought life (Eph 6:16). He provokes you through other people’s words and attitudes toward you. The devil uses words of doubt, and tries to twist and turn you from the truth. His lies are subtle enough to make you think they are not harmful. The enemy likes to make you say the wrong things – he knows the power of words.

The enemy wants to keep you out of the will of God by keeping you out of God’s Word. Any of God’s Word in you, he will try to take it away from you before you have a chance to use them. The devil has paralyzed many church people. Religious folks are naive and ineffective soldiers in battle, barely on the roll call. Many have been taken captive, and are now POW’s. We must get the Word to them in time to rescue them.

Radio WHRI

I learned spiritual warfare strategies in Bible college. As a student at World Harvest Bible College, I had the awesome privilege of being on Lester Sumrall’s great shortwave radio station, World Harvest Radio International. Students had a 15-minute program called Battleline. I will never forget the first time my friend, Mark Lawton, and I produced a Battleline program. We beat up the “prince of the power of the air” in his own territory (Eph 2:2)! Many times we would go to the radio studios at WHRI, and broadcast our voices on “Angel One” around the world, chasing satan to the ends of the earth with the powerful Word of God.

How do we fight the devil? With the Word of God in prayer!

Now we know that prayer is talking to God. We fellowship with the Father in prayer. The more we talk with the Father, the better we know Him. I talk to Him as I read my Bible. Often when I don’t understand a verse, I will consult the Author. I’ll say, “Holy Spirit, what did you have in mind when you inspired this?” I also watch for passages to talk with the Father about. It empowers me with conversation material for my prayers.

Prayer is easier when you know what to say. My wife and I speak and pray God’s Truth back to Him. He does so much for us, because we abide in Him. We see great changes in our lives, and the people we pray for. Sometimes changes are miraculous, other times they take awhile. “If you abide in Me, and My words abide (live) in you, you will ask what you desire, and it shall be done for you” (Jn 15:7).

Using the Word of God in prayer for warfare is a different kind of prayer.

We don’t ask the Father to fight the devil for us – we use the authority that Jesus delegated to us (Lk 10:19). We stand against the enemy with the sword of the Spirit – the Word of God in prayer!

Jesus defeated the devil by using, “It is written….” (see, Mt 4:4,7,10). Jesus used the Law and the Prophets. We have an even better covenant in our arsenal of weapons (see, Heb 8:6).

That’s what you have to do – you don’t need to be on the radio to be on the battle line. Our powerful weapon is the Word of God in prayer. The enemy still says, “hath God said?” Our reply must be, “It is written….” When the devil tells you that you are sick say, “No, God loves me! He would never put sickness on me! I am healed by the stripes of Jesus” (1Pet 2:24).

1Pet 2:24 (ESV) – He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed.

When you proclaim the revelation of God’s Word, it has the ability to do damage to the gates of hell. We have the keys to the kingdom, “and whatever you bind on earth is already bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth is already loosed in heav...