PRAYER STRATEGIES AGAINST SATANIC ATTACK, ACCUSATION, AND CONDEMNATION
— Craig Williams
There comes a time in every Christian’s faithwalk when he or she must face the attacks, accusations, and condemnations of the enemy. You must be knowledgeable in your response. Hosea 4:6 tells us that the people perish for lack of knowledge. We must KNOW what to do, how to react and respond in a scriptural manner. As He did with Joshua, Jesus, the Captain of the Host, goes on before us and has already given us the victory. We must live it out in our faithwalk and take possession of what is already ours, promised by God, and we will do it by FAITH, which quenches EVERY fiery dart of the enemy. (Eph.6:16)
Here are some of the important Biblical strategies which every Spirit-filled Christian must know and follow to see the victory which Jesus has already obtained for them:
1. DO NOT PRAY FOR VICTORY. This is not scriptural. Jesus ALREADY obtained the victory for you and me through His work of the cross nearly 2000 years ago. You entered into Christ’s death and burial at Calvary at that time, through which Christ defeated Satan and took his power from him. You ALREADY HAVE the victory IN CHRIST. It is an article of faith. Therefore, take possession of your victory through your faith confession, and AFFIRM YOUR POSITION IN CHRIST. Pray from the right position of faith ... not for the victory. Again, you have the victory determined for you! Now, pray your position of faith and hold it! You already possess it, by faith. therefore you cannot pray for something that is already yours! To see the victory manifest in your life, confess it to possess it!
Pray something like this:
‘’Lord, I confess by faith that through your shed Blood and work of the cross, I have died and been buried with You and in You. I confess that my “old self” and its body of sin is dead and buried in the waters of immersion baptism, never to be exhumed or looked at again. Sin can no longer have dominion over me. By Your stripes I am healed and delivered. You have put my sins far from me, as far as the east is from the west, never to remember them against me any more. You have placed them in your sea of forgetfulness. You have erased them from Your Book of Life. You are not re-examining them or dwelling upon them over and over again. If you have erased them from Your Book, then, by faith, I now erase them from my book. I will to let go of them and keep them buried in the waters of immersion baptism, and erase them from my book, too.
Lord, Satan is trying to put blame, shame, guilt and condemnation upon me. Your Word says in Romans 8:1 that for those who are in Christ, there is no condemnation ... no blame, shame, guilt, or accusation. I take possession of my freedom from all of my past sins and from present sin(s) of (name it or them), taking my stance or position on Roman Chapter 6 .... my death and burial with You and in You. and my resurrection with You and in You as a New Creation. It is true because Your Word says it is true, and Your Word says that “....God is not a man that He should lie...”. (Num.23:19) I take my position and my possession of freedom according to Your Word which makes me perfect in You. I trust You for it, I believe it and I receive it, and take the Grace for it, ALL by trusting and expecting faith, in Your Name and for Your Glory, Lord Jesus Christ Amen.”
2. CONFESS TO POSSESS. Our words are spiritual power packets or faith-stuff seeds. When spoken aloud and released into the physical realm (the “seen” of Hebrews 11:1), the Holy Spirit “waters” as they take root in our hearts through faith which is the “evidence” or guarantee, of things “unseen “ (things from the realm of the Spirit) (Heb. 11:1). Faith is the “bridge” from the Spirit-realm to the earthly realm. Faith, which is TRUST in Jesus, is what makes things happen. You must “plant” seed before you see a harvest. This is the Biblical law of seed-time and harvest-time.
Using the principle above, you must KEEP confessing, like Joshua, that God HAS delivered the enemy into your hands. Joshua persistently and repeatedly made this faith confession over and over again. You do the same! The Bible says that God is not a respecter of persons. He has no favorites. If He did it for Joshua, He will do it for you! Joshua hadn’t even crossed the Jordan, yet, or arrived at Jericho. When he did, whom did he and his men see, standing on a rock with His sword drawn, and facing Jericho? The Captain of the Host! Jesus! He had gone on ahead of them to give them the victory! If Jesus did it for Joshua, He will go on ahead of you in your circumstance, and help you to take possession of that same victory which He already had obtained for Joshua. He has already obtained it for YOU!
3. PLEAD THE BLOOD OF JESUS. When the enemy attacks, repeatedly plead the Blood of Jesus against them. Remind them of the Blood, that it was their defeat at the cross and caused them to be paraded in Hell and made a spectacle of. Do it “...in Jesus’ Name.”
4. BIND THE DEMONS, BINDING SATAN AND ALL STRONGMAN SPIRITS (RULERS), FIRST. When the enemy accuses you through others, including other Christians, through whom they may sometimes speak, then bind them and forbid them to speak or accuse, and plead the Blood against them ... ALL in Christ Jesus’ Name.
5. PRAY THE HOLY SPIRIT: “Lord, show me what is right and wrong for me, and what is right and wrong in me, and strengthen me to embrace the right, in Jesus’ Name, Amen.”
6. DECREE AGAINST SATAN AND HIS DEMONIC SPIRITS, IN THE NAME OF JESUS. Job 22:28 says that WHAT you DECREE WILL come to pass. Tell the enemy, by decree, what he cannot do to you, your loved ones, or to anything that you are, have, or possess. Tell him and decree against him, all in Christ Jesus’ Name. When he accuses and tries to put guilt and shame upon you, repeatedly decree “ I have died with Christ.” This faith confession speaks the abyss of death, entered into at the cross when you died with Christ, between you and your sins. Decree your sins purged and consumed by the resurrection power of the Holy Spirit ... in Christ Jesus’ Name.
Pray the Spirit:
“I take the offensive in Your Name, Lord Jesus Christ, against all the blueprints, plots, plans, designs, traps, wiles, snares, and assignments of the enemy against (me, our people, our work for you, our ministry, etc.), and join in agreement with all other brothers and sisters in Christ who are praying the same by Your Spirit; I stand with them in agreement, in Your Name, Lord Jesus Christ, Amen.”
And/or:
“I stand in the supernatural death position of Romans 6, and decree and confess my death to the desires and lusts of this world, my death to the desires and lusts of the flesh, death to the works and powers of darkness, decreeing that they have no power or claim over my loved ones (name them), my family members, relatives, friends, acquaintances, our church, our ministries, or me ... in Christ Jesus Name.”
Now you may feel that you do not understand all of that “dying” stuff with Christ and being buried with Him in water baptism. You may think that you have no way to experience the reality of it, even though the Word says that it happened. The point is that you cannot have a realization or experience of something that is already accomplished for you by Christ. You must simply take possession of it by faith. Maintain your position. It is so because the Holy Spirit says that it is so. Therefore, take it by faith, stand on it, and the Holy Spirit will apply the reality of it to your life.
You do not actually have to experience the death work of Christ You receive by faith the fact that accomplished it for you and you confess it by mouth and stand on it. He then applies the finished work of the cross to your soul-life (mind, will, and emotions) and in His time, He brings forth and manifests the change in you which frees you from sin and spiritual attack.. Thus, you do not actually experience the death work of Christ mentioned in Romans 6, but confess it and appropriate it by your faith confession. You then experience the FRUITS of it, as it becomes a reality in your life. Confession brings possession!
Thus, what Christ ends up doing in you and me becomes the manifestation of what He has already done for us at the cross. You can also pray:
“I decree death between me and Satan, his works, and all of his manifestations against my loved ones, me, and all that we are have and possess; I decree that neither he nor any of his foul spirits are able to cross that abyss to me, in Christ Jesus’ Name. I pray a blood line around us with the Precious Blood of Christ Jesus, Satan, permanently, immediately, completely, and continually, and I decree that you cannot cross the Blood ... don’t even try ... in Christ Jesus’ Name and for His Glory.”