Unpacking Prayer

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Unpacking Prayer
Part 4 Prayer and the Battlefield
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1. The Basics of Spiritual Warfare
- The three heavens
(2 Cor. 12 2-4, Gen. 28)
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2 Corinthians 122-4 I know a man in Christ who
fourteen years agowhether in the body I do not
know, or whether out of the body I do not know,
God knowssuch a one was caught up to the third
heaven. And I know such a manwhether in the
body or out of the body I do not know, God
knowshow he was caught up into Paradise and
heard inexpressible words, which it is not lawful
for a man to utter.
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1. The Basics of Spiritual Warfare
- The three heavens
(2 Cor. 12 2-4, Gen. 28)
3rd heaven
2nd heaven
1st heaven
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Jacobs Ladder and the three heavens
Heaven
(the 3rd heaven or the spiritual dwelling place
of God)
The Heavenlies
(the 2nd heaven or the place of spiritual
warfare)
Heaven and Earth
(the 1st heaven or the physical universe)
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1. The Basics of Spiritual Warfare
- The three heavens
(2 Cor. 12 2-4, Gen. 28)
- Angels and demons
(Psa. 104 4, Heb. 1 14)
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Psalm 1044 Who makes His angels
spirits,         His ministers a flame of fire.
Hebrews 114 Are they not all ministering
spirits sent forth to minister for those who will
inherit salvation?
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What do angels do?
? Angels worship God
? Angels carry answers to prayer.
? Angels battle with demonic forces.
? Angels minister to Gods people.
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1. The Basics of Spiritual Warfare
- The three heavens
(2 Cor. 12 2-4, Gen. 28)
- Angels and demons
(Psa. 104 4, Heb. 1 14)
- The authority of humans
(Psa. 8 4-6, Heb. 2 16)
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Psalm 83-6 When I consider Your heavens, the
work of Your fingers,     The moon and the
stars, which You have ordained,What is man that
You are mindful of him,     And the son of man
that You visit him?For You have made him a
little lower than the angels,     And You have
crowned him with glory and honor. You have made
him to have dominion over the works of Your
hands     You have put all things under his
feet
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1. The Basics of Spiritual Warfare
- The three heavens
(2 Cor. 12 2-4, Gen. 28)
- Angels and demons
(Psa. 104 4, Heb. 1 14)
- The authority of humans
(Psa. 8 4-6, Heb. 2 16)
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2. The Importance of Spiritual Warfare
- the superiority of the spiritual realm
(Eph. 612)
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Ephesians 612 For we do not wrestle against
flesh and blood, but against principalities,
against powers, against the rulers of the
darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of
wickedness in the heavenly places.
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2. The Importance of Spiritual Warfare
- the superiority of the spiritual realm
(Eph. 612)
- minds are veiled (2 Cor. 41-4)
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2 Corinthians 41-4 Therefore, since we have
this ministry, as we have received mercy, we do
not lose heart. But we have renounced the hidden
things of shame, not walking in craftiness nor
handling the word of God deceitfully, but by
manifestation of the truth commending ourselves
to every mans conscience in the sight of God.
But even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to
those who are perishing, whose minds the god of
this age has blinded, who do not believe, lest
the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ,
who is the image of God, should shine on them.
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2. The Importance of Spiritual Warfare
- the superiority of the spiritual realm
(Eph. 612)

• minds are being veiled
• (2 Cor. 41-4)

• behaviours are being influenced
• (Eph. 21-3)

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Ephesians 21-3 And you He made alive, who were
dead in trespasses and sins, in which you once
walked according to the course of this world,
according to the prince of the power of the air,
the spirit who now works in the sons of
disobedience, among whom also we all once
conducted ourselves in the lusts of our flesh,
fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the
mind, and were by nature children of wrath, just
as the others.
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2. The Importance of Spiritual Warfare
- the superiority of the spiritual realm
(Eph. 612)

• minds are being veiled
• (2 Cor. 41-4)

• behaviours are being influenced
• (Eph. 21-3)

- our relationship with God is under attack
(Rom. 837-38)
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Romans 837-38 For I am persuaded that neither
death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor
powers, nor things present nor things to come,
nor height nor depth, nor any other created
thing, shall be able to separate us from the love
of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
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2. The Importance of Spiritual Warfare
- the superiority of the spiritual realm
(Eph. 612)

• minds are being veiled
• (2 Cor. 41-4)

• behaviours are being influenced
• (Eph. 21-3)

- our relationship with God is under attack
(Rom. 837-38)
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3. Angels, demons and prayer

• We have been given
• authority.

• Understand the roles of
• angels and demons.

• Join with the angels in
• the battle.

• Do not get your eyes
• off of Christ the King!

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The battle belongs to the Lord.
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Next week will be strategic!
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