Prayer Against Enemy Attack
by
Dr. Gale A. Ragan-Reid (July 24, 2014)
“And David spake unto the LORD the words of this song in the day that the LORD had delivered him out of the hand of all his enemies and out of the hand of Saul” (II Samuel 22:1, King James Version [David's song of thanksgiving]).
Greetings in the Holy Name of Jesus,
Let us pray:
The Lord is my Saviour, and my branch, and my deliverer; The God of my Saviour will I trust for whom can you trust? He is my mantle and the greatness of my joy, my enlightenment, and my hiding place, my Almighty God; thou savest me from Satan's temptations. I will call on the LORD, who is more precious than gold and praise His Holy name, so I will be saved from demonic and Satanic influence, witchcraft, sorcery, magic and the fascination of charms. When no one would call me their own, the influx of strangers who sought to win high esteem for my persecution captured me to enslave me; The darkness of prison walls and jail cells threatened to take me out; the traps of lies did not let the truth see the light; In my fear for my future existence I called upon the LORD, and I cried with the compassion of a child crying to her Father: and he did hear my cry on His throne, and my cry was heard in His ears. Then the sky grew dark as night and the thunder roared; the rains came down from heaven moved and shook, because God gave me relief a way out of no way a new beginning with a new avenger who did not see things the way Satan set things up so he could take me and all that I owned.
Yes LORD four years, God sent the light to answer my prayer. The phone line went out and all communication with the outside world at a distance stopped. For seven days the heavens bowed and the rains came down; and darkness gave in to the light the last three days but the rains continued to fall. Finally, the rains ceased and days later, I found out after the phone line was repaired a dear friend died of a heart attack.
I felt abandoned and all alone and screamed with a scream of a broken heart for even though we lived at a distance and even though he dealt with his fear and sickness we knew we were there for each other. But God rode through the skies and the rains came down, thundered and roared on a lightning rod and as the rains came down and the darkness was under my feet he was working it all out for me unbeknownst to me, God saved me and 16 days after the death of my friend the mailbox delivered the answer of, “It is finished”. My God drew me off the edge of the mountain. My God did not let me fall into the deep waters. My God delivered me from my strong enemy. My God delivered me from those who hated me.
The LORD was my stay in the day of my calamity. He brought me out into a large place. He delivered me because He loved me and I love my LORD. He caressed me in the hours of darkness with the Name of Jesus and the darkness screamed and a body fell down from on high to the floor. He caressed me in His bosom.
God kept me from the false accusers, the lies, the wicked intentions, the greed and the ambition. Therefore, God paid me for my righteousness, according to my cleanness, for with the merciful God delivered mercy and with the pure, God did not show himself unsavory, he delivered me for my pureness. Even though those who sought to take me disgraced me, my body, my love for the Almighty God, my love for Jesus, he still acquit-ed me ---for my pure heart. For my God promised to deliver the righteous out of all their afflictions. For His eyes were on the haughty those that sought power over me; those who willed authority over me and God brought them down.
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For God is my lamp, my light and He did lighten my darkness in the day that I cried out--- the spirit of Christ Jesus came in and my deliverer drove on the highways and byways over the hills and through the valleys to get to me and the doors did not close as they scheduled for I was free, For whomever, Christ Jesus, freed, is free, indeed. God is a great God. For God is a buckler against the false accuser and the spirit of Christ Jesus stood strong against my strong enemy and fought the good fight and took the burden upon His shoulders for the government is His to bear. Praise His Holy Name. He is worthy.
Yes, Lord. God is worthy. Have you ever found yourself between a rock and a hard place? God is my rock. For who is a rock, save our God?
For who is God, save the LORD. I thank the LORD. I thank Christ Jesus for divine intercessory power. I thank you, Father for stretching your arm against my enemy. I thank you LORD for shining the light in the darkness of iniquity and letting the truth come in.
Father, I thank you for now and for evermore. Have you ever had anyone to miscommunicate on you? To place you in the hands of those that would persecute you? To place you in the den of iniquity? Then, to finally admit concede to miscommunication in your favor.
Have you ever been placed at a disadvantage and had God to stay the course, to stop the runaway train to halt the proceedings. Have you ever had God to round up all who terrorized you and cast you down in darkness one by one until He finished. I thank you LORD. I thank you LORD.
The battle really is the LORD's. He is worthy. He is worthy. He is worthy to be praised. Have you ever had those possessed of a demonic spirit to laugh at you in a shrill laughter that reached the heavens---in a laughter that you know God heard for they had trapped a child of God?
Have you ever been trapped? Have you ever had the darkness of lies engulfed you like smoke in a raging fire? God, my God, did not stop until He finished. I do not know if my God is finished yet but I do know the heads rolled one by one and those who stood against me left and their righteousness, cleanness, mercy and pureness was tested in the same temptation they brought upon me and those not yet tested to this date we do not know if God is finished. He is worthy. He is worthy.
God is worthy to be praised. I know it was because of the noon day prayers spoken out when I was a child by my parents that God held until the day of my test---the day I went into the fire---the day I stood on all the prayers my mother and father sent to God many years ago. God held them until my day of test and I thank God for answering the prayers sent for me. Have you been tested yet? Have you been in the fire yet?
Call on the God of your fathers and mothers. Call on the name of Jesus. For He is worthy. He is worthy. He is worthy to be praised.
I recall praying for some one else who he too was cast down in the fire in a similar situation and I knew if his situation did not work out my situation would be all the darker than it was before because if the light did not shine in his situation the darkness would remain in mine so I fasted and prayed for 10 days until my cousin came by to check up on me and found me still able to stand though I appeared a bit limp---weak from prayer without ceasing. My cousin insisted I needed to eat and gave me a plate he prepared. I did not tell him whom I prayed for just that I was in prayer. God heard my cries and the man I prayed for was able to leave the darkness and grace was given to his wife so she did not have to enter in the darkness. Praise God for I did not personally know those people but God connected me to them in an unexpected way for we do not know who we are called to intercede for---to pray for. It was the strangest situation because the people that came against him were all the same people he worked with and near each and every day.
I did not think of what they said I just prayed and by praying for him, I prayed for me. When you can stand and say, I know how Christ Jesus felt the Day of Calvary. I know how Christ Jesus felt the Day of Calvary when His own people spoke against him. I know that feeling of pain---the depth of that pain in a hanging offense.
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I know how they broke His heart and how the love of God in Him still said, Father they know not what they do. Can you stand and say you know how Jesus felt? Have you been tested in the fire, held up, terrorized, scorned under lies called miscommunication by the very ones who are supposed to protect and love you? Has your heart been shattered in a million pieces or are you still laughing for you know not what you do?
We plead the blood of the lamb for those cast down in darkness by false witnesses, lies, miscommunication, demonic and Satanic temptation and activity. God is worthy. God is worthy to be praised. He is a deliverer in the noon day hour. He is worthy in this noon day prayer (II Samuel 22nd chapter, King James Version [David's song of thanksgiving]). Amen.
