Being strong in the Lord.

How to wrestle against spiritual wickedness.  Pray INCESSANTLY.  Do we? Really? Do we? Short of locking ourselves away in a private room how do we pray  incessantly? Prayer as a way of life, does it lack something? When we imagine that prayer must be on the knees, in a special time set aside, we can't imagine praying incessantly. There are different ways of praying. Remember Jesus telling His disciples after they tried to release a possessed child of the demon possessing them that they had to fast and pray to release that kind? There is praying together, and there is praying privately. Prayer is something we have in our arsenal of spiritual weapons.  We need to make our weapons real to us and we need to be…

…strong in the Lord, it is a necessity.

'A Christian must understand how to wrestle against the assailant with his spirit. Otherwise he cannot detect how the enemy will attack or discern how God will direct him to fight. But if he walks by the spirit he learns how to pray incessantly therein against the wicked powers. And with each battle his inner man waxes that much stronger. He comes to realize that by applying the law of the spirit he not only can overcome sin but also Satan. From that part of the Scriptures in which the Apostle touches on spiritual warfare we can readily estimate how important strength is in such conflict. Before he mentions the problem of spiritual warfare (Eph. 6.11-18), Paul first exhorts his readers to “be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his might” (v.10). Where should there be this strength of which he speaks? Paul tells us in Chapter 3: “strengthened with might through his Spirit in the inner man” (v.16).'  The Spiritual Man - Watchman Nee

We win spiritual battles through prayer. 

We become stronger spiritually through prayer.

Let us PRAY!

Eph 6:10  Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might. 

Eph 3:16  That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man

Eph 6:11  Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. 

Eph 6:12  For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. 

Eph 6:13  Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand. 

Eph 6:14  Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness; 

Eph 6:15  And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace; 

Eph 6:16  Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked. 

Eph 6:17  And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God: 

Eph 6:18  Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints