Prayer and the Christian Warfare

From: Prayer: August 2005

Narrator: Chris Genthree

Duration: 1min

In the warfare against the “spiritual wickedness in high places” (Eph. 6:12¹²For 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. (Ephesians 6:12)), prayer is a distinct weapon, a part of the armor of God. Prayer, the last mentioned piece in the armor, is the active expression of the essential principle of the conflict, namely, dependence. Man has no strength against Satan, and in nature he is Satan’s willing slave. The Christian’s resource is to lay hold upon a strength which is divine and which alone can cope with the power of Satan.

E. J. Thomas

• Prayer and the Christian Warfare