Continued. .. There are powers, there are forces, there are principalities, and there are rulers of the darkness of this world that are determined to stand in your way. These forces are determined that you will not be strong in any area of your life and whatever it will take to prevent you, they will undertake it.If you really want to be strong in the Lord, you have to concentrate on frustrating every demonic effort that is out to weaken you.How do you accomplish that? By understanding and working against the enemys method of operation.The majority of the evil put together by the enemy against a man is done in the night between the hours of 12 and 3 a.m. That is when the enemys attacks usually come. I do not know why they choose these hours but I have found this out to be the truth.Therefore, if your desire is to frustrate the evil efforts of the enemies against you, if your desire is to be strong in your walk with the Lord and in every other area of your life, you need to be up when your enemies are up. You need to be awake when they are awake; you need to be at work when they are at work.You have to learn the secret of putting your spiritual ammunition into operation when the enemy is firing at you. In other words, if you will understand night time warfare, if you will learn the secret of getting up in the midnight hours for spiritual warfare, you will be as strong as strong can be.I am a living witness to this. I know what it means to be up at 12 midnight and pray until I am tired. Each time I carry out this exercise, I wake up in the morning and feel spiritually taller, bigger and stronger. Why? I was up when the enemies were up. I had my spiritual guns at work when the enemies were shooting their arrows. It was fire for fire and the Lords fire always prevails.In physical warfare, do you realize that many of the surprise attacks are carried out at night? Take Colonel Ghadafi for an example, he was a terror to the West in the 1980s. The President of the United States at that time was Ronald Regan.Do you know it was President Ronald Regan that silenced Colonel Ghadafi? How do you think he did it? He gathered his men together and said weve got to go and silence this man; he did not pick the morning hours, he did not pick the afternoon hours, he picked the middle of the night. He asked a particular country for permission to use its airfields to land and refuel and that country refused. So he decided to make use of his air-tankers for refueling mid air.America started dropping the bombs in the middle of the night while Colonel Ghadafi and his men were sleeping. It was a surprise attack and that was how America were able to silence him.Many times the enemy sends surprise attacks against Gods people and you hear statements like, Oh! I did not see it coming! How can you see it coming when you were sleeping? How can you see it coming when the time it came you were unconscious?The best time to fight physical and spiritual war is at night. The enemy understands that and the earlier we understand that too the better for us.Another example is Saddam Hussein. When George Bush and the Allied Forces launched an attack against him, the first bombs were dropped at night. That is the best time to do the most damage to the enemy.There is no short cut to being strong in the Lord. The generation of Christians we are raising today are people who are so powerless, they are people who have no spiritual backbone; the reason is because we are unwilling to pay the price.One of the prices is getting up at 12 midnight, 1.a.m, or 2.a.m, and walking up and down in the room, praying fervently and taking authority over every power of the enemy working against your life.Your flesh will rise up in protest. Just thirty minutes into your prayer, at 12:30 am your flesh will protest urging you to go and sleep. Say to your flesh, My flesh, you have to be subject to my spirit, those who are fighting me are not sleeping, why should I go to sleep. Then you continue praying and get ready to silence every protest of the flesh. Cry mightily unto God, praying prayers like Every power working against me right now, I pull you down in Jesus name! Lord, any meeting that is being held anywhere at this time in which my name is being mentioned, I command it to be dispersed!Before you realize it, the time is already 2 oclock in the morning. That is the secret of spiritual strength, that is the secret of marital strength, that is the secret of ministerial strength, in short, that is the secret of all strength.Arise my brother and my sister, you cannot afford to sleep when your enemies are awake. If you do, you may wake up to find your strength depleted in one area or another.Rise up at midnight and cry mightily to the Lord about your daytime affairs, you will wake up and find out that you are stronger in your marriage, business, finances, etc. The other Christian who prays less or prays only during the day will look at you and wonder what the secret of your strength is.He does not know that while he were sleeping, you were praying and that is what makes the difference. It is a price many saints are unwilling to pay; yet it is a price we must pay if we are going to be consistently victorious.I have looked through the Scriptures and what I find out is that the most serious battles that were ever fought in the Old Testament were fought in the night. Many times, the preparations for the battles were also done in the night. They sneak in and out in the middle of the night. Why? That is the best time to get the enemy and that is the best time the enemy gets his prey.Let us look at some examples:20. In his days Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah, and made a king over themselves21. So Joram went over to Zair, and all the chariots with him: and he rose by night and smote the Edomites which compassed him about, and the captains of the chariots: and the people fled into their tents. (2 Kings 8:20-21)Joram did not go over to Zair in the morning, afternoon or evening. He went in the middle of the night and defeated the enemy. He was able to succeed because they were sleeping.36. And Saul said, Let us go down after the Philistines by night, and spoil them until the morning light, and let us not leave a man of them. And they said, Do whatsoever seem good unto thee. Then said the priest, Let us draw near hither unto God. (1 Samuel 14:36)What type of strategy did they use to go after the Philistines? It was the same principle - in the middle of night. It was not in the morning, afternoon or evening, but it was in the middle of the night.I plead with you child of God. There is war going on around you. You need to get off your comfortable bed, get on your knees and set some nights apart every week to take the first strike and do damage to the enemys camp. If you dont, damage will be done to your camp.There are times when God wakes you up in the night to pray, dont turn him off; danger must be looming against your interests that he is why he often wakes you up to pray. Meetings are probably going on right at that time and attacks are being deployed against your destiny. Learn the discipline of self-denial. Everybody likes to sleep at night; no one likes to be awake when they ought to be asleep. After all, we have been busy all day and the night is the best time to rest, but as it were, S You may see a big mountain before you, which you are trying to climb but you find it difficult to climb. This signifies a difficulty they want to put into your life.While all that is going on, God will be tipping you off. He will be telling you to rise up and begin to pray. He knows what is going on and He wants you neutralize through nighttime warfare. If you fail to pray, the enemies will not be restricted in the evil plan they want to hatch. If unfortunately they meet with an open door in your life the problem begins from that day on.Have you noticed that God wakes you up sometimes in the night to pray? It may be because your file is the next to be considered by the powers that are out to steal from you.The Holy Spirit wakes you up to pray and when he knows you have won the battle, he will tell you to go back and sleep. Your enemy looks at you the following morning wondering why you are so invincible.This article has been extracted from Dr. Itiolas book: Night Time Warfare. To purchase a copy, click here.
Posted on: Tue, 15 Apr 2014 02:19:04 +0000