The Commandos

Earl Morton at Knox’s funeral pointed to his grave and said, “There lies a man who never feared the face of any man”. Was that not the secret of his great success? He feared nobody. Nobody. The Reformer John Knox prayed: “Give me Scotland or I die!” No wonder Mary, Queen of Scots, declared that she was more afraid of the prayers of John Knox than of an army of ten thousand.  She knew that a spiritual revolution and a praying Christian is more dangerous than any military or political power.

God has placed the most powerful weapon of prayer into the hands of a Christian. Prayer in the life of a believer is the greatest single activity that he can do to move mountains and opening doors in the spiritual and natural realm and to transform his life into one of power and grace. Praying with fasting makes it even more effective. With this tool, a Christian can overcome any obstacle in his personal life and bring the mighty power of God into our world for radical change.

Why is it that the most powerful weapon Christians have is the least used and is the most difficult to perform? The most powerful action Christians have in life, even more than any other faith in the world, requires discipline.

God chooses to do his greatest work through prayer because this whole scene is based upon relationship. God loves to work with man through the relationship he wants with each person. Prayer links people to God. A Christian must humble himself before God with an acknowledgement in his heart that he is helpless without him and his power to breathe let alone anything else. The follower of Christ must believe His prayers, which exhibits how God works and a reverential fear of His almighty power.

Prayer is indispensable to Gods work in this world, and is essential to getting God to work in earth affairs.  Therefore, God binds men to pray by the most solemn obligations.  Luke 18:1 God commands men to pray, and so not to pray is plain disobedience to an imperative command of Almighty God.  Prayer is such a condition without which the graces, the salvation and the good of God are not bestowed on men.  Prayer is a high privilege, a royal prerogative and manifold and eternal are the losses by failure to exercise it.  Prayer is the great, universal force to advance Gods cause; the reverence, which hallows Gods name; the ability to do Gods will, and the establishment of Gods kingdom in the hearts of the children of men.  These, and their co-incidents and agencies, are created and affected by prayer.

Prayer is an offensive and defensive weapon for winning spiritual victories, therefore as Christians, we are to explore and employ spiritual weapons available to us through prayers.