Morning by Morning, August 18 - Striking the Ground in Prayer with the Arrows of Victory
Good morning, Lord Jesus. Put Your thoughts in my mind and Your desires in my heart. Make me more like You today. ...
Sunday Night, as our city and region joined in another “solemn assembly” of prayer and repentance, faith and hope, standing in the gap by bowing on our knees before You on behalf of our people and our land in humility, united as one, You were speaking to us and leading us. One of Your prophetic words that came to us was an image from Scripture of King Joash striking the ground with arrows according to the word of the Prophet Elisha:
“Elisha said to (King Joash), ‘Take a bow and arrows’; so he took a bow and arrows. Then he said to the king of Israel, ‘Draw the bow’; and he drew it. Elisha laid his hands on the king’s hands. Then he said, ‘Open the window eastward’; and he opened it. Elisha said, ‘Shoot’; and he shot. Then he said, ‘The Lord’s arrow of victory, the arrow of victory over Aram! For you shall fight the Arameans in Aphek until you have made an end of them.’ He continued, ‘Take the arrows’; and he took them. He said to the king of Israel, ‘Strike the ground with them’; he struck three times, and stopped. Then the man of God was angry with him, and said, ‘You should have struck five or six times; then you would have struck own Aram until you had made an end of it, but now you will strike down Aram only three times’” (2 Kings 13:15-19).
Your word came to us that our gatherings in prayer on behalf of our city and region were taking the arrows of prayer and prophetic declaration to strike the ground entrusted to us. Every time we strike the ground, You’re releasing victory! You’re pushing back the darkness! You’re opening Your heavens! You’re changing hearts and changing minds and changing the outcome of our battles!
Lord, let it be so. Like King Joash, when we gather together as one body, one church, in Your name, You grant us kingly, governmental authority over our land. Like the Prophet Elisha, when we listen for Your word and join Your word with our prayers, as when “Elisha laid his hands on the king’s hands,” You send forth Your arrow of victory, “the Lord’s arrow of victory!”
Give us courage and persistence to not stop striking this ground until we have “made an end of it.” Give us Your grace, as one with You and one with each other, to keep listening, to keep praying, to keep proclaiming Your Word by Your Spirit in our city until the spiritual enemies of the Kingdom of God over our land are “struck down,” never to rise again in the power and authority of the mighty name of Jesus (Psalm 110:1; Ephesians 1:22; Philippians 2:9-11). As Your Word declares in prophetic promise: “The God of peace will shortly crush Satan under your feet!” (Romans 16:20) Lord, let it be so! In Jesus’ name I pray. Amen.
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