Prayer Pattern For Revival Coming Against the Enemy part 6 of 8

Loving Heavenly Father, You are the stronghold of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?  I worship You and love You for being omnipotent, almighty and absolute in Your transcendent greatness and unequaled power.  Thank You that, no matter how formidable and threatening the forces of darkness become, those who are with us are always "more" than those who are with them.  I affirm that Your almightiness is unapproachable by any challenger and that Your power is full of glory.

I worship You, Heavenly Father, in the worthy merit of the Lord Jesus Christ.  I affirm that He is Lord to the glory of God the Father.  I hold all of His person and work directly upon my life as my protection during this time of prayer.  I choose to abide in His incarnation, His cross, His resurrection, His ascension and His glorification.

I come in humble obedience to use the weapons of my warfare against the darkness that is seeking to rule the people of my city, country and world.  I affirm that the weapons You have given to me to use are filled with divine power that is sufficient to demolish every stronghold Satan has built to hold back Your will and plan.

I confess the awful wickedness and sins that I, my family, me fellow believers and my culture have committed.  Wash me afresh in the blood of my lord Jesus Christ that there may be no hindrance to Your fellowship and blessing upon me.  I apologize to You for the offense against You represented in the wicked sins characterizing our culture.  I recognize that when people abandon themselves in such sinful rebellion, much ground is being given to Satan to rule in our culture.  My only hope is knowing that the finished work of my Lord Jesus Christ is sufficient payment for even these.  I ask You to bring about all that is necessary to grant us the gift of repentance and a broken humility before You.  I invite You to draw near to the people of our day until we are humbled and broken before You in a revival awakening greater than any that has ever been.

In the mighty name of my Lord Jesus Christ, I use the weapons of my warfare to demolish and weaken every throne, dominion, princely ruler, authority, power of darkness and wicked spirit in the heavenly realm that is organized and strategized to hinder revival.  I ask the Holy Spirit to hold the mighty power of the shed blood and finished work of my Lord Jesus Christ constantly against these strongholds to cause their destruction and defeat.

In the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the power of his blood, I pull down all levels of the stronghold of _______.  (Choose items from the following list of areas of Satan's strongholds that you desire to pull down and smash.  You may think of other things.  The list is suggestive, not exhaustive.)

1.    Pornography
2.    Perverted sexual practices
3.    Adultery and prostitution
4.    Drug use and promotion
5.    Drug suppliers' protection
6.    Alcohol addiction
7.    Abortion practices and promotion
8.    Cursing and vile language
9.    Unbelief and humanism
10.    New Age teaching
11.    Occult promotion and activity
12.   Satan worship
13.    Television and media disgtortions
14.    Religious cults and isms (name those you know)
15.    Liberal theology promotion and false doctrines
16.    Divisive influences in the body of Christ
17.    Violence and crime
18.    Child abuse inall its forms
19.    divorces and family disunity
20.    Materialism and greed
21.    Peer pressure
22.    Spiritual deafness and spiritual blindness
23.    Blocking of people from sharing their faith
24.    Blocking of people from receiving Christ
25.    Lack of care for the homeless and hurting
26.    Disunity and distrust in Christ's Body
27.    Attacks on pastors, Christian workers and their families
28.    Interest in spiritism and evil supernaturalism
29.    Promotion of hate, rage and violent anger
30.    Hindrance of the recruitment and funding of missionaries
31.    Pride, spiritual haughtiness and indifference
32.    Neglect of Bible study and prayer

I pull down these strongholds in the name of my Lord Jesus Christ and I  pray their wicked work back upon themselves.  I ask my loving Father in heaven to assign His holy angels to engage in direct combative defeat of these strongholds of evil.  I bind the work of evil powers in each of these strongholds and I invite the Holy Spirit to unleash His mighty convicting power upon the people who are in bondage to them.  I ask Him to exalt the ways of righteousness before the spiritual understanding of such people and to convict them deeply of their accountability to God in coming judgment.  I ask the Holy Spirit to open their spiritual eyes to see their need for the saving grace of our Lord Jesus Christ.  May this revival for which I pray bring multitudes into a saving relationship with Him.

I address my prayer against the strongholds assigned to keep God's people from believing You for revival awakening.  surely, there must be many that are working to make Your people lukewarm, satisfied with our materialism and blind to our spiritual needs.  I pull down all such strongholds, named and unnamed, and I pray for a great moving of the Holy Spirit to bring to us a hungering and a thirsting after righteousness.  May the Holy Spirit arouse in Christ's Body an insatiable appetite to memorize, study and know God's Holy Word.  In the name of my Lord Jesus Christ I plead for a revolutionary revival to visit my heart, my family, my church and the whole body of Christ until it spills over upon the world around us and brings many souls into glory.  Amen.

 These prayers may be reproduced for free distribution when the following credit is attached:
Mark I. Bubeck, copied from:  The Rise of Fallen Angels
(Chicago, IL.  Moody Press, 1995)

Sincerely,
Mark I. Bubeck

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