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<div class="SSN_rnum">I. THERE IS A SPIRITUAL CONFLICT RAGING IN THE UNIVERSE AROUND US.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">A. It is a war against good and evil.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. The prize is the control of the minds of men.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. Thus you are thrust into the battle, like it or not.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. Your life will be controlled either by good or evil.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">4. We sometimes refer to this as the battle between the flesh and the spirit, but in reality it is a battle against spirit and spirit. The spirit of darkness and the spirit of light.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">B. Satan was at one time an angel of God. Angels are spirits, thus Satan is a spirit.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. When Satan rebelled against God, one third of the angels followed him, and they comprise a powerful spiritual force in the world.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. Their goal is to conscript you in the rebellion against God.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. They will stoop at nothing in order to destroy you.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">4. They have a very strong beach head in your life, and that is your flesh.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">5. The thrust is to get you to live after the flesh, a lustful, selfish, hedonistic, life.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">6. Those persons who they have conscripted in the battle, will stop at nothing to sway men into their camp.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">C. 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.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. For the most part, nations are controlled by these diabolical forces.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. Look at the evil decisions that have come from the Supreme Court of this land, since 1963.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. The banning of prayer, or anything that has to do with the Bible or Jesus Christ from the public school.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. The inability to define obscenity, thus opening the door to all of the pornography that has flooded the land.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">c. The granting of abortion upon request thus allowing 25,000,000 babies, thus far, to be destroyed before they ever had a chance to make a choice.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">d. I wonder what those Supreme Court justices will do when they have to stand before the judge of the universe, and answer for the millions of lives that have been destroyed because of their decisions.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. I cringe at the fact that Hillary Clinton now has the opportunity to appoint a new Supreme Court justice, just at a time when it seemed that an equitable balance was being developed.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">4. This is what Paul was referring to as spiritual wickedness in high places.</div>
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<div class="SSN_rnum">II. OUR WEAPONS AGAINST THESE AWESOME POWERS.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">A. The weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of the strongholds of the enemy. <a onClick="return mV('2Cr',10,4);">II Cor. 10:4</a></div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. One of the most powerful weapons that God has placed in our arsenal is prayer.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. This is a spiritual weapon that allows us to become engaged in this spiritual warfare.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. It is sad and strange that we are so anxious to meet the foe on his turf where he has a decided advantage.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. I think of the ministry of Operation Rescue and I wonder how many more babies they might have saved had they mobilized the people to pray rather than block the doors of the abortion clinics.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. That much fervor and energy in prayer would have shut many more abortion clinics, I am sure.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. But people are far more apt to show up for a demonstration than a prayer meeting.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">B. Why do people find prayer so difficult?</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. Do you find it difficult to talk to someone that you are madly in love with?</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. No, you call them at every opportunity.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. You love to be with them, you love to hear their voices.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">c. Quite often I will call my wife or my grandchildren, and when they answer the phone, I will say, "I just wanted to hear your beautiful voice."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">d. No urgent reason for calling, just connecting with someone I love.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">e. We are commanded to love the Lord our God with all our soul, mind and strength, how often do you just connect with Him?</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. The reason you find prayer so difficult is that Satan will do everything to keep you from prayer.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. When you get down to pray, you will suddenly remember a thousand urgent things that you were supposed to do.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. Or the phone or doorbell will ring.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">c. The baby who is supposed to be napping begins to cry.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">d. Satan realizes that prayer is a deciding factor in the spiritual battle, it is the weapon by which he is defeated, thus he will fight hard to disarm you.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">e. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">f. I think of how many things have been developed to take us from prayer. If we would spend as much time in prayer as we take watching T.V. for instance, how much more we could see for good in this world.</div>
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<div class="SSN_rnum">III. DANIEL'S EXPERIENCE IN PRAYER.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">A. It was in the third year of the reign of Cyrus, thus Daniel must have been close to ninety at this time. He was probably close to the time when the Lord would call his warrior to rest.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">B. His prompting for prayer.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. It was probably reports from those who had returned from the captivity to the land.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. There was very few who took the opportunity to return which in itself must have been discouraging.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. Those who did go back were discouraged and demoralized, the high ideal of rebuilding the temple, was replaced soon by desires for their own comfort, and they were concentrating more on their own houses than the house of God.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">4. The reports must have broken the heart of this man whose heart was so completely after God, and he went into mourning.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">5. Mourning over the state of the nation.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">C. His preparation for prayer.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. He fasted from pastries, meat, and wine.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. He did not anoint himself at all for this period of time.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. He continued steadfast in this commitment for three full weeks.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">D. His prayer was finally answered by a heavenly visitation.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. He was informed by his heavenly visitor, that from the first day that he set his heart to chasten himself and seek understanding from the Lord, God had heard his request and had dispatched this messenger to bring to him the answers.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. However the angel became engaged in a battle with the powers that controlled the nation of Persia, who had detained him for 21 days until Michael one of the chief princes came to his aid, that he might continue with his mission.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. This prince of Persia is one of those spirit forces in high places that Paul tells us that our true warfare is about.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">4. It is a well known fact that Hitler was the tool of men who were deeply involved in the occult.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">5. President Reagan's wife continually sought the counsel of an astrologer.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">6. Jean Dixon boasts of the many calls she received from the different presidents.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">7. The heavenly messenger sent to Daniel declared that when he left Daniel he was going to return to the battle against the prince of Persia, and after him he would be doing battle with the prince of Greece.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">E. The forces that are against you are strong and sinister. They are in control of this present evil world.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. The only way you can possibly hope to stand against them is in the Spirit, and the power of His might.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. Carnal weapons are useless in this battle.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. All of your count ten, or ten steps methods will ever avail to bring you lasting victory in this battle.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">4. You must arm yourself with all the spiritual armor available.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. Your strength is in the Lord, and the power of His might.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. Your spiritual armor is righteousness, the gospel of peace, faith, salvation, the word of God.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">5. Then what? "Praying with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, continuing with perseverance.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">F. The real fighting comes on your knees, and that is where the true victory will be found.</div>
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