24/05/2026
THE CHRISTIAN LIFE:
THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE HOLY SPIRIT
"The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Spirit be with you all. Amen." (2 Corinthians 13:14
ALL PRAYER AND SUPPLICATION IN THE SPIRIT
Ephesians 6:18
Imagine a military general abreast with all the latest technological tools and experienced in all the winning strategies sit down with you and begin to show you how to win any battle.
He shows you the enemy and also gives you the battle-tested tools you need to use that guarantees victory every time. He admonishes you not to take life at face value. That there are territorial oppositions and different levels of limitations that are targeted at the believer. His information ensures that you don't walk blindly and that you take nothing for granted. You are given divine intelligence that gives you a competitive advantage over the enemy.
This is what the apostle Paul was doing Ephesians 6 from verse 10.
This tells you that one of the enemy's major tactic is to either completely mask his presence by making certain people deny his existence and relevance or make others downplay and take for granted his activities. Neither of these extremes is safe.
The first extreme produces a person who is being actively opposed, harassed, and robbed by a kingdom they are convinced does not exist. They interpret spiritual attacks as bad luck, natural misfortune, or personal failure. They never engage the enemy because they do not believe there is one, and so the enemy moves through their life unchallenged, executing his assignments without resistance. First Peter 5:8 describes this adversary as one who walks about like a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour. A person who has been persuaded that the lion does not exist is the easiest prey the lion will ever encounter.
The second extreme produces a different but equally dangerous condition. This is the person who acknowledges the enemy's existence in theological terms but has been lulled into such a casual relationship with that knowledge that it produces no practical response. They know the devil is real. They simply do not pray as though anything depended on it. They carry their theology of spiritual warfare the way a soldier might carry a weapon he has never trained with, possessing it without being able to use it, and therefore vulnerable in the moments when the possession was meant to protect them.
So the apostle Paul is a battle-tested spiritual general who by the Holy Spirit is giving us a view into the spirit realm to show us what is going on. Again, this shows us that there are spiritual beings who want a stake in what is going on generally on earth and particularly in your life. This further proves that the spiritual determines the physical. What the natural permits is what will happen on earth.
The principle that the spiritual determines the physical is one of the most important realities the series has been establishing from the beginning. Joseph's breakthrough and advancement in every environment he entered, the same forward movement in Potiphar's house and in the prison cell, was not the product of natural talent or human strategy. It was the product of the spiritual reality of the presence of God with him, producing results that no natural explanation could account for. Daniel prayed for twenty-one days and an angel told him the answer had left heaven on the first day, held back not by God's unwillingness but by the prince of Persia, a demonic principality with territorial assignment. The physical outcome of Daniel's situation waited on the resolution of the spiritual contest. That resolution came about because of Daniel's persistence. This is reminder of what the Bible says,
"And I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.” (Matthew 16:19)
This is the reality Paul is briefing the church on in Ephesians 6.
Thanks be to God who by His word and Spirit has revealed to us how to win in this battle. He has won it and we have the honour to enforce the victory of the cross. Yet that does not remove the fact of the need for warfare on our part.
Colossians 2:15 describes what Christ accomplished at the cross: "Having disarmed principalities and powers, He made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them in it." The victory is complete and it is real. The principalities and powers were disarmed at the cross, stripped of their ultimate authority, publicly displayed as defeated. The enforcement of that victory, the bringing of it to bear in specific situations, specific territories, specific lives, is the work that falls to the church through prayer and supplication in the Spirit. The General, the Captain of the host of heaven has already won the war. The soldiers are tasked with securing the ground the victory purchased.
So the apostle tells us what we need to do in order to win this battle. We have looked at some of these things from verse 10 to 19.
We are still looking at verse 18.
We have looked at this verse and highlighted some lessons. We go deeper.
The apostle is saying that victory cannot be claimed without prayer.
Paul does not say prayer is helpful or advisable. He places it as the non-negotiable instrument of victory in the warfare he has just described. The armour of Ephesians 6:13-17 is indispensable, the belt of truth, the breastplate of righteousness, the shoes of the gospel of peace, the shield of faith, the helmet of salvation, the sword of the Spirit. Every piece is necessary. Every piece is described with the language of deliberate, intentional donning. Yet none of the armour pieces are themselves the engagement. They are the preparation for the engagement. The engagement is verse 18. The engagement is prayer. You cannot claim the victory the cross secured while refusing the instrument through which that victory is enforced.
Luke 18:1 establishes the same principle in the words of Jesus before Paul ever wrote to the Ephesians: "Men always ought to pray and not lose heart." The ought is a spiritual necessity, not a suggestion. The always corresponds exactly to the en panti kairo ( in all season) of Ephesians 6:18. The not losing heart corresponds to the perseverance Paul commands in the same verse. Jesus stated the principle. Paul gave the warfare application of it.
Then the apostle goes on to highlight the attributes of this prayer.
PRAYING ALWAYS: THE PRAYER THAT DOES NOT LET UP
Praying always. We looked at this word always and saw that it means in every season. The prayer that wins in spiritual warfare and in life in general is a prayer that does not let up.
The believer is called to a life of prayer. The prayer that will not slow down or reduce its intensity. This means anytime you go on vacation spiritually, you risk losing ground. You cannot cry, get tired or give up and expect the devil to leave you be.
This is a reality that no amount of theological refinement should be allowed to blur. The adversary does not observe your seasons of fatigue. The principalities assigned to your territory do not stand down because you are emotionally depleted or situationally overwhelmed. First Thessalonians 5:17 contains what appears to be an impossible instruction: "Pray without ceasing." The Greek word for without ceasing is adialeiptos, meaning continuously, without intermission, without a break in the pattern. It is used in the ancient world for a persistent cough that does not stop, for a tax that is levied without pause, for a river that flows without interruption. Paul is describing a quality of engagement with God that is built into the flow of daily life rather than scheduled into specific moments and then abandoned between those moments.
It is a ceaseless battle but we are assured rest even in the midst of the battle and also we do not fight by or with our strength. As long as we remain strong in the Lord and in the power of His might, we are good.
Matthew 11:28-30 holds these two realities together "Come to Me, all you who labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For My yoke is easy and My burden is light."
The rest is not the absence of the yoke. It is the quality of the yoke. The believer who is yoked to Christ in the warfare prayer life is not carrying the weight of the battle in their own strength. They are pulling alongside the One whose strength is inexhaustible, whose strategies have never failed, and whose victory over the principalities was complete before the believer entered the field. The rest is in the yoke, not in the laying down of it.
ALL PRAYERS: THE FULL ARSENAL
Next, we are to pray all prayers. Prayer of faith, thanksgiving, warfare, intercession, repentance, all kinds of prayers should be deployed to walk in victory.
The Greek phrase is en pase proseuche, meaning in every form of prayer, with every type of prayer, leaving no category unused. Paul is describing a complete arsenal rather than a preferred weapon. A soldier who masters one weapon and ignores the rest is a soldier with a significant vulnerability. The enemy who cannot be reached with the weapon the soldier prefers will simply approach from the angle the unused weapons were meant to cover.
The prayer of faith is the prayer that lays hold of the specific promises of God for specific situations, releasing the shield of faith in its prayer dimension to quench the specific fiery darts being aimed. Mark 11:24 carries its instruction,
"Whatever things you ask when you pray, believe that you receive them, and you will have them." The prayer of faith does not wait for visible confirmation before it claims the answer. It claims the answer on the authority of the word of God and holds that position until the visible catches up with the spiritual.
The prayer of thanksgiving is not merely good manners toward God. It is a spiritual weapon that establishes and maintains a posture of trust which the enemy cannot pe*****te. Philippians 4:6-7 connects thanksgiving directly to the peace of God that surpasses understanding and guards the heart and mind. A heart guarded by that peace is a heart the adversary cannot easily reach with his primary tools of anxiety, fear, and doubt.
Warfare prayer is the direct engagement, the use of the authority Christ delegated in Luke 10:19, "Behold, I give you the authority to trample on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing shall by any means hurt you," to bind, to rebuke, to dislodge what the enemy has established in specific situations. Matthew 18:18 gives the ground beneath it: "Whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven."
Intercession is the prayer that positions the believer as the Daniel of their generation, standing in the gap for others, for cities, for nations, for the body of Christ. Ezekiel 22:30 describes God searching
"I sought for a man among them who would make a wall, and stand in the gap before Me on behalf of the land, that I should not destroy it, but I found no one." The intercession that holds back judgment and creates space for grace is a warfare activity of the highest order.
Repentance prayer closes the doors that consistent sin has opened and reclaims territory that the enemy has occupied through the believer's own choices. We established before that the devil seeks specific bounded territory in the life of the believer, and that the believer's unresolved patterns of sin are the primary means through which that territory is handed over. Repentance prayer, genuine, specific, thorough turning from what has given the enemy access, is the reclamation of that territory.
Also, don't just pray, supplicate. We have touched on this before. The earnest supplication, the deesis(Greek) that rises from genuine deficit, the techinnah(Hebrew) that seeks grace because it knows it has no other basis for asking, remains the posture that gives every other category of prayer its urgency and its power.
IN THE SPIRIT: THE WEAPON THAT FLIES UNDER THE RADAR
In the Spirit. We have said this means by the power and agency of the Holy Spirit as well as in tongues. Tongues are our all-time spiritual weapon of the highest potency. It is like a modern weapon that not only flies under the radar, it unleashes such mayhem upon the enemy that leaves them completely defeated. Then as the weapon is causing havoc to the enemy it is building up the believer. Then the believer also uses it to worship God and prophesy or birth into existence God's purpose for their lives.
This is such a unique and powerful weapon hence it was necessary to give it to man despite the fact that natural languages already existed. This means this language does what natural languages will not or cannot accomplish. Hence it is a unique weapon in the arsenal of the believer.
Modern stealth technology achieves its effect by operating beneath the detection threshold of the enemy's radar systems. The weapon reaches its target and executes its assignment before the target has any opportunity to mount a defence. Praying in tongues operates on exactly this principle in the spiritual realm. First Corinthians 14:2 establishes says, "For he who speaks in a tongue does not speak to men but to God, for no one understands him; however, in the spirit he speaks mysteries." The mysteries being spoken are communicated directly between the believer's spirit and God, bypassing the realm in which the principalities and powers operate and monitor. The enemy cannot intercept what he cannot decode. The prayer in tongues goes directly to its destination without the interception that natural language prayer is vulnerable to, because natural language prayer engages the mind, and the mind is the primary territory the enemy works to influence and distort.
Romans 8:26-27 expands the picture,
"Likewise the Spirit also helps in our weaknesses. For we do not know what we should pray for as we ought, but the Spirit Himself makes intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. Now He who searches the hearts knows what the mind of the Spirit is, because He makes intercession for the saints according to the will of God." Three realities emerge from these verses. The first is that the believer's natural mind is genuinely insufficient for the full range of warfare prayer the situation demands. The second is that the Spirit prays from a position of complete knowledge, engaging with every dimension of the situation including the dimensions the believer's natural mind has no access to. The third is that the Spirit's intercession is always according to the will of God, meaning it is always effective, always on target, always aligned with the purposes of heaven for that specific situation.
Isaiah 28:11-12 contains the earliest prophetic reference to the gift of tongues
"For with stammering lips and another tongue He will speak to this people, to whom He said, 'This is the rest with which you may cause the weary to rest,' and, 'This is the refreshing.'"
The language the prophet describes, another tongue, is identified as rest and refreshing for the weary. Praying in tongues is therefore not only a weapon of war. It is simultaneously a source of spiritual renewal that sustains the believer through the sustained engagement that the warfare demands. The same activity that is causing havoc to the enemy is providing rest and refreshing to the believer. This dual function makes it categorically unlike any other weapon in the spiritual arsenal.
The building-up function is confirmed by First Corinthians 14:4: "He who speaks in a tongue edifies himself." The Greek word oikodomeo, to build up, to construct the interior structure from the foundation upward, means that praying in tongues is the activity of spiritual self-construction. Every session of praying in tongues is a session of reinforcing the very vessel through which all other prayer and all other warfare flows. The believer who prays consistently in tongues is building an interior structure that grows progressively more capable of sustaining the intensity that the warfare demands.
Jude 1:20 makes the construction process a direct command,
"But you, beloved, building yourselves up on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit."
The construction and the praying are the same activity. You do not build first and then pray. The building is achieved through the praying. A believer who is not praying in the Spirit is attempting to sustain a warfare engagement from an unreinforced structure, and the methodeia, the systematic organised strategy of the enemy, will eventually locate and exploit the weakest point of that unreinforced structure.
The worship and prophetic dimensions add a third function that we did not develop fully. When the believer prays in tongues in a context of worship, they are engaging with God at the deepest level of spirit-to-Spirit communication, bypassing every cultural, linguistic, and intellectual barrier that separates the created from the Creator. First Corinthians 14:15-16 shows Paul doing both,
"I will pray with the spirit, and I will also pray with the understanding. I will sing with the spirit, and I will also sing with the understanding." The worship in tongues reaches the throne of God with an accuracy that even the most carefully worded natural language worship cannot fully achieve, because it is the Spirit Himself who is composing the worship through the yielded believer.
The prophetic and birthing dimension is equally significant. Praying in tongues also function as the spiritual midwifery of God's purposes, the activity that opens the womb of the season and brings forth what God has been preparing. This connects directly to the Elijah illustration from we discussed earlier, where Elijah's prayer on Mount Carmel acted as a spiritual midwife to birth the rain the heavens had been holding. The en panti kairo-(alway-in every season) instruction of verse 18 carries this same understanding, every chronological season contains within it a spiritual kairos, a loaded moment pregnant with divine purpose, and praying in the Spirit is the activity that opens the natural movement of time and releases the kairos-the seasons of breakthrough and answers. The believer who prays consistently in tongues is a person perpetually positioned to birth what God has prepared for that season.
WATCHFULNESS-SLEEPING THROUGH LIFE
Another attribute of this warfare and this prayer is that spiritual sleep should be avoided. This means one of the enemy's strategies is to unleash the spirit of sleep. Remember sleep can be physical, spiritual, inattention, or how we attend to our purpose and so on. The enemy wants us to sleep through life without giving particular attention to why we exist.
This new dimension of the spirit of sleep goes beyond what w were had addressed before. We earlier covered the immediate manifestations, the drowsiness that overcame the disciples in Gethsemane, the church at Sardis named alive but dead, the watchmen of Isaiah 56 loving their slumber. This discussion presses deeper into the strategic intention behind the spirit of sleep, which is not merely to interrupt prayer sessions but to cause the believer to live an entire life without ever engaging with the reason they were placed on the earth.
The enemy's most ambitious use of the spirit of sleep is the person who is physically active, professionally engaged, relationally present, and spiritually unconscious. They fill their chronological time with constant activity and never once ask the question that would open the kairos (the moment of purpose) within it. They do not lie down and close their eyes. They run from thing to thing without direction or intentionality, which is the most socially acceptable form of sleeping through life the adversary has ever designed.
Proverbs 29:18 names the consequence,
"Where there is no vision, the people perish." The word perish in the Hebrew is para, meaning to let go, to let loose, to run wild without restraint or direction. A people without prophetic vision do not dramatically collapse. They simply run loose, expending energy in every direction without the governing purpose that would focus that energy toward its intended target. This is sleep in its most productive-looking form. The person is awake and busy. They are also completely directionless, which means the enemy has achieved his objective without ever having to put them on their back.
Ephesians 2:10 confronts the spirit of purposelessness with a declaration that removes every excuse for it: "For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them." The good works were prepared beforehand. The path was laid before the believer arrived on it. The purposelessness that the spirit of sleep produces is therefore not a neutral condition of uncertainty. It is the specific state the enemy needs to maintain in the believer's life to prevent them from finding and walking the path God has already prepared. An intentional, awake, purpose-oriented believer is a believer who is walking in prepared works, and a believer walking in prepared works is enforcing the victory of the cross in the specific territory God assigned them to.
Lack of intentional living, sober walking and focused engagement are all levels of sleep. Waiting for things to change without seeking for answers in the word and taking action is another kind of sleep.
Second Timothy 1:6-7 gives the antidote to this deeper sleep,
"Therefore I remind you to stir up the gift of God which is in you through the laying on of my hands. For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind."
The word stir up is the Greek anazopureo, meaning to rekindle a fire that has begun to die down, to fan the embers back to full flame. The gift is already in the believer. The anointing is already present. The purpose is already prepared. What the spirit of sleep has done is allow the flame of intentional engagement to reduce to embers. The instruction is not to receive something new. It is to stir up what is already there but has been allowed to cool through inattention.
The sound mind, sophronismos in Greek, is the capacity for disciplined, sober, intentional thinking and living. It is the direct antidote to the purposeless running of Proverbs 29:18. The sound mind knows why it exists, what it has been given, where it is going, and what it must do today to get there. The spirit of sleep hates the sound mind because a sound mind cannot be put to sleep without its own cooperation. The believer who operates from a sound mind, who brings disciplined intentionality to every day and asks what is the purpose of God for their live it contains, is the believer the spirit of sleep can find no foothold in.
PERSEVERANCE: THE LONG-HAUL COMMITMENT
Then we are told to persevere. This means we should be prepared to engage in this lifestyle for the long haul.
The enemy will not only bring sleep, he will also attempt to bring weariness and distractions but neither of these should be allowed. The believers should be alert and sober. Fully conscious and intentional in their walk with God.
Weariness is the enemy's secondary strategy when sleep has failed. The believer who has successfully resisted the spirit of sleep, who has maintained watchfulness and intentionality, who has prayed always and in every season, now faces a different kind of opposition. Galatians 6:9 speaks directly to this moment,
"Let us not grow weary while doing good, for in due season we shall reap, if we do not faint." The due season is the kairos. The reaping is the harvest of the sustained prayer engagement. The fainting is the specific danger the enemy is targeting at this stage of the battle. He cannot make you sleep when you are alert. He therefore works to make alertness feel unsustainable, to make the effort of continued engagement feel disproportionate to the results visible so far, and to make rest seem earned and reasonable at exactly the moment the breakthrough is nearest.
Hebrews 12:1 addresses the distraction dimension
"Let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us."
The weights are distinct from the sins. A weight is not necessarily a sinful thing. It is any commitment, relationship, activity, or preoccupation that costs the believer momentum in the race without contributing to their purpose in it. The enemy's use of distraction is sophisticated precisely because most distractions are not evil in themselves. They are simply expensive in the currency of attention and time, and a believer whose attention and time are consistently spent on things that are good but not essential is a believer who has been effectively removed from the engagement without ever having committed an obvious sin.
Lack of intentional living, sober walking and focused engagement are all levels of sleep. Waiting for things to change without seeking for answers in the word and taking action is another kind of sleep.
The Greek word for sober in the New Testament is nepho, meaning to be free from the influence of intoxicants, to be self-controlled and clear-headed, to have one's faculties fully available for accurate perception and decisive action. First Peter 5:8 uses it alongside the watchfulness command, "Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour." The sobriety is the clear-headedness that sees the lion for what it is. The vigilance is the watchfulness that tracks the lion's movements. Together they describe the fully conscious, fully intentional believer who cannot be caught off guard because they have refused both the sleep of unconsciousness and the intoxication of distraction.
The proskarteresis of Ephesians 6:18, the perseverance that the verse commands, is not the grim endurance of a person who has exhausted their resources and is simply refusing to quit. It is the sustained, joyful, intentional engagement of a person who knows what they are fighting for, who knows the victory is already secured at the cross, and who is determined to see every dimension of that victory enforced in the territory they have been assigned. Nehemiah built the walls of Jerusalem in fifty-two days against sustained and organised opposition, with tools in one hand and weapons in the other, refusing every distraction and every invitation to negotiate, because he understood clearly what the completion of the wall meant for the people inside it. That is the perseverance Paul is calling for in every believer's warfare prayer life.
We have taken Ephesians 6:18 to a deeper level of practical application by pressing into each attribute of the warfare prayer life that the verse demands. The military general picture with which we opened is the governing framework for everything that followed. Paul is a battle-tested spiritual general briefing the church, not with theories, but with tested intelligence about a real enemy, proven weapons, and the specific disciplines required to walk in consistent victory.
Victory cannot be claimed without prayer. This is the non-negotiable foundation from which everything else in the verse proceeds.
Praying always means the prayer that does not reduce its intensity. The battle is ceaseless, the enemy does not observe your seasons of fatigue, and the answer to that reality is not your own inexhaustible energy but the rest available in the yoke of Christ, the strength that comes from being strong in the Lord and in the power of His might rather than in your own reserves.
All prayers means deploying the full arsenal without preference for one weapon over others. Faith, thanksgiving, warfare, intercession, repentance, and supplication each have their function and their target. The believer who restricts themselves to one category of prayer leaves the angles that category does not cover exposed.
In the Spirit means operating under the influence, direction, and power of the Holy Spirit, and specifically praying in tongues, the weapon that flies under the enemy's radar while simultaneously destroying his works, building up the believer's structure, and birthing the purposes of God for every season. All prayers in the Spirit also means you can all prayers in tongues.
Watchfulness means refusing the spirit of sleep in every form it takes, from physical drowsiness in prayer to the purposelessness of sleeping through an entire life without ever engaging with the reason for one's existence. Intentional, sober, directed living is itself a warfare posture.
Perseverance means committing to this lifestyle for the long haul, refusing the weariness and distraction the enemy deploys when the sleep strategy has failed, and maintaining the fully conscious, fully intentional engagement that keeps the believer positioned for the harvest that the sustained investment of prayer produces.
Every sermon in this series has been building toward the picture that Ephesians 6:18 now places before us in its fullest practical expression.
The shared fellowship and partnership of the Holy Spirit from 2 Corinthians 13:14 is not a theological position to be held comfortably. It is a living relationship that makes the warfare prayer life of Ephesians 6:18 both possible and necessary. The depth of the partnership with the Holy Spirit is precisely what determines the depth and effectiveness of the praying always, the praying in the Spirit, and the perseverance through weariness that the verse demands.
The divine breath breathed into man at creation in Genesis 2:7 was God's original investment of Himself into man so that man could function at a level no creature without that breath could reach. The praying in tongues is that breath returning to God as supplication and returning from God as provision, the Spirit who was breathed in now praying through the believer in groanings that cannot be uttered, with a comprehensiveness and accuracy that human language cannot achieve.
The eight words that ended Saul's story, "The Spirit of the Lord departed from Saul, and a distressing spirit from the Lord troubled him," showed the catastrophic consequence of living in a way that consistently grieves the Spirit. The watchfulness and sobriety of Ephesians 6:18 are the practical daily decisions that prevent the grieving of the Spirit and maintain the fellowship from which all spiritual authority flows.
The breakthrough and advancement of Joseph in Genesis 39, operating identically in Potiphar's house and in the prison cell, was the fruit of a life in which the presence of God was uninterrupted by wilful compromise or spiritual sleep. The believer who prays always, who refuses purposelessness, who maintains intentional engagement with the Spirit, carries that same quality of uninterrupted presence and that same breakthrough into every environment they inhabit.
The grieving of the Spirit in Ephesians 4:25-32 showed what hands territory to the enemy. Ephesians 6:18 shows what reclaims it. The lying, the unresolved anger, the corrupt speech, the bitterness, and the malice of chapter four open the door. The praying always, all prayers, in the Spirit, with watchfulness and perseverance of chapter six closes and locks it.
The inexhaustible ocean of Isaiah 55, the invitation to come without money and without price, showed the full provision of grace available to the hearing of faith. Ephesians 6:18 is the hearing of faith in its most sustained and aggressive expression, the believer pressing through principalities, through the spirit of sleep, through weariness and distraction, to draw continuously from the ocean into every specific situation the warfare presents.
The magen (defence and covering) of Zechariah 12:8, the active encircling covering of God's defence, available through the cross and accessed through the Spirit of grace and supplication, finds its daily, practical, operational expression in the warfare prayer life of Ephesians 6:18. Every time the believer prays always, in the Spirit, with watchfulness and perseverance, they are pressing deeper into the defence that God has promised to every person who looks to the One who was pierced.
The spiritual general has given the briefing. The intelligence is accurate. The weapons are proven. The victory is already secured. The question the series has been pressing toward from its very first sermon is the same question Ephesians 6:18 puts at the end of the briefing: will you pray?
The Holy Spirit is your Partner in it. He is your Helper in the doing of it. He is the Spirit of grace who carries everything you are contending for and the Spirit of supplication who generates the capacity to contend for it. He prays in you, He builds you up through the praying, and He leads you into every kairos the chronos of your life contains.
Pray always. All prayers. In the Spirit. Watch. Persevere. The ground is yours to take.
Hallelujah. Glory to God.
