Are you ready to rumble?

Gen. 30:8 Naphtali, “With great wrestling I have wrestled.”

There comes a season of prayer and survival where God will call us to fight with everything we have available.  Though we have surrendered and submitted as our first response, once we have submitted to God, the Bible tells us clearly, we are to “resist the devil.” (James 4:7)

This resisting Ephesians 6 describes as a wrestling match with principalities and powers.  Spiritual warfare is a lost art is so many church circles because we have resigned ourselves to passively accept our circumstances as God’s will when He is calling us to rise up against our oppressors.

Ephesians 6:10-20, “Be strong in the Lord…Put on the whole armor…Stand against the wiles of the devil…wrestle…gird your waste…put on the breastplate…shod your feet…take the shield of faith…praying always.”  These are fightin’ words.  God does not desire us to passively allow the devil to have his way on the earth our in our individual lives, but instead to actively combat and wrestle him down.

People unfamiliar with the warlike nature of God suffer constant abuse at the hands of the enemy because of their lack of knowledge.  Instead of being ignorant and unaware, the Bible tells us to undo the schemes of the enemy through our prayers and obedience.

Words of doom spoken over us, curses from past generations, demonic attacks on our family and finances, hellish powers coming against our ministries are all forces of the evil one God died to defeat.  Enforcing that victory is the privilege of the saints. “To execute on them the written judgement—this honor have all the saints.” (Psalm 149:9) “Behold, I have given you authority to trample on serpents and scorpions, and over all power of the enemy, and nothing shall by any means shall hurt you.” (Luke 10:19) Realizing this truth and praying it into existence is the type of wrestling prayer that sets a believer free from demonic influences.

At some point in your walk with God, you must develop the tenacious, determined, violent faith that refuses to let the enemy have any ground in our life.  I am so distraught when ministries and families do not fight back against divorce, demonic books, material, and websites in the house, financial attacks and sickness.  Our God is a “Man of War,” (Ex.15:3) and He desires to train all His sons and daughters in the art of battle. (Psalm 18)

Prayerful wrestling consists of receiving God’s authority and enforcing His truth against our mutual enemies.  If you have never wrestled, you will. Study deeply these battle passages to prepare for the fight.