MINI-DESPATCH October 9, 2002

FROM
Beauty for Ashes Vol. 5:3 [pdf format click here]

Imperative!

A Prayer Army Needed!

“Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God:

I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand

of my righteousness.” (Isaiah 41:10)

He [the Holy Spirit] teaches us how to pray, and I don’t think there has ever been a prayer upon this sin-cursed earth that was inspired by the Holy Spirit that was not answered. But there is also much praying that is not inspired by the Holy Spirit.

In years gone by, I was very ambitious to get rich. I used to pray for onehundred thousand dollars, that wasmy goal. I used to say, “God does not answer my prayer; He is not making me rich.” But I had no warrant for such a prayer, and that is the case with many people; they pray that way; they think that they are praying, but they do not pray according to the Scriptures. The Spirit of God has nothing to do with their prayers, and such prayers are not the product of His teaching.” 

(“Secret Power” page 133, by D.L. Moody.)

Psychic Prayer, 

Soul Power, 

The Latent Power of the Soul.

As we entered this new millennium there has been a vast resurgence of black religious POWER. A strangerecurring phenomenon seems tooccur in history; the wickedness of evil Satanic religions always seems to strengthen and be revitalized as one millennium ends and another begins. Globally we are now in a period where the POWER of such religions is enormous, pouring out in the atmosphere of our world through the psychic “prayers” of billions of lost souls, all intent on placating, appeasing and serving the false “gods’ of this “New Age.” “New Ages” such as these are as ancient as the snake in the Garden of Eden. The soul-power of fallen men and women can be used and possessed by Satan, thus making the supernatural capabilities of such deceived people a truly awesome FORCE.

The rise of the One World Church, bringing legions of occultic and erroneous religions together in Unity, has added to the psychic power used by Satan in this weird period of history. Add to this the all-out endeavours of such groups as the Islamic fanatical followers of Allah (Satan under yet another title), with their huge gatherings for “prayer” to Allah, as another example of the POWER being gathered on our earth. The Muslims meet with hundreds of thousands of devotees “praying” for power over nations, that they should conquer countries, punish infidels and control the beliefs and worship of all that they see asbeing against their “god”. Satan seeks through them, to do battle against the God of the Bible, the Lord Jesus Christ and His redeemed in using the latent power of the soul in hugenumbers of Muslims. By this “latent power of the soul” is meant the untapped soulical “energies” laying dormant within fallen humanity.

Many, many other supernatural forces are being extended against the population of planet earth at this period. Perhaps in a far greater way than ever before in any period of history – we are almost certainly very close to the rise of the ultimate supernatural weapon against mankind being unleashed –the ANTICHRIST! Satan incarnated in human form!

The astonishing warfare against the churches, against the children of the planet through Global Education, the evils of the flood of counterfeit doctrines, “prophecies” and twisted beliefs throughout the Western world where Christianity once held a firm stand in pockets of sound and staunch Biblical adherence, is horrifying to encounter. ALL of this has been accomplished by SUPERNATURAL MEANS; it could not have been done otherwise. I have been reading of various strange organizations that head up the hundreds of thousands of networks, which comprise the New Age New World and its syncretized political system. These lead organizations are, beneath the surface hidden away, EMPOWERED Satanically. Bloody rituals, serial killings, aborted babies being sacrificed – the lot! Can I be serious, dear reader? Yes indeed, many are exposing this in our day. Just recently we received a book written about the horrors of the CIA, and other alphabet organizations with global influence, and MIND CONTROL, GUIDED IMAGERY, DEMON POSSESSION, OCCULT MEDITATION, SATANIC RITUALISTIC RAPE etc is happening on a grand scale. Not to mention the horrors of black masses and devil worship, such as the Bohemian Grove, the Skull and Bones, high-level Freemasonry – many others. (A recommended book, 

“The New World Religion” by Gary H. Kah. Pub. Hope International Inc.)

·DO YOU realize that the MASS of the Roman Catholic Church takes place at approx. 300,000 times a day over the earth? 

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When Christ said when he died, “It is finished”? Think of the psychic power going out through this simulated blood sacrifice. “Soul-force.”

Jessie Penn Lewis wrote this early last century:

“Soul-force’ is a word whose charm and magic is only known in the East. It is the power believed to have been exercised by holy men, known as Mahatmas, who were the spiritual leaders in India in centuries gone by, and who are credited with supernatural powers as much today as in ages past. It is said to have power, not only to energize, but also to control the will of the people.

To illustrate the power of this word in the Indian mind, it is sufficient to point to the revision of the Treaty of Sevres, under which all that was lost to Turkey has to be restored. A greater triumph of one Eastern nation over all Western nations put together, cannot be imagined. The explanation given, and believed by millions in India, is expressed in the word ‘soul-force.’

This ‘soul-force’ is believed to be cultivated by prayer, fasting, and religious meditation. The Mahomedans point with pride to their gatherings for prayer in their Mosques. Consider the mass of Mahomedans at prayer in the great Jumna Mosque of Delhi, where an hundred thousand followers of Mahomet assemble inside the Mosque, with a still larger crowd engaged in prayer outside. It is here that the hidden springs of Islam lie. Every Mahomedan believes that the secret of world-power is in prayer, and what he believes, he practices. They ‘pray’, and lo(they believe) the council of European nations is set aside. What a lesson to Christendom!

And how is soul-force cultivated amongst the vast Hindu population of India? If the gatherings of Mahomedans are large, those of Hindus, who meet for devotional exercise, at their great festivals, are ten times larger. The Hindus point with pride to their sacred places of pilgrimage, where they assemble by hundreds of thousands. At the great Magh Festival at Allahabad, millions of Hindus assemble every seven years.

Prayer – an exercise of devotion which unites Hindu and Mahomedan into one common action, to generate ‘soul-force’ in order that it may be projected upon Western nations, to undermine their power and prestige in the East. It is the greatest revolt known in history!” (“Soul and Spirit”, p.p. 56,57.

By Jessie Penn-Lewis). 

Hey, Just a Minute!

·Are you thinking this ... ? 

“The information above is making me, the reader, shocked!”

Perhaps you have been expecting a “Beauty for Ashes” that follows the same line that other issues have. Bible teaching on how Grace can sanctify a Christian, and how a believer can be happy in God despite this crazy, evil world’s influence. Well, beloved of God, the time has come for us all to go on into the SERIOUS business of being of mighty use to GOD and our world of woe.There is an URGENT need of Bible-based, sound and Spirit-filled prayer soldiers. It would seem to me that the greatest need in the world today is for such spiritual fighters against Satan and his schemes. 

·Are you wondering how you can be used of God in these perilous times? 

I hope and pray this issue of “Beauty for Ashes” will give you a part of the answer to the question that should be pounding in your heart: 

·“What can I do?”

This Issue We Will Deal With:

1.What are the Christian prayer troops doing?

2.The enemy forces, what are we up against?

3.Who is greater, the Lord God or fallen humanity’s powers aligned with Satan?

4.What is spiritual resistance and attack about?

5.Who can fight in this battle?

6.Resist the devil and he will flee from you?

7.MORE on what is going on!

8.How do you prepare yourself for this battle of love?

9.Are we certain of victory?

10. Won’t God work without us praying? After all, He is an All-powerful God, isn’t He?

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What are The Christian Prayer Troops Doing?

That is an impossible question to answer in many ways. There are major things we have to take into consideration. Sadly a lot of “spiritual warfare” these days in our churches is really about the “Latent Power of the Soul” in action. The book by that name by Watchman Nee is very helpful here, (Christian Fellowship Publishers. Inc. USA.)

·How much true prayer is being offered up for the right reasons by “Christian” churches must also be taken into consideration.

Much of what we see is about spiritual warfare to take dominion over the earth for Christendom! This too will fit into the Antichrist’s plans, as apostate Christendom merges with the other dominionists (or “Kingdom Now” proponents) desiring a global unity. Those religions that view the Pope as the one who must head up a One World Church will form a syncretism that will set up the “Kingdom of God” but it will be a counterfeit kingdom. Much “prayer” today in churches has the forces of the soul being used for political means; in order to have a “Christian” society worldwide. This is culture-salvation, State religion, which is not Biblical. This movement is already heavily aligned with the Parliament of World’s Religions and the Globalists - the Church of the One World. 

(See Revelation 17:1-7 for a description of the One World Church of prophecy).

When church-goers see the answer within themselves instead of in God, the “faith” power of themselves being used to claim towns, cities and nations for “God”, with power coming forth from the inside of believers, energy coming from their extended arms etc – I’m afraid that is obviously soul-force being used by the enemy of men! The same is true about groups who march around cities seeking to spiritually pull down Satan’s evil spirits from the atmosphere above the earth – in order to take over from these principalities and powers. No church groups or combined ecumenical movement can take away those evil spiritual powers and principalities in the atmosphere, only Christ Himself can do that when He returns to earth at the SecondAdvent. Revelation 19.

·I cannot say that there are NOT good prayer groups in churches, how would I know that? 

I am saying there are fearfully false doctrines and aims being peddled in our denominations in these Last Days. 

·Does that not pre-suppose that prayer is being affected as well?

·How much so-called “prayer” is really a lot of noise and confusion of tongues, and soul-ical forces being extended in Pentecostal churches, and is mere formality in weak evangelical and fundamental churches? 

Lord, this is our prayer to be offered up right now:

“Heavenly Father, open the spiritual eyes of all born-again people in our nation and the world. Pour out Your Spirit we pray, that sincere and Christ-honouring people everywhere might be drawn into mighty prayer in the Holy Spirit. Cause us all to cry to our God in Heaven. Teach us to pray in Your will as we see the world being inundated with Satan’spsychic forces.We ask in the Name of Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.”

·What about you and I? 

There are many Christians who now worship outside the denominations, either in independent fellowships in halls, or home groups. Some fine Christian believers hang on in the denominations, seeking to witness and alert others. We often are keen to be used of the Lord in a vital way. 

·Have you heeded God’s call for prayer soldiers? 

·The young married people may say they are busy with family affairs and business matters, they have NO TIME for dedicated and intense prayer. Older believers may be retired, but still declare they have NO TIME for serious, dedicated, prayer battle and intercession. Be quiet before the Lord God as you go over your life as you live it now. 

·Are you wasting much time with activities of no value at all? 

Television, useless “shopping” outings, wandering around finding things to do if you are retired. 

·Are you wasting a mountain of time talking on the telephone, watching videos, reading magazines, going on outings to watch football or play sport, or visiting family and friends?

You have NO TIME left for 

intercession and prayer battle – 

and on it goes!

No, I am not suggesting that you give up all your fun, I am telling you to realize that TIME IS SHORT! 

·How ashamed you will be at the Judgement Seat of Christ if you have wasted precious time doing nothing much for long periods – while the world was being vacuumed up into a nightmare of devilish activity and doctrines of demons! 

·Do you care, beloved of God? 

We redeemed ones of the Lord were NOT left on this earth, after we were saved, in order that we should buy and sell, build up a big bank balance and waft around enjoying our days. We were left here to witness to ChristJesus, His coming as Saviour, of His birth and death and resurrection, of His salvation. We were left here tolive out the plan God has for us, that we might pray, do battle against the enemy, witness and praise the living God. 

·How much time do you spend in prayer every day?

Sometimes we can deceive our own selves. 

·We say, “oh well, the world is in a terrible state, but what can I do? It is all too much for me. In the end we can only pray.” 

This suggests, subtly, that the last resort is prayer, as though prayer was what one does when there is nothing left that we can do. But the opposite is true. Prayer is the MOST POWERFUL thing we can do, it is top priority, and it is imperative. Satan wants to blind us to that fact. Prayer is such a spiritual work that believers can be so earthly minded that they cannot really see what prayer is doing – and they have to get out in the “real world” not sit around in their houses praying. As though we were “talking” to no one, just offering up some words to a God we cannot see. Yes, we believe in prayer in the abstract – but when it comes to every day affairs, seeking God and sacrificing up our time, we don’t show we believe in prayer much at all. How much do you pray, do you really pray in the Holy Spirit’s power? Is prayer for you rather like this: ten minutes at morning devotions, a quick prayer during the day if things go wrong or you want a parking space for your car, and an occasional pouring out of your heart about YOU and YOURS and your own affairs. “Help us decide what holiday to take, dear Lord.” “Show me the best colour to paint our living room.”

The false religions (Mormons, Muslims, New Age Goddess Movement, Hindus, Luciferian Theosophists, Hindus etc) are very dedicated, the “prayers” go up continually from millions of deeply devout souls – where are YOU, for you are a priest called of God? 

“But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light: “ (1 Peter 2:9).

·Are you quite willing to work for the Lord as long as it is “out there” speaking, teaching or playing instruments or singing? 

·But you will not consider a prayer ministry because there is nothing in it for you?

·It is unseen by men, and therefore not that attractive? 

I hope that none of that is true of any that read this. 

·Are we in touch enough with spiritual reality to realizeour responsibilities?

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“After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father Which Art in Heaven, 

Hallowed be thy name.” (Matt. 6:9).

The Location of God by Believers.

God is in Heaven, we must always pray to the Lord in Heaven, not God in the atmosphere around us or the God within ourselves. We do not want to make a “god” of our own who can be counterfeited by evil spirits. 

The following notes give valuable insight on this subject:

“…he [the believer] becomes more conscious of the presence of God by the Spirit, and in the spirit, and so begins to locate the Person of God as in, around, or upon him. Then he turns inward, and begins to pray to God as within him, which in time, really results in prayer to evil spirits, if they succeed in gaining admittance under counterfeit.

The logical sequence of prayer to God as located within, can be pressed to absurdity, i.e., if the soul prays to God in himself, why not pray to God in another elsewhere? The limitation of God as a Person within, and all the possible dangers arising from this misconception of truth are obvious.

Some believers so live inwardly in communion, worship and vision, as to become spiritually introverted, and cramped and narrowed in their outlook; with the result that their spiritual capacity and mental powers become dwarfed and powerless. Others become victims to the “inner voice,” and the introverted attitude of listening to it, which is the ultimate result of the location of God as a Person within, so that eventually the mind becomes fixed in the introverted condition with no out-going action at all.

In fact, all turning inwards to a subjective location of God as indwelling, speaking, communing, and guiding, in a materialistic, or conscious sense, is open to gravest danger; for upon this thought and belief, sedulously cultivated by the powers of darkness, the most serious deceptions, and final out-workings of deceiving spirits have taken place.”

(Jessie Penn Lewis quote – 

“War on the Saints”, chapter six.)

2. The Enemy Forces,

·What are we upAgainst?

The very air around us is becoming so polluted with deceptions, demonic oppression and spiritual darkness that one hardly knows how to begin to comment. Obviously the whole scene globally is vastly more horrific than any investigator could ever understand or expose. Recently documents came into our hands which could never be written about in Despatch magazine or Beauty for Ashes. This has to do with the political leaders of the New World Order, Presidents of the United States;politicians; many are well-known names to us, in film and entertainment fields as well.The documents are graphic revelations about the 

·Monarch Slaves, 

·sex slaves; 

·Luciferian rituals and 

·blood sacrifices; 

·drug running, 

·pornography films, 

·pedophile groups in high places 

– just to mention a few details. 

Such perversions as 

·bestiality,

·homosexuality,

·sadism,

·pedophilia,

·rape and torture 

are common place amongst the “hierarchy” of the New World Order. The “global masters” being used by Satan to complete THE PLAN for a united world system in this millennium are NOT your average Aussie pollies! Hitler with his occultic Wagnerian operas and silver Messianicarmour was a mere Disney character to these Illuminati billionaires! GOD is in control, remember that, the rise of the BLACK BROTHERHOOD of the N.W.O., the emergence of the Whore riding the Beast has happened because the LORD GOD has allowed it as ajudgement on the nations. The Whore is the blood-thirsty religious system of the Luciferian One World Church, the Beast is the political world leader and his regime, and verse eightof theverse below refers to the last form of Gentile world-power.All the norms of “ordinary” society are being made obsolete in our benighted world. We could say at this moment in history that nothing is what it seems!For instance

·Did you know that the Bush family has been friends and business associates of the Bin Ladin family for years?

·Did you know that George W. Bush has vacationed with Osama Bin Ladin on various occasions?

He was criticised in the U.S. for this some time ago, before the Twin Towers affair. 

·Did you know that emergency personel were assembled in New York PRIOR TO the planes crashing into the Twin Towers ... the day before?

The whole thing was 

planned by the N.W.O. hierarchy.

Henry Kissinger once declared that Princess Diana was “politically and diplomatically uncontrollable.” She was “disposed of” for various reasons, partly, it appears to investigators, because she was going to shake the world with an horrendous revelation about the Royal Family. 

This is a quote from the book, “The Biggest Secret” p.p. 416-417,by D. Icke: 

·*[Our Despatch Disclaimer applies]

“She knew where the bodies were buried as they say, and she had shown in her famous interview with the B.B.C. current affairs programme, Panorama,

in November 1995,that she was prepared to reveal some of them.... didimmense harm to the Windsors and they must have wondered what on earth she would do next. In my travels around the world I met a man who had a call from Diana in 1997, a few months before she died. ...She said she had something to reveal that would shake the world, and she wanted his advice on how best to do it...he would not reveal what she told him....I said I knew she was aware of the Windsor’s connection to drug trafficking, he said “oh no, it was much worse than that!”

Here is God’s Word on this evil world’s climax:

“So he [the angel] carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns. 

And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication: 

And upon her forehead [was] a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH. 

And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration [wonder]. 

And the angel said unto me, Wherefore didst thou marvel? I will tell thee the mystery of the woman, and of the beast that carrieth her, which hath the seven heads and ten horns. 

The beast that thou sawest was, and is not; and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit, and go into perdition: and they that dwell on the earth shall wonder, whose names were not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, when they behold the beast that was, and is not, and yet is. “(Revelation 17:3-8).

·PRAY for those involved with the horrors of ABORTION, worldwide. Women are being “encouraged” into abortion with the lies that the unborn baby is not a person! It is expedient for the secret world leaders to have babies killed, it will bring down the population of the earth by millions. Young women with “problems” in that area are easily persuaded it seems, and yes, they too are guilty! But the medicalkillers have coerced and manipulated them, as have feminist groups. There are something like one half a BILLION unborn babies killed worldwide! 

·PRAY for the movement of God in hearts and lives.

·PRAY for the groups speaking up against abortion and those who picket the clinics.

·PRAY against the deliberate killing by AIDS of the world’s population. This too is an initiative to bring down the population of earth. 

I personally spoke to a New Age top level leader in Brisbane some years ago, one Norman Myers, who was on his way to meet with governrnent leaders here. He said, quite openly, that the population of the earth may well have to be reduced by 90% in order to “Save the Planet.” In Africa, 1997, the figures on Aids were compiled by the USA census.

The LOW RISK population of Africa would still die, 15-36 per cent of them. People who were not immoral, who were not homosexual etc.

The HIGH RISK population of Africa would die, 40-80 percent of them. These were the homosexuals, army people, government prostitute users, the promiscuous heterosexuals, their sex partners etc.

This AIDS has been deliberately brought about. It is GENOCIDE, the greatest tragedy of all history, involving all the world.

·PRAY for Christ’s salvation for people in every country. It is impossible now to keep a check on how many people are coming down with HIV because of the disease becoming a civil rights issue instead of a contagious disease issue.

Spiritual forces of Satan are energizing the ungodly in our day massively. Look at our own country, which is rather a meek and mild sort of place compared with America and Europe (arguably). Homosexuality is embraced and encouraged, the New Age has brought blatant Satanism right into our cities and towns. 

·How many psychic fairs and occult shops have you seen in your locality? 

Not to mention here what goes on in the dark night, in the mountains and hidden away in some group gathering or other. New Age doctrinespollute our churches, false religions proliferate whilst Biblical Christianity gets harder and harder to find! The schools here have been indoctrinated with all sorts of global educational techniques and brain controlling teachings. If you doubt this get any books by Charlotte Thomson Iserbyt, who once served as Senior Policy Adviser in the Office of Educational Research and Improvement, U.S. Department of Education. She is a “whistle blower” who has dedicated her life to warning the world of the awesome Plan to educate your children for the coming united world.Do a search on Internet for her material. 

After this miniscule listing of just a few of the enemy’s forces and his ultimate Plan to take over our planet, 

·What can we gather above all else?

I would see it like this: 

WE NEED MIGHTY PRAYER TO THE FATHER IN HEAVEN!

THE REMNANT CHURCH OF GOD NEEDS TO BE CRYING

OUT IN INTERCESSION FOR PEOPLE IN DANGER.

3.What/Who Is Greater, The Lord God Or Fallen Humanity’s Psychic Powers Aligned With Satan’s?

Let the Creator answer that question:

“For the LORD is a great God, and a great King above all gods. In his hand are the deep places of the earth: the strength of the hills is his also. The sea is his, and he made it: and his hands formed the dry land. O come, let us worship and bow down: let us kneel before the LORD our maker.”

(Psalm 95:3-6).

“God …His glory covered the heavens, and the earth was full of his praise.

And his brightness was as the light; he had horns coming out of his hand: and there was the hiding of his power.

Before him went the pestilence, and burning coals went forth at his feet.

He stood, and measured the earth: he beheld, and drove asunder the nations; and the everlasting mountains were scattered, the perpetual hills did bow: his ways are everlasting.”(Habakkuk 3:3-6).

Without a shadow of a doubt theAlmighty God is greater than anything Satan can cause fallen humanity to do! GOD is greater than any of the plans of the Illuminati. 

·So, why does HE not stop what is going on? 

·WHY does God require our prayers at all? 

·Can’t He just bring all this horror to an end, once and for all? 

Yes, He could do that, and He will do it when the time is ripe. God has to bring His righteous judgement upon the Gentile nations yet, and bring His chastening upon Israel as well – all this happens in the Tribulation [ “Time of Sorrows” and “The Great Tribulation”~7 yrs]. After the Rapture the Church of Jesus Christ must be judged and given white robes. “The Marriage Supper” must take place, and a lot more, all before Christ Jesus comes to bring peace, order, justice and God’s Kingdom into this world. 

In the interim we, the redeemed of the Lord Jesus Christ, have a holy work to do on planet earth. 

·Why does God not send His power and deliverance for the needy, lost and abused men, women and children who are suffering, confused and LOST?

·Does he have to wait for our prayers before He can save the lost individuals around about us? 

Here is what the mighty preacher; D. L. Moody had to say about this in his book “Secret Power” pages 95,96:

“We read in the Scriptures of the sword of the Lord and Gideon(See Judges 7:15-22). 

Suppose that Gideon had gone out without the Word; he would have been defeated. But the Lord used Gideon, and I think you find all through the Scriptures that God takes up and uses human instruments. You cannot find, I believe, a case in the Bible where a man is converted without God calling in some human agency, using some human instrument. Certainly, in His independent sovereignty, He can do it without the human instrument; there is no doubt about that. But that is not His way, that is not His method. Even when, by the revealed glory of the Lord Jesus, Saul of Tarsus was smitten to the earth, Ananias was used to open his eyes and lead him into the light of the Gospel.

I heard a man once say that if you put a man on a mountain peak, higher than one of the Alpine peaks, God could save him without a human messenger. But it is “the sword of the LORD, and of Gideon” (Judges 7:18), and the Lord and Gideon will do the work. If we are simply willing to let the Lord use us, He will.”

As it is with witnessing, preaching and teaching, so it is with PRAYER. God could do the work by Himself, but He uses you and I, men and women who are human beings saved by Grace, to cry out for the souls of the lost, and to intercede for suffering and blinded humanity. WE are to use the WORD as well in prayer as we do in preaching and teaching. The Holy Spirit will guide us into His truth about how to pray, He will pray through us and teach us to pray. NO, God will not stop the rise of the Antichrist system; it hasalready been established by edict! Itis a PREDICTED climax of the Church Dispensation, the Tribulation of seven years. But, God will have mercy and give light and safety in Christ Jesus to the deceived and lost as we pray for individuals. He will, I believe, work in their lives because we pray for them, and if we do not some will go into the ghastly Tribulation period to suffer under the Beast.

We can pray for those who are trapped in evil teachings, children especially who are being cleverly manipulatedby global education in the schools of the world. 

·Pray for those who are swamped by deception in the churches, that God will grant to them enlightenment, the opening of their spiritual eyes. We do not have to even know their names, we can simply pray that church-goers will be woken up from their slumber by the Holy Spirit, and be shown Jesus Christ as Saviour, Lord and TRUTH. So many to pray for, the Holy Spirit will show the humble child of God how to intercede if you and I care and love enough to PRAY.

·Have you ever heard a person speak out New Age doctrines believing that this was Biblical Christianity? 

I know you have, we all have.

Perhaps you have spoken to them to warn them, but no notice is taken of your earnest entreaties. Maybe you then have taken written material to thatperson, about the New Age doctrines he/she has been deceived about. BUT, it is as though they are blind, cannot read, as though your words fall ondeaf ears! This is spiritual interference; Satan has them blinded and deaf indeed. 

·PRAY for God’s Holy Spirit to break through that evil deception, cry out to God to have mercy upon them.

·Your own family members, are they all saved and walkingobediently with the Lord Jesus?

Possibly they are a mixed company – some not saved at all and against the Gospel, some saved but weak and worldly, some strong and safe in Jesus as Saviour and Lord. 

Young people in your family need prayer especially, we all realizethat I guess, but ...

·Do you diligently, powerfully bring them to God in intercession?

The temptations are everywhere , as they have never been in any otherdecades we have encountered. Good Christian teenagers can turn into rebellious and ungodly young adults in a flash. Bad company can draw them away from God. Satan is like a roaring lion seeking to destroy the families of Christian believers, to bring the adults to heartbreak and a grieved and useless life. 

“But Jesus called them unto him, and said, Suffer little children to come unto me, and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdom of God.” 

(Luke 18:16).

4.What Is SpiritualResistance and Attack About?

There has been so much written about this subject, we have many books here on this. I have found that so much can be studied about “spiritual warfare” that confusion can reign in the end! Not that the various books are not very helpful, but this is about the REALITY of getting going and actually praying and learning with the REAL Holy Spirit in charge. I can read and read, but what I have to do is pray and pray! Now this becomes a farce if one is onlyrepeating words over and again. Perhaps when you pray you bring things as usual to the Lord, and then “dry up” so repetition happens,because you want to pray longer. 

·What can be done if this is so?

“But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly. But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking. Be not ye therefore like unto them: for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him.”(Matthew 6:6-8).

There are questions like 

·“how long should I keep praying for the same thing, before I just rest in faith?”

And 

·“how can a earnest and true Christian become a SUCCESSFUL intercessor with Christ? 

·What is the secret of this great ministry?” 

A good deal of help can be extracted from Jessie Penn-Lewis books onspiritual warfare, but I would caution the reader to get only a small booklet on this. I have one here called simply “The Spiritual Warfare.” It has only 46 pages. The larger books by Penn-Lewis can be confusing and overwhelming to a person who just wants to get going and dedicate their livesto interceding for our world in thisperilous period of the end times.

I am praying for the reader,I am praying right now that YOU will take up the task in great seriousness. We are all called to this, God is calling us all to prayer. NOT to just study up the subject, that is useless in this vast emergency. The monarch slave documents I have been reading have made me realize anew how heinous the New World Order global masters are, they are abandoned to the black arts of the devil, with his supernatural powerbeing behind their works.

·a)Who can pray and get

RESULTS in the supernatural world?

The first great victory is always in your own life. No human can expect to have God’s might in prayer if they are not filled with the Holy Spirit. I do not mean you have to have fallen down “under the power” or that you have to be a Pentecostal, or to have mighty experiences! I mean just what I wrote, filled with the Holy Spirit. All your sins confessed before God, clean for your daily walk (1 John 1:9), thus you can ask for and receive the fullness of the Holy Spirit. God will not fill a dirty vessel, sin must not be harboured. We must abandon ourselves to the Lord for His use.We should ask God to fill us with the Spirit daily, this filling is NOT a once and for all happening. Some say they are filled because they speak in tongues, despite their lives. God says this:

“For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light: (For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth) Proving what is acceptable unto the Lord.” 

( Ephesians 5:8,10).

The test of whether we are filled by the Spirit of God is whether our lives are LIGHT not darkness, whether we have the fruit of goodness, righteousness and truth in our very inner beings. 

·Have we the righteousness which alone is acceptable to God, the fruit of the Holy Spirit?

Only the Holy Spirit can teach us to pray, and He must intercede for us and through us if we are to have victories in the spiritual realm, asRomans 8:26,27 shows us:

“Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God.” 

·b) What is praying without ceasing?

This is an important question, for I believe God wants us to be trained up in this “watching unto prayer.” If we mean business with God overinterceding in deep seriousness, then HE will work a work in us that will cause our spirits to be so in tune with Him that prayer will burst from our spirits everywhere we are. Not necessarily aloud, of course. We will be a barrier to Satan’s plans and purposes, just by being present in a place. We will see a political leader’s face on television and God will cause us to burst out in prayer in our spirit; we will be praying over all matters as we encounter them, the Holy Spirit as intercessor lifting people, events and places to the throne of God. 

·A bit too “spiritual” for you? 

·Too much of an other worldly life for you? 

Then consider just where are you at, dear one of God. MOVE out of your worldly comfort zone and laxity, it is getting close to the end of this age, wicked spiritual reality is exploding across our earth – something horrifying and weird is happening globally. YOU are safe in Christ Jesus, multitudes are not. We are the people of the LIGHT, we are surrounded on every side by the DARK – SHINE little candle:

“If thy whole body therefore be full of light, having no part dark, the whole shall be full of light, as when the bright shining of a candle doth give thee light. “( Luke 11:36). 

“To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in me.” 

( Acts 26:18).

“For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light:”(Ephesians 5:8).

Things are coming to a head in this world of wickedness. The deceived masses are expecting global peace through the United Nations, the Parliament of Religions and all the “tolerance” and “mediation” going on. New Age DIALOGUE is happening everywhere -worldwide. UNITY inDIVERSITY is the cry – this means come together against the God of the Bible in reality. Just as this occurred at the Tower of Babel. Spiritual Babylon is coming ALIVE in our lifetimes. God’s people see a different picture, we do not walk in darkness as the unsaved do. We see Satan’s son of perdition about to be revealed. We have to be wide awake, it is time to get out of our spiritual beds:

“For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape. But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief. Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness. Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; …”( 1 Thess. 5:3-6).

“Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;” ( 11 Thess. 2:3).

“Praying without ceasing” does not mean that times of prayer in our own rooms, set times alone with the Lord, and time in groups is NOT required. This can be a delusion. We can satisfy ourselves that we are “praying without ceasing” and actually use it toexcuse ourselves for not entering into our rooms to pray at all. Be honest with yourself, this is no time for excuses and dilly-dallying. As I read this issue to myself I sense how moved I am about the urgency for powerful prayer. THE LORD is doing this, He is bringing about in my spirit a new awareness! I had almost completed another Beauty for Ashes for September, it was three-quarters of the way written up. The computer just swallowed the material, we could not find it again no matter how we searched the data files. A dear young lady who belongs to the Lord said that maybe God had wanted me to lose thatmaterial, I think He did. He wanted me to write about intercession instead. Thank you, Ruth. Satan is coming against the people of God in awesome strength. We have to stand our ground, and resist him.

5.Who Can Fight In This Battle?

·The answer? 

The crucified ones.

Here I will quote from Jessie Penn-Lewis in part, bringing her words into our own age and scope. 

·Perhaps you have prayed for all sorts of things, with little real power or answers? 

This issue of Beauty for Ashes began with these words of D.L.Moody:

“He [the Holy Spirit] teaches us how to pray, and I don’t think there has ever been a prayer upon this sin-cursed earth that was inspired by the Holy Spirit that was not answered. But there is also much praying that is not inspired by the Holy Spirit.

In years gone by, I was very ambitious to get rich. I used to pray for one hundred thousand dollars, that was my goal. I used to say, “God does not answer my prayer; He is not making me rich.” But I had no warrant for such a prayer, and that is the case with many people; they pray that way; they think that they are praying, but they do not pray according to the Scriptures. The Spirit of God has nothing to do with their prayers, and such prayers are not the product of His teaching.” 

Moody, who died in 1899, was greatly used of the Lord, he won thousands to Christ in his time. He knew what he was talking about.

·Could your prayers have been unanswered in many instancesbecause they were not “according to the Scriptures”? 

·Or could they have beenoffered up with no AUTHORITY over the enemy, because ofcompromise and collaboration with the devil himself (unknown to yourself)?

The churches and “Christian” bookshops have been so HIT by the enemy in present times that many of the techniques and “prayer” instructions that have been absorbed by millions of churchgoers are New Age and occult practices in actuality. How grim this is, how the devil must be gloating! Bible verses are being quoted with wrong interpretations, New Age mind games and demonic FORCE or SOURCE techniques are presented as being “prayer”, BAD spiritual instructions are accepted by millions in churches. We need to bravely throw out ALL that is wrong and occult, without compromise or pride – otherwise we will stop the work of the Holy Spirit in intercession through us. Come before the Lord God and denounce all concepts of “prayer” that may be New Age (in other words they are SATANICALLY inspired). Ask the Lord to reveal anything and everything that may be “off” and to bring you into all truth.

DON’T imagine that you cannot have been confused and deceived about anything, be onthe safe side. I do this, I do not want to cozy up to Satan’s end time delusions in any way. Yield to the Spirit of Truth, and let God search yourdoctrines and beliefs. 

“Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come. 

He shall glorify me: for he shall receive of mine, and shall shew it unto you.” ( John 16:13).

Satan comes as an angel of light, he is becoming more devious and presents his false doctrines and beliefs brilliantly. If you have his doctrines in your spirit, your prayers will be hindered. It isvital that you deal with God in this area.

Quote: (Jessie Penn Lewis)

·Q. How far may we, who know something of the liberating power of the Cross, claim thedeliverance for others?

A. This question opens out a subject of vital importance to the church of God. Some shrink from acknowledging that its is possible for an evil spirit to deceive a true child of God, and yet many have been delivered from the bondage of years through simply recognizing this truth. 

“When the strong man armed keepeth his palace, his goods are in peace.” (Luke 11:21). 

The ‘armour’ wherein Satan ‘trusteth’ (Luke 11:22) is the FALLEN ADAM:

“But when a stronger than he shall come upon him, and overcome him, he taketh from him all his armour wherein he trusted, and divideth his spoils.”

The only positonwhich will despoil the strong man, and take away the ground he holds, is the standing upon Romans 6:6 as a continual basis, i.e.,

“Our old man was crucified with Him.” 

And this, not merely as a past experience, or recognised fact, but for every moment, by faith.

This is the reason why Satan especially in the aspects of Romans 6 and Colossians 2:15, as a fact to be believed and used; for only the believers who stand in steady faith upon Romans 6:11 can prove Colossians 2:15 on behalf of others. Only then, also, can Luke 10:19 become experimentally true : 

“I have given you authority over ALL the power of the enemy.”

The whole ground and pledge of this is the finished work of Christ on the Cross, where John 12:31 wasfulfilled (see John 16:11); and the only condition for its exercise by the believer is, UNION WITH THE CONQUEROR, as foreshadowed in Luke 10:17.” 

(Penn-Lewis, “The Spiritual Warfare” p.44).

As we see above only CHRIST has the authority and power to put downSatan’s works, because he has CONQUERED the devil, his demons and evil angels. Only when we, by faith, live in the recognition that the Cross has “crucified” the old Adam nature in us can we have UNION with the One who has already won over Satan. These words of Penn-Lewis will aid our understanding:

“There are various ways of exercising this authority of Christ over the enemy for others. The believer, standing on the basis of Romans 6:11, reckoning himself in that place where alone he is out of reach of the enemy, may, in the NAME OF CHRIST [i.e.His authority], command the evil spirit to depart (Luke 10:17); or, in private prayer, be claiming the efficacy of the finished work of Christ over the enemy, as he grips that soul. The only way in which any believer can enter into this work experimentally [ i.e. Jessie means here in actual experience, in a real manner, not just a head knowledge] is that given in John 14:26 and John 16:13.” 

(Emphasis and parenthesis added).

Let us take a look at John 14:26 and John 16:13:

“But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.”

“Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come.”

All right, then God is promising that we can be assured that we will know how to pray in deep intercession, because the Holy Spirit Himself will teach us all things, bring us into a spiritual knowledge of Christ’s teachings, guide us into the things of God in the future, show us God’s will and will speak to our spirit. This does NOT mean that we must pray to the Holy Spirit within ourselves, or listen for an audible voice from within, this will only lead us into possible deception by counterfeiting spirits. It does mean that we will be guided in our spirits into willing and doing God’s good pleasure as we pray:

“For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.” 

( Philippians 2:13).

ÜWHO CAN FIGHT IN THIS BATTLE? 

Only those who put the Cross between themselves and the old Adam nature; who depend utterly upon the Holy Spirit, and who come in the only authority they have – in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ Who has won the battle already on the Cross.

A Clear Affirmation.

a) Prayer should be brought to the Throne of Grace in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. HE will presentyour requests to the Father Himself! “Yes, Lord I will obey you in this. I will ask in Your Name.”

“And in that day ye shall ask me nothing. Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my name, he will give it you. Hitherto have ye asked nothing in my name: ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full. 

These things have I spoken unto you in proverbs: but the time cometh, when I shall no more speak unto you in proverbs, but I shall shew you plainly of the Father. At that day ye shall ask in my name: and I say not unto you, that I will pray the Father for you: For the Father himself loveth you, because ye have loved me, and have believed that I came out from God.”(John 16:23-27).

b) Prayer must be according to the will of God. His will is infinitely more wise and loving than we understand at this stage. In heaven we will understand. 1 John 5:14-15:

“And he [Jesus] went a little further, and fell on his face, and prayed, saying, O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me: nevertheless not as I will, but as thou wilt”(.Matthew 26:39). 

“Yes, Lord I want Your will in all that I do, say, ask and aspire to. Above all, in all that I pray.”

c)Prayer is to be by the inward motivation and inspiring of the Spirit of God. It is to be the intercession ofthe Holy Spirit Himself, who dwells within the redeemed person. Romans 8:15, 26,27:

“For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.”

“Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God.”

“But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost,” (Jude 20).

“Yes Lord, I want to be filled with the Holy Spirit