The Art of War
December 08, 2019      |     By: Jonathan Brickley      |      Category: Sermons      |      Location: El Dorado
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There is no wonder more supernatural and divine in the life of a believer than the mystery and ministry of prayer … the hand of the child touching the arm of the Father and moving the wheel of the universe.
A.B. Simpson

Rewards
Matthew 6:5-6 (NIV)
5 “And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full.
6 But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.

Invasion
Matthew 6:10 (NIV)
10 your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.

Partnership
Matthew 6:8, 11 (NIV)
8 Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask him.
11 Give us today our daily bread.

Acts 4:7 (NIV)
7 They had Peter and John brought before them and began to question them: “By what power or what name did you do this?”

To act in one’s name is to be given an authority.

Philippians 2:10-11 (NIV)
10 that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth,
11 and every tongue acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

Praying Upward - To Heaven
Praying Downward - From Heaven

Exodus 14:15-16 (NIV)
15 Then the Lord said to Moses, “Why are you crying out to me? Tell the Israelites to move on.
16 Raise your staff and stretch out your hand over the sea to divide the water so that the Israelites can go through the sea on dry ground.

The art of war is learned in war.

Judges 2:21-3:2 (NIV)
21 I will no longer drive out before them any of the nations Joshua left when he died.
22 I will use them to test Israel and see whether they will keep the way of the Lord and walk in it as their ancestors did.”
23 The Lord had allowed those nations to remain; he did not drive them out at once by giving them into the hands of Joshua.
3:1 These are the nations the Lord left to test all those Israelites who had not experienced any of the wars in Canaan
2 (he did this only to teach warfare to the descendants of the Israelites who had not had previous battle experience):

Romans 8:31-39 (NIV)
31 What, then, shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?
32 He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all—how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things?
33 Who will bring any charge against those whom God has chosen? It is God who justifies.
34 Who then is the one who condemns? No one. Christ Jesus who died—more than that, who was raised to life—is at the right hand of God and is also interceding for us.
35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword?
36 As it is written: “For your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.”
37 No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.
38 For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers,
39 neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.