Wise Quotes - POWER OF A PRAYING WOMAN 20

DAY 20 - LORD DELIVER ME FROM EVERY EVIL WORK

One of the names of our God is Jehovah Mephalti - The Lord My Deliverer(Psalm 18:2). Our God is a mighty deliverer who has set us free from many things. I have personally been delivered from a lot in the past years. The deliverance of the Lord is sometimes instantaneous, at times it may take a while, other times it is a process to get there but no matter what the situation The Lord Delivers us all when we pray to Him. Jesus taught us to pray, "Deliver us from evil one" (Matthew 6:13). He would not have instructed us in that manner if we didn't need to do it. But so often we don't pray that way, acting as if He never said it at all.

We all need deliverance at one time or another. That's because no matter how spiritual we are, we're still make of flesh. And no matter how perfect we live, we still have an enemy who is trying to erect strongholds of evil in our lives. God wants us free from everything that binds, holds or separates us from Him. God wants you free not only because He loves you and has compassion upon you, but because He wants you to be able to "serve Him without fear, in holiness and righteousness before Him," all the days of your life (Luke 1:74-75).*

Deliverance is found by praying for it yourself (Psalm 71:12), by having someone else who is strong believer pray with you for it (Psalm 34:17), by reading the truth of God's Word with great understanding and clarity (John 8:32), or by spending time in the Lord's presence. The most effective and powerful way to spend time in the Lord's presences is in praise and worship. Every time you worship God, something happens in the spirit realm to break the power of evil. That's because He inhabits your praises, and this means you are in His presence. "Now the Lord is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty" (II Corinthians 3:17).

PRAYER

Lord, thank You that You have promised to "deliver me from every evil work and preserve me" for Your heavenly kingdom (II Timothy 4:18). I know that "we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hots of wickedness in the heavenly places" (Ephesians 6:12). Thank You that You have put all these enemies under Your feet (Ephesians 1:22), and "there is nothing covered that will not be revealed, and hidden that will not be known" (Matthew 10:26).

Lord, I know that I can't see all the ways the enemy wants to erect strongholds in my life. I depend on You to reveal them to me. Thank You that You came to "proclaim liberty to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed" (Luke 4:18). Without You I am held captive by my desires, I am blind to the truth, and I am oppressed. But with You comes freedom from all that. "My times are in Your hand; deliver me from the hand of my enemies, and from those who persecute me" (Psalm 31:15).

I know that my deliverance comes from You. Thank You that You "drew me out of many waters" and "delivered me from any strong enemy" (Psalm 18:16-17). Help me to stand fast in the liberty by which Christ has made me free, and help me not to become tangled in any yoke of bondage (Galatians 5:1).

I call upon You, Lord, and ask that You would deliver me from anything that binds me or separates me from You. I specifically ask to be delivered from (name a specific area where you want to be set free). Where I have opened the door for the enemy with my own desires, I repent of that. Where I am walking in disobedience, show me so I can turn and live in obedience to Your ways. Give me wisdom to walk the right way and strength to rise above the things that would pull me down (Proverbs 28:26).

I know that though I walk in the flesh, I do not war according to the flesh because "the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty in God for the pulling down strongholds" (II Corinthians 10:3-4). In Jesus' name, I pray that every stronghold erected around me by the enemy will be brought down to nothing. Make darkness light before me and the crooked places straight (Isaiah 42:16). I know that You who have begun a good work in me will complete it (Philippians 1:6). Give me patience to not give up and the strength to stand strong in Your Word.

Scriptures for Meditation

Psalm 34:17

The righteous cry out, and the Lord hears,

And delivers them out of all their troubles.

Psalm 50:15

Call upon Me in the day of trouble;

I will deliver you, and you shall glorify Me.”

Matthew 16:19

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[d] in heaven.”

Proverbs 28:26

He who trusts in his own heart is a fool,

But whoever walks wisely will be delivered.

Psalm 91:14

“Because he has set his love upon Me, therefore I will deliver him;

I will set him on high, because he has known My name.

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*Stomie Omartian, The Power of a Praying Woman(2006)