Sword

DAY 23: Tuesday, February 6, 2018 View this email in your browser Dublin Field of Corn.  Photo by Katie Ayers © 2018 Prayer Focus: Prayer Region: Northwest • Upper Arlington • Powell • Marble Cliff • Shawnee Hills • Dublin • Hilliard • Lewis Center • Grandview Pray for the faith partnership with Gables Elementary School.   Pray for addiction and recovery ministries in our city - for provision, protection and supernatural breakthroughs. Pray for the armor of God over your life - especially for the sword of the Spirit (His Word).   Identify some “enemies” in your life or the lives of those around you and speak God's Word against those adversaries. “For the word of God is alive and powerful. It is sharper than the sharpest two-edged sword, cutting between soul and spirit, between joint and marrow. It exposes our innermost thoughts and desires.” Hebrews 4:12, NLT Arise, Humble Warrior. The Father has placed His powerful weapon in your hand. Speak His truth. And see the enemy fall. Can you see it?  The Lord has handed you the sword of the Spirit, which is the Word of God (Ephesians 6:17). The majority of the word “sword” IS “word”. He did not give it to you to just hold idly or lay to the side. Its purpose is for both defense and offense. But how do you wield your "sWord"? In the original Greek, “word” is “logos,” meaning “to speak intelligence; a word as an expression of that intelligence.” He has handed you the "sWord" to speak over your situation. A praying moms group was concerned about their children’s interaction on social media and the Internet. Within a few days of asking the Lord to give them His Words to pray, they had over fifteen verses. Here is one example: a prayer based off of Psalm 101:4 - “Lord, may my child reject perverse ideas and stay away from every evil.” It is time to stand and use what God has placed in your hand. When Moses led the Israelites out of slavery in Egypt with an angry army pursuing them and the Red Sea in front of them, the people were scared (Exodus 14:13-16). Moses told them God would fight for them. They only needed to be still.  Then the Lord told Moses to raise his staff and stretch out his arm. The water would divide so the people could walk through the sea on dry ground. Can you imagine how Moses felt before he did this? Was he nervous? Did he doubt? No matter how he felt, Moses did exactly what God told him to do. Friend, God is calling you to raise up your "sWord." His Word penetrates right to the root of the problem.  If your enemy is sickness, speak God’s Word to the sickness. It even divides joint and marrow. If the enemy is a broken relationship, God’s Word divides soul and spirit. It can cut to the center of broken finances, churches, governments, cities or countries. God’s Word is alive and powerful.  Ask Him for the “sWord” to pray over your situation. Oh Lord, I thank you for teaching me and equipping me every day.  I ask you to give me wisdom and to give me Your Words to pray over the situations that come before me. In Jesus name, Amen.  Featured contributor: Kathy Stauffer is an Area Coordinator for Moms in Prayer International (formerly Moms in Touch Int.) She is passionate about encouraging women to ‘be real’ with God and with each other through her blog: neverforgetthetruth.blogspot.com. She loves to remind them how loved they are by their Father and the power He has placed in them. She also is passionate about equipping mothers to pray for their children. Moms in Prayer impacts children and schools worldwide by gathering women to pray for them. Read more at: www.momsinprayer.org Prayer Devotional PDF Copyright © 2018 Pray for Columbus, All rights reserved. You are receiving this email because you expressed an interest in Pray for Columbus email updates. Click the link below if you'd like to unsubscribe. Thanks! Our mailing address is: Pray for Columbus 720 E Broad St Suite 200 Columbus, OH  43215 Add us to your address book Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list