Bible Intercessory Prayer & Spiritual Warfare
16 FollowersThe Channel explores how biblically-grounded intercessory prayers by Born-Again Christians in accordance with, e.g., Romans 8:27b, 1st John 5:14-15, and Psalm 149:5-9 -- impact geo-political events and the physical/earthly realm. God has graciously allowed me to experience many miraculous answers to prayer. Yet despite seeing these, I’ve learned not to evaluate Scripture by physical signs but instead to judge the physical signs by the Scriptures. Yet using the written Scripture as The Criteria also requires at times delving into the original Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek words various biblical writers used, as well as investigating the historical and social contexts during when they penned those Scripture words – to be at peace that I have a reasonable accurate scriptural criteria or yardstick. Still, I’m no expert nor credentialed Bible scholar. I’m just an average Christian doing his best to be “a workman who need not be ashamed, rightly dividing the Word of Truth”. In faith, hopefully, I am relying on the Mind of Christ, the Unction of the Holy Spirit, and James 1:5-6 for any spiritual realizations I come by. Sola Scriptura involves not only that every believer can read the Bible himself and he not be prohibited in doing so, but that he also has the responsibility to engage in his own struggles of mind to find the truth and thus decide for himself. In my struggles, I try to use honest critical thinking to discern what the Lord is actually saying through His written Word (God’s “theological messaging”, as Dr. Michael Heiser puts it), and then try to synthesize the Lord’s concepts which He’s spread variously throughout Scripture into coherent wholes, in order to discern His Will from the Whole Counsel of God. Discerning and following that Will is what has made intercessory prayer miraculously successful. 1 John 5:14-15. Yet, being only human, I can still get my Scriptural exegesis wrong. But I am comforted by the answer which Martin Luther gave to his accusers during his Worms, Germany trial in 1521: As one paraphrase put it -- “I am but a man and can err. Only let my errors be proven by Scripture. . . . Unless I am convinced by Scripture and by plain reason . . . my conscience is captive to the Word of God. To go against conscience is neither right nor safe. I cannot and I will not recant. Here I stand. I can do no other. God help me.”