SPIRITUAL WARFARE PRAYERS (Part 1) by L. Tyler Copyright © 12/30/1997 P.O.Box 734, El Centro, CA 92244 P.O.Box San Diego, CA 92162-0763 This document is to be distributed freely to any who desire it. TABLE OF CONTENTS >1. INTRODUCTION P. 1 >2. SPIRITUAL WARFARE P. 2 >3. EVERY DAY PRAYERS P. 10 >4. SUNDAY PRAYERS P. 13 >5. MONDAY PRAYERS P. 16 >6. TUESDAY PRAYERS P. 20 >7. WEDNESDAY PRAYERS P. 23 >8. THURSDAY PRAYERS P. 27 >9. FRIDAY PRAYERS P. 30 >10. SATURDAY PRAYERS P. 34 >11. FOOTNOTES/SCRIPTURES P. 37 INTRODUCTION Brethren, we are called to be those who stand in the gap, interceding to God for our families and our loved ones. Prayer is a "first of all" priority activity assigned to us by our God>a.. We want the best in the Lord for our loved ones and ourselves. In order to obtain it, we must ask>b. and both the asker and that asked for must be right with God.>c. We can make sure that we, the askers, are right with God by examining ourselves in the Light of the Word and submitting to His Word as we understand it.>d. What better way to make sure that what you are asking is right than to pray scripture, to pray the Bible's prayers for you and your loved ones. The subject of Spiritual warfare is examined first, since some are not aware of what is involved in fighting for our loved ones in the Lord. That discussion is followed by scripture-prayers for our unsaved loved ones. Lastly daily prayers for ourselves and our loved ones are offered. I can't think of better prayers than prayers inspired by God. These scripture prayers are adapted so that they are current church- age prayers appropriate for the real life situations facing us and our loved ones. Pray on! SPIRITUAL WARFARE >I. WHO IS OUR ENEMY? >>A. SATAN AND HIS DEMONS. MKJV EPHESIANS 2: 1 ¦ And He has made you alive, who were once dead in trespasses and sins, 2 in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now works in the children of disobedience; . . . MKJV EPHESIANS 6: 11 Put on the whole armor of God so that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. 12 For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the world's rulers, of the darkness of this age, against spiritual wickedness in high places. >>B. SIN THAT DWELLS IN ME, EVIL AND THE LAW OF SIN IN ME. MKJV ROMANS 7:17 But now it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwells in me. . . . 20 But if I do what I do not desire, it is no more I working it out, but sin dwelling in me. 21 I find then a law: when I will to do the right, evil is present with me. 22 For I delight in the law of God according to the inward man; 23 but I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin being in my members. >>C. MY OWN HEART AND UNDERSTANDING. MKJV Matthew 15: 18 But the things which come out of the mouth come from the heart, and they defile the man. 19 For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies; 20 these are the things which defile a man, but to eat with unwashed hands does not defile a man. mkjv Prov. 5: 5 Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and lean not to your own understanding. Prov. 16:25 ¦ There is a way that seems right to a man, but the end of it is the ways of death. 2 Corinthians 10: 5 pulling down imaginations and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought into the obedience of Christ; >>D. SOCIETY, THE WORLD AND ITS CULTURES AND SOCIAL SYSTEMS. MKJV 1John2: 15 Do not love the world, nor the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him, 16 because all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. 17 And the world passes away, and the lust of it, but he who does the will of God abides forever. Joh 15:18 If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you. 1Jo 3:13 Marvel not, my brethren, if the world hate you. >>E. MY NATURAL BODY NOT IN SUBMISSION TO CHRIST, MY FLESH AND ITS NATURAL AND UNREGENERATED DESIRES. Lu 11:34 The light of the body is the eye. Therefore when your eye is sound, your whole body also is full of light. But when your eye is evil, your body also is full of darkness. Ro 6:6 knowing this, that our old man is crucified with Him in order that the body of sin might be destroyed, that from now on we should not serve sin. 12 Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts. Ro 8:10 And if Christ is in you, indeed the body is dead because of sin, but the Spirit is life because of righteousness. 13 For if you live according to the flesh, you shall die. But if you through the Spirit mortify the deeds of the body, you shall live. 1Co 9:27 But I buffet my body, and lead it captive, lest proclaiming to others I myself might be rejected. Php 3:21 who shall change our body of humiliation so that it may be fashioned like His glorious body, according to the working of His power, even to subdue all things to Himself. Col 2:11 in whom also you are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ, Jas 3:2 For in many things we all offend. If anyone does not offend in word, the same is a full-grown man, able also to bridle the whole body. 6 And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity. So the tongue is set among our members, spotting all the body and inflaming the course of nature, and being inflamed by hell. Joh 1:13 who were born, not of bloods, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but were born of God. Joh 3:6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Ga 5:16 I say, then, Walk in the Spirit and you shall not fulfill the lusts of the flesh. 19 Now the works of the flesh are clearly revealed, which are: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lustfulness Eph 2:3 among whom we also had our way of life in times past, in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the thoughts, and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others. >II. WHAT ARE OUR WEAPONS? >>A. MKJV 2 Corinthians 10:3 For though walking about in flesh, we do not war according to flesh. 4 For the weapons of our warfare are not fleshly, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strongholds, 5 pulling down imaginations and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought into the obedience of Christ; 6 and having readiness to avenge all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled. >>B. MKJV Ephesians 6: 12 For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the world's rulers, of the darkness of this age, against spiritual wickedness in high places. 13 Therefore take to yourselves THE WHOLE ARMOR OF GOD, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand. 14 Therefore stand, having YOUR LOINS GIRDED ABOUT WITH TRUTH, and having on THE BREASTPLATE OF RIGHTEOUSNESS 15 and your FEET SHOD WITH THE PREPARATION OF THE GOSPEL OF PEACE. 16 Above all, take the SHIELD OF FAITH, with which you shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked. 17 And take THE HELMET OF SALVATION, and THE SWORD OF THE SPIRIT, which is the Word of God, 18 praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching to this very thing with all perseverance and supplication for all saints. >III. HOW DO WE FIGHT AGAINST THESE SPIRITUAL FORCES? >>A. We are said to "wrestle" against them and that it is He who works in us to will to and actually wrestle against them, so we know that using and relying on the Truth & His Word will "free" you, even from the snares of the enemy 2 Timothy 2: 25,26 Joh 8:32 And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. >>B. Our breastplate of righteousness is the righteousness of Christ that He credits to our account 1 Cor. 1: 30 But of Him you are in Christ Jesus, who of God is made to us wisdom and righteousness and sanctification and redemption; . .. It consists of the righteousness which He works in us as we yield to Him and let him work in us Phil. 2:13 For it is God who works in you both to will and to do of His good pleasure. . .. Furthermore, it consists of the obedience to His Word that He works in us by His Spirit Galatians 5:22-33 and 1 John 2:3,4,5. Our hearts, our emotions, must be brought under His control, and once under His control they must be protected by the righteousness of Christ and His Word. Ps 27:14 Hope in the LORD; be of good courage, and He shall make your heart strong; yea, hope in the LORD. Pr 3:5 Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and lean not to your own understanding. Pr 4:4 He also taught me, and said to me, Let your heart hold fast my words, keep my commandments and live. 21 Let them not depart from your eyes; keep them in the midst of your heart. 23 Keep your heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life. Pr 23:19 My son, hear and be wise, and guide your heart in the way. Ro 10:9 Because if you confess the Lord Jesus, and believe IN YOUR HEART that God has raised Him from the dead, you shall be saved.Jesus wants a full and rich emotional relationship with your heart >>C. Fear is both a mind and a heart experience, needing both the helmet of salvation as well as the breastplate of righteousness. You can't fight well when you are afraid, so His peace delivers us from crippling and inhibiting fear Mt 10:28 And do not fear those who kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul. But rather fear Him who can destroy both soul and body in hell. Joh 14:27 Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world gives, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid. 1Jo 4:18 There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear, because fear has torment. He who fears has not been perfected in love. >>D. Our faith in God and His Word, our shield, quenches and deflects the attacks of the enemy Re 12:11 And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; . . . Hebrews 11: 1 ¦ Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. 2 For by it the elders obtained a good report. . . . 6 But without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him.. See what faith did in the lives of the heroes in Hebrews 11. >>E. The helmet of salvation: You have to make sure your salvation. You do this by examining and judging yourself 1 Corinth. 11:27-34. You examine, prove and test yourself to see if your really are in the faith 2 Corinthians 13:5. Examine yourself to see if you are in the faith walking in a manner pleasing and acceptable to your Father and King. If you aren't, judge and discipline yourself in the way of the godly sorrow of 2 Corinth. 7. This helmet of salvation protects your mind 2Ti 1:7 For God has not given us the spirit of fear, BUT OF POWER AND OF LOVE AND OF A SOUND MIND. Ro 12:2 And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the RENEWING OF YOUR MIND, in order to prove by you what is that good and pleasing and perfect will of God. 3 For I say, through the grace given to me, to every one who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think. But SET YOUR MIND TO BE RIGHT-MINDED, even as God has dealt to every man the measure of faith. >>F. We have two offensive weapons. The first is the Word. It is our overcoming sword. Re 12:11 And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; . . .. It pierces the adversary spiritually Heb. 4: 12* For the word of God is living and powerful and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing apart of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. We should exercise with this tool Heb. 5:14 But solid food belongs to those who are of full age, even those who because of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil. We should be diligent in our sWORD fighting skills DBY 2 Tim. 2:15 Strive diligently to present thyself approved to God, a workman that has not to be ashamed, cutting in a straight line the word of truth. >>G. Our second offensive weapon is prayer, not just "prayer", but watchful, persevering, supplicating and interceding prayer Eph.6, praise and thanksgiving Phil. 4:6,7,8. It is the fervent effectual prayer of the righteous one who avails much James 5:16. A "righteous one" is (1) one who asks according to the Word & will of God 1John 5:14, 15; (2) one who is following His instructions and doing those things that are pleasing in His sight 1John3:22; and (3) one who wholly believes and relies on the Name of Jesus Christ and compassionately cherishes those who believe in Jesus1Joh3:23. Not just prayer, but fasting and prayer is the winning combination. On what basis can this be maintained, when a key verse for fasting in spiritual warfare is said not to be found in some ancient manuscripts? Matthew 17:19 Then the disciples came to Jesus apart, and said, Why could we not cast him out? 20 And Jesus said to them, Because of your unbelief. For truly I say to you, If you have faith like a grain of mustard seed, you shall say to this mountain, Move from here to there. And it shall move. And nothing shall be impossible to you. 21 However, this kind does not go out except by prayer and fasting. Personally I believe that verse 21 is found in the best manuscripts, but even if you choose to discount verse 21, you cannot discount the Biblical record of prayer with fasting, the act of humbling oneself before God, being a major weapon in our spiritual warfare arsenal Ezra 8:31; Esther 4:15,16,17; Daniel 10;Isaiah 58; Matthew 6:17,18; 9:14-17; 13:58; Mark 2:20; 9:29 Acts 9:9; 13:2,3; 14:23; 27:21-23. Fasting can range from nothing to drink or eat for three days (Esther 4:15- 17), to the working person's fast of no "tasty", "choice" or sweet foods, no "pleasant bread", no meat and no alcoholic beverages for three weeks (Daniel 10:1-5). Fasting by itself without prayer is just a crash diet and is meaningless spiritually. Jesus and the Bible make it plain that fasting is only effective when coupled with intense, fervent and persevering prayer. That could mean, as in the case of the working person's (Daniel's ) fast, that even though you continue working full time, the time that you would normally have spent on recreation or entertainment or fixing your regular food would instead be spent in prayer. The fact that most Christians don't experience the miraculous, answered prayers and a dramatic awareness of the reality of God's presence in their lives, is precisely because they have never entered into a prayer and fasting relationship with God. Personally it was a major turning point in my life when I went on Queen Esther's three day fast of no food, no drink and no distractions (no phone, radio, TV, work, chores etc.) with fervent prayer. >IV. IS THERE A PRECEDENT FOR THIS WARFARE? >>A. Remember the miraculous release of the apostles from prison as the saints prayed Acts 5:17-21, the miraculous spiritual release of the Ethiopian eunuch Acts 8:26-36 who prayed for help, the miraculous answer to Cornelious' prayer Acts 10 & 11, the miraculous release of Peter from prison as the saints prayed Acts 12:5-15, Paul and Silas' miraculous release from prison as they prayed and praised God Acts 16:25. >>B. Remember that God used the prayer and praise of His people to bring down the walls of Jericho, to enable Gideon's small band to win the battle, that gave the battle to Jehosophat without the loss of life 2 Chron.20:20-22. The miraculous deliverance of Mordecai and Esther, and the mighty revelation of Daniel 10 were both the result of God's response to prayer and fasting. There are many many more. >>C. Then there is my personal experience that confirms prayer and fasting with fervent prayer as mighty weapons for spiritual warfare. In the late 60's or early 70's I was on the phone comforting a Christian sister who was frightened and oppressed by the spiritual attacks of her former lover and practicing sorcerer. It was a hot summer night in Pasadena/Altadena so I had my doors open as I was talking on the phone with her. I was encouraging and exhorting her but I was unsure of the reality of these spiritual attacks. Suddenly my hot little cottage became as cold as inside a refrigerator, as did hers @7 miles away. Simultaneously we both sensed great evil in the chilling cold and we were quite tempted to feel frightened as our skin began to crawl the hair on my body began to rise. Immediately I recognized this as a spiritual attack so I began to praise, thank and worship God out loud, asking Him to deliver us from this evil and rebuke it in the Name of Jesus. Within a few minutes the chill was gone from both our houses and the presence of evil was no longer felt, for days afterward. My high school girl friend's mother was a sorceress, invoking her demon to make things float across the room, doors to slam, working the OUIJI board without touching the pointer, and other sideshow tricks. My brother is a practicing New Age sorcerer who invokes the demons (he calls them spirit guides) and lets them speak through him or use his finger tips to roll up steel and silver bars. One day my birth family was gathered for lunch and my sister, Cindy, asked by brother, Randy, to do a Tarot card reading for her. Then she saw my reaction of disgust, apologized and said she would forget about it if it bothered me. I told her it was her decision and her life but I warned her of God's condemnation of this kind of divination. I began to pray fervently, looking over the lake and praying all the spiritual warfare prayers I knew and asking God to turn this incident upside down and around to His glory. Saying nothing but praying fervently, I watched my brother carefully and slowly begin to put the Tarot card down. Soon he began to shake his head in bewilderment. Then he said that he had never before seen anything like this happen. When he finished he declared to his amazement that every card he put down was laying in such a way that it reversed the meaning of each card (e.g. the death card became the life card) and the message he had "from the cards" for my sister was that she was doing wrong, that if she didn't start doing what was right, then judgment and tribulation would befall her. I praised God for allowing the Tarot cards to rebuke her and call her to repentance. I told her doing what was right included yielding to and obeying Jesus Christ. So the Lord answered my prayer and redeemed the whole experience, much to my sorcerer bother's amazement. FIGHT THE ENEMIES OF YOUR SOUL THIS WAY, AND FEAR NOT AND BE OF GOOD COURAGE FOR THE BATTLE IS THE LORD'S. EVERYDAY PRAISE HIM for the who He is to you, what He has done for you and why you love HIM. EVERYDAY THANK HIM for your life, your new life, your health, your daily bread, your work, dwelling, job, ministries, etc, etc, EVERYDAY WORSHIP HIM, lifting your hands in adoration, song and praise. EVERYDAY PRAYERS FOR OURSELVES AND OUR BACKSLIDDEN &/OR UNSAVED LOVED ONES Merciful God, I claim your promise that as many as You love, You rebuke and chasten>1. May You LORD rebuke the evil ones in our lives! >2. Please reprove the unfruitful works of righteousness in our lives.>3. Please cause Your faithful word, according to Your doctrine, both to exhort and to convict the gainsayers I bring before You.>4. Please through Love entreat them that they may know You.>5. Have mercy on us, O God, according to Your loving-kindness; according to the multitude of Your tender mercies, blot out our transgressions. Wash us completely from our iniquity, and cleanse us from our sin. Purge us with hyssop, and we shall be clean; wash us, and we shall be whiter than snow. Hide Your face from our sins, and blot out all our iniquities. Create in us a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within us. Cast us not away from the joy of Your presence, and take not the blessings of Your Holy Spirit from us. Please give us a broken spirit; a heart broken and a contrite , grieving with the Spirit, over the sin in our lives, O God.>6. Father, I pray in Jesus' Name that Jesus, the Lord of Glory, bind, rebuke, strike with confusion and frustration, confound, and bind away (from all that I bring before you) the evil powers, rulers of darkness, evil principalities, spiritual hosts of wickedness and antiChrists that are involved in the lives of myself, those that I bring before You and all our loved ones; nullifying, voiding, destroying and turning upside down the ways and wicked devices of the evil ones, delivering us from all their evil to your glory, honor and praise in Jesus>a. EVERYDAY PRAYERS FOR OURSELVES, ALL OF OUR LOVED ONEs AND THEIR LOVED ONES. My Father in Heaven, hallowed be Your Name, Your Kingdom come, Your will be done in the bodies, souls, spirits, thoughts, words, deeds, work, rest and play of the following and their loved ones: My children, my wives, my loved ones, my parents/relatives, all those I bring before You in my prayers, all those in authority over me, and all those in my sphere of influence. Your will be done on earth in our lives as it is done in Heaven, for Your alone are the God who forever is Unselfish and compassionate cherishing, Truth, Light and the Way---so to You be the power, the glory, the honor and the praise for ever. I thank You for and accept Your salvation in Jesus Christ. Please be merciful to me a sinner, having unclean lips, ungodliness, uncleanness, trespasses, transgressions, iniquity, error, sins of omission and commission in my body, soul, spirit, thoughts, words, work, rest and play. I trust only Jesus and His finished work to save me from the power, presence and penalty of my sins. I pray that the Lord Jesus Christ confound, bind, rebuke, cast into outer darkness or some bottomless pit, strike with confusion and frustration, destroy and turn upside down the way and ways of the evil powers, principalities, rulers of darkness, spiritual hosts of wickedness and antiChrists that are involved in the lives of my loved ones, their loved ones and all those that I bring before you in prayer. Cause my whole heart to be at rest, trusting You. Keep me from leaning and relying on my own understanding/thinking/reasoning/intelligence.#1. Daily deliver me from effects and affects of the sin that dwells in me, from the law of sin that works in my body.#2. Deliver me from what seems right to me, and deliver me to what IS right to You.#3. Please pull down imaginations and every high thing in my life that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, and bring into captivity every thought into the obedience of Christ.#3 Deliver me for loving/liking/delighting in the social systems and societies that belong to this world, that are not centered in You and based on Your Word.#4. Thank You that my old man is crucified with You. Please destroy the body of sins of the flesh, its lusts and the reign of sin in my mortal body.#5. Through Your Spirit work in me to mortify the deeds of my body and keep me from living according to my flesh/body.#6. Buffet my body, and lead it captive that You may work and be glorified in it.#7. Please purify my lips with Your holy fire and guard my lips by your Spirit, working in me so that I do no offend in word.#8. I beseech You that You work in me Your deliverance from the will of my flesh, the will of man, the works of my flesh, the evil desires of my flesh and my own thoughts,#9. PRAYERS FOR OUR LOVED ONES ON A DAILY BASIS SUNDAY PRAYERS: For You LORD are a great God, and a great King above all gods. In Your hand is the deep places of the earth; the strength of the hills is also Yours. The sea is Yours, and You made it, and Your hands formed the dry land. Oh come, let us worship and bow down; let us kneel before You LORD our Maker. ¦ For You are our God, and we are the people of Your pasture, and the sheep of Your hand. >40. For You LORD are great, and greatly to be praised; You are to be feared above all gods. For all the gods of the nations are idols; but You LORD made the heavens. Honor and majesty are before You; strength and beauty are in Your sanctuary. You LORD reign; and the world shall be established; it shall not be moved; You shall judge the peoples in uprightness for You come, for You come to judge the earth; You shall judge the world with righteousness, and the people with Your truth.>41. Clouds and darkness are all around You; righteousness and judgment are the foundation of Your throne. A fire goes before You and burns up Your enemies round about. Your lightnings lit up the world; the earth saw and trembled. The hills melted like wax at the presence of You LORD, at the presence of You LORD of the whole earth. The heavens declare Your righteousness, and all the people see Your glory. >42. You have done marvelous things; Your right hand and Your holy arm has saved for You. You Lord have made known Your salvation and your righteousness. You have unveiled the eyes of the nations. You have remembered Your mercy and Your truth toward the house of Israel; all the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of You our GOD.>43. You LORD reign; let the peoples tremble. You sit between the cherubs; let the earth quake. You LORD are great in Zion; and You are high above all the peoples. Let them praise Your great and fearful name; it is holy. The king's strength also loved judgment. You established uprightness. You worked judgment and righteousness in Jacob. We praise You LORD our God, and worship at Your footstool. You are holy. Your servants kept Your testimonies and the ordinance that You gave them. You answered them, O LORD our God. You were a God who forgave them, though You take vengeance for their deeds. I praise You LORD our God, and worship at Your holy hill; for You the LORD our God are holy.>44. >>SUNDAY PRAYERS FOR OUR UNSAVED & BACKSLIDDEN LOVED ONES. Please always rebuke the sin of those I bring before you, and not allow sin on them>7. Please give them no abiding peace or rest apart from You and cause any pleasure they have in their sin to become as sand in their mouths>8. Rebuke them not in Your anger, nor chasten them in the heat of Your fury.>9. May You, the LORD our God, hear the words of those who would deceive and mislead those I bring before you, those who reproach the living God, and reprove their words which You, O LORD our God, have heard.>10. Make their own evil correct them, make their backslidings reprove them, and may they know and see that it is an evil and bitter thing to forsake You, the LORD our God>11. O Lord, please rebuke their pride in the fruits of their labor and spread dung upon their public image so they may see the foulness their sin and unbelief.>12. O LORD send on them vexation, and rebuke, in all that they set their hand to do, until they turn to You from their sin and unbelief.>13. SUNDAY Father in Heaven, may Your name be hallowed, your kingdom come and your will be done in our lives. Please, Father---- 1.Save, deliver and preserve us from the power, presence and penalty of our sins 2. Supply our daily bread to meet our needs and for us to share 3. Give us the Spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of You. 4. Enlighten the eyes of our understanding, so that we may know (a) what is the hope of your calling, (b) what are the riches of the glory of Your inheritance in us, and (c) the vastness of the resources of Your power to those who trust You according to the working of Your mighty power. 5.Cause my whole heart to be at rest, trusting You. Keep me from leaning and relying on my own understanding/thinking/reasoning/intelligence.#1. Please hear my prayer, O God, especially with reference to the USSR, India, the Chinese communist oppression, the African & Moslem persecutions, the communist oppression of the Church; the abortion slaughter, the illegal drug trade, the sinful ÒpornographyÓ; the PoliticianÕs, NEA-CTAÕs, New AgersÕ, secular humanistsÕ, GaysÕ/lesbiansÕ, collegian's and any other persecution or oppression of innocent blood, Your children and the Church. If it is Your will God may You soon and eventually give the people who oppose You and Your truth acknowledgment of the truth, and may they awake up to life in Jesus out of the snare of the devil, who are taken by him, for *his* will.>45. Strive, O Jehovah, with the evil spiritual principalities, powers, rulers of darkness, spiritual hosts of wickedness and the spirits of antichrist that strive with us; fight against them that fight against us: Take hold of shield and buckler, and stand up for our help; And draw out the spear, and stop the way against our pursuers. Say unto our souls, "I am your salvation." Let them be put to shame and confounded that seek after our lives. Let them be turned backward and brought to confusion that devise our hurt. Let them be as chaff before the wind, and let the angel of Jehovah drive them away. Let their way be dark and slippery, and let the angel of Jehovah pursue them. For without cause have they hidden for us their net in a pit. Without cause they have dug it for our souls. Let destruction come upon their ways unawares, and let their net which they have hidden catch them. For destruction let their ways fall therein. Our souls shall be joyful in You, Jehovah. We shall rejoice in Your salvation. All our bones shall say, "Jehovah, who is like unto You, who delivers the afflicted from one stronger than he, yea, the afflicted and the needy from him that spoils him!" Unrighteous witnesses rise up. They lay to our charge things which we know not. They reward us evil for good, to the bereavement of our souls. Lord, how long will You look on? Rescue our souls from their destructions, our only ones from the young lions. We will give You thanks in the great congregation. We will praise You among much people. Let not them that are wrongfully our enemies rejoice over us. Let them not wink with the eye that hate us without cause. For they speak not peace; and they devise deceitful words against the quiet in the land. They opened their mouths wide against us. They said, "Aha! aha! our eye hath seen it." You have seen it, Jehovah. Keep not silence; O Lord, be not far from us. Stir up Yourself please for our cause, our God and Lord! Let them not rejoice over us. Let them not say in their heart, "Aha! So would we have it." Let them not say, "We have swallowed them up." Let them be ashamed and brought to confusion together that rejoice at our adversity. Let them be clothed with shame and dishonor that magnify themselves against us.>46. Let not the foot of pride come against us, and let not the hand of the wicked drive us away.>47. Monday****************************************** I worship You, LORD, with gladness. I come before Your presence with singing. I know that You, LORD, You are God. You have made me, and not I myself. I am of Your people, and the sheep of His pasture. I enter into Your gates with thanksgiving, and into Your courts with praise for all that I am and have is from You in Your great grace and mercy. I thank you for all the many blessings you have given to me and I bless Your name for them. You are good and Your mercy is everlasting. Your truth endures to all generations.>48. Bless the LORD, O my soul; and all that is within me, bless His holy name. Bless the LORD, O my soul, and forget not all His benefits;who forgives all our iniquities; who heals all our diseases; who redeems our lives from ruin; who crowns us with loving-kindness and tender mercies; who satisfies our mouth with good; our youth is renewed like the eagle's. You ,LORD, work righteousness and judgment for all who are pressed down. You made known Your ways to Moses, Your acts to the sons of Israel. You, LORD, are merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and rich in mercy. You will not always chasten, nor will You keep Your anger forever. You have not dealt with me according to my sins, nor rewarded me according to my iniquities. For as the heavens are high above the earth, so is Your mercy toward those who fear You. As far as the east is from the west, so far have You removed our transgressions from us. As a father pities his children, You pity those who fear You. For You know my form. You remember that I am dust. As for me, my days are as grass; as a flower of the field, so I flourish. For the wind passes over it, and it is gone; and its place shall know it no more. But Your mercy, O LORD, is from everlasting to everlasting on those who fear You, and Your righteousness is to sons of sons; to those who keep Your covenant, and to those who remember to do Your commandments. O LORD, You have prepared Your throne in the heavens, and Your kingdom rules over all. 20 Bless the LORD, O angels of His, who excel in strength, who do His command, listening to the voice of His word. 21 Bless the LORD, all His hosts, ministers of His who do His pleasure. 22 Bless the LORD, all His works in all places of His rule; bless the LORD, O my soul.>49. >>MONDAY PRAYERS FOR OUR UNSAVED & BACKSLIDDEN LOVED ONES. O God, please give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth that they will awake out of the snare of the Devil.>14. Please cause your servants to restore such in the spirit of meekness.>15. Please chasten them and they shall be chastened. Please turn them to you, and they shall be turned to you, For You are the LORD my God.>16. Burn their idols with fire and cut them down. Cause their idols to fall flat on their faces in public humiliation before them. Cause their idols to perish at the rebuke of Your holy face.>18. Please do judgment against all their sin, and rebuke all the ungodly of them concerning all their ungodly works which they did evilly and spoke against You.>35. O Lord, cause Your rod and rebuke to give us wisdom>19. Monday Father in Heaven, may Your name be hallowed, your kingdom come and your will be done in our lives. Please, Father---- 1.Save, deliver and preserve us from the power, presence and penalty of our sins 2. Supply our daily bread to meet our needs and for us to share 3. Give us the Spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of You. 5. May Christ freely dwell in our hearts filling us with His compassionate cherishing. 6. Make us godly, wise and faithful stewards of all that You have give to us. 7. Out of the treasures of Your glory, may You grant us strength and power through Your Spirit in our inner being. 8. Daily deliver me from effects and affects of the sin that dwells in me, from the law of sin that works in my body.#2. Please hear my prayer, O God, especially with reference to the USSR, India, the Chinese communist oppression, the African & Moslem persecutions, the communist oppression of the Church; the abortion slaughter, the illegal drug trade, the sinful ÒpornographyÓ; the PoliticianÕs, NEA-CTAÕs, New AgersÕ, secular humanistsÕ, GaysÕ/lesbiansÕ, collegian's and any other persecution or oppression of innocent blood, of Your children and of Your Church. If it is Your will God may You soon give the people who oppose You and Your truth acknowledgment of the truth, and may they awake up to life in Jesus out of the snare of the devil, who are taken by him, for *his* will. O God of our praise, be not silent, For the mouth of the wicked ones and the mouth of deceitful ones are opened against us. The evil spiritual principalities, powers, rulers of darkness, spiritual hosts of wickedness and the spirits of antichrist have spoken against us with a lying tongue, And with words of hatred have they encompassed us, and they fight against us without a cause. For our love of You they are our adversaries, but we give ourselves unto prayer. And evil doers have rewarded us evil for good, and hatred for our love of You. When they shall be judged, let them go out guilty, Let the wicked ones be before Jehovah continually, that He may cut off the memory of them from the earth, because they remembered not to show kindness, but persecuted the afflicted and needy , and the broken in heart, to slay them. And they loved cursing. So let it come unto them. And they delighted not in blessing, and let it be far from them. And they clothed themselves with cursing like their vestment. So let it come into their bowels like water, and like oil into their bones. Let it be unto them as a garment with which they cover themselves, and for a girdle wherewith they are constantly girded. Let this be the reward of our spiritual adversaries, Jehovah's reward, and of them that speak evil against our souls. But do *You* for us, Jehovah, Lord, for Your name's sake, because Your loving-kindness is good. Deliver us for we are afflicted and needy, and our heart is wounded within us. We are gone like a shadow when it lengthens. We are tossed about like the locust. Our knees are failing through fasting, and our flesh has lost its fatness and we are become a reproach unto them. When they look upon us they shake their heads. Help us, Jehovah our God. Save us according to Your loving-kindness so that they may know that this is Your hand, that *You*, Jehovah, have done it. When they curse us, may You bless us. When they rise up, let them be ashamed, and let Your servants rejoice. Let our adversaries be clothed with confusion, and let them cover themselves with their shame as with a mantle. We will greatly celebrate You, Jehovah, with our mouths. Yea, We will praise You among the multitude. For You stand at the right hand of the needy, to save them from those that judge their souls.>50. Tuesday################################## Bless the LORD, O my soul. O LORD my God, You are very great. You have put on honor and majesty, covering Yourself with light as with a robe, and stretching out the heavens like a curtain. O LORD, how many are Your works! In wisdom You have made them all. The earth is full of Your riches. There is the great and wide sea, in which are creeping things without number, both small and great animals. There the ships go. You made great sea animals to play in it. These all wait on You, that You may give them their food in due season. You give to them, and they gather. You open Your hand. They are filled with good. You hide Your face, and they are troubled. You take away their breath, and they die and return to their dust. You send forth Your Spirit, and they are created. You renew the face of the earth.>51. You are the LORD our God. Your judgments are in all the earth. You have remembered Your covenant forever, the word which You commanded to a thousand generations.>52. I give thanks to You, LORD, for You are good, for Your mercy endures forever. Enable me, redeemed by You LORD, to say so. You have redeemed me from the hand of the enemy, and gathered me out of the land. I wandered in a spiritual wilderness, in a desert by the way and I did not find Your holy city. Spiritually hungry and thirsty, my soul fainted . Then I cried to You, LORD, in my distress, and You delivered me out of my troubles. You guided me by the right way, so as to go to Your city to live in. I praise You, LORD, for Your goodness, and for Your wonderful works to the sons of man! For You satisfy the thirsty soul, and fill the hungry soul with good.>53. Your works, O LORD are great, sought out by all those who have pleasure in them. Your work is honorable and glorious, and Your righteousness is standing forever. You have made Your wonderful works to be remembered. LORD, You are gracious and full of pity. You have given food to those who fear You. You will always be mindful of Your covenants. You have shown Your people the power of Your works, to give to them the inheritance of the nations. The works of Your hands are truth and judgment. All Your commands are true, standing fast forever and ever. They are done in truth and uprightness. You sent redemption to Your people. You have commanded Your covenant forever. Holy and awesome is Your name.>54, >>TUESDAY PRAYERS FOR OUR UNSAVED & BACKSLIDDEN LOVED ONES. O God please rebuke those who would cause us to sin, and cause them to flee far off, chasing them like the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like a rolling thing before the whirlwind.>20. Send your devourer on their sin, decay the fruit of their sin against them, and cause their evil plans to miscarry against them until they turn to You in obedient belief.>21. May Jesus rebuke the evil ones in their lives, saying, "Be quiet and come out of them, not harming them.">22. Please convict them sharply, so that they may be sound in the faith>23. Please reprove their lawbreaking, holding them back from the madness of their sins.>24. Do judgment against their sin and unbelief, and rebuke all the ungodly of them concerning all their ungodly works which they do, and concerning all the hard things they spoke against You.>25. Tuesday Father in Heaven, may Your name be hallowed, your kingdom come and your will be done in our lives. Please, Father---- 1.Save, deliver and preserve us from the power, presence and penalty of our sins 2. Supply our daily bread to meet our needs and for us to share 3. Give us the Spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of You. 8. Root and ground us in Your unselfish and compassionate cherishing so that we may know what is the breadth, length, height and depth of Christ's compassionate cherishing, and so be filled with all of Your fullness. 9. Prosper us in all good things and grant us good health. 10. Grant us the right words when we speak for You, that we may boldly and freely speak, making known Your hidden purpose. 11. Deliver me from what seems right to me, and deliver me to what IS right to You.#3. Please hear my prayer, O God, especially with reference to the USSR, India, the Chinese communist oppression, the African & Moslem persecutions, the communist oppression of the Church; the abortion slaughter, the illegal drug and the sinful ÒpornographyÓ trade; the politicianÕs, NEA-CTAÕs, New AgersÕ, secular humanistsÕ, GaysÕ/ lesbiansÕ, collegian's and any othersÕ persecution or oppression of innocent blood, Your children and the Church. If it is Your will God may You soon and eventually give the people who oppose You and Your truth acknowledgment of the truth, and may they awaken to life in Jesus out of the snare of the devil, who are taken by him, for *his* will.>55. Hear, O God, our voice in our plea. Preserve our lives from fear of the enemy. Hide us from the secret counsel of evil-doers, from the tumultuous crowd of the workers of iniquity, who have sharpened their tongues like a sword, and have aimed their arrows, bitter words, that they may shoot in secret at Your perfect ones. Suddenly do they shoot at us, and fear not. But You, God, will shoot an arrow at the evil spiritual principalities, powers, rulers of darkness, spiritual hosts of wickedness and the spirits of antichrist. Suddenly are they wounded. By their own tongue they are made to fall over one another. All that see them shall flee away, and all men shall fear, and shall declare God's doing, and they shall wisely consider His work. The righteous shall rejoice in You, Jehovah, and trust in You, and all the upright in heart shall glory in You.>56. In You, Jehovah, do we trust. Let us never be ashamed. Deliver us in Your righteousness, and rescue us. Incline Your ear unto us, and save us. Be to us a rock of habitation, whereunto we may continually resort. You have given commandment to save us, for You are our rock and our fortress. Our Father God, rescue us out of the hand of the wicked, out of the hand of the unrighteous and cruel people. For You are our hope, O Lord Jehovah, our confidence from our youth. We have been as a wonder unto many, but You are our strong refuge. Cast us not off in the time of old age, and forsake us not when our strength fails. For our enemies speak against us, and they that watch for our souls consult together, saying, ÒGod has forsaken them. Pursue and seize them, for there is none to deliver.Ó O God, be not far from us. God our Father, hasten to our help. Cause them to be ashamed, and cause them to be consumed, that are adversaries to our souls. Cause them to be covered with reproach and dishonor that seek our hurt. We will go in the might of You, Lord Jehovah. We will recall Your righteousness, Yours alone. O God, You have taught us from our youth, and hitherto have we proclaimed Your marvelous works. Now also, when we are old and greyheaded, O God, forsake us not, until we have proclaimed Your arm unto this generation, Your might to every one that is to come. Your righteousness, O God, reaches on high, You who have done great things. O God, who is like unto You? You, who have shown us many and sore troubles, will revive us again, and wilt bring us up again from the depths of the earth. You wilt increase our greatness, and comfort us on every side.>57. SPIRITUAL WARFARE PRAYERS ( Part II Continued) by L. Tyler Copyright © 12/30/1997 P.O.Box 734, El Centro, CA 92244 P.O.Box San Diego, CA 92162-0763 Wednesday################################ You, LORD, are high above all nations, and Your glory above the heavens. Who is like You, LORD our God, who dwells on high, who humbles Yourself to behold the things in the heavens and in the earth!? You raise up the poor out of the dust, and lift the needy out of the dunghill, in order to make him sit with nobles, with the nobles of his people. You cause the barren to dwell in the house as a joyful mother of sons. Praise You, LORD!>58. Gracious are You, LORD, and righteous! Yea, You, our God, are merciful. You, LORD, keep the simple. I was brought low, and You helped me. My soul may return to its rest, for You, Lord, have dealt bountifully with me. For You have delivered my soul from death, my eyes from tears, my feet from falling. I will walk before You, LORD, in the land of the living.>59. You, LORD, are my keeper. You, LORD, are the shade on my right hand. The sun shall not strike me by day, nor the moon by night. You, LORD, shall keep me from all evil ones. You shall keep my soul. You, LORD, shall keep my going out and my coming in from this time forth, and even forever- more.>60. For I know that You, LORD, are great, and You are above all gods. Every thing You pleased, You did in the heavens and in earth, and in the seas and all deep places. You cause the vapors to rise from the end of the earth. You make lightnings for the rain. You bring wind out of Your storehouses.>61. O LORD, You have searched me and have known me. You know my sitting down and my rising up. You understand my thought afar off. You search my path and my lying down, and are acquainted with all my ways. For there is not a word in my tongue, but, lo, O LORD, You know it altogether. You have closed me in behind and in front, and laid Your hand on me. Such knowledge is too wonderful for me. It is high, and I cannot go up to it. Where shall I go from Your Spirit? Or where shall I flee from Your presence? If I go up into Heaven, You are there. If I make my bed in Sheol, behold, You are there. If I take the wings of the morning and dwell in the furthest parts of the sea, even there shall Your hand lead me, and Your right hand shall hold me. If I say, "Surely the darkness shall cover me", even the night shall be light around me. Yea, the darkness does not hide me from You, but the night shines as the day. As is the darkness, so is the light to You. For You have possessed my inward parts. You have covered me in my mother's womb. I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Your works are marvelous and my soul knows it very well. My bones were not hidden from You when I was made in secret and skillfully formed in the lowest parts of the earth. Your eyes saw my embryo, and in Your book all my members were written, even the days that were ordained for me, when as yet there were none of them. My times are in you hand.>63. How precious also are Your thoughts to me, O God! How great is the sum of them! If I should count them, they are more than the sand. When I awake, I am still with You.>62. >>WEDNESDAY PRAYERS FOR OUR UNSAVED & BACKSLIDDEN LOVED ONES. Please turn them that they may repent. Please teach them so that they may be ashamed of their sin and unbelief.>26. Cause them to remember their own evil ways, their doings that were not good that they may despise their evil ways.>27. PleaseÊ pour on them the spirit of grace and of prayers.>28. Please cause the Word to be preached to them, reproving , rebuking and exhorting them with all long-suffering and doctrine.>34. Please God, grant them repentance to Your Life.>29. Please Lord, do everything in Your power to cause them to be saved and come to the knowledge of the truth.>30. Please Lord give them a personal and spiritual famine and cause them to spiritually be in want, longing for Your Love-Truth-Light-Life- Way. Cause them to come to themselves in Your Truth and enlightenment.>31. Please exhort, comfort and testify to each one , as a father to his children.>36. Wednesday ************************************************* Father in Heaven, may Your name be hallowed, your kingdom come and your will be done in our lives. Please, Father---- 1.Save, deliver and preserve us from the power, presence and penalty of our sins 2. Supply our daily bread tomeet our needs and for us to share 3. Give us the Spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of You. 11. Deliver us from evil and evil doers. 12. Work in us so that Your compassionate cherishing may abound more and more in knowledge and all discernment so that we may recognize and be in accord with Your excellent ways. 13. Work in us so that we may be sincere and without offense or blame to and through the day of Christ, being filled with the fruits of righteousness. 14. Please pull down imaginations and every high thing in my life that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, and bring into captivity every thought into the obedience of Christ.#3 Please hear my prayer, O God, especially with reference to the USSR, India, the Chinese communist oppression, the African & Moslem persecutions, the communist oppression of the Church; the abortion slaughter, the illegal drug trade, the sinful ÒpornographyÓ; the PoliticianÕs, NEA-CTAÕs, New AgersÕ, secular humanistsÕ, GaysÕ/lesbiansÕ, collegian's and any other persecution or oppression of innocent blood, Your children and the Church. If it is Your will God may You soon and eventually give the people who oppose You and Your truth acknowledgment of the truth, and may they awake to life in Jesus out of the snare of the devil, who are taken by him, for his will.>64. Why boast they themselves in evil, the mighty men? O God, Your loving-kindness abides continually. Their tongue devises mischievous things, like a sharp razor, practicing deceit. They have loved evil rather than good, lying rather than to speak righteousness. Selah. They have loved all devouring words, O deceitful tongues! 5 You shall likewise destroy them for ever who will not to be saved. You shall take them away, and pluck them out of their tent, and root them out of the land of the living. Selah. The righteous also shall see, and fear, ... saying, "Behold the man that made not God his strength, but put confidence in the abundance of his riches, and strengthened himself in his avarice." But as for us, The Bride of Christ, we are like a green olive-tree in the house of God. We will confide in Your loving-kindness for ever and ever. We will praise you for ever, because you have done it, and we will wait on your Name, before your godly ones, for it is good.>65. Make haste, O God, to deliver us. Jehovah, hasten to our help. Let the evil spiritual principalities, powers, rulers of darkness, spiritual hosts of wickedness and the spirits of antichrist be ashamed and brought to confusion that seek after our souls. Cause them to be turned backward and confounded that take pleasure in our adversity. Cause them be turned back because of their shame that say, "Aha! Aha!" Cause all those that seek You to be glad and rejoice in You. Cause such as love your salvation to say continually, "Let God be magnified!" But we are afflicted and needy. Make haste unto us, O God. You are my help and my deliverer. O Jehovah, make no delay.>66. We will praise Your name O God with a song, and will magnify You with thanksgiving, and it shall please You, Jehovah... The meek shall see it, and they shall be glad. We that seek You, God, our heart shall live, for You, Jehovah, hear the needy, and despise not Your prisoners.>67. Thursday ###################################### Blessed are You, LORD my Rock, who teaches My hands for spiritual warfare, my fingers for battling the evil ones. You are my goodness and my fortress, my high tower and my deliverer, and my shield. You, in whom I trust, are the One who works humble submission in my people under me.>70. You, Lord, are gracious and full of pity, slow to anger, and of great mercy. You, Lord, are good to all, and Your tender mercies are over all Your works. All Your works shall praise You, O LORD, and Your saints shall bless You. They shall speak of the glory of Your kingdom and talk of Your power, to make known to the sons of men Your mighty acts, and the glorious majesty of Your kingdom. Your kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and Your rule endures throughout all generations. You, my Lord, uphold all who fall, and raise up all those who wait on You who are bowed down. The eyes of all wait on You, and You give them their food in due season. You open Your hand and satisfy the desire of every living thing. You, Lord, are righteous in all Your ways and holy in all Your works. LORD, You are near all those who call on You, all those who call on You in truth. You will fulfill the desire of those who fear You. You also will hear their cry, and will save them. LORD, You watch over all those who love You, but You will destroy all the wicked.>71. We are blessed who have You, the God of Jacob, for our help, we whose help is in You, LORD our God, who made the heavens and earth, the sea and all that is in it, who keeps truth forever, who carries out judgment for the mistreated, and who gives food to the hungry. Lord, You let the prisoners loose. Lord, You open the eyes of the blind. LORD, You raise those who are bowed down. You, LORD, love the righteous and preserve the strangers. You relieve the orphan and widow, but the way of the wicked You turn upside down. LORD, You shall reign forever, even you God, to all generations. I praise You, LORD!>72. >>THURSDAY PRAYERS FOR OUR UNSAVED & BACKSLIDDEN LOVED ONES. Please turn them that they may repent. Please teach them so that they may be ashamed of their sin and unbelief.>26. Cause them to remember their own evil ways, their doings that were not good that they may despise their evil ways.>27. PleaseÊ pour on them the spirit of grace and of prayers.>28. Please cause the Word to be preached to them, reproving , rebuking and exhorting them with all long-suffering and doctrine.>34. Please God, grant them repentance to Your Life.>29. Please Lord, do everything in Your power to cause them to be saved and come to the knowledge of the truth.>30. Please Lord give them a personal and spiritual famine and cause them to spiritually be in want, longing for Your Love-Truth-Light-Life- Way. Cause them to come to themselves in Your Truth and enlightenment.>31. Please exhort, comfort and testify to each one , as a father to his children.>36. Thursday Father in Heaven, may Your name be hallowed, your kingdom come and your will be done in our lives. Please, Father---- 1.Save, deliver and preserve us from the power, presence and penalty of our sins 2. Supply our daily bread to meet our needs and for us to share 3. Give us the Spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of You. 14. Work in us to know Jesus intimately, the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His suffering. 15. Work in us to receive all wisdom and spiritual understanding for full knowledge of Your will so we may live worthy of the Lord and be entirely pleasing to Him. 16. Work in us to be fruitful in every good work and growing in the knowledge of You, strengthened with all power by Your glorious power for all patience and long-suffering with joyfulness. 17. Deliver me for loving/liking/delighting in the social systems and societies that belong to this world, that are not centered in You and based on Your Word.#4. Please hear my prayer, O God, especially with reference to the USSR, India, the Chinese communist oppression, the African & Moslem persecutions, the communist oppression of the Church; the abortion slaughter, the illegal drug trade, the sinful ÒpornographyÓ; the PoliticianÕs, NEA-CTAÕs, New AgersÕ, secular humanistsÕ, GaysÕ/lesbiansÕ, collegian's and any other persecution or oppression of innocent blood, Your children and the Church. If it is Your will God may You soon and eventually give the people who oppose You and Your truth acknowledgment of the truth, 26 and may they awake up to life in Jesus out of the snare of the devil, who are taken by him, for his will.>73. O God, break the teeth of the evil spiritual principalities, powers, rulers of darkness, spiritual hosts of wickedness and the spirits of antichrist in their mouths. Break out the great teeth of these young lions, O Jehovah. Let them melt away as waters that flow off. When they aim their arrows, let them be as blunted:... And men shall say, "Verily there is fruit for the righteous. Verily there is a God that Judges in the earth.">74. O God, keep not silence. Hold not your peace, and be not still, O God, for behold, Your enemies make a tumult, and they that hate you lift up the head. They take crafty counsel against your people, and consult against your hidden ones. They say, "Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation, and let the name of Israel be mentioned no more." For they have consulted together with one heart. They have made an alliance together against You. Do unto the evil powers, principalities, rulers of darkness and spirits of antiChrist as to Midian, as to Sisera, as to Jabin, at the torrent of Kishon. Make their nobles as Oreb and as Zeeb, and all their chiefs as Zebah and as Zalmunna. O my God, make them like a whirling thing, like stubble before the wind. As fire burns a forest, and as the flame sets the mountains on fire, so pursue them with Your tempest, and terrify them with Your whirlwind. Fill their faces with shame, that people may seek Your name, O Jehovah. Cause them be put to shame and be dismayed for ever who will not to be saved, and let them be confounded and perish, that all may know that You alone, whose name is Jehovah, are the Most High over all the earth.>75. Yea, the evil spiritual principalities, powers, rulers of darkness, spiritual hosts of wickedness and the spirits of antiChrist gave us gall for our food, and in our thirst they gave us vinegar to drink. Cause their table to become a snare before them, and their very welfare a trap. Cause their eyes to be darkened, that they see not, and make their loins continually to shake. Pour out Your indignation upon them, and let the fierceness of Your anger take hold of them. Cause their habitation to be desolate. Cause there to be no dweller in their tents. For they persecute those whom *You* have smitten, and they talk of the sorrow of those whom You have wounded in Your promised chastening. But we are afflicted and sorrowful. Cause Your salvation, O God, to set us secure on high with You.>76. FRIDAY################################## ÊJesus, You are the fairest of the sons of men. Grace is poured into Your lips, therefore Your Father God has blessed You forever. Gird Your sword on Your thigh, O mighty one, with Your glory and Your majesty. Ride prosperously in Your majesty, because of truth and meekness and righteousness, and Your right hand shall teach You fearful things. Your arrows are sharp in the heart of the King's enemies. Peoples fall under You. Your throne, O God, is forever and ever; the staff of Your kingdom is a staff of righteousness. You love righteousness, and hate wickedness; therefore God, Your Father God, has anointed You with the oil of gladness above Your fellows. All Your garments smell of myrrh, and aloes and cassia, out of the ivory palaces, by which they have made You glad. Kings' daughters are among Your precious ones, and on Your right hand stands the queen in gold of Ophir.>77. You are our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. Therefore we will not fear when the earth changes, and when mountains are slipping into the heart of the seas. Let its waters roar and foam. Let the mountains shake with the swelling of it. Selah The nations raged, the kingdoms were shaken. You uttered Your voice, the earth melted. You, the LORD of hosts, are with us, and the God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah. ...Behold Your works O Lord. You make ruins on the earth. You make wars to cease to the ends of the earth. You break the bow, and cut the spear in two. You burn the chariots in the fire.>78. You, the LORD Most High, are awesome, a great king over all the earth. You shall humble the peoples under us, and nations under our feet. You} shall choose our inheritance for us, the majesty of Jacob whom You loved.>79. O God, You are my God. I will seek You earnestly. My soul thirsts for You. My flesh longs for You, as in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is. So I have seen You in the holy place, seeing Your power and Your glory. Because Your loving-kindness is better than life, my lips shall praise You. So I will bless You while I live. I will lift up my hands in Your name. My soul shall be satisfied as with marrow and fatness, and my mouth shall praise You with joyful lips, when I remember You on my bed and think of You in the night watches, because You have been my help; therefore in the shadow of Your wings I will rejoice. My soul follows hard after You. Your right hand upholds me.>80. By awesome things in righteousness You will answer us, O God of our salvation, who are the hope of all the ends of the earth and the sea, of those far away. The mountains are established by Your strength, banded together with might. It is You who stills the noise of the sea, the roar of their waves, and the uproar of the peoples, and the inhabitants of the furthermost places are afraid of Your signs. You make the beginning of the morning and the evening rejoice. You visit the earth and water it. You greatly enrich it. The river of God is full of water. You provide their grain, for in this way You have prepared it.>81. >>FRIDAY PRAYERS FOR OUR UNSAVED & BACKSLIDDEN LOVED ONES Cause them to know that spiritually they are perishing with hunger. Cause them to arise and come to You, Father, through Jesus, acknowledging that they have sinned against Heaven and before you>31. May Your Spirit convict them concerning their sin, and concerning Your righteousness that cannot tolerate unforgiven sin, and concerning Your judgment of their sins.>32. Please cause those who sin to be rebuked before all, so that the rest also may fear.>33. O Lord, give them days of trouble, of rebuke and contempt until they turn to You in obedient belief. Please hear all the words of those who reproach You, the living God, to them, and rebuke the evil ones and their words which You, LORD our God, have heard.>17. Please beseech them and exhort them in the Lord Jesus, how they ought to walk and to please You.>37. Please warn those who are unruly that I bring before You.>38. Please cause Your Word to reprove them, rebuking and exhorting them with all long-suffering and doctrine>39. Friday_______________________________________ Father in Heaven, may Your name be hallowed, your kingdom come and your will be done in our lives. Please, Father---- 1.Save, deliver and preserve us from the power, presence and penalty of our sins 2. Supply our daily bread to meet our needs and for us to share 3. Give us the Spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of You. 17. May we be enabled to stand fast, mature and complete in all your will. 18. Work all things in our lives according to Your will so we may lead tranquil lives. 19. Preserve and strengthen our faith under our the attacks of our enemies and deliver us from temptation. 20. Thank You that my old man is crucified with You. Please destroy the body of sins of the flesh, its lusts and the reign of sin in my mortal body.#5. Please hear my prayer, O God, especially with reference to the USSR, India, the Chinese communist oppression, the African & Moslem persecutions, the communist oppression of the Church; the abortion slaughter, the illegal drug trade, the sinful ÒpornographyÓ; the wicked-ness of the PoliticianÕs, NEA-CTAÕs, New AgersÕ, secular humanistsÕ, GaysÕ/ lesbiansÕ, collegian's and any other persecution or oppression of innocent blood, Your children and the Church. If it is Your will God may You soon and eventually give the people who oppose You and Your truth acknowledgment of the truth, and may they awake up to life in Jesus out of the snare of the devil, who are taken by him, for *his* will. Deliver us from our enemies, O God; secure us on high from them that rise up against us. Deliver us from the workers of iniquity, and save us from men of blood. For behold, they lie in wait for our souls. Strong ones are gathered against us, not for our transgression, nor for our sin, O Jehovah. They run and prepare themselves without our fault. Behold their strength! ...We will take heed to You, for You God are our high fortress. God, whose loving-kindness will come to meet us, You shall let us see our desire of your vengeance upon our enemies. ...By Your power make the evil spiritual principalities, powers, rulers of darkness, spiritual hosts of wickedness and the spirits of antiChrist wander, and bring them down, O Lord, our shield. Because of the sin of their mouths, the word of their lips, let them even be taken in their pride, and because of the cursing and lying which they speak. Make an end in wrath, make an end, that they may harm us no more, that they may know that God rules in Jacob and in Your Church, unto the ends of the earth. Selah. Inn the evening they shall return. They shall howl like a dog, and go round about the city unsatisfied. But as for us, we will sing of Your strength. Yea, we will sing aloud of Your loving-kindness in the morning, for You have been to us a high fortress, and a refuge in the day of our trouble. Unto You, our strength, will we sing psalms, for You are our high fortress, the God of our mercy.>82. Saturday################################# We bless You, O God, and make the voice of Your praise to be heard. You hold our soul in life, and do not allow our feet to slide, for You have proved us, O God. You have tested us, as silver is refined. You have brought us into the net. You have laid affliction on our loins. You have allowed men to ride at our head. We have gone through fire and through water, but You have brought us out to plenty. I will go into Your house with thank-offerings. I will pay You my vows, those which my lips have uttered and those which my lips have uttered and my mouth has spoken in my trouble. I will offer to You the sacrifice of praise and substance, with the incense of prayer. I will offer to you all the best that I have and am. Selah. To all who fear You, God, I will declare what You have done for my soul. I cried to You with my mouth, and exaltations were under my tongue. If I regard iniquity in my heart, I know that You, LORD, will not listen to me. Surely You, God, have heard. You have attended to the voice of my prayer. You are blessed, O God, who have not turned away my prayer, nor Your mercy from me.>83. In Your holy dwelling God, You are the father of the fatherless, and the judge of the widows. You cause the lonely to live at home. You bring out those who are bound with chains, but the rebellious dwell in a dry land. O God, when You marched before Your people, when You walked through the wilderness, Selah, the earth shook, the heavens also dropped at the presence of You, God. Sinai itself was moved at Your presence, O God of Israel. You, O God, sent a plentiful rain, by which You upheld Your inheritance when it was weary. Your flock has dwelt in it. You, O God, have prepared in Your goodness for the poor. Your chariots, O God are myriads, thousands of thousands. Lord, You are among them, in Sinai, in the holy place. You have gone up on high. You have led captivity captive. You have received gifts for men, yes, for the rebellious also, that You might dwell among them, O Jehovah God. Blessed are You, LORD. You daily bear burdens for us, O God of our salvation. Selah. You, God, are the God of salvation, and to the LORD are the issues of death. Yea, You shall wound the head of Your enemies, and the hairy crown of him who walks on in his guilt.>84. Give the Messiah King Your judgments, O God, and Your righteousness to the King's son. The Lord Jesus Christ will judge Your people in righteousness, and Your poor with judgment. The mountains shall bring peace to the people, and the little hills by righteousness. He shall judge the poor of the people. He shall save the children of the needy, and shall crush in pieces the cruel one. They shall fear You as long as the sun and moon endure, throughout all generations. He shall come down like rain on the mown grass, like showers that water the earth. In His days the righteous shall flourish; and abundance of peace, until the moon is not. He shall also have the rule from sea to sea, and from the River to the ends of the earth. Those who dwell in the wilderness shall bow before Him, and His enemies shall lick the dust. The kings of Tarshish and of the isles shall bring presents. The kings of Sheba and Seba shall offer gifts. Yes, all kings shall fall down before Him, and all nations shall serve Him. For He shall deliver the needy when he cries, and the poor with no helper. He shall have pity on the poor and needy and shall save the souls of the needy. He shall redeem their soul from deceit and violence, and their blood shall be precious in His sight. And He shall live forever, and to Him shall be given the gold of Sheba, and prayer shall always be made for Him. They shall bless Him all the day long. There shall be a fullness of grain in the earth on the top of the mountains. Its fruit shall shake like Lebanon, and they of the city shall flourish like grass of the earth. His name shall endure forever. His name shall be continued as long as the sun, and men shall be blessed in Him. All nations shall call Him blessed. Blessed are You, LORD God, the God of Israel, who alone does wonderful things, And blessed be Your glorious name forever, and all the earth is filled with Your glory! Amen and Amen.>85. >>SATURDAY PRAYERS FOR OUR UNSAVED & BACKSLIDDEN LOVED ONES. Cause them to know that spiritually they are perishing with hunger. Cause them to arise and come to You, Father, through Jesus, acknowledging that they have sinned against Heaven and before you>31. May Your Spirit convict them concerning their sin, and concerning Your righteousness that cannot tolerate unforgiven sin, and concerning Your judgment of their sins.>32. Please cause those who sin to be rebuked before all, so that the rest also may fear.>33. O Lord, give them days of trouble, of rebuke and contempt until they turn to You in obedient belief. Please hear all the words of those who reproach You, the living God, to them, and rebuke the evil ones and their words which You, LORD our God, have heard.>17. Please beseech them and exhort them in the Lord Jesus, how they ought to walk and to please You.>37. Please warn those who are unruly that I bring before You.>38. Please cause Your Word to reprove them, rebuking and exhorting them with all long-suffering and doctrine>39. Saturday_____________________________________ Father in Heaven, may Your name be hallowed, your kingdom come and your will be done in our lives. Please, Father---- 1.Save, deliver and preserve us from the power, presence and penalty of our sins 2. Supply our daily bread to meet our needs and for us to share 3. Give us the Spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of You. 20. Bless and keep us for and to Yourself, causing Your face to shine upon us. 21. Be gracious to us, looking upon us with Your favor and giving us Your peace. 22. Work in us that we may be counted worthy in Jesus to escape all of the Tribulation, and that we may stand accepted and acceptably before Jesus upon His return. 23. Through Your Spirit work in me to mortify the deeds of my body and keep me from living according to my flesh/body.#6. Buffet my body, and lead it captive that You may work and be glorified in it.#7. Please purify my lips with Your holy fire and guard my lips by your Spirit, working in me so that I do no offend in word.#8. I beseech You that You work in me Your deliverance from the will of my flesh, the will of man, the works of my flesh, the evil desires of my flesh and my own thoughts,#9. Please hear my prayer, O God, especially with reference to the USSR, India, the Chinese communist oppression, the African & Moslem persecutions, the communist oppression of the Church; the abortion slaughter, the illegal drug trade, the sinful ÒpornographyÓ; the PoliticianÕs, NEA-CTAÕs, New AgersÕ, secular humanistsÕ, GaysÕ/lesbiansÕ, collegian's and any other persecution or oppression of innocent blood, Your children and the Church. If it is Your will God may You soon and eventually give the people who oppose You and Your truth acknowledgment of the truth, and may they awake up to life in Jesus out of the snare of the devil, who are taken by him, for *his* will. Save us, O God, for the waters masses of people or trials are come in unto our soul. We sink in deep mire, where there is no standing. we are come into the depths of waters, and the flood overflows us. We are weary with our crying, and our throats are parched. Our eyes fail while we wait for You, Oh God. The evil powers, principalities, rulers of darkness, hosts of wickedness and spirits of antiChrist that hate us without a cause are more than the hairs of our heads. They that would destroy us, being our enemies wrongfully. They are mighty. That which I took not away I have to restore. You, O God, know our foolishness, and our trespasses are not hidden from You. Let not them that wait on You, Lord, Jehovah of hosts, be ashamed through or because of us. Let not those that seek you be confounded through or because of us, O God of Israel. Because for Your sake we have borne reproach, and confusion has covered our faces. For the zeal of Your house has devoured us, and the reproaches of them that reproach You have fallen upon us.>86. But as for us, our prayer is unto You, Jehovah, in an acceptable time. O God, in the abundance of Your loving- kindness answer us, according to the truth of Your salvation. Deliver us out of the mire. Cause us not to sink. Cause us to be delivered from them that hate us, and out of the depths of waters the masses. Let not the flood of waters the masses overflow us, neither let the deep swallow us up, and let not the pit shut its mouth upon us. Answer us, O Jehovah, for Your loving-kindness is good. According to the abundance of Your tender mercies, turn toward us, and hide not Your face from Your servants, for we are in trouble. Answer us speedily. Draw nigh unto our souls, be our redeemer, and ransom us because of our enemies. *You* know our reproach, and our shame, and our dishonor. Our spiritual adversaries are all before You. Reproach has broken our heart, and we are overwhelmed. We looked for sympathy, but there was none but You. We looked for comforters, but we found none but You. All we need is You. We can do all things through Christ Who enables us.>87. AMEN AND AMEN! SELAH! ¤ From Pastor Chris Warren "Wouldn't it be a blessing if we and others who use your Spiritual Warfare Prayers could know that there was a special time each day that we were offering such prayers, in whatever part of the world we were in? Do you think there might be any sympathy with such a suggestion? This is partly selfish, I admit, since we have no-one of similar life-style with whom to pray, but I really believe all would benefit enormously. "The prayers of a multitude...." Perhaps we could even create a prayer list? (Maybe such a scheme already exists, in which case I hope you would let me in on it)." If you are interested in designating your time of prayer for others to join with you and if you are interested in sharing prayer requests and praise reports, please contact Pastor Chris Warren at email: cwarren@sn.no (Christopher C. Warren) Or snailmail: Chris Warren, Pastor, B'rit Chadashah, P.O.Box 48, N-1591 Sperrebotn, Norway; or L. Tyler at P.O.Box 734, El Centro, CA 92244 Lee's time is 6:15-6:30 am and 6:30-7pm California time. FOOTNOTES AND SCRIPTURE REFERENCES. Most of the scriptures quoted or paraphrased in the prayers are from the Darby Version or the MODERN KING JAMES VERSION, 1993, by Jay P. Green Sr., in Online Bible 2.5.1; the OnLine Bible computer program of "Online Bible f ", Ken Hammil 1-908-741-4298; E-Mail: khamel@aol.com. *1. Eph 1:17 *2. Eph 4:4 *3. Eph 1:18 *4. Eph 3:17 *5. 1Pe 4:10 *6. Col 2:3 Phil. 2:12,13; Heb. 13:20,21 *7. Ro 15:14 Eph 3:19 *8. 3Jo 1:2 1 Chron. 4: 10 *9. Eph 3:9 Col 1:26 *10. Luke 6 &Ephes. 6 *11. Php 1:9 *12. Php 1:10 *13. Php 3:10 *14. Ro 12:1 Ro 14:18 2Co 5:9 Col 2:2 *15. Eph 4:2 Col 1:10 Col 1:11 *16. Col 4:12 2Ti 3:17 *17. 1Ti 2:2 *18. Lu 22:32 2Ti 4:17 *19. John 10: 27 -30 Nu 6:25 *20. Lu 21:36 #3 2 Corinthians 10: 5 #4. 1John 2 #5. Rom. 6:6-12; Col 2:11 #6. Rom. 8:110-13 #7. 1 Cor. 9:27 #8. Jas. 3:2 Isaiah #9. John 1:12; Gala 5:16 19; Eph 2:3 >a. 1 Tim 2; Phil. 4:3-8 >b. James 4:2; Matt. 7:7 >c. 1John3:21,22: 5:14,15 >d. 1 Corinth. 11:28-31; 2 Corinth. 13:5; 1 John2:1-5 >1. Re 3:19 >2. Zec 3:2 >3. Eph 5:11 >4. Tit 1:9 >5. Phm 1:9 >6. psa 51: 1 >a. Ephes. 6 >7. Le 19:17 >8. Isa 48:22 Isa 57:21 Pr 20:17 >9. Ps 6:1 >10. Isa 37:4 >11. Jer 2:19 >12. Mal 2:3 >13. De 28:20 >14. 2Tim.2:25 >15. Gal 6:1 >16. Jer 31:18 >18. Ps 80:16 >35. Jude 1:15 >19. Pr 29:15 >20. Isa 17:13 >21. Mal 3:11 >22. Lu 4:35 >23. Tit 1:13 >24. 2Pe 2:16 >25. Jude 1:15 >26. Jer 31:19 >27. Eze 36:31 >28. Zec 12:10 >34. 2Ti 4:2 >29. Ac 11:18 >30. 1Ti 2:4* >31. Lk 15: 14 >36. 1Th 2:11 >31. Lk 15: 14 >32. Joh 16:8 >33. 1Ti 5:20 >17. 2Ki 19:3 >37. 1Th 4:1 >38. 1Th 5:14 >39. 2Ti 4:2 >40. Psa.95: 3 >41. psa 96: 4 >42. PSA. 97:2 2 >43. PSA. 98:1b >44. psa 99:1 >45. 2 Tim. 2 >46. Psalm 35 >47. PSALM 36 >48. psa 100 >49. psa 103 >50. Psalm 109 >51. psa 104 >52. psa 105 >53. psa107 >54, psa`111 >55. 2 Tim.2 >56. Psalm 64 >57. Psalm 71 >58. Psalm113 >59. Psa 116 >60. Psa121 >61. Psa 135. >63. Psalm 31:15 with psa 135 >62. Psa 139 >64. 2 Tim. 2 >65. Psalm 52 >66. Psalm 70 >67. Psalm 69 >70. Psalm 144 >71. psa 145 >72. psa 146 >73. 2Tim2 >74. Psalm 58 Eph 6:16 >75. Psalm 83 >76. Psalm 69 >77. Psa. 45 >78. Psa. 46 >79. psa 47 >80. psa 63: >81. psa 65 >82. Psalm 59 >83. psa 66 >84. psa 68 >85. psa 72; Rev. 20:5-10 >86. Psalm 69 >87. Psalm 69 Psa 23 Phil. 4:13,19 #1. Prov. 5:5 #2. Rom 7:17-23 #3. Prov. 16:25 #3 2 Corinthians 10: 5 #4. 1John 2 #5. Rom. 6:6-12; Col 2:11 #6. Rom. 8:110-13 #7. 1 Cor. 9:27 #8. Jas. 3:2 Isaiah #9. John 1:12; Gala 5:16 19; Eph 2:3 >a. 1 Tim 2; Phil. 4:3-8 >b. James 4:2; Matt. 7:7 >c. 1John3:21,22: 5:14,15 >d. 1 Corinth. 11:28-31; 2 Corinth. 13:5; 1 John2:1-5 >1. Re 3:19 >2. Zec 3:2 >3. Eph 5:11 >4. Tit 1:9 >5. Phm 1:9 >6. psa 51: 1 >a. Ephes. 6 >7. Le 19:17 >8. Isa 48:22 Isa 57:21 Pr 20:17 >9. Ps 6:1 >10. Isa 37:4 >11. Jer 2:19 >12. Mal 2:3 >13. De 28:20 >14. 2Tim.2:25 >15. Gal 6:1 >16. Jer 31:18 >18. Ps 80:16 >35. Jude 1:15 >19. Pr 29:15 >20. Isa 17:13 >21. Mal 3:11 >22. Lu 4:35 >23. Tit 1:13 >24. 2Pe 2:16 >25. Jude 1:15 >26. Jer 31:19 >27. Eze 36:31 >28. Zec 12:10 >34. 2Ti 4:2 >29. Ac 11:18 >30. 1Ti 2:4* >31. Lk 15: 14 >36. 1Th 2:11 >31. Lk 15: 14 >32. Joh 16:8 >33. 1Ti 5:20 >17. 2Ki 19:3 >37. 1Th 4:1 >38. 1Th 5:14 >39. 2Ti 4:2 >40. Psa.95: 3 >41. psa 96: 4 >42. PSA. 97:2 2 >43. PSA. 98:1b >44. psa 99:1 >45. 2 Tim. 2 >46. Psalm 35 >47. PSALM 36 >48. psa 100 >49. psa 103 >50. Psalm 109 >51. psa 104 >52. psa 105 >53. psa107 >54, psa`111 >55. 2 Tim.2 >56. Psalm 64 >57. Psalm 71 >58. Psalm113 FOR YOUR INFORMATION These files are designed for (1) those who want to learn how to unselfishly and compassionately cherish their women; (2) those who have experienced divorce, to any degree, and are looking for Godly and Biblical Judeo-Christian solutions and guidance on how to see God redeem the experience; (3) those who are in, or considering, polygynous relationships; (4) those who came to the Lord as concubines and want to understand godly and Christian concubinage; (5) those Black and minority believers who want reassurance that indeed their color, their race, their nationality and/or their appearance -- has no significant impact or affect on their relationship with the incarnated, crucified, risen and soon to return Lord Jesus Christ, the Messiah of Israel; (6) those who wish a deeper understanding of God's will for and in their sexuality and any problems they might be having with their sexuality; and for (7) those who want more insight in joining Jesus and His angels in their warfare against the evil spiritual beings who are causing problems for mankind, including our loved ones. The following files are available as described below. Please request any that seem interesting or of use to you. All constructive and informative comments are welcome. >>>>>>>>>>>>>TITLES & DESCRIPTIONS OF THE FILES AVAILABLE >>1. HUSBAND RULE OVER THE WIFE? WHICH CAVE DID YOU CRAWL OUT OF? Available by URL in Etext Archives at http://www.etext.info or ftp by gopher.etext.info in /pub/politics/polyamory as"husbandwiferelations.txt" OR by email >>2. INFORMAL MARRIAGE, COMMON LAW MARRIAGE, WHAT MAKES A WEDDING? Available by URL in Etext Archives at http://www.etext.info or ftp by gopher.etext.info in /pub/politics/polyamory as "commonlaw.informal.marriage", or by email. See below >>3.INTERRACIAL,INTERETHNIC MARRIAGES AND RELATIONSHIPS IN JESUS Race and ethnicity have no place signicantly influencing human interpersonal relationships."interracial=ethnic.marriage" Available by URL in Etext Archives at http:// www.etext.info or ftp by gopher.etext.info in /pub/politics/polyamory as "interracial=ethnic marriage", or by email. >>4. JESUS, IS HE GOD, JEHOVAH, THE SON OF GOD, THE SON OF MAN, THE ONLY WAY TO GOD? Jesus and the Trinity.Available only by emial >>5. OATHS, FORMAL SWEARINGS, SOLEMN PROMISES, COVENANTS AND JESUSMat. 5:33-37 (swear not all) and James 4:13-17 with James 5:12 (do not swear). Available by email, or ftp as an appendix of a larger file; or by URL in Etext Archives at http:// www.etext.info or ftp by gopher.etext.info in /pub/politics/polyamory as "keepingOne'sWord.txt" >>6. THE POWER FOR GOOD OF FEMININE BEAUTY AND MALE HANDSOMENESS. We are stewards of these socially significant gifts. Available by URL in Etext Archives at http:// www.etext.info or ftp by gopher.etext.info in /pub/politics/ polyamory as "feml.power.poly", or by email. See below >>7. RACISIM, ETHNOCENTRISM, NATIONALISM VS JESUS Jesus vs racism, prejudice, bias, discrimination, favoritism, bigotry . Available by URL in Etext Archives at http:// www.etext.info or ftp by gopher.etext.info in /pub/politics/polyamory as "racism.nationalism" >>8. UNDERAGE BURNING--THE FINANCIALLY DEPENDENT WHO ARE NOT SUCCESSFULLY CONTROLLING THEMSELVES SEXUALLY What do I do if I am underage, too young to marry and a financially dependent youth and I keep on blowing it sexually, letting Jesus and myself down by not consistently controlling myself sexually? Available only by email >>9. UNEQUAL YOKE??? Do i look like a farmer?? So why shouldn't I marry this unbelieving/unsaved person, or this person who claims to be saved but has a sin problem???? Available by email or by ftp as an appendix of a large file} >>10. Why the Christian Woman Has Only One Husband. If men practice polygyny, why shouldn't women practice polyandry? Available by URL in Etext Archives at http:// www.etext.info or ftp by gopher.etext.info in /pub/politics/polyamory as "polyandry", or by email. See below >>11. WHEN DO I HAVE TO MARRY, IN JESUS, AND WITH WHOM? Available by URL in Etext Archives at http:// www.etext.info or ftp by gopher.etext.info in /pub/politics /polyamory as "WhenToMarry", or by email. See below >>12. Angels,Demons, Spirits and You Today. Available by URL in Etext Archives at http:// www.etext.info or ftp by gopher.etext.info in /pub/politics /polyamory as "YouAndAngels" or by email >>13. Biblical Morality, Porn, Sex etc. 118k Available by URL in Etext Archives at http:// www.etext.info or ftp by gopher.etext.info in /pub/politics/polyamory as "BiblicalPolyM orality", or by email. See below >>14. The Black Family Crisis, and the Plight of the Black Female. Available by URL in Etext Archives at http:// www.etext.info or ftp by gopher.etext.info in /pub/politics/polyamory as "PlightOfBlkFem_Fam" (newer), or as "BlackFamPoly" (older), or by email. See below >>15. The Tithe and the Christian. Should we, and why? An indepth Bible study. Available by email only >>16. A Manual of Marital Intimacy for My Daughters. Want to help me ? Available by email only >>17. Why Do The Godly/Good Suffer? Does it pay to be "good"? Why do the "good" suffer so much, so often? Available by URL in Etext Archives at http:// www.etext.info or ftp by gopher.etext.info in/pub/ politics/polyamory as "LetterToFriend" or by email. >>18. Divorce/Abandonment, How Can a Follower of Christ Survive It? You love Jesus, but you find yourself divorced or abandonned and you want to be married happily in the Lord, what can you do? Available by URL in Etext Archives at http:// www.etext.info or ftp by gopher.etext.info in /pub/politics/polyamory as "HowSurviveDivorce" (newer); or "poly.and.divorce" (older), or by email. See below >>19. Keeping one's word. Vows, promises, covenants, oaths etc. Available by URL in Etext Archives at http:// www.etext.info or ftp by gopher.etext.info in /pub/politics/polyamory as "KeepingOne'sWord". >>20. Matchmaker Resources for those seeking marriage. Available by URL in Etext Archives at http:// www.etext.info or ftp by gopher.etext.info in /pub/politics/polyamory >>21. Cherish Your Women, Part 1 Gleanings from Genesis on how to compassionately cherish your women with a self-evaluation check off list. Available by URL in Etext Archives at http:// www.etext.info or ftp by gopher.etext.info in /pub/politics/polyamory as "cherish.women", or by email. See below >>22. Should prisoners be denied wholesome godly marital sex? Available by URL in Etext Archives at http:// www.etext.info or ftp by gopher.etext.info in /pub/politics/polyamory as "prisoner.abuse" , or by email. See below >>23. Mini.poly: A condensed look at polygyny in the scriputes, especially the Old Testament. Available by URL in Etext Archives at http:// www.etext.info or ftp by gopher.etext.info in /pub/politics/polyamory as "mini.poly" , or by email , See below >>24. Quotes on Polygyny by St. Augustine and Biblical Scholars Available by URL in Etext Archives at http:// www.etext.info or ftp by gopher.etext.info in /pub/politics/polyamory , or by email as "ChristianPoly". See below >>25.DIVORCE,REMARRIAGE, CONCUBINES, JESUS AND GENUINE BELIEVERS This is a 500k ASCII text only without linebreaks file that is also available in 12 parts if your computer or email service cannot receive large files. Available by URL in Etext Archives at http:// www.etext.info or ftp by gopher.etext.info in /pub/politics/polyamory as "DivorceRemarriageConcubines", or by email. See below >>26. POLYGYNOUS CHRISTIANS AND CHRITIAN CONCUBINES This is an 240k ASCII text only without linebreaks file that is also available in six parts if your computer cannot receive large files. Available by URL in Etext Archives at http:// www.etext.info or ftp by gopher.etext.info in /pub/politics/ polyamory as "PolygamyConcubines" (newer), or as "polygyny.concubines" (older) , or by email. See below >>27. Why Would the Christian Woman Share Her Husband? Available by URL in Etext Archives at http:// www.etext.info or ftp by gopher.etext.info in /pub/politics/polyamory as "why.wife.share.husband" (newer), or as "poly.western.woman" (older), or by email. See below >>28. What are the Christian leaders' objections to polygyny? Please see some of the main pro's and the con's in this file Available by URL in Etext Archives at http:// www.etext.info or ftp by gopher.etext.info in /pub/politics/polyamory as "objections2poly" or by email >>29. No Wedding Vows! A file offering scriptural reasons for using covenants rather than vows in one's wedding. Available by URL in Etext Archives at http:// www.etext.info or ftp by gopher.etext.info in /pub/politics/polyamory as "noweddingvows" or by email >>30. Is polygyny a Christian option? A discussion of polygyny in the New Testament and in the Protestant reformation. Available by URL in Etext Archives at http:// www.etext.info or ftp by gopher.etext.info in /pub/politics/polyamory as "christianpolytoday", or by email >>31. What are the "keys" to living together in Loving unity? Gleanings from Amy Carmichael and the Bible on what it takes for a family or fellowship to realize this miracle. Available by URL in Etext Archives at http:// www.etext.info or ftp by gopher.etext.info in /pub/politics/polyamory as "keys2lovingunity", or by email >>32. MY LOVE IS A GARDEN OF DELIGHTS! aka SongOfSolomonPt1.txt, a 301k commentary on the Song of Solomon, interracial marriage (his black-as-a-raven wife), and Christian polygyny and concubines. Available by URL in Etext Archives at http:// www.etext.info; or ftp by gopher.etext.info in /pub/politics/polyamory as "SongOfSolomonPt1.txt", or by email If you want any of these files, Etext Archives : URL: http://www.etext.info Location : /pub/politics/polyamory or ftp: "gopher.etext.info" Name: "ftp" Password: your email address Location: /pub/politics/polyamory If you have any problems with the URL or the ftp, contact ftp@etext.info or Rita@etext.info. or L. Tyler, P.O.Box 620763, San Diego, CA 92162-0763 or L. Tyler, P.O.Box 734, El Centro, CA 92244 http://www.netcom.com/%7Epolyg/index.html http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/Hezekiah/Biblp oly.ht m http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/Hezekiah/Poly- pos.htm http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/Hezekiah/Polyl ink.htm email: cwarren@sn.no (Christopher C. Warren) gfm@bfree.org ( S. John Butt) polyg@ix.netcom.com (John Ben David, M.Div.) 101733.613@compuserve.com (Sam Chapman) Snailmail: Chris Warren, Pastor, B'rit Chadashah, P.O.Box 48, N-1591 Sperrebotn, Norway Broken Shackles, Inc. (S.J.Butt) P. O. Box 41 S. Windham, ME 04082 Here are summaries of some articles dealing with the subjects of Blacks and polygamy/polygyny. -------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Thinking the unthinkable: man-sharing: a startling report from those who do, don't, will, won't. AUTHOR: Laura B. Randolph SOURCE: Ebony 46:136+, Jan 1991 The book Man Sharing: Dilemma or Choice, by Audrey Chapman, says that man sharing is common in the black community. This article discusses the emotional impact of man-sharing on black women, and says that many black women do chose this life-style because of the shortage of black men. -------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Shortage of Black Men may Force Alternative to Traditional Family SOURCE: Jet 69:33, Feb 3, 1986 This article discusses the shortage of single, employed black men, and suggests that women may have to consider polygamy as an alternative. -------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Woman Leader Sparks Furor about Polygamy Saving Black Families SOURCE: Jet 69: 38-39 Feb 17, 1986 Hortense G. Canady, who is the leader of Sigma Theta Sorority, has created a controversy by stating that black women may have to live polygamy because of the shortage of marriagable black men in the community. -------------------------------------------------------------- TITLE: Can Mr. Mombasa Keep All his Wives? AUTHOR: Tim Stafford SOURCE: Christianity Today, 35:33-34 Feb 11, 1991 This article deals with a conflict in the Christian church in Kenya, wheremany blacks who are converted have several wives. Originally the churchwould not baptize them, but allowed them to participate in the church.Later, the church and some members broke away from their leadership and began baptizing black polygamous men. CONTINUED IN PART 2