Prayer Stations

Prayer Station III—Children “Behold children are a heritage from the Lord, the fruit of the womb is a reward” (Psalm 127:3 NKJV). There has never been such an attack on children as there is today. In the home, abandonment, abortion, incest, and abuse are all on the rise. Outside the home, abduction, slaughter, violence, Internet scams and peer pressure are some of the many dangers facing our children. The birthing of a child speaks of oneness, it is an amazing thing, it takes a man and a woman to make one child. The two brings forth one (1+1=1). God’s math is mind boggling. This formula only calculates in marriage and in birth, this further demonstrates the human formula for marriage and birth is between a male and a female. It seems that at certain cross roads in history, at major moves of God there has been an attack on the children. When God raised up Moses to deliver the children of Israel out of Egypt, there was an attack to kill all the first born males, at the birth of Christ in a attempt to kill him, there was a decree to kill all the male babies two years and younger. Even now as we come to a close in this “dispensation of the Gentiles” abortions are at an unprecedented rate and growing with new devastating ways to terminate the unborn. God is raising up a Joshua generation that will obey Him and be the greatest soul winners of our times. Not one of them will be aborted! We need the Lord to protect and keep the children from the plan of the enemy to kill, steal and destroy. It was through the birth of a child that the head of Satan was bruised. (Gen. 3:15-16). Children are powerful, they are like arrows in the hand of a mighty man, happy is the man that has his quiver full of them. Children are birthed to destroy the plan of the enemy. Speak life to them, raise them up in the way that they should go and they will be mighty warriors that will confront the enemy at the city gates. “Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them: they shall not be ashamed, but they shall speak with the enemies in the gate” (Psm. 127:5) Intercession requires others to help in the fight against sin! When interceding for children, there will be times when you will need personal prayer, corporate prayer, someone to touch and agree with you, and times when you will need heaven to back up your binding and loosing on their behalf. Jehovah Nissi—The LORD My Banner (Exodus 17:15) As the children of Israel fled from Egypt by way of the Sinai desert, better referred to as the “wilderness”—God began to teach them along the way to trust in the many facets of His name. The Hebrew compound name YHWH-Nissi, “the LORD is my Banner” or “the Lord is my Conquest,” was demonstrated as Israel came up against opposition with Amalek in the wilderness. Amalek was the first to attack Israel as they pitched their tents at Rephidim in a desert near Mount Horeb. Amalek did not fear God and took advantage of the Israelites as they attempted to pass through their territory. Moses instructed Joshua to choose men and go fight with Amalek, and as they fought Moses would stand on the top of the hill with the rod of God in his hand. Moses had with him Aaron and Hur. When Moses held up his hands Israel prevailed in battle, and when his hands were down Amalek prevailed. Moses became tired and he sat on a rock. Aaron and Hur held up his hands with the rod of God, one on one side and one on the other—causing Israel to be victorious in battle. Israel won the battle against Amalek. God commanded Moses to write this for a memorial in the book, and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua: “for I will utterly put out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven.” And Moses built an altar and called the name of it Jehovah-Nissi, “Because the LORD hath sworn that the LORD will have war with Amalek from generation to generation.” Jehovah-Nissi means “the LORD is my banner,” or “the LORD is my sign of conquest.” Moses used this name to declare that God would always conquer the enemy and meet the needs of His people. The rod in Moses’ hand served as a banner demonstrating the miraculous power of God. As the believer prays and intercedes for children, the LORD will conquer every foe. Just keep your banner, (your hands) up before Him in faith, praise and worship and the LORD will bring them out of every circumstance that opposes His will for their life. Don’t allow the banner over children to be “things,” the cares of this world, for “His banner over me is Love” (Song of Solomon 2:4). Communicate and listen to your children and let their concerns be your burdens in prayer. The Armor The armor for this prayer station is the “helmet of salvation” (Ephesians 6:17). I Thessalonians 5:8 speaks of this helmet as “the hope of salvation” or the “assurance of salvation.” The believer can walk in the blessed assurance of salvation for their house. Jesus Christ is our salvation—the helmet of salvation protects our mind, which is the battlefield of the enemy. God’s appeal is to the heart and mind of man—“Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus” (Philippians 2:5). He has been made unto us salvation! The way to be free of anxiety is to be prayerful with thanksgiving about everything. “Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let you request be made known unto God. And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your heart and minds through Christ Jesus” (Philippians 4:6-7). “For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strongholds; casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;” (2 Corinthians 10:4-6). This is one of the most powerful scriptures in the Word of God. It tells us that our weapons are not natural, but spiritual and able to kick down, demolish strongholds of human reasoning and to destroy false arguments. A stronghold is anything that is bigger and greater than God in your life. The stronghold is in the mind and comes in the form of imaginations that keeps us from knowing God in the fullest and being a doer of His word. If the enemy has your mind, he has the whole person. We are to master the stronghold, recognized it and make it obey what Jesus says I am in him. For I am the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus. But first we must recognize that there is a stronghold. When a stronghold (false thought) in your mind is contrary or ungodly (it may be sexual), speak the truth of Gods word and make it (your thoughts coupled with emotions,) obey the Word. Command your thought life to obey God’s word, for the Word is God. Do whatever works in your arsenal of weapons to bring that thought, that emotion under subjection. The demonic influence (thoughts/emotions) will flee for a season. Continue to do warfare until its power is broken and you will see/hear that devil no more (Ex. 14:13). Work hard at it, it is a matter of life or death. Be strong in the Lord and do it! “And Moses said unto the people, Fear ye not, stand still, and see the salvation of the LORD, which he will shew to you to day: for the Egyptians whom ye have seen to day, ye shall see them again no more for ever” (Ex. 14:13). Once you have deliverance, you will be able to deliver others. That’s how God works, we go through to be a blessing to someone else. Jesus died on the cross so that we might have life and have it more abundantly. He went through his suffering and death for me. Some of our spiritual weapons are; the Word of God (Eph. 6:17), prayer (Eph. 6:18), praise (2 Chron. 5:13-14), worship (Psm. 99:9), faith (Heb.11:6), speaking to yourselves in psalms, hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody to the Lord (Eph. 5:19), obedience (2 Cor. 10:6) , the anointing (Isa. 10:27) and the joy of the Lord is our strength (Neh. 8:10).