Battle rages, is it unseen to your willing eyes?  Do you hear the whispers of wickedness continually attempting to lead you astray, only the next moment to be begging God forgiveness for your idolatry and sin?  Do you fear the Lord and work each day to enter the rest by obeying and keeping the Word of God?  Is your walk through the fields of sanctification one done in fear and trembling or is it the clumsy lumberings of a lop-sided elephant?  Do you ever contemplate putting on the Spirit Armor of God or do you go unaffected into the world expecting no interference, obstacles or attempted departure from the Will of God?  Open your eyes saints, the battle rages and your greatest weaponry against the wiles of the enemy is prayer.  Why do you think he tries so desperately to keep you from it?

On my knees I find the moments where God may choose to speak.  In my prayer closet, the world loses its grip upon the rooms of my thought, so that my house is God’s House eternal.  In my shame and humility, my heart is softened and prepared for the footsteps of God upon its willing walls.  I am spirit, though this body and soul may deny that fact.  It is my spirit that craves God’s likeness, love and reprimand.  When I go to God in prayer I know peace, not just a concept that I heard from a preacher, or something that false teachers sell upon the street corner, but real rest.  This world cannot know the Prince of Peace in all His Glory for there is no will to receive the truth and without it just remains beyond reach, outside the veiled promenade.

The enemy cringes at the coming King, knowing that his time is short and that his limited reign is falsehood.  he lies in wait for those willing to step onto the battlefield unprepared, ill tempered, naive to the common frailties that plague all humanity.  We as princes and priests cannot intervene for those who would be consumed if we are not first armored and educated to the things of God.  We must prepare our hearts in prayer before the throne of God, knowing with utmost confidence that “our Father” listens, hears and responds in kind to our limited display of faith.  For prayer is the tempering of our faith, the honing of our skills with the Two Edged Sword of the Word of God.  It is in prayer that we realize the truth of all God’s Promises to Man.  It is in prayer that we come to “Know” the Father instead of just know about Him.  Meet God in prayer or go ill prepared to the ramparts.