Enemy Prayer Quotes

#1. I've discovered it is not sufficient simply to try to take time for quietness but that I must, with all diligence, make time. Whatever keeps me from prayer, solitude, and the Bible, however good it appears, is my enemy if I am to be God's devoted friend and follower.

Tommy Barnett

#2. One subtle arena of attack is in the area of pride. Praying people can become prideful about their praying. Non-participants can become prideful in their resistance. The enemy seeks to divide and conquer every initiative of prayer.

Daniel Henderson

#3. The burden imparted by God is lifted once we have prayed, but the heaviness from the enemy cannot be raised unless we fight and resist in prayer.

Watchman Nee

#4. The idea seemed to be that if you prayed extremely hard
especially if a lot of people prayed at once
maybe God would change things. The trouble was, what if your enemy was praying, too? Which prayer would God listen to?

Jeanne DuPrau

#5. Prayer sweeps the battlefield, slays the enemy, and buries the bones.

Charles Spurgeon

#6. If all we're doing is flinging words and emotions in all directions without any real consideration for the specific ways the enemy is targeting us and the promises of God that apply to us, we're mostly just wasting our time.

Priscilla Shirer

#7. It has been said by many great Christians that prayer is our secret weapon. If we desire to be free from every enemy stronghold over our lives and fully fortified to live the superhuman existences God intended us to live, then we must learn how to pray.

Leslie Ludy

#8. Teach us to pray that we may cause The enemy to flee, That we his evil power may bind, His prisoners to free.

Watchman Nee

#9. More than once I had seen a noble who had gotten his enemy at a disadvantage stop to pray before cutting his throat.

Mark Twain

#10. Do you find yourself facing a challenge and too tired to pray? Allow the power of prayer to revive your spirit and restore your physical and mental vigor. By following Nehemiah's example, you will have the energy needed to defeat the enemy and thrive in the midst of your challenges.

Lysa TerKeurst

#11. It is not an external enemy we dread. Our foe is shut up within ourselves. An internal warfare is daily waged by us.

John Cassian

#12. As God's child advances spiritually be shall discover that the Lord's time is as important as the Lord's will. Do not rashly beget an Ishmael lest he become the greatest enemy to Isaac.

Watchman Nee

#13. Prayer is how we isolate the real problems. And prayer is how we get up behind those problems and attack them at the roots. It's how we isolate the real enemy. It's how we keep him on his heels and off our man.

Priscilla Shirer

#14. 1Listen to my prayer, O God, do not ignore my plea; 2hear me and answer me. My thoughts trouble me and I am distraught 3because of what my enemy is saying, because of the threats of the wicked; for they bring down suffering on me and assail me in their anger.

Anonymous

#15. An enemy is defeated by keeping quite, a demon by a prayer.

Andries Kumalo

#16. You don't love in your enemies what they are, but what you would have them become by your prayers.

Saint Augustine

#17. Lord, I pray that my husband will be strong in the Lord and put on the whole armor of God, so he can stand against the enemy every day. Enable him to take up the shield of faith, helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the Word of God.

Stormie O'martian

#18. Your prayers are your light;
Your devotion is your strength;
Sleep is the enemy of both.
Your life is the only opportunity that life can give you.
If you ignore it, if you waste it,
You will only turn to dust.

Rabia Basri

#19. We do well to be reminded that the devil hates a praying leader and a praying church. When we begin to pray, we pick a fight with the devil at a whole new level. Yet, our calling is to be praying menaces to the enemy.

Daniel Henderson

#20. If you want to determine if your thoughts are from the enemy or from God, ask yourself, 'Are these thoughts I'd choose to have?

Stormie O'martian

#21. We must wrestle earnestly in prayer, like men contending with a deadly enemy for life.

J.C. Ryle

#22. Through the medium of prayer we go to our enemy, stand by his side, and plead for him to God.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#23. Prayer is the most powerful weapon we have in our spiritual arsenal to stand against the world's greatest enemy, the one who presents himself as an angel of light [2 Corinthians 11:14].

Billy Graham

#24. When things are not going right, there are satanic forces in
operation. What is my solution? To rebuke the condition of sin, death, disease, or
whatever it is. I can pray in the Holy Ghost, and that prayer is effectual to bring
down every stronghold of the enemy.

Smith Wigglesworth

#25. The enemy just hates our prayers.

Francis Chan

#26. The enemy uses all his power to lead the Christian, and above all the minister, to neglect prayer. He knows that however admirable the sermon may be, however attractive the service, however faithful the pastoral visitation, none of these things can damage him or his kingdom if prayer is neglected.

Andy Murray

#27. Prayer is work. The experiences of many children of God demonstrate that it accomplishes far more than does any other form of work. It is also warfare, for it is one of the weapons in fighting the enemy. However, only prayer in the spirit is genuinely effectual.

Watchman Nee

#28. There is something in us that fears prayer as a maggot fears light. We must do violence to this voice, for it is not ourselves. It is our Enemy.

Peter Kreeft

#29. Jesus is the Commander of two armies. One is an army of angels in heaven and one is the army of prayer warriors on earth. As Commander of these armies, He shows us how to take back from the enemy all he has stolen that is rightfully ours. We do that in prayer as prayer warriors!

Stormie O'martian

#30. We pray because our own solutions don't work and because prayer deploys, activates, and fortifies us against the attacks of the enemy. We

Priscilla Shirer

#31. There is a general kind of praying which fails for lack of precision. It is as if a regiment of soldiers should all fire off their guns anywhere. Possibly somebody would be killed, but the majority of the enemy would be missed.

Charles Spurgeon

#32. Can't be on the front lines fighting a war with the weapons given to you by the enemy.

Darnell Lamont Walker

#33. Prayer is the key ingredient of the church. The enemy hates it when we pray.

Jacob Peterson

#34. The biggest enemy to prayer is praying for something you already have.

Bill Johnson

#35. Every act of kindness, each moment spent in prayer, and every expression of love in the name of Christ pierces the heart of the enemy and sends him into retreat. These are the gentle weapons of the kingdom.

Richard Stearns

#36. In prayer you gain your strength - the power to gird yourself with armor that extinguishes every weapon your enemy wields.

Priscilla Shirer

#37. If I ask God to punish my enemy with vengeful prayers,
then He is fair to allow the enemy to do the same for me.

Toba Beta

#38. If you are not praying the type of prayers that scare you, your prayers are certainly not frightening our enemy.

Lisa Bevere

#39. A man does a lot of praying in an enemy prison. Prayer, even more than sheer thought, is the firmest anchor.

Jeremiah Denton

#40. In the darkest times of your life, your praise to God should be the loudest. Let the enemy know you're not afraid of the dark.

Stormie O'martian