Warfare Prayer: How to Seek God's Power and Protection in the Battle to Build His Kingdom

1. Is this an in depth presentation? This book is a ground breaking study on territorial principalities and power and how to engage in spiritual warfare against them. Dr. Wagner draws from many real life examples, but readily admits that we have only begun scratching the surface and that a lot more study and maturing is necessary with regards to the understanding of strategic level warfare principles. 2. Did I agree with the way that the author interprets scripture? In many instances in the book the author points out that one of the primary objections against strategic level warfare is that there is no specific mandate in the bible that it should be done. This has also been my primary concern with regards to strategic level warfare. The author devotes a large section of his book addressing this issue. In Chapter 5 (Territoriality then and now) the author argues that throughout the old and new testament it was taken for granted that certain spirits ruled over certain geographical areas. He uses many scriptural references in the hope that together they will form a coherent picture. Though difficult for our post-modern minds to accept I do agree with Dr. Wagner. The next question that automatically follows after accepting the fact that there are spirits assigned to territories is: "Do we have the authority to come against them?" Once again Dr. Wagner makes a very convincing case that God is raising up certain people to do exactly that in Chapter 7. 3. Was there any new information? This book was almost entirely new information to me. The most useful information in this book is that which is presented in chapters 6, 9 and 10. In chapter 6 the author gives the preconditions of a Christian who wants to get involved in strategic level warfare. They are: * Submitting to God - seeing him as Lord. * Drawing near to God - having a vital prayer life. * Cleansing our hands and our hearts - living holy lives (though we do not have to be perfect). In chapter 9 the author gives 6 rules for taking a city for Christ. They are: * Identifying an appropriate are (well boundaried and not to large) * Getting the pastors of that area to stand in unity and regularly pray for the area. * Getting the entire body of Christ involved (not just the Charismatics or Pentocostals) * Prepare spiritually as described in Chapter 6. * Prepare strategically by researching the area in terms of past history, sins of the people in that area and also by using the spiritual gift of discernment. * Involve intercessors that have been gifted to do battle on this level of warfare. In chapter 10 the author gives a list of potential pitfalls to be avoided: * Being ignorant of the concept of spiritual warfare or the danger involved in spiritual warfare * Being fearful of the enemy. * Underestimating the enemy. * Overestimating yourself and being arrogant in spiritual warfare. * Not being covered in prayer by fellow warriors. * Not waiting on God and not being guided by Him in warf

My interest has come to be warfare prayer in many areas. I use it in the areas of prayer for: elders and ministers, petitions, personal and many others. I have found this book to be extremely useful for this. It gives you not only basic help for how to do this type of prayer, it also gives you Scriptural backing for why. It also underscores how important prayer is in the life of the Christian. The book also gives some guidelines on how to do warfare prayer, if you should be doing warfare and other such topics. I would recommend this book for anyone that is interested in doing warfare prayer and would also recommend it to congregations as a tool for having warfare prayer as part of their prayer ministry.

This book has helped me to understand warfare prayer on a greater level. NOt only is it filled with practical data and experiences, but it is also biblically sound. Dr. Wagner has succeeded in informing intercessors and aspiring intercessors to strategically take back what belongs to the LORD.