GET SMART ~ Know Your Enemy

11/27/24

A believing prayer warrior is a dangerous thing in the midst of an evil world. Effective prayers are not where your desires are met by God, but where God’s desires are found by you. Pray beyond the limits of you, and it will be there that you will find God.  Intercessors pray to His limits. “Behold, I am the Lord, the God of all flesh. Is there anything too hard for Me?” Jeremiah 32:27.

Prophetic intercession is like being a ‘spy’ for God.  He gives you the subject; a small amount of instruction or ‘code words’ and then, wants you to watch, listen and act when He gives the command.  It is like an espionage assignment, similar to “Get Smart”!  Those of us who grew up in the sixties know of this secret agent series.

“The series centers on secret agent Maxwell Smart aka Agent 86, and his female partner, Agent 99. They work for CONTROL, a secret United States government counterintelligence agency, fighting primarily against KAOS, "the international organization of evil".

The ‘international organization of evil’, huh!  Doesn’t it sound like satan and his minions?  For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places. Ephesians 6:12.

During the 10-year prayer assignment for my former church, I recall the feeling of being a secret agent. For instance, I would sit in a hair salon and look around and think ‘if they only knew what I do in secret for the Lord’ and I would chuckle.  It was, a little lightheartedness because of the intensity and severity of the job I was given of intercession.

We are not alone in being ‘spies’ for God!  Both, Moses and Joshua sent out spies into the land that they would conquer and to know their enemy.  We are to ‘Get Smart’ and know our enemy before we enter the land in intercession to possess it!  I have said, ‘we will take the land that the Lord directs us to ask for and will possess the gates of our enemies.’  And your descendants shall possess the gate of their enemies.  Genesis 22:17b.

Before the Israelites entered the Promised Land, they approached Moses with a desire to “send men ahead to spy out the land for us and bring back a report about the route we are to take and the towns we will come to” (Deuteronomy 1:22).  God confirmed that this was His will, telling Moses, “Send men to spy out the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the children of Israel; from each tribe of their fathers you shall send a man, everyone, a leader among them” (Numbers 13:2).  By sending these twelve men into Canaan on a reconnaissance mission, Moses had obviously sought direction from the Lord and was obeying the divine leading.

God had commanded Moses to send the twelve spies so the Israelites would be equipped to do battle in the land—thus Moses’ goals of finding out about the people, the cities, and the landscape. God would ultimately fight the battles for them, but they had to do their part, which was to move forward in faith.  He had assured them of total victory, if they would trust Him: “My angel will go ahead of you and bring you into the land of the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Canaanites, Hivites and Jebusites, and I will wipe them out” (Exodus 23:23).

Moses acted in obedience to God in sending the spies. Valuable information about the land was gathered, and the hearts of the people of Israel were revealed.” Why did Moses send twelve spies into the Promised Land?

Now Joshua the son of Nun sent out two men from Acacia Grove to spy secretly, saying, “Go, view the land, especially Jericho.” Joshua 2:1.

Only the Holy Spirit can lead us to understand what enemies we are to face in the prayer assignment.  And, in turn, by “the Spirit of wisdom and revelation to pray for people, events, and at times, even crisis circumstances, in a manner that only He can guide and direct.” The Power of Prophetic Intercession - by James W. Goll.

Do not judge according to appearance, but judge with righteous judgment.  John 7:24.

So, who are these enemies that we are to fight against?  Well, to be sure they are not the people, the situations or countries that we are called to pray for.  The enemies are the spiritual forces that are influencing those that God wants to deliver and have mercy on.  They are God’s enemies in spiritual form or human form (influenced by evil forces).  Those spiritual forces of darkness are the enemies that we fight against, we do not wrestle against flesh and blood.  

Remember the code word God gave me for Saudi Arabia, ‘Kedar’?  The tents of Kedar in biblical times were Arab nations and it is how God is framing the spiritual reality of Saudi Arabia.  Let’s see if the Lord reveals Kedar’s enemy which He may ask me to battle against, just as we have been told to pray for Trump and his new cabinet choices. 

And even now before the inauguration, the enemy is at work on President Trump and his cabinet. See this article: Trump Transition: Team Members, Appointees Threatened | Newsmax.com

Pray and sing with me: The Battle Belongs To The Lord - Maranatha! Music [with lyrics] 

Lord: Gather together the leaders and elders of our nation that You want. Make their names known to the President and bring them into service that they may serve You to usher in the golden era You promised. Then come down and talk with them. Take Your Spirit that is upon Trump and put the same upon them; and they shall bear the burden of the people with him, that he may not bear it alone. Thank You that You have opened his ear; and do not let him become rebellious, nor turn away that there would be revival. In Jesus’ name we ask. Amen.

No weapon formed against them shall prosper, and every tongue, threat, plan or curse which rises against them in judgment GOD will condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord, and their righteousness is from the Lord.

Devote yourselves to prayer, being watchful and thankful. Colossians 4:2.