The Prayer of Battle aka God’s Battle Cry

9/22/21

It seems that the Prayer of Battle aka God’s Battle Cry is the Shema.  This is the prayer necessary to possess our land.  How do I know this?  Because the Shema has been requested of me for over twenty years as the prayer to bring in the Lord’s will for a situation, including my own.

My original encounter with the prayer occurred in 1997 with one of my first prayer partners, Lois.  Here is the story: “One night, Lois (former prayer partner) had a dream and the words she received were in Hebrew.  Unbeknownst to her and to me, she was quoting the Shema (Deuteronomy 6:4-13) in her dream.  The next day her boss, who was Jewish, translated the words for her into English; we were blessed at the experience.  Little did I know that many years later, the Shema would be the prayer the Lord would ask me to pray daily for the deliverance of my church and for the great end-time revival that is to come.”

(The Shema) Deuteronomy 6:4-13 Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one!  You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength.  And these words which I command you today shall be in your heart.  You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up.  You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes.  You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.

So it shall be, when the Lord your God brings you into the land of which He swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give you large and beautiful cities which you did not build, houses full of all good things, which you did not fill, hewn-out wells which you did not dig, vineyards and olive trees which you did not plant—when you have eaten and are full— then beware, lest you forget the Lord who brought you out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage. You shall fear the Lord your God and serve Him, and shall take oaths in His name.

The New Testament version:

Jesus said to him, ‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’  (Matthew 22:37).

And a prophetic word on the subject: “There are still battles that will need to be fought and those that will be won are numerous.  The battle is Mine to fight but you will be the one who wields the sword.  Take this not lightly but prepare yourself in prayer; the Shema (Deuteronomy 6:4-13) is what will need to be prayed to rid the land of the wicked forces.  This diabolical source has been from of old and will not be disposed of without a fight.  Gird your waistband and give no thought to the enemy; be prepared.  Fight on, for the battle will soon be revealed.” 

Now, why did the Lord give me the Shema to pray every day for the battle and to rid the land of the enemy?  I do not know for sure, but it has been confirmed over the years.  And one time dramatically by my good friend Gloria.  In the midst of heating up of the spiritual environment at my former church, she sent me an email. 

Gloria wrote: “This is what I think I heard from the Lord; ‘I am very angry at the Head Pastor, his ministry is a sham, he is a fake.’  Also, I am to pray for your protection, which I knew and I am.  So now I laugh and ask God to throw all the things He told me into the fire to test them.  Then I saw in gold (in the sky) SHAM.  I was so scared and also God gave me Deuteronomy 6:4 (the Shema).”

Well, there you go!  God confirmed the Shema through my good friend and I did not tell her of this verse ahead of time.  To top it off a month after this incident, the Head Pastor announced that the Shema was the ‘vision’ of the church.

Then you shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, destroy all their engraved stones, destroy all their molded images, and demolish all their high places; you shall dispossess the inhabitants of the land and dwell in it, for I have given you the land to possess.  (Numbers 33:52-53).

If there are those of you who are ready, willing and able to possess your land, start praying the Shema every day in your prayer time.  See how God will move your mountains.