The Battle Plan for Prayer: From Basic Training to Targeted Strategies

and go into battle with You. Guide me, I pray, as I try to trust You more. Train me. Equip me. Make me a mighty warrior in prayer. Be glorified through me as I trust in You. In Jesus’ name, amen.

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Derision. When he’s not lying, he’s usually running you down or running down someone else in your mind.

These are times when we intentionally focus ONLY on prayer, not just as an added part of our other daily activities.

DELIGHT in the Lord. “And now my head will be lifted up above my enemies around me, and I will offer in His tent sacrifices with shouts of joy; I will sing, yes, I will sing praises to the Lord” (Ps. 27:6).

15 Horizontal: Unity Versus Division

Regardless, we should pray, “Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting” (Ps. 139:23–24 niv).

We call upon the name of the Lord to be saved (Rom. 10:13), proclaim the name of the Lord in our witnessing (Acts 9:20), praise the name of the Lord in our worship (Ps. 135:1), trust the name of the Lord in our daily living (Ps. 33:21), and pray in the name of the Lord in our intercession (John 14:13).

Ungratefulness, however, is very costly and is actually a poisonous sin (Rom. 1:21; 2 Tim. 3:1–5). Jealousy, greed, lust, complaining, theft, envy, and covetousness can all spring from ungratefulness in the heart. Unthankful people are consistently sour in almost all circumstances. They tend to complain about everything, never fully enjoying what t