- 1 Thessalonians 5:17-18 Pray continually, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.
The Holy Spirit said: “It is Prayer and Word. Pray, take action on the Word and deliver it. If you do, Satan and the forces of evil that sting you will disappear like the bees did.” If we pray, then through ‘that condition,’ God, the Holy Spirit, the Holy Son and the Heavenly soldiers will judge them, fight against them and let us win. For Satan and the forces of evil, ‘prayer’ is poison. Satan always work with ‘evil.’ Satan is always ‘our enemy.’ If we pray, then everyone will become strong like steel! If we pray, then your heart-mind-thoughts will become strong and bold. So you will defeat all things, both Satan and evil. The words of the righteous are powerful to make things happen. Therefore, ‘the prayers of the righteous’ and ‘the Word that the righteous fire’ are powerful.
If you do not pray, you cannot feel or receive ‘the powerful spiritual power.’ Therefore, you have no strength both mentally and spiritually, and even if you hear the Word, you cannot receive strength from it because you cannot realize it deeply. You will be affected by that and so you will have no strength physically either, and you will keep thinking in self-centered ways. Satan will creep in little by little infiltrating through the cracks and later, he will even dominate your thoughts completely. When that state goes on for a long time, you will lose feeling for prayer and live forgetting about praying, grow more and more distant from the Word, and will stay far from the Lord. If you become lax to praying, everything will become loose. You have to pray powerfully. However, everyone is unable to pray powerfully. That is like spraying insecticide but stopping after spraying only a little. That is why it makes no difference whether you spray it or not.
You have to pray powerfully like fire. Satan and wicked people harm us and torment by always stinging our hearts and thoughts with ‘wicked words.’ Therefore, you must always fight against Satan and the world of evil with prayer, fight against them with powerful Word, and fight them by taking action boldly. You have to defeat Satan completely by praying deeply. Then the Lord’s Word will go into your brain completely and you will believe and take action. If you do not pray powerfully, Satan will keep invading through the crack.
Prayer is ‘connecting and communing with God, the Holy Spirit, and the Holy Son.’ It is ‘earnest conversation’ and ‘earnestly asking.’ Deep prayer comes from ‘earnestness.’ Everyone must pray earnestly. After all, you are praying to the Almighty God. So if you doze off or have distracting thoughts while you are praying, God will not accept such prayers at all. As a result, you will be unable to receive ‘answers to your prayer,’ and you will be unable to receive ‘blessings.’
As for prayer, you have to do it in earnest and fully. When you’re doing something in the world too, you must do it fully for it to show, right? You must be sure and do that with prayer too. If you pray only to an average degree, it will turn out only average. You have to pray fully. Then it will turn out fully. In order to pray properly, ‘your everyday life’ has to be established well. If you don’t sleep at night or eat large amounts of food at night, or your everyday life is a mess, you cannot wake the predawn. And when praying, You have to pray really clearly prayers that crush Satan and defeat the wicked people.
The Holy Spirit said: “Those who don’t pray will suffer as a result of that and those who do pray will receive help as a result of that condition.” This is a time when it is hard for the individual, family and the nation if you do not pray. This is a time when you must really pray. You have to experience praying earnestly and receiving the fire of prayer. And you have to receive answers to your prayers and have conviction about your prayers. Once you do, then you will think, ‘[wow] I really prayed’ and you, yourself will come to believe.
When praying, you should not finish without praying earnestly and deeply, without solving the problems that pertain to you, and without getting rid of Satan. It is almost always Satan that hinders us from praying. So no matter who you are, before you start to pray, you must pray after first driving away Satan before anything else. Then you can pray fully alert and deeply. Even if you cannot see Satan, you must absolutely believe that [Satan] is next to you and pray after first driving out Satan. Then you will be able to pray clearly deep prayer. Because you do not pray, you are unable to get rid of ‘the evil Satan and demon.’ As a result, you keep getting hindered by Satan and suffer and you have a hard time with your faith. If you fail to eliminate the evil Satan and demon, because of it, you will keep losing strength, get discouraged, get hurt, and suffer. [Head leaders], you have to pray powerful prayers so God will hear those prayers and take action. You have to make fire come forth from your lips and make it so the things you prayed for will be resolved. Only then will you save lives.
You must be sure to pray. Furthermore, you must pray for the lives. You must pray about various problems. Like a farmer would pull out a thorn bush that is growing in his field, you have to pray relentlessly to the end regarding problems you face, and pray prayers that get problems solved.
If you don’t pray, your heart is dull. So you will not know even if a precious day comes. If you don’t pray, God’s approval will not be given. So the things you want will not work out. You do not pray, Satan is holding firmly onto ‘that heart and thoughts’. That is why you are miserable, you cannot believe, you feel anxious, you feel nervous, you have no joy, you are suffering, and problems linger on without getting solved. Everyone, you must pray wholeheartedly, fully, earnestly, and powerfully! By doing that, you must drive out Satan and live with minds that are as strong as steel.