Prayer Warrior is a funky term to
call a human especially since God fights the battles. Prayer may not look like
fighting because God is the Warrior, the best a prayer warrior can do is to
cast off their crown, humble themselves, worship, plead, commit and expect in
Christ.
Wikipedia says the Prayer Warrior
term has a specific reference to someone who engages in spiritual warfare
–therefore not necessarily someone who prays daily for me, or shouts and wails
with tears lapping down, or only praying from the kneeling position (though at
times these may occur).
The prayer warrior is…
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a student of the Scriptures.
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faithful and actively tests and approves God’s
will.
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in prayer daily, seeking God.
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fluent in how sanctification and the Armor of
God works.
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wise to how
the enemy schemes.
The
homeland of the prayer warrior is the worship of God and the glorification of Jesus
Christ. They seek Him first because He is worthy to be sought. The Word of God
serves as the fortress from within the homeland where the prayer warrior is
most familiar and able to know what to pray for and how. When off to war, a prayer warrior knows that memorization and praying
back Scriptures recalls home from any place in the battlefield!
Prayer warring is tactical. A
prayer warrior reads up/listens to the prayer needs in the hopes to pray with
specificity. They know the terrain of the person they are interceding for. This
means the warrior should receive updates from the person they are praying for.
Then this soldier seeks after God to find in Him possible comfort for the person
they are fighting for. A prayer warrior can hypothesize a Kingdom response to
the problem in accordance to God’s providence and will. There is always enough
humility in a prayer warrior to know that seeing a prayer go unanswered doesn’t
mean defeat, but that God is still working.
The intercessor can be called “a prayer warrior" because they are on the same team, united in Jesus Christ. But wait there’s fruit! Jesus found and freed me when I was a POW
chained up by sin and selfishness. I know of two people who were burdened to
pray for me daily as years went by before I ever came to Christ. So I know
first-hand that a prayer warrior is a
brother’s keeper who doesn’t give up no matter what trial a brother or sister
is in.
I
remember hearing a missionary once say “I covet your prayers.” My knee-jerk
reaction was “That’s spiritual pride man.”
Now that I have walked with God and grown in maturity with Kingdom eyes,
I delight to think back to that missionary. What a demonstration he was
showing, it wasn’t pride but a dependence on God. He had desperation to seek
God through intercessory prayers for his life and ministry. We cannot be pleading on our own with God we
need reinforcements. Ask others to pray for you regularly! I too covet your
prayers.
