Spiritual Warfare Prayer, Heartland Church, Jan. 11, 2009

This prayer was crafted at the request of Heartland Church staff, Elders, and transition team as we discerned the swirl of spiritual warfare that was hindering us in this season. The podcast of the service can be downloaded at www.hccfw.com.

Father God, we come to you in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ.  We confess our sins of unbelief. We have not believed you are who you say you are, and we have doubted you can do what you say you can do. That has caused us to mistrust one another and lean on our own understandings. This has sabotaged our life together in Heartland Church. We have been suspicious of one another, and judged one another by assigning motive to others actions, words, and feelings that may not be true. We come to you Father God to repent of these sins. And we forgive all who may have influenced us to sin in these areas of our lives. 


(Stop and reflect on those in our life who have influenced us in this manner.  Each of us needs to say specifically who this is in our lives as the Holy Spirit prompts us.) 

I forgive ____ and ____ for their ungodly influences on my life and our church in these areas in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ.

We repent, Father God, for giving place to the influence of demonic spirits of unbelief, mistrust, suspicion, and judging by wrongly assigning motive.   We are asking your help Father God, to embrace a new way of thinking and behaving in a Christ-like way in these areas of our life together.

We forgive ourselves for the confusion, pain and limitations we have allowed these demonic spirits to inflict upon us as a result of our sinful thinking and behavior. 

In the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ, we renounce and break all agreement with these demonic strongholds of unbelief including all associated demons of suspicion, mistrust, and judging by wrongly assigning motive.

We take authority over all demonic strongholds of unbelief and command them to leave us each and every one and all of Heartland Church now, based on the Blood of the Lord Jesus Christ and His finished work of salvation on the Cross, and our declared Kingdom of God authority as Believers in the Lord Jesus Christ.