Prayers Against Strongholds

Prayer To Be Strong In The Day Of Battle

Heavenly Father I pray for Your strength and courage – I pray that I would be strong in the day of battle. I pray that You would give me the strength and courage that only comes from You and You alone. I pray that like Joshua I would be strong and very courageous and not be afraid to face the enemies of my soul, nor be dismayed by the spiritual armies that encompass me round about.

I pray that You would break any stronghold of fear or doubt, shame or unbelief that weakens my walk and witness and that makes me so vulnerable to the wiles of Satan. Help me I pray to resist the devil and to take every thought, that starts to drag me down, captive.. and to hand it to You – for You have not given us the spirit of fear and timidity, but of power, love, self-discipline and a sound mind.

Lord I am aware that there are many forms of opposition – many strongholds that can keep our souls enslaved and captive and which prevent us from being strong in the Lord and in His mighty power in this evil day – but I pray that by Your grace and in the power of the Holy Spirit I would be strong in the day of battle and abide in Christ, Who is my Shield and Buckler, My Defence and my Defender – and in Whose name I pray,

Amen

Prayer To Break Any Strongholds In My Life

Heavenly Father, I come to You in the precious name of Jesus my Saviour, whose shed blood is all-sufficient and able to free me from the powers and strongholds that have enslaved me. In the name of Jesus, I ask that You would break the power of sin in my life and the enslavement to all and any developed strongholds in me. Thwart the evil plans and purposes that the enemy has toward me, knowing that You are stronger and that Your plan for my life is perfect freedom in Christ.

Lord, I am sorry that I have given Satan a foothold in my life and repent of the way I have allowed him to gain control of my life. Break his power in me I pray and fill me to overflowing with Your Holy Spirit. In my distress I call on the name of the Lord Jesus and stand fast on the promises that nothing can separate me from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus my Lord. Break I pray, every stronghold in me, and may I live to Your praise and glory from this day forward for ever more. In Jesus' name I pray,

Amen.

For Vision and Understanding In Our Prayers

Father, we thank You that it is by Your Spirit that the strongholds of the enemy are routed and we pray that You would use our prayers and praises to seek Your will, so that the stronghold of the enemy in the lives of so many are weakened and torn down, for there are many that are subjugated by Satan’s cruel tactics, and we ask that by Your Spirit they may set free of the strongholds that ensnare and imprison their souls.

Lord, we know that one of the tactics that Satan uses against Your people is to allow doubts, questions and unbelief to rise up in our hearts. Father we know that You are unable to work though doubts and division, and so we pray that You would firmly fix in our hearts that deep assurance and quiet steady confidence in You.

Give us we pray, vision and understanding to know what to pray, when to pray and how to pray into Your will. Give us a single vision of Your will, a heart that is focussed on Jesus and the courage to pray into Your will in the power of the Spirit and not in the energy of the flesh.

Protect us from the strategies of the enemy who prowls around like a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour, but rather open our understanding to know Your will and to pray into Your will, so that the stronghold of the enemy are dismantled by Your Holy Spirit of power. We ask this in the precious name of Jesus, 

Amen.

For Wisdom Regarding Strongholds

Heavenly Father, I know that the Bible says that we do not wrestle against the powers from the earthly sphere, but against satanic forces in the heavenly and spiritual realms, against principalities, powers and other strong forces of evil, whose chief aim is to kill, steal, destroy and shipwreck the lives of all your children.

Lord, help me I pray, to resist the devil, knowing that the Holy Spirit Who is living within me is greater than all the combined forces in the satanic realm. Help me I pray, to utilise every piece of the heavenly armour day by day, and to clothe myself in Christ, knowing that in Him is my protection and my sufficiency to resist all the powers that are coming against me and those I love.

Identify in me any lusts or habits that have become a stronghold and which are adversely taking control of my life. Give me the grace to admit my faults and turn from everything and anything that in any way is dragging me into a slavery to sin. Break I pray all strongholds in my life, knowing that it is only by the cleansing blood of Christ, that I can gain victory over the world and the flesh and any strongholds that have enslaved me.

Lord, I surrender my life to You and pray that from this day forward, You would lead and guide me into all truth. Thank You that in You is freedom from slavery to sin and spiritual release from the power of sin, Satan and strongholds in my life. In Jesus' name I pray,

Amen.

Prayer To Understand The Enemy’s Strategy

Heavenly Father, we thank You that in Christ the victory over Satan, sin and death was won at the cross, and yet we know that until Christ has put every enemy under His feet, we are still engaged in spiritual warfare against the enemy of our soul. Keep us ever mindful of this truth.

Lord, we know that the weapons of warfare are not physical weapons of the world, they are not carnal or fleshly weapons, but are mighty through God to the pulling down of spiritual strongholds. Lord, we pray that You would teach us how to demolish spiritual strongholds in our lives and in the lives of others, and to do this Your way and not to try to do so in our own foolish fleshly strength. Teach us to rely on You alone, we pray.

Help us to understand the strategies of Satan who seeks to minimise our effectiveness by causing us to doubt Your Word, Your abilities and Your character, and who even seeks to get us to question who we are in Christ. Lord, I pray that my trust in You does not waver, for it is in Your power alone that the strongholds of Satan will crumble.

Keep us ever alert and aware to the advantage he gains over us when we are not prepared for spiritual warfare. May we be clothed in Christ, constant in prayer and sensitive to the leading of Your Holy Spirit so that we may overcome the enemy, not by might, nor by power but by Your Spirit. We ask this in the name of the Lord Jesus,

Amen.