Let's declare war on the spirits of darkness through prayers of intercession. Let's take the offensive. By prayer we can go after the forces of Satan. Peter Wagner speaks of taking the worldview espoused by Jesus Christ so we will cooperate most naturally with the Holy Spirit. Jesus' world view sees the cosmic drama as a clash of loyalties between the kingdom of God and the kingdom of this world.
Prayer is our most important weapon.
It is writer Walter Winks' spiritual defiance of what is, in the name of what God has promised. Intercession visualizes an alternative future to the one apparently fated by the momentum of current contradictory forces. Otis points out that the intercessory prayer mentioned more than thirty times in the book of Acts preceded virtually all major breakthroughs in the outward expansion of the early Christian movement. R. A. Pegram recently retired after serving 45 years as a United Methodist pastor. He is the former senior pastor of Faith United Methodist Church in Neenah, Wisconsin, a congregation he pastored for 19 years.