Satan doesn't care how many songs we sing, how many sermons we preach, how much money we raise or how nice and spacious our new building may be. He mocks our efforts. This is a mysterious passage. He had no answer. In v.10, we learn why.
Prayer is our weapon in spiritual warfare.
We will examine the six requirements for prayer in spiritual warfare outlined in our text. Rather, we are to be in constant communication with God. It is not so much the articulation of words but the attitude of the heart. On one level we can be thinking, discussing, seeing, calculating, and meeting all the demands of external affairs. In Paul's day, Jews prayed at specific, prescribed times each day.