The aim of this article is to make prayer more vital and spiritual warfare more effective for its readers.
Prayer is more than spiritual warfare and spiritual warfare is more than prayer.
By Tom Houston Prayer is an all pervasive theme in the bible and a very widespread practice in all religions and especially in the Christian faith. Lausanne held an International Prayer Assembly in Korea in 1974 with 4,000 people present and the book of the assembly does not show a single paper devoted to spiritual warfare. Perhaps the best way to account for the very great interest in spiritual warfare is to say that circumstances have conspired to expand it for many sections of the church, into what theologians call a hermeneutical principle. A hermeneutical principle is a major theme or metaphor which is consistently used as a way of understanding and explaining as much as possible the contents of the Bible. There are three cautions about hermeneutical principles.