Your mind has three voices to which it may respond: God’s, the enemy’s, and your own. The more you become familiar with God’s Word, the easier it will become for you to recognize God’s voice; He always speaks that which is consistent with His character, as revealed in His Word. The voice of the Holy Spirit will speak to provide encouragement, comfort, direction, revelation, assurance of God’s love, conviction or correction.
Learning to pray in the agreement is learning to pray in God’s will. As your mind is transformed, you will discover the perfect will of God and be in agreement with Him through His Word.
We are all called to be consistent with our prayers by the Word and by the Spirit. And to be consistent, we must keep our hearts free from division, so we remain unified within the Body of believers. The agreement begins with a God focus and a heart that is close to Him. When your heart is knit to the Lord, He will knit you with another to accomplish more than you could ever achieve alone. Ecclesiastes 4:9-12. Before you can pray in agreement, you must learn to be in one accord with another intercessor Acts 2:1. Partnerships strengthen and protect your position in the army of God. Prayer alliances with others of like Spirit can increase your warfare efforts. However, choose prayer partners very carefully under the direction of the Holy Spirit; human logic must not be the determining factor in such a choice.
The effects of that warfare are seen upon the earth and in people’s lives; Ask the Lord for specific revelation and discernment concerning the leaders you are praying for and for the areas in which they are ministering. In praying for those who work among Muslims or in a place where cults are prevalent, you will be combating an antichrist spirit. Whereoccult activity is intense; you also deal with spirits of deception, control, and seduction 1 John 2:18. In an area where there are many churches but many conflicts among the leaders and members, the Holy Spirit may reveal to you that the problem is an areligious spirit ruling over that area, along with spirits of strife, contention, and self-righteousness. Discerning the spirits responsible for a given situation if indeed evil spirits are responsible will make your intercession more specific and more effective. It’s vital to discern patterns or cycles in attacks from the enemy. For some period of time, there have been strong attacks against marriage among spiritual leaders. One particular denominational group has lost a large number of missionaries to cancer. Then there was a rash of serious accidents causing death or severe injury to ministers and missionaries or their family members. The intercessors should serve as “watchmen on the wall” Isa. 62:6,7 to help ward off these attacks through spiritual warfare and lend their support by praying for those on the front lines of ministry.
Satan is a creature; he is no match for the Creator. Satan is powerful but not omnipotent. He can hinder, but he can not prevent. The master of deceit can convince the prayer warrior that their prayer has not reached the Throne. Your strength is to remember that Satan is a defeated antagonist. To accredit it to him otherwise is to allow Satansupremacy over you. He is and always will be the Usurper. You can not avoid warfare. You are continuously involved in the battle. Therefore, you must ‘Draw near to God, resist the devil stand your ground, and he will flee.
Praying in the Spirit has the authority of heaven behind it. There is no way you could know when Satan and his demonic forces will launch an attack. The Holy Spirit will prompt you at the strategic, opportune time: With all prayer and petition, pray at all times in the Spirit, and with this in view, be on the alert with all perseverance and petition for all the saints Eph. 6:18; Eph. 6:12; Jas. 5:16b.