In the sermon titled 'Praying Against Satan's Kingdom, Part 2' by Peter Allison, the speaker discusses the power and hierarchy of Satan's kingdom, emphasizing the characteristics of demons as fallen angels with self-awareness and communication abilities. The sermon outlines Satan's influence on human society, highlighting issues such as racism, divorce, and gender confusion as evidence of demonic activity. The speaker stresses the importance of prayer in combating Satan's kingdom, citing biblical passages like Daniel's prayer in Daniel 10 to illustrate how prayer is connected to spiritual warfare and the defeat of evil forces. The sermon also examines tactics used by Satan, such as causing chaos, division, and strategic retreats, and emphasizes that true victories over evil come through Christ and the power of prayer. Ultimately, the sermon encourages believers to remain diligent in prayer, trusting in God's promises and the power of the Holy Spirit to replace evil with good.

Please turn in your Bibles to Luke chapter 11. I'd like to read a beginning at verse 14 this morning. And he was casting out a demon, and it was mute. So it was when the demon had gone out that the mute spoke and the multitudes marveled. But some of them said he casts out demons by Bilzebub, the ruler of demons.

Others testing him sought from him a sign from heaven, but he knowing their thoughts said to them, Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation, and a house divided against a house falls. If Satan also is divided against himself, how will his kingdom stand? Because you say, I cast out demons by Bilzebub. If I cast out demons by Bilzebub, by whom do your sons cast them out? Therefore they will be your judges.

But if I cast out demons with the finger of God, Surely the kingdom of God has come upon you. When a strong man, fully armed, guards his own place, his goods are in peace. But when a stronger than he comes upon him and overcomes him, He takes from him all his armor in which he trusted and divides his spoils. He who is not with me is against me and he who does not gather with me scatters. And when an unclean spirit goes out of a man he goes through dry places seeking rest and finding none, he says, I will return to my house from which I came.

And when he comes, he finds it swept and put in order. Then he goes and takes with him seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter and dwell there, and the last state of that man is worse than the first. And it happened as he spoke these things that a certain woman from the crowd raised her voice and said to him, blessed is the womb that bore you and the breasts which nursed you. But he said, more than that, blessed are Those who hear the Word of God and keep it. May Jehovah equip us to understand the way of His precepts so we shall meditate upon His wonderful works.

Almighty Heavenly Father, Thank you for bringing us your word. Thank you for preserving your word to us. Yea, these thousands of years. We ask, Father, that your Holy Spirit would give us understanding of the words that we have read. May their sense be open to us this morning.

May you give us faith to believe and to obey. And I pray that you would sanctify my sinful lips this morning. In Jesus' name, amen. In Jesus' name, Amen. Well it was two weeks ago now that we last looked at this passage where we surveyed what the scriptures tell us about Satan and the demons that make up His kingdom.

We saw that Satan had a kingdom, and that Satan and his demons are angels that fell from glory. Satan was Lucifer, that greatest created angel of heaven. And we looked at some of the characteristics of demons that are given in this passage here. How demons are self-conscious as entities, creatures with separate identities from other demons, how they can communicate amongst themselves, with each other, how they can remember things and make plans, how they can get frustrated even, and travel. They can travel, they can seek, they can find, they can have possessions, and there are even varying degrees of wickedness between the demons.

There is a hierarchy. There is a ruler. So all the text talks about a ruler of these demons. So their kingdom has a hierarchy. So this morning we'd like to move on to look at the scope and power of St.

Tim's kingdom and to look at the tactics of Satan's kingdom in their war against Jesus Christ, and to look at also the means that the Lord has provided for us to battle against them, and how significant that means is, that it means being prayer. Well, the scope then, and the power of St. Tim's kingdom. In his fall, St. Tim brought a third of the angelic beings down with him in recounting the history of Lucifer's fall from heaven.

Listing the history of that fall, of Lucifer's fall from heaven in Revelation chapter 12 says that his tail drew a third of the stars of heaven and threw them to earth. We don't know for sure how many that number is, but Revelation 9 does speak of 200 million demons that were gathered waiting for their command to come into Israel. And so we know that it must surely be a much greater number than that. Billions, and maybe many more, maybe thousands of billions, trillions. We don't know, But it's a very large number.

What we do know and what is very comforting to know is however many there are, however many billions or trillions there are, there are many, many, many more, twice as many, that are with us, that are in heaven. Because it was only one third of the angels that he with his tail dragged out of heaven. And as the prophet of the Old Testament said, greater are those who are with us and those who are with them. And so it is a very great number, but it is not as many as are with us. Now, Satan's kingdom is described in the scriptures and Ephesians as principalities, as powers, as rulers of the darkness of this age.

Satan is called the Prince of this world in John 14. And he's called the God of this age by Paul in his second letter to the Corinthians. And so God has permitted Satan to rule in the sons of disobedience. We saw previously when we were looking at the Lord's Prayer how Satan moves kings to do the evil that they do. He's the instigator behind so many of their actions.

So that in places like Isaiah 14, It attributes the characteristic of Satan to earthly kings. In fact, even calling the king of Babylon Lucifer. Job tells us that Satan even incited God against Job. Now, Satan by no means changed what God would do. He by no means altered what God had determined from before the foundation of the world to do, but it does say that Satan came before the Lord and he pressed, he persevered, he incited, is the word the Bible uses, incited, it's the word God uses to describe what Satan did.

Incited God against Job. Of course, he didn't persuade God to do anything contrary to his decree, but he did incite God against Job. And if he's that bold as to come before the King of Kings and the Sovereign Lord of all heaven and earth and to seek to get Him to do something against a righteous man. Now, We have to say that everything that God did and permitted and ordained to happen in that instance was just. Job suffered no injustice.

He may have suffered injustice at the hands of men, but not at the hands of God. But if he can do that, how much more is he going to move wicked kings? And so after his fall in Revelation 12, he is pictured as standing before this woman who is Zion or the church to devour the child, that is the Messiah, as soon as He is born. See, Satan is behind all of the actions to destroy the line from which Christ would come. He was in the garden when God promised that the Messiah would come from the seat of the woman and would crush the head of the serpent.

And so this attempt to devour the child has been an ongoing activity throughout history. It was Satan seeking to devour the child that caused him to move Cain to kill Abel. Didn't succeed. God gave Adam and Eve a son Seth. It was Satan that tried to corrupt that human seed in Genesis 6 when fallen angels impregnated the daughters of men, who gave birth then to demonically empowered men, which led God to destroying the earth, the entire earth with a flood, and consigning the angels that left, who did not keep their proper domain.

Jude says of these angels that they did not keep their proper domain and God consigned them to the chains of darkness to wait for the judgment of that great day. Peter makes this connection to these fallen angels in his letter. He talks about when Christ went to preach, when he rose, he went to preach to the angels in prison. These fallen angels who in the days of Noah had sinned. And I believe that's what that reference is too there.

And so God, Satan was behind that to corrupt the seed of the woman. It was Satan seeking to devour the child that led him to instigate Pharaoh to kill all the males born in that day. It was Satan that led Athaliah to seek to kill out every son of David because God had promised that through the physical seed of David, the Messiah would come. It was Satan that led Herod to kill all the males born in Bethlehem. But of course, each of these failed.

And so Satan has gone off to make war with the rest of mankind, as it's described in Revelation 12. Satan has made bond slaves then of the human race. In the fall, we, the seed of Adam, became bond slaves of Satan, Paul told Timothy. He says in 2 Timothy 2, 26, that they may come to their senses and escape the snare of the devil, having been taken captive by him to do his will." You see, Satan was the very first human slave trafficker. That was Satan.

And much of the slave trafficking today with children and adults is driven, directly driven by Satan's kingdom. This bondage is another aspect to his kingdom. He makes he's a slave owner. He's a human trafficker of slaves. And that's and as and as he become as his kingdom becomes emboldened and has gained more and more of a foothold in our land.

We are seeing more and more of His slave trafficking of children and adults. Demons, third, they have Power. They have mighty power. According to Job, they control lightning and wind. They control animals.

They control men. Remember the pigs that ran off the cliff? Men. Remember the Gadarene demoniac? Controlled by a demon.

They bring diseases, even to believers. Remember Job. Or Paul's thorn in the flesh. What did he say? That thorn in his flesh, whatever it was, Paul, an apostle, a prophet, Satan brought a thorn in the flesh to buffet, lest he should be overly proud.

Or a little later in Luke, we'll see a woman that Jesus says, ought not this woman being a daughter of Abraham whom Satan has bound lo these eighteen years to be loosed from her bond on the Sabbath day. Jesus attributed the sickness of this woman to Satan binding her. Demons do have powers. Great powers. Such great powers that even when God sent Michael the Archangel to dispute with Satan over the body of Moses, maybe to prevent it from ever becoming a relic.

I don't know, it doesn't say what the exact dispute was. But even Michael the Archangel did not bring a reviling accusation against Satan, but he said, the Lord rebuked you. Why? Because Satan was more powerful. Demons have power.

But they are not all powerful. Not at all. Only God is all powerful. But we err if we give too much power and and think of them It's with having too great a power and we err if we minimize their power and and think that it is nothing or not significant And they they are spirits that can move us, tempt us to sins. Spiritual sins of pride, idolatry, hypocrisy, blasphemy.

Satan, remember, as we looked at him, His sin was pride. So that's some then of the scope of Satan's power and the power of his kingdom that Jesus talks about here, this kingdom of Satan. Now what are his tactics? And that's why I'd like to look here specifically at this passage that Jesus talks about, the tactics of Satan's kingdom. Christ came casting out demons.

And the first demon here that he cast out was cast out of a man that a demon had made mute. And when God cast a demon out. The mute spoke. See demons seek to mock, to mar, and to destroy what God has made. They seek to mock, to mar, and destroy what God has made.

God made men to speak. Satan's demons made this man mute. God made men and women after His own image able to speak, to hear, to reason, and to judge. Satan comes to mock, to mar, and to destroy what God has made. To make men mute, Unable to speak, unable to hear, unable to reason, unable to judge rightly.

See, God is the God who speaks. That's how He's described in Scripture. This is the great contrast between the living God is the God who speaks and idols who are dumb, who can't speak. They can only say what people make them say. And so God has made us then able to speak.

Satan makes men mute and covered with mass today. He mocks and he marrs the spiritual image of God as much as the physical. God made men in knowledge, in righteousness, and in holiness. And in the fall, Satan corrupts that. He tried to corrupt that.

And he succeeded. He destroyed the innocence and the righteousness of Adam and Eve, and through them, the entire human race. He led Adam and Eve into the knowledge of evil not just an academic knowledge but the but the Experiential but when the Bible uses that word no Adam knew his wife and a child resulted it's it's it's the act of experiencing and sainton Wants us to have a knowledge, that kind of knowledge of evil. He seeks to get us to know evil. God has made us to dwell together as families and as families of families in cultures.

Psalm 133 says, behold how good and how pleasant it is when brothers dwell together. Brothers dwell together. That is good and that is pleasant. That is how God has made us to dwell together in families, but in also families of families, which we call society or culture. And Satan attacks that culture.

He seeks to divide people and pit one segment against another. One family against another family, even within families against each other. That's the mark of Satan. Pit one race against another race. White against black.

It's no coincidence that the Nazis were Satanists. And that the things that they were doing were done by the instigation of Satan. They worshiped Satan. And as societies like the Nazis fall under the sway and the influence of Satan and his bondage, they become increasingly racist. And That's what we're seeing in our land today.

The fact that racism is becoming rampant in our culture is one sign that Satan, his kingdom, is holding sway. And that the demons that have left other regions of the world are coming to our country. And so, brothers and sisters, as the people of God, we need to pray that the confusion over the most basic truths that pit one group against another, they would be defeated. Simple things like, was there fraud in the last election or not? That's a huge divide in our culture right now.

A huge divide. And it's something very basic and fundamental. It's obvious. But it's a division. It's a satanic, demonic division of our culture.

Marriage. God put men and women together in marriage. And Satan seeks to take them apart. Rampant divorce and broken families is another indicator of the reality of Satan's kingdom and his attack upon Christ and his kingdom. Because in marriage, God says what God has put together, let no man put apart.

Satan seeks to take apart what God has put together, to mock, to mar, and to destroy what God has done. Satan divides by gender pitting men against women, and women against men. Rampant divorce, feminism, chauvinism, are clear indicators that Satan's kingdom is holding sway. And so, brothers and sisters, we need to pray for the marriages in your family, for the marriages in the church, for the marriages in our county. We can't take the view that well, those are just people we don't know.

Those are people in our county. And when those marriages fall apart, it has an effect on our culture, our county. And we can we can pray. We can pray that God would preserve the marriages in our family, in our church and in our county, Montgomery County. God created man male and female.

Binary genders. Satan seeks to mock and to mar and to destroy that too. Transgenderism and transhumanism, trends that we're seeing today, are satanically driven movements. God created man with two genders, male and female. And Satan seeks to obliterate those distinctions and have people spread over 67 different genders.

Anything but male and female. And so the fact that this absurd, ridiculous confusion over something so basic to the created order as gender, male and female. Something that's evidenced, by the way, in every human cell. Every human cell is a witness to the truth if there are two genders. Every human cell contains either the chromosomes of a male or a female.

And so something this absurd, over something so basic, so obvious, the fact that there's any confusion over it is another sure sign of demonic influence in our land. And so, brothers and sisters, pray that this deception of the evil one would be pierced, that it would be exposed, That the absurdity of it would be made apparent. You see, God created us as humans with the ability to reason and to judge. And Satan mocks Mars and destroys that. And we're seeing the ability of basic logic to escape people on this point.

That's the mark of Satan. It's his finger upon our land. On our land. God made the species distinct and ordained them to procreate after their own kind. God made man separate and distinct from the animal world.

He gave us a soul that never dies and the ability to reason like he has in his image. Satan seeks to obliterate that distinction of the human species and make people with animal parts instead of human parts. And all manner of other vile perversions. These are the kinds of experiments the Nazis did and are going on today. To make people into machines with microchips controlling their brain and machines into humans.

See, in making people animals, and animals into people, Satan is seeking to bring humanity into the place belonging to serve all animals. To make slaves. God gave us humans dominion over the created order. For us to rule it, to bring order out of it. And Satan seeks to destroy that created order and to make people animals and animals to be treated as people.

Brothers and sisters, please pray that this tyranny Would be broken and that people would be treated as people and animals as animals Yes, we are to care and respect and take care of our animals, but they are different The chimp was never going to be a person You can't You can't marry a chimpanzee and love a chimpanzee. They're never going to be able to reason like a human. They're animals. God created men to have dominion and to use the creative ability of our mind to fashion the resources of the earth that God has placed here. The wood, minerals, metals, and so forth to create beauty and to create function.

Satan seeks to make cultures of people that are afraid to exercise dominion. Afraid to do something truly great and risky, bold and daring for fear of running afoul of some tyrant, some wicked authority. So, Satan then. Wherever we see Satan's finger, it is that of marring, mocking, and seeking to destroy what God has created. The second big characteristic is that he seeks to cause chaos and disorder.

Verse 23, he who is not with me is against me, and he who does not gather with me scatters. There's no neutrality. We are either with Christ and are gathering or we're against him and are scattering. Satan is against Christ. That means he's scattering.

He's the author of confusion. God is the God of order and decency. Satan is a disruptor, the great imitator. Seeks to imitate what God does. He's a great imitator and Destroyer he brings confusion In the family in the culture and in the church One of the telltale signs of demonic manipulation is when people are at odds with each other over a confusion of what is going on.

I'm sure you've seen it where the arrows are flying left and right and people don't seem to know what's up and what's down. There's just confusion on basic things. Everything just works out wrong, it seems to. And the real source of the confusion is not realized. It's not realized.

I think you see this in this Black Lives Matter, the confusion over this issue. Black Lives Matter, All Lives Matter paradigm. It's a good example of demonic confusion. People are polarized to the point that all logic and ability to reason are lost. And the issues are so convoluted and complicated that you give up trying to explain things to anyone.

There is just this division, just the confusion. And the more people try to explain and persuade, the more inflamed everybody becomes. That's a sign of demonic confusion, chaos, disorder. It happens in a culture, it can happen in a church, it can happen in a home. But it's a sign, when you see it, it's a sign of demonic manipulation.

And brothers and sisters, our response should not be to throw up our hands in despair, but rather to fall on our knees in hope. Because God has defeated Satan. He's gone even to them in prison and proclaimed his victory. He's triumphed over them. He's made a public spectacle.

And we can go to the Lord in prayer. And when we see that, the first response should be to go to the Lord in prayer, and to pray for the Lord to rebuke those demons. And because it will never be able to restore order to that chaos. But God can, and He does. Another tactic of Satan's kingdom is strategic retreat.

Verse 24 pictures a demon leaving a man. Now he wasn't cast out by the man. We don't read of God casting this demon out. He just left of his own accord. And he wanders around, and he's seeking somewhere else.

What has he done? This has been a strategic retreat. The enemy has left. What's our response is to say, well, we can relax. The enemy has left.

Smart military commanders use strategic retreat for a number of reasons. One is to draw the enemy to a more favorable battleground. They want to engage the enemy at a place of their choice. And so they will retreat to affect that. Joshua employed strategic retreat.

You remember in his battle of Ai. They pretended to retreat in order to draw the inhabitants of the city out after them, thinking that they had defeated them, they went running out of the city. And only then did Joshua turn around and stand his ground. And only then did the people realize that it was only a strategic retreat in order to move the battle to a place more favorable to Joshua. And so they Ran out and then the other army ran in the other side of the city and burned it down.

They didn't realize their mistake until it was too late. Well this demon does something similar. He leaves. He leaves this guy that he was in. This man.

But then he comes back. And when he comes back, he takes seven other demons more evil than himself, and so the latter state of this man is worse than the first. That's a strategic retreat. We think we've won and we let down our guard. Now how do we know then?

How do we recognize the work of Satan's kingdom and the work of the Spirit? Jesus cast out a demon and the people were divided. Some marveled, thinking it to be the finger of God, which it was, and they marveled at that. But others said, no, He's casting out demons by Belzebub. In other words, this is not the work of God, this is the work of Satan.

And others, still others, were wanted to test him and asked for a sign. How do we know what is the work of God? If Satan can disguise himself as an angel of light, if he has a beautiful form, how do we know whether the beauty we're looking at is true or not? Well, here's a couple of marks in our text. One, Satan is always consistent with his purpose.

Satan is always consistent with his purpose. A kingdom that is divided against itself cannot stand. And so there is no possibility ever from that anything from Satan will ever be good. Anything consistent with his kingdom is evil. Always.

Satan is purely evil. He's a liar. He's a murderer. And his kingdom is not divided against itself. I mean, if there is anything good that happens, it did not happen by Satan.

He may disguise himself as an angel of light. He may use his good looks to impress, but it is always for an evil, nefarious purpose. It is never true. Satan is a liar. He doesn't tell the truth even when he's saying something true.

Because if he's saying something true, it's to a malicious purpose. It's the truth at an inappropriate time, spoken out of season, meant to confuse, to confound or divide. You know, the media is very good at that. They can speak everything be sort of true, but totally wrong, all at the same time. In doing speaking like that they are following their father the devil You see Angels are Finished there is no possibility of an angel being a fallen angel being converted there's no salvation for those and there is no possibility of the elect angels being fallen so there So what Satan's kingdom and what his demons do is always consistent.

It's always consistent with his purpose. And so whenever we see something that is truly good, it's truly according to the Word of God, it is of God. And wherever we see anything that is truly evil, it is of Satan. He who is not with me is against me, and he who does not gather with me scatters. It doesn't matter if the evil appears to come from a good person, or if good appears to come from an evil person.

You see, people aren't like angels. We are progressing along two different paths. We're either growing in sanctification, where we are growing in grace and knowledge and our ability through the grace of God to be able to Please the Lord or we're growing in reprobation and being hardened and against the truth in in our sin And so people are not but people are not finished It's an ongoing process. And so people are not consistent. Sometimes good people are moved by Satan.

Like David. David was moved by Satan to number Israel. Or Peter was moved by Satan when he tried to tell Christ that he didn't have to die. Or Ananias and Sapphira, members of the church, were moved by Satan to lie. And sometimes evil people are moved by God to do good.

Cyrus, a wicked king, moved by God to send the nation of Israel back to rebuild Jerusalem and rebuild the temple. That was of God. But anything that is truly good is always of God. Anything because every good gift comes down from the Father of lights with whom there is no variation or shadow of turning. Now whenever Satan's kingdom is defeated, it is defeated by the power of God.

Whenever Satan's kingdom loses property or people are set free from slavery, it is by the power of God. Carnal weapons, the weapons of our flesh will never defeat Satan. They may bring some kind of pseudo victory, but it's not a real victory. It's a victory like this unclean spirit leaving the man and then coming back. When the strong man fully armed guards his palace, his goods are in peace, verse 21 says.

But when someone stronger than him comes and overcomes him, he takes from him all his armor in which he trusted and divides his spoils. Christ is that strong man who has defeated Satan. And the fact that demons are being cast out is a sign, it's a very clear and unmistakable sign that Christ's kingdom has come and has spoiled Satan. Satan's kingdom is not divided against itself. His kingdom is not going to cast out the demons.

It will keep the demons. And so much of the modern psychological, psychiatry field of medicine is dominated by people seeking to keep people under the mind control of Satan. And so When that mind control begins to break down and they begin to have problems and they go to a psychiatrist for help, they don't realize they're going to somebody whose goal is to keep them from being healed. Only Christ can defeat Satan. But here's the key point this morning.

If you hear nothing else, this is what you need to hear this morning. That our prayers are vitally connected to the defeat of Satan's kingdom. Our prayers, your prayers, are vitally connected to the defeat of Satan's kingdom. If you will, turn with me to Daniel chapter 10. I just want to show you just how tightly connected our prayers are to the defeat of Satan's kingdom and to the spiritual warfare that is going on that we cannot see.

In verse 10, In the third year of Cyrus, king of Persia, A message was revealed to Daniel whose name was called Belteshazzar. The message was true but the appointed time was long and he understood the message and had an understanding of the vision. And in those days I, Daniel, was mourning three full weeks, 21 days. I ate no pleasant food, no meat or wine came into my mouth, nor did I anoint myself at all, till three whole weeks were fulfilled. Now on the 24th day of the first month, As I was by the side of the great river that is the Tigris, I lifted my eyes and behold a certain man clothed in linen, whose waist was girded with silver, his body was like burl, and his face like the appearance of lightning, his eyes like torches of fire, his arms and feet like burnished bronze.

And the sound of his words was the voice of a multitude. And I, Daniel, alone saw the vision, for the men who were with me did not see the vision, but a great terror fell on them, so they fled to hide themselves. And then jumping down to verse 10, he falls into this deep sleep. And jumping down to verse 10, Suddenly a hand touched me, which made me tremble on my knees and on the palms of my hands. And he said to me, O Daniel, man greatly beloved, understand the words that I speak to you and stand upright, for I have now been sent to you." And while he was speaking this word to me, I stood trembling.

And he said to me, "'Do not fear, Daniel, for from the first day that you set your heart to understand and to humble yourself before God, your words were heard.'" Daniel started to pray. He started to pray. He started to pray for the defeat of Satan's kingdom. He fasted 21 days with no response. And then somebody came to him and said, the day you started to pray, I started to come to you.

But the prince of the kingdom of Persia withstood me 21 days. There was a battle going on. The prince of the kingdom of Persia. This is the demon that's moving the king of Persia. And so there's a spiritual war going on here.

Daniel's oblivious to this. He's praying for 21 days while there's a battle raging. The demon of Persia is withstanding this messenger of God, this angelic being. For I had been there and he's 21 days, and behold, Michael, one of the chief princes in the New Testament called the Archangel, came to help me, for I had been left alone there with the kings of Persia. Now I have come to make you understand." What happened?

There was a real battle there. This angel being sent to Daniel The day he started praying, it was Daniel's prayer that started this. He has stopped until Michael, the archangel, came. Why did Michael take 21 days? He was probably fighting another battle somewhere.

These are real battles, brothers and sisters. We may not see them like the people with Daniel could not see this vision, but these are real battles. They're as real as the battle with Israel against the Amalekites, where Moses is holding up his arms. When He held up His arms, they won. When He set them down, they lost.

That's how close our prayers are connected to these spiritual battles. When we engage in spiritual warfare, Satan's hosts are overcome. They are divided. They are scattered. They are defeated by the power of the blood of the Lamb.

Revelation 12 verse 7, And war broke out in heaven. Michael and his angels fought with the dragon, and the dragon and his angels fought, but they did not prevail, nor was a place found for them in heaven any longer. So the great dragon was cast out, that serpent of old called the devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world. He was cast to earth and his angels were cast with him. And then I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now salvation and strength and the kingdom of our God and the power of His Christ has come for the accuser of our brethren who accused them before our God day and night has been cast down.

And they overcame Him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony. And they did not love their lives even to death. Daniel prayed 21 days while a war in heaven was raging. This war, we don't know how long it took, but it was a real war. It took a time.

Nothing less than the almighty power of God can bring a victory over the evil one. But God, brothers and sisters, God uses the prayers of His people. And when His people don't pray, God is not pleased to work. But lastly, one more thing. There must be the replacement of evil with good.

Whenever Christ truly works, then when those who are delivered from the dominion of Satan. The Holy Spirit fills that life. Jesus said to that woman who said blessed is the womb that bore you and the breast that gave you Malki Jesus didn't agree with that No, he said no no, but I say to you more than that blessed are those who hear the word of God and keep it And keep it Where where God's work where God is at work? And it's not a strategic retreat and it's not a deception, then that void is replaced by the Holy Spirit who brings the ability to hear the Word of God and to keep it. So in the place where there were demons, Christ, Christ is enthroned.

And it's by His blood, by the blood of the Lamb, that we are victorious and that we are preserved from being removed, reoccupied. Let us pray. Heavenly Father, we thank you for the teaching of your word that you have not left us to wonder in ignorance at what is going on around us. That you have provided us with the great blessing of prayer. You have made many great and precious promises.

That what we ask of the Father in your name, you will give to us. And that you have defeated Satan and his hosts. And that where we resist Him, He must flee. So Father, we ask for diligence, fervency, faithfulness in this battle. May we remember what Your Word tells us about the things that we cannot see that go on in the heavens.

And may, Lord, may You spur us and move us to greater fervency, greater faithfulness and consistency that like Daniel, we may pray and pray and pray without ceasing. In Jesus name we ask this of you. Amen.