{"id":191,"date":"2021-01-19T17:33:54","date_gmt":"2021-01-19T17:33:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/176.32.230.18\/swordmagazine.net\/?p=191"},"modified":"2021-02-22T07:05:33","modified_gmt":"2021-02-22T07:05:33","slug":"prayer-gods-warfare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/?p=191","title":{"rendered":"Prayer: God&#8217;s warfare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>A glimpse of Daniel&#8217;s prayer life raises important questions for our own<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p>We are not alone in the universe. No, our space explorers have not finally discovered another inhabited planet\u2026<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the Bible\u2026 if we take it seriously, the dramas and headlines of history are simultaneously played out on two stages \u2013 one the tangible world of men and women, the other, the invisible realm of God, angels and demons. \u201cFor,\u201dsaid one apostle, \u201cwe do not wrestle against \ufb02esh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places\u201d.Peter spoke of \u201cyour enemy the devil\u201d. James commanded: \u201csubmit yourselves to God, resist the devil\u201d.Jesus, the greatest intellect ever to walk the planet, resisted the devil, rebuked him, cast out demons and had at his disposal \u201ctwelve legions of angels\u201d. And Daniel\u2019s prayer life was an unwitting interface with this strange, invisible reality.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:more --><\/p>\n<div class=\"swpm-more-tag-not-logged-in swpm-margin-top-10\">You need to login to view the rest of the content. Please <a class=\"swpm-login-link\" href=\"http:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/?page_id=733&swpm_redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fswordmagazine.net%2Findex.php\">Login<\/a>. Not a Member? <a href=\"http:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/?page_id=731\">Join Us<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A glimpse of Daniel&#8217;s prayer life raises important questions for our own We are not alone in the universe. No, our space explorers have not [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[60],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=191"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1002,"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191\/revisions\/1002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}