sense to record in writing for their generation. They will look
back on our legacies and know we stood strong, fought the
good fight, and finished a race in which we would not even
think about letting the enemy have his way in our lives or in
the lives of those we love.
We pray because our own solutions don’t work and
because prayer deploys, activates, and fortifies us against the
attacks of the enemy. We pray because we’re serious about
taking back the ground he has sought to take from us.
That’s what we do. And I hope it’s what you do—or what
you’ve come here to be renewed in doing. But make no
mistake, this enemy will seek to discourage you from doing it.
Dissuade you. Disarm you by putting a distaste for prayer in
your mouth. He wants to see you passionless, powerless, and
prayerless. Quiet. And because prayer is the divinely ordained
mechanism that leads you into the heart and the power and the
victory of Christ, he knows you’ll remain defeated and undone
without it. Tired and overwhelmed. Inching forward but mostly
backward. Trying to figure out why the hope and enthusiasm
you feel in church doesn’t follow you to the four walls you live
within.