Praying Scripturally to Thwart The Kingdom of DarknessWe've seen an example of the Word of God
prevailing over the strongholds of Satan in the decline
of Communism in the Eastern Bloc nations. In 1983,
the Lord began to impress upon me to pray according to
James 5:7: “... the husbandman waiteth for the precious
fruit of the EARTH... until he receive the early and
latter rain.”
We were conducting a weekly prayer meeting here
at RHEMA at that time, and I announced, "I believe
we've missed it in how we've been praying for the
Eastern Bloc nations. I think many of us have
unconsciously marked off the Communist countries as
unreachable for the gospel. We've prayed for the
Christians there, but how many of us have prayed for
the Communist leaders?”
"But the Bible doesn't say the Lord is waiting for the
precious fruit of the United States or the Free World.
He is waiting for the precious fruit of the earth, and
that includes the Communist countries. That means
before Jesus comes again, there has to be a revival
behind the Iron Curtain and the Bamboo Curtain, for
the Bible says there will be a gathering of the harvest
from the whole earth."
So week after week during our prayer meetings, we
prayed for the Communist nations, as well as for the
other nations of the world. We asked the Lord to send
forth the rain—the outpouring of the Holy Spirit—upon
those nations, according to Zechariah 10:1: "Ask ye of
the Lord rain in the time of the latter rain...." We prayed
for the leaders of the Communist nations according to
First Timothy 2:1 and 2. And we asked for the Lord of
the harvest to send forth laborers (Matt. 9:38).
As we direct our prayers to the Lord of the harvest,
we take our position on the earth as the triumphant