Free Spiritual Warfare by Joseph Prince

don’t see anything happening, don’t worry. Just keep praying in the Spirit. Make your body a house of prayer, and you will eventually see the whole problem wither and die!
    Keep praying in the Spirit, and the more strength, health, vigour and life will abound in you.
    If you are experiencing a sickness in your body, know that once prayer is offered, your infirmity is destroyed at the roots. It is like using weed killer in your garden. The weed killer doesn’t make the weeds go all brown and dead immediately. But the moment it is poured, the problem is dealt with at the roots. Though it might take a while for the weeds to turn brown and die completely, death actually sets in the moment the weed killer is poured. The moment we curse the disease or tumour, it dies at the roots. But the manifestation of complete healing may be seen only later.
    Drive Out The Thieves From Your Temple
    So between the cursing of the fig tree and the visible manifestation of the curse the next day, Jesus cleansed the temple in Jerusalem. In John 2:19, Jesus referred to His body as the temple by saying, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.” Today, what or who is the body of Christ? We, the church, are His body. And our bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit. In 1 Corinthians 6:19, the apostle Paul says that “your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you” .
    So as you pray in the Spirit while waiting for the manifestation of your miracle, God is removing “thieves” from your temple. What are these thieves doing? They are stealing health, vigour and life from your body. These thieves have been stealing from many of us because many of us don’t see our bodies as temples of the Holy Spirit. And when we fail to realise that, we also fail to keep our bodies as houses of prayer. But if we will wake up, and start treating our bodies as temples of the Holy Spirit and houses of prayer, our bodies cannot remain as or become dens for thieves.
    My friend, if you allow the devil to camp around your body, he will rob you of health and strength. In John 10:10, Jesus says, “The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy…” He will steal your health by destroying your organs or limbs with disease. You have a choice. Either your body is a house of prayer or it becomes a den of thieves. Choose to make it a house of prayer, praying at all times in the Spirit!
    When you pray in the Spirit, it is like fumigating your body. It drives away all the thieves from your body. In the Old Testament, incense was used in the temple of God. The incense supposedly drove away snakes, scorpions and reptiles. In the same way, allow the incense of the Holy Spirit to drive away the thieves in your body as you pray in tongues. That is how you manifest your healing.
    The less you pray in the Spirit, the more your body becomes a den of thieves. They may begin to come in small numbers, some here and some there, but soon, they may be everywhere and you will be in trouble. Now, other Christians can lay hands on you in faith to drive out the thieves, but a better way is prevention. Just keep praying in the Spirit to keep your body free of thieves, and the more strength, health, vigour and life will abound in you.
    Paul reminds us in 1 Corinthians 6:18–20 that our bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit:
18 Flee sexual immorality. Every sin that a man does is outside the body, but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body. 19 Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own? 20 For you were bought at a price; therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s .
    If you really believe that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit, would you want to commit adultery? Would you allow thieves to camp there? Believe 1 Corinthians 6:18–20 and recognise that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit, and you