Free Spiritual Warfare by Joseph Prince Page A

will treat your body the way it is supposed to be treated. Your body is not your own, it is the Holy Spirit’s.
    While waiting for your healing to manifest, while continuing to believe God for the manifestation of your miracle, you cannot afford not to be praying in the Spirit. Some of you may still ask, “What has this got to do with praying in the Spirit, Pastor Prince?” Your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit. His prayer language is a spiritual language. In Romans 8:26, we see that the Holy Spirit helps us pray:
26 Likewise the Spirit also helps in our weaknesses. For we do not know what we should pray for as we ought, but the Spirit Himself makes intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered .
    What is our weakness here? It is that “we do not know what we should pray for as we ought”. For example, you may be going through a trial and you don’t know how or what you should pray for. But the Spirit helps by praying through you. He prays through you with groanings, with tongues — that is His language and His prayers are perfect prayers. Praise God that the Holy Spirit has come to help us with that weakness! So praying in the Spirit is His way of helping us overcome that weakness and manifest what has been prayed for.
    Some of you have been robbed. You have had this revelation before, but somewhere along the way, the devil stopped your flow of praying in the Spirit. And life has stopped flowing for you. At this point, you may ask, “Pastor Prince, what is the best way to start flowing in life and peace again?” The best way to start the rivers of life or rivers of living water flowing again is to pray in the Spirit. In John 7:38–39, Jesus connects the rivers of living water flowing from our innermost being with the Holy Spirit. So praying in the Spirit activates this flow of living waters in your life.
    If you come to a place where you cannot sense God any more, even though He is still there, one of the best things to do is to start praying in tongues. When you start to pray in the Spirit, it may feel like there is only a little stream inside you, but if you press on, that stream will grow into mighty, roaring, life-producing rivers that not only bless you, but others too!
    King Hezekiah Cleansed The Temple
    In the Old Testament, we see another example of someone cleansing the temple. 2 Chronicles 29 tells us that King Hezekiah cleansed the temple. By the way, King Hezekiah was a good king, a righteous king, a godly king. Verse 3 says, “In the first year of his reign, in the first month, he opened the doors of the house of the Lord and repaired them.” Why did he do that? Well, in 2 Chronicles 28:22–24, we see that the previous king, Ahaz, had shut the doors of the temple:
22 Now in the time of his distress King Ahaz became increasingly unfaithful to the Lord. This is that King Ahaz. 23 For he sacrificed to the gods of Damascus which had defeated him, saying, “Because the gods of the kings of Syria help them, I will sacrifice to them that they may help me.” But they were the ruin of him and of all Israel. 24 So Ahaz gathered the articles of the house of God, cut in pieces the articles of the house of God, shut up the doors of the house of the Lord, and made for himself altars in every corner of Jerusalem .
    Let’s go forward to chapter 29 again where we see that the first thing King Hezekiah did was that he opened the doors of the temple. Here, I want to give you an illustration of how prayer can repair your body. 2 Chronicles 29:16 says:
16 Then the priests went into the inner part of the house of the Lord to cleanse it, and brought out all the debris that they found in the temple of the Lord to the court of the house of the Lord…
    Verse 17 continues:
17 Now they began to sanctify on the first day of the first month, and on the eighth day of the month they came to the vestibule of the Lord. So they sanctified the house of the Lord in eight days, and on the sixteenth day of the first