Believing Your Prayers Are Decisive

Written by Jack Hayford

Some years ago, the President of our nation called for a "war on drugs." Our church body took that as a signal to launch a prayer attack on the drug cartel, pressing into the realm where spiritual conflict is fought:

For we do not wrestle against flesh 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. - Ephesians 6:12

We responded to the call to "war" by wrestling in prayer to see the overthrow of the works of hell that were manifesting that way. Within two weeks, a $20 million shipment of drugs from Colombia was intercepted, the largest drug bust in history up to that date. No sooner had we launched that warfare than there was an encouraging sign of God answering our prayers. That prompted me regarding two things: