There are two opposing kingdoms: the kingdom of God and the kingdom of Satan. The latter is composed of princes of darkness, demons, evil spirits, the beast, the queen of heaven, men and women who have sold their souls to this kingdom, working for it, etc. These two kingdoms are in perpetual combat against each other. They seek to eliminate each other, each wanting to completely wipe out the other. It is a war that will last until we are all in the heavenly Jerusalem. God Himself instituted this war after the fall of Adam:

“I will put enmity between you and the woman, between your offspring and hers; he will crush your head, and you will strike his heel.” (Genesis 3:15).

In Revelation 12, John describes a great war between the dragon and his followers on one side, and the archangel Michael and his army on the other. The dragon was defeated at the end of the battle because of the blood of the lamb and the testimony. However, the dragon did not give up and turned against the woman. Unable to defeat her either, he went away, enraged, to make war on the rest of her offspring, those who keep God’s commandments and hold fast to the testimony of Jesus (Revelation 12:17). Thus, we are drawn into a perpetual war. The best strategy to win is to strike first.

To the children of the kingdom of God and the offspring of the woman that we are, the weapon given to annihilate the works and inhabitants of the kingdom of Satan is the war prayer.

When two countries are at war, feelings are set aside. Either you are victorious, or you are defeated at the end of the war. In war prayer, there are no feelings: there is no mercy for the enemy, whoever they may be. Religious Christians do not accept this kind of prayer. It is actually because they are unaware of how ruthless Satan and the citizens of his kingdom are and that the words they hate the most are “mercy” and “forgiveness.”

One day, a woman endured the wrath of demons all night. They tore her body with blades while beating her. Her body was bloody and bruised. As she endured this torment, she cried to the demons to have mercy on her. The more the word “mercy” came out of her mouth, the more the demons hurt her. They reproached the woman for daring to utter the word “mercy” and ask for their mercy.

Because of this, they tore her body even more and subjected her to even more agonizing and indescribable suffering. For demons, asking for mercy is to dishonor them, as they only know wickedness. What demons seek is how to bring more suffering into people’s lives. For this, they use all possible means: evil spirits, sorcerers, fetish priests, etc.

A witch who had decided to make a man suffer would mystically call his soul and make him carry a pot of boiling water on his head. This translated into the man’s life as daily excruciating suffering.

He came to me several times a day to be relieved by prayer from the fire he felt on his head. I eventually discerned the source of his problem. It was a purely gratuitous wickedness of a person aiming to make him suffer, who derived satisfaction from it. Thanks to the war prayer I made, the demon that the witch used to make the man suffer turned against its mistress and made her carry the pot of boiling water.

In the Bible, our reference on war prayer is 1 Samuel 7:2-11:

“So it was a long time that the ark was in Kirjath Jearim, twenty years had passed. Then all the house of Israel lamented after the Lord. And Samuel spoke to all the house of Israel, saying, ‘If you return to the Lord with all your hearts, then put away the foreign gods and the Ashtoreths from among you, and prepare your hearts for the Lord, and serve Him only; and He will deliver you from the hand of the Philistines.’ So the children of Israel put away the Baals and the Ashtoreths, and served the Lord only. And Samuel said, ‘Gather all Israel to Mizpah, and I will pray to the Lord for you.’ So they gathered together at Mizpah, drew water, and poured it out before the Lord. And they fasted that day and said there, ‘We have sinned against the Lord.’ And Samuel judged the children of Israel at Mizpah. Now when the Philistines heard that the children of Israel had gathered together at Mizpah, the lords of the Philistines went up against Israel. And when the children of Israel heard of it, they were afraid of the Philistines. So the children of Israel said to Samuel, ‘Do not cease to cry out to the Lord our God for us, that He may save us from the hand of the Philistines.’ And Samuel took a suckling lamb and offered it as a whole burnt offering to the Lord. Then Samuel cried out to the Lord for Israel, and the Lord answered him. Now as Samuel was offering up the burnt offering, the Philistines drew near to battle against Israel. But the Lord thundered with a loud thunder upon the Philistines that day, and so confused them that they were overcome before Israel. And the men of Israel went out of Mizpah and pursued the Philistines, and drove them back as far as below Beth Car.“

It happened for a long time that the ark was in Kirjath Jearim; twenty years passed. All the house of Israel lamented after the Lord. Samuel spoke to all the house of Israel, saying :

“If you return to the Lord with all your hearts, then put away the foreign gods and the Ashtoreths from among you, and prepare your hearts for the Lord, and serve Him only; and He will deliver you from the hand of the Philistines.” So the children of Israel put away the Baals and the Ashtoreths, and served the Lord only. Samuel said, “Gather all Israel to Mizpah, and I will pray to the Lord for you.” So they gathered at Mizpah, drew water, and poured it out before the Lord. They fasted that day and said there, “We have sinned against the Lord.” Samuel judged the children of Israel at Mizpah. When the Philistines heard that the children of Israel had gathered at Mizpah, the lords of the Philistines went up against Israel. When the children of Israel heard of it, they were afraid of the Philistines.

The children of Israel said to Samuel, “Do not cease to cry out to the Lord our God for us, that He may save us from the hand of the Philistines.” Samuel took a suckling lamb and offered it as a whole burnt offering to the Lord. Samuel cried out to the Lord for Israel, and the Lord answered him. As Samuel was offering up the burnt offering, the Philistines drew near to battle against Israel. But the Lord thundered with a loud thunder upon the Philistines that day, and so confused them that they were overcome before Israel.

The men of Israel went out of Mizpah and pursued the Philistines, and drove them back as far as below Beth Car. The Philistines were humiliated, and they did not come any more onto the territory of Israel. The hand of the Lord was against the Philistines all the days of Samuel. The cities that the Philistines had taken from Israel returned to Israel, from Ekron to Gath, with their territory; Israel tore them from the hand of the Philistines. And there was peace between Israel and the Amorites (1 Samuel 7:11-14).

What about your life? The situation you are in does not correspond at all to God’s promises. You are experiencing an unbearable situation due to poverty, even misery, rejection, illness, the blockage of your business and professional life. You are in a situation where you cannot even dress decently, let alone feed yourself. You are a hardened single, and no opportunity presents itself to you. Every time you are about to succeed in something or enter your blessings, everything collapses. The list could go on. What needs to be remembered is that “Philistines” keep you in bondage. These are citizens of the kingdom of darkness, demons, or humans. They are terrorists, destroyers, sadists who are only happy when you suffer. You work, but others benefit from it. They are merciless. Therefore, such beings cannot be tolerated. How long have you been in such a situation? To be delivered from their bondage, you must wage a merciless war against them.

“The war prayer is what you need. It makes the thunder and lightning of God fall on your oppressors to rout them.

To be effective, the war prayer must be done under certain conditions:

• It is always done in fasting (from one day to one week);
• An offering must be made;
• Repentance is necessary: abandon your sins;
• Remove the idols from your heart: only God must occupy your heart;
• Read 1 Samuel 7:2-11 and pray based on this passage (preferably in your language).

Here’s how the war prayer operates. It acts like dynamite: “Then another angel came and stood at the altar, holding a golden censer; and much incense was given to him, so that he might add it to the prayers of all the saints on the golden altar which was before the throne. And the smoke of the incense, with the prayers of the saints, went up before God out of the angel’s hand. Then the angel took the censer and filled it with the fire of the altar, and threw it to the earth; and there followed peals of thunder and sounds and flashes of lightning and an earthquake.” (Revelation 8:3-5)

After the war prayer, there is inevitably a restitution. Read 1 Samuel 7:11-14 and take back what the enemy has taken from you.

Let no one keep you in bondage. Rise up and go to war. God is with you!

This text is an excerpt from the book “The 40 different types of prayers” written by Prophet Emmanuel SAWADOGO.