God's School of Prayer, No. 8, Part Three: Are You Called to Be a Prayer Warrior?

While all Christians are called to be intercessors, some are called to a deeper ministry of intercession – they are called to be prayer warriors. Some of you reading this now are prayer warriors. Some of you are called to be prayer warriors but have not reached the deepness yet. But it is coming. Prayer warriors are people who are known for regularly interceding on behalf of others before God.


Prayer warriors are like defense attorneys, appealing to the Higher Court on behalf of their defendants. We're all guilty before God, but God is merciful. Prayer warriors recognize that quality of God's personality and call on Him for intervention.


Paul was perhaps the greatest example of a prayer warrior in the New Testament. He repeatedly prayed for others, especially the individual churches with whom he was working.

In Ephesians 3:14-21, while Paul was in prison, he prays for the believers in the church at Ephesus:

"For this reason I kneel before the Father, from whom his whole family in heaven and on earth derives its name. I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge-that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God. Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen."

Are your prayers filled with requests for others? You have been given this ministry of intercession and through prayer you can be used by God to touch lives of people - those you have never met and those who are very close to you. Are you a prayer warrior? If you are, submit yourself to God and He will lift you up to do mighty deeds for him in the realm of the supernatural. Open your hearts, open your minds, ask the Holy Spirit to guide you, to empower you, to fill you, to use you, so help you God!

To intercede means to come between, so prayer warriors are, in effect, coming between God and the trouble in another person's life. The Prayer Warrior goes into battle but his or her weapon is not a gun, it is prayer.