Prayers
Prayers
For Jehovah is our JUDGE, Jehovah is our LAWGIVER,
Jehovah is our KING; He will SAVE us.
Isaiah 33:22
In prayer, we can approach God as our Father, as a Friend, as a King, or as a Judge. As our Father, He will do for us only those things a loving Father would do for His children. For example, if you get beaten up by a force of darkness and you approach Him as a Father to deal with the situation. He will love you all up, heal your wounds, and get you back on your feet; but may keep that enemy away for a while. The enemy will surely come back and beat you up again, and again, and again, probably with more help from other forces of darkness. The higher the hierarchy in the kingdom of darkness the demons fighting you belong, the less effective your casting-out works on them, and the less effective God can deal with those demons as your Father. He needs to deal with them as the Judge, and you need to approach Him as such. “God presides over heaven's court; He pronounces judgment on the heavenly beings.” (Psalm 82:1, NLT).
In addition, in Matthew 18:18, the words bind and loose are legal terms used to forbid (object, prohibit, make impossible, or prevent) and permit (allow, sanction, authorize, or enable) with the authority Jesus our Lord gave to us as His ecclesia. We have the authority to go to the courts of Heaven to forbid (what is not in alignment with God's will for us) and to permit (what is in alignment with God's will for us). And in the words of Jesus, “Now I say to you that you are Peter (which means 'xrock'), and upon this rock I will build my church, and all the powers of hell will not conquer it. And I will give you the keys of the Kingdom of Heaven. Whatever you forbid on earth will be forbidden in heaven, and whatever you permit on earth will be permitted in heaven.” (Matthew 16:18-19, NLT).