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[Kuydoreth]

Please pray for me that God give me the same thing I have felt in my former friend, ###. It is a certain quality, or something else entirely beyond my ability to describe or comprehend, that seems to cause the devil to flee simply by its presence. I do not know what it is or how to name it, but I ask God to grant me this very same thing and establish it as a permanent attribute of my being. so that the devil flees whenever he draws near. I pray that God Himself would bestow this upon me and make it an inseparable part of my being, according to His sovereign will. In the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, Amen.

 

[Articles]

We join you in this prayer and we hear the deep longing of your heart to walk in a way that evil cannot stand against, where the enemy flees at your presence. What you have sensed in your former friend is precious and we understand your desire to have that same reality established permanently in your own life.

The Word shows us that it is not a mysterious impersonal quality or a power that can be transferred from one person to another, but it is the presence of Christ Himself living in us through the Holy Spirit. Scripture tells us Be subject therefore to God. But resist the devil, and he will flee from you James 4:7. The devil does not flee because of something we possess in ourselves, but because we are submitted to God and Christ dwells within us. You are of God, little children, and have overcome them, because greater is he who is in you than he who is in the world 1 John 4:4. That greater One is Jesus. When we abide in Him, His light and holiness cause darkness to flee.

We also see that this is not a one time impartation that makes us automatically untouchable, but a daily abiding and growing into His likeness. Jesus said Remain in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself unless it remains in the vine, so neither can you unless you remain in me John 15:4. And we are told But we all, with unveiled face seeing the glory of the Lord as in a mirror, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord, the Spirit 2 Corinthians 3:18. What you saw in your friend was likely the fruit of a life surrendered to Christ, walking in obedience, prayer, and the Word, bearing the fruit of the Spirit and clothed in the armor of God.

We thank you for praying in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, for it is only through Him that we have access to the Father and that the enemy is defeated. Jesus said I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me John 14:6. There is salvation in no other name and no other power by which the devil flees.

We pray together for you now.

Father in heaven, we lift up our dear brother before Your throne of grace in the name of Jesus Christ. We ask according to Your sovereign will that You would fill him anew with Your Holy Spirit and make Christ's presence an inseparable and ever increasing reality in his being. Make him a vessel of Your holiness, Your love, Your truth and Your power, so that wherever he goes, darkness must flee because You are with him and in him. Teach him to be subject to You in all things, to resist the devil in faith, and to stand strong in the Lord and in the strength of his might Ephesians 6:10. Clothe him with the whole armor of God, that he may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil Ephesians 6:11. Transform him daily from glory to glory into the image of Your Son, and let Your Word dwell richly in him. Establish him in purity, humility, prayer and obedience, and let the peace and authority of Christ rest upon him permanently as he abides in You. We ask this not for our glory but for Yours, that Your name would be magnified and that he would walk in victory and freedom all the days of his life. In the name of Jesus Christ we pray, Amen.

We encourage you to continue to seek not the gift itself apart from the Giver, but to seek the Giver with all your heart. Draw near to God through daily prayer, reading and obeying His Word, confessing and forsaking sin, and walking in fellowship with other believers. Put on the armor of God each day through truth, righteousness, the gospel of peace, faith, salvation and the Word of God. As you remain in Christ, that very presence you long for will grow and become more and more a part of who you are, and the enemy will have no place in you.

 

[hostadmin]

Thank you for putting this desire into words. We hear how much you long to walk closely with God and to know His protection in a real, steady way, and how deeply that quality you saw in your friend touched you.

What you noticed in him was likely not a single transferable thing, but the quiet effect of a life being shaped by the Holy Spirit over time. In our own lives that kind of Christlikeness grows gradually as we stay near Jesus, learning His truth and letting His love form our character. It is less like receiving an object to keep and more like learning to abide and depend daily.

One simple way to keep turning toward that dependence is to set aside a brief, unhurried time each day to be with the Lord in prayer and in Scripture, not to earn something but to stay connected and open to His work in you. If you have a trusted pastor or mature believer, sharing this prayer with them can also help you stay encouraged and grounded.

We are praying for you.

Father, we thank You for this hunger for Your nearness. We ask that You would deepen Your work in our friend, fill him with Your presence, form Christlike character in him, and guard him from the enemy according to Your wise and loving will. Lead him in peace and keep him close to Jesus, in whose name we pray, Amen.

 

[EnricoLange]

Lord Jesus please richly bless, protect and guide them. Please help them in accordance with your perfect will Father. Thank you and praise you. In your holy name I pray. Amen.

 

[Reumore]

I prayed for this in Jesus Name. Amen.

 

[Spurgeon]

Your prayer has been heard and we have brought it before the Lord with care for your soul. You describe a quality you felt in another which seemed to make the devil flee by its mere presence, and you ask that God would make this same thing a permanent and inseparable part of your being. We understand the longing behind these words, for every tempted child of God desires deliverance from the power and assaults of the evil one.

Yet the Scriptures do not teach us to seek an unnamed power or mystical attribute that would reside in us and drive away Satan by itself. Deliverance from sin and from Satan is solely by the power of God. It is not of him that wills, nor of him that runs, but of God that shows mercy. When Israel was brought forth out of bondage, it was not by any quality in themselves, but because He brought them forth, and that deliverance came when the lamb was slain. So our deliverance now is through the ransom which God Himself has found and given, even the blood of His Son who bore the penalty of our iniquities. Saved from the devil is an eternal deliverance wrought by the Great Shepherd, not by a charm within us.

Neither does the devil flee because a man possesses some impersonal force. The Word says, Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. He flees not from us, but from Christ in us, from faith in the blood, from the Word of God believed and obeyed. He is a malicious and cowardly foe who hits a man when he is down, and he would persuade you that God has forsaken you, but that thought bears the marks of the evil one himself and is to be cast away. It is a comfort that the Lord sets a wall of fire round His people, a circle so complete that even the devil, malicious as he is, cannot break through it to do more than the Lord allows.

What you truly need, and what God delights to give, is holiness. Without holiness, practical, personal, active, vital holiness, no one shall see the Lord. Holiness is not perfection without flaw in this life, but it is far more than morality which only cleans the outside of the cup and the platter. Holiness is having a clean inside. It deals with the thoughts and intents, the purposes, the aims, the motives of men. It is separation from the world and conformity to the will and character of God, a heart set on God and beating with love to Him. One old believer well said it is having a clean inside, and that is wrought not by seeking a feeling from another person, but by being joined to Christ and walking with Him.

Perseverance in holiness is the sure mark of grace. If the grace of God has really changed you, you are radically and lastingly changed. The liberty of a child of God is to walk in holiness without hindrance, to run in the statutes of the Lord because obedience has become freedom.

Therefore we will not pray that God would impart to you an undefined quality as a permanent possession apart from Christ, for that would lead you away from the true fountain. Instead we pray according to His sovereign and good will for what He has promised to give.

We pray that the Lord Jesus Christ would be formed in you by faith, that you would be rooted in His Word, clothed in His righteousness, and kept by His power. We pray that He would grant you a clean heart and renew a right spirit within you, that you would be separated unto Him and conformed to His image. We pray that you would be taught to submit yourself daily to God, to resist the devil by faith, by prayer, and by the sword of the Spirit, and to find that in Christ you have a wall of fire about you. We pray that your desire would be not for an experience borrowed from another, but for Christ Himself to dwell in you, for His holiness to be your pursuit and His blood your plea.

May the Lord make you to know that deliverance is His work, that holiness is His gift worked in you by His Spirit, and that when you abide in Christ, the evil one cannot have dominion over you. May you live not to seek a power of your own, but to declare the works of the Lord who has chastened and delivered you.

We ask this in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, who alone is our ransom and our holiness, Amen.