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Revelation 9 verse 11, they have as king over them the angel of the bottomless pit. His name and

Hebrew is Abaddon, and in Greek he is called a Pollyon. Here in Revelation we see a picture of the

angel of the bottomless pit known as Satan, the devil, gives his Hebrew name, Greek name,

and it's a picture that we see all throughout Revelation and all over scripture that

we have an adversary. You have an adversary today who wants to destroy you. There are spiritual

forces of evil at work in the heavenly realms who today want to destroy you and want to pull you

away from God and want to pull you away from others in Christ and want to distract you,

to deceive you, to discourage you, to do whatever they can in your life to keep you from

experiencing full abundant life in Jesus and to keep you from spreading full abundant life

in Jesus to others. And I just want to remind you today that whatever you're walking through

is not in the language of Ephesians 6, a battle against flesh and blood. But it's a battle against

spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms led by Satan, the angel of the bottomless pit.

And so we pray God open our eyes to see the spiritual battle that is raging around us,

God help us not to be ignorant of the fact that right now there is a spiritual adversary and

all his demons who are working to harm us, working to harm others around us. And so God we pray

for your power and your strength and your joy and your wisdom against him, against them in the

battle. God, please help us. We pray today to be vigilant, guard us, help us to be pure and

holy. Help us to become more like you, Jesus. We pray for your protection in our lives. We pray

for your protection of people around us. And God, we pray that you would help us to engage

spiritual battle with spiritual weapons, with your word, with the gospel, with righteousness,

with truth, with justice, with all that we see described when it comes to the armor that you give us

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