Hello, thank you for joining me today for Give Him 15. The title of today's post is

blockades and sieges. Yesterday, I gave an overview of the watchman concept of intercessor

prayer. In doing so, I shared where the concept began in Scripture, three different Hebrew words that are used to reference Watchmen and several definitions of these words.

There's another facet to this type of prayer, however, that I now want us to consider.

In 1988, a long time ago, 1988, I had the thought,

which I knew was from Holy Spirit, study the watchman concept. I already knew about watchman, was my immediate thought.

I had studied the subject, taught on it, and was very familiar with the concept.

Yet, I had the immediate and strong impression that I was missing something.

There was more.

I obeyed Holy Spirit's prompting, and, indeed, there was more to the subject than I had seen.

I discovered that the Watchman concept is not just defensive, protective prayer.

There's also an offensive or aggressive aspect to it.

I found that the Hebrew words for watchmen are also translated to lay siege, spy, and ambush in order to conquer cities or people. And I give several references here. The reason these words are used in this manner is because all of the actions involve

watching. You lay siege to a city, you watch it in order to take it. You spy on someone,

you're watching them in order to conquer. When I saw this, I heard Holy Spirit say the following.

I'm about to release revelation to the praying church that will enable them to deliver

individuals, cities, regions, and nations for me.

New strategies and concepts will emerge, discernment of Satan's strongholds will be given, and sieges will begin that will eventually

break his hold over people and places. This will be a broad work, he went on to say, with

strategies and actions coming from many different ministries, I'll give part of a plan to one person or ministry,

while simultaneously imparting another part to others. At times, they will not even realize

they're part of a larger scheme. But I will orchestrate the efforts in order to lay sieges in the spirit realm,

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