This is a message from leading the way with Dr. Michael Youssef.

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There is no time when the enemy is more active in your life than in your prayer time.

Satan is always on the move.

He's always plotting, scheming, planning, looking for opportunities in which he can weaken you in order to attack you,

for opportunities in which he can deceive you so he can defeat you. But when it comes to

the time of prayer, Satan moves like lightning whenever he sees you on your knees, whenever he sees you in the moment of prayer.

Many people erroneously think that prayer time is a time when Satan leaves you alone.

The opposite is true. Whenever you are getting ready to pray, you're going to discover that the phone will ring, the doorbell will ring, something that you have forgotten long time ago, all of a sudden you remember you have to do, somebody is going to interrupt you.

You may even fall asleep at 10 o'clock in the morning, and there is nothing that would please Satan more than to come between you

and the Lord in this sacred hour of intimacy in prayer. Why? Because Satan knows that prayer

is the secret of your power. Satan knows that prayer is the secret of your strength and your

victory over him. And if he can cut your power at the source, he's going to do it. And he would

have succeeded in weakening you spiritually. Now, the problem with most evangelical Christians

today is that they pray like sailors use their pumps

only when the ship is leaking. And yet the gospel tells us that Jesus habitually rose early in the

morning before dawn time, before daylight break, and he went up to commune with the

father. And if the son of the living God saw that to be of that importance, how much more we

are? He realized prayer and commune with his father is like the air that he breathes. In fact,

he told the disciples in John 4, he said,

I have food of which you know not. He was talking about that time, that spiritual feeding that

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