Hello, thank you for joining me today for Give Him 15.

The title of our post today is The Watchman saved our lives.

The Bible speaks of watching in prayer.

Watchman intercession is one of the most vital aspects of prayer. I'm often asked to teach on it.

Our calling and responsibility as intercessors includes being alert for and praying against

Satan's schemes and plans as Holy Spirit reveals them to us.

Ephesion 618 says,

With all prayer and petition, pray at all times in the Spirit,

and with this in view, be on the alert with all perseverance

and petition for all the saints.

The King James Version uses the word watching for the phrase, be on the alert.

Be watching.

1. Peter 5.8, in warning us about our enemy, says, be of sober spirit.

Be on the alert. Your adversary, the devil, prowls about like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour. Again, other translations use the word watchful, be watchful.

The context of both verses is spiritual warfare. Each mentions our adversary

and challenges us to alertness and watchfulness, both for ourselves and for our brothers and

sisters in Christ. Another related verse is 2.11,

in order that no advantage be taken of us by Satan,

for we're not ignorant of his devices or his schemes.

A good amplification of this verse based upon the Greek text

would be, to the degree that we are ignorant of the way our

adversary thinks and operates, of his plans, plots, schemes, and devices, to that degree,

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