From: elisha

Calvary greetings.

There is a military concept known as:

Shaping the battlefield.

It refers to how you construct a more favorable environment.

To help your forces gain an advantage over the enemy.

The goal is to push the enemy to conform to your own strategy and will so you can defeat them.

As spiritual warriors we do the same thing (but in different ways).

First, we start with our prep prayers.

Then we quickly transition to something else.

There’s a great case study here …

… that might even help you share a testimony this month.

We start off in a surprising way …

… and then proceed to demonstrate how to shape your battlefield for your testimonies (to manifest speedily) this new month.

But first, look at a small sample of last month’s testimony parade:

 

“It took God only 2 weeks!

 

“I have known about your programs since 2018 through a cousin and I never joined the program because I never had enough money (that was just an excuse).

my life was stagnant, and I have never worked well to support myself or my son and again i still stay with my parents at 38 years old imagine! 

I am the only born-again Christian at home and over the years I was even turned into a joke because they told me that I pray but my results were still the same.

They suggested traditional doctors, spiritualists and herbalist. When I said no, they would laugh, mock my Jesus and it was painful to watch. 

I am a businesswoman and everything I tried failed over and over.

Fast toward 2022 I told myself that I am tired of being in the same situation and decided to join the program I can afford. I joined the $35 program (21 days prayers) last year mid-December 2022.

It was the only money in my bank account and I had  no money to buy my son clothes/ gift for Christmas. I told God that I give myself, problems, challenges and all to Him and hope to testify like others that join the Elisha prayer programs.

Guess what? Elisha I prayed, stormed the gates to 2023. Boom!! Out of nowhere, just after storming the gates into 2023.

Boom!!!

Tender project #1 on the 4th January 2023, project #2 before January end, project #3 February the 1st and now I am on Project #4.

I still cannot believe that after so many years of struggle it only took God 2 weeks to change my story, right after I joined one of your prayer programs.

This is the prayer confessions that is stuck with me to this day:

“Father, I pray that you will release 12 legions of warrior angels to assist me in this battle. Let your angelic host bind and restrain every demonic resistance. Let them intimidate and weaken every satanic opposition.”

Today i am an overcomer, I am a victor in the name of Jesus! All the glory belongs to Jesus.

– Sharlotte M, South Africa

 

“Null and Void, Result Overturned”

 

“This year i stormed the gates and i followed the instructions and i would like to thank The Lord for my testimony. On 9 February I received my results for my professional course.

They said my assignment had been referred to the malpractice committee and was declared null and void. I refused the results and told the Registrar to conduct further investigations.

I started praying midnight and on one instance, I was told to wake up to pray. I prayed:

‘Let every null and void issued on my assignment be converted into a straight pass.’ I prayed it for 30 mins.

‘Covenant keeping God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob in the places where they have rejected my assignment cause them to call me back and fall over themselves to help me.’ 10 minutes.

I also prayed Lesson 7 prayers (Prayer Academy) asking God to overturn every satanic judgement placed on my assignment. I also quoted Matthew 27 vs 19 asking God to make those in charge of the decision making process to suffer in the dream and not sleep until I had won my case.

I want to glorify His name. After 2 weeks of investigation, I received a letter of apology from my board and they were explaining the mistake made by the examiner and told me they had overturned the null and void.

I received my results, and it was a pass. I want to thank God. My parents had sold some items to fund-raise my exams only for the devil to try and steal. Thank Lord for the answered prayers.

-Nigel K

“25-year wilderness journey ends”

 

I didn’t want to take too long to testify. As soon as the Sapphire prayer points came through, my eye was on the Mike’s examination prayers. I requested prayer in the 24-hour Forum prior to Sapphire prayer points being posted as I was surrounded by agents of darkness and at the time I felt overwhelmed by the attacks.

Brethren responded and it encouraged me immensely. I started with Mike’s exam prayers because a lot of things in my life were overdue even after going through the Prayer Academy 4 times in the last 2 years.

I did Mike’s exam prayers as instructed and today I received email from the Home Office inviting me for my citizenship certificate ceremony.

This is 25 years since entering the country. I should have gotten it 5 years after entry but all hell broke loose BUT God has finally done it for me today. I’m so grateful to God and for your ministry which encourages us not to settle for less than God’s best for us.

 – Eagle Sibo, Sapphire Forum

 

 Three Job Offers in one month !!!

 

“I want to give God the glory for his faithfulness. I invited a friend whose contract had ended last year to join Elisha ministry and encouraged to pray as guided and also storm the gates of 2023.

We kept praying together on the phone and God through the Spirit revealed so much from her family. He even confirmed that she would get a job and confirmed when it would happen. The company she had applied to gave regrets.

When she told me, i encouraged her to keep the faith. I could tell in the spirit, God was releasing her. Around that time, i forwarded an advert for another company and asked her to keep believing. She was shortlisted and invited to do interviews.

I shared Dr Jane’s prayers for a job and also shared the Prayer Cook book for Busy People and asked her to storm the gates. In January, she was confirmed to have landed the job that pays far better than where she was rejected, moreover on longer five year contract.

At the same time, the company where her job had ended also called her and gave her another offer while another company offered her another opportunity making it three offers in one month.

I want to give God the glory for his faithfulness and for showing that he answers prayers. Before that she was healed of a heart problem which disappeared when we prayed. Our God is an awesome God. Glory to Him.”

- Bernard, Uganda

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Praise the LORD.

We seal all these testimonies with the blood of Jesus and the seal of the Holy Spirit.

There’s more… see them on Testigram, our testimony-sharing site here

Next up…

Shaping the battlefield through prophetic decrees

As you know…

The devil and his fellow travelers have declared war on the human race.

This warfare is intensifying by the day.

Should you just fold your arms and pretend all these troubles you are facing are the will of God?

The answer is NO.

It is time to arise and go on the offensive.

We begin by … shaping the spiritual battlefield.

Let me explain what this means by drawing a lesson from a very popular scripture.

1 Sam 17 we read:

And a champion went out from the camp of the Philistines, named Goliath, from Gath, whose height was six cubits and a span. He had a bronze helmet on his head, and he was armed with a coat of mail, and the weight of the coat was five thousand shekels of bronze.

And he had bronze armor on his legs and a bronze javelin between his shoulders. Now the staff of his spear was like a weaver’s beam, and his iron spearhead weighed six hundred shekels; and a shield-bearer went before him.

Then he stood and cried out to the armies of Israel, and said to them, “Why have you come out to line up for battle? Am I not a Philistine, and you the servants of Saul? Choose a man for yourselves, and let him come down to me.

If he is able to fight with me and kill me, then we will be your servants. But if I prevail against him and kill him, then you shall be our servants and serve us.” And the Philistine said, “I defy the armies of Israel this day; give me a man, that we may fight together.”

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Then David showed up.

Goliath was not impressed.

Look how he immediately began to “shape” the battlefield to his advantage using words anointed with demonic power.

 

This was the battle before the battle…

 

Then he took his staff in his hand; and he chose for himself five smooth stones from the brook, and put them in a shepherd’s bag, in a pouch which he had, and his sling was in his hand. And he drew near to the Philistine.

So the Philistine came, and began drawing near to David, and the man who bore the shield went before him. And when the Philistine looked about and saw David, he disdained him; for he was only a youth, ruddy and good-looking.

So the Philistine said to David, “Am I a dog, that you come to me with sticks?” And the Philistine cursed David by his gods. And the Philistine said to David, “Come to me, and I will give your flesh to the birds of the air and the beasts of the field!”

 

How did David respond?

By immediately issuing his own prophetic decrees …

… to counter and nullify these evil pronouncements.

Then David said to the Philistine, “You come to me with a sword, with a spear, and with a javelin. But I come to you in the name of the Lord of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied.

This day the Lord will deliver you into my hand, and I will strike you and take your head from you. And this day I will give the carcasses of the camp of the Philistines to the birds of the air and the wild beasts of the earth, that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel.

Then all this assembly shall know that the Lord does not save with sword and spear; for the battle is the Lord’s, and He will give you into our hands.”

So it was, when the Philistine arose and came and drew near to meet David, that David hurried and ran toward the army to meet the Philistine. Then David put his hand in his bag and took out a stone; and he slung it and struck the Philistine in his forehead, so that the stone sank into his forehead, and he fell on his face to the earth.

So David prevailed over the Philistine with a sling and a stone, and struck the Philistine and killed him.

- 1 Samuel 17:4-10, 40-50

 

Let’s look at this carefully…

 

Statement #1

“So it was, when the Philistine arose and came and drew near to meet David, that David hurried and ran toward the army to meet the Philistine,” the Bible says.

Statement #2

“Then David put his hand in his bag and took out a stone; and he slung it and struck the Philistine in his forehead...”

The second statement – the slingshot part – is what made David famous.

But the first statement matters just as much.

David broke the rule here.

What was the rule?

“Choose a man for yourselves and let him come down to me. If he is able to fight with me and kill me, then we will become your servants; But if I prevail against him and kill him, then you shall become our servants  and serve us.”

 

In those days, there were strict rules and rituals that needed to happen before this type of duel could commence.

David broke them all.

By suddenly rushing at Goliath without any preliminary fanfare.

Not only that.

He made certain prophetic pronouncements … which came to pass within minutes.

In other words…

He reshaped the battlefield.

Here’s a little equation to help you remember this important point:

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Prophetic decree + inspired movement = sudden victory

 

Every day the adversary would come out and shout:

“Choose a man for yourselves and let him come down to me. If he is able to fight with me and kill me, then we will become your servants;

But if I prevail against him and kill him, then you shall become our servants and serve us.”

Again the Philistine said, “I defy the ranks of Israel this day; give me a man that we may fight together.” – 1 Sam 17:8-10
Those were his terms.

When we believers accept to play on Goliath’s terms, Goliath wins.

Thankfully, David refused to play by the enemy’s rules.

He didn’t acknowledge that duels with Philistines were supposed to proceed formally, with the crossing of swords or whatever.

All he knew was:

“When the lion or the bear would come and carry off a sheep from the herd, I would go out after him and strike him down and rescue it from his clutches.”

With that mindset, he rushed at his adversary suddenly.

He brought a shepherd’s rules to the battlefield.

By so doing he broke the existing rule of combat.

He changed the rhythm of the encounter.

He speeded it up.

The sudden astonishment when David sprinted forward must have frozen Goliath… stopped him cold in his tracks.

 

Let’s Not Forget –

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David was a shepherd.

He came at Goliath with a slingshot and a staff because those were the tools of his trade.

Friend, do you know the tools of your trade … as a believer and prayer eagle?

One of such tools is the prophetic decree.

You decree the outcome of the encounter even before it happens.

David demonstrated it here.

See another example …

… executed by no less a prophet than Jeremiah:

Thus says the LORD: “Against all My evil neighbors who touch the inheritance which I have caused My people Israel to inherit—behold, I will pluck them out of their land and pluck out the house of Judah from among them.

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You and I are supposed to be making prophetic decrees all the time.

By the way, one of the prayer bullets you are about to see is targeted at the same group of enemies that Jeremiah prophesied against – evil neighbors.

(Note: we are not referring to human beings here).

It is such a powerful prayer you might begin to see the results within days – if you pray it to saturation.

This month’s prayers are super-special.

Someone wrote to me today.

She lamented:

“Now marriage has hit a brick wall. It’s been five years now since my husband rented an apartment for a lady younger than my first daughter and has been staying there without my knowledge…”

Very sad.

A gentle reminder:

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The #1 Warfare Raging In The Spiritual Realm Right Now Is Targeted Against Marriages And Relationships

 

That’s why I sent her over to where we deal with marriages that need urgent divine intervention here >>

Another person wrote – not to complain but to share some good news:

She says:

“I had given up on marriage”

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“I think it would be wicked of me not to testify, because I have been praying for other things and I have been telling God that you are not answering my prayers.

And God just reminded me that he blessed me with a good husband and I did not testify nor encourage other prayer eagles