A Powerful Judicial Passage To Bring Before The Lord
Scripture: Colossians 1:10-14, Psalm 149
Colossians 1:10-14 is a powerful judicial passage to bring before the Lord. We could pray it this
way, ‘Father, this judgment is written over my loved ones. Cause them to walk a walk worthy of
all pleasing unto You being fruitful in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God,
strengthened with all might according to Your glorious power for all patience and longsuffering
with joy; giving thanks to You who have qualified each to be partakers of Your inheritance of the
saints in light. I declare that You have delivered them from the power of darkness and translated
them into the Kingdom of Your Son Jesus in whom they have redemption through the Blood of
Christ. That remission of sin becomes real to them so that sin no longer has any hold over them
and is no longer a memory in their life. It is now expunged from the record and they are free to
serve You O Living God, free to birth all promises You put in their spirits.’ This is the quality of
judicial intercession that will make a difference in the lives of others because we are going after
deceptive spirits of the enemy, and we are praying the judgment written binding their kings with
chains and their nobles with fetters of iron – Ps 149. I call that pastoral, judicial prayer. We are
guaranteeing their future covenantally by the Blood of the Lamb. This is a positive judicial,
pastoral prayer that invites freedom. This is a prayer that we have an honor to pray.
Prayer….
We must pray and get rid of certain things that are inflicted by familiar spirits:
Throne-takers; rest robbers and destiny robbers. They stop you from enjoying the
rest of God by getting you to strive and struggle in your own strength, whereas
Jesus said “Come to Me, all who are weary and heavy-laden, and I will give you rest”
(Matt 11:28). For example
- Anxiety, worry. Those are just another manifestation of fear. They will seek to take
your eyes off your destiny and fasten them onto short term difficulties in order to
keep you from being effective.