Gabriel Agbo | Pray until something happens (PUSH)

Anybody that is involved in strong spiritual warfare like the midnight prayer and other forms of intercession, must master this principle of praying until something happens.

Once you know what the will of God is, you must be ready to pray until you see the manifestation or until God tells you clearly that he has answered your prayers. There are so many examples of this from the bible, but we will just mention two here - Daniel and Elijah. Look at Daniel 10:12-13, “ Then he said, don’t be afraid, Daniel. Since the first day you began to pray for understanding and to humble yourself before your God, your request has been heard in heaven. I have come in answer to your prayer. But for twenty-one days the Spirit Prince of the Kingdom of Persia blocked my way. Then Michael, one of the Archangels, came to help me, and I left him there with the Spirit of the kingdom of Persia.”

This biblical record gave us a very rare insight into some of the activities that go on in the spirit realm. Daniel was fasting and praying to God. And immediately he began to pray, on the first day, God sent Gabriel (a high ranking angelic being that stands in His presence) to go and deliver the answers to Daniel’s request.

As Gabriel was coming, a powerful demonic principality blocked his way and this mighty angel could not come through to meet with Daniel. Gabriel was there with the demon until another strong archangel called Michael (the Spirit Prince of Israel) came to his help. Only then could Gabriel go to dispatch the divine message to Daniel. Wow! This is unbelievable!

Like I said, this is indeed a very rare insight into some of the actions and reactions that go on every day on our behalf in the spirit realm. Now, what if Daniel had prayed for 3 or 4 days, waited for some answer and had given up? Maybe Gabriel would have gone back to heaven and there wouldn’t have been any need for God to send Archangel Michael as reinforcement. Then, Daniel and the people of Israel would have also remained there without any solution to their predicaments. But without knowing the struggle that was going on his behalf in the spiritual realm, Daniel continued praying and fasting for 21 days, and at last the answer came. Thank God that he stayed. He endured. That is the mark of an intercessor – the ability to persist, hang on. Yes! Sometimes, when we pray, we trigger off fierce struggles in the spiritual and this can cause delays in receiving immediate responses to our requests. And because we don’t often see what happens in that realm, we get desperate or fall into despondency. We must learn how to persevere in prayer if we must be champions and veterans of spiritual warfare. We must develop the capacity to endure, recognize, ambush and demolish our enemies spiritually. I have earlier said that we must persevere, persist, and then we will prevail.

ELIJAH

This man wielded so much spiritual power when he was here on earth that he locked and released the dews and rains at will. Fire, death, and the laws of supernatural multiplication and velocity also obeyed him. But he once demonstrated that an intercessor must be ready to persist until he receives the desired results. Look at what happened after that great contest at Mount Carmel. You remember?

He had locked the rain for several years and now he came back to restore it. But that must not happen before his contest with the 850 satanic priests in Israel.

After winning and slaughtering those demonic priests, he immediately informed king Ahab that rain was coming. In fact, Elijah clearly said that he was already hearing the sound of a mighty rainstorm and immediately went into prayer.

After the first stage of prayer, he sent out his servant to go check the rain. His servant went, came back and told him that he saw nothing. Elijah kept sending him until the seventh time. It was at the seventh time that the servant said that he saw a little cloud rising from the sea. And the prophet of God shouted. Then, the rain came.

Now, the lesson is that this great man of God had to persist in prayer for seven times before he saw the physical actualisation of his vision. He did not give up or show any sign of discouragement. Remember, he had already heard and seen the rain in the spirit and needed to birth it in the physical. We must learn how to pray until something happens (P.U.S.H.). Let us pray for revival. Let us pray for the release of those in captivity. Let us pray to dismantle the dominion of the demonic forces of darkness. Let us pray against the spirits behind the false religions. Let us pray that the glory and power of God will come down in his Church. May God strengthen us in the name of Jesus!

Rev Gabriel Agbo is the author of the books/audiobooks: The Power of Midnight Prayer: Unlocking spiritual forces for divine intervention; Receive Your Healing; Breaking Generational Curses: Claiming Your Freedom; Never Again!; I Shall Not Die; Move Forward; Power of Sacrifice and many others. Email: gabrielagbo@yahoo.com