{"id":1228,"date":"2020-12-02T08:00:21","date_gmt":"2020-12-02T13:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/barbaralardinais:8888\/prayer-deliver-evil\/"},"modified":"2020-11-02T12:31:50","modified_gmt":"2020-11-02T17:31:50","slug":"prayer-deliver-evil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hannahscupboard.com\/prayer-deliver-evil\/","title":{"rendered":"Prayer to be Delivered from Evil – An Ounce of Prevention"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
\u201c’And do not lead us into temptation, but deliver us from evil<\/em>.’\u201d (Matthew 6:13)<\/p>\n

\u201cNow Jabez called on the God of Israel, saying, ‘Oh that You would bless me indeed and enlarge my border, and that Your hand might be with me, and that You would keep me from harm<\/em> that it may not pain me!’ And God granted him what he requested.\u201d (1 Chronicles 4:10)<\/td>\n

\"Michael<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Prayer to be delivered from evil and harm is certainly scriptural and unquestionably potent in my opinion. But how would one know? After all, the proof of the effectiveness of this kind of prayer is mostly in what doesn’t transpire. How do you tally all the things that didn’t<\/em> happen, all the evil avoided<\/em>, all the harm averted<\/em>? Pretty hard.<\/p>\n

So be it. I’m quite willing to settle for that\u2014it’s an okay trade-off to me. I have a strong suspicion that if I actually realized all that would have happened to me and my family without prayer I’d be shocked. Considering some of the evil and harm I’ve encountered, I wish I had prayed even more.<\/p>\n

Let’s discuss the HOW of this kind of prayer but first let’s get something out of the way. We are not being self-indulgent by praying to be delivered from evil. Some people seem to have that mindset but I hope you don’t. We are not spiritual wimps for wanting to avoid harm and all the pain associated with it. It was Jesus who taught us in the Lord’s Prayer to ask our Heavenly Father for that very thing. And as for Jabez, note that God \u201cgranted him what he requested\u201d<\/strong> as if he delighted in his request.<\/p>\n

Now to the nitty-gritty. Besides getting up every morning and issuing a general \u201cLord please deliver me from evil,\u201d<\/em> is there a way to be more specific? I’ll share some of my own strategies with you for keeping evil at bay. I’ll give you a couple of examples but you can apply this specific kind of prayer to any area in your life.<\/p>\n

Travel<\/h2>\n

Do you always ask for traveling mercies when you take a trip? Lots of people do but did you ever pray expressly for protection against those things that could ruin it?<\/p>\n