Derek Prince wrote this profoundly true message for IFA after the assassination attempt on President Reagan. In light of The Satanic Temple’s audacious acts and the increasingly public demonic perversion on display in our culture, we thought it was time to re-run this. Let us know what you think America’s greatest spiritual problem is. Post a comment.
I believe that God really expects American Christians to raise up a tremendous volume of intercessory prayer for their nation and its leaders.
However, in order for our prayers to be effective, they must be in accord with God’s unchanging spiritual laws. I believe the first requirement for effective praying is that we repent collectively for the sinfulness of our nation. I believe the great basic spiritual problem of America is a spirit of rebelliousness. And I believe that this problem leads to two related problems, one in the realm of action, the other in the spiritual realm. In the realm of action, rebelliousness manifests itself in violence, and we’ve seen an ever increasing crescendo of violence on the American scene. In the spiritual realm, rebelliousness is always related to witchcraft. 1 Samuel 15:23 tells us that “rebellion is witchcraft.” In other words, they are closely interrelated. And so, as another result of the rebellious condition of the American people, there is the tremendous increase that we have witnessed in witchcraft, in the satanic supernatural. Therefore, in order for our prayers to be effective, we have to repent on behalf of our nation for this root problem of rebelliousness, violence and witchcraft.
As we come to God on the basis of repentance and humility for these national sins, then we have the right to intercede and to intervene into the spiritual realm and to bind and cast down the satanic spiritual powers that are at work against the well being and the prosperity of the American people.
But in a certain sense, out of all of this, I see good coming. I believe there can be a kind of spiritual backlash against Satan and against Satan’s activities that will usher in a new era of righteousness and of seeking God by American Christians. Let us pray that it may be so.