Demonic Opposition To Prayer

Sometimes we have to pray through. It’s not that we’re praying out of the will of God. It’s not that God is unwilling to hear, but we have to penetrate a hostile kingdom in the heavenlies to reach God. A passage from the book of Daniel very clearly reveals that this is so.

This chapter relates how Daniel set aside a period of three weeks for special prayer. At the end of three weeks, a very glorious angel came to him with the answer to his prayer. But the angel said to him,

“The first day you began to pray, your prayer was heard, and I was sent with the answer to your prayer.”

“But,” he said, “it took me three weeks to get through because somewhere between the throne of God and Daniel on earth, I was opposed by satanic angels.”