So I began to pray and I'd play aggressively and begin to flow in the spirit until the whole atmosphere would begin to shift around me. Over a course of time I developed inner strength. Now if you want to get physically strong got to go to a gym and work out, so if you're going to develop spirit strength you have to get into prayer and you learn to pray strongly. I'd just begin to build the time in prayer longer and longer and longer and as I'd begin to pray in tongues I'd could feel strength and my whole spirit would energise and come alive. A lot of what my ministry has developed over the years has been because of building this capacity inside, so I can in a moment of time arise in my spirit. Doesn't take long now - see, so there's strength in there. There's capacity developed, but it just doesn't happen. You've actually got to give yourself to praying and so praying in the spirit strengthens your spirit and what it begins to do, it provokes something because then the issues that are lying there start to surface and start to rise. So what I did was I'd pray in tongues and strengthen my spirit.
The second thing I did was I got a strategy where this thing had come from and what I needed to do, first of all what I needed to confront and so day after day I'd strengthen myself in prayer and then just speak into the spirit world and confront and decree God's word. To this day I still do it. I still daily arise, pray in tongues strongly for a season and decree God's word over my circumstances and over the world around me. You've got to learn to do that see, so strength - the Bible talks about in Ephesians 3 how he prays - in Verse 16 - that you would be strengthened with might by His spirit in your inner man, so God obviously wills that you become strong, not namby pamby. You have a spirit and your spirit is the gateway into the spirit world and the thing that shuts that or opens it is your soul, what's going on in your mind and emotions. So one of the first things you do is develop tremendous strength in prayer. That's why we from the very beginning unto this day I like to have very strong expressive praise, because it keeps at bay that religious thing that sits over people and gets them to be passive and shut down and half-hearted and lukewarm and not really engaging in their spirit with the person of God. There's a reason for it, see?
So it's no coincidence that wherever I go demons get thrust out and they get to manifest, stuff seems to happen. It's because strength has been developed. You can develop it. When I first went to Singapore, Pastor Kong Hee's one of the most greatest church builders in this day and he came along on an altar call with me, prayed for two people and he was done. He was very embarrassed and ashamed that he was tired out and exhausted, but he hadn't developed strength in his spirit and he just determined - the next year I came in there and he just carried - he prayed for hundreds with me and he was no problem. I said I see you're different this year, I see you're really hanging in there. What happened? He said I was ashamed of my lack of spiritual strength and capacity when you came last year, I made a decision that when you came next year I would have shifted and changed - otherwise you just make an excuse for why you're like you are. Think about it.
See so David, the moment the devil rose up against him, the moment the enemy rose up against - immediately he's locked into fight mode, see? There's a difference to being in fight mode or having a warrior spirit. It's something that develops inside you, you rise up in the spirit straight away so I can be very gentle and if I have any demonic encounters straight away I'm into aggressive mode just like that. See? Why not? Jesus was. You have a look at how he handled stuff. You know His first recorded church meeting ended with everyone wanting to murder Him. Think about that. That's not very nice is it, all these lovely church people want to kill Him? He was engaging the religious spirit with the things He was saying.