This article first appeared on Curt Landry Ministries.

*Note: This is the first of a two-part series.

Many have asked how to pray in the Courts of Heaven. You want actual prayers to help you walk through intercession.

Doing spiritual warfare in the Courts of Heaven is about first embracing your identity. If you forget who you are in Yeshua, you will use other things to fill the hole. These things will not produce good fruit and will only waste time and money. They end up hurting you or your others.

But the truth prevails, and in the truth of your identity and faith in God, you find healing and breakthrough. When your mind wraps around truth, there is a release of faith. Faith is activated from the time you speak it out, pray it and believe it to when you start to see the breakthrough.

Many of you have asked...

• How do I pray in the Courts of Heaven?
• How do I do intercession prayer?
• How do I walk through that (Courts of Heaven prayer)?

Targeting the Important Thing in Spiritual Warfare

I want to target the most important thing in spiritual warfare: That's personal identity.

You need to know who you are in Yeshua because you have a covenant right. You're born-again; praise God. You're filled with the Holy Spirit.

But how do you break the assignment in those yokes and those demonic thoughts from your past that have held you back?

• How do you disengage from them?
• How do you cleanse the cup of your life out?
• How do you fill it afresh with what God wants to pour out?

What's at Risk When You Don't Know How to Do Spiritual Warfare

The enemy is always attacking your identity. Therefore, doing spiritual warfare for your identity is important.

When you don't embrace your identity in Yeshua and reinforce it spiritually, you don't experience all the Lord has for you, allowing Him to tell you who you are, and you end up filling in the gaps with toxic things...

• Unhealthy relationships
• Drugs and alcohol
• Addictions

And the ways we try to fill this gap will not succeed. They won't produce good fruit. They only waste time and money and hurt you and others with this false narrative and experience.

When Truth Prevails, Faith Is Released and Healing Happens

So when the truth prevails, it's the truth that heals. So stand in true identity and faith. God says, "And the just shall live by faith," according to Romans 1:17.

So once you put your mind on Him and it wraps around that truth, there will be a release in your faith. And as you wait upon the Lord and need miracles and breakthroughs, this is the faith that holds you while you're in that waiting stage.

• That means that faith is activated from the time you speak it out, from the time you pray, claim and decree it, and from the time you start believing to the moment of the breakthrough of your deliverance.

So Hebrews 11:1 says, "Now faith is the substance of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen."

Going into the Courts of Heaven

So we're going to go into the Courts of Heaven right now.

First... Come to God in the Name of Jesus

So first of all, one of the things I do personally, is say:

"Father God, I come to You in the name of Jesus right now. And Lord, I want to come out of agreement with that wheel that's spinning my life.

"Lord, to going into the outer wheel, which means that I am sustained, that is eternal, Lord, I choose to give You and focus in this next 10 minutes and do what You say is to "put Me into remembrance of My word, as You say in Isaiah, and let us contend together.

Second... Change Your Clothes

"And so Father God, as I prepare, just as I would go out to dinner with somebody important or visit somebody at an important meeting, I'm going to change clothes right now.

"So Lord, I'm going to take off my shame, my guilt. I will take off my doubt, my unbelief and the things that have hindered me and have camouflaged my identity.

Third... Wash in the Blood of Jesus

"I choose to wash in the blood of Jesus from the top of my head to the bottom of my feet."

Now, as I'm doing that, don't just listen to me, just go ahead and say amen. Say...

"We wash from the top of our heads to the soles of our feet in the blood of Jesus. And we decree that these temples, by the power of the blood were pleading–the blood of Jesus, are cleansed and our sins have been expunged, which means they have been removed."

Fourth... Put on the Full Armor of God

"And now, Father God, I'm going to put on the full armor of God, now that I've been cleansed. I'm going to put on the belt of righteousness. My identity is in my righteousness. I'm going to put on sandals or the shoes of the gospel of peace (allowing me to be ready to share God with others at all times).

"So Lord, wherever I walk, I can walk in power, really when it says the gospel, the power of the expunged blood of Jesus, which makes me not accusable so I can walk in liberty.

"I put on my priestly breastplate of righteousness, the ephod of the Lord. I take the helmet of salvation. I thank You that the helmet of salvation keeps my mind at rest that I have been bought and paid for by the blood of Jesus.

"I take the shield of faith. I quench every fiery dart that tries to stop me from believing in this full armor of God. I take the sword of the Spirit, which is the Word of God, and as I prepare myself with that sword of the Spirit, now, Lord, I enter into Your mercy courts.

Fifth... Enter the Mercy Courts

"And Lord, as I enter into Your mercy courts in the Spirit, I kneel before you with my full armor of God on. Lord, I lay my sword down and say, 'Father God, it is Your Word, and Just Judge, Heavenly Father, our Father who art in Heaven, hallowed be thy name, thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven."

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Curt Landry, founder of Curt Landry Ministries, and his wife, Christie, travel extensively, preaching and teaching about the Jewish roots of the Christian faith. Together, their passion is to empower families to live and leave Kingdom legacies and understand their own personal heritage.

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