Watchman Prayer Quotes

“Dutch evangelist Corrie ten Boom said, “It’s a poor soldier indeed who does not recognize the enemy.” The key to victory in both natural and spiritual warfare is to clearly identify the enemy, and to understand his character and methods.6”
― Dutch Sheets, Watchman Prayer: Protecting Your Family, Home and Community from the Enemy's Schemes

“True humility is the willingness to allow others to help judge our leanings, leadings and revelations.”
― Dutch Sheets, Watchman Prayer: Protecting Your Family, Home and Community from the Enemy's Schemes

“This did not happen in spite of the chronos season; it happened because of what was taking place in and through the chronos season.”
― Dutch Sheets, Watchman Prayer: Protecting Your Family, Home and Community from the Enemy's Schemes

“It will be a broad work, with strategies coming from many different sources. I will give one part of a plan to one person, another to others. This will take place simultaneously, and often one ministry or person will not even realize they are a part of a larger scheme. But I will be cutting off Satan’s strength from every direction, as through the watchman anointing My people discern from Me.”
― Dutch Sheets, Watchman Prayer: Protecting Your Family, Home and Community from the Enemy's Schemes

“If you are willing to obey God fully, walk in faith and never give up, you can have anything God wants you to have. And that absolutely includes revival in your local community.”
― Dutch Sheets, Watchman Prayer: Protecting Your Family, Home and Community from the Enemy's Schemes

“We, the Church, hold the keys. We are His body—His hands, feet, voice—and what He does, He will do through us. We are Plan A, and there is no Plan B.”
― Dutch Sheets, Watchman Prayer: Protecting Your Family, Home and Community from the Enemy's Schemes

“Sometimes we must be very aggressive in our dealings with the enemy. Gordon Lindsay used to say every Christian should pray at least one violent prayer every day.”
― Dutch Sheets, Watchman Prayer: Protecting Your Family, Home and Community from the Enemy's Schemes

“gaining understanding is an important first step in effective prayer. An inner prompting will alert you to something your mind does not quite comprehend. At these times just ask the Lord to help you know how He wants you to pray.”
― Dutch Sheets, Watchman Prayer: Protecting Your Family, Home and Community from the Enemy's Schemes

“What God asks us to do, He equips us to do.”
― Dutch Sheets, Watchman Prayer: Protecting Your Family, Home and Community from the Enemy's Schemes

“The Lord has given gifts to us as well, which, like Israel’s of old, are also assignments: children, ministries, churches, cities, nations and many other things.”
― Dutch Sheets, Watchman Prayer: Protecting Your Family, Home and Community from the Enemy's Schemes

“Keeping the serpent out of our gardens is the primary assignment of watchmen.”
― Dutch Sheets, Watchman Prayer: Protecting Your Family, Home and Community from the Enemy's Schemes

“if we are walking in the anointing of the watchman, if we are paying attention, the Holy Spirit will make us aware of Satan’s schemes and attacks. We will see them and can take action.”
― Dutch Sheets, Watchman Prayer: Protecting Your Family, Home and Community from the Enemy's Schemes

“We often speak of “prayer coverings,” or “covering” a person, event or organization in prayer. To be without this covering can create a vulnerability; people are exposed to attacks of the enemy. In order to provide this covering with the utmost effectiveness, we must have warnings and promptings (chazown) from the Holy Spirit. In other words, “without communication from the Holy Spirit, the people are uncovered.”
― Dutch Sheets, Watchman Prayer: Protecting Your Family, Home and Community from the Enemy's Schemes

“Where there is no communication from God, the people perish.”
― Dutch Sheets, Watchman Prayer: Protecting Your Family, Home and Community from the Enemy's Schemes

“God helps watchmen by pointing out what needs to be seen and heard to aid the growth and health of a church.”
― Dutch Sheets, Watchman Prayer: Protecting Your Family, Home and Community from the Enemy's Schemes

“Watch yourself that you make no covenant with the inhabitants of the land into which you are going or it will become a snare in your midst”
― Dutch Sheets, Watchman Prayer: Protecting Your Family, Home and Community from the Enemy's Schemes

“Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil” (emphasis added).”
― Dutch Sheets, Watchman Prayer: Protecting Your Family, Home and Community from the Enemy's Schemes

“The devil is after our “gardens,” too—our families, homes, marriages, churches, cities, etc. Our responsibility as watchmen is to keep the devil out,”
― Dutch Sheets, Watchman Prayer: Protecting Your Family, Home and Community from the Enemy's Schemes

“We cannot do it without Him. He will not do it without us.”
― Dutch Sheets, Watchman Prayer: Protecting Your Family, Home and Community from the Enemy's Schemes

“divine-human partnership in which God provides the wisdom, direction and power, and we supply the body and voice. His is the Kingdom, power and glory. Ours is the asking.”
― Dutch Sheets, Watchman Prayer: Protecting Your Family, Home and Community from the Enemy's Schemes

“Prophetic intercessors . . . get up early every morning and “check in” with the Lord to find out what their prayer assignment is for the day. . . . Although I have things for which I pray daily, God sometimes preempts these requests for those on His heart. I have found that God’s daily prayer alerts may or may not be the same as those on my prayer list. Being an intercessor [watchman] requires quite a bit of discipline in the emotional realm because often I would rather pray my own concerns than the ones that God will give me. This is when I “seek first the Kingdom of God” instead of my personal burdens.”
― Dutch Sheets, Watchman Prayer: Protecting Your Family, Home and Community from the Enemy's Schemes

“Our attentiveness to the Father is equally as important as the Father’s attentiveness to us.”
― Dutch Sheets, Watchman Prayer: Protecting Your Family, Home and Community from the Enemy's Schemes

“God is eavesdropping on us, waiting for us to speak a few words to Him.”
― Dutch Sheets, Watchman Prayer: Protecting Your Family, Home and Community from the Enemy's Schemes

“God is never so preoccupied that He is not really listening to you.”
― Dutch Sheets, Watchman Prayer: Protecting Your Family, Home and Community from the Enemy's Schemes

“a good soldier is a well-informed soldier concerning his enemy. Be infatuated with and in awe of Jesus. Be aware of the enemy. Love worship, not warfare; but when necessary, go to war. And post the sentries!”
― Dutch Sheets, Watchman Prayer: Protecting Your Family, Home and Community from the Enemy's Schemes

“Dutch evangelist Corrie ten Boom said, “It’s a poor soldier indeed who does not recognize the enemy.” The key to victory in both natural and spiritual warfare is to clearly identify the enemy, and to understand his character and methods.”
― Dutch Sheets, Watchman Prayer: Protecting Your Family, Home and Community from the Enemy's Schemes

“anything we accomplish of eternal value is brought about by the ability and empowerment of the Holy Spirit.”
― Dutch Sheets, Watchman Prayer: Protecting Your Family, Home and Community from the Enemy's Schemes

“The first responsibility of watchmen is to keep the serpent out of their God-given gardens.”
― Dutch Sheets, Watchman Prayer: Protecting Your Family, Home and Community from the Enemy's Schemes

“He created the laws and principles—sowing and reaping, cause and effect and the free will of humans—that govern the earth. We, however, implement these principles and determine much of what we reap and experience.”
― Dutch Sheets, Watchman Prayer: Protecting Your Family, Home and Community from the Enemy's Schemes

“To the degree we are ignorant of the way our adversary thinks and operates—of his plans, plots, schemes and devices—to that degree he will gain on us, prey on us, defraud us of what is ours and have or hold the greater portion.”
― Dutch Sheets, Watchman Prayer: Protecting Your Family, Home and Community from the Enemy's Schemes