Daily devotion – Australia – Let the watchmen be at their post!
Ephesians 6:12 – “For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places.”
We WRESTLE!
The Christian life is not a walk in the park—it is a battlefield. Paul reminds us in Ephesians that we are engaged in a spiritual conflict, not against people, but against dark, spiritual forces that oppose God’s kingdom. William Cowper wisely said, “Satan trembles when he sees, the weakest saint upon his knees.”
This week I shared with Helen and the other Pastors that I have never sensed a greater burden for our nation as that which I have now. I am truly weighed down with great sorrow for our nation Australia and its people. It seems as if our country is reflecting a rotting of its very identity as that of a body that is deceased already and is in the early stages of putrefaction.
How can we have on our streets such open vile hatred against the people of God Israel? I know it is Satanic in its roots but to see the country we grew up in in this state is truly heartbreaking – we must pray!
Prayer isn’t passive—it is powerful warfare. And Paul understood this deeply. As he prayed for the believers in Colossae, he wasn’t just offering up pleasant words—he was engaging in spiritual conflict on their behalf.
Colossians 2:1 – “I would that you knew what great conflict I have for you.”
That word “conflict” echoes the word “striving” from the previous verse. Paul was agonizing in prayer. He carried a deep burden—not just for people he knew personally, but for the whole church, even those he had never met.
He didn’t love simply because he knew them. He loved because they were Christ’s. His heart was stirred for their growth, their maturity, and their protection from falsehood. He longed for them to be “strengthened in heart” (Colossians 2:2), to stand firm in a world filled with spiritual deception.
So what about us here in Australia our home? We’re not all called to be apostles. We’re not all great Bible commentators. But every one of us is called to:
Love the Lord passionately—He gave His life for us. Will we not give ours for Him?
Pray with purpose—prayers not of routine but of spiritual agony for those we love.
Know God through His Word—deep, personal, transforming knowledge.
Embrace our God-given obligations:
As a parent, prayer is a life sentence—intercede for your children daily.
As a husband, you are commanded to love your wife as Christ loves the church.
As a wife, the calling is to respect and support your husband in the Lord.
As a son or daughter, honouring your father and mother is not optional—it’s divine.
So again, we wrestle. Not against people.
But against the unseen forces that want to destroy marriages, ruin children, divide churches, and quench the Spirit and see our nation fall in judgment.
Let us not be casual Christians in the face of real conflict. Let us be saints who kneel and fight—weak in ourselves, but ever so strong in the Lord.
Let us pray for our nation!
Eze 33:6 But if the watchman see the sword come, and blow not the trumpet, and the people be not warned; if the sword come, and take any person from among them, he is taken away in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at the watchman’s hand.