5 Reasons Why "God, Give Me The Strength To Resist It" Is The Wrong Prayer Entirely
He answered it. That is the part nobody tells you.
You asked for the strength to resist, and you received the strength to resist — which is exactly why you have spent eleven years resisting instead of walking free. The prayer was never ignored. It was the wrong request.
Here are the five reasons that prayer has never ended it, and what Scripture actually gives you to pray instead.
You Asked For Strength. He Gave You Strength.
You have prayed it in the car. You have prayed it at the kitchen table at five in the morning with a cup of coffee going cold in front of you. Lord, give me the strength to resist this. And He did. That is why you held out three days, then nine, then two weeks.
But look at what you actually asked for. You asked for strength to keep fighting something — so you were given a life of fighting it. Strength is what you need to carry a burden. It is not what you need to remove a trespasser. And the distance between those two prayers is eleven years long.
Nobody sat you down and explained the difference. That is the whole problem this book was written to solve.
"I had been praying for strength to resist for eleven years. Eleven years of asking God to help me hold on. This book was the first thing that pointed out I was praying for the wrong thing entirely — I was asking for help managing something I had the authority to close. The shift from asking for strength to praying with authority over the thing itself changed what happened when I prayed. I didn't need more strength. I needed to understand what I was actually dealing with and what I had been given to deal with it."
Resisting Is Not The Same Thing As Being Free
Two in the morning. Sitting on the edge of the bed with the phone face down beside you. You did not give in tonight. You are still counting. Day four. Day eleven. And you already know the number is going back to zero, because it always does — the only question is when.
That is not freedom. That is a man holding a door shut with his shoulder. Freedom is when there is nothing on the other side of the door pushing back.
If you have to hold the door every single night, the thing behind it never actually left.
"I was on day counts for four years. Day 47. Day 83. Day 12 again. The counting itself was exhausting because every number was also a reminder of what I was white-knuckling against. I was so tired of resisting. This book reframed the whole thing — I wasn't supposed to be managing something through willpower, I was supposed to close a door that had been opened. Those are completely different problems. Once I understood what I was actually dealing with the counting stopped because there was nothing left to count against."
Nothing Leaves A House Until Somebody Tells It To
Here is the part that changes everything, and almost nobody is taught it. Asking God to remove something and commanding it to leave are two completely different acts — and only one of them is what Scripture actually models.
Luke 10:19. "I have given you authority." Given. Past tense. To you. Every time you ask Him to do it for you, you are asking Him to use an authority He already handed over. That is why so many believers pray for years and nothing moves: the prayer is sincere, it is simply addressed to the wrong party.
It also has to be spoken out loud. Not thought. Not felt. Said. The 28 prayers in this book are written in the first person for exactly that reason — you are not meant to read them, you are meant to say them.
"I prayed out loud with authority for the first time in my life using the language in this book and something happened in the room that I am not going to try to describe to a skeptic because you either know what I mean or you don't. What I will say is that I have prayed about this particular thing hundreds of times over twelve years and nothing felt like that felt. I was not asking. I was declaring. The difference is not small and this book is the first thing that taught me there was a difference."
It Has A Right To Be There And You Never Revoked It
Nothing walks into a house that was locked. Believers call it an open door — a legal right the enemy holds because something was agreed to, spoken, inherited or done, and never formally cancelled. A vow made at fourteen. An agreement made inside a relationship. A habit picked up in a house you did not choose to grow up in.
And here is the gap that ends most people's progress: repentance and renunciation are not the same act. Repentance deals with you and God — it is forgiveness, and it is real. Renunciation deals with the claim — it is eviction, and most believers have never once done it.
You can be completely forgiven and still be living with something that holds a signed lease. That is why the same sin gets confessed on Sunday and is back by Wednesday night. The confession was accepted. The door was never shut.
"The open door section stopped me completely. I had never considered that there were specific entry points — agreements made, things inherited, objects kept, vows spoken or unspoken. I worked through the inventory questions slowly over three evenings and found something I had brought into my house seventeen years ago that I had never connected to anything. I dealt with it the way the book described. I am not saying it was comfortable. I am saying it was specific in a way that no amount of general prayer had ever been and something shifted that week that had not shifted in seventeen years."
Empty Is Not The Same As Sealed
Matthew 12 is the most ignored passage in this entire subject. A spirit leaves a man, wanders, finds nothing better, and returns to a house it describes as swept and put in order — and empty. So it brings seven others, and the man ends up worse than he started.
That is the exact shape of what happens after most deliverance. The conference. The prayer line. The livestream. Something genuinely lifts, and for nine days you feel like a new person — and then it comes back heavier than before. Not because the deliverance was fake. Because nothing was put in the space, and nothing was sealed behind it.
Name it. Connect it to Scripture. Find the door. Repent. Revoke the right. Command it out. Fill the space. Seal it. Eight steps, in that order, with the words written out for you. It sits on the nightstand because that is where it gets used — at eleven at night, not eleven in the morning.
"I used the sealing and maintenance section exactly as it's written. Not as a formula — I understood by that point what I was actually doing and why. Seven months. The thing I had been dealing with in some form since I was nineteen years old has not come back in seven months. I have had hard weeks. I have had the kind of weeks where it always used to find a way back in. It has not come back. I don't know how to write that without sounding like I'm overselling something. I'm not overselling it. Seven months."
You were never praying wrong. You were praying for the wrong thing.
Strength keeps you standing. Authority makes it leave.
Demons Must Flee
A deliverance prayer book for casting out demons, unclean spirits and spiritual warfare — 28 scripture-based prayers, written in the first person, ready to be spoken out loud tonight.
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