Question #5

So we have been trying to tell our souls to AWAKE! In the following days we'll consider three essential strategies to staying tuned in! These help protect and fortify our thought closet and provide what we need t prevail over the father of lies.

Strategy 1: PRAY
Lisa Whelchel did one of the most generous things anyone has ever done for me. She and I became friends several years ago and began to walk together with honest accountability and closeness. One day she told me how much strength she was receiving from praying warfare prayers that she read from John and Stasi Eldredge's Captivating. I sighed in interest and she said, "Let me read you some." Curled up on my couch in the living room, I remember I listened and prayed along with her, holding my cell phone to my ear. After she finished, she said, "These aren't on audio, but I want you to have them. I'm going to type these out for you so Baby Dell (my computer) can read them."
"Aren't there alot?"
"Yeah, but I'll pray as I type."
More than 1,300 words later, Lisa had tired fingers and an energized soul! She really beat up the Enemy and kept God's attention as she stood in the gap, prayed, and typed.
Two important things happened with her gift of typing. First, she prayed. That is the primary strategy for fortifying your thought closet. 

What did Jesus tell His disciples in the following verse? Why?

Matthew 26:41 (New International Version, ©2010)

⁴¹ “Watch and pray so that you will not fall into temptation. The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.”