Fervent by Priscilla Shirer [Summary] 

Main Summary: Fervent by Priscilla Shirer is a spiritual warfare guide that equips you to fight back through strategic, powerful prayer. The author exposes the enemy’s ten key attacks against your passion, identity, family, purity, and more. Then teaches you how to reclaim victory, peace, and purpose through focused, faith-filled prayer.

Lessons You’ll Learn From This Post 

• Get Your Passion Back
• Your Focus—the Enemy’s Target 
• Remember Your Identity
• Fortify Your Family
• Ending the Reign of Your Past
• Confronting Your Fears 
• Staying Strong in Your Purity
• Surrender Your Pressures
• Submit Your Hurts 
• Guard Your Relationships

If I were your enemy, I’d seek to dim your passion, dull your interest in spiritual things, and convince you that the hope you’ve lost is never coming back.

Get Your Passion Back

• The enemy aims to steal your spiritual passion—your desire for prayer, faith, and God’s presence, because passion fuels fervent prayer and spiritual victory.
• Passion keeps you praying, believing, and moving forward despite exhaustion, discouragement, or delay. It’s the energy of your spiritual life.
• Lost passion may not be your fault or God’s; it could be the enemy’s deliberate strategy to dull your fire and make prayer seem useless.
• Satan condemns to destroy, but God convicts to restore. He uses guilt and lies to make you feel distant from God.
• God’s presence is still near even when passion feels lost.
• Losing your “cutting edge” can happen while doing good work.
• Passion is borrowed—a gift from God, not self-produced. So only God can restore lost passion. 
• You regain your passion by returning to God in prayer, asking Him to renew your heart, and trusting Him to resurrect what seems gone.
• Here’s how to do it: write a prayer strategy to recover your passion. Combine Praise, Repentance, Asking, and Yes (agreeing with God’s promises).

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Prayer is a reminder to yourself, as well as a declaration to the enemy, that you know he’s there. That you’re on to him.

Your Focus—the Enemy’s Target 

• The enemy wants to divert your focus, making you fight the wrong battles and blame the wrong people (your spouse, boss, friends, etc.). Instead of recognizing that he is the real source of the conflict.
• Like a puppeteer behind a curtain, the devil manipulates people and circumstances, keeping you distracted by surface-level issues while he works unseen.
• “We wrestle not against flesh and blood.” Your struggles are not physical — they are spiritual. The devil operates through hidden spiritual forces, not visible opponents.
• Prayer clears your spiritual vision, exposing the true enemy. It helps you redirect your energy from frustration and blame to effective spiritual warfare.
• For this, you must arm yourself with your spiritual armor (Ephesians 6:10–17):
  • Belt of Truth – God’s Word and standards.
  • Breastplate of Righteousness – Right living that protects your heart.
  • Shoes of Peace – Stability and harmony through Christ.
  • Shield of Faith – Deflects the enemy’s fiery attacks.
  • Helmet of Salvation – Confidence in your identity and security in Christ.
  • Sword of the Spirit – The living Word of God.
• Prayer energizes and activates every piece of armor. Without prayer, even the best spiritual weapons remain unused.
• The devil has already been defeated through Christ—disarmed, overruled, and rendered powerless. So you fight from victory, not for it.

Satan knows that if you ever really discover who you are, you’ll start living like it—and he’ll be out of business.

Remember Your Identity

• The enemy’s strategy is to attack your identity—to make you doubt who you are in Christ, to magnify your insecurities, and make you feel inadequate or unworthy. 
• If he can confuse your identity, he can rob your confidence and silence your prayers.
• Your authority and strength in spiritual warfare depend on knowing your true identity as a child of God—chosen, redeemed, and empowered. 
• Forgetting this truth leaves you vulnerable to lies and comparison.
• Satan wants to keep you defining yourself by failures, fears, and past mistakes instead of by God’s promises. 
• He whispers lies that make you question your worth and God’s love, leading you to self-condemnation instead of confidence in grace.
• You are not defined by what others say or by what you feel. Your identity comes from what God says—that you are forgiven, accepted, equipped, and seated with Christ in heavenly places (Ephesians 2:6).
• When you live as God’s beloved child, you stop comparing, competing, or trying to prove your worth. You pray and act with authority, knowing your position in Christ gives you power over the enemy.
• Ask the lord for renewed awareness of your spiritual identity—to see yourself as heaven sees you. Then replace every negative label and lie with the truth of God’s Word.

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Even when your home feels chaotic, prayer can rebuild what hell has tried to burn down.

Fortify Your Family

• The enemy aggressively targets families because he knows that if he can divide the home, he can destroy legacies, weaken faith, and derail destinies. 
• His goal is to disintegrate families, to create chaos, restlessness, and broken relationships.
• Family was God’s idea; a divine institution meant to reflect His nature and spread His kingdom on earth. 
• When families are united, strong, and Christ-centered, they become powerful instruments of God’s glory.
• The enemy uses the following tactics:
  • Stirring strife and misunderstanding between spouses.
  • Driving wedges between parents and children.
  • Using busyness, distractions, or offenses to erode intimacy and peace.
  • Making you fight your family members instead of fighting for them.
• You are called to pray for your family, not just worry about them. Prayer builds a spiritual wall of protection, keeping the enemy from invading your home.
• Through prayer, you can set the atmosphere of love, forgiveness, and unity in your household.
• Stand in the gap for your husband, wife, children, siblings, and relatives. Pray for their salvation, purity, purpose, and protection.
• Even if they seem far from God, your prayers invite divine intervention into their lives.
• Every prayer you pray over your family plants a seed of faith that can influence generations. 
• The enemy’s attacks may be fierce, but prayer ensures your lineage carries the mark of divine preservation.

If I were your enemy, I’d constantly remind you of your past mistakes and bad choices, hoping to convince you that you’re under God’s judgment rather than under the blood.

Ending the Reign of Your Past

• The enemy constantly reminds you of your past mistakes and failures to keep you feeling unworthy and condemned. 
• The goal is that you live chained to guilt and shame, believing that your history disqualifies you from God’s favor.
• The devil whispers, “You’ll never change,” or “God can’t use someone like you.” But this is a lie. 
• Through the blood of Jesus, your past is not just forgiven—it’s erased. God no longer sees you through the lens of your failures but through the righteousness of Christ. You are redeemed, restored, and declared innocent before Him.
• Regrets about your past keep you focused backward, making you doubt that your future can be any different. The enemy uses past pain to block your faith and courage to move forward.
• Your walk in freedom is anchored in these:
  • Believe God’s Word more than your feelings.
  • Replace self-condemnation with thanksgiving for grace.
  • Let your past become a testimony of God’s mercy, not a weapon of shame.
  • Refuse to let yesterday’s failures silence today’s prayers.
• What Satan meant for destruction, God can use for ministry. Your redeemed story can help others find freedom from their own shame and regret.

Also read The Law of Faith by David Oyedepo [Summary] 

Fear is a thief—it steals your peace, your purpose, and your power if you let it.

Confronting Your Fears 

• The enemy uses fear as one of his most effective weapons. He amplifies anxiety, dread, and uncertainty until they silence your faith and make you shrink back from God’s calling.
• Fear is designed to paralyze you spiritually—to stop you from stepping out in obedience and experiencing the fullness of God’s plan. If Satan can keep you worried, he can keep you weak.
• Faith and fear cannot coexist. Fear focuses on what could go wrong; faith focuses on who is in control.
• Fear magnifies your problems; faith magnifies your God.
• The devil whispers, “You’re not capable,” “You’ll fail,” “You’ll get hurt.” He inflates the risks of obedience and hides the blessings that come with courage. But God says, “Do not fear, for I am with you” (Isaiah 41:10).
• When fear rises, God calls you to remember His presence, His promises, and His power.
• Fear loses its grip when you recognize that your safety is not in your control but in His sovereignty.
• Fear often attacks in the area of your destiny—where God intends to use you most. Pray for courage to act on your calling, even when you don’t feel ready. Bold obedience is the antidote to paralyzing fear.

Sin will always take you farther than you want to go and cost you more than you planned to pay.

Staying Strong in Your Purity

• The enemy works hard to corrupt your purity—in thought, word, and behavior. He knows that impurity weakens your spiritual defenses, distances you from God, and robs you of authority in prayer.
• Satan doesn’t always tempt with obvious sin; he often uses small compromises—harmless entertainment, careless words, emotional distractions—to dull your sensitivity to the Holy Spirit.
• He aims to make impurity seem normal, acceptable, or unimportant.
• Purity isn’t about perfection—it’s about protection. It keeps your heart clear, your spirit strong, and your prayers unhindered. A pure heart creates a clear channel between you and God.
• The enemy targets your weakest places—your emotions, appetites, loneliness, or need for approval.
• You must identify those open doors and guard them with prayer, Scripture, and accountability.
• God desires to make your life a vessel of His glory. Purity isn’t punishment—it’s empowerment.
• Through the Holy Spirit, He gives you the strength to say no to sin and yes to righteousness.
• Staying pure requires daily renewal—saturating your mind with God’s Word, avoiding triggers, and inviting the Spirit to cleanse your thoughts and motives.
• The more filled you are with God’s presence, the less room there is for the enemy’s pollution.
• Ask God to expose hidden sins, strengthen your resistance, and fill your heart with desires that please Him. Also, ask for a renewed hunger for holiness.

The enemy wants you so busy doing good things that you miss the God things.

Surrender Your Pressures

• The enemy overloads your life with pressure—too many commitments, constant busyness, and unrealistic expectations. 
• His goal is to wear you out, make you anxious, and distract you from prayer, peace, and God’s priorities.
• The devil thrives on exhaustion because a weary believer rarely prays effectively. He wants you restless, rushing, and running on empty.
• Rest is not laziness; it’s obedience. God Himself modeled it in creation and commanded it in the Sabbath.
• True rest is not just physical—it’s spiritual: the inner calm that comes from trusting God completely.
• Peace isn’t found in the absence of problems but in the presence of God.
• And prayer invites His peace to rule your heart even when life remains demanding.
• The world glorifies productivity, but God values peace. The enemy uses comparison and competition to make you feel like you’re never doing enough, even when you’re running yourself dry.
• How to Reclaim Peace and Rest:
  • Slow down and make space for God.
  • Say no to unnecessary commitments that steal your margin.
  • Anchor your identity in who you are, not what you do.
  • Spend time in prayer and Scripture before starting your day.
• In prayer, ask for balance, divine peace, and the discipline to rest. Ask God to reorder your priorities and help you live from a place of grace, not pressure.

When you forgive, you’re not letting them off the hook—you’re letting God handle what only He can judge.

Submit Your Hurts 

• The enemy uses hurt to plant bitterness, anger, and unforgiveness in your heart. His goal is to keep old wounds fresh so that pain poisons your peace and prayer life.
• Bitterness is a spiritual toxin—it locks you in the past and blinds you to God’s work in the present.
• Unforgiveness doesn’t hurt your offender as much as it harms you. It drains your strength and blocks your prayers.
• Satan thrives in emotional wounds. He magnifies offenses, replays betrayal in your mind, and fuels self-pity until your heart hardens.
• If you hold on to resentment, you’re giving the enemy a foothold in your spirit.
• Forgiveness is not excusing or denying the wrong—it’s releasing your right to revenge and entrusting the matter to God.
• Forgiveness frees you more than it frees the offender. It shifts the burden from your hands to God’s just and merciful hands.
• When you pray for those who hurt you, you invite the Holy Spirit to heal you and work in them simultaneously.
• Jesus forgave those who crucified Him, setting the ultimate example.
• If Christ could release His offenders, He empowers you to release yours.
• Ask God to expose hidden bitterness and soften your heart. Also pray for the grace to forgive as Christ forgave you, and for healing where betrayal or pain still lingers.

Unity is not uniformity; it’s choosing love even when we don’t agree.

Guard Your Relationships

• The enemy works relentlessly to create disunity and division among believers, families, and friends. 
• He knows that when God’s people walk in unity, they become unstoppable. So, he sows seeds of jealousy, offense, and misunderstanding to break that bond.
• Unity is spiritual power. Jesus prayed that His followers “may be one” (John 17:21), because harmony among believers reflects God’s love to the world and strengthens the body of Christ.
• Disunity, on the other hand, weakens prayer, quenches the Spirit, and destroys testimony.
• The Enemy’s Tactics:
  • He magnifies minor differences to cause conflict.
  • He fuels gossip, comparison, and competition.
  • He manipulates emotions so people focus on their hurt instead of reconciliation.
  • He convinces you to fight against each other rather than with each other.
• There’s exponential power in unity. Scripture says, “If two of you agree on earth about anything they ask, it will be done” (Matthew 18:19).
• The devil knows the strength of agreement, which is why he fights so hard to keep believers offended and isolated.
• Relationships are meant to refine you, not ruin you. Love, humility, and forgiveness are the glue that keep them strong. 
• How to guard your relationships:
  • Pray before you react—let God speak before you speak.
  • Refuse to gossip or assume the worst.
  • Choose grace over grudges.
  • Stand together in prayer rather than apart in pride.

In conclusion, you’ve discovered these strategies of Satan against you and all God has freely given you in Christ. Now don’t just read—act. Write your prayer plan, fight back with God’s Word, and reclaim the joy, power, and peace that belong to you. Your victory begins the moment you pray intentionally.

Finally, here is a question we’d love you to answer.

Which area of your life do you feel the enemy has been attacking the most—your passion, your peace, or your relationships?

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