David Ireland - The Kneeling Warrior: Winning Your Battles Through Prayer

Having heard Dr. Ireland teach on prayer and then lead hundreds of men on their faces before Godme includedit was clear: He knew his way around Gods throne room. The Kneeling Warrior will help you graduate from the College of Spiritual Warfare with an earned degree in PRAYER.

TOMMY BARNETT
Author and senior pastor, Phoenix First Assembly of God
Chancellor, Southeastern University

Destiny comes to those who pray. For a church weak in the knees, the way up is down. David Ireland has written a powerful jeremiad on the upside of down and the power that comes to those warriors who will dare live on a wing and a prayer. If you didnt believe this before, youll believe this after reading The Kneeling Warrior. We dont know best when were stretching on our tiptoes; we know best on our knees.

LEONARD SWEET
Best-selling author, The Gospel According to Starbucks
Professor, Drew University and George Fox University
Chief contributor, Sermons.com

God uses David Ireland to communicate His Word with unusual passion and the anointing of the Holy Spirit.

JIM CYMBALA
Author and senior pastor, The Brooklyn Tabernacle

A number of years ago during a study on prayer the Episcopal bishop of Massachusetts, Phillips Brooks, profoundly shared that: Prayer is not the conquering of Gods reluctance, but the taking hold of Gods willingness. This statement has found its way into many books, including Systematic Theology by Augustus Strong. I have discovered that some books inspire, others educate, and some will motivate. A rare few will do all of these. The Kneeling Warrior is one of these. Dr. Irelands insightful study on prayer deserves to be read while on your knees, then you wont have that far to go in order to implement the profound yet simple insights that will press you into embracing your assignment as a kneeling warrior. As his pastor for more than two decades, I am convinced of the validity of his own life of prayer, a life that flows out of this book and into our own hearts.

BISHOP JOSEPH L. GARLINGTON, PHD
Senior Pastor, Covenant Church of Pittsburgh
Author, Worship: The Pattern of Things in Heaven

Dr. David Ireland has been an extraordinary leader and teacher on the subject of intercession. Few pastors have taught, modeled, and convened thousands of leaders around the centrality of intercession as well as Dr. Ireland. This book represents decades of lessons learned.

DR. MAC PIER
Author, Spiritual Leadership in the Global City
President, The NYC Leadership Center
Founder, Concerts of Prayer Greater New York

I remember meeting Dr. David Ireland for the first time almost two decades ago and saying to myselfthat is a smart, Jesus-loving, highly organized, and gifted communicator of the gospel and leadership. Dr. Irelands very diverse academic preparation as an engineer as well as a theologian allows him to do biblical architecture with complex issues of the Scripture. Hes a man of integrity and obvious passion. He will bless, challenge, and encourage you regardless of the context. I highly recommend my friend Dr. David Ireland.

DR. SAMUEL R. CHAND
Author, Cracking Your Churchs Culture Code
www.samchand.com

Every teaching of Dr. Ireland gives you the detail and wisdom of a PhD but also the love and compassion of a child.

KURT WARNER
Retired NFL Quarterback

DAVID D. IRELAND, PHD

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THE KNEELING WARRIOR by David D. Ireland, PhD
Published by Charisma House
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This book or parts thereof may not be reproduced in any form, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form by any meanselectronic, mechanical, photocopy, recording, or otherwisewithout prior written permission of the publisher, except as provided by United States of America copyright law.

Unless otherwise noted, all Scripture quotations are from the Holy Bible, New International Version. Copyright 1973, 1978, 1984, International Bible Society. Used by permission.

Scripture quotations marked NKJV are from the New King James Version of the Bible. Copyright 1979, 1980, 1982 by Thomas Nelson, Inc., publishers. Used by permission.

Scripture quotations marked TLB are from The Living Bible. Copyright 1971. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Wheaton, IL 60189. All rights reserved.

Copyright 2013 by David D. Ireland, PhD
All rights reserved

Cover design by Justin Evans
Design Director: Bill Johnson

Visit the authors website at www.davidireland.org.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data:
Ireland, David, 1961
The kneeling warrior / David D. Ireland, PhD. -- First edition.
pages cm
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN 978-1-62136-024-7 (trade paper) -- ISBN 978-1-62136-025-4 (e-book)
1. Prayer--Christianity. 2. Spiritual warfare. I. Title.
BV210.3.I742013
235'.4--dc23
2103010937

People and incidents in this book are composites created by the author from his experiences in counseling. Names and details of the stories have been changed, and any similarity between the names and stories of individuals described in this book to individuals known to readers is purely coincidental.

While the author has made every effort to provide accurate telephone numbers and Internet addresses at the time of publication, neither the publisher nor the author assumes any responsibility for errors or for changes that occur after publication.

To the congregation of Christ Church,
who for over twenty-five years have
strived to make our church a house
of prayer for all nations.

Contents

by R. T. Kendall

PART ONE:
ENGAGE YOUR FEELINGS

PART TWO:
ENGAGE YOUR FAITH

PART THREE:
ENGAGE IN THE FIGHT

Y OU ARE HOLDING AN AMAZING BOOK IN YOUR HANDS. You cannot possibly remain the same after you read it. It is written by one of the most brilliant pastors in America today. Dr. David Ireland has managed to produce a book that is simultaneously simple and profound, one that will teach you how to pray but also make you want to pray. It combines unpretentious scholarship, deep spirituality, and a transparent passion. It is a work of considerable research, quoting from the best-known people in church history to let you know that you are surrounded by the greatest of men and women when you want to be a person of prayer.

My mentor Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones introduced me to a Bible-reading plan that became pivotal in my own devotional life. Dr. Irelands book will motivate you to have a strong prayer life that contains both the reading of the Bible and time spent alone with God. The result will be that you experience the presence of God in your daily devotional life and your walk with God. His goal for you is that you know the immediate presence of God. This bookif you follow it carefullywill lead you to experience precisely that. By drawing from the best prayer warriors of the past, Davids book will help you to experience what the greatest saints have knownintimacy with God. What may attract you most of all is that anybodyeven the weakest Christianwill be motivated to have a close walk with God that you never thought you could have.