How To Create A War Room That Works In A Busy Schedule

I have wanted to create a war room ever since we watched the movie. But I really didn't know where to start. What verses did they use? How can a Mom spend any amount of time locked away in a closet? And where am I supposed to put my clothes anyway? ​

It has taken me a long time to just sit down and tackle all those questions and come up with a solution that works for me. Now that I've done it, I wish I would've started a long time ago.

I decided what I need is a portable war room. One that I can take anywhere and be inspired by anytime. Here is what I used:

• 2 Bible translations
• 1 pack of colorful pens
• 1 journal
• My phone for research

I took my dear old Bible that I have had since 3rd grade and started paging through it. Every verse that ever spoke to me is underlined so it was easy to find inspiration quickly! I found prayers in the epistles, verses of praise, verses of victory, verses on battle and verses of worship and copied a bunch of them down in my journal 

I used a different colored pen for each passage and I ended up kind of having a theme for each page. Some pages are warfare pages and some pages are simply passages of worship from Psalms, Isaiah and other Old Testament books.

I've recently been inspired by looking into the names of God found in the Old Testament and I included a whole page of the names in Hebrew with their English meaning beside them. The very essence of God is found in His name! You can find a lot of them in this article.

Some of the names that I used:

Elohay Kedim: God Of The Beginning
Elohay Selichot: God Of Forgiveness
Elohay Mikarov: God Who Is Near
Elohay Tehilati: God Of My Praise
Elohay Yishi: God Of My Salvation
El HaNe'eman: The Faithful God
El Emet: The God Of Truth
Yaweh M'Kadesh: The Lord Who Makes Holy
Yaweh Tzidkaynu: The Lord Our Righteousness
Yaweh Yireh: The Lord Who Sees/Provides

Some of verses that I used:

Page of Praise
-Isaiah 64:8
-Isaiah 61:10&11
-Psalm 135:13
-1 Chronicles 16:34
-Psalm 86:11-13
-Psalm 72:17-19

Page of Praise & Victory
-Colossians 1:9-11 & 12-14 {I wrote these down separately - one as a prayer and one as worship}
-Isaiah 54:17
-Psalm 30:1
-Psalm 20:6&7

Page of Praise & Seeking God's Heart
-Ephesians 1:16-19
-Ephesians 1:21&22
-Jeremiah 33:2&3
Isaiah 55:1-3

Page of Praise & Waiting
-Psalm 71:14-16
-Psalm 8:1,3,4&9
-1 Corinthians 1:9
-Psalm 62:5-8
-Psalm 63:3-5

Prayer for Guidance
-Psalm 25

I used a mix of translations - mostly KJV {slightly reworded in my own words} and The Open Bible. I especially loved the Open Bible translation for the Old Testament passages. I also reworded some of them. For example, Ephesians 1:21&22 I wrote down like this: Jesus, You are far above any ruler or authority or power or leader or anything else in this world or the world to come. And God has put all things under Your authority for our benefit!

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With the passages that were originally Paul's prayers for the churches he was writing to, I wrote down in a way that I can pray them for myself or my husband, children and friends.

"Lord, may I {he/she} be filled with the knowledge of Your will with all the wisdom of spiritual understanding. May I {he/she} always walk worth of You, Lord..." {Colossians 1}

I encourage you to search the Bible, pray for God's leading and direction, and write down the verses in a way that you can pray them to God! 

Then you will have a portable war room that will work anywhere and anytime! You can use it at your kitchen table, in your bedroom, by the couch, your workspace or on the floor as you watch your kids! Or you can simply leave it open on your kitchen counter so you can pray while you wash your dishes, cook for your family, etc. You can travel with it, write down specific prayer requests to help you remember them and any inspiration you got from your Bible study. 

Some things that I am working on to make my prayer time more effective:

• My prayer/Bible study space does not have to be perfect. If I wait for it to be perfectly neat and clean it's not going to happen. Sometimes I just have to settle down at a table with empty cereal bowls or sit on the couch beside sleeping dolls and unfinished projects. It's life.
• Taking time to really, really study into short passages of scripture and glean out every bit of truth that I can, which really helps put my heart into a spirit of worship. My favorite way to do this is verse mapping. You can read a great article about it here.
• I do not need to wait for a perfectly quiet time to kneel down at the couch and pray. I really think God hears and loves our prayers, even if they take all day to get prayed. God has placed us in our role of being Mommies and He knows that it's a full time job. While we do need to do our best to create some quiet time for our spiritual life there are days that we can't and that doesn't mean we don't need to pray.

Once again, here are some of my favorite study and prayer resources:

The Names of God

Verse Mapping

How To Use Your Bible To Grow In Your Prayer Life

​6 Truths You Need To Know About Your War Room

10 Powerful Verses For Your War Room
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​So, that's how my war room is working right now. 

Have you created a war room? What have you found to work for you? I'd love to hear about it! <3

God bless you as you battle onward for Jesus!

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