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Strategic Prayer Altars

Pr James Kawalya

Prayer transforms.

We are a product of revival.

We are transformed because someone prayed.

The Spirit of the Lord will breakthrough with signs and wonders.

There must be salvation, sanctification and baptism in the Holy Spirit.

We must see people saved, sanctified and baptised.

We must see people saved. We must be convicted and accept Jesus Christ. We confess to Him and be born again. But that’s not the end.

After being born again, we must seek God for sanctification to cleanse us, to remove the filth, the presence of God fills our lives, and the fire of God to burn in our lives.

And there must be baptism of the Holy Spirit.

If we are to see revival, there has to be more than just healing and miracles and deliverance. We must emphasise salvation, sanctification and baptism of the Holy Spirit.

We must be sure that we have accepted the Lord. It is not about joining a church or going to church on Sunday mornings. Christianity sounded good to them and they joined a church. These people are just convinced but not converted. They do not have an encounter with Jesus.


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After coming to the Lord, many people remain at the stage of salvation. They have not come to the place of being sanctified.

Sanctification comes through seeking God—praying every day, being before the Lord, reading the Bible, letting the Holy Spirit convict you until you have removed all that the enemy has deposited in you. We need to seek God for sanctification, not only for salvation. We come by salvation, but when we come, we must go deeper in seeking the face of God, in staying in the presence of God, in praying, in reading the Bible, that we may be sanctified, that the presence of God now goes through all parts of our lives and make us clean and holy.

After the sanctification, we continue pressing on until we are baptised in the Holy Spirit. Every one of us must go through the baptism of the Holy Spirit, accompanied by signs of speaking in tongues and prophesying. When you are baptised in the Holy Spirit, you will lose all things that defile you because the Holy Spirit satisfies you.

That is transformation. A man who is saved, sanctified and baptised in the Holy Spirit is a transformed man. He is not just a church-going man but a transformed man. No man who has been baptised in the Holy Spirit will keep on lying and cheating, and continue to live in sin and unforgiveness because the Holy Spirit will give you the image and nature of Christ. 

The Word of God sanctifies you and the Spirit of God sanctifies you. You are transformed by the renewal of your mind.

You will be like Christ. Sin will not be part of you because now you are full of the life, power and spirit of the living God.

When God is ready, nothing will hinder Him. 

If you are not ready, He will go to your children.

No power and principality can stop God.

Go with the wave and move of God.

We are coming as midwives. We are not the revival. We are not the ones to lead the revival. Our work is to facilitate the birth of the revival.

It is time to raise platforms—spiritual structures—that will host the move of God. The structures are what we call prayer altars.

It is the prayer altars that will host the move of God.



Strategic principles of prayer altars:

1) Purposes and ordained functions

2) Protocols

3) Power

4) Preservation

Psalm 19 New King James Version (NKJV)
The Perfect Revelation of the Lord
To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.
19 The heavens declare the glory of God;
And the firmament[a] shows [b]His handiwork.
2 Day unto day utters speech,
And night unto night reveals knowledge.
3 There is no speech nor language
Where their voice is not heard.
4 Their [c]line has gone out through all the earth,
And their words to the end of the world.

In them He has set a [d]tabernacle for the sun,
5 Which is like a bridegroom coming out of his chamber,
And rejoices like a strong man to run its race.
6 Its rising is from one end of heaven,
And its circuit to the other end;
And there is nothing hidden from its heat.

7 The law of the Lord is perfect, [e]converting the soul;
The testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple;
8 The statutes of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart;
The commandment of the Lord is pure, enlightening the eyes;
9 The fear of the Lord is clean, enduring forever;
The judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.
10 More to be desired are they than gold,
Yea, than much fine gold;
Sweeter also than honey and the [f]honeycomb.
11 Moreover by them Your servant is warned,
And in keeping them there is great reward.

12 Who can understand his errors?
Cleanse me from secret faults.
13 Keep back Your servant also from presumptuous sins;
Let them not have dominion over me.
Then I shall be blameless,
And I shall be innocent of [g]great transgression.

14 Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart
Be acceptable in Your sight,
O Lord, my [h]strength and my Redeemer.

Jude New King James Version (NKJV)
Greeting to the Called
1 Jude, a bondservant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James,

To those who are called, [a]sanctified by God the Father, and preserved in Jesus Christ:

2 Mercy, peace, and love be multiplied to you.

Contend for the Faith
3 Beloved, while I was very diligent to write to you concerning our common salvation, I found it necessary to write to you exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints. 4 For certain men have crept in unnoticed, who long ago were marked out for this condemnation, ungodly men, who turn the grace of our God into lewdness and deny the only Lord [b]God and our Lord Jesus Christ.

Old and New Apostates
5 But I want to remind you, though you once knew this, that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who did not believe. 6 And the angels who did not keep their [c]proper domain, but left their own abode, He has reserved in everlasting chains under darkness for the judgment of the great day; 7 as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities around them in a similar manner to these, having given themselves over to sexual immorality and gone after strange flesh, are set forth as an example, suffering the [d]vengeance of eternal fire.

8 Likewise also these dreamers defile the flesh, reject authority, and speak evil of [e]dignitaries. 9 Yet Michael the archangel, in [f]contending with the devil, when he disputed about the body of Moses, dared not bring against him a reviling accusation, but said, “The Lord rebuke you!” 10 But these speak evil of whatever they do not know; and whatever they know naturally, like brute beasts, in these things they corrupt themselves. 11 Woe to them! For they have gone in the way of Cain, have run greedily in the error of Balaam for profit, and perished in the rebellion of Korah.

Apostates Depraved and Doomed
12 These are [g]spots in your love feasts, while they feast with you without fear, serving only themselves. They are clouds without water, carried [h]about by the winds; late autumn trees without fruit, twice dead, pulled up by the roots; 13 raging waves of the sea, foaming up their own shame; wandering stars for whom is reserved the blackness of darkness forever.

14 Now Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied about these men also, saying, “Behold, the Lord comes with ten thousands of His saints, 15 to execute judgment on all, to convict all who are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have committed in an ungodly way, and of all the harsh things which ungodly sinners have spoken against Him.”

Apostates Predicted
16 These are grumblers, complainers, walking according to their own lusts; and they mouth great swelling words, flattering people to gain advantage. 17 But you, beloved, remember the words which were spoken before by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ: 18 how they told you that there would be mockers in the last time who would walk according to their own ungodly lusts. 19 These are [i]sensual persons, who cause divisions, not having the Spirit.

Maintain Your Life with God
20 But you, beloved, building yourselves up on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit, 21 keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.

22 And on some have compassion, [j]making a distinction; 23 but others save [k]with fear, pulling them out of the [l]fire, hating even the garment defiled by the flesh.

Glory to God
24 Now to Him who is able to keep [m]you from stumbling,
And to present you faultless
Before the presence of His glory with exceeding joy,
25 To [n]God our Savior,
[o]Who alone is wise,
Be glory and majesty,
Dominion and [p]power,
Both now and forever.
Amen.

Purposes of prayer altars:

1) To attract the presence and activity of the kingdom of God.

Jesus has always been about preaching the kingdom of God, and then healing of the sick.

Today we want to heal the sick but we do not want to preach the kingdom. Today we want to raise the dead but we do not want to preach the kingdom.

But the power of the kingdom is in the altar.

We raise prayer altars to attract the presence and activity of the kingdom of God.

When we raise altars to God, we raise a highway of holiness between earth and heaven. We create a route, a conduit for angels to ascend and descend. We bring the kingdom of God where there is joy, peace and righteousness in the Holy Spirit. The altars begin to influence people in the things of the kingdom of God. The kingdom of God is not just words, the kingdom of God is power.

When we let people raise demonic and Satanic altars of darkness on earth, they raise a network of tunnels connecting that place to hell. These tunnels are used as ways of capturing souls.

2) To be a platform of presenting spiritual cases in courts of the spiritual realm.

In the spirit, it is not who shouts that wins. It is about who is doing it legally. Whatever the enemy is trying to do in your life, city and nation, he is looking for a legal basis to do it.

Without a prayer altar, what you are praying is informal. Being informal, the spirit realm does not recognise it. It is illegal. 

There are prayers that we pray that we do not get answers. But we take them to the altars and present them as a case before God, we are doing it legally.

3) To dissolve curses and establish the blessing.

The prayer altar destroys curses. It is on the altar that you come to confess sins, to offer sacrifices, and to worship God. 

You cannot break a curse but you can dissolve it by bringing the presence of God to remove the curse.

4) To launch out and fight spiritual battles for families, communities and nations.

Spiritual battles are not man against man. Spiritual battles are between an altar and another altar.

Otherwise, it means that you are fighting in your own strength. 

As you raise a prayer altar, you are creating a platform to launch and fight spiritual battles.

5) To establish the influence of the kingdom of God, over individuals, institutions and territories.

If you move in a certain area and you identify key places and you raise prayer altars in those places, you’ll find that the entire place is now influenced by the power and the will of God.

Ordained functions of prayer altars:

1) Gates into the spiritual realm.

When you establish a prayer altar whether in your church or in your home, it becomes a gate.

In Genesis, Abraham raises a prayer altar in a place called Bethel. (Genesis 13:4) After many years, his grandson Jacob finds himself sleeping in that place. While he is sleeping, he has a dream in which he sees the heaven opening. He wakes up and says, “How awesome is this place! This is none other than the house of God; this is the gate of heaven.” (Genesis 28:10-22)

He didn’t pray. He just picked a stone and slept. But that place was an altar some years ago and it remained opened to heaven.

You are not normal. You are from another kingdom. You are here on a mission to establish your kingdom authority and go back. You are an ambassador of another kingdom. You work is to bring the rule of your kingdom into this kingdom of darkness. So wherever you go, you possess by raising altars. You sanctify it, you declare it holy, and you claim it in the name of Jesus. You commission angels to arrest the demons and save the person’s soul. The next person that comes after you will be healed and delivered.

2) Foundations of communities.

Why do you feel like a bird? When the foundations are being destroyed, what can the righteous do? (Psalm 11:1,3)

Spiritual foundations are laid when communities are being formed. Before they build houses, they raise altars as foundations of communities. 

As a man of God, as an apostle of God, as a prophet of God, break evil foundations and raise altars for God that become foundations of communities.

You may go as the Lord’s secret service agents to change the spiritual atmosphere.

3) Command centres of spiritual activities.

In spiritual and physical activities, the real power is at the command centre. It is where information is received and sent out. 

A prayer altar can cause people who are not willing to pray, to pray. 

You can command spiritual activities in an area.

4) Custodians of covenants.

Covenants are stored, established and proclaimed on the prayer altar.

5) Governmental places.

Through prayer altars, you can influence systems of government.

For example, when you raise a prayer altar in your house, a mountain of the Lord’s house is established in your house.

It is on Mount Zion—the mountain that shakes and burns with fire--that innumerable multitudes of angels joyfully gather together; that Jesus the Mediator of the new covenant and the saved and the great men that have gone before us; that the blood of the new covenant that speaks of a better covenant than that of Abel. (Hebrews 12:18-24)

All of these are at the altars on the governmental places.

Because an altar of God is a mountain, Jesus Christ the Mediator is on the altar.Thousands of angels are on the altar. All the men that are in paradise (Elijah, Elisha, Moses, John, Peter, James) are also on the altar. The blood of the new covenant is on the altar. And the blood is not silent. The voice of the blood of Jesus is speaking a better covenant on the altar than the blood that has been condemning all this while. There is a voice 24/7 on the altar.

On Mount Zion, there shall be deliverance, and there shall be holiness. And the house of Jacob and Joseph shall take possessions. (Obadiah 1:17-18)

The prayer altar is a mountain that is not easily destroyed. Demons find it difficult to climb the mountain. Because the mountain of the Lord is above the mountains of the world. (Isaiah 2:1-4)

And on this mountain, the Lord shall establish His will.

6) Maintain cries, voices and sounds of sacrifices.

Cries, voices and sounds are symbols of the spirit realm. 

Sometimes, you may have to blow the shofar. The sound keeps echoing in the spirit realm until it has fulfilled the purposes of God.

As you release the sound, the spirit recognises it and follows what is being declared by the sound.

It is on the prayer altars that we maintain these cries, voices and sounds.

The Lord told Moses that He heard the cry of the people of Israel. (Exodus 3:7-9)

The spirit realm responds quickly to songs and cries than words. Songs and cries are spiritual sounds. That’s why you forget a sermon but not a song. Your deliverance is connected to a certain song. When the Lord is to deliver you, He brings a song of deliverance. When the Lord is to heal you, He brings songs of healing. There’s also songs of salvation and songs of victory because that’s what the spirit world listens to. 

On the prayer altar, there must be a song. 

There is always a song for the season. The heaven releases a song for the season of your life. 

Recognise the song of the altar in a given season and keep singing and get the message in it because that sound will be a memorial in the spirit every time you come onto the altar. Maintain that sound until it has created a cycle, a pattern in the spirit until other altars speak the sound. Then it will become a wave, an atmosphere of the power of God because of that sound.

The children of Israel complained and said how they could sing the Song of the Lord while being held in captivity in Babylon. (Psalm 137)

May the Lord put a song on your lips in this season. May your heart begin to sing the Song of the Lord in this season of revival. May your spirit arise in song in this season of deliverance. 

7) Execute judgments and verdicts.

Declarations and proclamations made at the altar execute the judgments of God and the verdicts of heaven. The angels will run from the altar and bring deliverance. 

2 Samuel 24:10-21 New King James Version (NKJV)
The Judgment on David’s Sin
10 And David’s heart condemned him after he had numbered the people. So David said to the Lord, “I have sinned greatly in what I have done; but now, I pray, O Lord, take away the iniquity of Your servant, for I have done very foolishly.”

11 Now when David arose in the morning, the word of the Lord came to the prophet Gad, David’s seer, saying, 12 “Go and tell David, ‘Thus says the Lord: “I offer you three things; choose one of them for yourself, that I may do it to you.” ’ ” 13 So Gad came to David and told him; and he said to him, “Shall seven[a] years of famine come to you in your land? Or shall you flee three months before your enemies, while they pursue you? Or shall there be three days’ plague in your land? Now consider and see what answer I should take back to Him who sent me.”

14 And David said to Gad, “I am in great distress. Please let us fall into the hand of the Lord, for His mercies are great; but do not let me fall into the hand of man.”

15 So the Lord sent a plague upon Israel from the morning till the appointed time. From Dan to Beersheba seventy thousand men of the people died. 16 And when the [b]angel stretched out His hand over Jerusalem to destroy it, the Lord relented from the destruction, and said to the angel who was destroying the people, “It is enough; now restrain your hand.” And the angel of the Lord was by the threshing floor of [c]Araunahthe Jebusite.

17 Then David spoke to the Lord when he saw the angel who was striking the people, and said, “Surely I have sinned, and I have done wickedly; but these sheep, what have they done? Let Your hand, I pray, be against me and against my father’s house.”

The Altar on the Threshing Floor
18 And Gad came that day to David and said to him, “Go up, erect an altar to the Lord on the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.” 19 So David, according to the word of Gad, went up as the Lord commanded. 20 Now Araunah looked, and saw the king and his servants coming toward him. So Araunah went out and bowed before the king with his face to the ground.

21 Then Araunah said, “Why has my lord the king come to his servant?”

And David said, “To buy the threshing floor from you, to build an altar to the Lord, that the plague may be withdrawn from the people.”

David binds the property to raise an altar to God that the plague may be withdrawn from the people.

Protocols of prayer altars:

Protocols are systems of rules that explain the correct conduct and procedures to be followed in formal situations.

When it comes to praying on the altar, it is a formal situation.

An altar is a time and place sanctioned, set apart and sanctified for formal spiritual activities and transactions by a recognised authority.

In a family, there is an authority. In every altar, there must be an authority.

1) Protocol of faith.

Hebrews 11:4 New King James Version (NKJV)
Faith at the Dawn of History
4 By faith Abel offered to God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, through which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts; and through it he being dead still speaks.

God rejected the sacrifice of Cain because he brought a sacrifice without faith.

Hebrews 11:5 New King James Version (NKJV)
5 By faith Enoch was taken away so that he did not see death, “and was not found, because God had taken him”; for before he was taken he had this testimony, that he pleased God.

Hebrews 11:6 New King James Version (NKJV)
6 But without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him.

We come to the altar by faith.

The just shall live by faith. (Habakkuk 2:4) 

The righteous shall live by faith, not by sight. (2 Corinthians 5:7)

How does faith come? Faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God and the word of Christ. (Romans 10:17)

Come to the altar by keep on hearing and reading the word so that your faith is strengthened. Then you can discover the altar.

The word of God is spiritual food for the soul. (1 Corinthians 10:3-4) You need a full course of spiritual food, not a few verses here and there. That’s why so many people are malnourished in the spirit. 

2) Protocol of honour.

Leviticus 10:2-3 New King James Version (NKJV)
2 So fire went out from the Lord and devoured them, and they died before the Lord. 3 And Moses said to Aaron, “This is what the Lord spoke, saying:

‘By those who come near Me
I must be regarded as holy;
And before all the people
I must be glorified.’ ”

Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, brought "strange fire" (unauthorised, foreign or profane) to the altar and the fire of the Lord consumed them.

The prayer altar is serious business. Stop all the games. 

God is holy. When He comes, He comes in His holiness. 

And because God is holy, you need to be holy. Men and women that God has trusted with revival have to be holy. Honour God as God.

Where is the fear of God in the church? Service starts at 8 and you only start your journey at 8:30? You fear your spouse more than God. You fear your bosses at work than God. 

God says, “Do not use My name in vain.” But people use His name as a full stop. For example, “I shall slap you in the name of Jesus” or “Come here in the name of Jesus.”

What are you doing? That name is holy. It should be feared. At the mention of that name, every knee must bow.

But you are playing with that name.

Do not defile the name of the Lord.

The name of the Lord is holy.

Jesus Himself calls God “Father.”

The fear of God must be back to our churches.

3) Protocol of harmony and agreement.

Matthew 5:23-25 New King James Version (NKJV)
23 Therefore if you bring your gift to the altar, and there remember that your brother has something against you, 24 leave your gift there before the altar, and go your way. First be reconciled to your brother, and then come and offer your gift. 25 Agree with your adversary quickly, while you are on the way with him, lest your adversary deliver you to the judge, the judge hand you over to the officer, and you be thrown into prison.

How many people are raising altars but are not talking to one another?

You cannot reconcile with fellow men and now you are coming to the church altar.

Before you come to the altar, there must be harmony and agreement. You must be in the same spirit.

But for most people, our altars have become places of competition to prove who is more spiritual, who speaks more tongues and better tongues, and who prophesies and sees in the spirit.

That’s why our altars are weak. We are not in the prayer covenant and we are not in agreement. There is only confusion. 

The Holy Spirit is not a spirit of confusion. 

There must be harmony and agreement at the prayer altar.

Matthew 18:19-20 New King James Version (NKJV)
19 “Again[a] I say to you that if two of you agree on earth concerning anything that they ask, it will be done for them by My Father in heaven. 20 For where two or three are gathered together in My name, I am there in the midst of them.”

Power of prayer altars:

1) Integrity of the priesthood.

The person has to be holy. You cannot be hurting everyone in church and be in charge of the prayer altar. You cannot be the one breaking marriages in prophecies and be interceding for the church.

Why people do not come to the altar is because the so-called intercessors at the altar are the source of problem for the ministry.

The priest—the one at the altar—must be the one who walks without blame and has a great life’s testimony. Where is your testimony, even at home?

2) Consistency of the sacrifice.

3) Status of the ruling spirit.

The Holy Spirit is the spirit of revival and transformation.

4) Timing and seasons of operation.

Preservation of prayer altars:

Preserve against:

1) Familiar spirits.

They are church-going people who still talk to the dead. (Eg. “My dead mother still comes to give me instructions. My dead grandfather comes and tells me what to do” or “My pastor comes. My pastor is Jesus. I hear His voice in my room” or “The Holy Spirit has come on my head, then it moves to my hands, and it’s now on my feet.”) When the ghost of Samuel appeared to Saul after his death, it was a familiar spirit. (1 Samuel 28)

2) Jezebel spirits.

Jezebel spirits love to prophesy. They like to show that spiritually, they are greater than you. Jezebel spirits love to control. (eg. “God is telling me…, God has shown me…”)

3) Spirit of sorcery.

The spirit of sorcery defiles the mind and brings false knowledge. Sorcery corrupts the mind. It brings spiritual practices and activities that are not acceptable before God. (eg. Necromancy, transcendental meditation, oriental things, Scientology) There’s also false dreams, lying visions and strange powers. The altar is now a place of demonstrating power.

4) Spirit of infirmities.

Spirit of infirmities brings sickness and diseases on the altar. Everyone becomes sick until they cannot pray.

5) Leviathan spirit.

Leviathan is the spirit of pride. Leviathan is the father of pride.


Watch against these powers that defile and break altars.

When the enemy cannot destroy you, he will join you on the altar to defile you and the Lord rejects your altar.

People are believing in objects. Now people are carrying pictures of men of God.

People are believing in oil than the Holy Spirit, and say, “In the name of Jesus, go!” That’s witchcraft. You’ve become a witch now.

Jesus is enough. The name of Jesus is enough. Do not bring other things to add on the name of Jesus. Do not carry Jesus on the handkerchiefs, on stones and on sticks. That is evil!

We need the Holy Spirit in us, not in the stick. Or in the bottle. So when they steal the bottle, they steal the Holy Spirit?


Lord, I thank You that Your name is enough. I am more than a conqueror. I overcome every familiar spirit, the spirit of Jezebel, the spirit of sorcery, the spirit of infirmities, the Leviathan spirit in the name of Jesus. In the name of Jesus, I have victory over the spirit of fear, disease, torment, pain. I defeat every evil spirit, force, principality, personality, power, throne in the name of Jesus. In the name of Jesus, I turn every defeat into victory. I plead the blood of Jesus upon my family, my home, my children, my office, my body. On this altar, there shall be deliverance, healing and transformation. In the name of Jesus, I overcome and defeat the spirit of sorcery and witchcraft in my family, in my bloodline, and in my community. No weapon formed against me will prosper. I declare that victory belongs to Jesus. Amen.

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