 Adrian Rogers said this, and I quote, when there is no hope on the horizontal level, there's always hope on the vertical level, end of quote. David Platt, looking at warfare prayer in the context of Revelation chapter 8, writes that there are several aspects in the spiritual conflict. He writes, our battle is fierce. There's an enemy who wants to defeat us. Number two, our prayers are effective. Our cries go up and his kingdom comes down.