You're feeling the need to pray for the area you're living in, and you're not alone. Christians around the nation, and indeed around the globe, are feeling the Holy Spirit's prompting to pray for their neighborhoods, their towns and cities, their regions, their states, the U.S., and the nations.

Scripture shares principles on how to do this effectively, as Lisa discovered when she felt the Holy Spirit urging her to pray for the state she'd been raised in and returned to as an adult: Minnesota. Praying and studying scripture, she learned that the Bible reveals that geographical areas can have rulers of spiritual darkness (Daniel 10:13; Ephesians 6:12) and that spiritual warfare is very real.