 Your flesh will fight you the hardest when you pray, but the devil will fight you the hardest when you go to read the word. The flesh dies in prayer, the enemy is defeated by the word. So your flesh will squirm when you go to pray, but the enemy will assault you with everything he has when you go to read the word. It's your first line of defense, because without the word, you don't know what to pray. You don't know what you can pray. You don't know your authority to pray. Without the word, there's no fuel for your prayer life. There's no revelation for your prayer life. The word is where it begins.