Penetrating the Darkness

Hayford's book on spiritual warfare, written with his daughter Rebecca Hayford Bauer and published by Chosen in 2011 with the subtitle Discovering the Power of the Cross Against Unseen Evil. Hayford argues that many Christians, faced daily with evidence that evil is flourishing, feel helpless because they think spiritual warfare belonged only to biblical times, and do not realise the power that is theirs through the cross. For the first time, his publisher says, he set out the strategies he had learned for engaging and defeating evil through prayer. The first chapter, "Rules of Engagement," opens with Ephesians 6:17–18, and Hayford says that nothing shaped his life more than prayer.