MOUNTAIN OF FIRE AND MIRACLES MINISTRIES
International Headquarters, Lagos, Nigeria.
Sunday Worship Service
Date: 21-April-2024
Theme: Every Member a Bible Student, Every Member a Bible Addict (A Teaching Series – Part 2)
Ministering: Dr. D.K Olukoya (MFM Worldwide)
Anchored Scriptures: Jeremiah 23:29
Let’s have our seat, God bless you.
Message:
Last week, we began to look at a very important topic, ‘Every member a Bible student’. We take our key from there again. I am reading from the book of Jeremiah 23:29. Last week, I explain to you, the power, the centrality and the importance of the word of God, and why everybody should be a Bible student. It’s not enough to just be praying, the prayer must be backed up by the word of God.
Jeremiah 23:29, listen to what it says about the word of God.
Two symbols there about the word of God:
– Fire: the word of God is a great purifier, which destroys all that is unclean and dirty, which removes the false from a metal and leaves only the genuine metal inside. The word is like fire.
– The word is like hammer, which strengthens our life and conscience, crushing everything that is evil in heart.
There are other symbols of the word of God in the Bible. I will give you a list, what the word of God is, so you know the importance of what we are saying.
The Bible also tells us:
– The word of God is a mirror, a mirror to reflect, something you use to repair yourself. James 1
– The word of God is a seed to multiply. You find that in 1 Peter 1
– The word of God is a laver, to cleanse in washing soap.
– The word of God is a lamp to guide. Psalm 119:105
– The word of God is like rain and snow to refresh.
– The word of God is like a sword. Hebrews 4:12
– The word of God is like a bow to revenge.
– The word of God is like a gold to enrich a person.
– The word of God is like food, to nourish. That is why you find the Bible calling the word of God ‘milk’ for babies, ‘bread’ for the hungry, ‘meat’ for the people, ‘honey’ for the dessert. That’s the word of God.
– So, the word of God will give you victory in every battle.
– That word of God is the last bus stop in every situation.
– The word of God will defend you where you cannot speak.
– The word of God will bring you joy.
– The word of God will deliver you from bondages.
– The word of God silences your enemies.
– It destroys hopelessness. No matter the situation the enemy has prepared, the word of God will work for you in that situation.
– It is the word of God that stops restlessness.
– His word brings wisdom. If you reject the word of God, then you cannot retain wisdom.
– The word of God brings victory over sins.
– The word of God gives power to revive.
The power, the centrality fo the word of God is totally undebatable.
The great apostle Ayo Babalola, was in a town in the western part of Nigeria. He started a crusade, nothing was happening in that crusade. The crusade looked dry, no fire, nothing, so he got concerned. He prayed that “Father, what is going on here, I have never been to a place where there is no moving of Your power like this”? The Lord said ‘you should have asked me. At midnight, you see that river that crosses the town, go there, and you will know what the problem is. When you get there, begin to sing praises and call on the name of Jehovah’.
So the great apostle went to this river at 12 midnight. He started praying, he started singing praises.
All of a sudden, there was a rumbling in the water, a giant thing was trying to come out of that water. Very soon, a giant creature came out. The figure was the figure of a woman. It was a giant woman with a long breast. The breast were so long that they were touching the ground, and this principality looked at the great apostle.
She said “man of the Living God, what do you want”? The great apostle responded that ‘I want salvation of God in this city’. No woman responded that “no problem, let us negotiate. From this side of the river to this side, you can have that one, but this one, leave it to me, so that way, both of us will not have any problem. You face this place, I face that place”.
The man of God said ‘no, there will be no negotiation. Jesus died for the people here, Jesus died for the people there’. Then the demon got angry, and said “what do you mean? Who are you? where were you in the beginning when I started here? I have been here before this river came here, so what do you mean? Where were you at that time”?
The man of God responded and said ‘well, I don’t know where I was, but one thing I know is this: in the beginning was the word, and the word was with God, and the word was God, all things were made by Him, without Him was nothing made that was made’. Immediately he made that pronouncement (the word of God), this thing tumbled back into the water, and there was blood all over the water. That was when the power of God could move in their midst.
This is why I want to pray one prayer now, it’s a very mysterious story, but is telling you something interesting; that a particular principality can be an umbrella over an area, even over a nation, and the rain of blessing will not fall on them. A particular individual, can be an umbrella to stop your blessing over your head. The Bible says ‘in the year that king Uzziah died, then I saw the Lord’. Meaning that, that Uzziah has been the one that is blocking the man from seeing God.
* I am praying for somebody here, any satanic umbrella, blocking you from your rain of blessing; with a 21 fold ‘Amen’, destroy them in the name of Jesus!
That was the story of the great apostle. Let me tell you something that happened in the first church that I pastored.
We were very few, so I was forcing them to memorize the Bible. I was even embarrassing some of them, whether you’re mama or baba (an elderly man or woman), you did not do your memory verse and scripture memorization, we will ask them to stand up. This was what saved the life of one sister. If I had not taught them to do that, only God knows what would have happened to that sister.
She was a maternity nurse. A girl was admitted to the hospital, that young girl got pregnant and she was admitted. During her night ward, moving about, she found that this lady who was brought in for delivery, the stomach was now flat. So the maternity nurse was shocked, and the lady was fast asleep. So the nurse shook her up, and said “what! You’re a pregnant woman, and you came here to deliver, where is the baby”?
The pregnant lady responded and said “mama, calm down, relax, the baby has gone for a meeting and she will be coming back in one hour. So, nurse, come back in one hour”. The maternity nurse was scared, and within one hour, the baby was back, the tummy was back again. The maternity nurse began to pray that “let this girl just give birth and leave my hospital, how many people will I tell this”. So, she began prayer, until this baby was delivered.
Then, she (the maternity nurse) was not sleeping, she was in her office. A giant creature came in, and confronted her, and said “you, you caused her to deliver the baby here, something we don’t want you to do, you’re in trouble”. And the demon started incantations. And she said, as the thing was talking and making incantation, she started getting weaker and weaker.
All of a sudden, she remembered one of memory verses that I made them to learn. It says ‘associate yourself oh ye people, and ye shall be scattered, take counsel together and it shall come to nought, speak the word and it shall not stand, for God is with me’. Immediately she mentioned the scriptures, this giant creature fell down, and disappeared.
Beloved, the word of God is quick and powerful. You’re not doing yourself any good at all, when you wake up and leave your house without reading the Bible. You’re not doing yourself any good at all, when you’ve been born again for one year, two years, and you cannot read 20 memory verses.
You see, when you memorize the Bible, you’re storing it in your spiritual bank. So, if war is waged against you, you have your own in quote, “incantation”, and there is no incantation, there is no magic, there is nothing anybody can say that can overcome the word of God.
Unfortunately, the church is filled with a lot of biblical illiterates. They are too lazy to read the Bible, too lazy to memorize, too lazy to meditate. They do not understand what Joshua 1:8 is saying.
Are you here, when we say ‘open your Bible’, these are signs of biblical illiterates when it comes to bible reading. That’s why I said ‘bring your physical bible to church, not phone, not iPad, not tablet. Those are not Bibles, the Bible is a book.
Signs of Biblical Illiteracy:
1. When the Sunday school teacher say “let’s go to the book of Galatians, let’s go to the book of Lamentations’. If you have to go to table of contents to start looking for it, you’re a biblical illiterate.
2. You only pick your bible up when you want to church, biblical illiterate.
3. You’re always prone to disobeying God, you’re not a Bible reader. Somebody has said ‘it is impossible to enslave a Bible reader’.
4. When you’re always fearful and anxious for the future, it’s a sign you’re biblically illiterate.
5. If the world is transforming you, instead of you transforming the world, it’s a sign that you’re a biblical illiterate.
6. If you prefer visions, prophecy, “this says the Lord, thus says the Lord”, prophecy, dream, vision; but Bible, “no”. Even, those prophets will tell you something that is against the Bible, and they will say “it is God”, and you will agree.
7. If you’re not hearing from God, it’s a sign of biblical illiteracy.
8. You’re feeling empty and hopeless inside, it’s because you’re a biblical illiterate.
9. They just blow you everywhere, they blow you with every wind of doctrine. “Do this”, you do that, and you begin to compromise your faith, it’s a sign of biblical illiteracy.
10. When you’re beginning to think that the Bible is outdated, you think the Bible does not work for you, it’s a sign of biblical illiteracy.
11. When you find the Bible boring, and you’ve turn that Bible to a sleeping tablet (when reading the Bible makes you sleepy), you’re biblically illiterate.
12. When you’re always distracted reading the Bible, you’re biblically illiterate. That’s part of the advantage of having a book called “the Bible”, not carrying phone that has bible and then receiving a call from that phone, you’re not a Bible reader.
13. If you have no desire to read the Bible, there is a problem. The Bible says ‘blessed are they, which hunger and thirst after righteousness, they shall be filled’. You’re not hungry about bible reading, you’re not thirsty about it, to you it’s just an ordinary book, you’re biblically illiterate.
A pastor went to a member’s house to pray with them. And when he got there, the pastor said ‘bring your bible’. The woman turned to her son, “go and bring that book we use to read every morning”. The boy went inside and brought out a story book. She woman said “bring the Bible”. The child who didn’t know what is going on, said “mummy, this is the one we read”.
14. If you don’t read the Bible like a love letter, you’re biblically illiterate.
15. You run after prophets, instead of depending on the word of God. You know that this prophet has several wives, you know that this prophet is not following the Bible, but you’re following the prophet, it shows signs of biblical illiteracy.
16. If you only read the Bible when you come to church, then you’re biblically illiterate.
17. If you only read the Bible because you say “well, because I was brought up in a Christian home, and we do this every morning” or you say “I believe that reading the Bible is for preachers alone”; and that Bible is not a priority in your life, it is evidence that you’re biblically illiterate.
18. When you’re feeling lazy to read the Bible, it’s a sign that you’re biblically illiterate.
19. When you have an obituary of quiet time, you don’t observe your quite time, you love entertainment. You can sit down and watch film for hours, you’re spiritually and biblically illiterate.
20. If a person is carnally minded, it is evident that the person is biblically illiterate.
21. The person is still a slave to fear, and you have many many excuses for not reading the Bible, it is evident that the person is biblically illiterate.
Bottomline:
Make up your mind, determine that you must become a bible addict. It’s good to become a prayer addict, it’s good to become a holiness addict. It’s also good to become a Bible addict. Heavens are waiting for some of us to manifest, but the bank of the word of God in us is so light and low that heavens cannot trust them with much, because it knows that they are very light weight, and they are confused in the mind, swept about by every wind of doctrine, swept about by every man “saying this, saying that”. Hebrews 4:12
Bow down your heads beloved.
Prayer Rain:
Before and After Hymnal Ministration Prayers:
1. Any power anywhere, expecting me to die, expecting my family to die; you’re a liar, die, in the name of Jesus!
2. All you my stubborn pursuers, in life or in dream, wherever you are, catch fire, in the name of Jesus!
3. By the Blood of Jesus, by the Holy Ghost Fire, I arise and shine, in the name of Jesus!
4. O God of Mountain of Fire, arise, demonstrate your favor in my life, in the name of Jesus!
After Testimony Session prayer:
5. O God arise, and walk back, ten generations in my family lines, and arise every instruction the enemy is using to torment my life, in the name of Jesus!
After Announcement Session prayer, by Pastor Kunle Adesanya (S.R.O):
6. Every physical and spiritual hindrances to my expected breakthroughs, be removed by the Blood of Jesus, in the name of Jesus!
Before Ministration prayers by Daddy G.O:
There are people in this gathering, who will have to completely trample on every serpent and scorpion, troubling their destinies. Like the Bible says, ‘in the last days, perilous times shall come’. It is because of that wickedness, that I want you to pray these prayers with violence and with fire. They may sound strange to you, I want to recommend that you pray from your heart:
7. Battles of the night, assigned to sink my destiny, scatter, in the name of Jesus!
8. Every terror of the night, organized to turn my life upside down, backfire, in the name of Jesus!
9. Powers hiding in darkness to kill me, you are a liar, die, in the name of Jesus!
10. Wicked dreams, wicked visions, against my life; backfire, in the name of Jesus!
11. Witchcraft operation in my bloodline, dry up, in the name of Jesus!
12. My days, favor me by fire, in the name of Jesus!
After Ministration prayers by Daddy G.O:
Say this with authority:
13. Spirit of the valley, summoning me to the valley, loose your hold, in the name of Jesus!
14. Every goliath delaying my glory, I pull you down, in the name of Jesus!
The next three prayers, you need holy anger to pray them, so don’t negotiate:
15. Forces of darkness, preparing my defeat, die, in the name of Jesus!
16. My testimonies, in the hands of the wicked, be released by fire, in the name of Jesus!
17. Padlocks of darkness, working against my life, break, in the name of Jesus!
God bless you🙏