MOUNTAIN OF FIRE AND MIRACLES MINISTRIES
International Headquarters, Lagos, Nigeria.
Sunday Worship Service
February 26th, 2023.
Topic: THE MYSTERY OF THE SPIRIT OF HEAVINESS
Text: Psalm 69:20, Proverbs 12:25, Isaiah 61:3
Ministering: Dr. Daniel Olukoya (G.O. MFM Worldwide)
This message will help so many people if they can put their hearts to it.
🔥 I pray that any reproach confronting you, shall be buried alive! in the name of Jesus.
Reproach has power to break hearts. Heaviness turns a man’s heart upside down. It destabilises the heart.
This song is taken from Isaiah 61:3 and it goes:
He gives me beauty for ashes
The joy of God for mourning
The garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness
That they might be trees of righteousness
The planting of the Lord
That He might be glorified.
When the garment of praise now replaces the spirit of heaviness, it is then we can be called the trees of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, and then the Lord will be glorified.
There is a power:
– That weighs people down.
– That suffocated life out of you.
– Assigned to quench laughter.
– That would sit on somebody’s heart, and make the heart heavy as if that heart is about to burst open.
– That sucks the blood of your vitality.
– That opposes your joy.
– that ignites discouragement.
– that magnetises sorrow.
– that can reposition a man for failure.
– that can bring go-slow to your breakthrough
– That can put a man or woman in a dry pit.
– That causes sluggish breakthrough.
– That brings failure out of sure success.
– That is a forefather of depression, insanity and mental torture.
– That is an expert at distributing yokes.
– That scuttles your concentration and dilutes your efforts.
– That will ignite your enemy and empower them to begin satanic praise worship.
– That breaks hearts.
– That is the best magnet of high blood pressure and heart disease.
– That is very clever and is a tireless killer. The power has destroyed, is destroying and will still destroy.
– That deflates and punctures the tire of your breakthrough.
– That empowers the enemy to put his leg on your neck.
– That troubles one’s life as if one is tearing something in a pot.
– That kills interest in Bible reading, praying and fellowship.
– that traps people into the valley of slumber.
– that convinces a man that life is ugly and unfair. Who told you that life is fair anyway?
– that starts a journey into self pity.
– That makes a man to withdraw from everybody and refuse to talk to anyone.
– That turns people away from their responsibilities.
– That makes people imagine and fantasise about death. Beloveth, pay attention.
– that asks you to bite into your tithes and then brings problems later.
– that pushes away from your best friends. Your best friend is not your closest friend, he is the one that brings out the best in you.
– That makes people to cry when crying is not necessary.
– That makes people to go into heavy debt when they should not go into debt at all.
– that leads people into the valley of temptation. Temptation is a suggestion looking for your agreement.
– That wants to make you talk your secrets into the hands of your enemies.
– That converts a well behaved boy to an area boy, and then an area man.
– That disgraces a man and makes a man powerless.
A power that has no respect. What is this power? It is the spirit of heaviness. The Bible says He gives beauty for ashes, and oil of garment for mourning and then garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness. Why is it that that of heaviness has to be the one you wrap yourself in? It is because the heaviness too covers you like a shadow. It will cover the totality of the person.
Can you raise up your right hand and shout this loud and clear:
🔥 Thou garment of heaviness around my life, catch fire! in the name of Jesus.
What is the spirit of heaviness?
– the spirit of abandonment. It is when you feel everyone has abandoned me.
– the spirit of the bastard. The Bible definition of bastard is any child that is born outside marriage and such a child needs deliverance.
Once you get born again as a christian, with due respect, there is no court or mosque or dowry or engagement that can join you to a woman or man. All believers who are born again are not fully married until they stand at the altar and a priest stands in the place of God and joins them.
Anything outside that, they are still living as boyfriend and girlfriend. The court can only fill papers, but cannot spiritually join believers. So if it is just court wedding you have done as a believer, any children you have during that phase are recognised as bastards. You may say “but I have paid her dowry”. That is zero, until you have been declared husband and wife by a priest or pastor. The spirit of heaviness makes you a bastard in the house of your father.
– the spirit of the broken heart.
– the spirit of evil burden upon people.
– the spirit of negative condemnation
– The spirit of continual sadness.
– The critical spirit. You criticise everything.
– The spirit of cruelty. Most wicked and cruel people have heavy load inside. Something is still going wrong inside.
– the spirit of unnecessary crying.
– the spirit of death on the inside.
– The spirit of easy defeat. You have accepted that it is all over.
🔥 I pray that every internal defeat will be buried today, in the name of Jesus.
You are not a failure when you fall down, you are a failure when you surrender to the enemy.
– the spirit of despair.
– The spirit of dejection.
– The spirit of discouragement.
– The spirit of disgust.
– The spirit of disorder. A small problem comes and the person becomes disorderly.
– the spirit of fear.
– the spirit of trying to escape false burden, fatigue, gloom. To some people it manifests as spirit of gluttony. They begin to eat and balloon.
– what causes most of constant headaches and migraines that most people have.
– the spirit of heartbreak and heartache.
– the spirit of helplessness. It manifests as the spirit of hyperactivity because the person’s mind is not settled. To some people, it is excessive dressing and makeup. They paint their lips excessively, they shave off their brows and draw a line, they paint their cheeks, they tint their hair, then they aggressively dress immorally. Something is wrong somewhere.
The people who called the thing “makeup” got it right. It means the person is not up to standard, so he has to be made up. When your beauty is from heaven, he will not need makeup. And that is why it is good to remain natural.
– the spirit of indifference. The person cannot be bothered anymore by anything.
– the spirit of inner hurt.
– the spirit of sleeplessness. When you have a bad night, you have a bad day. There is a function that sleep does in your body.
– The spirit of laziness.
– The spirit of mourning.
– The spirit of rejection.
– the spirit of self pity. Immediately you start the self pity exercise, the demons will rejoice and be glad. That is why the Bible said “let not your heart be troubled”.
– The spirit of suicide.
– the spirit of sleepiness.
– A troubled spirit.
– The spirit of unworthiness.
– The spirit of weariness.
– A wounded spirit.
The way out of the spirit of heaviness is to bind it and cast it out, since it is a spirit. Then you loosen the spirit of praise, joy and comfort upon your life. Many of us need deliverance from this kind of spirit. This is why some people pray powerful prayers but do not understand why the prayers are not being answered. They pray serious prayers, like a thousand worth of prayers and five thousand worth of heaviness. That swallows all the prayers they have prayed.
The Bible says that the man who has a double mind is like the waves of the sea, tossed about, and let not such a man think that he can receive anything from the Lord. This is a serious matter. You are the same person who prays against something and still do not believe in your prayers. The spirit of heaviness has downgraded many believers. Unfortunately, the word of God cannot be broken. The Bible says “But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.”
There are some people here this morning, they do not only need to bind this thing out of their lives, they need to confess to the Lord that they are sorry.
PRAYER POINTS.
[Before Message]
Powers speaking death to my destiny, what are you waiting for? Die! in the name of Jesus.
[After Message]
1. Arrows of death, fired into my heart, backfire! in the name of Jesus.
2. Garment of heaviness, catch fire! in the name of Jesus.
God bless you🙏