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MOUNTAIN OF FIRE AND MIRACLES MINISTRIES
International Headquarters Lagos Nigeria
Wednesday Manna Water Service
October 28th, 2020
Topic: I RECOVER MY GLORY BY THE POWER IN THE BLOOD OF JESUS
Text: Psalm 84:11, 1 Peter 1:24
Ministering: Dr. Daniel Olukoya (G.O MFM Worldwide)
The word “glory” is a very interesting word because it encompasses so many things.
Glory means:
– Honour.
– An impressive thing.
– High esteem.
– Extreme joy.
– Great beauty.
– Honour won by notable achievement.
– Great splendour.
– To be majestic.
– Brilliant.
– Something that stands out.
– Magnificent.
– A state/condition of exaltation.
– Something that secures your praises.
– Great praise.
These are the meaning of glory when defined by men but when you go into the Bible, it is a deeper word.
🔥 I pray that the Lord will damage our ignorance, in the name of Jesus.
The root word for glory in Hebrew is called “Kabod”
In the Bible, glory means abundance, wealth, treasure, honour, brightness, dignity, etc.
Psalm 84:11 – “For the LORD God is a sun and shield: the LORD will give grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.”
🔥The Lord will give you grace and glory, in the name of Jesus
God has the capacity to give you glory
1 Peter 1:24 – “For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away:”
Glory can pass away
🔥 May your glory not pass away, in the name of Jesus.
Hosea 4:7 – “As they were increased, so they sinned against me: therefore will I change their glory into shame.”
Glory can be turned to shame.
🔥 May your glory not be turned to shame, in the name of Jesus.
1 Corinthians 15:39-41 – “All flesh is not the same flesh: but there is one kind of flesh of men, another flesh of beasts, another of fishes, and another of birds. There are also celestial bodies, and bodies terrestrial: but the glory of the celestial is one, and the glory of the terrestrial is another. There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars: for one star differeth from another star in glory.”
It tells us that there are different types of glory. There are different categories of glory.
The bottom-line is this beloveth, everyone has deposited glory from heaven. There is something heaven has planted in you to make you shine. That your glory is;
1. Your shining forth.
2. Your internal Moses that will deliver you in time of trouble.
3. Your quota of divine excellence.
4. The totality of your unique capacity.
5. What you can do, what you must do but you have not yet done.
6. The star of your destiny.
7. Your favour magnet.
8. Your unction for greatness.
9. Your goodness glue.
One of the greatest prayers you can pray for yourself is, “My glory, arise and shine, in the name of Jesus”
Glory can be inherited, acquired and it can be an inborn thing. At the same time, that glory can;
– Be stolen.
– Be transferred
– Be lost.
– Fade away.
– Sink.
– Be buried.
– Be killed and be destroyed.
– Be turned to shame
🔥May any power attacking the glory of anyone here, be buried alive today, in the name of Jesus.
Now, God runs a school in the middle of the night. It is called the School of Dreams (Job 33:16-17)
In this school of dream, the spiritual monitor of your life is exposed – Your dream is the spiritual monitor of your life.
The enemy didn’t allow you participate in the school that God runs in the middle of the night. In that school, a lot of things are in parable.
There are some dreams that are dreams of glory destruction.
– When you see that you go bald in the dream.
– When you see that you are losing your hair in the dream.
– If you keep having dreams of losing your shoes, you need to pray very well about marriage.
– When you dream that you are back to your village, primary school, secondary school, where you were learning apprentice, etc, they are dreams of grace to grass.
– When you find yourself in the dream to talk to people but your voice is not coming out.
– When you find yourself fighting some unknown people in the dream.
– If you don’t dream at all; anything they do to your glory, you cannot see.
– If you see yourself just floating around in the market place without buying anything.
– If you dream that you are going to a place and you have a destination in mind but you are never getting there, the school of the night is telling you something.
– If in your dream life, they bring masquerades and all kinds of things, and you have no capacity to say, “thus saith the Lord,” or you have no capacity to start speaking in tongues.
There are some specific spirits in the demonic world; their agenda is to bury the glory of man.
When somebody’s glory has been buried, the person will;
– Go from grace to grass.
– Begin to suffer from the poverty of clear thinking.
– Go from grace to disgrace.
– There will be arrows of shame.
– Experience all round defeat
If you want to recover from any lost glory;
1. You need to surrender your life to Jesus Christ.
2. Obey God completely.
3. You will now need to pray what we call recovery prayers.
PRAYER POINTS
1. Powers programmed against my glory, die, in the name of Jesus.
2. Ancestral powers holding my glory, your time is up, die, in the name of Jesus.
3. Glory robbers, I command you to vomit my glory, in the name of Jesus.
4. Glory aborters, you are a failure, die, in the name of Jesus.
5. Glory killers of my father’s house, glory killers of my mother’s house, die, in the name of Jesus.
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Year 2020: ‘Our year of spiritual revival and new glory’
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MOUNTAIN OF FIRE & MIRACLES MINISTRIES
International Headquarters, Lagos, Nigeria.
SPECIAL SUNDAY WORSHIP SERVICE
Live Broadcast
Sunday 7th June, 2020
TOPIC: HYPOCRISY
ANCHORED Scriptures: Job 8:13, Job 13:16, Job 15:34, Job 20:5, Mathew 7:3-5, Mathew 23:28-29, Mathew 24:46-47, Luke 12:1, Mark 7:6-7, Luke 6:46, I Timothy 4:1-2, James 3:17.
Ministering Dr. D. K. Olukoya (G.O MFM Worldwide)
Prayers before message:
1. Any power assigned to provoke me to sorrow die in the name of Jesus.
2. Any power assigned to turn my seat of Glory to seat of battle scatter in the name of Jesus.
3. Every covenant of wicked elders that have stolen my Glory break in the name of Jesus.
4. Oh God arise and separate me from any darkness in the name of Jesus.
5. The source of my battles hear the word of the Lord dry up in the name of Jesus.
6. Any battle assigned to make me move from problems to problems die in the name of Jesus.
7. Environmental arrows fired against my destiny backfire in the name of Jesus.
8. Let dry wind from the Lord confuse the camp of my enemies in the name of Jesus.
9. Any power shooting arrows at me from the grave die in the name of Jesus.
10. Any power assigned to make life difficult for me die in the name of Jesus.
11. Powers assigned to prevent me from lifting up my head die in the name of Jesus.
12. Battles assigned to embarras my existence your time is up die in the name of Jesus.
13. Any power writing my name on any demonic list fall down and die in the name of Jesus.
14. Powers representing me in the spirit realm with rags die in the name of Jesus.
15. Powers seating on what belong to me saying it will never get to me oh God arise and consume them with your fire in the name of Jesus.
16. Every power commanding me to carry the evil load of my fathers house be silenced in the name of Jesus.
17. Powers assigned to cut short the day of my joy your time is up die in the name of Jesus.
18. Any satanic sacrifice offered to waste my existence die in the name of Jesus.
19. I cut off the head of any foundational Goliath in my family in the name of Jesus.
20. Powers that want me to be in the grave before my glory appears your time is up die in the name of Jesus.
Message
WHO IS AN HYPOCRITE?
It means an actor in Hebrew word.
When you pretend to be what you are not. Its so bad that it is linked with false-hood, deceit, wearing mask. The inconsistent Christian is the devils best workers.
When you are a something else at home and something else outside you are an hypocrite. An hypocrite will preach in metre and lived in centimeters.
To wear a mask, camouflage and mascurades. While a hypocrite is trying to deceive other but end up deceiving themselves.
Hypocrite can harm others with there deceit but they end up harming themselves.
Hypocrisy is a cleverly concealed danger. To pretend to be a practicing Christianity and you are not. There is scarcely any other sin that Jesus portrayed to be more deadly than hypocrisy.
Hypocrisy make you to be more concern to appearing to be good to men and not to God.
Alot of people practice saying yes, no, no, yes
What is Hypocrisy?
1. Inconsistent living
3. Chameleon living
3. Living above your experience
5. Is when the trumpet of your life is giving an uncertain sound.
6. Is to be going up and down
7. The bible called them unturned cake. Preaching but not practicing it, is hypocrisy. Of all sins the sin of hypocrisy inspire the anger of Jesus more.
See how seriously the bible view this matter.
Job 8:13
Job 13:16
Job 15:34
Job 20:5
Mathew 7:3-5
Mathew 23:28-29
Mathew 24:46-47
Luke 12:1
Mark 7:6-7
Luke 6:46
I Timothy 4:1-2
James 3:17
Look at yourself well. All form of having a form of Godliness but denying the power there off is hypocrisy.
Who are the hypocrite in the house of God?
1. Those who like prayers and fasting but hate discipline.
2. They listen to the word but ignore Gods commandments.
3. Those who pretend to have there life all together a little than what it really is.
4. Those who speak half truth.
5. Those who are clever at cover up.
6. They hide in the mist of the congregation in the church. Hypocrites are group of committee members who are not committed.
Why are committees appointed?
> Because they pulled their wisdom together.
> Because they are assigned a lot of work.
But Jesus will not spend much time in committee meetings. Apart from reading the minutes of the last meeting, ask yourself why am I here? A lot of people love wasting lots of time at committee meeting instead of spending time in spiritual growths.
Sometimes the committee is a place where people show off their wisdom. Hypocrite love committee meeting.
Examine your life and evaluate the usefulness in what you are doing.
Hypocrite get too busy just to avoid confronting pressing matters at home.
Hypocrite will always seek after church post.
Hypocrite pretend to be what they are not. They pretend to be sick when there is hard works, they are clever actors.
Hypocrite act like Christian when they are not Christians. The human race is an assembly of people who are counterfeiting happiness.
Hypocritical Christian is one of the devils best workers.
They most dangerous people are those who don’t agree with you and are too cowardly to let you know
The scripture is not very kind with the way he deals with hypocrisy.
Hypocrite is when Satan is laughing at your Christian.
Man is the only animal that will remain in friendly terms with the Victim he wants to eat
You adjust and accommodate your appearance with what people think of you. You are trying to play religious games, it does will not satisfy heaven.
You like to display for men to see you for what you are and what you are doing. Your hand are pretending to be what you are not, it is hypocrisy.
Do you judge others by human standard?
Do you substitute major for minor?
Do you pray in public to be recognise by others.
Do you appear to people that you are fasting?
You are a saint in public and devil at home, is hypocrisy.
Hypocrisy is like a pin, pointing at one direction but heading another direction. You need to depart from the school of hypocrisy.
Its a dangerous sin to live as an hypocrite as a Christian.
Bow your head and confess every sin of hypocrisy.
Prayer Sections:
1. My Father, my life is available take control of my life, in the name of Jesus.
2. Every property of hell fire in my life die in the name of Jesus.
3. The devil will not harvest my life by the power in the blood of Jesus in the name of Jesus.
4. Arrows of bad thought backfire in the name of Jesus.
5. My father break me and remould me in the name of Jesus.
6. Anything in my life making heaven unhappy depart in the name of Jesus.
7. Idols of iniquity in my heart break in the name of Jesus.
8. Oh God arise and revive me in the name of Jesus.
9. My Father 3ce don’t replace me with stone in the name of Jesus.
10. My Father, 3ce my life is available, appear, in the name of Jesus.
11. Holy ghost overshadow my life in the name of Jesus.
12. My Father, give me the engine of prayer in the name of Jesus.
13. Thou power of backsliding die in the name of Jesus.
14. Oh God arise, kill every idol in my heart in the name of Jesus.
15. Blood of Jesus purge my heart in the name of Jesus.
16. My Father, this is my life, visit me, in the name of Jesus.
17. My Father, advertise your power in my life, in the name of Jesus.
18. Holy ghost, purge my life, in the name of Jesus.
19. My Father, if my name has been removed from the book of life, please write it back, in the name of Jesus.
20. Anything in my life, chasing God away, come out now, in the name of Jesus.
21. My Father, purge my life and revive me, in the name of Jesus.
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Year 2020: ‘Our year of spiritual revival and new glory’
MOUNTAIN OF FIRE & MIRACLES MINISTRIES,
INTERNATIONAL HEADQUARTERS,
ONIKE, YABA, LAGOS, NIGERIA
Special Sunday Worship Service
May 24th, 2020
Special Live Broadcast
Topic: ALONE WITH GOD
Ministering: Dr. D. K. Olukoya (G.O. MFM Worldwide)
Text:
Genesis 32:22-28;
Isaiah 30:15;
Mark 1:35; 4:34;
Isaiah 30:15
“For thus saith the Lord GOD, the Holy One of Israel; In returning and rest shall ye be saved; in quietness and in confidence shall be your strength: and ye would not”
The secret of strength lies in quietness; being quiet.
And quietness is greatly praised in the Bible.
Noise does not indicate strength: it has been well said that an empty barrel makes the loudest noise.
If we study very well, it is the quiet forces that are more powerful:
– Force of light; it’s quiet &
– Force of gravitation; it’s quiet
If we must learn to be strong, we must learn quietness. The reason for our shallowness is lack of quiet time; being busy is an excuse.
Solitude is being lonely by choice. There is power in being lonely with God.
The greatest men who have made impact are the people who have been quiet.
Being alone with God has a therapeutic renewing, re-energising and strengthening power.
It is when we are alone with God, He is able to mould us to what he can use.
There are something that men will never learn when men are around.
A time alone with yourself and alone with God will transform you to another man.
In solitude place, a man gains strength;
Solitude is the audience chamber of God;
Silence is resting your mind. Silence is to the spirit what sleep is to the body: it strengthens, refreshes and renews.
Solitude is the price of greatness. It makes you the greatest of the great;
Those That Were Quiet and Heard From God
1. Jacob;
2. Enoch;
3. Noah;
4. Abraham;
5. Moses; &
6. All powerful ancient prophets.
Spending time alone with God can help us hear our inner-most voice. Certain tasks are best carried out when no one is around.
– Solitude is staying away from people, computers, phones, newspapers, games, music, tablets, etc;
– Solitude can be locking yourself in a room for few hours, it does not have to be for days;
– Solitude may be getting to work earlier than everybody and placing your head on the locker and having your time; &
– Solitude may be going to a peaceful corner during break in your place of work.
Questions to ask yourself
1. Have you ever heard the Lord’s still small voice?
2. When last were you quiet for 30 minutes?
3. Are you able to just sit down without the noise of radio, television or internet and meditate?
4. Does silence bother you?
5. Do you have trouble meditating? &
6. When last were you in a place that you could hear a pin drop?
– Quietness is listening to God. Proverbs 1:33;
– Quietness is waiting on God. Lamentation 3:25-30;
– Quietness is the opposite of storm;
– Quietness is an orderly life. 1 Thess. 4:9-12;
– Quietness is a treasure of great value;
If you are not getting anything, make sure it is in your spirit that you need to practice quietness.
God comes to us in our quiet moments to speak and to teach. The quietness of that inside will defend you from destruction. We should cultivate strategic quietness.
TWO FACTS TO KNOW
1. Do you know that meditating 15 minutes a day can change your life completely?
2. Do you know that if you speak in tongues for 1 hour a day consistently, for two months, you will become another man.
Quietness of the spirit can be learned. Psalm 131:2 God speaks loudly in the stillness of our spirit. We need to quiet ourselves.
Whenever you feel that you have plenty of things to do and you can’t get all done, take a break and be quiet, meditating. A still small voice cannot be detected in the cloudiness of noise.
Your progress depends on the ability to meditate.
Beloved, you have heard this teaching, put it into practice, start from today, do spiritual retreat: Remember, in quietness and confidence is your strength.
PRAYER POINTS
1. Any ancient battle, assigned to pull me down, die, in the name of Jesus;
2. Agents of darkness, my life is not your candidate, clear away, in the name of Jesus;
3. The battle of “you shall not be congratulated, be scattered, in the name of Jesus;
4. Every battle, assigned to waste my time and years, die, in the name of Jesus;
5. Opportunity wasters, your time is up, die, in the name of Jesus;
6. Thou flying pestilence, I am not your candidate, scatter, in the name of Jesus;
7. Every power, assigned to kill my star, die, in the name of Jesus;
8. I fire back every arrow of sickness and infirmity, in the name of Jesus; &
9. O God arise, and teach me to be quiet, in the name of Jesus.
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Year 2020: ‘Our year of spiritual revival and new glory’
MFM International Headquarters Sunday Service
DATE: 08-March-2020
Topic: Every Member, A Prophet (Teaching Series – Part 9) –
‘The Greatest Heaven Lamentation’
Ministering: Dr D.K Olukoya (G.O, MFM Worldwide)
Anchored Scripture: Matthew 9:37, 1 Kings 17:9-14, Matthew 28:19
Message:
We continue with our teaching ‘Every Member a Prophet’.
And under that canopy, we are looking at what I call ‘the greatest heaven lamentation’.
Two things take place in heaven very frequently: joy over every saved sinners. Lamentation over those who things are not working out according to plan in people’s lives.
The greatest lamentation is what I want to speak to you now. This lamentation will land many Christians in trouble with God.
Unfortunately, many are not seeking the face of God but they specialize on asking from God (seeking his hand and not concern about God’s need).
The greatest concern of God which is His heart beat, you see it in the book of Matthew 9:47. It is good to listen carefully especially if you have been born again for more than a year.
If you have ever cried out to God and asked ‘God, do you have any concern about my life’? the answer is in Matthew 9:37.
The farm is greater than the farmers (from the passage). It says ‘pray ye therefore to the Lord of the harvest, that he will send out workers into his harvest.
We sang here a hymn this morning, ‘a call for loyal soldiers’.
If God have saved you, He has saved you to serve. He didn’t save you so that you can enjoy yourself.
And in this world, let me be honest with you, the people who are being blessed are those who go out of their way and be a blessing to others.
By the time you leave this planet.
Nobody I’ll remember you for the money you have, they will remember you for the live you have impacted. That is the blunt truth. No matter how rich or who you are, when you go, nobody buries your limousine in the grave.
When you have gone, the Bible says their works follow them.
If you have no works, nothing follows you.
Listen and listen carefully, a lot of us God has blessed, He did that so that we can serve.
It is because of David service to God in his generation that we are remembering him today.
Those who go out of their ways to be a blessing to others, it is those who put God first in everything.
See a principle in 1 Kings 17, when Elijah went to the widow of zarephat. Then, he began to talk to the widow in 1 Kings 17:9-14
The principle of God is God first. The woman went out of her way to be a blessing to Elijah first and she never lacked and she was blessed greatly.
The heartbeat of God and God’s greatest lamentation is that there is plenty of harvest but the laborers/work men available are few.
You can say that there are plenty of churches, yes, but the laborers there are few. There are plenty of pastors, but the pastors there are few. Plenty of overseeers, plenty of supretendents, but the laborers are few.
These are the greatest lamentation of Heaven. The lamentation is mission, you go first to perform a service.
That mission or evangelism is the heartbeat of God. This issue is so important that our lord Jesus Christ came to this earth and died a missionary. When he was going, he left with us the great commission.
In Matthew 28:19, the great commission was committed into our hands.
The greatest commission is that go and teach the whole world, convert the whole world as your classroom.
It is a lamentable tragedy that this greatest commission has become a great omission.
Our God is mission and evangelism minded. God is a missionary God, Jesus is a missionary Christ and the Holy Spirit is a missionary spirit. This great commission is a mission mandate. It is at the center for world evangelism. When every member becomes a prophet, every member automatically becomes an evangelist.
You evangelize with your life, your word and with your activity.
It is the only hope of the condemned. That mission is the health of the earth.
Beloveth, the truth is this: only a church that does evangelism can justify their existence for the Lord. A church that doesn’t do evangelism is actually opposed to the will of God. The last word of Jesus Christ is to his disciples was to go and make disciples. Any fire that doesn’t spread will eventually go out.
We are suppose to be fishers of men. God didn’t make us keepers of aquarium, He made us fishers of men.
We members are suppose to be harvesters of souls. Miinisters and pastors are not suppose to be maintenance officers or just to be preserving sheep but fishers of men. We are not only suppose to seek to preserve what we are to reach out to the world.
The question is this, since you have been born again; can you point to one person that through you, they came to God?
Are you following them up? You’re coming to Manna water service, PMCH, have you ever invited people and prayed with them to surrender their lives to Christ?
Your lives, your business dealing, what you’re doing with the ladies in the office, is it preaching the gospel?
This is a very serious matter.
Our mission is global and our mandate is very urgent. Many people are dying everyday without Christ.
Coca-Cola seems to be every where in the world but if you go to its international headquarters, they wrote something there. It says ‘Think globally but act locally’. 97% of people in this world have heard about Coca-Cola. 74% have drank or tasted it (coca cola).
What are we doing with the gospel God has handed over to us to reach out to the world? Jesus didn’t commanded the whole world to go to Church, He commanded us to reach out to the whole world.
One day, we are going to start a program in MFM, where we will give you invitation form, prayer request to write the names of the people you want them to be born again, who you can follow up.
Mission is very important and the basic principle of mission is this:
1. Somebody has to go.
2. Somebody has to send them.
3. If you cannot go, then you send someone to go in your place.
‘Go ye to the world is not a suggestion, it is a command’. A minimum of 700,000 people are dying everyday. The tradegy is this: many nations are closing its door against misssion works there now. We must move because there will be judgement if we don’t move.
The problem with Nigerian Christianity is instead of us to disciple people who will go and preach the gospel, we are busy teaching them prosperity messages.
The people we have refused to disciple are the ones killing people all over the place.
The time we are suppose to teach them, we were teaching them prosperity messages.
The map of nations of the world as at 2006 estimates, although it has gone up to 7.7 billion. In 2006, it was about 6.6 billion. 2.2 billions are Christians, out of that figure, 1.6 billions are Catholics. There are 1.2 billions who are muslims. 1 billion people are Hindus. 400 millions are Buddhists. The world contains 269 countries. Catholics are in 218 countries of the world. Jehovah witness are in 231 countries in the world.
Majority of the world have not heard about the saving power of the cross.
Let’s put that aside a little bit.
We have over 505 languages in Nigeria. Only 21 languages have bible recorded in their language translations of the complete bible. 57 languages have just the New Testament Bible translated in its languages. 32 languages only have Luke, mark and psalms. And yet there are rich Christians who come to church and do nothing. There are rich Christians coming to church doing nothing and none of them ever thought of giving Bible society money to produce Bible in more languages.
I wonder what would have become of yourba languages bible if Ajayi Crowther didnt produce the written English transalation to Yoruba.
Those who speak Hausa are about 3 millions outside this country who have not heard the gospel or seen it written in their languages.
The terrible statistics is this: 2/3 (two-thirds) of the world population have not heard the preaching of the saving power of the cross.
The Asians are the largest untouched places who have not heard the gospel at all.
God scattered the apostles and the power of God was in and with them to work.
The church will outlast all opposition no doubt, but there would have been no church in Africa today if there were no missionaries yesterday.
Church is an offensive agent of divine conquest.
We have mission outreach in this church and mission group. It (missionary and evangelism) is the agenda of God for territorial control.
Once God doesn’t derive pleasure in what we do, and once he doesn’t derive pleasure in how we go about what we do, He dismisses the church.
Our agenda is to deliver the world and break its bondages.
Whatever part you play in church be it singing, ushering, you are part of the orchestrated move of God to destroy opposition and the enemy of God.
The story of Apostle Joseph Ayo Babalola:
That is why we heard about apostle Ayo Babalola.
He had a crusade somewhere for three days. He told the people that anyone who had strange powers should bring them to the crusade ground.
Someone took a picture of that incident then.
Where they threw those juju powers brought by people, was as tall as a three storey building and the man of God set fire on them (idols), and burnt them.
There had been a white missionary in that place for 17 years.
The white man went to apostle Babalola and said ‘that what he had done in the crusade ground for three days is what no one would do there in 70 years’.
This is the situation: the harvest is plenty but the laborers are few.
We spend our money and energy in others places where other Christians have attended to.
We go to the house of those who have already had their bibles.
Over 60 millions are church goers. We have not produce 30000 missionaries. Nigeria has the concernatration of young people in the globe who are born again. We need to reach out and reach out to the world.
Over 250 millions of people here. Every year, the church Baptist’s only 4 millions of people which is a mere fraction of that figure. The church has lot of academic knowledge but without duty, they have presence without power.
Bottomline:
I’m saying this to you so that you know what the lamentation of God is.
Will you be able to look at the face of God and know if you’re an instrument in His hand? While souls are perishing, are you doing anything about it?
The people you convert there will be instrument to convert other people. If you don’t do well in this area, you have not done well at all.
You’re in this service this morning, you know God has been calling you, you’re hiding, you’re running. You are worried about your life and future, but you have backslided from God. What you need to do is to slide back to God. Just get down on your knees and begin to make amendment with God. Sort out yourself before the Lord now.
Prayer Rain:
Before Hymnal Ministration, Prayers by Daddy G.O:
1. Animals from the grave sent to pursue me, pursue your owner in the name of Jesus!
2. Testimony blockers, celebration blockers, I’m not your candidate; die in the name of Jesus!
3. I fire back every arrow of infirmity by the power in the blood of Jesus in the name of Jesus!
Before Gospel Choir 10th year anniversary ministration, prayers by Daddy G.O:
Place your hand on your belly button and cry this prayer like a wounded lion:
4. Battles fought by my parent repeating itself in my life, die in the name of Jesus!
5. Powers saying ‘it is not the time for me to shine’, your time is up, die in the name of Jesus!
6. Strong man of domestic wickedness, what are you waiting for, die in the name of Jesus!
Before Sermon, Prayers by Daddy G.O:
Shout this prayer with boiling anger:
7. Battles assigned to move me from problem to problem, die in the name of Jesus!
These next three prayers, if you pray them and lose your voice but connect to your breakthroughs, you have made a very good bargain:
8. Every battle embarrassing my existence, die in the name of Jesus!
9. Every sacrifice offered to waste my existence, backfire in the name of Jesus!
10. Foundation Goliath, your time is up, die in the name of Jesus!
After Sermon Prayers, by Daddy G.O:
11. My Father, I shall not fail you, help oh Lord in the the name of Jesus!
Three prayers for you to cry unto the heavenlies. These are prayers our ancient fathers wanted us to cry out many years ago:
12. Oh God arise, make me your battle axe in the name of Jesus!
13. Oh God arise, advertise your power in my life in the name of Jesus!
14. Oh God arise, make me a soul winner in the name of Jesus!
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Year 2020: ‘Our year of spiritual revival and new glory’
Mountain of Fire and Miracles Ministries
Power Must Change Hands Program,
March 2020 Edition
(Re-Writing Family History Part 3)
Topic: The Voice of Your Foundation and Your Dreams
Date: 7th March 2020
Ministering: Dr. D.K Olukoya (G.O, MFM Worldwide)
Scriptures: Psalm 11:1-3, Psalm 106:32, Job 33:14-18
Message:
I’ll like you to listen to me very carefully. The prayers we are going to pray now, we continue next PMCH. The prayer is called ‘40 dreams, 40 prayers’. I’ll now go on to make some explanations on them.
The topic of today’s teaching is ‘the voice of your foundation and your dreams’.
This will now lead us to the 40 dreams, 40 prayers to lay a foundation this teaching.
There is a lamentation in the book of psalm, many don’t read it properly to understand what it means.
In Psalm 11:1-3, this was a lamentation from the psalmist. It was as if there was a conversation between the psalmist and the enemies. From the scripture passage, they are fighting the righteous.
If the foundation be destroyed, what can the righteous do? It means the righteous have a lot to contend with. The unrighteous have already being finished up by the enemies.
History repeats itself. It always does because no one listens to history. Experience and history teaches that people and government don’t learn from the principles of history.
When you begin to study the history of man, when you begin to study the history of tribulation or problems and you’re one of us who believe in solution evangelism, you will learn a lot of lessons from history.
Let me pick one example among many examples to pick from:
Moses lived and led a fascinating, distinguished and unparalleled life. Moses was the prince of Egypt, he was the giver of the law. Moses was God’s faithful servant and the Bible recorded he was more humble that anyone in the surface of the earth. Many of us are dreamers and guessers but He (Moses) spoke to God face to face. You will be wondering why a man who spoke to God face to face, why his foundation dealt with him.
Moses was also a psalmist, he wrote psalm 90. Moses was an historian and there was no other prophet like Moses. He was a strange, mysterious man and controversial man.
He (Moses) was a child of the slave and at the same time, he was the son of a queen.
He was born in hut and lied in the palace. He was born in poverty but also enjoyed unlimited wealth in the palace of the king. He was a mighty warrior but also a meek man. He was highly intelligent and he was intelligent in the wisdom of Egypt but very faithful.
He (Moses) was very backward in speech but he talked with God. He had the rod of the shepherd and the power of the infinity God. He died alone on mount Moab but the same person appeared with Christ later in the New Testament.
No man assisted in the funeral of Moses, but it was God that buried him (Moses).
In spite of all these qualifications, there was a voice contending with him. This voice was tempting him, the voice was fighting him.
When those voices come, Moses will dodge it, but eventually they caught up with him.
In Psalm 106:32, several times Moses was provoked in the wilderness, he dodged it. One day, he didn’t dodged it and the voice caught him. The voice of his foundation wanted it to be ill with Moses.
The ancestors of Moses had very bad temper. That bad temper had now caught up with him. Moses was born under the sentence of death.
The father and mother (Amram and Jochebed) of Moses gave secret cover for him for three months. It’s difficult to keep a baby in the hose for three month and nobody will know.
The name ‘Moses’ was not a name given by God. It was given by the daughter of Pharoah.
May I ask you this question: who gave you the name you’re bearing now? Many are given a name by their enemies.
Meaning that from the beginning of the life of Moses, he had been placed under the canopy of marine powers. Moses now grew up in the palace of Pharoah (the kingdom of marine powers). He learnt all the wisdoms of the Egyptians.
What are these wisdoms of Egypt: Incisions, mummys, jewelries, architecture, embalming the dead, astronomy, engineering, pyramids, magic, those were the wisdoms of Egypt.
Moses eventually lived for 120 years: 40 years in Pharoah’s palace, 40 years in midian and 40 years leading children of Israel in the wilderness.
The anger of Moses was so serious that through that anger he killed an Egyptian. Through that anger, he smashed the first tablet of the Ten (10) Commandments God gave him.
When the children of Israel were worshiping idols, he ground the idols to powder and forced the children of Israel to drink it, he commanded them to drink it.
No wonder when Moses died, Satan demanded the body of Moses but God said ‘no’.
I’m praying for somebody here: that any voice speaking from your foundation, talking death, speaking disgrace, I silence them now in the name of Jesus!
– Your foundation can hire a lawyer against you in the spirit realm.
– Your foundation is strong enough to defeat the strong man in you.
– Your foundation can move you from grace to grass.
– Your foundation can be the key to destiny abortion.
– Your foundation can actually be the fountains from which the demons are drinking water from, meaning it can attract demons to your life.
– Your foundation is strong enough to defeat the champion on you.
– It can be the grave of your destiny. It is the rope that pulls down shining stars.
– Your foundation can be the invitation to disgrace a star. It can come from a voice.
– Your foundation can rewire a brain to failure
– It can bury multiple talents
– It disconnect the voice of a man from heaven
– It punctures the talent balloons of people.
– It can turn winners to executive losers and put cancer in many souls
Because of the way we live our lives, God runs a school in the middle of the night. The purpose of that school is found in Job 33:14-18
This is talking about the mystery of dreams. God in His infinite mercies has decided to instruct men from their dreams. Your dream life is your spiritual monitor. Bad dreams do not end well, good dream
There are 40 indicator dreams trouble from the foundation or 40 indicator dreams for those who voices are talking to from their foundation:
1. Seeing corpses or attending funeral service and you’re still a young person. There is a voice calling for you from the grave.
2. Seeing yourself being handcuffed or chained. It means your hands are just there physically but they have been tied in the spirit realm.
3. Marriage to unknown person. You’re suppose to know the person you’re marrying. In the spirit realm, you’re married to a person and you do not know where the person is coming from.
4. Walking bare-footedly. It is when the enemy has removed your shoes in the spirit.
5. Wearing torn dresses.
6. Hair removal. You have hairs physically but in the dream, your hair are not there.
7. Seeing yourself naked. It means disgrace and insecurity.
8. Unknown persons beating you up.
9. Gun shots and bullets and arrows fired against you, it’s a foundation dream.
10. Being beaten by animals.
11. Unable to cross the river. You know you needed to cross to that other side but unable to do so.
12. Going back to former schools and former houses, it is dreams of retrogression. The enemy is trying to return you backwards. If you’re hear now and you’re listening to me and you’re experiencing this, going back to your former school or where you were an apprentice before; please pray prayer number 10.
13. Strange incisions on the body. You sleep without them, but you wake up with them.
14. Wearing grave clothes.
15. Finding yourself in court as the accused.
16. Nursing a strange baby or breast feeding a strange baby. It is drinking the milk of your life.
17. Lose of shoes or sandals which transmit to marital distress.
18. Lose or stealing of keys. It is a foundation dream.
19. Being attacked by dogs.
20. Seeing tortoises and snails, snakes. They all means slow progress, procrastination.
21. Swimming in the waters when physically you cannot swim.
22. Seeing masquerades. It means ancestral spirit and witchcraft powers.
23. Begging for food or alms.
24. Bleeding.. that is loss of virtues and slow death.
25. Cobwebs which is an agenda to make a person stale.
26. Wearing boggy dresses or dresses of jewelries.
27. Serving others and engaging in hard labor. Cooking, serving, and all kind of slavery activities in the dream.
28. Sexual harassment in the dream. Sometimes waking up with pains and it seems it is all over the body.
29. Getting out of the body and seeing your body on the floor, it is a foundation dream.
30. A woman being violated by a male and female personality.
31. Looking in the mirror and seeing another face that is not yours.
32. You find yourself in a different family set up more different that the ones you are in real life. It means you’re actually living a double life. You need to cancel that life in the spirit.
33. Seeing part of the body missing.
34. Falling into labor and delivery of non human materials.
35. Marriage or wedding without father or mother present there.
36. Sexual intercourse with your father or mother.
37. Fighting creatures that you beat and beat and beat and they refuse to die.
38. Being installed as a king or queen in an unknown place.
39. Being pursued by headless creatures. It means being pursued by senselessly destructive enemies.
40. Seeing pepper, seeing red oil, pepper, red oil. This translate to extreme sickness against you, heartless wickedness against you.
Bottomline:
These are the 40 dreams indicating that you do have a foundational voice to silence.
This is why we lead the program, ‘40 dream, 40 prayers’.
Each of these dreams I have mentioned will take us one hour to thoroughly explain it. The purpose of these explanation is for you to learn how to fight.
The purpose of this teaching is to expose the enemy so that you can fire a direct and sharp shooting arrow against them.
Being able to participate in the prayers today, you must:
1. Surrender your life to Jesus.
2. Repent from every known sin.
3. Be part of the winning team.
You have an opportunity today to deal with these thoroughly.
You are here, ‘Pastor I heard what you said, I want to be delivered, find your way to the alter very very quickly’.
For you to access that power and that victory, you need to surrender your life to Jesus.
The rest of us, begin to talk to the Lord that father, today, I must fight in the name of Jesus!
Prayer Rain:
Prayer Session: Silencing the silencers by Pastor Kehinde Adegbolahan (A.G.O)
1. My dream shall not be silenced in the name of Jesus!
2. Household enemy that is commanded to shut me up, you’re a liar (3ce), scatter in the name of Jesus!
3. This year, my voice of testimony shall be loud in the name of Jesus!
Prayer Session: by Pastor Gbesan (A.G.O)
4. Powers assigned to waste my opportunities, die in the name of Jesus!
5. Every evil alter diverting my blessings and opportunities, die in the name of Jesus!
6. I recover ten fold all my wasted opportunities in the name of Jesus!
Prayer Session: I shall not die but live by Pastor Abiodun Aladejola (A.G.O)
This is the prayer you must roar desperately, say it loud and clear:
7. Every covenant of untimely death raging in my bloodline, expire in the name of Jesus!
8. Resurrection power of the Lord Jesus Christ, kill every sickness in my body in the name of Jesus!
9. The number of my years I shall live, I see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living in the name of Jesus!
During Ministration prayers by Daddy G.O:
10. Powers assigned to return me to square one, die in the name of Jesus!
After Ministration prayers by Daddy G.O:
It is time for the prayers. They are not ordinary prayers. These prayers are to be said with acidic violence, these prayers are prayers to address wickedness and plantations of darkness. I want you to pray the way you’ve never prayed before as you shout to the heavenlies:
11. Powers provoking secret tears in my life, your time is up, die in the name of Jesus!
12. Powers turning my seat of glory into the seat of battle: what are you waiting for, die in the name of Jesus!
13. Covenant of wicked elders that stole my glory, break in the name of Jesus!
14. Powers turning into serpents to poison my life, catch fire in the name of Jesus!
15. Oh God arise by the thunder of your power, disgrace my disgrace in the name of Jesus!
16. By your name ‘JAH’, my way: open in the name of Jesus!
These prayer should be done in boiling anger. If you cannot pray with boiling anger, don’t bother to pray them:
17. Powers that have sold me before I was born, before I leave this place, die in the name of Jesus!
18. Voices in my foundation attacking my next level, die in the name of Jesus!
Blind bartimeous didn’t say his prayers, he cried his prayers:
19. My head, my head, my head. Hear the word of the Lord, arise and shine in the name of Jesus!
20. My blood, my blood, my blood, receive the blood of Jesus, kill every infirmity in the name of Jesus!
There is a destruction that walketh at noon day. An example is what is happening in our world now, pray this prayer loud and clear:
21. Every flying infirmity, we are not your candidate, scatter in the name of Jesus!
We continue our 40 dreams, 40 prayers in our next PMCH. The one we have done today has brought uncommon testimonies, will bring and continue to bring uncommon testimonies in the name of Jesus!
Prayer for Nigeria:
22. Eaters of flesh, drinkers of blood assigned against Nigeria, destroy yourselves in the name of Jesus!
Announcement by Daddy G.O:
1. The weekend deliverance for the month of is coming up 20th – 22nd March 2020.
2. Members should not forget, those listening to me all over the world, that we have a million souls target evangelism for this year. It has already kicked off. All zones and region are to meet the target set for them and more so cascaded to them at the yearly meeting.
3. As a believer and Christian as a result of the situation facing us now, we must care for our hygiene. We have to be very careful about our personal hygiene. The Bottomline is this: ‘He that keepeth Isreal shall neither slumber nor sleep’!
4. Don’t forget that MFM has provided buses to move people away from here after the service.
Year 2020: ‘Our year of spiritual revival and new glory’
MOUNTAIN OF FIRE AND MIRACLES MINISTRIES,
INTERNATIONAL HEADQUARTERS, ONIKE, YABA, LAGOS, NIGERIA
Manna Water Service
Wednesday 4th March, 2020
Topic: THE COMPANY OF PURPOSE INSANITY
Text: Eccl. 3:1, Rom.8:28, 1 John 3:8, John 18:37.
Minister: Dr. D. K. Olukoya (G.O MFM Worldwide)
Eccl. 3:1 – “To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:”
What we are explaining tonight is considered a great problem of man if not the greatest.
Romans 8:28 – “And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are called according to his purpose.”
1 John – “He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.”
John 18:37 – “Pilate therefore said unto him, Art thou a king then? Jesus answered, Thou sayeth that I am a king. To this end was I born, and for this cause came I into the world, that I should bear witness unto the truth. Every one that is of the truth hearth my voice”
There is a large company that passes a large number of human being. The company is big, male and females are inside it, people of different ages are inside. It is colour blind: does not discriminate, it addresses are always full. It is the Company of Purpose Insanity.
What is Purpose?
– Your purpose is the reason you are in this world.
– Your purpose is what has been written down concerning you.
– Your purpose is the solution you give the problem you are meant to solve on earth.
– It is the reason why God created you at all.
– It the desire approved by heaven for you to fulfil.
– It is your divine mandate, assignment, mission, the duty you were created to fulfil.
– It is your worth, benefit and volume of your existence.
– It is the justification for your existence.
– It is what makes you valuable on earth.
– It is the difference you are meant to make on earth.
It is the addition of the total impact you are to make on earth.
– It is the comprehensive programme of heaven for your life.
Unfortunately, majority of human beings are living a purposeless life. A man once said, “If the purpose of something is not known, abuse is inevitable”. It is a tragedy and lamentation for heaven, when you are put in a place to add value and you are the giving them troubles.
What happens when you fail in your place of purpose is that there will be an announcement of vacancy in heaven.
One great prayer you must pray is “My Father, do not replace me with stone, in the name of Jesus.”
There is tragedy in purposelessness. It is called Purpose Insanity. There is something called 1 Minute of Madness – it is enough to change your destiny forever; it is enough to change your story.
===> Any power that wants to replace you with stone, before you leave this place, they must die, in the name of Jesus. (10 folds Amen)
===> May you not be the enemy of your life purpose, in the name of Jesus.
Those in the company of purpose insanity move but do not go anywhere; moving in a circle. Purposeless life is the highest cost of shameful life and death.
Purposelessness is not a foundation for marriage at all; it is a key to poverty, it is wasting time and future. A purposeless person is an accident waiting to happen in the future.
Have you ever cried to heavens that:
1. What is it that you have written for my life?
2. What is my purpose on earth?
3. What is the problem that I am supposed to solve?
4. Am I in the right position?
5. Am I adding value to the church where I am?
Make up your mind today; I want to live a purposeful life. A great prayer indeed is, “O God arise, show me who I am, in the name of Jesus.”
PRAYER POINTS
1. Powers, assigned to make me die the death of my enemies, die, in the name of Jesus.
2. Thou power of God, disgrace the laughter of my enemies, in the name of Jesus.
3. Wicked elders, investigating my glory, die, in the name of Jesus.
4. Powers that have vowed that I will not get to the top, what are you waiting for? Die, in the name of Jesus.
5. Powers, challenging my star, before I leave this place, die, in the name of Jesus.
6. Arrows of last minutes disappointment, backfire, in the name of Jesus.
7. Battles, against my original self, scatter, in the name of Jesus.
8. Powers, wanting stones to replace me, die, in the name of Jesus.
Year 2020: ‘Our year of spiritual revival and new glory’
MFM International Headquarters Sunday Service
Date: 01-March-2020
Topic: Every Member, A Prophet (Teaching Series – Part 7)
Ministering: Dr. D.K Olukoya (G.O, MFM Worldwide)
Anchored Scripture: Daniel 11:32, Matthew 24:11, Matthew 24:24, 2 Corinthians 5:17
Message:
We continue our teaching series, ‘Every member, A Prophet’.
I read this morning from the book of Daniel 11:32. I like you to listen very carefully. Part of the reason why this message is preached is because presently in our world today; We are at the brick of trouble, tragedy, problem and that people may quickly reconsider their ways and turn to the biblical teaching as a way/solution of getting out of these problems.
The people that do know their good, two things are bound to happen in their lives:
1. They shall be strong.
2. They shall do exploits.
The key to be spiritually strong and to do exploit is to know God. No wonder Paul prayed ‘that I may know him’. The prayer point is to know God.
The truth is that those who know God, other things falls into insignificance.
The most important knowledge you need is to know God. If Paul has visited heaven three times, and he is still praying ‘that I may know God’, then it means that it is an important thing indeed.
The reverse is also true, those that do not know their God shall be weak and do no exploits. Meaning that those who do not know their God shall be exploited. The reason prophets are scamming people here and there is because they (false prophets) are targeting those who do not know God. They know church, they know pastors, they know G.O, they know superintendents, they know how to call prayer points, they know how to speak in tongues but they do not know God.
It is becoming so serious in our world. They mosquito from mountains to mountains, they mosquito by going all over the place and as they go to these places, they are entering into more problems.
A lot of people are so lazy spiritually that you shake your head and wonder.
How can a person with MSc from the university go to a person (who is an illiterate) and such person to asks you to open your pant so as to put incision on your body?
This is why we are teaching this every Sunday. This teaching is to teach you how to fish and be on your own, and not to be given fish. Seeing vision, having revelation, they are not so difficult as you see it.
The truth is that it has levels, all it requires is that you have a higher level of consecration. Once you get to that level, you receive it. Once your level of truthfulness, holiness, fear of the Lord get to a particular level, you will see vision.
There are many people around now going to strange places, after they had gathered problems, they will start writing a letter to pastors, to the G.O.
Somebody is teaching you how to fish, but you’re looking for fish. God has written a powerful destiny about your life but you’re not taking time to find it out. Your head is the symbol of your destiny.
There are plenty of people here whose mission is to drag people to false prophets. Those who are doing it, you better stop it as you’re are confusing destinies. As for you that have refused to grow, you are moving from one place to the other instead of sitting down to read the Bible and observe if there are things in your life that God doesn’t like.
May you not become spiritually mad in the name of Jesus! Spiritually insanity is because many refuse to know God.
Daddy G.O shares with us real life incidents:
There was a girl who wrote waec examinations and failed seven times. She met a prophet who had fives and many children. The prophet said to this virgin girl that there will be a vigil at his church. One that day, she got there and saw that it was only two of them in the church. The prophet went to the toilet and he had just ordinary towel tied to his waist. She asked why he is having only towel on, he responded that it’s because there is a special deliverance. He said there is only to be a special anointing on his manhood and he will have to sleep with her and thereafter, she will have outstanding A(s) when she writes her waec exams again.
The girl asked where is that written in the Bible and the man argued with her that is every thing always written in the Bible. She finally agreed and He slept with her.
This time, after writing the waec exams again; her failure was outstanding failure.
Those who know their God, they shall be strong and they shall do exploit!
The story of a women who had a piece of land:
A member of MFM bought a land in Lagos. She went to Canada. Seven years later, she came back and found people building a structure on that piece of land. She complained, but they said she should get away and not show up there again. They told that if she wants to be a mother to her children again, she should not attempt to show up at the site again. Some one who is not a believer who have feared that statement. She went home and brought and anointing oil and her bible, upon getting there the next time, she saw soldiers there.
She was putting anointing oil all over the land, and a soilder saw an MFM sticker on her bag.
The soldier told his master that this woman has a sticker of MFM and that he should be careful. The man asked the soldier to keep quiet. After sprinkling the anointing oil over the piece of land, upon returning to where she packed her car, she heard a loud scream. By the time she returned back to the piece of land, she found the man who threatened her dead, and all the bricklayers fled.
Those who know their God, they shall be strong and they shall do exploit!
No wonder the Bible says ‘be strong in the Lord and in the power of his might’.
Do you know that right there where you are, that your village that they said there is a strong man there causing trouble. You do not have to be physically there to launch an attack. You can dispatch spiritual angels of God there who will fight against these power. Many of us are playing with characters and attitudes that are ungodly and that is why there is no spiritual power.
They took a pastor to a village to do a family deliverance. The prayer suppose to start the next day, but by the time it prayer was about to start, they found that the pastor they brought was already dead.
I know of another case where they were suppose to do a family deliverance. They invited a pastor who has girlfriend and drinking palm wine. They housed the pastor in a room. All of a sudden in the midnight, three huge men entered the family house through a wall with horse whips. They beat and beat and beat everybody there and they almost died. After doing this, these huge men men went back through the wall.
They next day, every one who came there to participate in the family deliverance all fled back to their respective places.
They that know their God, they are the one who will speak, they are the ones who have power, their words will carry fire, boldness in the things of God. They are 100% obedience. The situation is what is in Matthew 24:11, the reason false prophets, prophetic scammers, prophetic liars are still able to feed, the reason is that majority of those who come to church do not know their God.
The only people they can deceive is those who do not know their God.
These false prophets that have invaded us now:
– they tell people what they want to hear. They won’t tell people the truth.
– They present the truth sometimes but they mix it with errors.
– They exploit the biblical illiteracy of a lot of Christians. A lot of Christians hate bible study, they like the miracle hours. All these false prophets, they promote salvation that once you’re saved, you’re saved.
– They teach extra biblical teachings. Any revelation someone has and it’s not backing from the scripture, it is not a revelation.
– They downplay the doctrines and teachings of Jesus Christ. They say ‘I see this, I see that’
– They will tell you that your enemy is your friend and your friend is your enemy.
– They talk by inspiration, and confuse people.
G.O narrates a real life story shared with us on the 30th December 2018 (on a message Reference: Get out of Evil Caves):
Many years ago, in the 80s, I was driving across akowonjo (Agege). I saw this sister I know very well, she use to be very fat but she was so lean. It’s been a while I saw her in our meeting. When I asked her what happened, she will start the story and she will break down in tears. She’s been married for 16 years, and she have five children. The man went to a false prophet and consulted him. He said the reason he’s losing contract is because his wife is a witch. The husband to send her packing out of the house but said they both built the house together.
Her husband brought the native doctor and gave him a room in their matrimonial home. Her husband told her that the native doctor said she’s the one behind all his problems. She woke up one morning and said she saw blood at her door step. She decided to go to a nearby church, and she told all the prayer warriors. These prayer warriors agreed to come to her house at 11pm. When they arrived her house that night, they saw a dead goat at her door step, and they summoned themselves together and concluded that there will be no prayers in her house. They said there will be prayers in the church and not in the house.
This woman told all these to the G.O of MFM and she said to worsen it all, her husband said she must be cooking for the native doctor.
As soon as the G.O heard that, he told her that his next meal to be made by her, should be prayed upon. G.O told her that the next time she cooks for the prophet, she should say ‘fire of God, enter into this food, blood of Jesus enter into this food in the name of Jesus’.
The night she made his next meal, she called fire, she called sulphur, she called brimstones, she called pepper into the food. All of a sudden in the middle of the night, the native doctor started complaining of terrible heat in the room that had air conditions. He screamed painfully and packed out of the house that is how she was totally free from the oppression of the enemy.
They that do know their God, they are the ones who will be strong and do exploit!
The Bible says that by their fruits, you shall know them.
– These false prophets, by the time you check them, they are mentor-less and fatherless prophet. They produce strange disciples, very strange disciples.
The story of the three bald headed men who visited the G.O office:
Three men came to my office. Bald heads with tall beards. They said they wanted to see the G.O. They said, their prophet sent them to the G.O. That their prophet is in jail. Their prophet said we should tell you who has the anointing to cure hiv. Anytime people come to you with that problem, G.O should not pray for them at all, he should send the, to him. I said, is that all? They answered yes. As they were going, G.O called them that why are they all having long beards, they turned back and left.
– Most of this false prophet have eyes that are filled with adultery.
– They claim to see vision and they teach people hell fast tracking doctrine.
– They use magic and all kinds of things to trick people. Bring water and keep it at the alter for seven days.
An experience shared by Daddy G.O’s maternal grandmother:
My maternal grandmother was the first Christian in the family. She told me one story. She said she went to the mountain to pray. The prophet said they will keep the water there for seven day. That night, God opened her eyes and she saw a strange creature who had rags and squeezed dirty waters into the bottle of waters of others.
She refuse to bring her own and those who took their water therefor prayers, their virtues were transferred.
I saw a picture that had a pastor distributing pants to ladies, the pants had his pictures on them. He told the sisters that when they wear it, it drives away Spirit husbands.
A lady was coming from the airport. She saw someone who had masters in law and they got talking. She asked her why she was here. She said she had come to see a prophet who asked her that if he sleeps with her, she would get pregnant as she didn’t have children.
This woman told her that such things are not true and she brought this lady to church. I said to her to go back to America, and not come and sleep with another man’s husband. When I finished, she looked at me and said ‘thank you so much sir, but that is your personal opinion’. She went there and had her own rough fair share of personal experience.
You’re hear, you mosquito yourself here and there, if you go to all these kind of places and you write a letter to me that you want to see me, I’ll not see you.
I’ll ask you to go to prayer city.
How can you become close to God so that you can be His friend?
1. You need to give your life to Jesus. The first key is new birth. You must be born again. 2 Corinthians 5:17. The fact that you’re coming to church doesn’t make you a christian. When you get born again, your life changes. The old You is gone.
2. Please depart from every form of iniquity. Flee from every appearance of evil.
3. Be 100% obedient to God. Anything god wants you to do, do it. The Bible says that ‘hath the Lord have great delight in burnt sacrifice than heartening to his voice’.
4. You must become a prayer addict. The more you pray, the closer you are to God. Don’t let a day go by without reading the Bible. Meditate on it, memorize it. Be a man or woman of it is written and know surely what is written.
5. Be broken. Let not anger and stubbornness be found in your life. Brokenness is a key to the power of God.
The Lord bless you in Jesus name. Rise to your feet and all eyes close. The kinds of prayers to pray is to make you a prophet or prophetess of God. They that know their God shall a be strong and do exploits. All eyes closed.
Prayer Rain:
Before Ministration prayers by Daddy G.O:
1. Ancient padlocks bringing battles into my life, catch fire in the name of Jesus!
2. Witchcraft birds assigned to eat my seeds, what are you waiting for, die in the name of Jesus!
3. Where is the Lord God of Elijah: arise, give me double glory in the name of Jesus!
4. Powers assigned to kill me because of my star, what are you waiting for, die in the name of Jesus!
5. Powers receiving sacrifice to harm me, attack yourselves in the name of Jesus!
6. Powers that have vowed to tear my destiny to pieces, Lion of Judah, tear them to pieces in the name of Jesus!
7. Destroyers of joy assigned against my life, die in the name of Jesus!
8. Satanic carpenters digging coffin for me, enter your coffin and die in the name of Jesus!
9. Every gathering of demons in my family, scatter in the name of Jesus!
10. Environmental Goliath, environmental Pharaoh, clear away in the name of Jesus!
During ministration Prayers by Daddy G.O:
11. Powers drinking the blood of my spiritual power, die in the name of Jesus!
12. Power that cannot be insulted from heaven, fall upon my life in the name of Jesus!
After Ministration prayers by Daddy G.O:
13. Resurrection power, overshadow my life in the name of Jesus!
14. Heaven over my spiritual eyes, open by fire in the name of Jesus!
15. In my dreams tonight, oh Lord: appear in the name of Jesus!
Announcement by Daddy G.O:
1. Don’t forget that PMCH is Saturday and it is the third session of rewriting family history. Come with your picture and the service will be taking place at the international headquarters.
2. There will be bus services as well for those coming for the Monday bible study, Wednesday services and Sunday services.
3. By Wednesday, we will distribute a prayer booklet for all of us in MFM. The kind of prayer we prayed during ebola time and Ebola was defeated. The Bible says ‘He that keepeth Isreal neither sleeps nor slumber’.
Year 2020: ‘Our year of spiritual revival and new glory’
MFM International Headquarters Eagle Hour Financial Empowerment program and Prayer Clinic (Two in One Sunday Service)
Date: 9th-February-2020
Ministering: Dr D.K Olukoya (G.O, MFM Worldwide)
Topic: Every Member, A Prophet (Teaching Series – Part 6)
Anchored Scriptures: Numbers 11:29, Revelations 3:20, Proverbs 11:21, Numbers 32:23,
1 Samuel 15:22
Message:
For several weeks now, we have been looking at the topic, ‘Every Member, a prophet’.
This takes us to the book of Numbers 11:29, which was the outcry of prophet Moses and whom to God that there will be somebody here who will say ‘I want to be a prophet or prophetess of God, I want to key into that which will last’ because everything in this world will not last. I’ve been explaining the reason why we are teaching this.
If you register into the school of the prophet:
– You will have deep confidence in God.
– You will stop seeing men as they are after the flesh.
– You will laugh while others are crying.
– You will escape the pit that swallowed others.
– Your life will cease from trial and error.
– You will not be permitted to marry your enemies.
– You will stop struggling with the strugglers and wrestling with the wrestlers.
– You will have inner peace
– You will be getting information from heaven because you can see.
– You will be able to stay calm and not allow circumstances to affect your joy.
– You will stop being afraid.
You should struggle to improve your spirituality. We have gotten to a critical level now where spiritual development is no longer a luxury anymore, it is a necessity.
The environment is too strong not to be spiritually sensitive. You must grow. If you don’t grow and you become stagnant, you will eventually get to the next terrible stage called ‘decay’.
I was talking about the power of revelation last Sunday.
The Bible says ‘behold I stand at the door and knock, if any man hears my voice and open the door, I will come in to him and will sup with him and he with me’; (Revelations 3:20) meaning that you’re as close to God as you personally want to be:
– Read more of your bible,
– Extend your prayer time,
– Talk less and listen more.
– Stop getting angry or impatient.
– Witness and evangelize,
– Do what makes God happy.
The closer you get to him, the closer he gets to you. The farther you get away from Him, the farther He is from you as well. May God not go far from you in the name of Jesus!
The key question is this: what is the most hinderance blocking people from becoming a friend of God?
If we can point to one thing that makes the spiritual temperature of many is so low, why a person will be suffering and he will be calling upon heaven to attend to his cry but heaven remain silent, there is one thing we point to, it is called ‘sin’.
Sin is so terrible that it took Jesus to the cross and killed him there. Sin is so terrible it took the son of God to allow himself to die for the sake of our sins.
Proverbs 11:21, it would be good if you listen to me carefully. The Bible passage in Numbers 32:23, Be sure your sins will find you out.
There are two things that have express tickets to hell fire:
1. Sin
2. Iniquity.
1. Sin: Sin can weaken your senses. Sin can damage your reasoning. Sin can injure your conscience. It can obscure your sense of God. It can take your mind off spiritual things. Sin can remove the authority over flesh from your life. Wherever the Almighty has put full stop, sin puts a question mark on it. Sin is an abominable thing to God. Everything that is wrong in this world is the addition of what is wrong with each and every one of us. Sin is addictive, it sinks into the sky. A sinner in one department is a sinner all round. One mystery about sin that is not known to many is that sin is the greatest of all detective, it will find you out. That thing you’re hiding, it will eventually find you out. The trouble with a little sin is that it won’t stay little, it will get bigger. Jesus said ‘our sins which are many, ……..’ meaning sins are many. The issue of sin is so serious that there are more than 800 cases of its appearances in the Bible. Sin can offer you much but give you nothing. Sin can also be appealing, it’s a killer and destroyer. Sin deadens a person’s spiritual life.
Daddy G.O made reference to his message at the MFMYC last Sunday:
I was at the youth church on Sunday. The title of my message there was ‘when God calls you a witch’. I began telling them that there are two categories of witchcraft:
1. There is witchcraft by spiritual power (drinkers of blood and eaters of flesh.
2. The second category is witchcraft by the works of the flesh. And the Bible says ‘hath the lord as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the Lord? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fats of rams’ (1 Samuel 15:22). It didn’t stop there. It says for rebellion is as sin of witchcraft.
When you rebel against God, you become a witch. Adam was the first witch recorded in the Bible because he rebelled against God. One scary thing is that the judgement of God against witchcraft of any category is ‘death’. Many sinners who call themselves christians, that death sentence is working against them. Their health is already dying, their business is already dying.
– Sin can offer you much but it will give you nothing.
– Sin can thrill a person and then kill the person. Sin can excite the person but it would cause woe later.
– Sin can gratify a person, it grinds the person later. That is why the Bible warns that the way of the sinner is hard, the soul that sinneth shall die. Be not dismayed, God is not to be mocked. The world might have changed the name given to sin, but God Almighty didn’t change it. What is called adultery is called ‘having an affair now’. Lying is referred to as ‘being diplomatic now’. Sin is sin and your sin will find you out.
– Sin will lead to sickness. It’s not all sickness that comes from sin but your sin will make you sick. Sin will find you out and it would be passed on to your children too. The child suffers the sin of the parent.
– Sin will find you out in your conscience.
– Sin will also find you out in judgement. There beloveth, your worst enemy is your own sinful act. There is no small sin. If you sin for profit, you shall not profit by sin.
You can choose your sins but you cannot choose the consequences. Every sin has a consequence. Forgiveness doesn’t eliminate consequences. Forgiveness removes the condemnation of sin but it doesn’t eliminate the discipline. HIV aids can kill a man and the man can still make heaven because he has been forgiven. The fact that he’s been forgiven doesn’t prevent him from suffering the symptoms of the HIV.
A story of a widow shared with us by Daddy G.O:
A widow travelled to America with her five girls and she wanted to stay there because she was afraid of her in-laws here.
She called me one day and said she intends to stay in U.S permanently. She said she would be required to do a fake marriage and it would cost her 10,000 USDs. I told her that she mustn’t do it and she should come back to Nigeria. One man of God said she should go ahead and she has paid another man the required sum. She said she agreed to do the fake marriage but on no ground for sex. She later said the man who was arranged to marry her was asking for sex else he will not sign it. She met another pastor and the man told her to go ahead and ask the Lord to forgive her. Unknown to her, this man had HIV. She didn’t listen to me and continued sleeping with the man. The man knew he was HIV positive and didn’t tell her. He was treating himself with the money he received.
The Bottomline is that she’s dead now, she was killed by HIV.
You ask me, ‘daddy G.O’, did she make heaven? Yes, It is possible she asked for forgiveness and God forgive her but the consequences remains.
David killed a man and took his wife. The man of God (Prophet Nathan) said to him that he has sinned, David asked that God should forgive him. The man of God said he has been forgiven but the consequence will not depart from his own house. His sons will sleep with his wives under his roof and in the light of the day. David was forgiven but cursed. Sin can be forgiven but the consequences will remain. A man may live with that consequence for the rest of his life.
Some old men are battling with the consequences of one sinful act they had committed.
There are some wrongs which can be written. Punishment will be limited because forgiveness occurred. There is no sin that human being commit that forgiveness cannot be received from heaven. There is no sin that doesn’t have consequences. If you don’t want your children to go into drugs, stop selling drugs to other people. If you don’t want your children to be beating their wives, stop beating your own wife; and if you don’t want their lives to be messed up, don’t mess up the life of others.
Man calls sin a blunder, God call it blindness. Man call it a defect, God calls it disease. Man calls sin infirmity, God calls it iniquity.
Bottomline:
Bow down your heads in prayer and talk to the lord. There is no reason that anyone who forms to MFM should go to hell fire. There is no reason anyone who comes to our service should go to hell fire. If you do, it would be completely your own fault. It would not be an the fault of the G.O because this message has been preached to you again today.
Talk to the Lord, confess your sins to the Lord. Tell the Lord you’re sorry and tell him to help you today.
If you have backslided, please backslide back to the Lord.
Prayer Rain:
Before Ministration prayers by Daddy G.O:
It is time for some forensic prayers, some targeted prayers. Pray with fire and with thunder. There are plenty of prayers to pray in few minutes:
1. Voices of ‘thou shalt not prosper’ assigned against me, expire in the name of Jesus!
2. Every Jericho warfare assigned against my life, scatter in the name of Jesus!
3. Powers commanding my glory to die, in the name of Jesus!
4. Where is the Lord God of Elijah: arise, advertise your power in my life in the name of Jesus!
The next three prayers, you need a level of holy anger to pray them, don’t negotiate at all:
5. My night, my night, my night, hear the word of the Lord: you shall not favor the wicked in the name of Jesus!
6. By your name ‘JAH’, arise and fight for me now in the name of Jesus!
7. Oh God arise, let your enemies in my body scatter in the name of Jesus!
8. Strongman behind my problems, hear the word of the Lord: die in the name of Jesus!
If you’re a business person, if you are a marketing person, pray this ‘within 24 hours business breakthroughs’ prayer:
9. Powers working against my career, business, market, die in the name of Jesus!
There are three prayers to pray again, pray them with boiling anger:
10. Powers targeting me as sacrifice this year, be wasted in the name of Jesus!
11. Powers running after me for evil, run mad and die in the name of Jesus!
12. Any witch doctor on the pay roll of my enemies, before I leave this place, die in the name of Jesus!
Year 2020: ‘Our year of spiritual revival and new glory’
MFM YOUTH CONNECT WITH DR. D.K. OLUKOYA.
Date: 2ND FEB 2020
Sermon: WHEN GOD CALLS YOU A WITCH
Text: 1Samuel 15:22-23
In God’s definition of witches, Rebellion= Witchcraft and stubborn= iniquity and idolatry.
Witchcraft makes a person to do Satan’s will. As we move from country to country, every area has their own brand of witchcraft. There is growing consciousness now about the power and activity of witchcraft.
A lot of Christians are very conscious about witches and their activities. But the tragedy is that we don’t realize how much of Witchcraft is inside the church. It is frightening to know that many Christian gatherings are gatherings of witches and wizards. It is a tragedy when you are a witch and you don’t know.
There are 2 classes of Witchcraft.
1. Witchcraft by evil powers
– Witchcraft by inheritance
– Witchcraft by decision
– Witchcraft by force
– Blind witches
2. Witchcraft by works of the flesh.
There is a large number of people in this second category. Many of believers are here. The scary truth is that the Judgment of God is the same for both groups. There are tongues-speaking witches and wizards. Exodus22:18 says ‘Suffer not a witch to live’. God’s Judgement against witchcraft is therefore, Death. A death sentence hangs over every witch and every wizard.
According to prophet Samuel, rebellion and disobedience is equal to witchcraft and stubbornness is equal to idolatry. Are you here and the Lord has been speaking to you and you’re disobeying or rebelling, it is witchcraft.
Has God shown you the vision of Rapture and you were not raptured and you are not concerned, you are a witch. Are you commiting fornicate despite numerous sermons and you know it isn’t good but you continue, you are a witch.
Rebellion says ‘I will not do it’. Stubborn says ‘i will do it my own way’. God puts rebellious Christians in the same category as witches and wizards. How can you fulfil your destiny when a death sentence from God is hanging on every witch and wizard?
In Galatians5:20, Witchcraft is listed as part of the world of the Flesh. Many “born-again Christians” are therefore practitioners of witchcraft and death is working in them already. Many are dying gradually and many are sick. A lot of young people are having diabetes, high BP and so many sicknesses they should not have because death sentence is already at work in their lives. Many young people are attacked by many incurable diseases and many young people suddenly die.
Sin will escort you to where you don’t want to go to. God sees your heart. There are people who claim to have a fiancee but all they are doing is kissing, cuddling, sleeping with each other and no discussion on prayer and on destiny. You are a witch. This is why sickness and death is affecting much people.
Others don’t look sick but the death is working in them anyways. How can a prayer warrior, Evangelist or powerful man or woman of God die suddenly? Many of us do not know that they have been witches and wizards for years.
Many are secretly doing things that God told them to discontinue. It is in this generation that people repent from sin with dry eyes. No more sorrow for sin. The reason they are doing that is because they are witches. In their disobedience to God, they align with Satan to fight against the plans of God. There are many wives and husbands who possess all that their hearts desire but they are still dying in sorrow, because death is working in them for they qualify as witches under category 2.
So we have Pentecostal witches, prophesying witches, tongue talking witches, ordained witches, usher witches, Sunday school teacher witches, choir witches, Rev Apostle witches and wizards.
The sons of Eli disobeyed God and became wizard priests, thus God killed them. If someone enters a church with blood dripping in the mouth and confesses to witchcraft, the ushers will bundle him or her out. But you won’t see that kind of witch anymore. Current day witches and wizards use designer suits, nice perfume, hats on head, their clothes are ironed. But many of such people are insubordinate, rebellious and arrogant, thus are witches and wizards.
Are you here and you cannot do without evil thoughts, cigarettes, alcohol, premarital sex, telling lies, Worldly fashion, wearing seductive dresses, watching immoral films, backbiting and gossiping, pretending to be holy, drugs and abortion, you should be told straightaway that you belong to witchcraft category 2 and death is already working in you, unless you repent.
The first witch was Adam who rebelled against God. And when a person becomes a witch category 2, you are writing letter to a wasted life.
WHAT MUST YOU DO?
1. Surrender your life to Jesus
2. Repent from every known sin
3. De-witch yourself by obeying God.
This is a very dangerous year. It is not a year to experiment with your life and it is not a year to misuse divine opportunities. It is not a year to allow heaven to transfer your assignment to another person. If you are here and are a minister unto nations, you’ve had dreams that you are a global person but right now you are struggling with masturbation, immorality etc, it is a very sad thing.
Prayer points After Altar call:
1. Every idol in my heart, break in Jesus name
Mountain of Fire and Miracles Ministries
Power Must Change Hands Program,
February 2020 Edition (Re-Writing Family History Part 2)
Topic: Holy Ghost, Overshadow My Dreams
Date: 1st February 2020
Ministering: Dr. D.K Olukoya (G.O, MFM Worldwide)
Anchored Scriptures: Genesis 37:5-10
Message:
This morning, I’m sharing a very deep secret and you will do well to pay close attention.
In Genesis 37, that is where we will take our first scripture. This is secret that is seriously needed in this 2020, a secret that will connect your life to divine acceleration, a secret that those who know it don’t really share it but it is a secret that will make you rewrite your family history.
Say this loud and clear: Holy Ghost, overshadow my dreams (3ce)!
Genesis 37:5, it was from this dream he (Joseph) had that he began to rewrite his family history and nobody in Israel rewrote the history that Joseph had. Everything started from what we in deliverance called ‘the Joseph dream’. Every man must have his or her own Joseph’s dream.
May you have your Joseph dream in the name of Jesus!
(From the scripture passage) I wished Joseph had kept quiet but he kept talking, (Genesis 37:9).
When we say ‘overshadow’, we are saying almost 14 things:
1. It means to crown
2. It means to dominate
3. To exclude
4. To outweigh a particular thing
5. To rule over completely
6. To govern
7. It means to envelope
8. To have the upper hand
9. To monopolize
10. To over rule
11. To prevail over
12. To sit on top of
13. Or you’re the one running the show.
One powerful prayer you’re going to need this year is this prayer I’ve just given to you and I’ll explain to you later why it is needed.
Every enemy of your Joseph’s dream shall be scattered in the name of Jesus!
When the Holy Ghost overshadows your life, that dream you have changes from those normal dreams people have. It is a great day to stop having dreams of being attacked but you’re the one attacking them and overpowering them and having dominion over them.
Daddy shares His real life experience and story with us:
Many years back, as a student in university of Lagos. We use to have a very difficult course. It’s called ‘organic chemistry’ those days. It’s so large and it is in three large note book; filled with this subject. It was a serious matter. It’s not like the system they have now. First semester, second semester, it was not there in our own days. In our days, we had what they called Almighty formular. When there is upcoming exams, all things are examined from the end. A few days to this exam, I had my lecture bag outside somewhere and by the time I came back, they have stolen two of those books, I felt very bad. From those days, I knew how to pray. I slept and I had a dream. In that dream, I had someone appeared to me in that dream, he hid the two books that had been stolen and he gave me that number three book. on the day of that exam, I took that number three and started concentrating on that one alone, what will happen will happen. When I got to the hall, I understood the dream clearly. There was no question set from book one or two, it was all set from book three. I began to feel sorry for the person who stole that book.
The PhD Common wealth scholarship in England:
I went to England for my PhD on a common wealth scholarship for 36 months, there was no extension. Some people do PhD for 5 to 7 years but I had no option but to complete it in 36 months. My white professor was complaining, ‘Daniel you’re working too hard, go home and rest’. I saw in a dream that I was in ikeja trying to take a plane to England and in that dream, I miss the plane as they said it was full. I came back the next day told my professor lecturer, I’m not going back home for holiday. Others who went home for holiday, there was a coup as at that time and they had difficulty coming back. By the time they came back later, they were faced with all kinds of troubles.
This why there is need to have the Holy Ghost.
Raise up your right hand and say this: I shall have prophetic destiny dreams by the power in the blood of Jesus!
Dreams represents your spiritual monitor. Dreams are mobile pictures activated by our subconscious minds. In dream there are plenty of divine successes encoded in it.
In the Bible, God tells us in the book of Job.
That God: Educates, He refocuses, he directs and he guides in dreams. He warns people of what they should do and what they should not do.
What we’re saying is this that dreams are divine parables revealing the plans of God and also revealing the plans of the enemy.
So those dreams are really to make you rewrite your family.
The land of dreams is as important as the land of visible as they are means of divine revelation. Because of this, satan is very interested in polluting our dreams. That is why covenants are formed in the dream, it’s a serious matter indeed. Many of us do not understand what is happening in our lives because we do not understand what is happening in our dreams. It is a spiritual monitor that reveals what happens in the physical. Dream contain messages.
That is the conclusion of part one of what I am saying about dreams.
This is Part two of what I want to say:
Particularly, this year is a year of prolific dream, this is a year of destiny changing dreams, a year of life changing dreams.
Many this year, will receive personal revelation that will impact many lives. Many will have dreams that will have national and international influence. Many will receive supernatural direction in their dreams, many will escape dangerous situations due to the dreams they have. It is therefore very crucial to benefit from, and to utilize those dreams.
When you now incubate your life with the Holy Spirit through dreams:
– You kill the bad one through dreams.
– You fertilize the good dreams.
A careful study of the scriptures will reveal 14 kinds of dreams that people had:
1. The first dream that the Bible revealed is about the heathen king called ‘Abimelech’. God appeared to him and said that he (Abimelech) is a dead man for taking Abraham’s wife. If he didn’t had that dream, he would really have become a dead man. Already what he did had sealed the womb of all the women in the land until he had that dream.
2. Jacob was the second dream. He said ‘surely the Lord is in this place’. It was a destiny dream for Jacob.
3. The third dream is about a man called ‘Laban’. Jacob thought he was rugged and clever, but when he met Laban, he met more than his might. When Laban found out they have stolen his idol, he ran after them. They are stealing an idol, the god that can be taken. God appeared to Laban in a dream and told him to deal wisely and softly with Jacob.
4. Joesph is the next dreamer, we just red his story. A 17 year old boy sold into slavery to egypt became a prime minister in that country.
5. The next person is the chief butler of Pharaoh, he dreamt of restoration in the prison and Joseph interpreted the dream him.
6. The next person was the chief baker. He had a dream of judgement and he was killed.
7. The next dreamer was Pharoah himself who had a dream of fat cow and slim cow in Genesis 41. He had a dream of national economy.
8. Next dreamer is the midianite soldier who had a dream that their army will be defeated.
9. Next is Solomon. He dreamt of empowerment and blessings.
10. Nebuchadnezzar dreamt of global event and global history. The dream of Nebuchadnezzar is still happening in our world today.
11. Daniel dreamt of prophetic directions of the end time.
12. Joseph of the husband of Virgin Mary, the dream that he had played a redemptive role of our salvation.
13. The next group is the wise men who came to give gift to Jesus in Matthew 2. They dreamt that they should not go back to Herod. If it’s not for that dream, they could have gone back to Herod who killed infants as at that time. He could also have had the three wise man killed.
14. Pilates wife dreamt that her husband should not touch Jesus. She said to him ‘Take your hand away from this matter’. The husband didn’t listen but his end was very shameful.
Out of the record of the scripture, some of the world greatest scientists and inventors in our world today, what made them popular those things they received from the dream:
1. Google was invented from the dream someone had.
2. Sowing machine was invented from the dream of someone who woke up and started sowing.
3. The DNA was discovered by someone in 1953, called ‘James Watson’. He discovered it in the dream.
4. The man who talked about the ‘speed of light’, it was as a result of the dream he had.
5. There are songs that singers and composers had in the dream that have transformed lives.
If you want the Holy Ghost to overshadow your dream:
1. Pray ahead of your dreams. Before going to bed, pray ahead of those dreams you will have. Holy Ghost, overshadow my dreams.
2. Pray upon your dreams. When you finish having it, pray upon it.
3. Reverse negative dream using God’s word. The only thing that is settled in heaven is the word of God, no dream is settled in heaven.
4. Take note of instructions that must be obeyed from your dreams.
5. Detoxify unqualified or terrifying dream without fear. Psalm 27
6. Repent of any sin revealed to you and rebuke your dream. Repent from them completely.
7. Command your destiny story dreams to manifest. Command your Joseph’s dreams to manifest.
Bottomline:
Right there where you are, I want you to close your eye as there are prayers to pray. Theses prayers are meant to let the Holy Ghost overshadow your dreams.
Don’t forget this, if you forget other prayers, ‘Holy Ghost, overshadow my dreams’
Tell the Lord to incubate your dreams by the fire of the Holy Ghost!
Prayer Rain:
Before Ministration prayers by Daddy G.O:
1. Powers handing me over to the problem of my father’s house, before I leave this place, die in the name of Jesus!
We have ten prayers to pray for five minutes, let your voice roar like fire and like thunder:
2. Powers assigned to engage me in wasting battles, die in the name of Jesus!
3. Glory of my life, hear the word of the Lord: shine in the name of Jesus!
4. Powers waiting to say to me ‘what a pity’, die in the name of Jesus!
5. Strange glory assigned to replace my shining glory, scatter in the name of Jesus!
6. Battles assigned to convert my sweat to nothing, die in the name of Jesus!
7. Powers boasting that ‘I’ll sing the song of frustration’, die in the name of Jesus!
Three more prayers and I want you to be super aggressive:
8. Powers smiling at me at day time but fighting me at night, what are you waiting for, die in the name of Jesus!
9. Any lion killing people of destiny in my family, die in the name of Jesus!
10. House that make good things to disappear, backfire in the name of Jesus!
After Ministration prayers by Daddy G.O:
11. Holy Ghost overshadow my dreams in the name of Jesus!
12. My dream, become prophetic battle axe in the name of Jesus!
13. Oh God arise, convert my dreams to divine visions in the name of Jesus!
14. My Joseph’s dream, appear in the name of Jesus!
15. In my dreams tonight, oh Lord appear in the name of Jesus!
16. Blood of Jesus, overshadow my dream life in the name of Jesus!
17. My dream life, hear the word of the Lord, catapult my destiny in the name of Jesus!
18. Prayers for business people: Wealth creating ideas, my dreams are available, appear in the name of Jesus!
19. Impacting creating ideas, my dreams are available, appear in the name of Jesus!
20. Creative ideas, my dreams are available, appear in the name of Jesus!
21. Dark powers discarding my destiny dreams, what are you waiting for, die in the name of Jesus!
22. Holy Ghost, overshadow my dream in the name of Jesus!
Three ceiling prayers before we go:
23. Powers shedding blood to cover my glory, you’re liar, die in the name of Jesus!
24. Powers assigned to fight me to the grave, your time is up, die in the name of Jesus!
25. Dark powers conspiring against new things in my life, die in the name of Jesus!
Announcement by Daddy G.O:
1. You’re to coming with your picture again for March PMCH as we go into part 3 prophetic declaration on it.
2. The weekend deliverance is coming up on the 21st to the 23 February 2020. You are to come fasting.
3. The first Gen 218 program for this year is a three day retreat for singles. We shall start the program on the morning of 7th February to 9th February 2020. The theme is called ‘rapid manifestation’ at the multi purpose hall in the prayer city. All singles are encouraged to attend. There will free buses available at designated units.
Year 2020: ‘My year of revival and new glory
MFM International Headquarters Sunday Service
DATE: 26th-January-2020
Topic: The Devil’s Sermon
Ministering: Pastor Kehinde Adegbolahan (A.G.O)
Anchored Scripture: Genesis 3:1-5, 7, 1 Timothy 4:1, Romans 12:2, 1 John 1:9, Isaiah 1:18-19, Galatians 1:13, 1 Timothy 6:9, Hebrews 10:8-9, John 16:30
Message:
As we pursue our agenda for this year declared by our father in the Lord, that this year is our year of spiritual revival and new glory. We are looking at this very important topic which I believe is going to be a blessing to we all this morning.
It is titled ‘the devil’s sermon’. I want you to see yourself in a school or in a class in this teaching today.
The first point is this:
– The devil is a good preacher. A very very good preacher. The most interesting thing about the devil’s sermon is that the devil preaches from the Bible. He uses the Bible as his own text book. As you’re going to see from the word of God. Remember when he came to Jesus after Jesus had fasted and prayed for forty days. One should not expect the devil should appear to him after fasting and praying. How can you pray and fast for forty days and the person that appears to you is the devil? When the devil appeared to him, he was taking his sermon from the Bible. ‘Is it not written that He shall give His angels charge over you?Thank God Jesus knew the word and He also responded to him, ‘it is written’.
There are two people who are always interpreting the Bible to you, the devil and the Holy Ghost. When you allow the devil to interpret the Bible to you, it is to trap your soul.
The first sermon the devil preached to a woman was in the garden of Eden. Who is that person the devil fear most between Adam and Eve? Many people will say it is Adam. The devil fears the woman more than the man. Adam had been in the garden for many years but the devil didn’t face him. How can you face a strong man except you bind the strong man? If a thief will come to steal, his objective is to attack the strongest person first. The devil is a huge strategist.
They use to say that men rule the world but women rule the men that rule the world. And that is why when Jesus was going, the power of heaven and on earth, he gave it to the woman (his wife, the church).
The devil preached the first sermon in Genesis 3:1-5
He was simply quoting the same thing that God said to the man and to the woman.
All of a sudden, when they followed the sermon of the devil, their nakedness appeared. Nakedness is a sign of shame.
The power that wants to naked you, before you leave this church today, they shall be openly disgraced today in the name of Jesus!
The devil is a good preacher and that is a fact that cannot be faulted. The devil preached to billions of angels, and they followed him to fight against God.
Billions of people are in hell fire today because they believed the sermon of the devil
If you swallow the fruit of satan, it would not only trouble your stomach but it will reveal your nakedness.
There are Three major tools the enemy uses to promote his sermon:
1. Suggestion. He will suggest something to you, why did you do this? why did you do that?
2. Persuasion. He will not drag you to do it, he will just persuade you to accept what he say. Just like Delilah persuaded Samson and she eventually caught him. It is the tool of San to promote his evil sermon.
3. Deception. Another word for deception is ‘twisted truth’. He will either add to it and turn it to something else. He twisted the word of God to Eve. God is very self to say that, you will not die. The day you eat this fruit, you will be like God. When truth are twisted, it will lead to error.
You look at these three tools, they have to do with the mind. These tools target the mind. When your mind is not renewed, the devil will catch you very easily. Your mind is an access root to your life. That is why the Bible says we should be transformed by the renewing of our minds (Romans 12:2). Meaning that you’re going to experience transformation. Your mind is a target for the devil. The Bible now went much more deeper by telling us that the devil have doctrines.
In 1 Timothy 4:1, It is part of the signs of the last days that many shall listen to the sermons of the devil. There are so many doctrines of the devil in our midst now. A doctrine is a set of believe held and taught at a gathering. It is a rule of law guiding an organization. A doctrine is a kind of teaching that molds a man’s life, it molds your character and behavior. In other words, the doctrines that you accept, you will believe.
In many churches today, people are promoting satanic doctrines.
Real life experiences shared by A.G.O:
There is something that someone said to me about a church. You want to be rich successful. Just buy 2 bottles of cokes. They pour it on your head. They now bath themselves with cokes and Fanta.
There is one church in Abuja now. They will print the picture of the pastor on people’s pants. They will tell them to put it on and for those looking for husband, they put it on and men will rush after them. It is the doctrine of the devil.
There is a church in this Lagos, once you wear their uniform, you must not talk until you get back home.
Those days I use to board molue. One man from that church entered the molue vehicle. One area boy knew that this man doesn’t talk. He (the area boy) started pushing him and punching him. He still didn’t talk but he was murmuring. It is the doctrine of the devil.
Through knowledge, the righteous shall be delivered. Jesus told us that you shall know the truth and it shall set you free. Truth is a personality, it is the knowledge of truth that will prevent you from accepting the devil’s sermons. Satan doesn’t tell lies, he makes lies, he creates lies. Jesus referred to him as the father of lies.
The creator, the one that maketh lies. He’s the father of all lies. All these sermons of the devil, no matter how sweet and nice it appears, they are rooted in lies.
The sad thing is this, many sons and daughters in the kingdom, unfortunately, they are rooted in the devil’s sermons.
Some of the commonest lies the devil preaches to people are:
1. He preaches to people that their sins are too many and because of that, God cannot forgive you. It is a big lie. You must not accept this sermon of the devil. The Bible says there is nothing new under heaven. There is no sin that anyone is committing now that wasn’t recorded in the Bible. No matter how terrible that sin is, it can be forgiven. The big sin can receive God’s forgiveness. I John 1:9. You can trust God on this particular matter, He will not disappoint you. You can receive forgiveness. Don’t allow the devil to tell you a lie. Don’t accept the devil’s sermon.
A.G.O shares a real life experience:
We went to a brother and as we were talking to him. He said look, look, just leave me alone. If you know what I’ve done, God cannot forgive me. Just let’s continue the way we have down. He said I don’t think that God can forgive me. I’m a very wicked person. I’ve done terrible things. Tell us what have you done, he said don’t worry. I said to him to look at the book of Isaiah 1:18-19. It was this scripture that watered down his soul. He said 18 years ago, he was looking for power and influence. He went somewhere and they told him that he should bring sacrifice so that it would be performed. They said he will need to bring a six day old baby, then after they will tell him what to do. He began searching and eventually got one. For him to be able to steal this baby, he eventually killed the mother of this baby. He said right in front of him, they brought out a mortar and put some leaves in it and they put the baby inside and asked him to start pounding it. You see that is a wicked man. But according to the Bible, if he confessed, though it looks terrible, God said He will forgive.
For God to forgive your sins, there are four steps to take:
– Acknowledge that you’re guilty. That you’ve wronged the Almighty God.
– You must confess your sins before God. Don’t generalize the sin, you must mention it one by one.
– Repentance, you must turn away from that sin.
– Believe. Believe that you’ve been forgiven. You must also forgive those who have wronged you.
No matter what must have been done, the blood of Jesus Christ is powerful to wash away your sins.
2. God cannot use you because of your past failure. That is a big lie. It is only the devil that God can never use anymore. As long as you’re breathing, God can use you. When Paul was talking about his past in Galatians 1:13, despite that, God used him. Peter failed Jesus three times, but the same peter was used to the extent that his shadow was chasing out demons. Your past failures may slow you down but they cannot stop your destiny. God is much more interested in where He is taking you to compared to where you’re coming from. No matter what the devil is saying about your past, God can use you. If God can use the jaw bone of an ass in front of Samson, He can use you.
If God can use a prostitutes to save the spies, then He can use you. If you begin to read the heroes of faith, the name of that prostitute is there. If God can use a doubting Thomas, then God can use you. If God can use peter whom Jesus said to, ‘get thee behind me satan’, then He can use you. For God to use you, he’s not looking for your ability, He is looking for your availability.
Your willingness to surrender to the master will make you a candidate of His vessel. You don’t have to be shorter, taller, fatter, thinner for God to use you. Saul the king was a tall man, God used him. Elisha was a bald man but God used him. What am I saying? No matter your past failure, God can still use you. Don’t swallow the sermon of the devil.
3. Another popular sermon the devil is using is religion will connect you to God. God didn’t create religion, the devil used it. Christianity is not religion, it’s about a person who came to die for our sin and He’s is interceding for us at the right hand of His father in Heaven. Religion has killed more people than any other thing. Jesus declared woe upon many who attach themselves to religion.
The worst thing that can happen to a person is to make a religion out of Christianity. Being in church and not in Christ is religion. Carrying the Bible in your hand but the word of that bible is not in your life, you’re simply carrying the religion. Obeying successful rules but no transformation of lives, you’re a religious person. Believing more in the anointing oil than the word of God, you’re a religious person. All those things will fade away but the only thing that will not pass away is the word of God. Having tittles but no mantle is carrying religion. Bearing a Christian name but not living the life of Christ is religion. God hates religion and religion will not connect you to God.
4. When you have money, 99% of your problem has been solved. We have so many people who are running after money, when you see people like that, be careful. 1 Timothy 6:9. Those who wants to be rich, when your heart is always thinking about money, your heart is going. The most important thing in life is your relationship with Jesus. It is when you have the kingdom, you will have peace with God.
5. He preaches to people that all what they need to enter heaven is to be nice to people. Jesus categorically said except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God. If you’re not born again, you cannot enter. You must be born of the water which is the word of God, and the spirit which is the Holy Ghost. The Bible says that all our righteousness is like a filthy rag. You read about the man Cornelius, the Bible said he gives alms, he fasted, God said to peter, that he must preach to Cornelius.
6. Another popular sermon of the devil is that heaven help those who help themselves. You will never find such doctrine in the Bible.
It is because of these foolish sermons that people believed that the devil used to capture their soul. Heaven helps those who cannot help themselves. Don’t swallow the lies of the devil.
7. Once saved is permanently saved. You can loose your salvation if you’re not careful. Hebrews 10:8-9. To draw up is to draw back to perdition. Judas was once save but lost his salvation. Annanais is and Sapphira was once saved but they lost their salvation.
I know that there is someone here today, although you claim to be saved, but you have lost it. The most precious thing in your life is your salvation. More precious than your husband, more precious than your wife. The unfortunate thing is this, a lot of people give their lives to Christ on Sundays, but they lose it back on Monday.
Don’t let the devil deceive you, don’t listen to his sermon.
8. He says that heaven and hell are here on earth. It is a big lie from the devil. Heaven is a place, hell fire is also a place. Jesus said I will go and prepare a place for you, I’ll come back and take you there. No matter the level of your suffering and affliction you’re going through now, it can never be compared to hell. Hell is the full manifestation of the undiluted anger of God, that is what we call ‘hell’. That is why you and I must not plan to go there. We have a great opportunity.
The truth is this, if you decide that you’re not going to hell, demons and evil forces can do nothing to drag you there. God created that place for the devil and his demons.
Going to hell fire is a choice. You cannot just by chance find your self in heaven, work out your salvation with fear and tremble.
I’m praying for all of us here, including myself: that anything in our lives that pulling us towards hell; today they shall die in the name of Jesus!
Bottomline:
In conclusion, what is the way out, Jesus gave us the answer in John 16:30 to fight against the sermon of hell:
– You must have a personal relationship with the Holy Spirit. It is to have a strong link with the Holy Spirit. You receive the baptism of the Holy Spirit, pray to be overshadowed with the spirit of God. If you’re in this sermon and you know that you don’t have the Holy Spirit, you’re putting your destiny in danger.
I pray: when the trumpet will sound, when names shall be called, when the book shall be opened, you and I; I pray by the power of the Holy Ghost, by the mercies of God, by the blood of Jesus, we shall not be absent in the name of Jesus!
Those who are in heaven now, they do not have two heads. The same blood of Jesus that cleanses and washed away sins was available for them and is available for you. The assignment of satan, what he carried out in the life of eve and Adam to naked their life, the assignment of satan to naked your life and connect you to everlasting shame, that assignment is destroyed in the name of Jesus!
Rise up now and close your eyes, bow your head. Speak to the Lord. Begin to talk to the Lord. Begin to reject the sermon of the devil, ‘I reject them out of my life’, speak to the Lord now.
Prayer Rain:
Before Ministration prayers by A.G.O:
It says, thou anointed my head with oil and my cup runneth over. Your head is the symbol of your destiny, your head carries the oil that will elevate your life, your head is what paves the way, your head is the target of your enemies. Your head is what God wants to elevate. With a very loud shout, say this and let your voice roar like thunder:
1. Grab your head with your two hands: The glory of my head, where are you? manifest by fire in the name of Jesus!
2. The cage of bewitchment caging my head, break in the name of Jesus!
The Bible says ‘these are the horns that scattereth Judah so that no one can lift up their head’, with a loud shout:
3. Every horn of darkness attacking my head, catch fire in the name of Jesus!
4. Battles of ‘you shall not have peace’, before I leave this church today, expire in the name of Jesus!
After Ministration prayers by A.G.O:
5. Arrow of deception fired into my life, get out now in the name of Jesus!
6. Every power dragging me closer to perdition, release me now in the name of Jesus!
It is the power of the Holy Ghost that can rescues you from the devil sermon. As you pray this prayer, the power of God will fall upon you and all impossibility will become possibility:
7. Power of the Holy Ghost, overshadow my life in the name of Jesus!
Year 2020: ‘Our year of spiritual revival and new glory’
Mountain of Fire and Miracles Ministries New Year Service @ Prayer City
(1st January; 2020)
New Year Service: Prophetic Messages, Prayer Sessions and Manna Water Service
Date: 1st January, 2020
Ministering: Dr. D.K Olukoya (G.O, MFM Worldwide)
Year 2020: ‘My year of revival and new glory’.
Session 1: Your 2020 must favor me
Those who are here and there are powers swearing before shrines that you will not prosper, the power of God is upon you and that yoke is broken forever in the name of Jesus!
Powers offering monthly sacrifice to chase favor away from you, every power chasing away your favor, I command them to depart in the name of Jesus!
The powers that wants you to repeat the mistake of 2019, I command them to depart in the name of Jesus!
Prayer Rain:
Prayers by Daddy G.O:
There are 2000 testimonies to follow this prayer:
1. Wherever my glory has fallen down: my glory, hear the word of the Lord, arise in the name of Jesus!
2. Every battle assigned to make me rise and fall, die in the name of Jesus!
3. Arrows assigned to kill me mysteriously, backfire in the name of Jesus!
4. Powers seeking for my blood this year, die in the name of Jesus!
5. Wicked elders blowing away my harvest, what are you waiting for, die in the name of Jesus!
6. Shout this proclamation 21 times: Year 2020, hear the word of the Lord, favor me by fire in the name of Jesus!
Session 2: I shall not die but live this year
Prayer Rain:
Prayers by Daddy G.O
1. Any food of death prepared for me this year, catch fire in the name of Jesus!
2. Holy Ghost, disgrace the laughter of my enemies in the name of Jesus!
3. Powers killing animals to kill me, die in my place in the name of Jesus!
4. Those who hate me because of my glory, expire in the name of Jesus!
5. Arrows of infirmity, I’m not your candidate this year, backfire in the name of Jesus!
6. Anyone collecting witchcraft to fight me, expire in the name of Jesus!
7. Anywhere I go this year, darkness shall disappear in the name of Jesus!
8. Any power that wants me to die, die in my place by fire in the name of Jesus!
9. Powers waiting for my obituary, I bury you now in the name of Jesus!
10. 21 violent times, declare this loud and clear: I shall not die but live to declare the work of Christ in the name of Jesus!
I will like you to listen to me very carefully
I’ll like to give you a brief idea of the prophetic pictures of the year 2020 are:
This is an extremely interesting year. It’s what you can call ‘a palm up, a palm down year’. Palm up, palm down. Palm up for reception or collection, palm down for losing or turning away. Palm up for giving generously, palm down for covering sin for under which no man shall prosper.
What then are the prophetic characteristics for this year 2020?
1. It is a year for rewriting negative family history. And because God said this is a year for rewriting negative family history, the first PMCH program for this year this Saturday have been devoted for prayers on that. That means once you break your fast with Manna water, you can eat all you can today and tomorrow. Friday, first PMCH for the year, the fasting, don’t miss it. Note that this coming Saturday PMCH program shall take place at the headquarters, not here. You can connect to it from the regions as well. You can also follow it from the screen here at prayer city. You can call 2020 a happy new year, also a happy new decade. You should make up your mind that you want to write off the negative family pattern. There is someone here that your unending laughter shall start that day in the name of Jesus!
2. It is a year of aggressive prayers against voices from foundation.
3. It is a year of unbelievable answers to prayers. Mark my words, it is a year of uncommon testimonies.
4. It’s a year of ‘it can only be God testimonies’.
5. It’s a year where many captives will totally divorce their chains.
6. For those of you who are students in the school of prayer. It is a year of consistently activating the blood of Jesus. We should come back to our traditional blood of Jesus prayer.
7. It’s a year when the Lord shall dash in pieces the kingdom of evil rulers.
8. This year, many families shall climb to a new height of victories.
9. It’s a year of ceaseless prayers. Don’t joke with prayers this year and fervent intercession. It will get you the desired result.
10. It is a year when the saints must be well sensitive to heavenly frequencies.
11. It’s a year that food supplies from the kingdom of Herod shall be cut off. You may not understand that word but some of you here you know what I’m talking about.
12. It’s a year where disobedience to God will yield terrible results that no deliverance can reverse. When God has been talking to you and you have been disobeying, this is not a year to do that at all.
13. It is a year when round the clock prayers are needed against national restlessness plus political and economic confusion. For those who love this country, it is advisable to spare one day in the week as believers to fast and pray for our nation.
14. This year, impatience will lure many into strange marriages. Be patience. The figure ‘20’ is a figure that symbolizes waiting and perfection, be patient. Don’t be in an hurry. The raise is not for the swift nor the battle to the strong.
15. It’s a year not only to take back what the enemy has stolen, but it’s a year you will occupy new territory.
16. Strong prayers are needed this year to avert earthquakes and fires.
17. It’s a year of increased and unprecedented level of the move of God’s power upon His people.
18. This is a year when you cannot hold onto un-forgiveness. Un-forgiveness will make you to miss out on what God wants to do in your life this year.
19. This year 2020 will certainly be a mercy and confusing year.
20. It’s a year when some major leaders will be unbelievably shifted away.
21. A year where all things that many have planted and watered in the past years will now began to yield, blossom and produce fruit.
22. This is a year where many who have endured seasons of darkness, delay, trials and tribulation; they will sing their songs and dance their dance.
23. It is a year of returns of long term prodigals who have repented.
24. This is a year where we must all return to our ancient land mark as written in Jeremiah 6:15 so that all those things that happen.
25. It’s a year of perfection of divine vision for so many people.
26. Year of positive and negative harvest. Do well this year.
27. Extra ordinary and sacrificial giving will yield very powerful result this year. Being stingy will result in disappointment.
28. It is an up and down year.
29. It is a year that the Lord shall tear in pieces the kingdom of those boasting against Him.
30. It’s a season where that which has delayed the breakthrough of God’s children shall be dashed to pieces.
31. That which is known as resurrection power of the Holy Ghost will rattle dry bones back to life.
32. It is a year of turning point and fresh starts for so many people this year.
33. More than any other year, the enemy plans to release the dog spirit. Strange sexual perversion, strange sexual urges to destroy so many destinies. A year where the misuse of the two organs in your body will yield disastrous consequences. Your tongues and your sexual organs. I’ll not say I’m speaking to young ones or adult, I’ll make no assumption at all.
G.O shares a real life experience:
I was invited to a youth meeting and the theme was tagged ‘alters of destiny obituaries’. We began to analyze and look at the alters that the enemies used to send the lives of youth to obituaries. We came to a conclusion that the most potent weapon of the enemy being used to waste destinies is sexual perversion.
After the youth meeting, a lot of young ones came to me and ask this question. ‘Excuse me sir, we agree that sexual perversion and adultery can send a destiny to destruction. What can I do to avoid sexual urges’?.
I said the following points to them:
1. Flee every tempting situation, every tempting company.
2. Let your head be correct. Think deeply about the consequences of what you want to do. Don’t allow your brain to jump to the reproductive organs. You say you want to get a degree, why don’t you face that degree.
3. You should flee from pornography.
4. When such urges come to you, engage them in distraction, do something else. Re-channel your energy.
5. Quote scriptures.
6. If you’ve receive baptism in the Holy Spirit, start to speak in tongues.
7. Engage in deep praise and worship.
8. Get out of the environment where you find it difficult to control the urges.
9. Avoid situation that trigger urges.
10. Abstain from masturbation. I use to think that it’s a problem of the young ones, I’ve change my mind totally now. A lot of married adult engage in this now.
11. Abstain from drugs and alcohol. Hard drug and alcohol.
12. Control your thoughts about the Holy Spirit.
13. Keep yourself very busy.
14. You could practically go take cold shower or warm bath.
15. Be a man of prayer. Prayer warriors don’t have this kind of issues.
16. If all you’re thinking about in your life is sex, it means that you need deliverance. A minimum of two or three weeks at prayer city so you can clear your life from the pollution of the enemies.
Misuse of your sex organs this year will yield disastrous circumstances. If you try to do abortion, the child will stay and will now come (grow up) and trouble you.
How to deal with a year like this:
1. Holy living not negotiable.
2. No nonsense prayers.
3. Bible addiction. Addiction to the word of God
4. Self control
5. Sacrificial giving.
6. Hard work. Work hard as a believers.
7. Watchfulness.
That is how to deal with this year.
We as MFM members, we must commit our self to practical prayers until God shows up in our situation. Elisha prayed seven times before rain showed up. We need to pray Hannah’s style too, like a drunken person. We need to also pray the Jesus type too, who prayed until His sweat was dropping out like blood.
This year then for us in MFM is : ‘My year of revival and new glory’. ‘My year of spiritual revival and new glory’.
We anchor that on four scriptures which I’ll read now, I’ll advise you to memorize these scriptures:
1. Psalm 116:8
2. Psalm 138:7
3. Isaiah 60:1
4. Numbers 8:13
Those are our working scriptures this year. That’s the summary of the prophetic pictures of this year. Incase you’ve planned to carry out an iniquity this year. You hatched it last year and you plan to commit it this year again, I’ll advise you to stop.
Any thing you’re asked to do by anyone and it’s against scripture or contradict it, God didn’t ask you to do such thing or send such person to you. May the Lord help everyone this year in the name of Jesus!
Tell the Lord to give me the grace to succeed this year 2020.
Session 3: My life shall connect to divine acceleration this year
Prayer Rain:
Prayers by Daddy G.O
First 7 prayer points: Circular prayers of 7 people:
1. Powers that say I’ll not be great shall die in the name of Jesus!
2. Strange powers pursuing my life, die in the name of Jesus!
3. Arrows of wicked elders in my body, backfire in the name of Jesus!
4. Powers wasting my opportunities, die in the name of Jesus!
5. Enemies multiplying themselves against me, they shall scatter in the name of Jesus!
6. Angels of the living God, pursue my pursuers in the name of Jesus!
7. Every arrow of shame and disgrace, backfire in the name of Jesus!
8. Daniel Olukoya, hear the word of the Lord, arise and shine in the name of Jesus!
9. Daniel Olukoya, hear the word of the Lord, pursue your pursuers in the name of Jesus!
10. Powers assigned to use my children to punish me, before I leave this place, die in the name of Jesus!
11. Powers assigned to make my children suffer, before I leave this place, die in the name of Jesus!
Session 4: I must possess the milk and honey in this land
Prayer Rain
Prayers by Daddy G.O:
1. My hands, hear the word of the Lord, prosper by fire in the name of Jesus!
2. To be prayed three times: Power of get and loose, get out of my hands in the name of Jesus!
The next three prayers to be prayed in boiling anger. A lot of people have lost so many things. If the money that have passed through some hands have stayed, they would be multi billionaires. The Bible talked about pocket with holes:
3. Powers assigned to waste my sweat, die in the name of Jesus!
4. Problems assigned to mock me before my enemies, go back to your senders in the name of Jesus!
5. Strange birds connecting me to strange battle, fall down and die in the name of Jesus!
6. Idols of my fathers house, let me go in the name of Jesus!
7. Daniel Olukoya, wherever the souls of your feet shall step this year, possess the place in the name of Jesus!
Session 5: I connect to divine immunity this year
Prayer Rain:
prayers by Daddy G.O:
Grip your head with your two hands while praying these prayers:
1. Any power that will call my name from grave this year, die in the name of Jesus!
2. Blood of Jesus, envelope my life and my family in the name of Jesus!
3. Angels of the living God, surround my life and my family in the name of Jesus!
4. Where is the Lord God of Elijah, put me inside the envelope of fire in the name of Jesus!
Session 6: The Lord shall perfect all that concerns me
Prayer Rain:
Prayers by Daddy G.O:
1. My legs, hear the Word of the Lord, this year, move me to my breakthroughs in the name of Jesus!
2. You legs of Daniel Olukoya, hear the word of the Lord, you shall not carry me into danger in the name of Jesus!
3. Oh God arise, let my enemies used themselves as a sacrifice to end my battles in the name of Jesus!
4. Every handwriting in the sun and in the moon against my life, catch fire in the name of Jesus!
5. Say this 40 times – Oh God, perfect everything concerning me in the name of Jesus!
Announcement by Daddy G.O:
1. First PMCH of the year is taking place this Saturday, come fasting. Come with your prayer requests.
2. The quenching the rage prayers starts on the 7th of January to 7th of February 2020 from 12:am to 12:15am. Prayers to pray are in the pray your way booklet. Make sure you anoint yourself before you start the prayers.
Year 2020: ‘My year of revival and new glory
MFM International Headquarters Sunday Service
Annual Community Hymn Singing Service 2019
Date: 29th-December-2019
Theme: A Teaching Series – Every Member, a Prophet (Part 4)
Ministering: Dr D.K Olukoya (G.O, MFM Worldwide)
Anchored Scriptures: Numbers 11:29
Message:
Numbers 11:29 points us to the outcry of Moses to the son of men. Moses wished every Christian become a prophet. I pray for someone here that as you are moving into the new year, May heaven open your eyes so that you can see in the name of Jesus! May you stop seeing things after the flesh in the name of Jesus!
I can tell you that since we started teaching this series, the word of God says ‘touch not my anointed and do my prophet no harm’.
Do you know that the reaction of God is always very strong when God’s prophet is touched?
Every one should develop themselves spiritually, every one must become a bible addict.
With that, you don’t put your life or thoughts in a man. The Bible issues a curse on those who put their life on man. No matter how anointed a prophet is, he is still a man. As MFM used to talk about ‘rearranged for revival’, it is the desire of God that every member becomes a prophet.
When you do that, nobody can deceive you or call something white to you when it is black. However, for this to happen, there is a price to pay.
Many just want to come to church to pick what is convenient for them instead of what is commanded. You must keep God’s commandment.
You should choose to be a prophet of God, so that you stop running all over the place consulting others. The pastor is not your God, your God is the almighty God.
G.O share a real life experience:
Once upon a time, a couple used to fight a lot. The man is an elder in the church, the wife also is a worker in church. During this fighting, the man use to beat up this wife. This woman use to dodge the blows. One day, the woman decided to fight back. She endured the blows, and all of a sudden, she gave him a heavy blow on his chest and to her amazement, the man fell down. She sat on him and started rushing blows on him. Another day, fight started, her husband rained blows again on her and she tried dodged it. She endured the blows and again, gave him a heavy blow on his chest, and the man fell down. At this point, power changed hands.
The man decided to report to the pastor in their church that his wife was beating him up. On there way to see their pastor in his house, they also saw the pastor and his wife fighting seriously. At this point, the man and his wife turned back and decided to go home to solve their problem.
I’m telling you this so that you too will be a prophet and not put your trust on any man.
The gift of prophecy is not for pastors or prophets alone, you too should get there (become a prophet).
Who is a prophet?
– A prophet is a man who has a insight into the will of God.
– A prophet is an oracle of God.
– A prophet is a divine mouth piece. A man or woman with his or her head in heaven.
The prophetic ministry is a ministry of seeing in the spirit. If you’re a prophet of Jehovah, you will be seeing vision, you will be seeing dreams.
It is important that you develop yourself to that level that you will be seeing in the spirit.
Another real life experience shared by Daddy G.O:
I remembered teaching this topic some years ago. There was a man selling tyres. He was selling new tyres but someone beside him was selling used tyres. All of a sudden, customers will come and price tyres at his and when he tells them the price, they will tell him they are coming. To his amazement, he will see them going to the next shop to buy used tyres. This kept happening and In three months, he only managed to sell only one tyre.
He was present in a teaching like this, he prayed a prayer ‘open my eyes oh Lord in the name of Jesus!’. He got home and dreamt of seeing a big hole and an handkerchief was buried inside. He took a bold step of faith and got to his shop the next day. He decided to dug the floor but people were laughing at him. He kept digging and he saw a white object, an under wear.
He took it, and burnt it. He anointed his shop and right after that act, people came immediately and started buying the new tyres in his shop. He sold all the tyres in his shop that day.
Seeing in the spirit is certainly very beneficial. Elisha told Gehazi that ‘went not mine heart with thee when Namaan turned again from his chariot to meet thee’.
I pray for someone here today, that by the power that divided the Red Sea, by the power that slapped Herod, that heaven shall open your eyes by the power in the name of Jesus!
When we say someone is seeing in the spirit, what does it mean?
1. It means having your spiritual eyes are opened. May your spiritual eyes be opened in the name of Jesus!
2. It means having revelational dreams, having visions, trances, expressions and visitations.
3. Seeing in the spirit means to have spiritual sight. When you now begin to see in the spirit, it may not start in a big way. Some may start in a dream, some in a vision, it could be a picture just showing before them. Some will open and close their eyes, and they will still see the revelation clearly.
When you begin to see in the spirit:
1. You become a member in the company of the prophet.
2. Fear becomes an alien commodity in your life.
3. You no longer see men after the flesh alone, you see them for whom they really are.
4. You gain access to the secrets and mysteries of God and then you understand what Amos 3:3 is saying.
5. You have more confidence in God.
6. Your life becomes a divine phenomenon.
7. You become who the Bible calls a ‘seer’.
8. You become a voice that has recognition in heaven, on earth and in hell.
9. Seeing into the spirit makes you to become a champion of situations.
10. It makes you to become a student in the school of revelation.
11. It prevent you from walking into the enemies trap.
G.O shares another incident:
Somebody shared a very sad story to me this morning. The person was here on Christmas Day. She heard me tell everyone present to be careful of where they go to eat. She knew someone who went to a wedding. He went there and began to eat. The person ran into trouble with stomach upset. They rushed the person to the hospital. When they were trying to see what is in the stomach, the person died.
The truth is this, those bewitching people through food, they may get born again some day.
If you allow your self to be used as chewing stick by them, it would be your own fault.
A brother was about to enter a plane. His usual tradition is when he enters the plane, he bows his head to pray. He prayed, all of a sudden a vision appeared before him, and he saw a pool of blood. He continued praying but still saw the pool of blood. He took his brief case and began to leave. The air hostess told him that where is he going and that the plane is about to leave. The air hostess said he will not be refunded his ticket fees but he wasn’t bothered. The planet crashed and everybody died, nobody survived.
What saved that fellow was that he had ability to see in the spirit.
Rise to your feet.
Prayer Rain:
Before Ministration prayers by Daddy G.O:
With a voice that roars like thunder, pray these seven prayers loud and clear. Do not allow anybody’s voice to be louder than your own:
1. Every waster assigned against my life, be wasted in the name of Jesus!
2. Arrows that entered into my life in the night, backfire in the name of Jesus!
This third prayer that we are going to pray, within the next 48 hours of praying it, the lord will do something unforgettable in someone life:
3. Where is the Lord God of Elijah, arise, give me a miracle that will move me forward in the name of Jesus!
4. Angels of war, arise, kill every enemies of my progress in the name of Jesus!
5. Wherever the enemy has stopped me this year, I get out now in the name of Jesus!
6. Powers assigned to make my enemies laugh at me, you’re a liar, die in the name of Jesus!
7. Powers introducing delay to my breakthrough, before I leave this place, die in the name of Jesus!
After Ministration prayers, by Daddy G.O:
The prayers to pray are not a gentle man prayer. It’s a prayer to see into the spirit. Many have prayed this prayer and became champions.
8. Holy Ghost, overshadow my eyes in the name of Jesus!
9. Any power assigned to use me as a sacrifice, I bury you now in the name of Jesus!
Announcement by Daddy G.O:
1. Don’t forget that the cross over vigil is taking place at the prayer city.
The booklet are still available at the book stores.
2. By the grace of God on Tuesday, we are not breaking our fast until we shout happy new year. We shall be breaking with water or juice.
3. Also don’t forget that new year Wednesday service is the first Wednesday Manna water service which will be taking place immediately and come with your bottle of water.
4. Let me warn again, I beg you in the name of the Lord. Be careful where you eat this season. The enemy want to balance its account and we shall not be victims in the name of Jesus!
5. Pastor blessing will be continuing until the 7th of January 2020 due to many reasons.
MFM International Headquarters Manna Water and Deep Deliverance Service.
DATE: 11-December-2019
Topic: The Mystery of Accurate Prayers (Part 2)
Ministering: Dr. D.K Olukoya (G.O, MFM Worldwide)
Anchored Scriptures: Exodus 17:8-13
Messages:
Last time, we began to look at the mystery of accurate prayers. We take it further again from where we stopped.
Like I said to you last week, a time will come in your life; if it has not already come, that your greatest need is for God to answer your prayers. It is important to pray correctly and accurately.
We began to look at the mystery of accurate prayers. We red from the book of James.
Still under the mystery of accurate prayers. We need Exodus 17:8-13.
Here (from the scripture passage), we red another deep mystery about prayers. Some people were fighting physically. Moses, Aaron and Hur fought spiritually. As long as they kept the temple of their spiritual fire on, Israel won the battle. When Moses wanted to rest his hands, Israel began to lose the battle. That is why prayer warriors do not give up praying. Every prayer they (prayer warriors) are praying is a blow on the enemy and the weaker the enemy gets.
It’s a tragedy when someone is about to kill the enemy, then give in to discouragement, this giving prayer little time or stops praying. When you do that, the enemy reinforces and comes back stronger and more prepared.
Prayer is an unnatural activity. Those people who don’t know about prayer don’t pray.
God’s power can only flow to people who pray. Prayer is powerful. Moses found out that he must keep his hands stretched towards heaven in prayer to keep Israel winning the battle.
If you need three dosage of prayer to destroy the strongman, that’s why sometimes you will be told to pray a prayer seven times, sometimes three times.
Elijah needed seven dosage of prayers to bring down rain. Some people could be told to pray for seven days to confront a particular problem. They pray day one, they pray day two and they become very fed up of praying thereafter. That time that you stopped, the enemies go back to their laboratory to count their losses and they put on another armor to prevent/neutralize your prayers from having effect on them.
Moses discovered that God’s prevailing power is released through prayer. God prevailing power is always released in the lives of those who pray.
It is hard, very hard for God to release His power in your life when you do not take your prayer as a serious Christians.
– Prayer-less people are always overwhelmed,
– Prayer-less people are always over run,
– Prayer-less people are beaten down,
– Prayer-less people are pushed around,
– And they’re defeated by the enemies.
Prayer unlocks Gods prevailing power. Immediately Moses made the correction between prayer and God’s power, prayer won the battle.
Jesus said ‘men ought always to pray and not faint’.
If seven covenants are formed for a lady. They pushed her to seven covenants because they don’t want her to marry and therefore, she’s under seven anti marriage covenants. Initially, she was dancing away her time in one church and the enemy was fertilizing these covenants. Later, someone said she should come to MFM and she prayed. For the first time in her 35 years when she prayed, those powers received a challenge they have never received before. Those enemies has build a stronghold, a mansion in a place they have been residing for 35 years. She now sent for one deliverance and thinks that one deliverance session alone changes everything. The first Prayers, three covenants broke and four covenants are remaining. Nobody was talking to her before but now few people are talking to her. Now, she thinks everything is fine and stops praying.
The Bible says ‘pray until your joy is full’. Nothing is too great, nothing is too hard and nothing is too difficult for prayer to do.
Prayer always make what seems impossible to do possible but ignorance is a serious disaster.
G.O narrates a real life incident
One day, a woman saw an old man who fell down in the street. This woman didn’t care as she ran into the middle of the road to help him (this old man) and she made him sit down. The old man asked this woman was and she told him her name. This woman was as poor as church rat. The woman didn’t know she rescued a multi billionaire. This made the man to make a will that will give this woman one quarter of his wealth to thi. The man gave her a gift. She kept the gift into a picture frame she decorated her house with. Later, the old man died and few years later the woman died in too but died in poverty. After her death, the will written by the old man and given to this woman was found in the frame.
Ignorance is a serious disaster. May the Lord damage our ignorance in the name ofJesus!
Rise to your feet now.
Bottomline:
Prayers opened the Red Sea, so shall your red see be opened in the name of Jesus!
Many are confronting their Red Sea now. The red sea is what prevents you from entering into the promise land, the Red Sea is what the enemy thinks will be your end. But at the same time, the Red Sea is what the Lord will use to destroy your enemies in the name of Jesus!
Prayer Rain:
Before Ministration prayers by Daddy G.O
1. Powers arrogantly challenging God in my life: Oh God arise, set them ablaze in the name of Jesus!
2. Powers receiving sacrifices to harm me, what are you waiting for, die in the name of Jesus!
3. Powers wasting my opportunities, before I leave this place, die in the name of Jesus!
4. Arrows of darkness slowing down my speed, catch fire in the name of Jesus!
5. Any power begging the wicked to make my life a dustbin, your time is up, die in the name of Jesus!
6. Fire of deliverance, arise, destroy my embargo in the name of Jesus!
7. Serpent of darkness assigned to confuse my journey, be roasted in the name of Jesus!
After Ministration prayers by Daddy G.O
8. Any power assigned to announcement for shame, any power assigned to announce me for disgrace: what are you waiting for, die in the name of Jesus!
9. Weapons of frustration assigned against me, backfire in the name of Jesus!
10. Any time I pray, my stubborn enemies shall go from one problem to another in the name of Jesus!
11. Prayer to be prayed three reckless times: Covenants that have stolen my virtues, break in the name of Jesus!
MFM International Headquarters Sunday Service
Date: 01-September-2019
Topic: The valley of frustration
Ministering: Dr D.K Olukoya (G.O, MFM Worldwide)
Anchored Scripture: Psalm 3, Ezra 4:4-5, Galatians 2:21, Psalm 88:1-4
Our targeted prayers this morning is what I’m going to explain to you.
There is a possibility for the grace of God upon the life of a person to be frustrated.
Psalm 88:1-4 is a passage that explains this message further.
In these three scriptures, they tell us about the valley of frustration.
What does means to be frustrated?
1. It means to break, to block to interrupt
2. To slow down.
3. To obstruct
4. It means to disappoint
5. To suppress.
6. To bring something to nothing,
7. To baffle a person or to counter a person.
8. To discourage or to make worthless.
9. To hinder or to disturb.
This is a dangerous valley. Beloveth, listen very well. You cannot run away from problem. Any dream of problem free existence is fraudulent. There is no place that is far that problems cannot meet you. Any dream of problem free environment or life only exist in the cemetery.
If you even die without Jesus is even the beginning of problems.
God usually let a challenge in the life of people for them to conquer. Problems can make you better or bitter. For believers, most problems are springboard for progress.
This life is a means of solving problems itself. The lord will not deliver you from problems, he will deliver you in problems. Frustration is a fire runner to failure.
The truth is this: problems have a life span. Whether you like it or not, into every life, a little bit of rain fall will come. What matters most is how you face problem. All heroes of faith in the Bible experienced their times of frustration.
G.O narrates a real life incident:
In my school many years ago, we had some trainee teachers. Then, the school had some these terrible boys in our class. They were always repeating and repeating in the class. When they don’t like a teacher, they will frustrate the teachers. Usually there is an inspector that comes once in a while to see how the trainee teachers are doing. These terrible students will wait for the day the inspectors will come, they will raise up their hands like they want to ask questions; and say the teachers are always talking rubbish. Some of those teachers don’t know how to handle these frustration and eventually and burst into tears, these students will fail these teachers.
One of those teachers called these students one day (about six of them), and asked these students why they frustrate their efforts? She fell on her kneels and begged them as that was the way she could handle the frustration.
The power of frustration may cause people to question God whether God likes them or not. It is exactly the valley where the enemy wants one to be. There are enemies assigned to frustrate the children of God.
There is a deep dark poisonous valley known as the valley of frustration. Frustration assist satan to launch severe attacks.
All who have accomplished something great in life encountered frustrations.
Deep frustration has driven people to deep depression.
Deep depression is a tragedy in our generation now. Majority, because something is happening to them, then they think and think and think; meditating on their problems which makes the problems become Goliath and become bigger. Refusing to sleep will not solved the problem but will cause more problems. Frustrating marriages, frustrating jobs, frustrating neighbors, frustrating parents have brought many sorrows to people.
It is impossible to eliminate frustration out of life but through the power of God, you can defeat it.
G.O narrates another real life incident:
A Woman entered into my office, she was crying. I begged her to stop, but she continued crying. I escorted her out of my office and said ‘when she stop, you can see me’. She said ‘I’ve stopped’ but she kept crying. She had five children and all of them without exception, they bed-wet. One of them was married but she lost her marriage because the bed is always soaked and also her husband get soaked. I asked this woman how many wives did her husband had? She said they were three. I asked her to bring all the five girls. She brought the five children and after serious prayers, one by one the yokes broke and return back to the sender and her children.
Frustration is a heart breaker, a vicious killer. Frustration has made many people commit suicide. One of the tragedies of this act is that after committing suicide, such person will go to hell fire.
The painful aspect is this, you may be used by the enemy to frustrate yourself. Frustration can come at all level. If you’re an ingrate or you’re ungrateful, such a person will become a stranger to happiness.
Watch the way you’re running your mouth. Sit down and prayerfully brain storm on what you’re doing wrong.
Frustration ask you to take cover when you’re suppose to take over. Frustration can lead to open opportunities if it is well managed. Life itself is difficult and masked with a lot of frustration. 7.00am this morning is gone forever, it cannot come back again. Frustration lead people to take wrong decisions.
Another dangerous thing about the valley of frustration is that it can be inherited. Once you take a look at your life, and you found out that your father is the worrying type, you better check yourself. Some will worry and worry until they become sick, some will worry and worry then get confused, some become very insultive, some drive recklessly because they are frustrated. Some over eat (eating disorder), some neglect their families. Some women will just be looking for anyone to sleep with simply because they are frustrated for not getting married. Some get into the bitterness highway. Some become very irritable and very moody. Some will stop prayers, some will stop reading their bible reading. Some get into self pity, and having suicidal thought. Some will become victims and slaves to false prophet.
If you want to kill frustration:
1. Completely surrender your life to the Lord.
2. You must identify the root of that frustration.
3. You must acknowledge that that frustration you’re allowing yourself get into is a sin.
4. You must repent from that sin.
5. You must change instead of desiring a change to suit you.
6. You must discover the true source of happiness which is Jesus Christ.
7. You must discover the way to the cross.
8. Stop taking things personally.
9. Remove the noise from your life.
10. Perseverance. Don’t quit and encourage yourself in the Lord.
11. Pray frustration killing prayers.
12. Rejoice in the Lord always.
Bottomline: It is those frustration killing prayers we want to pray now. A lot of people are going through hard times but God brought you here to be part of these frustration killing prayers today.
Prayer Rain:
Before Hymnal ministration, Prayers by Daddy G.O
1. Month of September, hear the word of the Lord: favor me by fire in the name of Jesus.
2. Holy Ghost, overshadow my life in the name of Jesus!
3. Thou power of God, arise: fight for me by fire in the name of Jesus!
Before ministration, Prayers by Daddy G.O
4. Every problem assigned to mock my life, die in the name of Jesus!
5. Any night cry against my destiny, backfire in the name of Jesus!
6. Powers assigned to drag my glory on the floor, before I leave this place: die in the name of Jesus!
Prayers during ministration, by Daddy G.O:
7. I frustrate every frustration targeted against my life by the power in the blood of Jesus (shout it three times).
8. I fire back every arrow of frustration by the power in the blood of Jesus!
9. I fire back every arrow of sorrow and failure by the power in the blood of Jesus!
10. Powers assigned to frustrate me, wherever you are: die in the name of Jesus!
11. Powers assigned to waste my destiny, die in the name of Jesus!
After ministration, killing frustration Prayers by Daddy G.O:
12. Power of inherited frustration, I’m not your candidate, die in the name of Jesus!
13. Voice of my glory stolen by the enemy: I recover you now in the name of Jesus!
14. Oh God arise and let my stubborn enemies bury themselves in the name of Jesus!
15. Any problem assigned to push me to the wrong people, scatter in the name of Jesus!
16. Every power swallowing my favor, die in the name of Jesus!
The next seven prayers, let holy anger rage within you because the angels who will bring it to fulfillment are already here:
17. Powers seeking for my shame, die in the name of Jesus!
18. Any satanic bullet working in my body, backfire in the name of Jesus!
19. Every witchcraft inspiration in my family: what are you waiting for, die in the name of Jesus!
20. Powers assigned to make my prayer powerless: thunder of God, strike them down in the name of Jesus!
21. Powers banking the pains of my parents for me: what are you waiting for, die in the name of Jesus!
22. Voices of ‘thou shall not excel’, expire in the name of Jesus!
Announcement by Daddy G.O:
1. Don’t forget that next Saturday is our monthly power must change hands program.
2. The next PMCH program has special prayers for those experiencing marital delay and those trusting God for the fruit of the womb should come with faith materials.
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MFM International Headquarters Sunday Service
DATE: 02-June-2019
TOPIC: WHEN YOU SEE HIM
Ministering: Dr. D.K Olukoya (G.O, MFM Worldwide)
Anchored Scriptures: Revelation 1:17-18, Isaiah 6:1-5
Message:
Listen to me very carefully this morning. We read the story of a man who saw Him.
John told us about the vision he saw. He also told us clearly about the profound effect that the vision had upon him. The vision that he had prostrated him before the Lord. When he saw Him (the Lord), something happened in his life that he could not forget. Who to God that there will be some body here who will declare with fire and power that: ‘Lord I want to see You’.
Moses cried to God that He want to see him. The effect of that vision that Moses saw never left the life of Moses. John fell as if he was dead. The kind of vision that will change your life is not the kind of vision that you will be jumping about like mosquito. Those who have not seen that kind of vision before cannot understand how those who saw it feel. Since you cannot see what they saw, you cannot comprehend their action.
Why would a person have a certificate and worldly honor that gives him the capacity of wealth and decide to follow the Lord? It means such person has seen something. How can someone have an opportunity to be very wealthy and then decide to follow Jesus? How can a very beautiful lady drop all her make up and all that can beautify her, and just drop everything and choose to follow Jesus? Many will not understand it, some will see it as madness.
G.O narrates a real life incident:
A man dropped his very beautiful Mercedes car when it was just manufactured and came to Nigeria. He parked it out beside somewhere at psychiatric hospital at Yaba and entered obalende bus and preach the gospel, standing to the final destination and then back to yaba. After he had done this, he got into his car and then drove his car home. For him to have done that, He must have seen something.
Many are using their body anyhow, they sleep with all kinds of men and women because they have not have an encounter with Jesus.
Listen beloveth, true revival will happen in your life when you see God. Those who saw him, their lives never remained the same. Has your life been rearranged? Have people known that you serve him?
G.O narrates his own personal encounter:
As I stand before you, if I open and close my eyes, I can still see the vision God showed me when I saw heaven. Beloveth, there is no beauty here, no music here. There are many things I saw and I wanted to enter.
I wanted to enter and there was a man at the door and he said: ‘no, you cannot enter’. He said there are many assignments for me to do. When I woke up from that experience, I was very angry with myself that it was a dream. One thing I can never forget is the joy in the faces of those there. It can not described.
Look beloveth, nothing in this world. The Bible says everything that we are struggling for is vanity upon vanity. All is vanity.
At an event last Wednesday:
I was in a place last Wednesday to just pray. The kinds of women I saw there, I hardly saw people whose face has not been re-touched. Their faces looked like the work of an art and I looked and said to myself, ‘that vanity upon vanity’. A day will come and they will give you lipstick to apply on that lips and you won’t be able to.
The Bible makes it categorically clear that we brought nothing into this world. It is also certain we will take nothing out of it.
Revival is nothing more than you seeing the Lord, finding the Lord Jesus again.
Isaiah 6:1-5. Kind Uzziah was 16 years old when he began to rule. His father was called Amaziah who didn’t serve the lord. Uzziah ruled Judah for 52 years.
The Bible said something clearly, as long as he sought the Lord, the Lord made him prosper. When his (Uzziah) kingdom prospered, his heart transgressed against the Lord. When the priest confronted him, he threw a burning incense at the priest and immediately he did that, leprosy confronted him and he died in leprosy. Isaiah was a palace prophet, eating at Uzziah table. He always give counsel to Uzziah but he refused because he was being fed and payed by king Uzziah. This eventually always blocked the vision of Isaiah.
Like I said yesterday (from Isaiah 6:1-5), the word smoke is associated with anger. Isaiah understood the move that he saw, He saw that God was not pleased with Uzziah, likewise himself (Isaiah).
Isaiah saw a vision of God just like John that we red, and:
1. His life never remained the same.
2. He was given an entirely new ministry.
3. We was working for God without vision before but God gave him ability to see visions.
4. He was working without a broken spirit before but God gave him a broken spirit.
Your personal encounter with the lord will precipitate seeing the Lord in a new way. The day Isaiah saw that his service was unclean and unacceptable, His service was self centered; his revival started. Many people are just carrying filthy rags everywhere.
There are Three people living in us:
1. The one we think we are.
2. The one other people think we are.
3. The one God knows we are.
It is insanity to be seeing the same thing and you thing
When you see the Lord:
1. You will receive Information that will move your life forward.
2. You will receive the anointing to excel.
3. Your destiny will move forward by fire.
4. Demons will flee when they see you.
5. Your dreams will become divine.
6. Heaven will become your goal.
7. You will lose interest in what most people wants to die for.
8. You will see backsliding as a disgrace.
9. The anointing of bad language, unclean thought, the anointing of gluttony, the anointing of sexual perversion will disappear from your life.
10. You priority will change
11. What interest others will not interest you.
12. You will be overhaul by His holiness, and your life will echo His glory. If you’re here, you still find joy in dancing at worldly patties at night, I really feel very sorry for you.
13. Deep secret about your family will be revealed.
14. You will receive fresh fire from heaven.
15. Your spiritual life picks up a new mandate.
16. Fresh directions shall be given to you.
17. You will experience what is called ‘unspeakable joy’.
To see the Lord:
1. Carry out personal self examination/evaluation of your life.
2. You need to pray for an encounter with God.
3. You must be desperate in prayer like blind bartimeus.
Bottomline: There is only one prayer I want you to pray when you get home: ‘Any internal blockage that is blocking my eyes from seeing God, no matter how much I love it, take it away from my life in the name of Jesus’. You need to have a personal and an unforgettable encounter with God.
Prayer Rain:
Prayers before Gospel Choir Ministration by Daddy G.O:
1. Mockers waiting to offer me fake help, scatter in the name of Jesus.
2. Any witch doctor waiting to rejoice over me, you’re a liar: die in the name of Jesus.
3. Powers putting my name in the list of the wasted, be wasted now in the name of Jesus.
4. Powers transferring my virtues to the belly of the serpent, run mad and die in the name of Jesus.
5. Pronouncement to be made 7 hot times: I shall win the battles that my parents could not win by the power in the blood of Jesus!
Prayers before sermon by Daddy D.K Olukoya:
Within the next few minutes, there are strongholds to dismantle. Make sure that every prayers you pray carry fire:
6. Powers making decision of failure against me, die by fire in the name of Jesus.
7. Powers making my helpers helpless, before I leave this place: die in the name of Jesus.
8. Every blood sacrifice crying against my glory, catch fire in the name of Jesus.
9. Battles against my head, backfire and expire in the name of Jesus.
10. Battles that want my destiny to decay, attack your owner in the name of Jesus.
Those from the eastern part (the Igbo brethren) of Nigeria should pray this prayers, but if you like, you can pray this prayer as well:
11. Any tree in my family compound drinking blood, what are you waiting for: die in the name of Jesus.
12. Powers assigned to silence my celebration, you’re a liar: die in the name of Jesus.
13. Powers blocking my open heavens, before I leave this place: die in the name of Jesus.
14. Powers making easy things difficult for me, die in the name of Jesus.
15. Blood of wicked elders working against me, dry up in the name of Jesus.
16. Wicked powers waiting to see me cry, before I leave this place: die in the name of Jesus.
During Sermon Prayers by Daddy G.O:
17. Every king Uzziah blocking my divine vision, die in the name of Jesus.
After Sermon Prayers by Daddy G.O:
18. My Father, lay your hands upon me and let me see you in the name of Jesus.
Announcement by Daddy G.O after Sermon:
Give the last Prayer (number 18) 10 minutes of your time before you go to bed tonight.
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The subject of glory is very deep. Every individual created by God has a glory and everyone’s glory is unique. The Bible makes it clear that there are different kinds of glory.
1 Corinthians 15:38-41
But God giveth it a body as it hath pleased him, and to every seed his own body. All flesh is not the same flesh: but there is one kind of flesh of men, another flesh of beasts, another of fishes, and another of birds. There are also celestial bodies and bodies terrestrial.” but the glory of the celestial is one, and the glory of the terrestrial is another. There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars: for one star differeth from another star in glory.
Exodus 33:18
And he said, I beseech thee shew me thy glory.
In the Bible passage above, Moses asked God to show him His glory because he knew that once he has access to the glory of God, his life would never remain the same.
The issue of glory is so important that even God Himself guards His own glory jealously. God says in Isaiah 42:8: I am the LORD: that is
my name: and my glory will not give to another, neither my praise to graven images.
God says lie will not share His glory with another. The word “glory” is an interesting word. Glory means so many things: it means honour, a distinguished quality. Glory means outstanding. Glory means magnificence.
DIVINE GLORY
The Bible also makes it crystal clear that there is the glory of God. The glory of God means the special manifestation of the revelation of the divine power. It means the physical signs of God’s presence in a person‘s life. The glory of God means the glorious presence of God that travels from His throne to shine on one. It means the overshadowing power of God that can protect, deliver, empower and suit a person. The glory of God incubates refreshes and prospers a person.
BENEFITS OF GLORY
When the glory of God is upon your life, you don’t need to pray about deliverance; you don’t need to pray about healing and prosperity because the glory of God is enough to give you everything. The glory of God is the seal that protects the saints. It is the protective, preservative, glorious presence of God. It is a divine aura surrounding a person. It is the tabernacle of God into your life, it is having access into the mysteries of God.
It is a tragedy if you don’t encounter the glory of God; it will be unfortunate if the enemy has taken the glory of God away from your life— Acts 12:21-23: “And upon a set day Herod, arrayed in royal apparel, sat upon his throne, and made an oration unto them. And the people gave a shout, saying, It is the voice of a god, and not of a man. And immediately the angel of the Lord smote him, because he gave not God the glory: and he was eaten of worms, and gave up the ghost. ”
Herod made a mistake and the angel of the Lord smote him. Herod put James to death. He planned to cut off Peter’s head. When he found out that Peter had escaped, he killed the sixteen soldiers that guarded Peter. Herod caused sixteen funeral services. He created sixteen widows and sixteen fatherless homes. Despite all his sins, God never did anything to him. However, the day he tampered with the glory of God Almighty, Herod received swift judgement.
This shows how serious God guards His glory.
TYPES OF GLORY
As far as man is concerned, there are four kinds of glory.
The Bible says that God’s ultimate purpose for you is to carry His glory. Every man has deposited glory. Your glory is your shining forth.
Your glory is your tangible virtue. Your glory is your internal Moses; the Moses God has deposited in you for the days of trouble. Your
glory is your destiny promotion; it is your quota of divine excellence planted in you.
YOUR GLORY
Your glory is your unique capacity. Your glory is what you can do but you have not done yet. Your glory is the star of your destiny. Your glory magnetises favour unto you. Your glory is your urge for greatness. lt is the positive aura that God has used to surround you.
The trouble about glory is that it can be stolen. It can be transferred, it can be lost, it can fade away, it can sink, it can be killed, destroyed,
buried or turned to shame. The devil’s agenda is to bury the glory of man. When somebody goes from grace to grass, his glory has been buried.
When somebody is suffering from poverty of clear thinking; when the person cannot think clearly about the consequences of the actions he is taking, this means the person’s glory has been buried.
STEPS TO DELIVERANCE
Beloved, in this year of supernatural ease and double honour, the God that answers by fire will make your glory to shine and your joy shall be full, in the name of Jesus.
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The Ocean of Life
And it came to pass, that, as the people pressed upon him to hear the word of God, he stood by the Lake of Gennesaret …..
THESE fishermen had toiled all night and have caught nothing; they were washing their net or rather celebrating their failure when Jesus came by.
Going closer, Jesus spotted two ships but he entered just one of them. He picked and entered that of Simon. I want to pray a powerful prayer; let your Amen be powerful ten-fold Amen. The prayer may not be clear to you, but I decree upon your life: Jesus will enter your boat, in the name of Jesus. ‘Come to think of it, Jesus entered one boat and left the other. May the Lord choose you for blessings this year.
In the course of his interaction with Simon, Simon told Him how they had toiled all night but had caught nothing. So, it was a wasted labour,
wasted sleep and time. Not only that they were going home to meet a hungry family with nothing to present to them. This kind of experience is what you call ‘profitless hard work: All night, they caught not a single fish and it was as if all the fishes went on holidays. I’m praying for somebody here: every spirit of profitless hard work, assigned against you must die before you leave this place in Jesus name. Shout a seven-fold Amen! Another seven-fold amen!!
Simon, as a fisher man, knew that more fishes were caught at night and here was Jesus a carpenter and not a fisher man telling him what to do.
However, he obeyed Jesus and when he had done this; they caught a great multitude of fishes and their net break.
I prophecy a net-breaking miracle for you in Jesus name.
When your blessings become explosive, you alone will not enjoy it.
Simon had to call the attention of the fishermen in the other ship to come and help them because of the multitude of fishes in the net that was causing the ship to sink. There were fishes where Simon stood but they neglected his net until Jesus came and upon seeing this miracle, he fell at Jesus’ feet, pleading with him to depart from for he was a sinful man.
This story has a lot to teach Primarily, it teaches us the benefit power of obedience and faith. Faith has no respect for impossibility.
Faith that is against reasoning the different kinds of solution could give is what the Bible is about. I want you to raise your hands, I decree in this meeting this is prophetic. Say, In this year … my hands, hear the word of the Lord prosper by fire, in the name of Jesus.
That is the primary lesson here then the scripture now presents the life of man.
There is something called ocean of life and the bank of that called life stands an array of ten fishermen. As we are all seated here, are the class of those ten fishermen.
The ocean of life is a place of antiques, calculation, manipulations, dishonesty, liars’ empire, emptier paradise, a place where yokes are s
a place of unexplainable loss, a of spiritual palpitations, a place of deception, a place of power playing, place of power clash and very strange stagnancy, a place of very strange limitations and opportunity swallowing, a place of destiny robbing, a place of evil manoeuvrings, a place of profiles sweating, a place of life wastage.
I was going somewhere for a crusade and as we were being led to the plane, I noticed that the pilot out and was standing by the door, everybody was going in. When I got to the door, the pilot stopped me said, ‘Daniel’ and I looked. He said ‘you don’t recognise me anymore I said, ‘oohh; as I recalled him now. We had attended the same school years ago. So, he took me in and put me in a special seat. I was impressed to see him and to know that he is a pilot. He took me to and fro my journey but to my shock, three weeks later, I saw in the newspaper that he had been arrested for carrying drugs and this made me so sad. This is what the ocean of life is like, because we are all basically fishermen trying to fish in that ocean.
So, apart from having a very good net, it is crucial to know when and Where to throw your net. Peter had a good net, a good boat and was experienced too but he arrived at a place where the bible says that the foolish shall be equalled with the wise, they shall be used to trouble the wise.
Life is not calculated by what one is; who has or does not. For those of you who pride yourself with your beauty or handsomeness, life is not like that at all. I went to one of our university campuses to minister many years ago and the students came to welcome m. So, they were coming to meet me then the student union brought a lady to me and said, man of God, look at this girl, she is the most beautiful girl in the campus’ and when I looked at her, indeed she was. I now asked her: ‘I know you are beautiful but have you surrendered your life to Christ?’ And here was her answer, she said, I don’t need Jesus; my beauty can get me anything I want. I said, ok, time will tell. I did not know that that day I was speaking to her was her last opportunity. I forgot about her totally. I now went to United States of America to minister in a place called Detroit, and where I was doing my counselling, some people came and said,’G.O, when you’re going back to your hotel, there is a lady there who says she knows you; so, please if you’re passing by, can you just spare one minute to pray with her. She’s from Nigeria and her situation is very bad.
They painted a very ugly picture of her situation and when I acted like I won’t go, they started crying. So, I decided to visit her. After ten hours of waiting, we left and getting to the hospital, I didn’t see a lady, rather someone looking uglier than a gorilla. I said, hello, ‘I don’t know you. She said, ’you know me sir: I said, ‘who are you?’ She said, ‘do you remember the Miss Campus that you met that time and you asked her to surrender her life to Jesus?’ I said, ‘yes, I do: she said, ‘I’m the one: I asked her what happened and she said a jealous boyfriend poured acid on her head. Where is the beauty now? It is gone!
The other time, they brought a former Miss Nigeria here, she ran mad at CMS Bus Stop and was rushed down here and after prayers, she became well and I said to her, ‘do you see that your Miss Nigeria cannot deliver you?’ So, life is not about what or who you are. Life is not calculated by your strength, certificate, height, fame; instead, it is battle, mission and it is so serious that people say it is not easy.
The lesson of life is always repeated over and over again until it is learnt.
The truth, beloved, is this: there is no true life until you find out who you are. You need to know who you are. Some people came to John the Baptist and asked, ‘are you Elijah?’ He said, ‘no: ‘Are you so-so prophet?’ He said ‘no: ‘Are you the Messiah?’ He said, ‘no: He would have said, ‘you don’t know me? My father is Zechariah, the high priest, my mother is Elizabeth, the wife of the high priest; so, what type of questions are you asking?’ When they persisted, he told them: ‘1 am the voice, the voice, that cries in the wilderness, saying make straight the pathway.
Life is sometimes like a foreign language and all men mispronounce. Life sometimes may seem like a large asylum and those who are giving the prescriptions are the patients themselves. Life is like a football game with everybody offside until Jesus discovers you. Life is fishing in an ocean and whether you catch or not is not the issue. At the back of the large ocean called life is the array of ten different fishermen with their nets and other instruments for fishing in their hands. Some catch fishes and some don’t. Some wanted to catch fishes but caught water snakes and things that destroyed them. This is why I am praying for you this year, that wherever you throw your net in this year, you will catch the fish you want to catch in Jesus name.
The ten fishermen of the ocean of life are: The correct fisherman: They have the correct net and are well positioned and when they cast their net in the correct places, they catch fishes and prosper. Ninety per cent of success is as a result of correct positioning. Unfortunately, the enemy as relocated some people from their place of blessings to the place of dryness. The enemy looks at someone’s desires and goes ahead to give poverty to finish such. That person was supposed to prosper in Lagos because that is where the angels of his blessings have been dispatched but the enemy now gives him an American visa or other visas and then he moves to those places while his angel of breakthrough is waiting in Lagos.
The word of God never changes; for He says that the word which has gone out of His mouth shall prosper wherever He had sent them. He said, ‘Heaven and earth shall pass away but not an iota of my Word shall pass away: When you leave the place your blessing has been forwarded to, you will meet nothing other than suffering, no matter the country you are in. In the end, you will feel embarrassed to come home because people will laugh at you. A Nigerian man came to me for counselling in New York and he cried bitterly, he wanted to stay in America by all means, even though he had a wife in Nigeria. So, he left the Nigerian wife and married a German-American. He said they were sleeping side by side on the bed that night when he felt the bed shake a little bit and he opened his eyes, only to see the body of his wife rise up straight, just like she laid but rising up and he was just looking and was like, “what is this?” And so, he called her name and asked, ‘what are you doing?’ and the body came down and she looked at him and gave him a serious warning and said, ‘be very careful, you’re already in trouble, so not compound your trouble: As from that time, his life, job and ever
went down. Everywhere he went, no favour but the woman was prospering. And he now said, ‘Man of God that thing I saw that day, she was going up, what is it?’ I told him, ‘that is what they call leviational witchcraft.
So gentle man, you have married international witch and so deliverance can help you but remember are still going back to that house.
He is an example of a person who left his place of blessing and went somewhere else and while his angels are waiting at his original address, he could not be found. I’m praying for somebody, if the enemy has relocated you to the wrong business, place or job, receive your deliverance, in name of Jesus.
In Acts 4, the apostles had been pushed around. They had been warned not to preach in the name of Jesus. Then in verse 29, they started praying, “And now, Lord, behold their threatening and grant unto thy servants, that with all boldness they may speak thy word.”
I had a visitor sometime ago, who told me that she had been born again for thirty-three years, but recently, she met a member of Mountain of Fire and Miracles ministries who started praying with him. And right from the time that she started praying with him, it was as if she was not born again at all. She said that the way that the prayer was going and the kind of prayer points the sister called were strange to her, although he had been born again for thirty-three years. Despite the fact that the prayer points were strange, she prayed them, and she was getting results instantly for the first time and that her life was never the same. According to her, this sister who prayed with her did not seem to recognise that there is something called fear. When you say something is big and terrible, she just moved in and demolished it with prayer. She said several weeks back, somebody fired an arrow at her and one hand and one leg was getting paralysed. And that sister just came with what she called anointing oil, applied it on her, and everything disappeared. She said she asked the sister if she was a pastor and she said no. She told her that she was only an ordinary member. Then she said to the sister, “If you, an ordinary member can be this good, I must come and see your pastor.” Those are the kind of testimonies that encourage us. And not those who would say, “When my husband was talking rubbish, I just gave him a dirty slap and later, asked the Lord to forgive me.” My prayer is that you too, will be a good example. And your life will record testimonies.
Any power militating against a true child of God is looking for problems. Such a power wants to sink into the red sea after the order of Pharaoh. It is also seeking to be destroyed by God’s anger after the order of Senacherib. One angel defeated 185,000 people. I am very sure that nobody has up to 185,000 enemies. Any power militating against a true child of God is seeking to fight and oppose itself. It is seeking to receive the stones of fire, after the order of Goliath. Any powr militating against a true child of God is seeking to be substituted in the evil that he or she is trying. Such a power wants to receive what we call divine hail stones. Any power militating against a true child of God is looking for compulsory and forceful burial like after the order of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram. It is seeking to be eaten up by worms, after the order of Herod and to be pursued by terrifying noises after the order of the Syrians.
Few months ago, I heard another testimony that gladdened my heart. The testimony was that the co-tenants of one of our members came to report him. What did he do? He said since this brother man moved into their compound, the whole place was always hot at night. Apart from that, his wife who used to attend witchcraft meetings to assist him could no longer attend because the brother has blocked her way. Then I said, since you could see that this man is praying and because he is praying, he has blocked the journey of your wife, why don’t you seek to get the kind of power that he has? He said, “We are just appealing to him, we don’t mind refunding what he has paid; but he should leave.” I said this is good, for a change. That is how it should be, The wicked should run when they see a Christian. They are the ones who should be having the problems, not believers. Not the kind of testimony where somebody comes and says “Pray on these prayer requests for me sir, my co-tenant, the man on the first floor is a herbalist and the other one a witch, therefore, they are harassing me at night.” This one was different, he was the one harassing them. Take the following prayer points with holy anger:
a. Every witch living in my surrounding, receive the stones of fire, in the name of Jesus.
b. Any evil vessel conveying my information to the evil world, be paralysed now, in the name of Jesus.
What is the principle of praying to get results?
There are many examples in the Bible of those who prayed and got results instantly. For us to understand the principles of praying to get results, we shall study the prayer points of some people who prayed and received instant answers in the Bible. There are many examples but we will look at three.
1. In Numbers 16, Korah, Dathan and Abiram offended God by offending his servant, and in verses 28 – 33, that servant of God began to pray; “And Moses said, hereby ye shall know that the Lord hath sent me to do all these works, for I have not done them of mine own mind. If these men die the common death of all men, or if they be visited after the visitation of all men; then the Lord hath not sent me. But if the Lord make a new thing and the earth open her mouth and swallow them up, with all that appertain unto them, and they go down quick into the pit; then ye shall understand that these men have provoked the Lord. And it came to pass, as he had made an end of speaking all these words, that the ground clave asunder that was under them; And the earth opened her mouth; and swallowed them up and their houses and all the men that appertained unto Korah and all their goods. They and all that appertained to them went down alive into the pit and the earth closed upon them and they perished from among the congregation.”
2. 1 Kings 18 : 36 says, “And it came to pass at the time of the offering of the evening sacrifice, that Elijah the prophet came near and said, Lord God of Abraham, Isaac and of Israel, let it be known this day that thou art God in Israel and that I am thy servant, and that I have done all these things at thy word. Hear me O Lord, hear me that this people may know that thou art the Lord God and that thou hast turned their heart back again. Then the fire of the Lord fell, and consumed the burnt sacrifice, and the wood, and the stones, and the dust, and licked up the water that was in the trench. And when all the people saw it, they fell on their faces: and they said, the Lord, he is the God; the Lord he is the God.”
The man prayed a prayer point of about 60 words and instantly, things began to happen. Compare his wordings with the wordings of the prayer of Moses.
3. In Acts 4, the apostles had been beaten up. They had been told not to preach in the name of Jesus. They had been threatened that if they continued to preach in that name, they would be killed. Verses 23 – 27 say, “And being let go, they went to their own company and reported all that the chief priests and elders had said unto them. And when they heard that, they lifted up their voice to God with one accord, and said, Lord, thou art God, which hast made heaven and earth and the sea and all that in them is; who by the mouth of thy servant David hast said why did the heathen rage and the people imagine vain things? The kings of the earth stood up, and the rulers were gathered together against the Lord, and against his Christ” Verse 29 – 31 say, “And now, Lord, behold their threatening and grant unto thy servants, that with all boldness they may speak thy word. By stretching forth thine hand to heal; and that signs and wonders may be done by the name of thy holy child Jesus. And when they had prayed, the place was shaken where they were assembled together; and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost and they spake the word of God with boldness.”
What are the characteristics of these three passages?
1. A petition was filed to God. The Bible says, plead your cause before the Almighty.
2. The troublers of Israel were reported directly to God as if God did not see them. We too should form that kind of habit. Talk to God as a friend. When you wake up at night and you don’t like the kind of dreams you had, you can sit down and say, “Father, when I slept last night, I had so and so dream. I don’t understand what this means, explain to me and teach me what to do. Report the case to God, as if He did not know about the dream.
3. A war was declared against the opposing forces.
4. Instant divine intervention was requested. That is even if God is not going to give you the cash now, you can at least go with the cheque. That is a good way to start with.
5. They prayed from the bottom of their hearts. There is a difference between surface prayer and deep prayer. Whenever prayer comes from the bottom of the heart, it yields results.
6. There was instant faith and holy expectancy.
7. They prayed using the standard of somebody who is divinely dissatisfied. You have to declare today too that you are divinely dissatisfied with your unfavourable situation.
8. They asked for divine judgment against opposition.
9. They made an urgent request for the display of the supernatural.
10. Signs and wonders were expressly requested.
Having looked at the major characteristics of these three passages, let us consider the prayer points. I was not there but from what I can see in the word of God, I have an idea of the kind of prayer points they prayed. They must have prayed the kind of prayer points we sometimes pray for example, “Let God be God in my red sea situation.” When you check what Moses, Elijah and the apostles said; “Let it be known that I do this thing, because You sent me; therefore, let it be known, that thou art God.”
They might have also prayed: “Let it be known that you are God in every department of my life.” Or, “Lord, do a new thing to my enemies that will permanently destroy their powers.” God did a new thing to Korah, Dathan and Abiram. They broke record. They were the first men to go to hell fire without dying. They must have prayed like this: “O Lord, utilise uncommon techniques to disgrace my opposition.” They must have said, “Let the earth open up and swallow every stubborn pursuer,” O Lord, God of Abraham, God of Isaac, God of Jacob, manifest yourself in your power,” “O Lord, answer me by fire and roast every single stronghold,” “Every power challenging your power in my life, be disgraced,” “Let every rage of the enemy quench,” “Let every evil imagination fashioned against me, be frustrated and disgraced,” “Let every satanic plan that concerns my life be rendered a failure,” “Every evil ruler assembled against me, be scattered unto desolation,” “O Lord, behold these powers threatening me,” O Lord, give me divine boldness to disgrace my oppressor,” “O Lord, stretch out your mighty hand to perform signs and wonders in my life.” These are examples of the kind of prayer they prayed and had instant results.
Many of us, whether we like it or not, have arrived at our Red sea situations. Some got there very early in life. Some have arrived now, some have just started to hear the sound of Pharaoh running them on.
A woman came to me and broke down and cried saying, “This is disgusting, if I had known that Nigeria was like this, I would have kept my husband in England. Immediately, we got here, he just forgot us and started running after other women who he brings to the house and they take anything they like and go away. The first time I tried to challenge them, three of them beat me up. O, what kind of thing is this!” Then I said, “Well, if you want to cry, I give you one week to do that and when you finish, you can come back. She said, “I have stopped sir.” I told her so because prayer and crying do not work together. You may only cry for your sins, that is fine. Exodus 14: 30 says, “Thus the Lord saved Israel that day out of the hands of the Egyptians; and Israel saw the Egyptians dead upon the sea shore.” That was the end of that contest. They sank like lead in the Red sea.
A sister came all the way from Ijebu-Ode for the anointing service. She brought her boy who was five or six years old. The boy had never talked. At his young age, he had arrived a the Red sea. It is like when you go for an examination, and immediately you get to the door of the examination hall, the examiner asks you to bring your answer sheet. You give it to him. You have not even answered any question and he says, “Minus fifty!” A lot of people like that. Their enemies start with them from the womb. He has removed fifty marks from hundred before they even became adults. That was the case of that boy. At the anointing service, there as a word of knowledge that somebody who could not speak would speak. After the service, the mother gave him the anointing oil and they travelled back to Ijebu-ode. They both slept. And suddenly, the woman started to hear, “Amen, Amen, Amen! And by the time she looked up, it was her boy making the sound. The first sound that this boy produced in five to six years was Amen! That was how the boy started to talk.
Many people are presently camping by the Red sea. They were moving forward only to find out that they cannot move further. They have arrived at the Red sea! Things were moving smoothly and suddenly, the smoothness just faded out. Heaven became brass and the coloured prophets began to make money out of them. And the herbalists started using their money to build their own houses.
A man told me that one prophet told him to sell his big house in Allen Avenue, Ikeja, Lagos for three million naira, a house he spent 11.5 million to build. This prophet told him to sell it and use the money to work for Jesus. He did and the prophet collected the whole money and went away. That was the only house he had.
The door of escape for some people is getting farther and farther. That is the Red sea. The joyful morning of some is bringing in fearful nights now. Red sea. The nice flower in the hands of some people is being buried. Red sea.
A boy used to fail all available examinations. He failed the school certificate exam several times. Every year, he had F9 in all subjects. There was a particular year he did not enter for the examination, W.A.E.C. still sent him a result of failure. It was that bad. What am I trying to say? He was barricaded on every side. Some people are under hot pursuit. They are being pursued by forces with evil rage, it is a Red sea. Perhaps, you too have been hearing the battle cry of the enemy, the battle cry of witches and wizards, sounding right there in your ears. I have news for you now: The Lord shall fight for you.
Jesus has all the strength and victory. All creatures, which are living now, which have lived and which shall be, are less than the smallest dust before the power of Jesus. When the Israelites were being pursued, they could not fight. They had no army, no chariots, no horses, and no trained soldiers. Everything seemed to be working in favour of Pharaoh until something happened. A voice spoke from heaven and immediately that was the end of the contest.
The Lord said, “Speak unto the children of Israel that they go forth.” Then Pharaoh learnt a big lesson: that man is nothing. He even learnt a second lesson: that God can use the instrument that saves His children to destroy another. That was what He did in the same Red sea. The Israelites passed through. The same Red sea swallowed the Egyptians. All the tests and their preaching did not work as far as God was concerned.
Therefore, beloved, I want you to close your eyes and pray with holy madness like this: “Let impossibility be disgraced before me today, in the name of Jesus. I want to apply a parable from In Matthew 22 : 11 – 13. There was a feast and something happened at that feast: “And when the king came in to see the guest, he saw there, a man which had not on a wedding garment. And he saith unto him, how comest thou in hither not having a wedding garment? And he was speechless. Then said the king to the servants, bind his hand and foot, and take him away and cast him into outer darkness, there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”
Notice certain points about that parable. A king invited people to his feast. He did not force people to attend but there was an enemy at the feast. Every enemy at the feast of your life, shall be disgraced today, in the name of Jesus. The enemy who walked in by his own legs became the criminal. Then the executioners of the firing squard quickly removed the criminal. But it is interesting that the members of the firing squard were also present at the feast. Whenever God is doing something good in people’s lives, a proportion of unworthy forces try to attack them. Whenever God is doing something great in your life, a proportion of members from the camp of the enemy will attend the meeting. No matter how good your spirit system is, they creep in unawares.
God wants to use good materials. If a person then decides to be a useless material, the person will have himself to blame. People should understand that just as this man went from the wedding feast to hell fire, the same thing happened to Korah, Dathan and Abiram. There are powers like that. The feast is what God is doing in your life, the king is Jesus, those invited, the guests without the wedding garments are the enemies that have come in; satanic agents. All such agents shall be paralysed now, in the name of Jesus. So this is why God calls His people the apple of His eye, the delight of His eye and the joy of His eye.
Make this declaration: “Evil powers might be drinking other people’s blood and wasting their lives, my case is different. Every power designing shame and embarrassment for me, be paralysed, in the name of Jesus. Any power that say I should eat sand, should eat sand, in the name of Jesus.
All those who have been harassing the children of God are probably not reading their Bibles. They have read about Pharaoh, Hamman, or those who threw Daniel into the lions’ den. The big truth is this, there is no one who has battled against the saints who were not ruined by the God of the saints. Check it out. Those who fought against Daniel were runined by the God of Daniel. Those who fought against the Israelites including Pharaoh, were ruined by their God. An angel just gave Herod a little slap, not a big one because if he did, that would have roasted him. In fact, we need to ask for angelic assistance today because when God sends His angels, they can slap our enemies, block their transport routes, they can invite special fire, attack with the sword or give a last warning.
Angels too can issue curses. They can stretch out their hands for destruction. They can chase or persecute people. So, when you see the Psalmist praying, “Let the angels of God pursue them. Let them have no rest day and night.”
At this juncture, I will like you to pray like this: “Let the angel of God pursue and persecute all the enemies of my soul, in Jesus’ name.
PRAYER POINTS
1. Let God be God in all my situations in the name of Jesus.
2. Lord, let it be known that your are God in the name of Jesus.
3. Lord, do a new thing to my enemy.
4. Let the earth open up and swallow every stubborn pursuer in the name of Jesus.
5. Lord God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, manifest yourself in your power.
6. Lord God of Elijah answer my prayers by fire in the name of Jesus.
7. Every power challenging divine power in my life be disgraced now
8. Every satanic plan against my life be rendered impotent in the name of Jesus
9. Every evil power assembled against me, be scattered unto desolation in the name of Jesus
10. Lord behold the threatening of my enemies and silence them
11. I shall laugh last in the name of Jesus
12. Lord let my prayer letter arising in your signs and wonders to me .
13. Every rage of the enemy, be quenched in the name of Jesus.
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Our message this week, entitled, “The Wicked Fertilizer” is a warfare message. In it, we would be looking at one of the wicked operations of the enemy. Therefore, I would like you to read it carefully.
THINGS TO UNDERSTAND ABOUT THE WICKED
1. If God opens your eyes to see the wicked operations of the enemy and you are able to see a little bit of what they do, you will understand what Jesus meant when He says, “Pray without ceasing.” They work like automatic machines. They do not rest. They do not go on holiday. They work hard at what they are doing to populate hell fire.
2. A lot of wicked operations are so strange that some people think it is superstition.
WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO FERTILIZE A THING?
It means to enrich a thing. A fertilizer is something that is used to enrich something. When you supply a thing with nourishment, you are fertilizing it. When you do something that will make another thing to germinate quickly, you are fertilizing the thing. Fertilization is also real in the spiritual realm. You can fertilize for good or for evil.
SOME QUESTIONS TO CONSIDER ON WICKED FERTILIZATION
1. Can life be used for life? Yes, it is possible. Can a person’s life be used for another? The Bible says it is possible. Isaiah 42:4 says, “Since thou wast precious in my sight, thou hast been honourable, and I have loved thee; therefore will I give men for thee, and people for thy life.” Life can be used for life. Somebody may be killed so that another person can live. Somebody can be made poor so that another person can be rich. Somebody can be rendered a vagabond so that another person can have direction. Can life be used for life? Yes it is possible and is being done day by day. Proverbs 11:8 says, “The righteous is delivered out of trouble and the wicked cometh in his stead.”
2. Can virtue be transferred from person to person? Is it possible to steal the intelligence and wisdom of somebody and transfer them to another person? Yes, it is possible. They are tangible items that can be moved from place to place. Genesis 48:13 says, “And Joseph took them both, Ephraim in his right hand toward Israel’s left hand, and Manasseh in his left hand towards Israel’s right hand, and brought him near unto him.” Normally, the firstborn should have the right hand laid on his head and the second born should have the left hand laid on his head. But in this case, there was an exchange. Verse 14 says, “And Israel stretched out his right hand, and laid it upon Ephraim’s head, which was the younger, and his left hand upon Manasseh’s head, guiding his hands wittingly; for Manasseh was the firstborn.” The virtue of Manasseh was transferred to his younger brother. This is the trouble of many firstborns. Their lives have been used for lives and their virtues have been transferred.
3. Can blessing be exchanged or taken away? Yes, it has happened before.Genesis 25:30-34 says, “And Esau said to Jacob, Feed me, I pray thee with that same red pottage; for I am faint; therefore was his name called Edom. And Jacob said; Sell me this day thy birthright. And Esau said, Behold, I am at the point to die; and what profit shall this birthright do to me? And Jacob said, Swear to me this day, and he swore unto him; and he sold his birthright unto Jacob. Then Jacob gave Esau bread and pottage of lentils; and he did eat and drink, and rose up, and went his way; thus Esau despised his birthright.” This man exchanged his own blessing.
4. Can promotion be stolen? Yes, it is possible. It has happened before. The story of Jacob and Esau is also a case in point.
5. Can a man become an animal and still remain a man physically? Yes, it is possible. The life of a man can be reduced to that of an animal? The Lord did it to Nebuchadnezzar. Daniel 4:16 says, “Let his heart be changed from man’s and let a beast’s heart be given unto him; and let seven times pass over him.” This is the reason behind the unreasonable behaviour of some people. Their real personalities have been transferred and an animal spirit has been given to them. When the real heart of a person is taken out and a dog’s spirit is projected inside the person, the person will become an established prostitute, male or female.
6. Can problems be transferred? Yes, somebody’s problem can be transferred to another person. You can lay your hands on the sick and the sickness will be transferred to you. It has happened before. 2 Kings 5:27 says, “The leprosy therefore of Naaman shall cleave unto thee …” Look at the choice of words very well; the leprosy of the person to be transferred was specified. It was once the problem of Naaman before it was pushed to Gehazi. So, problems can be transferred.
7. Can peace, joy and love be withdrawn? Yes. The Bible says it is possible. The power of darkness can turn somebody’s love for a person to hatred. Luke 10:5-6 says “And into whatsoever house ye enter, first say, Peace be to this house. And if the son of peace be there, your peace shall rest upon it; if not, it shall turn to you again.” Peace can move up and down.
8. Can God make a promise to a person and later withdraw it? Yes, He can. The enemy can manipulate a person to a position where the earlier promise made by the Lord is withdrawn. I Samuel 13:13 says, “And Samuel said to Saul, Thou hast done foolishly: thou hast not kept the commandment of the Lord thy God which he commanded thee: for now would the Lord have established thy kingdom upon Israel for ever.”
The family of Saul would have been reigning in Israel forever. There would have been nothing like the house of David reigning there. Verse 14 says, “But now thy kingdom shall not continue; the Lord hath sought him a man after his own heart, and the Lord hath commanded him to be captain over his people, because thou hast not kept that which the Lord commanded thee.” God withdrew the promise, He transferred the destiny of Saul to David. It is possible too in the negative way.
9. Is it possible for somebody to work and somebody else who did not work reap the fruit? Yes, it is possible. Isaiah 65:21-22 says, “And they shall build houses, and inhabit them: and they shall plant vineyards, and eat the fruit of them. They shall not build, and another inhabit; they shall not plant, and another eat…” So, it is possible to work and not reap the benefits.
10. Can one life be demoted and wasted in order to fertilize another life? The answer is yes. In Ezekiel 13, we can see how the souls of people can be hunted down and transferred. We see how the soul of a person can be made to fly out so that another person might live.
Many years ago, a certain man rushed his daughter to me. The name of the girl was Uswa. She ran mad suddenly. As I wanted to start praying for her, the Lord said, “Don’t pray. Ask this man to go to his father’s house and tell the father to break open the centre of his sitting room. There, he will find a small coffin. Destroy that coffin and Uswa would be well.” The man broke down and cried thinking I did not want to pray for his daughter. I encouraged him to believe the word of the Lord. So, he went to his father’s house and told him what the Lord said. To his amazement, his father confirmed it. The place was broken and the small coffin was brought out. Inside the coffin was a script on which the name of Uswa was written. The idea was to terminate and waste Uswa so that her grandfather would continue to live. Immediately the coffin was destroyed there, Uswa became well. By the time her father came back, she was already taking a drink and was laughing and playing with others. An evil exchange was programmed to take place.
The devil has no power to create anything but he is the most successful robber in the universe. He can steal, transfer and exchange virtues. He can exchange a person’s spirit with a terrible spirit. He can do body exchange and the affected person would look older than his or her age. The presence of the person will be inviting irritation also. He can do brain exchange, where he replaces the brain of a person with that of a goat. He can do child exchange in the womb. He can do wealth exchange. He can withdraw money from one place to another. He can do hair manipulation, virtue exchange, talents exchange, partner exchange, promotion exchange, etc. He uses people’s lives to do terrible things.
SIGNS TO SHOW THAT A PERSON IS BEING USED AS A WICKED FERTILIZER
1. The person will experience what is called “firstborn demotion.”
2. There would be constant failure at the edge of serious breakthroughs.
3. Unexplainable health failure.
4. Brain failure.
5. The person’s children would become his enemies.
6. All kinds of terrible spiritual problems will come in. The person may find it very difficult to grow in the things of God because certain things have been taken out. His virtues have been removed.
7. The person may have a low self-image.
8. The person would have terrible nightmares especially nightmares in which he sees himself serving others all the time.
9. The person will experience a life of struggle and battle always.
WAY OUT
1. Surrender your life to the Lord. There is no other way.
2. Pull down the altars of the wicked fertilization.
3. Command a reverse of what the enemy has done wrong to you.
Believers should not sit down and allow the enemy to be operating what they know is not the ordinance of God.
PRAYER POINTS
1. Every satanic obituary written against my destiny, die, in the name of Jesus.
2. Every witchcraft agent in my place of work, receive the stripes of fire, in the name of Jesus.
3. I will not go to my enemies for help, in the name of Jesus.
4. Pharaoh of my life, rush and perish in the Red sea, in the name of Jesus.
5. My Father, contend with those who contend with my destiny, in the name of Jesus.
6. Every satanic surveillance over my life, I bind you, in the name of Jesus.
7. Every witchcraft prayer targeted against my destiny, die, in the name of Jesus.
8. Every evil power of my father’s house, vomit my virtues, in the name of Jesus.
9. Every power nominating me for demotion, your time is up, die, in the name of Jesus.
10. My life, refuse the handwriting of the wicked fertilizer, in the name of Jesus.
11. The timetable of my favour shall not be frustrated, in the name of Jesus.
12. The sons of strangers shall build up my wall and kings shall minister unto me, in the name of Jesus.
13. My Father, I recover by fire my birthright that I have unconsciously sold out, in the name of Jesus.
14. Every power caging my greatness, die, in the name of Jesus.
15. Every power that wants to waste my life, your time is up, die, in the name of Jesus.
16. Every dry bone of my virtues, come alive, in the name of Jesus.
17. I withdraw my virtues from the waters, in the name of Jesus.
18. Every power planning to use me as a wicked fertilizer, die, in the name of Jesus.
19. Every power planning to use my life as a wicked fertilizer, die, in the name of Jesus.
20. Every wicked replacement of my destiny, scatter, in the name of Jesus.
21. Satanic exchange of my destiny, die, in the name of Jesus.
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Beloved, our message today, “When your marriage needs deliverance” is very important for all married people and those who want to get married.
God completed everything He needed to do in the Garden of Eden, passed it through His spiritual laboratory and declared that the whole thing was good. But all of a sudden in Genesis 2:18 we come across something that was not good. Genesis 2:18: “And the Lord God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.” This is the beginning of marriage. There is no history book that goes further than this. Verse 24: “Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife; and they shall be one flesh.” The Bible says: The man shall leave his parents but if he is still tied to their apron strings then deliverance would be needed. It means that it is possible for a man to be married without leaving his parents. The Bible says, “…he shall cleave unto his wife…” wife in the singular, meaning one. It did not say, “his wives.” Also it says, “Therefore shall a man” and not a boy. “… And they shall be one flesh.” This is the foundation of marriage.
THE FAMILY
The family is the foundation of civilization. It is a church within a church. It is a world within a world. It is the building block of the society. The family is the root of both the church and the state.
The family is like a book; the children are the pages and the parents are the cover. Nobody has a choice how he is to be born or given birth to. The concept of family originated from God and it is the school of human virtues. If things go right in the family, if marriages go right, everything will go right everywhere.
FORCES OF MARRIAGES DESTRUCTION
There are powers called, “The powers of marriage destruction.” Sometimes, their work starts in the womb. It does not only start when somebody gets married. Once they discover that a person’s marriage will move God’s purpose forward, they will begin to create problems. They are specific powers delegated to pull marriages down.
Many years ago, I prayed with a sister who wanted to get married but her marriage was considered to be very risky by the devil. It was the kind of marriage the devil did not want to permit. One day as we were praying, I saw her standing before me and twelve men were queuing up in her front. The number twelve at the back was the right man, her husband. The Lord was saying that the devil was going to send eleven men before the right person. And one by one, they were coming; the handsome, rich, educated polished etc seeking to marry her but she was able to turn them down through prayers. Eventually the right person came along and she was able to fulfill the will of God. However, she almost fell for one of them, whom she really liked; it was the enemy trying to confuse her.
There are specific powers delegated to pull marriages down. Some time ago, some witches gathered in South Africa and fasted for two hundred and one days against Christian marriages. Many marriages are bewitched and sometimes affected persons carry the bewitchment to church, and it is very obvious. Once you see a couple going to church and the husband is walking fast not wanting the wife to be by his side, you know that bewitchment has set in already. Unfortunately, many people do not attach importance to the issue of marriage. Some rush into any kind of marriage just to appear to be married. It is a tragedy that so many sisters have died untimely due to wrong marriages. They would have remained alive if they had not married. The marriage became graveyards to them. It is sad to know that many people do not really care about the type of marriage they get involved in.
A person’s life never remains the same after marriage. Wedding is just for one day while marriage is for life. Many marriages have broken up due to seemingly light issues, but that is the work of bewitchment.
WEDLOCK OR PADLOCK
Many people will help you to organise your wedding but marriage is between two people. The next horrible thing after hell fire is a bad marriage. Marriage is an institution created by God. Marriage can make or mar your life in no small measure. But a good and godly marriage is a bedrock of correct living and success.
There is no difference between wedlock and padlock. Wedlock is padlock – those concerned are padlocked. Marriage is either a holy wedlock or an unholy padlock. The wedding ring that many people desire so much is the smallest handcuff in history. The truth is; it is better to be laughed at that you are not married than for you to be unable to laugh because you are married.
Anyone who enters into a marriage relationship because the woman is beautiful or because the man is handsome is like a man who bought a house because he likes the paint. If a child of God marries a child of the devil, satan his or her father- in-law will trouble his or her life.
When a marriage is wrong, the children from such a marriage are in bondage. If marriages work in our society, a lot of things will start going on very well. A lot of marriages have been caged by the enemy. That is why you find some pastors beating up their wives. The enemy knows that once he causes disunity in a home, that family will not move forward. Also, the devil has a way of bringing problems when couples are at the edge of their breakthroughs and they will start fighting and miss the breakthroughs.
WHAT KIND OF MARRIAGES NEED DELIVERANCE?
1. Marriages where communication has broken down. I have seen couples that write notes to themselves instead of talking and they live in the same flat. The man would bring his girl friend home and the woman too would bring her boy friend home. The boy friend of the woman and the man’s girl friend would greet each other but the couple would not talk to each other. When communication breaks down, it is a sign that bewitchment has set in. Deliverance is therefore needed. It means that the enemy has become a third party in the marriage. It is very unfortunate to know that marriages conducted in Pentecostal churches break down now unlike in the olden days when it was unheard of.
2. Marriages where in-laws have taken over, deliverance is needed.
3. Marriages retained by money. The couple stays together as long as there is money. Immediately there is no money, it breaks down.
4. Regretted marriages. These are situations where partners do not have time for one another.
5. Marriages where both parties are actors and actresses. They pretend as if things are alright but within, fighting, cursing and quarrelling dominate the relationship. There are many acting husbands and wives.
6. When the marriage has entered into a third party cage. That is the home is controlled by a third party. It could be the husband’s friends or in-laws.
7. Shallow marriages. This is where there is no true love. The people involved just got married for some purposes.
8. Marriages where there is an abusive husband and a stubborn wife.
9. Marriages where both parties are committing adultery. The only way a person can be free from this is to remain on fire always.
10. Troubled marriages. These are situations where you have sicknesses, satanic attacks, surgical operations, children problem, lack of peace etc.
11. Marriages where couples beat and bite one another. Baby husbands beat their wives and baby wives bite their husbands.
12. Polygamous marriages. Anyone who is a product of polygamy, needs to go for deliverance. All polygamous marriages need restitution and deliverance.
13. Marriages with the foundation of sex before marriage. If a couple had sex with each other before they were joined in marriage, the marriage would suffer attacks from the enemy because they have offended God. The Bible says that marriage is honourable and the bed must remain undefiled but God will judge adulterers and adulteresses. Once you build the foundation of your marriage on sex before marriage, you will certainly have troubles.
14. Marriages to satanic agents.
15. Marriages with the foundation of accidental pregnancy. When people rush into marriage due to pregnancy, there would be problems.
16. Marriages as a result of demonic consultation.
17. Forced marriages. Marriages where couples were forced into the relationship either by parents or others.
18. Child marriages. Situations where children of age eight, twelve, thirteen etc are given out for marriage would create problems.
19. Marriages based on tribal sentiments.
20. Marriages as a result of demonic prophecies.
21. Marriages with the foundation of trial and error. Marriages entered into after some samplings have a bad foundation.
22. Marriages with blood covenant.
23. Marriages in which the bride’s legs were washed with water on the wedding day.
24. Marriages in which a goat or any other animal was attached to any of the parties, or the couple was given a small girl to take away.
25. All marriages done in a crude traditional way need deliverance. Deliverance is needed for marriages done with alcohol, alligator pepper, cola nuts etc.
26. Marriage in which the bride was stolen. That is there was no dowry, no engagement and no marriage. The woman just moved into the man’s house. For such marriages, correction marriage alone is not the answer, deliverance is needed.
27. Marriages for the purpose of obtaining documents.
28. Couples that have the problem of spirit husband and spirit wife. Such marriages need deliverance.
29. Marriages where the husband sleeps with his in-laws.
30. Marriages where the couples secretly carry out abortions.
31. Marriages where both families never agree and the couples too are not born again.
Beloved, the enemy has really worked hard in this area of human life and is still doing so. The enemy knows that marriage goes beyond the two people involved.It concerns generations and family trees on both sides. The enemy struggles hard to ensure that marriages are built on wrong foundations so that he can do his work of destruction very well. Unfortunately for the ladies, many nice men do not start out very rich and those that are rich treat women like money.
There are demonic influences fighting against marriages that try to work. This is why family prayers are essential for Christians. The family that prays together stays together. God is angry with Christian couples who do not pray together. Families that do not pray together are looking for serious trouble.
Jeremiah 10:25 says, “Pour out thy fury upon the heathen that know thee not, and upon the families that call not thy name: for they have eaten up Jacob, and devoured him, and consumed him, and have made his habitation desolate.”
Many dangers are done at night. The Bible says, “While men slept the enemy came and sowed tares.” Danger comes when husband and wife go to sleep without clearing their disagreement. If you do not settle your disagreement before going to bed every night, there will be a third party on your bed with you. The devil will be the third party. Some husbands are possessed; some wives too, are possessed. There are some people whose natural body would like to preserve the marriage but the spirits within them will be seeking to destroy it; and when there is trouble, they begin to regret. They apologise to one another only to go back to the trouble again.
A sister whose husband is a womanizer, or a drunkard, or a smoker or a grambler or someone that uses charms and believes in it, reads occult books or attends occult meetings or has unbelievers as his friends will only survive in that marriage by carrying out spiritual warfare every night because any time he goes out, he brings in new demons. You need to understand what you are doing so that you do not get involved in that which will pull your life down.
Marriages where couples talk to themselves in a bad language will be destroyed. Nagging and quarrelling in a marriage are signs that there is a bewitching force pursuing that marriage.
HOW TO DELIVER YOUR MARRIAGE
What you should do to avoid these attacks:
1. Get born again. The first thing is new birth. If you got married as unbelievers, or your partner is not born again, you need to pray for new birth.
2. Complete repentance.
3. You must seek God’s face for the right partner that is if you are not married yet. If you are, it is too late.You must pray foundational deliverance prayer for your marriage. If you discover that marriages do not work in your family, do not deceive yourself by thinking that those forces will not attack your own.
4. You must cultivate the garden of your heart daily- pray about it daily.
5. Pray consistently for your partner.
6. Your family altar must be on fire.
PRAYERS
1. Every strong man of marriage destruction, die, in the name of Jesus.
2. Every problem introduced into my life by the marriage of my parents, die, in the name of Jesus.
3. Every ancestral spirit husband/wife, your time is up, die, in the name of Jesus.
4. Every witchcraft power of my father’s house, release my marriage, in the name of Jesus.
5. Every owner of evil load in my marriage, carry your load, in the name of Jesus.
6. Within seven days, every power pursuing my peace shall be buried, in the name of Jesus.
7. O God, arise and advertise your power in my life, in the name of Jesus.
8. Every evil tree growing in my family line, die, in the name of Jesus.
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Dr. D. K. Olukoya
Our message today is very important, especially to those who were born and brought up in this environment. Life is something many people fail to understand because there are so many questions those men cannot answer. For example, Cain and Abel were two men born of the same parents. They had similar backgrounds, similar abilities and were headed in the same direction but Abel was successful while Cain was overshadowed by failure and frustration. The world is exactly like that.
A lot of black people are wrestling with shadows. What does this mean? Some people have done all there is to do for them to be successful, yet they remain failures. Some even have higher degrees and have done everything that qualifies one for resounding success yet success remain elusive; their children are disobedient, their marriages are unstable and sicknesses are becoming a routine affair. A person just discovers that in one particular area or in many areas of his life, he is struggling with something he cannot understand or identify. He just goes from one problem to another. He is always at the edge of good health but never really achieving good health. Sometimes the way may look clear once in a while but as some people try to go to the clear way, they stumble and fall. This is what we call wrestling with shadows. Many people cannot get a grip of what is happening. They are struggling with something they cannot understand or identify.
We are in a world of powerful forces that harass men. These powerful forces do not operate according to natural laws. There is a lamentation on this in the book of Ecclesiastes. Ecclesiastes 9: 11 says, “I returned, and I saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.” This lamentation proves that there are forces operating on the lives of men that men cannot understand. The forces that determine the course of our lives are both visible and invisible. The powers that confuse the lives of men most can do so through what we call the mouth gate. A lot of people are in such bondage. 1 Corinthians 10:16 talks about the kind of communion we have in the church now. It says, “The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not the communion of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not the communion of the body of Christ?” During communion service, when the cup and the bread have been blessed, the cup then has the power to transmit the blessings of the New Covenant to those who drink it. Therefore, by simple spiritual interpretation, it shows that a physical object like a cup used during the Last Supper can transmit spiritual power. Likewise in Numbers chapter 5, we read about what happens when a woman is suspected of being unfaithful to her marriage vows in those days. Numbers 5: 18 says, “And the priest shall set the woman before the Lord, and uncover the woman’s head, and put the offering of memorial in her hands, which is the jealousy offering. And the priest shall have in his hand the bitter water that caused the curse.” (They would have water inside a cup and issue a curse on the water). Verses 19 – 22 say, “And the priest shall charge her by an oath, and say unto the woman, If no man have lain with thee, and if thou hast not gone aside to uncleanness with another instead of thy husband, be thou free from this bitter water that causeth the curse. But if thou hast gone aside unto another instead of thy husband, and if thou be defiled, and some man have lain with thee beside thine husband. Then the priest shall charge the woman with an oath of cursing, and the priest shall say unto the woman, The Lord make thee a curse and an oath among thy people, when the Lord doth make thy thigh to rot, and thy belly to swell. And this water that causeth the curse shall go into thy bowels, to make thy belly to swell, and thy thigh to rot. And the woman shall say, Amen, amen.” In this case, the cup of water is the vehicle through which the destroying power is transmitted. So, if the woman had been truly unfaithful, that water would transmit the curse and the belly would swell and explode. So, destroying powers can be transferred by physical objects. Therefore, if you have been served meals from the devil’s table, you may live your life wrestling with shadows unless you are purged. Once you get something from the table of the devil you would be wrestling with shadows and won’t know what you are fighting against unless you are purged. The reason is that what you are fighting against is inside your body and you are thinking that it is one old woman or one relative somewhere. The thing has already been deposited inside, and you are going around with it.
In our environment, wicked people succeed in making some people to be wrestling with shadows through the mouth gate. Sometime ago, I went to somebody’s office and the person said, “You are welcome. We have some meat that we just used for a festival.” I said, “What do I do with it?” He said, “It is for consumption.” I said, “I don’t eat food from the table of the devil.” He said, “What? Table of the devil?” I said, “Jesus has been made a once and for all sacrifice. Anybody that is killing anything after Jesus died is sacrificing to the devil and those who eat it are eating from the table of the devil.” The scripture is very clear on this. It can be very frustrating when somebody is fighting an external force when the problem is internal. It can also be very frustrating when somebody has a physical object in his possession, which is the vehicle of his problem and he does not know. Sometime ago, we prayed for a sister and the demon spirit that spoke from her said, “Well, ask her to bring the cloth we gave to her.” The sister brought the cloth, which was destroyed before she could regain her freedom. It means that as long as she had that cloth in her possession, she could sing all the praise worship in this planet, and read all the psalms, but there would be no freedom.
Sometime ago, we held a revival service in a church and when an altar call was made to those who wanted to receive the baptism of the Holy Spirit, I saw a dear old woman who came crying and saying that she could not understand why it was difficult for her to receive the baptism even after many revivalists had visited her church. So, I said, “Madam, you will be filled with the power today.” She said, “Thank you my son I will try.” I told her to pray and she prayed until she was sweating. Her clothes were soaked. I was impressed with her prayers yet nothing happened. I could get impressed but I am not the giver of the Holy Spirit. At a stage, I left her alone and sat somewhere else to pray. I asked the Lord what was wrong with her and the Lord said I should look at her hand. I looked at her hand and saw a particular ring on her fourth finger. On the ring was the symbol of a half moon. The Lord said that with that ring on her finger, His Spirit would not enter into her life. Then I said, “Mama, open your eyes. Who gave you this ring?” She told me that she inherited it from her great grandmother. I took the ring from her and made her to understand that the half moon was the sign of witchcraft. She gladly gave it to me and did not have to pray for one minute before she received the power of the Holy Ghost. She did not know that her enemy was on her fourth finger for 25 years. She slept with it, woke up with it, bathed with it, went everywhere and did everything with it. So, she was busy wrestling with shadows instead of the real thing, which was on her fourth finger.
When you are wrestling with shadows, you would be kept away from receiving the blessings of God. God would be offering the blessings but you would not be able to get them. Sometimes you may not even realize that there is a blessing to receive. Somebody who is under witchcraft attack in our environment would be manipulated, intimidated and dominated. What do I mean by manipulation? The following illustration gives us the answer. Sometime ago, a man married a very beautiful wife, who was light in complexion. But he noticed that in the afternoons, the woman would take a knife and begin to scratch her body and salt would be coming out of her body. He got worried and decided to visit a white garment prophet. Before he got to the white garment prophet, the woman had visited the white garment prophet to inform him that her husband was coming and that he should charge him very high fees. They were members of the same evil society but the man did not know. That is manipulation. How can you have a bed in your house and somebody would tell you to be sleeping on the mat, or they remove your all the protein food from your diet, that is domination and intimidation. The wife of a man asked him for soup money and he had only N20. He gave her the N20 and she took it, tore it up and said, “What do you want me to do with N20?” And the man slapped her. The woman said, “Okay, you have just slapped yourself.” Right from that day, the man started feeling as if somebody was whipping him. Even when he was in the office, it was the same thing. He would be dancing in the streets and people thought he was mad. He was in that condition until he got to a prayer meeting where the Lord sent fire on the invisible evil whip. The man was wrestling with what we call shadows. In normal wrestling matches, what we have is a physical challenge. But when your challenger is a shadow, you have an impossible task in your hands.
HOW DO PEOPLE GET TO WRESTLE WITH SHADOWS?
SIX AREAS BY WHICH DARK POWERS MAKE PEOPLE IN THIS ENVIRONMENT TO WRESTLE WITH SHADOWS
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If you are living in a flat where a demon idol has walked through before, whether it succeeded or not in its assignment in that place, something has already been deposited there, so, you need to clean up the place.
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Beloved, if you notice that someone is just looking for an opportunity to touch you, you better beware. Women who do not mind men touching parts of their bodies carelessly are playing with fire. They can receive a strange touch through that way. A believer ought to angrily give such men a stern warning, plead the blood of Jesus and shake off the evil touch. It may be the touch of wastage, which can result into all kinds of female problems like late marriage, bareness, etc.
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PRAYER POINTS
1. I refuse death and curses, in the name of Jesus.
2. I choose life and blessings, in Jesus’ name.
3. I cancel all satanic claims against me, in the name of Jesus.
4. I shake off every strange touch, in the name of Jesus.
5. I bind the spirit of death and hell, in the name of Jesus.
6. Every strange call upon my life, go back to the sender, in the name of Jesus.
7. You snake spirit, I bruise your head, in the name of Jesus.
8. You demonic handwriting, I rub you off with the blood of Jesus, in Jesus’ name.
9. (Place one hand on your head and the other one on your stomach as you take this prayer point) Holy Ghost fire, begin to burn in my body, in the name of Jesus.
10. I break every curse of blindness, in the name of Jesus.
11. Wonderful God, I thank you, in Jesus’ name.
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THE UNSEEN BARRIERDr. D. K. Olukoya It is my prayer that the problem of anyone who reads this message and prays the accompanying prayer with faith shall receive solution and all the things hindering him from serving the Lord will be removed, in the name of Jesus. Colossians 2:14 : “Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross. And having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it.” If you see somebody writing something on a paper, and you know that what he is writing will not favour you and you could see it with your own eyes, for example if: 1. You see the person writing the thing. You will either attack him, the instrument he is using or the material on which the thing is being written. Then you will be sure that the thing will not work. In the above passage, the Bible is talking about contrary handwriting and things that were written against us. Those things were not written in the physical world but in the spiritual. Certain things could be written in the world of the spirits that could work against people who are living here physically. Although you cannot see them, they are binding on the people’s lives and would create an invisible barrier that they cannot see. Since the things have been written in the spirit world, God would read them, the devil would read them and witches and wizards would read them. Unless something is done to remove them, they would be there and the invisible barrier would remain with those affected. So, in this message, we would be revealing some secrets of one of the greatest problems of man. Many Christians have been deceived that they can only be happy when they get to heaven. The devil, who is the most successful thief in the universe, has been capitalizing on people’s ignorance to steal so many things from them. Unfortunately, every individual on the face of the earth has in some little or big way been defrauded and robbed by the devil. This message will help us to serve a final notice to the devil. For too long, he has robbed believers of their possessions, he has plundered even the saints of God. He has reduced their quality of life and has taken the lion’s share of their possessions and assets. So, right now, pray like this: “Satan, I command you to depart from my life, and I reverse your past victories over me, in the name of Jesus”. HOW DOES GOD OPERATE WHEN THERE IS A PROBLEM? He starts with the diagnosis not the remedy. The problem with most people who bring their problems to the churches is that they want God to start with the remedy straight away without waiting to know the diagnosis. It is true that certain problems have defied natural solution, some have defied normal prayers and some have roots that are difficult to determine. The roots of some are determined but they still stay in place. Some pray for deliverance, no way. Some pray for healing, no way. There seems to be an invisible barrier somewhere keeping people from obtaining the promise that God has for them. All these are terrible things written down in the spirit world, but the strongest of the handwritings is what the Bible calls curses. CURSES A curse is an invisible barrier. It can keep people from receiving what God has for them. That is, God carries something and says, “Take,” but the person is unable to receive it because he is under a curse. A curse can keep somebody from receiving physical healing, financial blessing, salvation, academic success or even having a happy marital life. Somebody who is under a curse would not see God’s blessings at all because curses are vehicles of supernatural power, which can control from generation to generation. They are the opposite of what the Bible calls blessings. A person working under a curse will be struggling against something he does not understand, he would not be unable to overcome it, neither would he be able to master it. He could be very hardworking and plan very well but just at the verge of success something goes wrong and everything scatters. There are many curses in the Bible that are still in operation today. The book of Matthew shows that at the time of Jesus’ trial before Pilate, Pilate found that He was innocent and was about to let Him go. He said, “This man has not done anything wrong.” But the people cried, “Crucify Him, crucify Him.” “But why? He is your king,” said Pilate. They said, “He said He is a king, crucify Him.” As Pilate was still looking at them, they said, “Let His blood be upon us and upon our children.” In their desperation to have Jesus crucified, they put a curse on themselves and their generations to come. Till date, the Israelites are still labouring under that curse. The right word to describe the situation of a person operating under a curse is “frustration.” The person is frustrated on every side, no matter how carefully or how hard he works, he will not be successful. The qualifications for success are there but the person will continue to stumble and fall. A single lady who is under a curse would always be disappointed by men on the issue of marriage. They would come at different times, propose marriage and then run away. Also somebody who has great difficulty receiving the Holy Spirit might be under a curse. In Deuteronomy 28, Moses spells out clearly what are blessings and curses. We must understand that we either enjoy God’s blessings or suffer curses, there is no neutral ground. Deuteronomy 28: 1: “And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of the Lord thy God, to observe and to do all his commandments which I command thee this day, that the Lord thy God will set thee on high above all nations of the earth.” Verse 15 says, “But it shall come to pass, if thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of the Lord thy God, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command thee this day; that all these curses shall come upon thee and overtake thee.” We have two opposite things: blessing and curse. I counsel you to read the whole of Deuteronomy 28. The blessings that are listed there are exaltation, health, prosperity, productiveness, victory, favour, etc. The curses are humiliation, mental and physical sickness, family breakdown, poverty, defeat, oppression, failure and disfavour. Although the curses are more than the blessings, a single blessing can cancel almost all the curses. HOW DOES SOMEBODY COME UNDER A CURSE? Curses can come from two directions: vertical or horizontal, that is, either directly from God or from people. You may ask: “So, somebody can be under a curse from God?” Oh yes. It was God that cursed Adam, Eve and the snake. It is still happening now unless you get born again. HOW DO PEOPLE COME UNDER CURSES FROM GOD? Deuteronomy 27:15 says, “Cursed be the man that maketh any graven or molten image, an abomination unto the Lord, the work of the hands of the craftsman, and putteth it in a secret place. And all the people shall answer and say, Amen.” So if you make an image of cross, Mary, Sango, Ogun or anything at all and worship it, the Bible says you are cursed. Verse 16 says, “Cursed be he that setteth light by his father or his mother. And all the people shall say, Amen.” So, if you have no respect for your parents, the Bible says you are cursed. Verse 17-18: “Cursed be he that removeth his neighbour’s landmark. And all the people shall say, Amen. Cursed be he that maketh the blind to wander out of the way. And all the people shall say, Amen.” A long time ago, in an all girls secondary school, two girls were fighting in their dormitory. The matron saw them and went to find out why they were fighting and one of them said, “When I arrived in this school, I was the girlfriend of the principal and this girl is now competing with me.” The two girls were fighting because they wanted to befriend the principal. To the amazement of a Christian standing by, the matron said to them, “Don’t be so childish, it is a simple thing. Both of you should make a timetable. If you are sleeping with him Monday to Wednesday, let the other girl take over from Thursday to Sunday. No problem at all.” Both of them said, “Thank you, ma” and stopped fighting. The Christian called the matron and said, “Mama, how can you give this type of advice when you have your own children.” The woman said, “The children whose lives are already spoilt, let us spoil it more for them.” “Cursed be he that maketh the blind to wander out of the way.” Those girls were already blind and the matron helped them to wander out of the way. The Bible says, “cursed be such people.” Verse 19 – 26: “Cursed be he that perverteth the judgment of the stranger, fatherless, and widows. And all the people shall say, Amen. Cursed be he that lieth with his father’s wife; because he uncovereth his father’s skirt. And all the people shall say, Amen. Cursed be he that lieth with any manner of beast. And all the people shall say, Amen. Cursed be he that lieth with his sister, the daughter of his father or the daughter of his mother. And all the people shall say, Amen. Cursed be he that lieth with his mother in law. And all the people shall say, Amen. Cursed be he that smiteth his neighbour secretly. And all the people shall say, Amen. Cursed be he that taketh reward to slay an innocent person. And all the people shall say, Amen. Cursed be he that confirmeth not all the words of this law to do them. And all the people shall say, Amen.” All these twelve things qualify one to be under God’s curse. It is not a matter of whether we think it is right or wrong. God has so ordained that if you do certain things you automatically come under His curse. THESE TWELVE THINGS CAN BE GROUPED INTO FOUR: 1. Idolatry: Serving and worshipping false gods, occult involvement, special baths in the sea, etc. could place a person under a curse. A person whose ancestors were involved in these things also comes under the curse even though he did not do so himself. Out of their activities some forefathers put their descendants under a curse. Until anyone concerned releases himself from the curse and breaks it, he will not be free. Idolatry or involvement in occult practices puts one under automatic curse. There is no prayer that can help such a person except he repents. 2. Dishonouring one’s parents: The reason so many people are cursed is because they dishonour their parents. It is not possible for anybody with wrong attitudes towards his or her parents to come under the full blessing of the Lord. The Bible says, “Honour your father and your mother that your days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee, this is the first commandment with a promise” (Ephesians 6:2-3). Dishonouring parents puts somebody under God’s curse. 3. Sexual perversion: Adultery, fornication or incest puts a person under a curse. 4. Injustice to the meek or the helpless: Exploiting your neighbour’s weakness, stealing money from the blind, telling lies to somebody who is not educated so that you can extract money from him, abusing a person in a language he does not understand, procuring abortion, etc. put a person automatically under God’s curse. 5. Hatred for Jews: There are people who hate the Jews and always speak against them. Such people place themselves under a curse because the Bible says, “Abraham, anyone who curses your children shall be cursed, anyone who blesses them shall be blessed.” If somebody hates the Jews, he automatically comes under God’s curse. 6. Stealing and cursing: Zechariah 5:1-3 says, “Then I turned, and lifted up mine eyes, and looked, and behold a flying roll. And he said unto me, what seest thou? And I answered, I see a flying roll ; the length thereof is twenty cubits and the breadth thereof ten cubits. Then said he unto me, this is the curse that goeth forth over the face of the whole earth; for everyone that stealeth shall be cut off as on this side according to it; and every one that sweareth shall be cut off as on that side according to it.” So, stealing and cursing puts a person under God’s curse. Somebody takes something and swears under oath that he did not take it, such a person automatically comes under God’s curse. Somebody goes to the court and swears to tell the truth and nothing but the truth, but his next sentence is a lie. Such a person automatically comes under a curse. That is what the Bible says. Such people need to repent. Repentance is the answer. Jeremiah 17:5-6 tells us why another type of curse can come upon people. It says, “Thus saith the Lord, cursed be the man that trusteth in man and maketh flesh his arm and whose heart departeth from the Lord. For he shall be like the heath in the desert and shall not see when good cometh but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, in a salt land and not inhabited.” Trusting in man or yourself, your natural ability, cleverness or education instead of depending on God, brings one under the curse of God. Malachi 3:8-9 tells us about another curse. It is about being stingy with God. The passage says, “Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me. But ye say, Wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings. Ye are cursed with a curse: for ye have robbed me, even this whole nation.” Anyone who wants to be cursed should be stingy with God. But the person that wants to be blessed should be generous with God. When people do the work of God miserably, they pronounce curses on themselves. These are the vertical ones. If you have come under any of them, repentance is the only solution. No prayer can help you out. Any prophet that says he can help you is lying. You must repent. HORIZONTAL CURSES These are curses from fellow men. Some people are under curses by their parents, husbands or wives. A teacher may also curse a pupil in the school. All these things would be binding because those who issued them have authority over those they cursed. The Bible says that the husband is the head of the home. If you are a woman and you do not really agree with that, it does not matter because the word of the Bible is final. If God says the husband is the head and the husband issues a curse on his wife, it could be binding on that wife until she looses herself. Likewise if parents issue curses on their children, it could come to pass. The Bible says a fearful thing in Proverbs 28: 9: “He that turneth away his ears from learning the law, even his prayer shall be abomination.” So, a person’s prayer can become an abomination. It means that when those who do not have God in their lives, who are not born again start to pray, they are indirectly cursing themselves. Many parents who do not understand this and curse their children everyday are putting the children in serious problem. In many parts of this country, they do not count it as a serious matter to curse somebody. One day, a mother was cursing her child. She said that the life of the boy would be like the life of a gate. It took me time to understand what she meant. I reasoned that truly gates do not have rest. When somebody issues that type of curse and thinks it is a play thing, the person is joking. It would be recorded in the spiritual world against the child. When you say a child is a bastard, it is recorded. So, we have to be careful with what we say even as we are entering a New Year. In many places, it is a common thing to see children cursing one another with the names of the idols of that particular place. When somebody says, “Well, your children will do that to you.” It will happen. If your parents say you will never succeed, it will happen. These are some of the reasons you find many people with natural talents or gifted suffering. They are struggling against curses that have been issued on them by their parents. At that time it was just a plaything. You can help those parents to ask for God’s forgiveness and loose the children from such curses. Many people are still under the curses pronounced on them by their teachers in school. We must loose ourselves from all these things. There is also what we call self-imposed curses. These are curses people put on themselves everyday. When somebody says, “I wish I were dead.” What is the good in living? The whole of life is a big bag of frustration,” or he says, “I am always having bad luck, I don’t have any friend,” the person is cursing himself and it is binding. A lot of people do that everyday, they commit spiritual murder with their mouth. Another form of horizontal curses are those from some people representing the devil. Herbalists and diviners that claim to be able to see things belong to this group. Sometimes, it is when you accept the vision that they see that it happens. They are curses indirectly. If somebody says, “I see a vision that you will marry four husbands or you will have accident or you will loose your money,” and you do not reject it immediately, it will become binding. You must reject such things straight away. HOW DO YOU RECOGNISE THAT THERE IS A CURSE IN PLACE If a particular tragedy is happening to all the members of a family then you know there is a curse in place. It has to be cancelled. If there are serious marital problems, every lady in a particular family finds it difficult to find a husband, or they are not able to stay with one man or their husbands just continually beat them up or they are always getting unserious men, or all the girls are prostitutes, or all the men are have troublesome wives who disorganise the home. These are evidences that there is an unseen barrier in operation. When somebody is experiencing mental or emotional breakdown, stubborn sicknesses, inherited sickness or sicknesses without any medical diagnosis, there is an unseen barrier in place or when a woman experiences incessant female problems, regular child death, bearing illegitimate children and things that are contrary to the life of a woman. When somebody has financial problems all the time. Although he comes in contact with money, he is duped by robbers or invests in the wrong business, such a person is under a curse. If you are a teacher it is good for you to have the power of God in your life. Some of the children you teach can be anything in the spirit world and when these children issue curses on you, it can be serious. Ten years after I left primary school, I met one of my old teachers in the bus. His shirt was still tattered like it was before and he was wearing a bathroom slippers. I greeted him and he nodded at me. I said, “I would like to pay your fare.” He said, “Yes, but I don’t know you,” I said, “You were my teacher sir.” He thanked me, shook my hands and asked what I was doing then. When I asked the Lord what was wrong with him, the Lord said, “The school children put them under curses and that is why they have financial difficulties and they never really balance.” Unless they have the power of God in their lives, they will not be able to break it. Being prone to accidents, accumulation of problems and history of suicide or sudden deaths are all signs of curses. Does God want us to be under these kinds of things? No. Galatians. 3:13 says, “Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us; for it is written, cursed is everyone that hangeth on a tree that the blessings of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ.” So, Jesus is our exchange. Matthew 18:18 says, “Whatsoever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatsoever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.” 1 John 3:8 says, “For this purpose the Son of God was manifested that He might destroy the works of the devil.” HOW DO YOU BREAK FREE? 1. You must confess your faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. Beloved, the heavens are watching to see the choice that you will make. One of the most salient passages in the Bible is Deuteronomy 30:19 which says, “I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing, therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed will live.” Likewise through this message, I have put life before you as put forth by Jesus Christ and blessings as put forth by the Lord Jesus Christ and also curse and death. But I pray that you must choose life and blessings and reject curse and death. Anyone whom God has cursed cannot be blessed by anybody. It would be a wasteful exercise to pray for somebody who is under God’s curse. God bless you as you make the right choice. PRAYER POINTS 1. I renounce completely every contact with satan or any occult society that I have gotten involved with in the past, in the name of Jesus. 2. Father Lord, forgive and blot out any sin committed by me or by my ancestors that has placed me under any curse, in Jesus’ name. 3. I break every curse brought upon my life by past generations in my family, in Jesus’ name. 4. I loose myself from every parental curse working against my life, in the name of Jesus. 5. I break and loose myself from any curse working against my life, in Jesus’ name ( Pray this three times). |
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Today, our message is entitled, “The garden of evil planters.” We shall start by considering Matthew 13: 24-28: “Another parable put He forth unto them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man which seweth good seed in his field. But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way. But when the blade was sprung up, and brought forth fruit, then appeared the tares also. So the servants of the householder came and said unto him, Sir didst not thou sow good seed in thy field? From whence then hath it tares? He said unto them, An enemy hath done this…”
These are the last days and the Bible makes us to understand that part of the signs of the last days is that the enemy of man’s soul is going to be much more horrible and wicked. The Bible says that evil men shall wax stronger and stronger. Therefore, in this age of so much spiritual contamination, it is important for every believer to know how to deliver himself and how to help others. When we talk about deliverance, there are three ways by which a person can be delivered from the power of darkness:
The life of a man can be regarded as a garden in which things can be planted, whether good or evil. The scripture above says that the man planted wheat in his garden, but when he was sleeping, his enemy came and planted something else there. But he quickly recognized that an enemy had done it. However, one thing is certain: it is not in the garden of every life that the enemy can plant things. Some lives are too hot for the enemy to handle while others are so cold that he easily plants things in them.
WHAT BREAKS DOWN THE IMMUNITY OF A PERSON’S LIFE AND MAKES IT ACCESSIBLE TO THE ENEMY TO PLANT WHAT HE LIKES?
I Corinthians 15:55 records a strange thing. It says, “O death, where is thy sting? O grave where is thy victory?” It is because of the sting of death that the enemy is able to plant rubbish into many lives. There are quite a number of insects that sting and deposit poisonous venom into the system, and unless something is done quickly to eject the venom, the consequences can be gravely. It is the same thing spiritually. If the evil deposits that the enemy plants in people while they are asleep are not dealt with quickly it will result in serious problems. The Bible says, “While men slept, his enemy came and planted tares into his life.” What kind of sleep is the Bible talking about? Is it the usual sleep at night or spiritual sleep? It could be either of them. One of the ways the enemies operate against men is to come while they are asleep physically or spiritually.
The Bible says, “O death, where is thy sting?” Here, Paul personifies death as a creature, an insect that can sting. Verse 56 of the same chapter says, “The sting of death is sin, and the strength of sin is the law.” The Bible calls that sting of death sin. This sting of death has enabled the enemy to convert so many lives to a garden where he plants whatsoever he likes. Such evil things shall be uprooted today, in Jesus’ name.
One of the most hopeless things you could ask a minister to do is to officiate at the funeral service of somebody who had gone to hell fire. Such a minister would render the service as a matter of duty. He would not enjoy it because he knows that the person has gone to hell fire. The sting of death is so terrible that Jesus had to sweat blood in the Garden of Gethsemane to help us remove it. The Bible says that as He prayed, His sweat were like drops of blood. He received 39 strokes of cane. The kind of whips used in those days had sharp objects attached to them which peeled off the skin when they were used to flog somebody. Jesus, the Creator of man, was stripped naked in the street. His hands and feet were nailed to the cross. One of the most painful deaths is death on the cross. The person does not die immediately. The suspension on the cross applies painful pressure to the heart, which causes internal bleeding, and excruciating pain. Our Lord Jesus suffered all these because of the sting of death. The ridicule and the painful death on the cross were the price He paid to remove the sting of death. This is why the Bible says that He is a man of sorrow and acquainted with grief.
I was told the story of a certain schoolteacher who was telling his students about the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. When he finished, one small boy said, “Excuse me, sir, the story is not true. It cannot be true.” He asked the boy why he said it was not true and the boy said, “If it were true, you would not be telling the story with your eyes dry. If Jesus Christ was actually dealt with like that, and you said He is your Saviour, your eyes cannot be so dry. So, it cannot be true.”
The sting of death made Jesus to cry out on the cross: “My God, my God, why has thou forsaken me?” God Himself rejected Him because He was carrying the load of sin. Sin made God to be separated from Him. The stings of death are the worms that are in hell fire. The Bible says that those worms never die. The sting of death is sin, meaning that death would have had no power if not for sin. If somebody has the sting of death operating in his life, all kinds of things would be planted in his life. Some of those who say that they need deliverance probably only need to check if the gardens of their lives are well protected. Please, close your eyes at this point and pray this prayer point aggressively: “You the garden of my life, reject evil plantation, in the name of Jesus.”
Do you have the sting of death operating in your life? If you do, then the devil will be busy planting things there. When someone treats you shabbily, do you revenge the evil done to you? Do you take kindly to criticisms? Are you the kind of person who retaliates when you have opportunity to do so? Are you the kind of person who finds faults with your critics because they are criticizing you? Are you provocative to the point of retaliation? Do you absent yourself from a meeting because you are no longer the leader? Do you find it difficult to operate once you are to follow and others are to lead? Then you have a fertile garden for the enemy. If a person is called to do what you normally do, do you become angry? If you do, you have a fertile garden for the enemy. Are you a believer who has compassion for those who are lost? Or are you really not bothered whether anybody goes to hell fire or not? Are you the kind of believer who shifts your responsibility to others and anytime something goes wrong, the first thing you do is to look for somebody to blame? Do you cover up your bitterness? When you are prevented from having your own way, do you feel heat inside your stomach? Are you the kind of person who would curse and swear when you have made a mistake. You know that you are wrong, and still you are cursing and swearing? You have a fertile garden for the enemy. The truth is this: whatsoever hides in the heart of a person will eventually run out through his mouth. So, any spiritual poison that you retain in your spirit will lead to something inside which would be a fertilizer for the enemy. And the more sinful a man is becoming, the more violent his anger would become. The holier he becomes the less angry he becomes. Some people get so angry with themselves that they would want to destroy themselves. Let me ask you the following questions: Are you patient with others? Are you the touchy or sensitive type? Are you the kind who likes to be pampered, and if nobody is ready to offer the pampering, you become uncooperative? Are you the kind of person who takes offence when you are not given your due recognition? Or are you offended when somebody fails to greet you the way you want? Are you given to finding faults in others or do you always grumble? Are you the kind of person who loves the praise of men and if nobody praises you, you get upset? If you fall into any of these categories then you have a fertile garden for the enemy. I am telling you all these so that you will know that the fact that there is an enemy going about planting evil things in people’ lives, does not mean that he can plant them into just any life.
Some lives are very fertile for evil seeds. The reason some are not yet growing evil fruits is that Mr. Walk-about, the devil, has not arrived there. Do you have anything inside you seeking compliments? Are you willing to allow others to be praised instead of yourself? Or do you get envious? Do you withhold your offering because there is no public announcement of your contributions? When your effort yields results, do you demand that people should be giving you credit for it? Do you have secret pride? All these questions that I am asking you are for you to be able to do some surgical work on your life today. Do you have a feeling that your own talent is superior to that of others? Do you love supremacy? You just want to be the boss? Are you the kind of person who has the funny feeling that he has arrived? Do you fail to stand for your right as a Christian because of fear? Are you a stubborn or rebellious Christian? A stubborn Christian will say: “I will not do it,” and a rebellious one will say, “I will do it, but I will do it my own way.” Are you jealous of another person’s success or achievements? Are you happy with other people’s success? Do you pretend to be wiser than you are, or do you appear to be better than others? Are you the kind of the funny Christian who testifies about spiritual experiences that he doesn’t have? Some people would say, “Thus says the Lord,” whereas the Lord has not said anything. They forget that God does not speak to a talkative. If you are the type of Christian who says, “Thus says the Lord” when the Lord has not said anything, it is dangerous. You are making your life a fertile garden for the enemy. Unfortunately, the modern-day church is filled with Christians who play cards, whot and Ludo and half-naked people who say to themselves “Well, we are going to make heaven. We are covered by the blood of Jesus. Praise the Lord!” I have not seen the blood of Jesus covering an unclean material. Among the so-called holy people, we find those who shout very loudly when they are angry. We also find some people who can preach very well but are very trickish. Are you unteachable or do you lack self-control? Look at the hot complaint of our Lord in Luke 6:46 “And why call ye me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say?” Many people call Him Lord, Lord, but refuse to do what He is asking them to do. Some do it half way, some do it a quarter of the way while some do not all. Some people give God conditions for working for Him. We must allow God to take out our brains today and wash them thoroughly in His detergent.
QUALIFICATIONS FOR THE KINGDOM OF GOD
In Matthew 5: 20, our Lord talks about the qualifications of those that can make heaven. He says, “For I say unto you, That except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven.” Mark 10:15 also says, “Verily, I say unto you, “Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child, he shall not enter therein.” Look at those two conditions. The first one says, your righteousness must exceed that of the Pharisees and the scribes. The second condition says, You must be as a little child. You may then ask, what is the righteousness of the Pharisees? Luke 18:10-12: “Two men went up into the temple to pray; the one a Pharisee, and the other a publican. The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, (Look at his wonderful prayer:) “I thank thee, that I am not as other men are, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this publican. I fast twice in the week, I give tithes of all that I possess.” That is the righteousness of the Pharisees. And Jesus says that except our own righteousness exceeds that, we would not make the kingdom of heaven. Sadly, many are yet to get to this level, let alone exceed it. This is why the enemy is having a field day planting whatsoever he wants in their lives.
WHO ARE THE PHARISEES?
The Pharisees were religious men. They were a body of teachers. Jesus said that they sat on the seat of Moses. They taught and preached in their time. They ran the schools and synagogues. An average Pharisee was a man of high morals. He knew the law, that is, the Old Testament. His way of life was strict. He maintained that the Jews had to be separated from other people. He would not eat with the Gentiles, nor do business with them. The Pharisees did not allow their people to marry Gentiles. You can accuse the Pharisees of all kinds of things but not telling lies. They did not tell lies. They knew the Old Testament and quoted it even to Jesus. They were not extortioners. They did not practice injustice or adultery. They subjected themselves to a rigorous code of conduct. In fact, there is no serious Bible student who would not admire the Pharisees. Many Christians compromise their faith but the Pharisees would never compromise their faith. So, we can see that the standard of God is very high.
MARKS OF ADULT BABIES
Most Christians are not even doing as well as the Pharisees. The devil knows that they are not doing as well as they are supposed to so, he plants so many things in their lives. Nursery and primary school teachers have a hell of time because one of the most difficult tasks one can get involved in is controlling children. Children complain all the time and the teachers are always busy running up and down to calm them. That is the mark of spiritual babies. They want to wait for the Lord to treat them like Jonah before they become wise. Many Christians who claim to be growing are not. They are just getting fatter and there is a difference between getting bigger and growing. When there is no change in your quality of prayer, Bible reading, study of the word of God and witnessing to others, then you are still a baby. The devil likes baby Christians, especially those who refuse to grow so that he can plant sins in their lives. They are fertile grounds for evil.
Another way of knowing those who are babies in the church is that they are more interested in getting than in giving. The mature believer will give. Giving is one of the marks of Christian adults. Miracle services are usually jam-packed with people because most of them are more interested in receiving than in giving. A certain man called a prayer meeting and found out that few people were interested. He devised a trick to make people come. When the meeting got half way, he shook his body vigorously and began to prophesy: “Thus says the Lord, Death, death, wants to kill three people and if they don’t come to this prayer meeting tomorrow, they shall die.” He succeeded. Immediately the meeting closed, people went home saying that it was a serious meeting and that they must not miss it the following day. The following day, the place was jam-packed. The man asked the people to close their eyes, and he began to pray: “O God, send down money, send down money, send down money,” and they were all saying ‘Amen’. Suddenly, he stopped the prayer and said, “Before this prayer can continue you must give something first to God. You must all empty your pockets. You must put everything down, including your transport money.” They put down all their money and the preacher said, “Now let us continue the prayer: “Oh God, send down money, send down money.” A mature Christian would have reasoned that God cannot be printing money in heaven. They were still saying ‘Amen’ when the man disappeared. When they did not hear his voice again, they opened their eyes only to discover that the man had gone away with their money. It was evident that they were babies. Children get easily excited.
If you call a meeting and say, “Possess your possession and wonderful success,” many people would come. But when you say, “I want to discuss the nature of hell fire,” nobody will want to attend that kind of meeting. Whereas, at the end of the day, that is the reality we are all going to face whether we like it or not. A time will come when the trumpet shall sound and the goats shall be separated from the sheep and we will know where each person is going. Those who shun salvation will get there on that day and say, “O Lord, open your gate,” and the Lord will say, “No. You did not want to be saved, that is why you cannot come in.” Like little children, some Christians don’t know what to do. When they offer them what they really need, they would prefer other things. Solomon was given long life, riches and power to defeat his enemies, but he asked for understanding to discern judgment. If you ask many Christians what they want now, they would tell you they want their enemies defeated quickly. But Solomon said, wisdom and understanding, and God gave them to him. God said to him, “Now that you have asked for the main thing, you can get the rest.” “Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and His righteousness and all other things shall be added unto you.” (Matthew 6:33)
A lot of Christians are not doing very much for God. There are people who have been Christians for 20 years, and still have not led a single person to Christ. They prefer to be fed with milk. Many seminaries and Bible colleges are only teaching people how to warm the milk for their congregation to drink. The reason there are so many problems in the church is that most people who go to church are babies. The man of God would be busy repeating the basic things that they ought to have known all the time. This does not help anyone. The Bible says, “Except you accept the kingdom of God like a little child it would be difficult for you to enter therein.” It is sad to note that some people have not even taken enough of the milk that is available and is distributed every Sunday. Some who have taken the milk have not digested it. The question is, when are we going to start learning the wisdom of the age to come? When are we going to start having more adults than babies? When the devil knows that he is playing with kids, then he knows how to deceive them and plant things into their lives. A baby Christian would be proud and oversensitive. He would be living by what others say instead of what God says. He would not be able to take decisions on his own. The faith of a baby in the Lord would be unstable and he would not be able to receive anything from the Lord. It is not everybody who grows up that grows old. You could be as tall as a giant and still be a small boy inside. There is a great difference between age and maturity. Normally, the older we are, the more mature we should be. But often this is not the case. I saw a 40 year old man crying. What did he do? He raped a two-year old girl. Will you call that kind of person an adult? He is only an adult physically but inside he is something else. This is why the enemy is recklessly planting things. The devil used to find it difficult to do things easily but now, he is having a field day because believers have refused to grow up. If Christians should grow up, they would become victors instead of victims.
Think about it. Are you growing or you are just getting fat? You are buying more Bibles and more commentaries, but spiritually you are not growing. Ask yourself a few questions. Are you becoming more and more patient in your daily life? Do you play with temptation or you resist it from the start? Do you find joy in obeying the word of God or you just read it because they say it is good for you to read? Are you able to control your tongue? Are you the kind of person that people come to for spiritual wisdom? Do you make your plans without considering God at all? Are you selfish when it comes to money? Are you unfaithful in your tithe and offering? Are you a prayer addict or do you criticize and gossip? When prayers of material breakthroughs are offered, baby Christians say a loud Amen but when you say, “O Lord, when the goats shall be separated from the sheep, let us not be found wanting,” the response would be a sluggish Amen. The prayers, which need to be violently prayed, are taken lightly. These are the marks of babies in the house of God. Baby Christians are fertile gardens for the plantation of the enemies. Things that ought not to chase them are chasing them. Instead of addressing these problems, many people come to church to gyrate and to dance. In those days, when you come into the church of God, you would tremble. You would know that you came before the Almighty God. The seriousness of the way people sat down, and the way they sang and worshipped, no sinner would find it comfortable. The Bible says, “The Lord is in His Holy Temple, let all the world keep silence before Him.” But these days, even men wear earrings to the church and do all kinds of things. They snake-dance and break-dance in the house of God and you still wonder why the devil is having a field day? The devil is having a field day because nobody wants to resist him again. Some people would say, “Well, let them do anything they want to do, as far as God is in their hearts,” forgetting that Christianity is a set of dos and don’ts. Some would tell you that we are under grace. But Jesus said, “You have read that Thou shall not commit adultery, but if you commit it in your heart, you have already sinned.” The law says that when you take another man’s wife, you have committed adultery. But under grace now, Jesus says that just thinking about it makes you guilty. So, which one is tougher? Righteousness is all about dos and don’ts. There are certain things you must not do. If you do, you will go to hell fire.
Enough is enough of these evil plantations. As some people are struggling to remove one, the enemy is planting another one. When some people have still not succeeded in pulling out the ones they have, fresh ones are being planted. Do you want these evil planters to succeed in your life? If you know that you were born again but have backslidden, I want you to slide back to Jesus. You can take that decision now. Today is the day of salvation, tomorrow may be too late. There may be no other opportunity. Slide back to Jesus now! Tell the Lord you are coming home. The Bible says, “What shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his soul. With what shall he exchange his soul.” Some people need to do restitution, apologize, appeal and withdraw from certain activities so that the axe of God can touch the root of every evil plantation in their lives. The Bible says, “Behold, now the axe is laid at the root of the trees and every tree that does not bear good fruit shall be cut off and thrown into the fire. It also says, “Every tree that my Father has not planted shall be rooted up.” Act now!
PRAYER POINTS
1. Every tree of destruction, be uprooted, in the name of Jesus.
2. Every evil night planter, be paralyzed, in the name of Jesus.
3. (Place one hand on your head and the other on your chest) Every evil material planted in my life in the dark, be uprooted, in the name of Jesus.
4. (Place your hand on your chest) All the powers preparing poison for me, drink your poison, in the name of Jesus.
5. Let the chariots of fire chase away every evil spy reporting on my life, in Jesus’ name.
6. Let every curse issued against me go back to the sender, in the name of Jesus.
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Dr. D. K. Olukoya
Our message this week should be taken seriously because we will be considering answers to some of the questions that are bothering so many minds. It is entitled “The dark room of life.”
Psalm 30: 5: “For his anger endureth but a moment; in his favour is life: weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.” The ‘night’ in this text is what we refer to as the dark room. Where can the dark room of life be found? It can be found in the night.
There are only four main important questions to ask on any issue. These are: Why? Which? How? and When? However, the one people ask most is ‘why?’ Many of our problems come upon us when these questions are not asked. Take the issue of marriage as an example. If you do not ask these questions before you go into marriage, it may lead to failure. It is commonly said that ‘not all that glitters is gold.’ Proverbs 16: 25: “There is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are ways of death.” That is, those things that look bright and fascinating in the eyes of men are coated with deadly poison. To Eve, the fruit looked good but it eventually spelt doom for her.
There was a sister who needed a husband badly and her prayer point was “O Lord, give me a rich, tall and handsome husband.” Eventually, she found one man who was attending a church as if he was born-again. Thereafter they started to talk about marriage. However, whenever there was a prayer meeting she noticed that the man could not pray more than two minutes, and he did not like calling the name of Jesus. That did not bother the sister. As long as the man was rich and had a fast car, she was okay, or so she thought. They did the marriage and on the second night after their wedding, she woke up in the middle of the night to find her husband at an altar in his bedroom naked and uttering some strange words that made no meaning to her. She was terrified and asked him how the altar got inside their bedroom. To her amazement, the man said, “Don’t worry, wait on that bed for your husband. I am not your husband. Your husband will soon come.” And truly, somebody walked in from nowhere.
When the relevant questions are not asked, it leads to problem. A brother came to a pastor and told him that he wanted to marry a certain girl and the pastor advised him to go and pray. After sometime, he came back and told the pastor that he had prayed. The pastor urged him to go and pray again. When a pastor tells you to go and pray again, he must have seen something, which he wants you too to discover. The brother went ahead and married the girl. When they got home after the wedding ceremony, the brother said they should pray. He prayed and the sister refused to say Amen. When he asked her why, she screamed at him and warmed him never to call on the name of Jesus again. Why? Correct questions were not asked.
I also know a fellow who went into business. He started with cocoa export. One day, he came complaining that the information given to him concerning his business was very strange. He was told that the ship carrying his cocoa had disappeared. The question was how could a whole ship disappear? Anyway, he lost everything. Then he started again, this time on wood business and invested a large sum of money. His major customer, a white man, came to him and said that the wood he sold to him had been infested with insects and that was how everything he had invested in that business got wasted too. So, we need to ask questions.
IS IT POSSIBLE FOR A CHRISTIAN TO HAVE PROBLEM?
One question, which people have been asking through the ages, is: Why does God allow problems? A lot of people even say that God is unfair to them. Before we consider this question, I would like you to bow down your head and pray like this: “I receive the sword of fire to disgrace stubborn mountains, in the name of Jesus.”
A Christian can have a problem but the problem must not have the Christian. That is the most important thing. The Bible says that all things work together for good for us, children of the Almighty.
During my days in the primary school, pupils with very bad results were paraded before all the other students in the school at the end of every year. The shame that accompanied such exercise really energized them to perform better in subsequent examinations.
I know that so many sisters would have loved to be at the Barbeach or other resort centers enjoying with their spouses. But because of one or two slaps from satan, they have been turned into prayer addicts and consequently champions.
It is problems that drove many people into receiving eternal life. Many would not have been born again if not for the adversity that pushed them to Jesus and when their problems were solved, they stuck to Him. A lot of people entered into heaven because they were chased into it. Many too, have made heaven because they were scared of hell fire. Perhaps they heard that hell fire is bad and people should not dream of going there, so they determined never to be candidates of that place.
Nebuchadnezzar raised up an idol and commanded everybody to worship it. Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego told him that they could only worship the Almighty God. Nebuchadnezzar threatened to put them in the fiery furnace and they told him that the God whom they served could deliver them. Nebuchadnezzar asked a question: “Who is that God that will deliver you from my hand?” What happened? The Lord silenced him.
Sennacherib too was harassing the children of God. He said: “The gods of other nations which I have conquered were not able to defend them why do you think that your own God can deliver you? Do not let Hezekiah deceive you. Bring all your wives and everything here.” What happened to Sennacherib? He was disgraced and silenced.
There was a case of some demonic people who wanted to disgrace some children of God. The idea was to drop a corpse near their church to make it looked as if the church of God was into some sort of ritual activities. They brought the corpse around 4.00 a.m. but as they were about to drop it, an angel of God who was waiting for them ordered them to hold it and stand there. Their hands were glued to the corpse and their feet glued to the spot. They could neither drop it nor go away. That was the position at which the church members met them when they arrived that morning. Of course, God engineered that disgrace. And so shall all your enemies be disgraced today, in the name of Jesus.
If the Lord sees that you are speeding too much with your vehicle, He could decide to puncture your tyres, so that when you are busy fixing the tyres, you will escape from accident that lies ahead. Hebrews 12: 5 – 6: “And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children. My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him. For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.” So, if you are a child of God and you get out of the track, He will knock you back into it, even if He had to grind your nose against the wall to get you back. The important thing is to get you saved.
Difficulties bring out the talents in people. God is like a surgeon who will tell you, “I may hurt you, but I will not injure you.” You have to be completely melted before you can be molted up. Human beings are like a tea bag. Until you pour hot water on it, it will not cooperate with you. Until God pours hot water into some lives, they won’t be useful.
Therefore, today, even as you are about to finish reading this message, I want you to know that there is a God in heaven who knows all secrets. He said in Romans 8:28: “And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.”
Whatsoever may be the problems you are having now, no matter what mountain may be confronting you, just know that they are ordinary raw materials preparing you for a great testimony. Remember, weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning. Put all your trust in God and He will never fail you.
PRAYER POINTS
1. Every good thing my hands have started to build, my hands shall finish them, in the name of Jesus.
2. Every dream of poverty, I dash you to the ground, in the name of Jesus.
3. I will arise above all the unbelievers around me, in the name of Jesus.
4. Every war waged against my staff of bread, receive double disgrace, in Jesus’ name.
5. Every satanic hunter of my career, receive double frustration, in the name of Jesus.
6. Any power hiding my key of promotion, loose your hold, in the name of Jesus.
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Dr. D. K. Olukoya
Ezekiel 14:1-4:“There came certain of the elders of Israel unto me, and sat before me. And the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, Son of man, these men have set up their idols in their heart, and put the stumbling block of their iniquity before their tale: Should I be enquired of it all by them? Therefore speak unto them, and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord God; Every man of the house of Israel that set up his idols in his heart, and pulleth the stumbling block of his iniquity before his face, and cometh to the prophet; I the Lord will answer him that cometh according to the multitude of his idols.” Ezekiel 14:9-10: “And if the prophet be deceived when he hath spoken a thing. I the Lord have deceived that prophet, and I will stretch out my hands upon him, and will destroy him from the midst of my people Israel. And they shall bear the punishment of their iniquity; the punishment of the prophet shall be even as the punishment of him that seeketh unto him.”
The elders of Israel came to the man of God to enquire of the Lord. You would have thought that somebody who needed to go and see a prophet would mean well by doing so, but they went there with idols in their hearts, and because they had idols in their hearts, the Lord said the reply they would get would be according to the idols that were already in their hearts. That is, if anyone has an idol inside his heart, and he goes to a prophet for information, God would ask that prophet to answer him according to the idol in his heart and the person ends up getting the wrong information.
Many people have secret idols hidden in the chambers of their hearts from the sight of men but not God. And these idols decide sometimes what they get from God, Hebrews 4:13: Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do.” So, as far as God is concerned, all the things that many people try to hide are open before Him. But the problem is that the Christian idols are harder to recognize than the others.
When I was in junior school, I was taught a song that says, “Break down every idol in your heart.” I could not understand it because I thought it was not possible since I was a Christian and we did not worship idols in our house. My idea of an idol was the carved head of Ogun or any other graven image. But as I got matured, I began to understand what the Lord means by breaking down the idols in our hearts. The Bible says, “Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks” (Matthew 12:34). When the heart is filled up, it would pour out through the mouth. Those talkative most of the time speak from their hearts and not from their brains. That which a person has in his heart will eventually come out. Sometime ago, I was counseling a couple. The wife said something and the man got angry and said that the God of iron should break the head of her father. I said, “But you are a Christian, why are you talking like that?” He said he was sorry. The truth is that that was how his heart was working. You may try to hide but a time is coming when you will be exposed. The Bible says that everything is naked before God. All fornicators and adulterers are naked before God like a television set.
There was a man who refused to give his life to Christ even though he was the son of a catechist. One day, as he was sitting down, somebody tapped him on the shoulder and said, “You have an appointment?” He said, “Appointment?” Before he could understand what was happening, the person pulled his spirit out of his body as one would pull off clothes from another person. Behold, it was an angel of the living God. “Where are we going?” he asked the angel. The angel said, “Be patient, you will know very soon.” Eventually, he landed before the throne of God and could not behold the glory. God called him by his name and told him that he was 25 years behind schedule of what He wanted him to do for Him. God said to him, “Before I start on you, let us look at a review of your life.” And all of a sudden, there was something like a television set and the brother was watching his life right from the moment his mother gave birth to him. He saw all the funny love letters he had written, all the fornication he had committed, all the abortions he sponsored and encouraged, etc. Everything was so clear. After he had watched to a point, he begged God to turn it off for he could not stand it any longer. That experience changed the man’s life.
Any person or thing that can replace God in your heart has become an idol. Anything you place before God or side by side with Him has become an idol. The moment the affection you are giving to God is given to any other thing or person, that substitute becomes an idol. A lot of Christians have secret idols in their hearts and these idols put them in trouble. At this juncture, I would like you to close your eyes, lay your hand on your chest and pray like this: “O Lord, show me the idols in my heart, in the name of Jesus.”
When some people come to see a man of God. They forget that it is not every time that God has a message for them. They would want to force the man of God to see a vision for them. Sometimes when you pray with such people and tell them that God says everything is fine, they can go, they will not believe because they have idols in their hearts.
Sometime ago, a man and a woman came to see me. The woman requested me to help the man., that his enemies were destroying him. As I started praying it was as if my prayers were bouncing back to me. I stopped and asked the woman to go out. After she left, I asked the man who she was, and he said she was just somebody who was concerned about his situation I asked if that was all and he said yes. I asked him to go too. Later, they came back and the man said “Please, sir, forgive me I can see that it is not good to tell lies to a man of God. That woman is supposed to be my fourth wife. I am just planning to marry her.” This confirms what the bible says, that the Lord will answer them according to the idols in their hearts.
A lot of singles have already made up their minds concerning the type of people they would like to marry before praying to God to show them who to marry. As a result, they find it difficult to accept God’s will for their lives. God eventually gives them the idols they want. Pray this prayer point: “O Lord, deliver me from secret idols, in the name of Jesus.”
If you are a good Bible reader, you will find that there is a man whom the bible does not talk well about. His name is Jeroboam the son of Nebat. The Bible describes anybody that committed a serious offence in the Bible as Jeroboam the son of Nebat. He was a yardstick. What was his offence? He set up an idol in Dan and another one in Bethel and called the people of Israel together and said, “You house of Israel, behold the god that delivered thee from the land of Egypt.” Before Jeroboam started putting the physical idols on ground, the idols started in his heart. Along the line, something happened. Jeroboam’s son became sick and because Jeroboam was far away from God he did not know that the prophet of God in Israel was already blind. He told his wife to take the child to the prophet and find out from him whether the son would die or live. He also asked her to disguise herself so that the prophet would not recognize her. As the wife of Jeroboam, who had dressed like a man got to the door of the prophet who was blind and knocked, behold a voice sounded from inside saying, “Come thou in you wife of Jeroboam, why frameth thyself to be another?” (Why are you pretending to be another person?) Before she could open the door, the prophet went further to tell her why she had come.
Many people who come to church find it difficult to function in any group because none of the groups is ready to admit them because they still paint their faces. Such people keep running around just because of an idol. If the Lord tells you to serve Him in an area with a condition attached to it and you do not want to abide by the condition, it means that you have another god.
Those who find it difficult to put away their false finger nails, attachments and make-ups need deliverance because those things have become idols in their lives. Beloved, think about these things seriously.
When God gave Saul an instruction, he carried it out in his own way and God told him, “Behold, obedience is better than sacrifice and to hearken than the fat of ram.” God also told him that stubbornness is an iniquity as idolatry and rebellion is as witchcraft (Samuel 15:22-23). So, a witch and a rebellious person are twin brothers in hell fire. A stubborn person and an idol worshipper are the same thing before God.
Nowadays, we have a lot of modern-day idols that people worship. They include the following:
Let us look at the secret idols that many Christians are going about with. You will do yourself a lot of good to look deeply into your spirit because these may be the things that the enemy is using to harass you and you think it is witches or wizards that are harassing you.
Sometime ago, a woman came to me for prayers. She complained that things were rough and her business was grounded. As I was praying, the Lord said, “Son, there is somebody this woman does not want to forgive.” I opened my eyes and said, “Madam there is somebody you do not want to forgive. God says you should first of all forgive that person before any other thing.” She looked at me and said it was her husband. I asked her to forgive him. She said no, that the man had hurt her badly. She said when they were poor and struggling, the man did not abandon her. But when they became rich, the man went and took a girl, the age of their last daughter, as second wife and abandoned her. So she would not forgive him. I told her that the Bible says she must forgive him no matter what he had done. She went away in anger because I refused to pray for her. But the next day, she came back and said she was ready to forgive him. After she repented and forgave the man and we prayed, all the miracles that she had been asking for, for five years came within a week. And things have been going on well for her since then.
All these secret idols must be chased out by the Lion of Judah. The problem of the idol is that it hinders the move of God. God is saying, “Clear away the idols. Cast them into the fire. Then you can see what I can do.” There was a medical doctor who died. When he died, his wife prayed that he must come alive again. She prayed for hours. Eventually the man came back to life and narrated what he saw when he died. He saw himself arriving somewhere. In that place, somebody held him by the right hand, another person held him by the left hand and they were dragging him away. He first of all thought that they were dragging him to heaven but as they dragged him along, he felt heat on his face. He remembered the Bible and thought: “If this place is heaven the breeze will not be uncomfortable.” Then he began to appeal to them to leave him alone. He said he was born again, and that they should not drag him to hell fire. They did not listen. Then they dragged him to the edge of hell fire. He said people were being dumped into hell fire like tipper lorry tips sand down. He was amazed and suddenly as they were about to throw him inside, a voice sounded from above, “Release him.” And they left him. Immediately they released him the devil came out and said, “O God, You have no right to take this man to heaven, because he is free from all sins apart from one, and that is idolatry of the heart.” Just one, but many of us are committing serious sins daily. God said, “Okay, agreed” (The devil does not tell lies against anybody. If the devil is reporting you to God, he tells God the truth. But you cannot tell God a lie anyway). God said. “Devil, you are right. I am not taking this man to heaven, because he is not qualified as you have said, but at the same time, I will not allow him to go to hell fire now because of his wife.” The importunate prayers of his wife compelled God to send him back to life. Although that man was a Sunday School Teacher and he taught the Bible very well, there was an idol hidden in him.
On the last day, if an idol is still in a person apart from the idol hindering his blessing, the person cannot go to heaven. Our greatest prayer should be: “O Lord, break down every idol in our hearts, in the name of Jesus.”
If you have not given your life to Jesus, and you try to remove any idol from your heart, the idol will resist you because you belong to the same camp. So, to be able to break the idols in your heart, you must give your life to Christ.
PRAYER POINTS
1. O Lord, break down every idol in my heart, in the name of Jesus.
2. I cast out every idol from my heart, in the name of Jesus.
3. I break down every hidden idol, in the name of Jesus.
4. Let the fire of God boil all rivers harboring my enemies, in the name of Jesus.
5. Let the blood of Jesus wipe off all my evil dreams, in the name of Jesus.
6. I destroy every satanic accident organized for my sake, in the name of Jesus.
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Dr. D. K. Olukoya
We are looking at a very important topic this week. It is what I call, “Madness of the mind.” Ecclesiastes 9: 3: “This is an evil among all things that are done under the sun, that there is one event unto all: yea, also the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that they go to the dead.”
When the mind is sick, a lot of things go wrong. In fact, most things go wrong. This is why the writer of the book of Proverbs screamed out in Proverbs 4: 23, “Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.” That means it involves taking action with all seriousness, and making sure that you barricade your mind so that you can keep it well, because out of it are the issues of life. Mark 12: 30: “And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment.”
DIFFERENT KINDS OF MADNESS
What does it mean when the mind runs mad?
The mind is the battlefield of man. And once the mind is captured, the battle of life becomes very tough. That is why the greatest battlefield is the mind. A lot of people roaming around the hospitals would do a lot better if they could pray for the healing and deliverance of their minds. Many things could go wrong with the mind. Let us look at some of the symptoms of a mad mind.
MAJOR SYMPTOMS OF A MAD MIND
MINOR SYMPTOMS OF A MAD MIND
The human mind is the greatest vagabond in the universe. For example, as you are reading this message now, your mind may be somewhere else. If you don’t put this vagabond mind under control, it will eventually cause problem for you. Many minds have cobwebs forming in them. As God is willing to shine a new light into them, they are withdrawing from it. They want to continue in their former ways without knowing that it is only a change that can bring progress. This is because most people hate change. They prefer things to continue the same way. Many people who claim they have open minds don’t really have open minds, what they have is a blank space. Jesus did not have that kind of open mind. He pronounced woes to the scribes and the Pharisees without mincing words.
Jesus was the only person who spoke most about hell fire. He told the most truth we know about hell fire. He makes us to know that the place is not prepared for us but the devil. However, if we are prepared to go with the devil, we will get there. Therefore Christians don’t have the kind of liberality that people are claiming now.
When somebody’s mind is very little, little things would wound him in the heart. Great minds are not easily hurt. Somebody was addressed as a brother and he felt slighted and got angry and said, “Do you know what God has deposited in me? Why are you calling me a brother? Call me a pastor.” Things like this will definitely bother little minds, but great minds would remain unperturbed. Anyone who thinks constantly about himself alone will be discouraged. Note this truth. Another truth to be noted is that it takes a strong mind to control a wild tongue. If your mind is weak then your tongue will be loose. When your mind is not renewed with the word of God and there is no fire in it, it becomes a dumping ground for all kinds of rubbish. The devil will give you topics to be deliberating upon. It is a very dangerous thing to invite enemies into your mind. This is why anger is bad.
A strongman is the head of the demons in charge of a location. At the gate of his palace is the demon of anger, standing, looking cool and normally well dressed like an executive gateman. But when you get angry, he would open the gate and beckon to his colleagues like hypertension, diabetes, and other diseases to surround you. Thereafter, he locks his door and waits for your next moment of madness.
It is even more dangerous when one’s mind has been taken over without one knowing it. If your mind is not free from evil influences, you will become the property of the devil no matter how bright you look on the face and the Bible College you attended. That is why the Bible says; you should renew your mind with the word of God. When you get born again, it does not mean that your mind is completely cleared of all the rubbish of the world. But as you continue to renew your mind with the word of God, you pass it through the clearing process. It is a daily affair. It is certain that if you win a person’s mind, you will have him and when you capture his thoughts, you will control him, that is the trick of the devil. No wonder satan fights to gain control of the minds of men because he knows that once he gets it, all other things are easy. 2 Corinthians 11: 3: “But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.”
When the devil came to Eve, he manipulated her, and gave her the impression that God was telling them a lie. He fed her with wrong information which introduced doubt into her mind, and eventually he got her. I want you to lay your hands on your chest and pray seriously with holy anger like this: “My mind, go back to your resting place in the name of Jesus.”
WHY DO SOME PEOPLE’S MINDS WANDER DURING PRAYERS?
No matter how hot the prayer tempo is, some people’s minds still wander during prayers. You find that people who sincerely want to serve God cannot remember the information passed to them by the Lord in their dreams. They forget easily. The mind of man is like a tester and the extent to which you allow it to influence your thoughts is the extent to which it can control you. You may claim to be speaking in tongues, but the devil may be controlling you. In fact, the devil must work with the human minds or else he has nothing to work with. Even all the bodily afflictions originate from the human mind. The heart is the centre of serious warfare. The Bible makes us to understand that the devil has immediate and instant access to the human mind. He has a complete picture of your thoughts, imaginations, motives, intentions and secret ambitions and is familiar with your strengths and weaknesses. And if you permit him either by carelessness or ignorance, he would plant evil ideas into your mind. He knows us better than we know ourselves. Many of us like to forget our mistakes or faults, but the devil does not forget at all. He starts every wrong feeling and passion. He gives appetizing suggestions, which correspond with a person’s weakness. If he discovers that something is your weakness, he would use it against you. For example, if you were prone to crying, he would always bring things against you that would make you to cry. But the day you say, “No, I refuse to be a student in the school of crying,” he will not be able to use it against you again. If you were a worry bag, he would always cause you to be thinking. If you were the fighting type, there would be many people opposing you. But the day you said that you are not going to fight anybody no matter the provocation, he would loose the battle in that area and look for another area. If you were the gluttonous type, he would always put you in trouble through food. He makes wrong appearance as right and darkness as light. He is an expert at introducing deception into the hearts of careless people.
When the mind is not working according to God’s wish, mental and physical ailment, failure, defeat, poverty, family breakdown, oppression, suicide, profitless hardwork, chronic sicknesses and strife will follow. What we are saying is that your life is determined by the state of your mind and what you feed into it. What you think about is what will decide what happens. I would like you to close your eyes at this juncture and pray like this: “O Lord, shine your divine light into my mind and let all strangers fly away, in the name of Jesus.”
PARTS OF HUMAN MIND
The mind of man has two parts:
The conscious mind is the tiny portion of the whole person, while the sub-conscious mind is the larger part of it. This means that if I speak to you and you respond by speaking back to me, then your subconscious mind is at work. But inside that sub-conscious mind, we find long forgotten memories, and experiences of childhood stocked there. When the subconscious mind is filled with dirt and you combine it with the physical environment that lacks Christ, the mind will run mad. Our subconscious mind must be renewed, changed, reprogrammed and be made to conform to Christ. Failure to do this will make the mind to fall under evil control. This is where Philippians 4: 8 becomes relevant. It says, “Finally brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.” These are the things the Bible says we should be thinking about. It says our minds should not be dwelling on lies but on honest things. Anytime dishonesty comes into you, throw it out. Your mind should not welcome impure thoughts and the report of the enemy. Failure to do this will result in the mind falling under evil control.
THE MIND CAN BE ATTACKED IN SEVEN WAYS
HOW DO WE CURE THE MADNESS OF THE MIND?
It is the devil that takes away people’s attention from Jesus. He engineers bad thoughts, evil imagination and evil desires. All these take place in the mind and if they are purged from the mind, the person’s life will be affected. If the tree of poverty is planted in a person’s mind, it does not matter how much you give to him, he would still be poor because he would carry out all the suggestions that tend to poverty. Therefore, you need to pray the following prayer points aggressively:
PRAYER POINTS
1. Every power of familiar spirit and witchcraft working against my mind, release me now, in the name of Jesus.
2. I frustrate every demonic arrest over my mind, in the name of Jesus.
3. Holy Ghost fire; destroy every satanic plantation in my mind, in Jesus’ name.
4. I bind every spirit withstanding testimony in my life, in the name of Jesus.
5. Every river of backwardness flowing into my mind, dry up, in Jesus’ name.
6. Every evil association with un-friendly friends, break now, in Jesus’ name.
7. I destroy anything representing me in any demonic meeting, in Jesus’ name.
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Dr. D. K. Olukoya
The Bible makes us to understand that the spiritual existed first before the physical. Once you understand this principle, many things become clear. The Bible also makes us to understand that things like bondage, freedom, power, anointing, etc. are spiritual items and if they are not sorted out in the spiritual realm, you are wasting your time in the physical. Real power is not in the physical world but in the spiritual world. The children of darkness understand this fact very well.
Ezekiel 13:18-19 : “Thus saith the Lord God; Woe to the women that sew pillows to all armholes and make kerchiefs upon the head of every stature to hunt souls. Will you hunt the souls of my people, and will ye save the souls alive that come unto you? And will you pollute me among my people for handfuls of barley and for pieces of bread, to slay the souls that should not die and to save the souls alive that should not live, by your lying to my people that hear your lies?” In the foregoing, we could see an exchange-taking place. The souls that are not supposed to die are being slain. They are not supposed to die but they are slain to save the souls that should not live. There are also some people that are destined to die but they look for the lives of younger persons, snuff them out and add theirs to themselves . They save alive the souls that should not live by lying to the people that hear their lies.
Verses 20-21: “Wherefore thus saith the Lord God, Behold, I am against your pillows (pillows in original Hebrew means magic band), wherewith ye hunt the souls to make them fly (meaning that people can be initiated unconsciously), and I will tear them from your arms and will let the souls go even the souls that ye hunt to make them fly. Your kerchiefs also will I tear and deliver my people out of your hands and they shall be no more in your hand to be hunted and ye shall know that I am the LORD.” So, deliverance is needed to get out of their grip.
This is an interesting Scripture. Some people are using magic bands to trade the souls of men. The souls that should normally be at rest, they make them to fly. This is why when some people are asleep, they face battles. There are people after their souls, exchanging their souls for handfuls of barley and pieces of bread. Somebody went to a herbalist and said, “I want to destroy this person,” and he was asked to go and bring kolanut and goat, which would be used to snuff out the person’s soul. These are powers that engage in selling souls. They exchange things. That is why I said, “My life is not for sale.”
All reasonable people sell disposable things, but when a man decides to sell an indispensable item, it means that spiritual madness has crept in. Many lives are on sale. Many are being sold now and many have been sold. There is something in the spirit world known as prostitution of the soul, that is, when the soul of a person becomes a prostitute in the spirit world, all kinds of things will be happening to the soul of the person in the physical. There are people who complain that all night when they sleep, they always see spirit husband. Such people may have become prostitutes in the spirit; they have been sold off. It is very sad.
Jesus says, “What shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his soul. With what can a man make exchange for his soul? Nothing.
When the soul of a person is out on sale, it is a great problem. Jesus says, “What can you give in exchange for a soul?” In Ezekiel 13, we see people exchanging souls of men for mere pieces of bread. So, the worst enemies of men are soul traders. They hunt for souls and trade with souls.
Revelation 18:11 says, “And the merchants of the earth shall weep and mourn over her; for no man buyeth their merchandise any more.” What is their merchandise? They are listed in Revelation 18:12-14 which says, “The merchandise of gold and silver, and precious stones, and of pearls, and fine linen, and purple, and silk, and scarlet and thine wood, and all manner vessels of ivory, and all manner vessels of most precious wood, and of brass, and iron, and marble. And cinnamon, and odours, and ointments, and frankincense, and wine, and oil, and fine flour, and wheat, and beasts, and sheep, and horses, and chariots and slaves and souls of men.” These are merchandise of soul traders. Please, declare this to yourself, “My life is not for sale.”
Isaiah 50:1 : “Thus saith the Lord, Where is the bill of your mother’s divorcement, whom I have put away? Or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities have ye sold yourselves, and for your transgressions is your mother put away.” That means that you sell yourself consciously or unconsciously, or your parents or friends can sell you off. Isaiah 52:3 also says, “For thus saith the Lord, Ye have sold yourselves for nought; and ye shall be redeemed without money.”
When a life has been sold off, there would be destiny disorder. Several years ago, I met a sister who had this problem. Her grandmother married her off to someone in the spirit world, collected her dowry spiritually, spent it also spiritually and that grandmother was now dead. Every night, when she slept there was a short demon by her bed. She prayed and bound and loosed it to no avail. It would disappear for a while only to reappear again. When she was going to the toilet at night, it would step aside physically for her to pass. It was always there watching carefully over her anytime she was in bed. If there were other people on the bed, she would be the only person seeing the short thing. It was the guard of the husband which her grandmother married her to in the spiritual world. Five people tried to marry her but each of them ended in disaster. The one that had the least disaster was the one who drank the water of his car battery.
Please, take the following prayer points:
– Every power bargaining for my soul, die, in the name of Jesus.
– My soul, be delivered from satanic flying, in the name of Jesus.
When a life has been sold off, there would be destiny disorder. The prefix “dis” means to remove. For example, dis-ease means “remove ease.” So, dis-order means a removal of order. Therefore when there is destiny dis-order, it means that the order in a destiny has been removed. Once the order is removed, the destiny is as good as dead. This is the major problem of the black man. Let us look at the names of some black people in the Bible:
Hagar: an Egyptian who married Abraham.
Keturah who married Abraham.
Asenath who was Joseph’s wife.
Ziporrah who was Moses’ wife.
Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law. He sat Moses down and taught him how to do most of what he did as a man of God. Obab who acted as the eye of the Israelites in the wilderness. They were going to the Promised Land and did not quite know the way and this black man was their eye. Rahab who saved the Israeli spies at Jericho. In the New Testament, there is Simon of Cyrene. When Jesus was on His way to Calvary and the cross became too heavy for Him, this man carried the cross to the place of Jesus’ crucifixion. In the book of Jeremiah, we read about a man called Ebedmelech, an Ethiopian. There was a time that Jeremiah was thrown into the dungeon. It was this black man that brought him out. In Acts of the Apostles, we read about the Ethiopian Eunuch whom Philip preached to. When Paul was going on his missionary journey, two of the three men who laid hands on him in prayer were Lucius called Niger and Simeon of Cyrene. They were both black men.
Did you know that the gospel got to Africa before Europe? Did you know that whenever God has a major step to take in history one way or another, a black man would come along? God has always used Africa to protect, support and provide for His moves. Whenever the world was in a crisis, God brought a black man to the scene. With this background, you may now ask, what exactly is wrong with the black man? Why do white men often tell funny tales about us? Why did we blacks go through the horrifying slave trade? You cannot read the story of the slave trade without crying. Men and women were gathered and packed into the ship like sardine. There was no walking space and no toilet. When they fell sick, the only solution was to throw them inside the sea and they served as food for fishes. Why did they suffer that treatment? Why is it very difficult to find a single black nation that is now doing very well? What is responsible for the demonic and diabolical attack from hell fire to stop the black man from executing his prophetic mandate? Why should things like poverty, inferiority complex, confusion, insufficient education and civil war be rampant with blacks? It is because of destiny disorder of the individuals. When Mr. A, whose destiny is in disorder, marries a woman, whose destiny is also in disorder, they produce children who inherit destiny disorder, and the circle continues.
Please, pray like this: “I refuse to enter the dustbin of life, in the name of Jesus.”
There are many human beings who are already dumped into the dustbin of life and they are weeping and crying. Sometimes ago, something happened in one city in the western part of Nigeria. It was noticed that a man had a big farm and the farm was prospering. The produce from the farm was very good. But the surprising thing was that no one had ever seen any worker on that farm, yet it was the largest farm around and belonged to one old man. The man’s son used to wonder about the farm. He did not understand who was planting the crops because he knew that his father was old and could not do much. As he began to cleverly study his father, he discovered that anytime he arrived at the farm, he would wash his face with some concoction. One day, the son used the concoction to wash his face and he saw the people working on the farm. They were people who had died in the village. Imagine his father’s wickedness. Holding down people who were dead to serve him before they go to hell. The devil had traded their souls to the old man. When they died the man bought their souls to work in the farm. The boy screamed when he saw them. Then his father knew that he had touched the concoction. He ran after him but could not catch him because of his old age. The son disappeared into town screaming. Until now no one had seen the old man again. The farm is still there.
If you allow your soul to be sold, it is your own business. That is why when you come to the house of God, you better face your business. Do not waste time on joking with the enemy or on things that do not concern you. If you do, your disorder will multiply. It will be a major disaster if you finish reading this message without having a touch from heaven.
God has a purpose for everything He does. The fact that someone is walking about does not mean that the person is alive in the book of the Almighty. He may be moving about, breathing or going to church, but by God’s reckoning, he might have died 20 years ago. God has a purpose for your life. Before you were born He has written certain things about your life. The enemy can see those things, therefore he can cause destiny disorder if he succeeds in grabbing your soul. So, the most precious material on planet earth is the soul of a man. The devil is after it, God too is after it. When Peter said to Jesus, “You cannot die like that, how can you die?” He looked at Peter and said, “The Son of man goeth as it is written of Him.” Something was written about you. Is that thing in disorder now? If it is in disorder, then the soul sellers have done their worst.
Sometimes ago, a woman gave birth and somebody visited her at the maternity. She gave her baby to the visitor while she went to the toilet. Shortly after, another visitor came in. As she came out of the toilet, she overheard her two visitors arguing and wondered what was happening to them. Immediately she got into the room, they became quiet. She said, “If two of you do not tell me what you were discussing, somebody must die here today.” Then one of them said, “When I got here, my friend had already removed four and she wanted to remove the other three. So, all I was saying is that she should leave the other three for me.” They were referring to the stars on the head of the newly born baby. This is the wickedness going on in the world.
There is no need to be alive if your life does not fulfill its divine destiny. Once your soul has been sold off, unless it is bought back, you may not be able to fulfill the destiny that the Lord has for you. For several years I thought Biology in secondary school, and in an adult education school where the youngest person in my class was 36 years old. One day, I taught about amoeba for three hours. After the lecture, I said, “Any question?” A bald headed man at the middle said he had a question. He said, “During the wedding of Amoeba who collects the dowry?” I was shocked because it means that he did not understand anything out of everything I had said for three hours. The trouble with that fellow was that he was doing the right thing at the wrong time. It is destiny disorder. He might have been interested in going to school but witches had eaten up the money of all those who would have financed his education. He might have had the brain but was unable to go to school. His destiny was in a mess.
Nahum 3:3 says, “The horsemen lifteth up both the bright sword and glittering spear: and there is a multitude of slain, and a great number of carcasses, and there is none end of their corpses, they stumble upon their corpses.” What is responsible for these corpses? Verse 4 says, “Because of the multitude of the whoredom of the well-favoured harlot, the mistress of witchcrafts, that selleth nations through her whoredom and families through her witchcrafts.”
SOUL TRADERS
When human fell in the Garden of Eden, the religion he turned to was witchcraft because he fell in rebellion. Rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft. I used to think that Taiye and Kehinde (twins) love themselves until I saw a Kehinde who told me that she had put the life of her Taiye on the shelve, that until she married and had three or four children, her Taiye would not marry. Both of them came from the same womb but look at what witchcraft has done. We need to be aggressive if we do not want soul traders to sell us off. A lot of people have been sold already so they do not understand what is going on. Perhaps you have been sold already and do not know. During the slave trade, they just went to a village, capture some people and sold them off like that.
It is often said that the people who look are very many but the people who see are very few. The greatest enemy of man is not outside him, it is inside. Unless the internal defeat is registered, external defeat can never come. Unfortunately, many people who come to the house of God do not possess this ability to see. There is a need to pray the prayer of Elisha who said to his servant, “Brother, do not worry, those who are with us are more than those who are with them.” And straight away the servant could see two armies – the armies of the Lord and their own army.
The foundation of spiritual failure that the modern man is experiencing is due to spiritual blindness. A person has been sold but he does not know. A person has been thrown into jail but he does not know. A person is wearing a three-piece suit and is studying for Ph.D. in the university but already he has been sold. Evil birds have eaten up the good seed planted in many lives. For instance, do you know the real life you are supposed to be living? Many people do not know. Have your enemies converted you to a hewer of wood and drawer of water? Look at yourself. Is your correct life dead or alive?
Have your dreams and visions, been extinguished? Are you a living dead? Is there anything that makes you to accept an inferior or disabled life as your life? Is there anything that keeps you permanently depressed and unhappy? Are you deceiving yourself by having a form of godliness but denying the power thereof? Are you the type of person who will x-ray a man or woman in the laboratory of your heart?
Perhaps you are not who you should be now. The real life of many people exist only in the dream. They count money in the dream but they live in penury in real life. They own companies only in the dream but are jobless here. They preach to thousands of people in the dream but are powerless here. They live in houses in the dream but here they have three quit notice letters.
There is something you must destroy today. You must refuse to be caged or boxed in by the enemy. You must re[1]fuse to accept the satanic substitute for your destiny. You must pray and get your unused things, and your buried Lazarus must resurrect. You must renounce the curse of powerless living. You must disallow the enemy from dulling the edge of your sword. You must disallow the enemy from closing down the factory of your life. You must refuse the call from the camp of the enemy that you should drop your weapon.
The devil knows that people believe their pastors and would do whatever they ask them to do so he looks for his men and pushes them into the position of fake men of God who give people demonically inspired prophecies to confuse their lives. Sometimes, parents go to the fake prophets behind their children to make their children do what they want. For example, a parent could go to such a prophet and say, “Prophet, there is one fine man coming to look for our daughter but we don’t know what is wrong with the girl, she is chasing away the fine man. What we want you to do is to call her and tell her that the man is her husband.” The prophet would then call the girl and say to her: “Is there anyone coming to visit you at home? That person is your husband.” He says this without prayer or revelation. The sister too is not given time to pray. That way, her destiny is put in disorder.
Several years ago, a pregnant sister going to the market met a white garment prophet who said, “Thus says the Lord: Unless you bring this or that you will die with this pregnancy.” She held on to his clothes and said, “You must reverse what you have said if not, you will not leave this place.” People started gathering and saying, “Sister, leave the man of God alone.” She told them what he said and said they should ask him to reverse it. The people now said, “Why did you deliver such a message to the woman?. Reverse it quickly.” Then he said, “You will deliver safely,” etc.
Several years ago, another sister came and said that a prophet in her mother’s church told her that she would die, that I should pray for her and cancel it. I said, “No. You go back and tell the prophet that your pastor said, I should tell you that you will die.” She went and the prophet did not last beyond the next seven days. The arrow of death went back to its sender. The devil has a way of gluing one’s mind to evil prophecies. If you know that evil prophecies have been uttered against you by astrologers, unholy prophets, herbalists or that any ungodly person has foretold your future, pray this prayer point aggressively: Every satanic programme for my destiny, die, in the name of Jesus.
We need to pray, not the type of prayer the enemy will hear and rejoice. The first thing we need to do is to repent before the Lord of anything that has given the enemy the ground to sell our souls or tamper with our lives. We need to ask God to forgive us so that we can start moving forward. After asking for forgiveness, we will move on and identify the disorder, and then call God into our situation. It will be a tragedy after reading this message you do not receive the touch of God. The Bible says, “The Son of man goeth as it is written.” Are you going as God has written of you, or you are going as your enemy has written? Or are you going according to verdict of witchcraft? You have the opportunity to ask God to forgive you.
If you are reading this and you are yet to surrender to Jesus, you better do so quickly before you move into the prayer section. Otherwise you cannot introduce order into your life. If you want to surrender your life to Jesus, pray this prayer: “Lord Jesus, I come before you and confess my sins. Forgive me, O Lord, and cleanse me with your precious blood. Come into my life now. Take control of my life, in Jesus’ name. Amen.”
PRAYER POINTS
6. I reject every evil prophecy, in the name of Jesus.
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Dr. D. K. Olukoya
Isaiah 59: 19 says, “So shall they fear the name of the Lord from the west, and his glory from the rising of the sun. When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the Lord shall lift up a standard against him.” Many people do not understand this Scripture because they do not read it correctly. It is the Spirit of the Lord that shall rise like a flood, not the enemy. People usually say, “When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the Lord shall lift up a standard against him.” But the original version says, “When the enemy shall come in, like a flood, the Spirit of the Lord shall raise up a standard against him.” That is our working verse in this message.
WHY DOES A PERSON COME UNDER ATTACK?
Two years ago, I prayed with a man who was completely down. As he continued to pray, the Lord showed him a vision of himself the day he was born and was taken to a herbalist. Like the practice of many tribes in this country, his parents took him to a herbalist where they enquired about his future and the herbalist said, “This one is the saviour of the family. All of you without exception will benefit from him. You shall bow down to him. He will be your anchor in the family.” Unfortunately when the herbalist was saying this the other seven wives of his father were around. His mother was the last wife. His battle started not because he had offended anybody but because of his divine destiny.
Of all cities in the world, none has been so frequently attacked like Jerusalem. Why is it so? It is because the place has a prophetic destiny. So, as a child of God, in case you are seriously under attack or you are wondering why you are sweating and struggling, it means that there is something in your destiny that the enemy does not want to happen. The enemies dealt with this man; he spent 14 years in the primary school and eight years in the university to get a degree that usually takes four years. They bombarded him right, left and centre. He could hardly feed when he was the angel who was supposed to feed his family. His family was very poor, until God showed him that vision, and he started praying that all the agents of the enemy that were present when his destiny was being proclaimed should lose the information from their memory, in Jesus’ name. Then he began to possess his possessions.
The problem is that at the baby stage, there is nothing a baby can do. People would come and say, “Let me carry the baby, let me put the baby here, let me give the baby food,” and little by little, they would be destroying him. So as this man started praying, God started blessing him. All the attacks he had were not his fault. His destiny was proclaimed in the presence of his enemies.
Beloved, be rest assured that you will be under attack from time to time. Jesus was under attack most of the time. Many Christians make the wrong decision when they are under attack. As Christians, our decisions should be based on some principles when we find that we are under attack.
Any time a person comes under attack and he does not listen to the Holy Spirit, he would have problems. If you do something outside the word of God, you will have problems. If you do something contrary to biblical principles there would be problems. When people come under attack, they sometimes forget these principles. In Exodus 14, we see a beautiful example of how somebody can be under attack. The Israelites marched out of Egypt. An angel and a pillar of fire went back and forth to lead them. When the pillar wanted them to move, it would move and when it did not want them to move, it would stay. There was also an angel attached to their camp and something happened. The angel and the pillar led them to a place where they could march no further, where there was no door of escape. In front was the Red Sea, by the sides were walls of rock which they could not surmount and at the rear was their deadly foe with a deadly rage, pursuing them. It was a time when all hope should be lost. The attackers were ready to devour. Every true child of God, at one time or the other in life, can find himself in this situation I have just described. For many years the devil had kept the Israelites in Egypt moulding bricks and all of a sudden, their eyes opened and they escaped. But before they knew it, fresh terrors had gathered around them again. What do you do when you are under this kind of attack? The most costly mistake that people make usually occurs during the first few moments of any attack. Once you make that initial mistake, you get into trouble. The enemy uses the weapon of fear.
WHEN YOU ARE UNDER ATTACK WHAT DO YOU DO?
I counsel you to read through this message again. Then tell the Lord to forgive you for the various ways you have failed when you were under attack. When you are supposed to be the David to kill the Goliath, the Goliath was boasting all over the place because your strategy was wrong. Talk to God to forgive you. I want you to pray with the spirit that believes that your God is a God that knows no impossibilities. There is no situation that is beyond His power, no matter how strong it may be. The battle is not greater than the One described as the Almighty. The battle is not higher than Him who is the highest. The following prayer points are powerful and effective. Pray them aggressively.
PRAYER POINTS
1. Every arrow fired into my destiny this year, backfire, in the name of Jesus.
2. Every power that stole my destiny when I was a baby, return it by fire, in the name of Jesus.
3. I possess all my blessings for this week, in the name of Jesus.
4. Every wall of Jericho standing against my progress, fall, in the name of Jesus.
5. Every hidden authority and stubborn pursuer that is following me, I command you to die, in the name of Jesus.
6. Every garment of wickedness and shame, be roasted, in the name of Jesus.
7. The glory of the protection of the Almighty shall be upon my life, in the name of Jesus.
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Dr. D. K. Olukoya
ln Matthew 3:10, we see a powerful verse of Scripture which says, “And now also the axe is laid unto the root of the trees: therefore every tree which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.” So, if you see somebody standing somewhere and praying that unprofitable trees be axed down, his prayer is scriptural.
Matthew 15:13: “But he answered and said, Every plant which my heavenly Father hath not planted, shall be rooted up.” Meaning that if there is anything growing somewhere that was not planted by our Father in heaven it must be rooted up. God does not plant poverty neither does He plant frustration, depression or disappointment.
Doctors may have all kinds of names for different sicknesses, but the Bible has one name for them. It calls them “every plant which my heavenly Father has not planted.” So, it does not matter who planted it, it shall be rooted up.
In the olden days, there used to be a very popular saying which is still very relevant today. It says, “Kill the spider and there would be no cobwebs.” A lot of people abandon the problem spider and keep busy fighting the cobwebs and then confusion sets in.
Confusion comes in when the spider is a front or is wearing a mask. When somebody wears a mask, it is to hide his identity and for him to want to hide his identity from you shows that he is a person you know.
It may be very frustrating when the enemy is using another person’s face to attack you. But the Bible says, “Don’t marvel at this because angels of darkness sometimes present themselves as angels of light.”
There was a certain brother who got born again properly, not the way many people get born again nowadays by shaking the hands of a disco preacher or signing the back of an American tract and claiming to be born again. Those are the kinds of people who still chew gum during the service. When you try to tell them to have respect for God, they would say, “My God is not a hard God.” They forget that He is the same God who rained fire upon Sodom and Gomorrah and killed the sons of Aaron by the altar. The problem is that they do not read their Bible well. So, after this brother got born again, he asked the preacher what else he should do and the preacher told him about sanctification and encouraged him to pray for that. When he got that, he also prayed for the baptism in the Holy Spirit and got baptized.
He lived in the same compound with a herbalist. And this herbalist used to disturb him at night with all kinds of spirits making funny sounds inside his room and his numerous customers who came in at all times to consult with him. He used to get scared but one night when he got home, he was ready to deal with anything. He now waited for the herbalist to start discussing with his evil spirits. Immediately the first spirit came, the brother got up and started praying. Suddenly, he heard the sound of their foot steps as they were running away. As he continued praying, a man in white garment appeared to him and said, “Brother, stop praying. It is all right, you have finished your assignment.” He wanted to stop but reasoned within himself that Jesus would not ask him to stop praying. He might just change the prayer points. When he looked closely at the person in white garment, he found stains on the garment and said, “Oh, he’s an enemy in disguise,” and continued praying until the evil spirit was defeated.
There is something known as fighting a spiritual dummy. A dummy is an object that is made to look like the real thing but is not the real thing. The problem with spiritual dummies is that they waste your spiritual bullets.
FOUR KINDS OF SATANIC DECEPTION
You cannot recognise enemies by physical appearance. This is why if suddenly in your dream, somebody comes and begins pursuing you or firing an arrow at you and for any reason the arrow enters and is working, the first person to blame is yourself because the Bible says, “Touch not my anointed and do my prophet no harm.” When the anointed is being touched, and the prophet is being harmed, it means that he has problem. So, do an internal check-up before you look outside. No matter how strong a demon is, it cannot withstand a life that has sufficient fire.
There was an old, illiterate woman. Somebody came to her in the dream with a big club in his hand and as the person was moving close, she said, “Stop, in the name of Jesus,” and the person stopped. Then she said, “Stand at attention so that I can look at you well,” and he obeyed. She said, “Now what do you want?” He said, “I have been sent to destroy you.” She said, “Right now, I command you, in the name of Jesus, to begin to hit your head with the club in your hand.” He started hitting and eventually killed himself. If the woman was hit and she woke up the next morning to say it was her husband or somebody else she knew, she would be wasting her time. The important thing is not to allow it to happen.
Before a tree can bear fruits, it must have root. Sometimes we are busy fighting the fruit. You may fight the fruit all your life and will not get anywhere. A long time ago, in a particular place where I lived, at a certain period of the year, a masquerade festival was held. During the festival, masquerades would be all over the town chasing people with whips and little children would stand afar off and make fun of the masquerades so that the masquerades would react and pursue them. When these masquerades catch up with people, they beat them up terribly. One day, a masquerade chased somebody into our compound, and a neighbour of ours who cared less about the sacredness of masquerades just picked him up and slammed him on the ground, and unmasked him. Everybody was surprised to know that it was one lazy man in the vicinity called Sunday who under the guise of a masquerade was beating up people he could not withstand normally.
There are many mask-wearing problems like that in many lives. It is good to take the masks off them so that you can see exactly what you are fighting. You must take the mask off the spiritual face of the enemy and see the reality of what is exactly harassing you. It is not every problem that is caused by witches and wizards. Some things come from other sources too.
Somebody told me the story of some Red Indians living somewhere. These Red Indians noticed that people were dying in their midst on a daily basis. They thought their water gods were angry and offered some sacrifices to them but the death continued. Then they blamed it on the disunity amongst them, the white man’s attack on them, witches, and so many other things, but there was no solution until one day somebody took the mask off the problem. The mask was this: It was their tradition to use a particular blanket to cover people who died, so before a person was about to die they used the blanket to cover them. So the problem was the blanket.
We know that the devil is the active force behind all evils, we also know that the devil cannot be everywhere at the same time. He uses his agents.
The real enemies of many people are yet to be unmasked. Some people do not know why things are going wrong. They would say they have tried prayer, praises, fasting, confession, and deliverance, but the problem is still staring them in the face. It could be that there is a mask in place. The enemy can wear the face of a lion, a snake or a child. The mask is meant to conceal the identity. But when the mask is taken off, the actual identity may look big but the solution maybe easy. This is where we need to pray for divine revelation.
Balaam was supposed to be a prophet. He was harassed by the angel of the living God. He paid many useless visits. He tried to carry out his duties but failed and invited God’s anger upon himself. He might have complained that his problem was great but when you take the mask off the face of his problem, you find out that his problem was actually covetousness.
A woman noticed that men always jilted her after few months of courtship. She tried prayer, she tried washing her head in a red garment church, and she tried dressing more attractively by adding attractive colours, but all these did not work. She tried attending parties, and serving as an usher at such parties so that men would see her very well. That too didn’t work. Then she tried horoscopes, but it was not helpful. So, she got fed up with life and said she would commit suicide. One day, the mask was taken off and she found that the mask was anger. Meanwhile, all kinds of people have been blamed for her predicament. She had blamed her stepmother, her classmate, wicked witches flying at night, her stolen clothes, etc, but alas, the real thing was anger. Many times, people blame all kinds of things for their problems, while the actual cause remained untouched. That is exactly what the enemies want.
Many people find out that they are just wasting their prayer bullets because enemies have sold dummies to them and they are busy attacking the dummies. There are thousands of people in this category. God in His infinite wisdom has decided not to open the spiritual eyes of many people. Many times, they attack the fruit, leaves, branches, and stems of their problem trees, but the roots remain in place.
FUNCTION OF THE ROOTS IN PLANT
Physically, the root of the plant has so many functions which can be related to the root of a problem spiritually.
Because of the importance of the root, God’s method is to get to the root of a problem. When there is a problem before God, He starts treating it with a diagnosis- the root of the problem. When He gets to the root, He cuts it down with His axe of fire and after the cutting down, He throws it into the fire. He does not leave it there. After God has uprooted a tree (problem) He does not take the wood and begin to make furniture out of it.
However, if the root of a problem is not discovered, there would be trouble. When the root is discovered and you have the wrong axe like candles, charms, rings, waist bands, horoscopes, magic books, or other occult materials, the problem would still be remain intact because the wrong axe you are holding is also an enemy who will direct your axe against you and you won’t know.
There are many examples in the Bible of people who refused to go to the root of their problems. One of them was king Asa. The Bible tells us that king Asa did not seek God when he was sick, so he died. 2 Chronicles 16:12 – 14: “And Asa in the thirty and ninth year of his reign was diseased in his feet, until his disease was exceeding great: yet in his disease he sought not to the Lord, but to the physicians. And Asa slept with his fathers, and died in the one and fortieth year of his reign. And they buried him in his own sepulchres, which he had made for himself in the city of David, and laid him in the bed which was filled with sweet odours and divers kinds of spices prepared by the apothecaries’ art: and they made a very great burning for him.”
Sometimes, at funerals, the officiating priest would say, “The Lord has given and the Lord has taken, blessed be the name of the Lord,” when the Lord did not take anything. Most times it is household wickedness that took the person, or it could even be ordinary mosquitoes.
A certain brother had a problem and went to a place to pray. The “prophet” told him to stay behind the door, that he wanted to consult Angel Michael. The Brother said: “Are you saying that Angel Michael is inside that room? He said “Yes.” So, the man started to pray saying: “God of all ages, the supreme excellence, the great one, the one who can hear all voices, the one who has such a long hand as to remove his children from the pit, save your child from the pit by your eternal name, Amen.” Then he sang a chorus. The brother did not notice that in all the prayers rendered by the man and the chorus he sang, he avoided the name Jesus. Suddenly, the supposedly voice of Angel Michael began to speak saying: “My son, I know you. You are an engineer and God wants to help you.” The brother said, “Please, correct Angel Michael, I am not an engineer. In fact, I read commerce.” So as the man went inside, the brother picked his bag and ran away. That was how God saved him. If he had waited to find out the outcome, he would have needed deliverance. There is another man in 2 Kings 1:1-4: “Then Moab rebelled against Israel after the death of Ahab. And Ahaziah fell down through a lattice in his upper chamber that was in Samaria, and was sick: and he sent messengers, and he said unto them, Go, inquire of Baal-Zebub, the god of Ekron whether I shall recover of this disease. Now therefore thus saith the Lord, thou shalt not come down from that bed on which thou art gone up, but shall surely die.” That is an example of somebody who used the wrong axe.
When problem arises, some people would begin to say things like, “It is because I left my green-garment church,” “It is because when they said I should come and become a senior apostle, I said I was not qualified,” “It is because I left the religion of my forefathers, I must go back there,” “It is because I did not offer sacrifices.” “It is because my daddy did not pray for my husband and I when we got married.” What prayer would your father, a lodge member and your mother who married him as her 5th husband, pray for you? The prayer of a sinner, the Bible says, is an abomination unto God. The devil has kept many people busy chasing shadows and they will not look at the roots. He keeps some people busy with holy water, thereby prolonging depression in their lives, fornication without control, chronic fear, self-pity, hearing voices, inability to receive the Holy Spirit, sicknesses, financial insufficiency, unreasonable moods, etc. All these are evidences that there is a root that needs to be uprooted..
Some people cannot understand that their problems are stubborn because the problems started when they were one to three years of age. They were too young to be conscious of those things. Some people too are suffering from certain things that happened in their lives which they have forgotten, even though they were old enough to remember them. The devil makes people to forget things that happened to them because he has planted some evil things in their lives through those things. These things must be uprooted. If the earliest memory you have as a child is sad, it could affect your adult behaviour. If you were sexually abused as a child, it will affect your adult life and can become the root of so many problems. The problems maybe wearing another mask.
If anytime you pray aggressive prayer, you see the vision of yourself as a small girl or a small boy, going back to when you were younger, it means that at that age, something was planted.
Many people are being initiated into witchcraft and cults without their knowledge. Many people are surrounded by unfriendly friends who give them things to eat and then trouble starts. A lot of us have eaten things we should not have eaten.
Another place where the root of a person’s problems can be traced to is the kind of house the person lived when he was young. If you have negative, unhappy or bad feelings about the house or room where you were, know that something bad had been planted there. If in your dream you see yourself going back to where you lived before, it means that something went wrong with your life in that place. Maybe you had a school mother or school father when you were in school and now you see the person in the dream, there is a root there to deal with.
Photographs you took during your childhood that can no longer be located could be the root of the problem in your life. If you see the kind of wickedness that have been done with photographs, you will be shocked. This is why we advise women whose husbands are keeping strange women not to fight with the strange women. To fight with them is sheer waste of time because most of the time, their photographs have been demonically tied to those of the strange women and buried somewhere by demonic prophets. So no amount of fighting can deliver such men. They have been trapped through the photographs. So a person maybe facing problems now due to photographs manipulation.
Evil agents can take the photographs of young children and destroy their innocence through the photographs and certain things would begin to happen. This is the root of many people’s problems.
Another place where a root could be planted is rejection. As a child, did you feel that your brothers and sisters were receiving more attention than yourself? Did you feel that you were not loved like the other children? Was there ever a situation where you cried yourself to sleep or you sometimes felt like running away? Have you ever wondered why you were born? Have you felt like your parents never wanted you? There is a root planted.
A certain sister was having terrible problems. She prayed and tried all kinds of things. One day, she said, “Oh God, I am not sleeping tonight unless I know where I am going.” She prayed and suddenly, she saw a vision. She was in a labour room and could recognise her mother trying to give birth to a baby and as soon as her mother was delivered of the baby, she opened the legs of the baby to look at the sex. Immediately, she saw that she was a girl, she said, “Take this thing away from here.” Then the vision closed and the Lord said, “Your mother has placed a curse on you by calling you a ‘thing.’ She then knew what to focus her prayers on. It was then things started to happen.
Even now, a root could be planted in your life. There seems to be some powerful spirits attached to the ages of 21 and 40. When some people are getting to 40, life seems to fall apart. They lose control of so many things. Just as a lot of people get confused at the age of 21. So age can also be the root of a person’s problem.
There is another root called the spirit of depression. It is worse than witchcraft attack. Do you frequently wake up in the morning thinking that it is not even worth getting up from the bed? Do you have the feelings that your situation can never change? Is your life out of control? Do you often feel that there is nothing worth living for? Do you harbour suicidal thoughts? Do you experience hopelessness, sleeplessness, or loss of interest in life?
Another root is the spirit of anger. Anger is generally a reaction to that which displeases us. The question is, “Did God give you anger at birth?” If uncontrollable anger is your problem then you are worse than all the witches and wizards in Nigeria put together. Do you have a reputation for blowing up? Do you get angry at things and then later realise that it was not necessary?
Do you have to take sleeping tablets before you can sleep? Do you toss for hours before you go to sleep? If you attend our meetings at MFM and you pray our prayer the way it should be prayed, it is certain that sleeping can never be your problem. When you wake up from a bad dream, do you find it difficult to go back to sleep? Do you have a feeling that something bad is going to happen when night is coming? Do you overreact to every noise you hear at night? It is certain that if you have a bad night, and do not sleep well at night, you would have a bad day next day. When your sleep, that is your rest has been caged by the enemy, you will have sleepless nights.
There are so many other roots. If you come from a family of alcoholics, you will lead a meaningless life. Do you have any hidden evil urge within you? Are you having extra marital affairs? Are you interested in multiple marriage?
Beloved, you have to take off the mask and see what the problem is. There are some people called little mothers. These are women who become mothers at the tender age of 15 or 16. Have you aborted or asked somebody to do it? All these could be the root of so many things. Two things pursue anyone who aborts or has aborted: the demon of frustration and the spirit of abortion. Such people need deliverance.
HOW TO UNMASK PROBLEMS COMPLETELY
PRAYER POINTS
1. Every mask-wearing problem, be exposed, in Jesus’ name.
2. I refuse to direct my spiritual weapons on dummies, in the name of Jesus.
3. All my misfired arrows, go to the right target, in Jesus’ name.
4. Every evil spiritual front delegated against my life, be paralyzed, in the name of Jesus.
5. Every problem initiator and expander, be paralyzed, in the name of Jesus.
6. All quenchers of spiritual power, I render you impotent, in the name of Jesus.
7. Every material in my possession, carrying satanic power, be exposed, in the name of Jesus.
8. You stubborn pursuer, I command your ways to be slippery and I ask the Angel of God to pursue you, in Jesus’ name.
9. Satanic problems anchor, be roasted, in the name of Jesus.
10. I withdraw the food of my problem, I command the problem to starve to death, in the name of Jesus.
11. No reinforcement, and no regrouping for all the problems that have gone, in the name of Jesus.
12. You problem propagators and problem prolongers, be paralyzed, in the name of Jesus.
13. Every power touching the anointed, receive the sword of fire, in the name of Jesus.
14. Every spiritual parasite, I command you to die, in the name of Jesus.
15. Every root of problems, be axed, in the name of Jesus.
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Dr. D. K. Olukoya
Psalm 30: 3 says, “O Lord, thou hast brought up my soul from the grave: thou hast kept me alive that I should not go down to the pit.” In Psalm 49: 14 – 15, the Bible says, “Like sheep they are laid in the grave; death shall feed on them; and the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning; and their beauty shall consume in the grave from their dwelling. But God will redeem my soul from the power of the grave: for he shall receive me.”
At the MFM, we pray lots of prayer points. Some of these prayer points may sound strange to some people. But for those who understand the war going on in the spirit, they are familiar items. For example at MFM, we pray a lot about buried virtues. On three occasions, people have brought pots to me. The first person was a small girl several years ago. She was about 13 years old. Her daddy was having problems and I think he prayed very well. One day, she came with a pot wrapped inside a black nylon bag and insisted that I was the only person she would show the contents of the pot. She opened it and the first thing she said was, “Daddy is a dead handsome man.” I said, “I don’t understand what you mean by that. What is inside the pot?” I looked into it and saw three items: some hair strands, a piece of clothing that seemed to have been cut from a shirt and some fingernails. I asked her where the items came from and she said they were all from her daddy. She said, “Let me tell you what these things stand for. The hair is his glory, which we have buried. The piece of cloth, which was cut from his shirt, was used to introduce shame into his life because spiritually, when somebody removes your cloth, he is putting you to shame. The fingernails represent whatever he does with his hands. So, daddy is a dead handsome man. But if he will repent of the sin of anger and pray well, then he can be delivered.” I said, “What if we burn the pot now?” She said, “Yes, you can burn the pot now, but we can always find another pot.” At this juncture, I think you should pray like this: “Every satanic pot prepared against me, crumble in the name of Jesus.”
Beloved, these are practical things. A time will come when believers will only go to fellow believers to make their hair. People will get wise. Believers will no longer enter salons with names such as ‘Mermaid.’ They will look at the fingernails of hairdressers before they patronize them. Now, you see believers putting down their anointed head for demonic hairdressers because they must dress their hair even if it means their destruction.
The second pot was brought by three girls from one of the universities. When I asked them what was inside the pot, they laughed and said, “Man of God, it will be very awkward if we tell you the name, but you will understand.” I looked inside and found a white substance. I asked them what it was and they said, “Male seed,” i.e. sperm. I asked them how they got it and they said, “We collected it from some boys in our school and we have dealt with all of them.” I said, “But what have they done?” They said, “They jilted us. They were our boyfriends but they did not know that the three of us are powerful. They took us for granted so, we dealt with them.” I asked them what had become of those boys and they said two of them were dead and one was mad. I asked them what they wanted to do and they said, “We want to give our lives to Jesus. We are repenting.” This is the mystery of the gospel. Jesus will accept them and the one that was mad might still remain mad even after they have repented. This is why you and I must know that the best system of defense is to attack. If you are put in the boxing ring and told to fight, and you begin to say to your opponent, “Before we start, don’t touch my head, don’t touch my nose,” he would not listen to you because the fight has been declared. Our fight with the enemy has already been declared in the book of Genesis: “I would put enmity between you and the woman and between your seed and her seed” (Genesis 3: 15). Those girls gave their lives to Jesus, but meanwhile, two foolish boys were dead and one was mad.
The third time somebody brought a pot to me, it contained blood. “Where did this come from?” I asked him. He said, “I took it from some people.” I said, “But why?” He said, “Because I want to finish them.”
THE POWER OF THE GRAVE
When things have been collected and buried, there is trouble unless you understand how to withdraw what has been buried. That is why the Psalmist talked about deliverance from the grave. He also talked about the power of the grave. The grave has some powers which are behind certain things people call difficult cases.
What Are Difficult Cases?
Difficult cases are situations where the evil pipe through which a problem is being fed has not been demolished. Then you say it is difficult.
A difficult problem is a problem where all the secrets behind it are not known. And because of that ignorance, the enemy keeps rejoicing.
A problem is difficult when it is linked to multiple curses or multiple bondages. For example, somebody locked someone up and you asked him or her to unlock the fellow and he or she did. You then ask if the person is now free and he or she said, “No, because we used 14 padlocks on the person.” It means that if such a person who was locked up came to a prayer meeting and prayed for one hour and broke only two, it would remain twelve. And at the same time, he or she could pray and all fourteen would break at one operation. That is possible. So, once a situation has a lot of covenants formed against it, it looks difficult because there are so many chains tying it down. Some people live with angry parents who curse people easily. For example, on Monday, they would call you an idiot, the devil records it. On Tuesday, they call you a zombie, the devil writes it down, the third day, they say, “Your head is not correct,” the devil writes it down, fourth day: “God will punish you,” the devil notes it down. In a month, some children accumulate a minimum of 30 curses. In a year, they would accumulate 360 or 365 on their heads. Such people may come to a revival meeting, pray and remove 200. There would still be 160 left. Their situation will look difficult because there are many curses issued against them. Some of the poorest people I have ever found in my life are the gate men of primary schools. As these children go in or come out, they issue curses on them everyday. And some of these children are not normal. So these gatemen accumulate about 100 curses per day and by the time they spend a month, they have accumulated 3000, poor men. Generally these gatemen live in places where even the shortest of men have to bow down before they can enter. And whenever there is rain, there would be problem. Their cases are normally difficult because of the enormity of the curses they accumulated over the years. That is separate from what their wives and other people issue on them at home.
A difficult case is one that has been circulated in four worlds. What are the four worlds?
When somebody’s case has been taken to these four places, the person would have things to break in four places. Then it looks very difficult.
Man was formed out of the dust of the ground. The Bible tells us that in Genesis 2: 7. Also animals and plants were formed from the ground (Genesis 2:19). But later, God cursed the ground (Genesis 3). You discover too that all the elements in the body of man can be found in the soil. That is why the Bible says in Philippians 2:10 that at the name of Jesus, every knee should bow, of things in heaven, of things on earth and of things under the earth. So, it follows that most of the things we see now around us are underneath the ground. The only major thing that comes from heaven is the spirit, which is inside a man. Wood, iron, clothes, steel, etc. come from the ground. In John 3: 31, Jesus says, “He that cometh from above: is above all, he that is of the earth is earthly, and speaketh of the earth: he that cometh from heaven is above all.” Therefore, there are certain things that come from the earth and certain things that come from heaven. I Corinthians 15: 47 –48: “The first man is of the earth, earthy: the second man is the Lord from heaven. As is the earthy, such are they also that are earthy: and as is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly.”
The Bible sometimes addresses the ground as a person because there are spirits within it which it refers to as the powers of the grave. In Numbers 16, Moses said, “O God, if you would do a new thing and let the ground open and swallow.” What happened? The ground heard what Moses said and opened up. So, there are powers within the earth we call the powers of the grave. A knowledgeable black man understands this very well, much more than a white man. For example, blacks pour libation on the ground to demons of the ground. This is why evil people remove sand from underneath people’s feet and use it against them. It is also the same reason herbalists pay homage to the ground. Some people swear by the earth and use the soil as charm. Some people inquire their future from the earth by pressing sands. It is these spirits from the grave that answer them. They believe in the power of the earth. When I was a small boy, my school was close to a burial ground. So we were warned that whenever we saw unusually short creatures on our way to school, we should take some sand and pour it on them and they would disappear. I never saw one. But my friends used to say they saw them and poured sand on them and they disappeared. Why do you have to pour sand on them? It is because they are powers from the earth.
In a church I used to attend, we had a very unusual pastor. Unusual in the sense that five minutes into a prayer meeting, he would start sweating because he prayed aggressively unlike the one before him who would call prayer points and sit down to pray. One day, I sat at the back and suddenly, the pastor ran to the back as a woman came in, dancing and clapping with a baby strapped at her back. The pastor looked at her and in anger, said to her, “Turn over. Why should you come to the house of God walking on your head?” I did not see her walking on her head. I saw her standing straight and carrying a baby and dancing. But the woman knew that the pastor could see what she really was. She said, “Sorry sir,” and entered the church. Why was she walking upside down? She was communicating with these powers underneath the earth. During one Power Must Change Hands programme, somebody was caught trying to pack sand from the church premises. He was asked what he wanted to do with it and he said, he wanted to go and use it so that people would be coming to his own church in large numbers. We told him that he would have made a mistake because it would have meant him pouring liquid fire there and causing more problem for himself. Also, there was a certain man who was told to come and bury charms in MFM and he accepted. All he did was to accept. He had not even come when trouble started until he was brought to the same MFM.
WITCHCRAFT BURIAL
In a nutshell, every goodness of man has a spiritual representative and once this spiritual representative is caged, trapped, buried or imprisoned in the graveyard, that is the end.
In Matthew 10, Jesus gave His disciples matching orders. Verse 8 says, “Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out devils: freely ye have received, freely give.” So when you go to a prophet and he asks you for money, you should know immediately that he did not receive his power from Jesus because Jesus says, “Freely ye receive, freely give.” Verse 11 says, “And into whatsoever city ye shall enter, inquire who in it is worthy; and there abide till you go thence. And when you come into an house, salute it. And if the house be worthy, let your peace come upon it: but if it be not worthy, let your peace return to you.” It means that peace is an entity that can be transferred, given out or withdrawn. It is like that for everything, whether it is money, husband, wife, children, etc. They can be captured and buried spiritually. So, although they are around, they will not be available. You must recognize as a reality the fact that once a matter is settled spiritually, the physical has no option but to toe the line of the spiritual. When something has been buried or in other words, put in the grave, the thing is said to be committed to mother earth. Whatever happens, anything that is buried is not easily available again. That is why we talk about witchcraft burial. When witchcraft powers bury a person’s clock, they deal with his time. The person will become a vagabond moving about without direction. If they bury the person’s purse, his finances will be in trouble. If they bury the person’s wedding ring, problem would start with the person’s marriage. They take significant things like that. I have seen cases, when on a wedding morning, a bride ran to the man of God and said that she could not find her right shoes. It had been stolen. What were they going to do with it? They would bury it.
There are satanic agents who call people’s names into materials and bury them. Sometime ago, a lady led some people and I to a place where she dug out the picture of a wedding. She said, “Will God forgive me now that I have given it to you?” I asked her what she did to the couple and she said, “We separated them. The wife is in South Africa while the husband is in Russia.” People construct artificial coffins for people and speak words against them to the coffins or put materials from them into the coffins and bury them. The people then become walking corpses. When this happens, hospitals become useless to you.
Many years ago, in my former church, we got to church one morning and found a big charm inside the church. Some people saw it and ran away. But thank God there were some people there who understood what they believed. They took the thing up and said, “Holy Spirit, look at this useless material that was dropped here. We would have destroyed it and kept quiet, but let us teach those who dropped it some lessons. Therefore, let the angels of the living God take the charm and conduct a reverse burial.” Shortly after, those who buried it surfaced when they could no longer bear the fire. If as you are reading this message, you know that you have buried things on the instructions of a herbalist, witchdoctor or fake prophet, you might have done it in ignorance but the devil knew what he was doing. You might have been tricked into burying things that belonged to you with your own hands. Perhaps, it was a cow or some other materials. What they did was that the night before you buried the cow or whatever, they came and smuggled your virtue inside the animal and then you buried it with your hands. So they were free because you buried it with your own hands. Some people organize parties where they distribute demonic foods to many people and things will start happening after they have eaten them. I saw wickedness of the highest order when somebody who had almost N10 million in the bank was asked to borrow money from people and bury it in order to bury their finances and add them to his own.
A certain brother was led to the grave in his dream by an angel. The angel struck the grave and shouted the name of someone the brother knew three times and the person came out. The brother withdrew his blessing from the person and that was the end of his problem. It means that even if the person that stole your blessings from you or did evil to you is dead, you can still withdraw your blessing from him or her.
Nothing will work for someone whose virtues are detained by the grave as far as the person is walking on the earth. Things will only work if the person flies in the sky. But as far as his legs make contact with mother earth, nothing will work
There are many things that a lot of believers do not understand that is why the Bible says that the children of this world are wiser in their own ways. There are so many things that are not clear to believers but people of the dark kingdom understand them very well. That is why the Bible says, “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.” Many people in Nigeria are just carrying Bible and watching American videos. They say, “We don’t have to pray as hard as this. We don’t believe in this kind of hard prayer.” The problem with such people is that they have been caged. They are not the ones talking. Something is operating demonic logic through them. Without aggressive prayers, you cannot harass these powers. They just stay there and expand.
WHO ARE THOSE DETAINED BY THE POWER OF THE GRAVE?
It is because of this that Jesus had to go into the lower parts of the earth. Ephesians 4: 8 –9 says, “Wherefore he saith, When he ascended up on high, he led captivity captive and gave gifts unto men. (Now that he ascended, what is it but that he also descended first into the lower parts of the earth? He that descended is the same that ascended up far above all heavens, that he might fill all things.” Why did He have to go there? He had to go there because a lot of good things had been buried there. Jesus had to go and set the captives free. He preached to the spirits that were in prison under the earth. That is why one of my favorite passages in the Bible is Revelation 1: 8. It says, “I am he that liveth and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death.” He has given us that same authority. Only the resurrection power of the Lord Jesus Christ can command the materials seized by the spirits in the grave to come forth like Lazarus and they shall come walking out. Beloved, why don’t you ask for this power to come upon your life?
PRAYER POINTS
All the camps of my enemies, receive boiling confusion, in the name of Jesus.
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Dr. D. K. Olukoya
The first question to ask is who is the last enemy? I Corinthians 15: 26 says, “The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.” The second question is, who are the strange children? Psalm 144:7 says, “Send thine hand from above; ride me, and deliver me out of great waters, from the hand of strange children.” This is the psalmist praying his usual warfare prayers. Verse 11 says, “Rid me, and deliver me from the hand of strange children, whose mouth speaketh vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood.”
THE GREATEST FEAR OF MAN
The greatest fear of man is the fear of death. The fear of death does a lot of things to people. Hebrews 2:15 says, “And deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.” So the fear of death can put a person in bondage forever. When you see men running away from dangerous animals it is out of the fear of death. If you see people avoiding lunatics in the streets, it is out of the fear of death.
If you see people being careful with electricity, roaming about herbalists houses for protective charms or hanging charms in their cars, it is out of the fear of death. The major reason people join cults, lodges or go into all kinds of occult things is the fear of death. Unfortunately, even many Christians are under the grip of the fear of death. There are many pastors and ministers of God who are afraid of death. Beloved, one of the reason many people die before their time is fear. Once the fear of death grips a person, he would sometimes behave like a mad man. When the fear of death grips a person, he would open doors to several other things. These things know that they cannot kill you. They just come to see if they can instill fear in you and if you allow the fear to grip your heart, then you open the door through which they can operate. It is when the first strange child grabs a person that the other strange children would move in.
This is what the last enemy does. He wants to remove your attention from God.
CEMETERY OF FAITH
Fear would paralyse your faith. Fear would bury your spiritual growth. Not only that, it would distribute your home address to other strange children such as discouragement, sickness, etc.
FEAR OF DEATH
The fear of death does not recognise any academic qualification. In fact, the most fearful people are those who are well-read. Death has another evil and strange child. I Corinthians 15:54 says, “So when this corruptible shall put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.” After that exhortation the next verse says, “O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?” Then verse 56 says, “The sting of death is sin…”
THE STING OF DEATH
Another strange child of death is the sting of death. If you refuse to play with the strange child of death which is sin, it cannot sting you.
THE MYSTERY OF INIQUITY
The Bible talks about the mystery of iniquity. Somebody knows that what he is doing would hurt him. He knows that the thing is bad. After the thing has harmed him he says, “I won’t do it again.” But the next moment he is on it again. That is the mystery of iniquity. For example, a man drinks alcohol to drown his sorrow and when he wakes up in the morning, he develops head-ache and suffers from indigestion. He cannot go to work. He has what you call hangover. Then, he says, “I am not going to drink again.” But behold, as he passes by the street, somebody invites him for a drink and a chat. He goes in again and starts the same thing that almost destroyed him. That is the mystery of iniquity. Or somebody knows that something has been telling him or her that his or her patience as a husband or as a wife is not good enough. So he or she takes a quality decision not to get angry again or allow himself or herself to say harsh words. But after sometime, the same thing starts again. That is the mystery of iniquity.
Sin is a sting of death and the wages of sin is death. Sin is the greatest instrument of death. A sinner dies but for the saint, God calls him home. Once you are born again, you have given your life to the Lord, you become a saint. For the Christian, death is a special sleep or rest.
WHAT IS THE ORIGIN OF DEATH?
Death was tied to a tree in the Garden of Eden. Genesis 2:17 says, “But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it; for in the day that thou eatest thereof, thou shalt surely die.” This was man’s first introduction to the word death. Therefore, by simple implication, man was meant to live forever. So, the word, death came from disobedience. Romans 5:12 says, “Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin, and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned.” So death came into the world through Adam’s disobedience to God’s word. God’s pronouncement then came upon him: “Dust thou art and unto the dust thou shalt return”. So the devil is the author of sin in the universe. He gave a share of the sin to Adam. Since satan is the author of sin and sin then brought death, satan became the controller of death.
Although God has the overruling power to say yes or no, satan controls death through his department of death. And I tell you something, my name is not in that department. Hebrews 2:14 says, “For as much then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is the devil.” Man through disobedience has given the devil ample opportunity to kill him like house flies and this he does through the department of death. Lecturers in that department include sickness, accident, murder through magic, suicide and poisoning. Therefore, another strange child of the last enemy is sickness or the spirit of infirmity. They sometimes render medical science powerless. The spirit of infirmity could sometimes hide in a person’s life and rapidly kill the person at a time of spiritual weakness. So, sickness is another strange child.
ACCIDENT PRODUCERS
Another strange children are accident producers. These are strange powers that manipulate vehicles and drivers to cause accidents. They would confuse the driver and distract his attention. They would cause mechanical faults. They make motorists to drive under the influence of alcohol. They attack drivers and pilots, blocking their visions and thereby cause all kinds of problems. So believers should not travel without prayers. Believers don’t just jump into vehicles and start going.
Another strange children are drinkers of blood and eaters of flesh. There may be conscious or unconscious wizards in your vehicle which would kill the careless and the unprotected. They also use idols to kill people. They use candles and pressing of sand to eliminate people. They dig into a person’s background to see the doors through which they can enter.
This is why we must send God’s fire to the root of our lives. We need to pull down what I call foundational demonic stronghold. When a demonic foundation has been built in a life, even before the person was born, a palace has been built in the person’s life. When the person gets born again, the enemy will confront him. If the enemy checks a person through and sees nothing, he will check the mother and father. He digs deep into a person’s background.
When you pray that all these foundational demonic strongholds should be pulled down, they would be pulled down. They won’t have any place to hide.
Another strange child is the spirit of murder. This spirit instigates murder in cold blood. Sometimes people just kill others senselessly. When you ask them why they do it, they would say, “One voice told me to do it.”
Another strange child is the spirit of suicide. Many people hear voices asking them to kill themselves. The devil would engineer a problem which he knows will eventually get a solution, but he makes it to look like a giant so that the victim would say, “I will kill myself.” Some swallow poison because they want to die. If you have ever made such an attempt on your life, you need special prayer urgently.
THE CURSE OF FAMILY DESTRUCTION
Another strange child is the curse of family destruction. You will find that members of some families die in horrible and mysterious ways. The spirit enters a family and kills each member before he or she is 40. It is the spirit of family destruction. It kills according to certain patterns. In some families the members will first run mad or sometimes it is only the males that are affected.
I know a family of four girls and three boys. The four girls got together and through witchcraft powers ate the three boys. The child causes health problems that would defy medical solutions, and in some cases chooses some age groups. This is the strange child of the last enemy.
ANTI -DELIVERY SPIRIT
Another strange child is the anti-delivery spirit affecting pregnant women. It causes problems for women during pregnancy and during child birth. Sometimes it gives rises to long and tormenting labour. Sometimes it involves abnormalities in the exit of the baby from the womb. Sometimes it leads to excessive bleeding during labour. The Bible does not say that believers should die during childbirth. In fact, it says in I Timothy 2:15: “Notwithstanding she shall be saved in child bearing if they continue in faith and charity and holiness with sobriety.”
CONDITIONS UNDER WHICH A CHRISTIAN MAY DIE
Not only that, godly men and women always have their youth renewed. Psalm 103:5 says, “Who satisfieth thy mouth with good things; so that thy youth is renewed like the eagles.” As a Christian you should be looking younger not older. And if some people would stop worrying their souls and stop being afraid, they would look younger. If some people would stop getting angry, they would look younger. And if some people can smile often rather than screwing up their faces all the time they would look younger. If some people can do more fasting and prayer, they will look younger. Fasting does not make people to age, it makes them look younger. Sometimes when we say, “Hold seven days dry fast,” some people would say, “What?” I told a nurse to do three days dry fast and she said that there would be no supply of sugar to her brain. Look at Moses, he was always in the presence of God. Deuteronomy 31:7 says, “And Moses called unto Joshua, and said to him in the sight of all Israel, Be strong and of a good courage: for thou must go with this people unto the land which the Lord hath sworn unto their fathers to give them; and thou shalt cause them to inherit it.” Moses handed over to Joshua. Deuteronomy 34:7 says, “Moses was a hundred and twenty years old when he died: his eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated.” Then Joshua 14:10-12 : “And now, behold, the Lord hath kept me alive, as he said, these forty and five years, even since the Lord spake this word unto Moses, while the children of Israel wandered in the wilderness; and now, lo, I am this day fourscore and five years old. As yet I am as strong this day as I was in the day that Moses sent me: as my strength was then, even so is my strength now, for war, both to go out, and to come in. Now, therefore give me this mountain…” So, as long as you ask, claim and believe the promises of God, nothing can snatch you away before your time. That is the basic Bible truth.
THE EMPTIERS
The emptier is somebody that would allow you fill a cup to a stage and then pours it away. You will go through the trouble, gather the money, gather everything without any problem but when you get to a stage everything is poured away.
When a Christian is just going to church and does not know all these things he is wasting his time. If all he knows to do is to sit down and sing canticles and psalms, and does not have the correct knowledge of what to do, there would be problem. If all you know is reading psalms and you are still unrepentant, and you are reading the psalms with anger and bitterness in your heart, it won’t work. A believer who goes to church but does not know how to apply the blood of Jesus lacks vital knowledge which may eventually lead to death.
The last enemy of man called death is seen by many as very irrational. It does not make sense to many of us that it kills babies and teenagers, that it kills people at the prime of their lives, that it would remove the only bread winner from a family and leave all the poor people around, that it would render children orphans. Why? It is because it is not under the control of God although God has the final yes or no. The spirit of death tried to kill Shadrach, Meshack and Abednego but God said no. So, it could not kill them. It tried to kill Daniel. Its agent made sufficient attempt. Those who threw him into the lion’s den definitely wanted to kill him but God said no. But if Daniel lacked knowledge, he would have died. Many of the present-day believers in his shoes would have been eaten up by the lions within the first five minutes, because fear would have killed them even before they got there. Imagine somebody going to pray for a sick person in the hospital and is already shaking at the door. How would he pray?
I want you to listen to this basic truth. Death did not overcome Jesus, He laid down His life. The passage we read in Corinthians says that death is swallowed up in victory. Revelation 1:18 says, “I am he that liveth and was dead, behold, I am alive for ever more. Amen. And have the keys of hell and of death.” Therefore believers should not fear death because their Master is holding the key. And believers should not blame God for any death because the devil also kills people. A believer must take a quality decision because if you want to die the death of the righteous, you must also live the life of the righteous. A believer must also recognise that some people’s death are useless before God. Psalm 116:15 says, “Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his saints.” So, some deaths are useless before the Lord but the death of His saints are precious in his sight. Therefore, to be afraid of death is to demonstrate that your salvation is questionable.
How do you recognise that you are in the grip of death and her strange children?
You can determine by asking yourself some questions:
Do I experience constant fear? If the answer is yes, you are in the grip of fear and must be loosed. Do I feel lifeless sometimes and get sick of living? If the answer is yes, you need to pray How long do the members of your family live? At what age did your father and mother die? Your uncles, how old were they? If you find that they were cut off at the prime of their lives you need to pray. If you take it for granted, it just stays there. Do you have a family shrine or a family altar? If you do, you have to pray seriously. They might have donated you to it and at the appropriate time it wants to eat you, you will die. And if there is no discernment of spirits, you will not even know what to pray about.
Have you ever participated in a sacrifice to demon or ritual before? You may actually be killing yourself when you are slaughtering that ram for sacrifice so you have to pray seriously. Do you have any sickness that defies medical diagnosis? Then you really need to pray. Have you undergone surgical operation more than once? Then you should pray seriously.
Have you ever been addressed as the re-incarnation of somebody? Are you respected and called honourable names because it is believed that you were somebody before? Then you really need to pray very hard. Or does your own father prostrate for you simply because he feels you are his mother that died? Have you ever been involved with somebody who asked you to bring certain things and dress and he took you to the forest where you undressed and he took the fine clothes away while you put on something else. And he says, “Today you have said bye bye to death. You no longer have familiar spirit.
The Bible says, “In the name of Jesus, you shall cast out demons.” It does not say you would do so by buying fine clothes and dropping it in the forest. If you have experienced such a thing, you are probably in the grip of a strange child, and you need to release yourself.
Have you ever used charms to protect your life, or you have a blessed picture, or used blessed soap, sponge, cream or perfume? You need to pray. You are probably in the grip of something. Were you terribly sickly when you were very young and they carried you all over the place and eventually they took you to a place where they said okay, “We shall preserve his or her life?” You need to pray. Have you ever been in a fattening room because you want to get married? Do you see things that other people don’t see? Do you hear voices that others don’t hear or you perceive some odours that others don’t perceive? You need to pray.
Are you the kind of person that can be described as being very stubborn? The problem with stubborn people is that they die suddenly, just like Pharaoh. Are you addicted to alcohol, tobacco and sex? Then you need to pray. Are you the kind who always experience terrible menstrual period and you have tried medicine to no avail and doctors have advised you to keep boyfriends? You need to pray. Do you experience sleepless nights? Do you experience dizziness often? Then you need to pray. Are you getting leaner and leaner in spite of the fact that you are the greatest eater in your family? Do you get moody and angry without any cause? Do you have unnatural heat or something moving all over your body? If such a thing is there, do you want to wait until it gets to your heart and grips it?
Do you discuss with voices within you and you know that the voices are not the voice of the Holy Spirit? Do you sometimes sense an invisible presence of evil when you are alone? Or do they press you down on your bed? Are you the kind who wake up in the morning with scratches and incisions on your body? Have you ever dreamt of discussing with dead relatives and eating with them? If your answer to some of these questions is yes, the truth is that you are under the grip of either the spirit of death itself or its strange children. And whether you like it or not you shall be released, in Jesus’ name.
If you have any sickness, I don’t see why you will continue with it after reading this message unless you are not serious. The Bible says that whosoever asks receives. If you keep quiet and make no request, or you are playing the gentle man before the enemy, may God have mercy on you.
PRAYER POINTS
5. O Lord, lay your mighty hand upon me now, in Jesus’ name.
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Psalm 74:20: “Have respect unto the covenant: for the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty.” This means that there are places on earth that are dark and the Bible recognizes them. The only place on earth that light shines is the church of God. The Bible says, “Ye are the light of the world.” What is done at the dark places of the earth are wickedness and cruelty. It is from the dark places that wicked stones are thrown at the sons of men. In those places, there are no friends, even if you said that you belonged to them, they are still your enemies.
Somebody vomits witchcraft into a woman and pushes her to the market place to confess that she is a witch. The old woman goes to the market and says, “Behold, I have eaten twins and their legs are in my mouth.” And people at the market said, “Abomination.” The same person who put witchcraft into her and sent her to the market place to confess tells his children to pick up stones and stone the woman.
It is a useless activity to serve the devil. If you call yourself a witch, wizard or familiar spirit, you are wasting your life and at the end of the day, you will land in hell. So, it is a senseless thing to do. It is a certificate of destiny demotion. Think about it.
If you are to be a battle-axe for the Lord, you will face a lot of problems. The Bible says that they those who want to live a godly life in Christ Jesus must suffer persecutions. If you do not want to be a battle axe for the Lord, if you just want to be a mediocre Christian, if you want to warm the benches and be quarrelling with people who sit beside you or even fight people at the car parks to the extent of tearing their clothes, and at the end you say, “amen,” no problem. But know that at the end of the day, you will go to hell fire, the home of unprofitable servants.
Personally, I have faced many problems in my life, but I overcame them all. You cannot become God’s general without confronting adversity and afflictions. You cannot become a world general without fighting any war. Afflictions and adversity have no friends. Adversity is that unwanted enemy who continues to knock at our door in the middle of the night calling us again and again to come and fight.
Somebody was tired of reading stories in the newspapers, which he called bad news. So, he decided to publish his own newspaper to carry only “good news.” But to his amazement, people were not buying it and within a short time the newspaper folded up.
The news media, you would find out, specialized in publishing pains and adversity. They know that people are ready to read them, to feed themselves on negative sensational painful news. For example, the caption, “Girl burns herself to death after she was jilted by a boyfriend,” will attract the attention of many people. But a headline such as, “Man celebrates 90th birthday,” would not have such an effect. Many people would say, “Eh, this one should die and go.” The devil is cleverly feeding the whole world with the negatives. If you want to run an advert that will attract the attention of many people, just put a naked woman in it and you would succeed. The message will sink in their brain because the devil has programmed women like that.
However, in spite of the adversities, we have a promise that we are conquerors. Isaiah 54:17: “No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper, and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This is the heritage of the servant of the Lord and their righteousness is of me, saith the Lord.” It does not matter what the weapon is, the Bible says that the prosperity of the weapon shall be withdrawn completely.
Proverbs 28:10: “Whoso causeth the righteous to go astray in an evil way, he shall fall himself into his own pit, but the upright shall have good things in possession.” What the Bible means here is that the enemy will fall into his own pit. Proverbs 26:27: “Whoso diggeth a pit shall fall therein and he that rolleth a stone, it will return upon him.” There is something called boomerang. It is a small stick, when you throw it at a person and it misses its target, it will come back to you who threw it. Proverbs 11:8: “The righteous is delivered out of trouble, and the wicked cometh in his stead.” Ecclesiastes 10:8: “He that diggeth a pit shall fall into it and whoso breaketh an hedge, a serpent shall bite him.”
Some of us are wasting time crying, worrying our brain and calling God a liar. If you study the Bible very well, you will discover one of the principles of the power of God. That principle says, “The weapon formed against the people of God falls back on those who set the force in motion.” Sometime ago, I was praying with a certain sister. Everything was upside down for her. As I was praying, a woman appeared and said, “What is your business in this matter? Why? Is this person your sister? Do you know her before? Why are you wasting your time? Leave her alone. We have not come here to cause trouble. So, you too, don’t cause trouble. Just stop this prayer and let her go.” I continued the prayer and told the sister what I saw. Thereafter, she went home and the following week somebody died. It was the woman that appeared to me while I was praying for her.
The weapons formed against the people of God often fall back on those who form them. I can give you various testimonies on that. When I was an undergraduate we were going to have an examination on Chemistry. I had two note books on that course. Life was not as easy as it is now. In those days, examinations were taken more seriously than is the case now. At the end of the year, you would be tested on all you were taught throughout the year. If you fail, you will repeat the class. It was unlike now, that questions are broken into pieces and people are still failing, or they claim to be sick when the examination time draws close. All examinations were done in June. Somebody stole one of my note books, the one I needed most and no student agreed to give me his note book. I went home very sad, but I heard a voice from the Holy Spirit saying, “You still have one note book, don’t you remember?” I said, “Yes.” The voice said, “Read that one.” It didn’t take me up to two hours to read the notebook l had with me but I was still worried about the stolen one, until I got to the examination hall. There was not a question from the big notebook that was stolen. So, all the person who stole it did for me was to allow me to concentrate on where the questions would come from, and I am sure he would have wasted his time studying the notebook that he stole and eventually he would have failed.
Somebody, who was very close to me and has gone to be with the Lord now, was sitting in his sitting room and one day, without knocking at the door, a demon-idol entered. Such a thing may be strange to some people, but in some places it is a normal fighting spirit seen often. This demon-idol walked up to this man and called him by his full names, including the ones nobody usually called him. It said, “I have been sent to you.” And before this man could move, the idol struck his right hand with the big stick in its hand and the hand became paralyzed instantly. The idol walked out slowly and disappeared. Such spirits are never in a hurry. The man was a child of God but did not have enough knowledge. So, all he could do was to grab a bottle of water by his side prayed on it and poured it on his hand and the hand became normal again. The demon-idol came back another time because the first time it came, the man did not deal with it thoroughly. It was allowed the second chance to fight.
The case of one sister was different. The enemy sent a similar demon to her but as it announced its name and said, “I have been sent to beat you,” the sister said, “Are you sure you are at the right address? I command you to stand at attention, in Jesus’ name.” The thing stood attention and the sister said, “Take your big stick and begin to beat yourself according to what is written in the Bible that “no weapon formed against me shall prosper but it shall prosper in the camp of the enemy.” The demon-idol beat itself until it smashed its head and disappeared. After that five people died in the sister’s village, including the chief priest, and they never sent another demon-idol to her. What I am saying is that what shall be your deliverance shall bring doom to your enemies. That is God’s principle. The same Red Sea which brought deliverance to the Israelites, brought destruction to the Egyptians. The pillar of fire which gave light to the Israelites gave darkness to the Egyptians. The night which brought deliverance and joy to the children of Israel also brought lamentation and tragedy to Egypt. The den of lions through which Daniel moved into promotion brought disgraceful termination of his opponents.
Say this loud and clear, “My problem shall become my promotion, in the name of Jesus.”
The fiery furnace which was air-conditioner for Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego killed those who threw them into the furnace. Glory be to the name of the Lord. That which is life to you will kill your enemy. The sword with which Goliath meant to cut off the head of David was eventually used to cut off his own head. All the credentials of Goliath did not scare David. In fact, looking at him, David was not impressed. David said, “For who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that he should defy the armies of the living God?” The same force that the enemy has created to destroy will as a matter of necessity destroy the enemy. The arrow fired by Joseph’s brethren got back to them even though it took a long time, in 15 years Joseph sold into slavery and expected to have been dead became their lord.
As somebody uses his biro and paper to deal with you, the same biro and paper shall deal with him. The Syrian soldiers who came to Dothan to take Elisha were the ones taken captive. The Bible tells us that the wicked are always firing stones and arrows at the righteous but glory be to God that all the stones and arrows can be forced to go back to them.
The Bible talks about the fiery darts of the enemy. The spiritual world is fashioned in such a way that once a bad thing has been initiated there, it must happen to somebody. It is the same thing with God. Isaiah 55:11: “So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth; it shall not return unto me void, but is shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereunto I sent it.” If God says that somebody should go and receive blessing at a service and the person happens not to come to church, or he is sleeping, that blessing will not go back to God, it will look for somebody else and give it to him. When the enemy programmes death into a child of God, God will do a simple substitution, the righteous is removed from trouble and the wicked is used as a replacement.
MANY THINGS FIRED AT CHRISTIANS THESE DAYS INCLUDE:
THE GREATEST SPIRITUAL SPY
The greatest spiritual spy that reports us to the camp of the enemy is fear. Fear reveals our strength and weakness to the enemy. The Bible says in 2 Timothy 1:7, “For God hath not given us the spirit of fear, but of power, of love and of a sound mind.” A believer should be free from fear at all times and under all circumstances. When fear occupies your heart, you make yourself a subject of arrows and stones of the enemy. The enemy, with the help of his scanning machine, would see fear in you and know that all the prayer points you are calling are out of the heart of fear. That spirit of fear will show itself. That is why it is often said that the most common demon in the whole world is fear.
ARROWS OF THE LATTER DAYS
Many weapons and arrows are used against people these days. Some people are choked on their beds and they find it difficult to breath. Some people hear voices asking them to do strange things. The kind of sin they did not commit before they became born-again would become easy for them because the strange voice urges them to do it.
It is like a sister who on her bed suddenly heard, “Daughter, rise up,” and she got up naked at midnight. Her husband and the children did not wake up. She passed through the sitting room and walked into the street. However, as she was going, she suddenly heard another voice which said, “But the daughter of God does not run mad, go back home.” It was then that her eyes cleared, she saw that she was in the street and she went back home. When she entered, she woke her husband up and told him what happened and he could not believe that she walked out naked. But she actually did.
Some people hear voices from the spirit world. Many just pray short prayers and sleep. You should be giving testimonies if you know what some people face everyday. It could be the arrow of sudden depression. When it comes upon a happy person, all of a sudden the joy of the Lord disappears. It could be a paralytic wind. We have people blown by that wind who come for deliverance. They could be in front of their houses and a small breeze blows upon them and they just suffer paralysis. Until that evil wind comes out, they will remain paralysed. It could be a cold chill at night. The room could be hot and all of a sudden becomes cold and before you know it, the heat clears away. It is the stone pf the wicked. It could be a heavy head. It could be things moving all over the body. These are arrows of the latter days. Somebody could be eating food and all of a sudden he sees a strange item in the food which could be a very big insect or a cockroach.
When weapons are set in motion against the children of God, as a matter of necessity the weapons fall back upon the forces that set them in motion. People’s hair or part of their body could be cut off. Spiritual or physical snakes could be sent to somebody, these are wicked arrows. A sister working in an office gave a testimony. Somebody told her that if she got promoted to a particular post she would not live to enjoy it. She thought it was a joke. One morning, as she was drinking tea, she perceived something cold on her legs and by the time she looked, it was a big snake. She called in her messenger, who was a huge and strong man. When he entered and saw the serpent already winding around her legs, he ran out and at that stage the woman knew that she was on her own. Then she prayed one prayer point: “You evil serpent, be electrocuted, in Jesus’ name.” As she prayed it, suddenly she saw fear in the snake which shortly stretched out and died. If that sister did not know what to do, she would have died and be forgotten now. It could be heat in the head. Do not take it lightly and say that it will go. Even if it would go, deal with it first. There is no harm in doing that.
Feeding people in the dream with what they would not ordinarily eat is also a wicked stone. Women having affairs with men in the dream is an arrow of the wicked. Receiving emergency false message from home, that somebody is dying, only to be told on your getting there that nobody is dying and they tell you that they have not seen you for a very long time and it is the only method they can bring you home, is an arrow of the wicked. You need to pray against it.
When a person begins to see coffin in the dream, it signifies the spirit of death. The enemies are sending the person to the grave. You really need to pray seriously if you have that kind of dream. When anything at all comes upon you and you want to shout for help to Jesus in your dream and you cannot shout, or you are not able to pray or fight against the thing, it is a wicked stone. Anything that does not allow you to have the consciousness to shout Jesus when you are under satanic attack in a dream is a wicked stone. It must go back to the sender. Some people dream and see themselves picking eggs in the dream and eating them. The meaning of that is that they are putting incurable diseases in their body. Such people really need to stand up and do something quick. If you dream of flood carrying away your property, send back the flood to where it came from. If somebody sees herself doing wedding with a strange person in the dream, she needs to destroy that church where she found herself and send fire to the bridegroom or bride. If somebody dreams that his hat or cap was flying away or that his dress was being removed and he found himself or herself naked, he or she needs to pray against the spirit of disgrace. The enemy is using many things like that to harass the people of God. You must learn to take action because the Bible says, “No weapon formed against you shall prosper.”
WAY OUT
If you are attacked, do not panic. If you do and you expose your situation or announce yourself to the unbelievers around you they will not offer you any useful advice. They may only re-arrange your problem and you have more problems. Do not be afraid, because you know what the Bible says in Psalm 23:4: “Yea, though, I walk through the valley of shadow of death I will fear no evil, for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff, they comfort me.”
This is how to deal with the stones of the wicked. When the enemy throws a stone at you and it goes back to his camp, then he will know that our God is the Almighty.
PRAYER POINTS
1. I break the law of sin and death upon my life, in Jesus’ name.
2. O Lord, heal my waters and my bread, in Jesus’ name.
3. Satanic garments, tear away from my body and be cast into the sea, in Jesus’ name.
4. Oppression, be shifted away from my foundation, in Jesus’ name.
5. O Lord, you promise to take away evil plantation from my life, therefore, take it away, in Jesus’ name.
6. O Lord, command men on my behalf, in Jesus’ name.
7. Every wind of darkness, fade away by fire, in Jesus’ name.
8. Every arrow fired against me and my family, backfire, in Jesus’ name.
9. Every arrow fashioned against my destiny, backfire, in Jesus’ name.
10. (Grip your head with your two hands and pray like this): I fire back every arrow of the enemy fired into my head, in Jesus’ name.
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THE DANGEROUS SLEEPDr. D. K. Olukoya One of the places that man suffers his major defeat is in the bed. The sudden trouble of a lot of people started on their beds. One wonderful thing that God can do for you in life is to give you power over the battle of the bed. When you win that battle you will start moving the way God wants you to move. You will not become a prayer warrior if you are still in the bondage of the bed. You will not be useful to the Almighty if the bed is still your cell. You will not become anything powerful to the Almighty if you spend too long a time on your bed. I read the story of a man who died at the age of 75. He spent almost 25 years sleeping and about six months praying, out of 75 years. It is clear that the fellow had gone to hell fire. He spent one-third of his life sleeping. If you are still caged by the bed then you cannot make any headway spiritually. The major spiritual battles that many people won in their lives were won after midnight. Matthew 13:25: “But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares, among the wheat, and went his way.” The enemy does not come to entertain. Sometimes, we start firing at the enemy when he had already planted his evil seed and is gone. We start firing when the destruction has already been done. Sometime ago, a friend of mine boarded a vehicle to Lagos from somewhere in the eastern part of the country. He sat beside the driver and as they were going he noticed that the driver was dozing. He told him to park the vehicle and sleep for a while before continuing on the journey, to avoid an accident. But the driver abused him and told him that he was not sleeping. He slept off again and before they knew it, they had ended up in a pit. The accident occurred because the driver was sleeping but did not admit he was doing so, like many people would do. Some people allow the spirit of slumber to operate their spiritual life. Today, they are awake and tomorrow they are asleep. Witches and powers of darkness look at many of us in amazement because they don’t sleep. They don’t need coffee to remain awake. I know of a fellow, a child of the devil, who decided to hold night vigils against a person for one month. For the one month, from midnight to 3.00 am, he was cursing the man. The person being cursed was busy sleeping until he started seeing himself walking into a coffin. Please, at this juncture I would like you to pray like this: “You the powers of the night, my life is not your candidate, in the name of Jesus.” If you are the kind of person who sleeps so heavily that you cannot wake up at the first tap, you need deliverance, because it means you are going deep down and to the level that anything could happen to your spirit man. If your spirit man can sleep that far, there is a problem. Romans 13:11 “And that knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed.” Paul said they were sleeping and had to wake up. If physical sleep is very bad what about spiritual sleep? Sleep is a period of rest during which the sleeper loses the awareness of his surroundings. So, the danger in sleep is the loss of awareness. The elder brother of sleep is what medical people call “coma.” Some people are in spiritual coma. Messages and prayer do not worth anything to them. They may be at church service but would not hear what the preacher is saying because they are already dead spiritually even though they are alive physically. When you lose the battle of the bed, you lose all battles. Satan has destroyed so many good things because of sleep. When you are addicted to sleep physically it is bad, but it is even worse when it is transferred to the spirit man. Sleep gives the enemy a chance to sow tares. While men sleep, many human tragedies occur. For example, fire, hurricane and tornadoes sweeping homes and cities away sometimes before the victims wake up. So, sleep is a time of insecurities, you cannot protect yourself at that time. It is a time of inactivity and a time of delusion when you assume that all is right only for you to wake up to see a great change. So, we need to be aware of the dangers of spiritual slumber. Great changes may occur for the enemy would be at work. Please, take this prayer points: “Every seed of the power of the night, roast, in the name of Jesus.” The Bible categorizes spiritual sleep into many classes. We will look at some of them. This will help you to know whether you are awake or not. The fact that somebody’s eyes are open does not mean that he is not sleeping spiritually. 1. The sleep of Jonah: Jonah 1:5-6 : “Then the mariners were afraid, and cried every man unto his god, and cast forth the wares that were in the ship into the sea, to lighten it of them. But Jonah was gone down into the sides of the ship; and he lay, and was fast asleep. So the shipmaster came to him, and said unto him, What meanest thou, O sleeper? Arise, call upon thy God, if so be that God will think upon us, that we perish not.” THE CHARACTERISTICS OF THE SLEEP OF JONAH 2. The sleep of the apostle and the sleep of the disciple: What is the nature of the sleep of the disciples? It is the sleep of weariness. Mark 14:37 says, “And he cometh, and findeth them sleeping, and saith unto Peter, Simon, sleepest thou? Couldest not thou watch one hour?” He first called him Peter and later called him Simon. There is a difference between the two names. Peter means rock while Simon means reed. Anytime Peter began to do a slow motion in the Bible, Jesus would not call him Peter, He would say Simon. And when he was doing well, He would call him Peter. Today, people are exhausted and weighed down, and their senses are dumb spiritually. There is a need to be watchful, for the enemy will attack when we least expect. While righteous men sleep, the enemy does not sleep. The Bible says, “Be sober, be vigilant for the devil, your adversary walketh about seeking whom he may devour.” Evil lurks in every corner when the righteous people are weary. The disciples slept the sleep of weariness and we see where it landed them. 3. The sleep of Samson: It is very sad to know that many men are sleeping the sleep of Samson. They leave their wives at home and locate a local Delilah somewhere and are sleeping there. To worsen their case, their friends who will come and smoke cigarette at their funeral are encouraging them to die. Samson, whose birth was prophesied by an angel, a supernatural man, could not withstand the lap of Delilah. Judges 16:19: “And she made him sleep upon her knees; and she called for a man, and she caused him to shave off the seven locks of his head; and she began to afflict him, and his strength went from him.” The seven locks of head stand for perfection. WHAT IS THE NATURE OF THE SLEEP OF SAMSON? It is the sleep of presumption. That is the spirit of “I can handle it, no problem,” the spirit of over-confidence. Samson knew that he was in danger for Delilah was after the secret of His power, but he could not help himself. Delilah made him to sleep on her knees and she cut off his hair. When he awoke due to the cry of the Philistines, he said, “I will go out like other times.” But the Bible says that he did not know that the Lord had departed from him. He was surprised that day because he had presumed that everything was still okay. Then his eyes were pulled out and he was made to grind pepper in the mill of the enemy. It is wrong to presume that you are safe and therefore place yourself in danger. One day, you may wake up and find that the Lord has departed from you. 4. The sleep of the sluggard: A person who will sit for exams and is sleeping eight hours everyday will end up a failure. Proverb 24:30-34: “I went by the field of the slothful, and by the vineyard of the man void of understanding, and lo, it was all grown over with thorns, and nettles had covered the face thereof, and the stone wall thereof was broken down. Then I saw, and considered it well. I looked upon it, and received instruction. Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep; so shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man.” 5. The sleep of Eutychus: Act 20:7-12: “And upon the first day of the week, when the disciples came together to break bread, Paul preached unto them, ready to depart on the morrow; and continued his speech until midnight. And there were many lights in the upper chamber, where they were gathered together. And there sat in a window a certain young man named Eutychus, being fallen into a deep sleep; and as Paul was long preaching, he sunk down with sleep, and fell down from the third floor, and was taken up dead. And Paul went down, and fell on him, and embracing him said, trouble not yourselves, for his life is in him. When he therefore was come up again, and had broken bread, and eaten, and talked a long while, even till break of day, so he departed. And they brought the young man alive, and were not a little comforted.” 6. The sleep of the foolish virgins: We have their story in Matthew 25. They did not have sufficient oil in their lamps and yet they were sleeping. HOW DO YOU KNOW WHETHER YOU ARE ALREADY DEEP IN SPIRITUAL SLEEP? 1. When prayer ceases to be a priority to you. 2. When you become content with the spiritual knowledge that you have already acquired. 3. When your biblical knowledge is not applied inwardly. You just go to church, hear the message and read the Bible but you cannot apply them inwardly. They have no effect on your thought life or on your way of life. 4. When thoughts about heaven and eternity cease to be regular in your life. You don’t think about heaven. It does not cross your mind that this world is not a permanent place. You are only concerned about material wealth. It is a sign of spiritual slumber. You forget that our period on earth is temporary, that very soon all you have acquired in this world would become raw materials for fire. 5. When services in the house of God hold no delight for you. You are not interested in what goes on there. 6. When spiritual discussion becomes a source of embarrassment to you. For example, in your office, talking about Jesus or spiritual things becomes highly embarrassing because you know that those around will certainly know that you are not behaving like a Christian. 7. When things like leisure, sports, recreation, entertainment, etc. take a large part of your time, sleep has crept in and if you don’t wake, up the enemy will come and sow tares or lay eggs if they have not already done so. 8. When you commit the sin of the mind and body without your conscience pricking you. 9. When the aspiration for holiness is no longer paramount in your heart. When you look for Scriptures to back up your unholy behaviour, you know the truth but you are running away from it. People can always recognize the truth when they see it and they can always know when they are trying to wriggle away from the blunt truth. The truth may be bitter and unpalatable but it is very stubborn. No matter what you do to it, it will stand looking at you. If you knock it down, it will stand. You throw it away, it will stand. You bury it, it will come up. It is very stubborn. It may take time to manifest, but it must manifest. 10. When acquisition of worldly material is the major part of your thinking. 11. When you are singing Christian songs and chanting Christian words just from the lips and not from the heart. Surrendering to Jesus, only what is convenient is a sign of spiritual slumber. 12. Taking the Lord’s name in vain shows that you are sleeping. You talk about the Lord as if He was your houseboy. Saying that He has spoken something when He has not spoken: you did not receive a revelation and you say you did. 13. Watching dirty movies and T.V shows and reading impure literature is a sign that you have already slept. A lot of people can stay glued to the T.V for hours without sleeping but immediately you say, “Let us pray” they sleep off. 14. When with the slightest excuse you avoid spiritual duties, you have slept. 15. When you are contended with your lack of spiritual power and you no longer seek power from high. The first key to spiritual power is lack of rest in your soul because you are not satisfied with your present level. 16. When you pardon your sin and your laziness by saying that God understands, you are spiritually sleeping. 17. When you as a Christian can easily adjust to the life style of the world. You dress differently to church and differently outside. It is a sign that you are spiritually asleep. If you still crack dirty jokes with unbelievers, or they feel at ease in your company to do whatever they like, then you are asleep. The correct position is that they should find it very difficult to do or say certain things before you. 18. When you are willing to cheat your employer, you have slept. Today, my cry to God for you is that you will wake up like Paul said. Paul was not talking to unbelievers. He was talking to Christians. He said, “Awake thou that sleepest and Christ has shown you light.” So, it is time to awake from our sleep because now is our salvation nearer than it was before. Do not waste time clearing the evil eggs that the enemy has laid in your life while you were sleeping. The time you should do useful things for the Lord, you are busy using it to do deliverance for what happened to you while you were sleeping. It is better to be awake and pursue the enemy right into their gates. This is a serious matter and must be tackled aggressively. PRAYER POINTS 1. O Lord, wake me up from every spiritual sleep, in the name of Jesus. |
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Dr. D. K. Olukoya
Beloved, we are considering a message entitled, “Holy Rebellion.”
Sometime ago, a relative of mine brought a girl who had just arrived from the village to my house. The first night, she talked throughout in her sleep. I got angry in my spirit that day but I had to keep quiet as a matter of courtesy since that was her first night. The following morning, I confronted her and told her that if she dared have any conversation in her sleep again, both herself and her invisible partner would be imprisoned and caged. Behold, that particular night, she did not make a single sound while she slept. But by the following morning, she carried her things and left. My warning destabilized her.
The apostles of old had cause to report some people to God: They said, “O Lord, behold their threatening.” Many of us reading this message have been threatened in the past while some are now living under the threat of their enemies. What a big insult to the children of the living God to be living under such a condition. Therefore, I want you to get angry in your spirit and fire these arrows before you read further:
I destablise every witch or wizard warring against my life, in the name of Jesus.
Let every serpent dispatched against me begin to bite itself, in the name of Jesus.
Every enemy of my breakthrough, become blind, in the name of Jesus.
1 Samuel 17:38-40: “And Saul armed David with his armour, and he put an helmet of brass upon his head; also he armed him with a coat of mail. And David girded his sword upon his armour, and he assayed to go; for he had not proved it. And David said unto Saul, I cannot go with these; for I have not proved them. And David put them off him. And he took his staff in his hand, and chose him five smooth stones out of the brook and put them in a shepherd’s bag which he had, even in a scrip; and his sling was in his hand; and he drew near to the Philistine.”
WHAT ARE THE FORCES OF THE PHILISTINES?
We have modern-day Philistines. They are the forces threatening the people of God, harassing them and vowing to cause tragedies in their lives. They are not hiding their evil intentions. They say it openly just as Goliath was an open enemy. Verses 41-46: “And the Philistine came on and drew near unto David; and the man that bare the shield went before him. And when the Philistine looked about, and saw David, he disdained him, for he was but a youth, and ruddy, and of a fair countenance. And the Philistine said unto David, Am I a dog, that thou comest to me with staves? And the Philistine cursed David by his gods. And the Philistine said to David, come to me, and I will give thy flesh unto the fowls of the air, and to the beasts of the field. Then said David to the Philistine, Thou comest to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a shield: but I come to thee in the name of the Lord of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom thou hast defied. This day will the Lord deliver thee into mine hand; and I will smite thee, and take off thine head from thee; and I will give the carcasses of the host of the Philistines this day unto the fowls of the air, and to the wild beasts of the earth; that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel.”
What David did at the battlefront could be called holy rebellion. After all, his mission at the war front was to deliver food to his elder brothers. But when he got there and saw someone boasting and threatening the Israelites, he began to ask questions: “Who is this man threatening the armies of the living God?” He carried out a holy rebellion and what happened? Goliath fell. The man had a big head and a big sword too. David therefore took the sword of Goliath and with it cut off the head of Goliath. This means that the weapon that the enemies have fashioned against you shall be used against them, in Jesus’ name.
Difficult circumstances are a fact of life and there is no human being that can ever be useful without passing through some obstacles. Jesus Himself had to pass through the cross to receive glory and honour. The Bible says that He was despised, forsaken and counted unworthy to live. He was a man of sorrow and acquainted with grief. His face was not an object that anyone would like to look at because it was badly spoilt. They plucked His beard. He passed through agony while on His way to receive glory and honour. Inquire from anointed men of God and talk to people who have achieved something for God and they will tell you stories of what they have passed through.
I can never stop getting amazed at the story of Elisha. Here was a man who followed Elijah and they worked together for sometime. The first thing that would surprise a careful student of the Bible is the fact that there were many students in the school of the prophets, how come at the crucial stage of Elijah’s ministry, the only person he could see was Elisha? There must have been something special about him. He followed his master to the end. When they passed through Gilgal, Elijah asked him to wait there for him but he said, “No. As the Lord lives, where you go, I go. I am not waiting.” As they got to Bethel, Elijah again asked him to wait but he refused; and on getting to Jericho, when Elijah saw that Elisha was going to carry out a holy rebellion and was not going to let him go, he asked what he wanted from him. If Elisha had turned back in Gilgal, there would have been no opportunity for Elijah to ask him that question. You may say that he was stubborn but he knew what he was looking for. When eventually he told his master that he wanted a double-portion of his anointing, his master said, “You have asked for a hard thing. However, if you were able to see me when I was being taken away, it shall be so; otherwise, the request cannot be met.” Elisha’s final examination was to be able to see Elijah on the heavenly chariot physically and he saw him. I am convinced in my spirit that prior to that day, Elisha must have stopped eating for days because he did not want to miss that golden opportunity. He had holy rebellion inside his blood. When the chariot came, he saw it and screamed, “My father, my father, the chariot of Israel and the horsemen thereof.” He took a further step of rebellion by not sitting by to watch the chariot; rather he held on to his master and got part of his garment. Holy rebellion.
If you are a minister with a compassionate heart, sometimes you find that people are going through unbearable things. When you hear or see the agonies some people are passing through, you will thank God for your own situation. Oftentimes, many would soak ‘gari’ (cassava meal) in water and drink it with some groundnuts and they would not have health problems, yet they would complain of being poor. But there are thousands of people who dare not put one spoon of gari in their mouths, if they do, they will land in a hospital.
Beloved, many people have serious problems. What do you make of that man whose wife asked for money for soup and he said he did not have. The next thing the woman did was to take a whip and beat him twice. From that day, he lost his mind and started dancing in the streets. People who did not know the genesis of his problems would not know what he was passing through. There are problems but Psalm 34:19: “Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but the Lord delivereth him out of them all.” It did not say few are these afflictions but many, yet the Lord delivers him out of them all. Verse 20 goes further to say, “He keepeth all his bones; not one of them is broken.” In essence, the Bible is reawakening that consciousness in us again, that there would be opposition and obstacles but at the same time there would be deliverance for God’s children. It does not matter how long the problem has existed or what medical doctors have diagnosed. I read an article in an international magazine in which it is mentioned that scientists have discovered that prayer is a form of medicine. A medical doctor who had one particular patient in the ward with his two lungs already eaten up by cancer, said that by his knowledge, that patient was not supposed to live for more than two weeks but he noticed that everyday, his church members gathered around him to sing and pray. In his anger, he had suggested to them to start practicing songs for his funeral instead of wasting their time praying. He said that surprisingly, the man did not die and the way he got out of that sickness beat his medical knowledge. One year after, when the man paid him a visit, he decided to carry out a research on prayer as medicine. He did the work in a hospital where about 300 patients were on admission. The names of some of them were listed without mentioning their ailments and some were passed to a church for prayers. They picked them at random. After six months, they checked the records and found that only about 20 per cent of those they did not pray for died while 75 per cent of those that were prayed for lived. When the man found out that more people recovered on the prayer list, he was convinced about the power of prayer.
Some people cry everyday because of their problems. They forget that many are the afflictions of the righteous but the Lord delivers him from them all. The only person who can prevent you from being delivered from them all is not the devil, neither is it your pastor, nor your enemies, but yourself. So, whatever circumstance you are facing, the way you respond to it will determine whether you will be delivered or not. If you decide to respond by exercising holy rebellion, you will get out of it. It may not come quite easily but you will get out.
The circumstances or whatever you face can either make you a better person or a very bitter person. It can either make you or mar you. Nothing can break those who exercise holy rebellion. What the devil wants people to be doing is to be crying everyday while his demons dance to the music of the crying and weeping. Psalms 92:12: “The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree: he shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon.” What does this mean? We shall be able to understand this question by taking a closer look at the life of a palm tree. In the Bible, the palm tree is a symbol for victory. Revelation 7: 9: “After this, I beheld, and lo, a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people and tongues, stood before the throne, and before the lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands.” John 12:12-13: “On the next day, much people that were come to the feast, when they heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem took branches of palm trees, and went forth to meet him, and cried, Hosanna; Blessed is the king of Israel that cometh in the name of the Lord.” That was a day of victory.
WHY IS THE PALM TREE SO IMPORTANT?
Scientists tell us that it has a lot of uses. For example, the fruit is the daily food for millions. What people call palm-wine is from the palm tree. Fresh palm-wine that is dropping from the palm tree is not intoxicating. It becomes intoxicating when it is stored and fermented. It is then that it begins to do the evil work. The fresh palm-wine from the tree does not contain alcohol and is very sweet but when human beings want to destroy themselves they store it to turn it into a chemical. It is the same thing with all God’s creation. Human beings are the ones who turn a useful thing into something harmful. The seed from the palm tree is used to produce animal feed for so many animals. Those who went to traditional schools know that ropes can be made from the palm leaf raffia. Part of it is also used to make brooms. The trunk is a valuable timber. Palm oil, palm kernel and coconut come from the palm tree. The wonderful thing about the tree is that although it stands with its feet inside undrinkable waters and with its head in the sun, yet men can drink the sweetest juice from it, eat the sweet coconut from it and get some other useful products from it. Therefore, the palm tree through its inner life can change the elements in the bad soil so that it can minister growth and strength to it and it will bear fruit. The righteous is likened unto it. It means that even though you and I have our feet or root in various unfavourable environments and situations, or come from a family of cannibals or from a place where anybody who builds a house dies, or we come from an environment of bitterness and discouragement, the Bible says we are like the palm tree. In spite of all odds, we should grow and grow strong. We reject the evil and assimilate the good.
Many modern-day Christians are suffering from spiritual diabetes, too much sugar. They prefer the couch to the cross. They want to see the ladder descend from heaven like it did to Jacob but they are not interested in putting their heads on the pillow of stone. They want to put their heads on nice foam pillows and they want the ladder of heaven. So, when they have a problem or encounter an obstacle, they make a big show of it. A lot of parents have pampered their children unto failure because they don’t understand that that which makes a person great is that which hinders him. Psalm 66:9-12: “Which holdeth our soul in life, and suffereth not our feet to be moved. For thou, O God, hast proved us: thou hast tried us, as silver is tried. Thou broughtest us into the net; thou laidst affliction upon our loins. Thou hast caused men to ride over our heads; we went through fire and through water; but thou broughtest us out into a wealthy place.” We have to pass through all these rough roads that the Bible has mentioned before God can put us in a wealthy place.
Before anyone can become anything in life, one way or the other, he or she must have been kicked around, discouraged and oppressed. There is no easy way to winning a crown. Some people say that they want to grow and become powerful but when they are tried, they fail. God tries you with one problem or the other to see how you stand. If He discovers that you fail or you are unable to withstand the stress of the test, He may withhold the power. Therefore, the land of opposition is the land of opportunity. The food of victory is unfavourable circumstances. So, all the problems you think you are facing now should be seen as an opportunity to grow unto maturity. They should be seen as an opportunity for you to advertise God’s power in your life.
We have a Deliverer who is monitoring our lives and He will not test you beyond what you can carry. The world as it stands, is managed by God who is the greatest designer. He is the great Lord of lords. If you believe that this God is your Father, then you are stronger than any terrible circumstances and obstacles. When you face an obstacle, your purpose as somebody who is reigning like a king should be to make the obstacle your servant. Don’t make your obstacle your master for too long. Unbelief makes many people to be slaves to their obstacles and problems. Always believe that you are the master of your problem. As you grow older in faith, are you becoming better or are you allowing the enemy to blackmail you? There is the story of Ayo and Ojo who were in the boarding house. They were put in care of a teacher. In those days when you were in the boarding house and they put you in the teacher’s house, you are in trouble because as far as the teacher was concerned, anything short of first position would not do. Ayo and Ojo were supposed to look after the ducks owned by the teacher. One day, Ayo mistakenly killed a duck. He decided to eat the duck as a way of hiding the mistake. His morning work was to sweep the whole of the sitting room, clean the kitchen, wash the plates, warm the soup and dress his master’s children for school before he would get ready for school. The work of Ojo was to make sure that the grasses around the house were well cut and the flowers were all watered. The first day after Ayo ate the duck, he woke up at 6 a.m. and woke Ojo up. But Ojo told him that he would wake up by 7 a.m. and that Ayo should make sure he helped him with his morning work if not he would tell their master that he killed a duck. From then on, Ojo did nothing. Ayo was doing all the work and was growing lean. Sometimes, when they were served their meals, Ojo would eat all the meat. When the teacher noticed that Ayo was getting lean, he asked him what the problem was. Ayo denied having any problem but one day, he could no longer bear it so he went to confess to his master and asked for forgiveness. The master asked him how long ago he killed the duck and he said, “Nine months ago.” The master said, “Don’t worry. I have forgiven you.” So, Ayo slept happily for the first time in nine months. The following morning, Ojo who did not know that Ayo had sorted himself out woke him up as usual and said, “Have you forgotten that you killed a duck?” Ayo told him to go ahead and report. This is how problem blackmails many people. It just dictates their lives for them. Until you carry out a spiritual rebellion against an obstacle, it will continue to blackmail and harass you.
There is also negative rebellion. One day in my school days, some of my colleagues decided to stage a coup against one student-teacher. My protests did not count as I was voted out. In those days, when student-teachers go for teaching practice, their inspectors sometimes stood by the window to observe how they went about their work. The observer this time was a white man. The mischievous students got ready for this teacher. They were following the lesson and co-operating with the teacher until the white man turned up and they carried out their plan. The teacher said, “Boys, my boss is by the door, you stand up and greet him.” None of them stood up. He asked, “Are you deaf?” One of them said, “Your father is deaf.” He felt insulted and took a whip and said, “Stand up all of you.” The first boy he tried to beat took the whip from him, cut it to pieces and ran away. The rest ran out to call the principal. Before the principal came they had started to sing, “We don’t want him, he should go. All we are saying is he must go.” That is what we call demonic rebellion. We are not talking about this type of rebellion but one targeted at satanic works.
When you are constantly getting worried about a particular problem it shows that you are the servant of the problem not his master. If you are feeling that the situation will never come to an end then you become the servant of the problem. If the problem becomes your major pre-occupation and is ordering you around like a military officer it has become the master. If it takes away your happiness then it has become the master. If you are ready to try ungodly things, the problem has become your master. Some people come for prayers and when the desired solution does not come as envisaged, they backslide. The truth is that the problem has become their master and they the servants. When a problem is allowed to dominate the mind, it will paralyse one’s prayer life and make the person an obedient servant for it will then start dictating all sorts of commands to the person.
You have to carry out a spiritual coup today, overthrow the king in charge of the problem by disagreeing with an obstacle you have been agreeing with for long.
THE WAY OUT
Rebel against the obstacle with the word of God and prayer. Decide that it is not going to push you around any longer; instead you will be pushing it all over. One thing some people don’t know about the devil is how to resist him. The Bible says, “Resist the devil and it shall flee from you.” You will not recognise that the devil is a coward until you resist him and you will be amazed at seeing him run away.
Take your mind completely off the problem; kick the thought of it out of your mind anytime it tries to come back. Replace it with the thoughts of the Scriptures.
Treat the obstacle like a dog without teeth by telling it that the Lord has defeated it on the cross.
Rejoice in the Lord always. Do not let any moment of sadness cross your spirit.
Fill your spirit with the word of God: this is how you can turn the obstacle to your servant now.
Avoid faithless people who talk failure and discouragement because they will drag you further down.
Make positive confessions everyday.
Rebel aggressively against the problem, putting your faith into full use.
Faith without works, they say is death. So, you must put your faith to work. Faith says I am going to fight this battle and I will return. Faith also says, it is well. So, when you really have faith you would have won the fight before starting. David killed Goliath before he slew him. How did he do that? He said to him, “You come against me in the name of your gods but I come against you in the name of God of hosts. He exercised his faith.
So, I ask you a question: Are you reigning in life as a king according to Romans 5:17 which says “For if by one man’s offence death reigned by one, much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ.”. Or have you allowed your life to be fully overtaken by problems? Wake up and challenge the problem. Say no to its continual existence in your life and carry out a holy rebellion. You will succeed, in Jesus’ name.
PRAYER POINTS
1. I challenge all obstacles before me to be dismantled, in Jesus’ name.
2. All unprofitable trees growing in my life, be uprooted by fire, in the name of Jesus.
3. I breathe in the healing power of God. (When you say it three times you take a deep breath into your system. Do it in faith and as you are breathing out, infirmities will go back to the sender, in the name of Jesus.)
4. I reject every spirit of error, in the name of Jesus.
5. I refuse to fail in every area of my life, in Jesus’ name.
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Dr. D. K. Olukoya
Beloved, you are not in this world by accident as there is a divine purpose for your creation. Eventually, we all shall give account of what we have done with our lives. I want you to read our message for this week prayerfully and as you do so, the Lord will open your eyes to areas in your life that need urgent surgical operations.
Let us start by reading the gospel according to St. Luke 13: 6- 9:
“He spake also this parable; A certain man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard; and he came and sought fruit thereon, and found none. Then said he unto the dresser of his vineyard, Behold, these three years I come seeking fruit on this fig tree, and find none: cut it down; why cumbereth it the ground? And he answering said unto him Lord, let it alone this year also, till I shall dig about it, and dung it: And if it bear fruit, well and if not, then after that thou shalt cut it down.” The Bible says, “Buy the truth and sell it not.” The Bible also says,
“You shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free.” (John 8:32).
I would like you to meditate on these Scriptures.
Truth is very stubborn. You can do whatever you like to with it and it will still stand because it is the truth. It is also very expensive and unfortunately, becoming scarce commodity even in the house of God. It is gradually becoming a rare commodity even in the lives of born again Christians. Lies, it is said, may dominate for years but when the truth comes it breaks them into irreparable pieces. Until you call a particular thing what God calls it, you are still joking.
Brother Stephen in the Bible was dragged before the Jewish people to defend himself, being accused of preaching against the temple and wanting to change Moses’ laws. With boldness he told them the truth by calling them what they really were, “stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart whose forefathers specialized in persecuting prophets.” They became mad.
Acts 7:54: “When they heard these things they were cut to the heart and they gnashed on him with their teeth.”
When you come to the house of God and hear the truth, it should yield fruit in your life. It is possible for you to love the truth but it is only when you do it that it will set you free. There is nothing like half truth. It is lie as far as the Bible is concerned.
Revelation 21:8: “But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.”
The best insecticide against error is the truth hence the common saying that truth is always bitter. Right now if you can locate any falsehood in your life you need to talk to the Lord, ask Him to flush out every falsehood in your life, in Jesus’ name.
A certain woman was rushed to me and said her husband had just thrown out her belongings and asked her to go and that he had also burnt her passport. She gave a catalogue of the man’s wickedness and I was moved by the story. I requested that we saw the man together. Shortly before we got to their home, we saw her husband going out, and guess what happened. The woman pointed at him and said, “Doctor, that is him crawling out like a snake.” Then I said, “Sorry, madam, if you can call him a snake in my presence, I wonder what you will call him at my back.” The truth is that it was not the man that was the problem, rather it was the woman’s tongue.
All the secret sins that some of us are committing could be likened to a sleeping dog which will eventually wake up and be seen by everybody. It is difficult to cover a sin for you have to commit another sin to cover the previous one, and as this progresses the devil drags you farther and farther. Samson began to joke with his call, then he began to tell lies. He lied to cover up his former lies until the Spirit of God left him. One man of God said that when the Spirit of God came upon the apostles on the day of Pentecost, there was a sound of a great rushing mighty wind, but that when the Holy Spirit decides to depart from somebody’s life, He would leave quietly. Samson did not know that the Spirit of God had left him at the time he was captured. He had become what we call an empty barrel. And talking about empty barrels, many are found in the house of God today. They are found speaking different languages, shouting, preaching, but as far as God and the devil are concerned they are just empty barrels. Secret sins in a life will constitute the root of many other sins.
Perhaps you have been going to a particular ministry for sometime now. It is good for you to review how profitable that place has been to you. One of the greatest tragedies of life is wasted time, for it is never recovered. Beloved, it is possible for someone to be making a loud noise yet he is saying nothing. Your actions in the church do not really matter. The most important thing is how you react to issues when you get out of the church. The devil will be very stupid to grab you in the house of God, for he knows that he cannot withstand the power of corporate prayers. What is in the temperature of your spiritual life now? Is it the Holy Spirit alone that is pasturing your life? Please, get me right, I am not asking whether you are a pastor, a general overseer or what have you. You may talk about the speck in your brother’s eyes while leaving the log in your own eyes, but know that God Almighty is going to cut you down if you are unproductive.
Why we plant orange trees is because we want it to produce fruits and we will not be happy if the tree is only producing leaves and flowers. God has planted us here to bear spiritual fruits. He is the heavenly Gardener. Recall the earlier passage of Luke 13: 6-9 : “He spake also this parable; A certain man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard; and he came and sought fruit thereon, and found none. Then said he unto the dresser of his vineyard, Behold, these three years I come seeking fruit on this fig tree; and find none: cut it down, why cumbereth it the ground? And he answering, said unto him, Lord, let it alone this year also, till I shall dig about it, and dung it. And if it bear fruit, well: and if not, then after that thou shalt cut it down.”
Jesus was displeased because the tree was fruitless so He gave an order to cut it down for it was using the space that a fruitful tree should be occupying. Who do you think Jesus was talking about? What do you think He means? That is why I say you must know your purpose here on earth. Are you a fruitful Christian? Can you say that since you were born again you have done anything profitable for God? Or your life has been characterized by requests to God only? What have you done for Him? Don’t you know that the Lord has been waiting for a long time for your life to produce fruit? How sad would it be if you disappoint Jesus? That fig tree that failed to give the Lord Jesus fruits to eat when He was hungry,disappointed Him. The Lord therefore promptly pronounced a curse upon it that, “No man shall eat from you thereafter.” Carefully put, He told the tree that it would never bear fruit anymore. And expectedly, the tree dried to its roots. What tragedy it would be if the heavenly Gardener comes to us and finds the same spiritual fruitlessness in us and pronounces the same curse? What a calamity it would be for God to say, “Replace him.” God cannot leave a vacuum in His kingdom. And to every unprofitable tree that command will eventually come and please will not be useful because God will certainly cut it down.
Take the case of Joseph’s two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim. Father Jacob deliberately placed his right hand on the junior whilst his left hand was on the senior, meaning that Manasseh had been replaced.
A particular generation of Israelites left Egypt to the promised land. But one day, they began to say that they were like grasshoppers and were unable to do anything. So, God said, “Since you say that you are grasshoppers, you are grasshoppers indeed and you will not get there.” A new generation with only Joshua and Caleb from the 600,000 people that started the journey entered into the promised land.
Some of us are pushing ourselves into a position where God will say, “I give up on this one because he is not serious.” What a disaster it will be for the heavenly Gardener to cry, “Cut it down.” There are already thousands of saints in heaven crying to God day and night to bring His timetable of man to a close, so that they can enter into glory. Yet the Lord is waiting for more who are wasting their lives now instead of coming to repentance.
The Bible says, “Eyes have not seen, ears have not heard, neither has it entered the heart of man what the Lord has planned for His people. Sometime ago, a Korean pastor died seven days after the death of his wife. Many people thought it was the shock of his wife’s death that killed him. While they were preparing his body for burial according to Korean custom, he woke up and said that he was not dead. Then he narrated the vision the Lord showed him. He said he saw his wife in heaven in her beautiful mansion. He was also shown his own mansion that was not as beautiful as his wife. In fact, it had no roof. He was told that his wife’s house was more beautiful because she had sent more materials up than he had done. And just as he was about to go, father Abraham called him and said, “Warn my children that the time is at hand.”
Our lives must produce fruits. The type of fruits our lives must bear is clearly spelt out in Galatians 5:22-23:
“But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance against such there is no law.”
It is a single Spirit made up of nine parts. In an average church, only 20 per cent of the congregations do the hard work. The rest of them don’t really work hard. This is not what God wants. Unfortunately, many of us have been lazy in our Christian lives and this is disappointing to God. How can someone gives his life to Christ at 60 and yet not be serious with God after having served the devil for long? Can you now see that some of us are trying to play on God’s intelligence by rushing to Him only when we have problems? Is it not sad that the lives of many of us are not attracting people to God?
Consider this parable in Matthew 25:14-30: “For the kingdom of heaven is as a man travelling into a far country, who called his own servants, and delivered unto them his goods. And unto one he gave five talents, to another two, and to another one; to every man according to his several ability and straightway took his journey. Then he that received the five talents went and traded with the same, and made them other five talents. And likewise he that had received two, he also gained other two. But he that had received one went and digged in the earth, and hid his lord’s money. After a long time the lord of those servants cometh, and reckoneth with them. And so he that had received five talents came and brought other five talents, saying, Lord, thou deliveredst unto me five talents; behold, I have gained beside them five talents more. His lord said unto him, well done, thou good and faithful servant: thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things: enter thou into the joy of thy lord. He also that had received two talents came and said, Lord, thou deliveredst unto me two talents; behold, I have gained two other talents beside them. His lord said unto him, Well done, good and faithful servant, thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things; enter thou into the joy of thy lord. Then he which had received the one talent came and said, Lord, I knew thee that thou art an hard man, reaping where thou hast not sown, and gathering where thou has not strawed. And I was afraid, and went and hid thy talent in the earth: lo, there thou hast that is thine. His lord answered and said unto him, Thou wicked and slothful servant, thou knewest that I reap where I sowed not and gather where I have not strawed; Thou oughtest therefore to have put my money to the exchangers, and then at my coming I should have received mine own with usury. Take therefore the talent from him, and give it unto him which hath ten talents. For unto every one that hath shall be given, and he shall have abundance: but from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath. And cast ye the unprofitable servant into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”
A man found that he had been infected with leprosy on his neck, so he went and sewed clothes that would cover his neck in order to hide the ailment, instead of going for treatment. Are you like that? Are you suffering from spiritual paralysis? Are there things that are wrong in your life? Those wrong things are what the Bible calls parasites. Those parasites will stick and hinder you from bearing fruits. Some people have mouths that can say anything to anybody at anytime. And when cautioned, they would say, “I should be allowed to speak my mind.” What do you expect from a mind that is not regenerated? Are you a fruit-bearing Christian?
There is no partial holiness, there is no partial or temporary Christianity. There is nothing like partial lies or partial truth. A vessel is never partially clean, it is either clean or dirty. You are either a Christian or a sinner. You are either into God or out of Him. An evil tree cannot bear a good fruit no matter how good we decorate it. Education, if applied wrongly will corrupt instead of yielding fruits.
So many things prevent Christians from bearing fruit. For example:
Love is part of the fruit we should bear. That love will cause you to overlook the fault of others. Love for God, love for our neighbours and ourselves. Joy is also part of the fruit that God wants us to bear. Paul was in the Philippi, jailed and yet with all the stripes given to him, he was able to rejoice and praise the Lord. He had the joy of the Lord in his heart.
Peace is part of the fruit God wants us to bear. Jesus was inside a terrible storm and yet He slept peacefully. Peter had a nice sleep even when he knew he was going to be killed the next day. The Jewish word for peace is called shalom. Shalom means that everything is in order. That is how God wants our spirits to be.
Long-suffering is part of the fruit He wants us to bear. Faith and meekness are parts of the fruit. Temperance and self control are other parts. Nobody will judge us according to the level of miracle we perform. We shall be judged on the basis of the fruit we produce.
Brethren, one day the trumpet shall sound and with it that terrible command of: “Cut it down,” will be given for the fruitless ones. Fruitlessness will take unserious Christians into hell fire. When love is in your life, peace will reign.
An axe is laid to the foundation of the tree, the Bible says, and everything that does not bear fruit shall be cut down and thrown into hell fire.
The most terrible thing is to live without purpose. Ask yourself: “Why am I here? Why do I allow my spiritual life to continually go down?” Let us all wake up from our spiritual slumber and decide to bear fruit. Earthly posts will get us nowhere. It is not how your fellow human beings see and judge you that matters but what you weigh on God’s scale. There is no middle position, you are either for God or against Him. Talk to Him and resolve that terrible curse of “cut it down” will not be your portion.
PRAYER POINTS
1. I loose myself from any power of bewitchment, in Jesus’ name.
2. Satan, I close any door which I have opened to you, in Jesus’ name.
3. I pull down any evil stronghold built into my life by any person who was in charge of me at infancy, in Jesus’ name.
4. Let every evil pronouncement made against me by evil tongues be nullified, in Jesus’ name.
5. Let all evil enquiry about me be rendered null and void, in Jesus’ name.
6.O Lord, replace in me everything that needs to be replaced, in Jesus’ name.
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We shall begin our message of this week by briefly examining the meaning of these words- covenants and curses. A covenant is a strong agreement between two parties. It is a contract with its terms clearly spelt out and the sanctions attached to its breach unambiguously stated at the outset. The Bible reinforces this posture in Psalms 89:34: “My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips.” In Genesis chapter 2, God made a covenant with man, with obedience attached as the condition for its continued observance. In Genesis chapter 9, God made a covenant with Noah that there would not be another flood, and in Genesis chapter 12, God made a covenant with Abraham and his descendants. And because our God is a covenant keeping God, that covenant is still in existence till today. In Genesis chapter 12 we see the covenant where God said, “Those who curse you, I will curse, those who bless you, I will bless.” Now, we have a new covenant, a spiritual covenant of God in Christ with His followers. The day you give your life to Jesus and become born again, you enter into a covenant with God in Christ, as stated in Hebrews 8:6- 7:“But now hath he obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also he is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises. For if that first covenant had been faultless, then should no place have been sought for the second.”
A marriage is a covenant. Man can make covenant with evil spirits. The Bible tells us that some people even boast about their evil powers simply because they have made a covenant with the spirit of death. This can be seen in Isaiah 28:18: “And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it.” A man once made a covenant with death. He was a messenger in an office, and whenever people were promoted in that office, he made sure that those of them who were not children of God were killed. As a result, people preferred not to be promoted. This was the situation until a brother who was a child of God was promoted. This messenger told him that he would die within seven days. The brother ensured that he prayed daily. On the seventh day, while he was asleep, he saw this messenger in a vision with a tall black man (an agent of death). He ordered the tall black man to kill the brother but the tall black man refused, saying that the man was a child of God. He told the messenger that if he failed to kill the brother, he would kill him. My prayer for you is that God will deliver you from every stubborn pursuer, in the name of Jesus. Amen.
Sometime ago, a “big” man came to me for counseling. He confessed that he went to bed with a strange woman he met at a party and when he went to ease himself at night, he found that the woman put her legs on the wall. He was scared for he had heard that witches behave like that. The demonic association left him with a strange deposit, which he lived with for years. Of course, hospitals became useless and he would have died in that state but for the mercy of God.
A covenant binds two parties together; hence one must be careful of what one says. Immediately God entered into a covenant with Abram, several things began to happen. God changed his name to Abraham and that of Sarai, his wife, to Sarah. Circumcision was the seal and God began to fulfill His part immediately. God did not destroy Sodom and Gomorrah until he told Abraham about it because of the existing covenant between them. It is amazing to know that God instructed Lot and his wife not to look back, but Abraham looked back and watched the ruins but did not become a pillar of salt. Lot’s wife looked back and became a pillar of salt; this was because of the covenant between him and God. Abraham appealed to God in a way that would daze the present day believer. He bargained with God from 50 to 10 holy men and God listened to him because of the covenant. God could not forsake the Israelites even after their 430 years in bondage. He had to send Moses to take them out because of the covenant. A covenant can also be described as bondage. God put Himself into this absolute bondage with Abraham. So, as long as the terms of the covenant were kept, there was no problem. Battles were won by the Israelites with ease. Food and water were obtained freely but once disobedience was allowed to creep in, sufferings came fiercely upon them.
CURSES
What are curses? They are the direct opposite of blessings. Nobody wants to be cursed. People prefer blessings to curses. To curse is to say that mischief should come upon a person, a thing or a group of persons; it is to bind a person with a spell. Curses are words put together to torment people with great calamity. They are vehicles of problem and have harassed and destroyed many lives. Curses have their own laws by which they operate. These are:
iii. A curse is a spiritual problem and can only be solved by a spiritual means.
vii. Unjust curses will return to the sender. If you know what to do.
viii. God curses anyone cursing, whom God has blessed.
A man can stand in place of God and issue curses, or can stand as a satanic agent and issue curses. The curse of God cannot be lifted from an unrighteous person until he repents and begins to obey God. Any minister trying to cancel the curses issued on an unrighteous person is wasting his time, and taking sides against God. Curses from God can only be dealt with on God’s terms and conditions. When a curse is removed, blessings should be pronounced in replacement. These are the spiritual laws of curses.
Now that we have briefly dealt with the meaning of covenants and curses, let us see how they affect some professions in our environment. There are demons and evil powers attached to each profession no matter what you call it. This is why we call the topic “Curses, covenants and professions.” There is something popular in our environment which we call “Freedom ceremony,” which in the real sense should be called “Bondage ceremony.” This ceremony is usually performed after a person has gone through a period of apprenticeship on a certain trade and wants to stand on his own. He would be asked to bring kolanuts, a cock and other items. Members of his family and friends come and pray, kill the cock and share the kola nuts. What that ceremony does is to ensure that the person is not freed but only forms a new and fresh covenant with that profession, even though it is called freedom ceremony. If the master who taught you the trade is a thief, you form a covenant with him. If he is an adulterer, you form a covenant with him and begin to do like him. Unless you break it, the covenant stands. This is the strongest backbone of poverty in the black race.
In the book of Proverbs 11:1, God used a strong word there “abomination.” It says, “A false balance is abomination to the Lord: but a just weight is his delight. “The best way to do freedom ceremony is to sit down, pray and go back home. God wants you to organize what you are doing along the line of righteousness. If the way you make your money or do your business is abomination to the Lord, you form a covenant with the spirit of false balance or the spirit of mammon. The intention of people to get rich through dishonest means is evidence that there is something within them, which has formed a league with the demon of mammon.
There is wealth from above as well as from below. There are true riches and there are false riches. The Bible says that a man shall receive nothing except, he is given from above (John 3:27). If anybody takes anything from anywhere apart from above, he will vomit it. The Bible says it is the blessing of God that makes one rich without adding sorrow to it. You can have money that is not from God. If you do your business in a crooked way, you form a covenant with the spirits that cause poverty and render yourself an abomination to God.
Bus Conductors: Sometime ago, I took a bus to Oshodi in Lagos. The bus conductor stole some money not knowing that the driver saw him through the mirror. On getting to Oshodi, the driver demanded for the correct amount of money but the conductor lied. The driver conducted a search on him up to his underwear but found nothing. Yet he insisted that the conductor had not given him the total amount. Suddenly, he forced the conductor’s legs apart and the currency notes dropped from the conductor’s anus where he hid the money. This is why most bus conductors are poor. They steal, eat anyhow and go into fornication with the money they steal, because of the demons attached to the profession.
Mechanics: They lie to car owners. In most cases, they claim to have changed some parts without having done so only to pocket the car owner’s money. This is why many mechanics are having problems. Some of them commit fornication even in stolen vehicles with possessed girls. This is double tragedy. If you do things correctly, God will bless your efforts. I always counsel Christians to anoint any second-hand material they buy because sometimes these items are stolen goods that could bring evil repercussions on the buyer. Please, pray like this; “I break every unconscious evil covenant, in the name of Jesus.”
Tailors: A tailor who steals clothes from his customers brings curses upon himself. Tailors who sew indecent dresses bring curses upon themselves.
Drivers: There are a few Christian drivers in public transport business because of the behaviour of commercial drivers. Many of them are dishonest. They use their ill-gotten money to over-eat, and patronize prostitutes hence curses are always on them.
Teachers: A lot of teachers are harassed by the demons of poverty because of curses issued on them by students.
Doctors: Many doctors carry out abortions for young girls. Many keep their patients admitted for longer periods than necessary to enable them charge higher fees. They frighten patients with verbose medical terminologies to make their ailments look big.
Nurses: Many nurses abuse their patients and lack the spirit of love, which is very important for their profession.
Bricklayers: Many of them divert their clients’ materials to their own sites and end up doing unfinished jobs for them.
Plumbers: They lie to get money.
Refrigerator Technicians: To them all faults have to do with burnt compressors so that they can charge exorbitant fees.
Spare-part dealers: They lie that one item is fake and the other original while all of them are fake products.
Bankers: Many bankers are married to the spirit of mammon.
Carpenters: They also steal.
Contractors: Most contractors are liars and many women among them contract their bodies to get jobs and money.
University workers: In our universities, you find satanic agents; people possessed with the spirit of sexual perversion and cult spirits. Poor lecturers compromise standards in order to make money; some even form evil covenants with their lives.
THE WAY OUT
The first step to take is repentance. When you repent and ask God to forgive you, then you start in the way towards divine blessings and the yoke of poverty upon your life will be broken. There is no profession without curses and covenants attached to it which will in turn magnet poverty. When things are done righteously, these covenants and curses give way to divine blessings. The fact that we have money today does not mean that it will last forever if acquired unrighteously. Seek true prosperity and it will last. The Bible says that a little that the righteous has is much in the eyes of he Lord. Allow the blessings of the Lord to bombard your life and stop running after fake riches.
PRAYER POINTS
1. I dissociate myself and my family from every territorial blood covenant, in the name of Jesus.
2. I dismantle every tribal blood covenant, in the name of Jesus.
3. I dissociate my blood from every satanic blood bank, in the name of Jesus.
4. Let the blood of any animal shed on my behalf lose its covenant power, (say it three times then you say,) lose your covenant power, in the name of Jesus.
5. Every evil blood covenant formed with any organ of my body, be nullified, in the name of Jesus.
6. I release myself from every curse attached to blood covenant, in the name of Jesus.
7. I release myself from every evil collective blood covenant, in the name of Jesus.
8. Put your hands on your head and pray this seriously, I release myself from every conscious and unconscious blood covenant, in the name of Jesus.
9. I break every anti-prosperity covenant, in the name of Jesus.
10. I break every curse of poverty, in the name of Jesus.
11. I drink to overflowing from the well of blessings, in the name of Jesus.
12. Let my business be too hot for any demon to sit upon, in the name of Jesus.
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THE EVIL LOADDr. D. K. Olukoya Matthew11:28-30 “Come unto me (an invitation) all ye that labour and are heavy laden and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn of me for I am meek and lowly in heart and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.” From these three verses of Scripture we learn a few lessons: 1. There are people who are labouring under demonic bondage. Jesus spoke about heavy load. A lot of people are unconsciously carrying loads on their heads. If God opens your eyes spiritually, you would see all kinds of strange things. Some people in the streets are carrying coffins on their heads; some are carrying rags on their heads. These are the kinds of loads Jesus was talking about; it was not physical loads. Many have yokes upon them but they don’t know. The bottom line is this: if you do not carry the load and yoke of Jesus, you will carry the devil’s own; there is no neutral position. If you say, “I don’t believe in God and I don’t believe in the devil,” you will carry the yoke of the devil. It is as simple as that. Anything that the enemy places on you and you do not know about it would be doing havoc to you. Put your right hand on your head and take this prayer point: “My destiny, co-operate with your Creator by fire, in the name of Jesus.” The Bible makes us to understand that a person can carry a load that does not belong to him. It also makes us to understand that evil may be planned for somebody and one way or the other, someone else goes there to use his head to carry that evil. The way the spiritual world operates is this: once an evil has been determined, it must be carried out. The spirits in charge must perform their functions. Likewise God says, “The word that I speak shall go and prosper in that which I asked it to do; it shall not came back to me void.” It is the same thing. So, when evil has been programmed, it must happen to someone. I shall not carry any evil load, in Jesus’ name. Isaiah 58: 5-6: , “Is it such fast that I have chosen? a day for a man to afflict his soul? Is it to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? Wilt thou call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the Lord? Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke?” The Bible agrees that there are some heavy burdens and with fasting and prayers you can discard them. Galatians 2:18: “If I build again the things which I destroyed, I make myself a transgressor.” Everything the Lord has helped to pull down in my life, all the sins of the past that have gone, He says that if I begin to build them again, I make myself a transgressor. So, a person will carry an evil load once he begins to build up again what the Lord has helped him to destroy. Such a person becomes a transgressor. I Timothy 5: 22 says, “Lay hands suddenly on no man, neither be partaker of other men’s sins. Keep thyself pure.” This means that you do not lay hands on somebody anyhow, if you do, you may share the person’s problem. There have been cases where people laid hands on people and things were transferred to them. I know a man of God who laid hands on somebody and as he was praying, he noticed that something was entering his own hands from the person’s head. He could feel the thing moving like a serpent through his hand. He called the person back, asked him to kneel down again, placed his hand on him again and said, “Go back to your sender.” And the thing went back to its owner. He would have carried an evil load. Lamentation 5:7:“Our fathers have sinned and are not and we have borne their iniquities.” That is, a person may be carrying the load of his forefathers, a person may be settling his grandfather’s bill; a person can carry a load that does not belong to him. Habakkuk 2: 6:, “Shall not all these take up a parable against him, and a taunting proverb against him, and say, Woe to him that increaseth that which is not his! how long? and to him that ladeth himself with thick clay!” So, you can see that a person may be going about with other people’s load without knowing. HOW CAN AN EVIL PROPERTY BE ACQUIRED? You can buy it: Some people buy their bondage and put it on. Psalm 91: 5-6: “Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night nor for the arrow that flieth by day, nor for the pestilence that walketh in darkness; nor for the destruction that wasteth at noonday.” It means that the devil throws trouble around. A person may refuse to partake or may decide to partake in it. It is unfortunate but I am sorry to let you know that there are many people who are carrying evil loads that do not belong to them. Sometime ago, at a crusade, we were praying one prayer point that says, “Any owner of evil load, carry your load, in the name of Jesus.” There was a 39-year old sister there who had never experienced her menstrual period. She went to the back and started praying seriously. All of a sudden, God opened her eyes and she saw a big bundle of load by her side, and there was an angel standing by talking to a short old woman. The angel said, “Carry your load,” and the woman said, “No!” By this time the temper of the angel was rising. He said, “I say, carry your load.” The woman said, “But I am dead.” The angel said, “Come, I am going to say this one more time and I do not intent to repeat myself. I did not ask you whether you are alive or dead, what I say is carry your load.” Reluctantly, the woman picked up the load and walked off. By the time the prayer ended, blood was already dripping down the legs of the sister. She was carrying an evil load. Please, pray this one too: “Every owner of evil load, what are you waiting for? Carry your load, in the name of Jesus.” The enemy uses some small techniques to let people carry the load that does not belong to them. What are these techniques? 1. Bad confession: Immediately you say, “I am sick,” you have signed a package. The devil is a bad postmaster, he will put the stamps on the person. Twelve people were sent to spy the Promised Land. Ten came back with bad report. Look at what the Lord says in Numbers 14:28: “Say unto them, as truly as I live saith the Lord, as ye have spoken in mine ears, so will I do to you.” Those people said that they were like grasshoppers and God said, “Okay, that is what you said with your mouth; this load does not belong to you but since you said you want it, you should carry it.” Once a person begins to say, “I shall not die but live to declare the works of God,” he remains alive. But the moment you begin to carry a paper saying, “This is the song we are going to sing during the burial ceremony, this is the person that will render a special number,” you have signed your package. The load will now belong to you legally and satan can now enforce the load on you. It is very sad that a lot of people kill themselves everyday and accept evil loads with their mouths. 2. Provoking God: Another way that the enemy gives people evil load is by instigating them to provoke the angels of God. Matthew 18:10 says, “Take heed that ye despise not one of these little ones; for I say unto you, that their angels do always behold the face of my Father which is in heaven.” So, we all have guardian angels. But then, angels can be provoked. Exodus 23: 20–21 says, “Behold I send an angel before thee, to keep thee in the way, and to bring thee into the place which I have prepared. Beware of him, and obey his voice, provoke him not; for he will not pardon your transgressions. For my name is in him.” The Lord said they should not provoke the angels. Those of them above 20 years old died in the wilderness; they provoked the angels. Lot’s wife provoked the angels. Zechariah the father of John the Baptist, provoked the angels. The angel said, “Thus says the Lord,” and Zechariah said, “No, it is not possible.” Gabriel then stopped Zechariah from speaking in doubt. God did not send him to make Zechariah dumb but the angel said, “Okay, you shall become dumb until these things come to pass.” So Zechariah carried a load that did not belong to him. It would be better for many people to be dumb for three or four weeks while working on important projects so that they do not destroy the projects with their own mouths. Once you provoke your angel, he will deal with you. An angel can cause a disease or death, depending on how much you provoke him. Angels are not human beings and do not have to forgive anybody anything. When you go to where angels do not want you to go, you provoke them to deal with you. Zechariah carried the load of dumbness, which did not belong to him. 3. Foolish curiosity: Another way that people can carry a load that does not belong to them is what I call ‘foolish curiosity.’ Just like the Philistines in the Bible. They were curious to see what was inside the ark of the Lord and they paid dearly for it. Believers should not stand around watching magicians in the streets. Believers should not stand around watching juju (charm) hawkers to find out what they are saying. Many people get into trouble by wanting to try this, and wanting to try that. Many people follow their friends to herbalists not because they want to consult the herbalists. They just want to stand by to see what would happen. Sometimes, the herbalists turn to them and begin to prophesy evil to them. 4. Fighting alone when you know you have little power: People can pick up evil load by fighting alone when they know that they have little power. There is a time to take over and there is a time to take cover. Moses wanted to take over when he was supposed to take cover and we saw what happened to him. You should not follow anybody to idol places, or to swear before idols. Christians do not follow people to necromancers. Christians do not go to watch worldly films at public theatres. The New Testament does not teach us to be going about visiting prophets. As godly as Abraham was, when he went down to Egypt, he had problem. So, when you go to the wrong place, you will have problems. There are some people who are fond of roaming about the houses of all sorts of prophets, and they collect arrows all over. Those who are fond of roaming around should be very careful so that they do not carry the load that they are not supposed to have. People who are fond of roaming about their hometowns when they do not have adequate power carry unwanted load. Some people rush to their home towns at any small thing, when they do not have power. 5. Evil friends: People pick up evil luggage by following evil friends. The Bible says that evil communication corrupts good manners. Many are in trouble today because of the friends they keep. If your childhood friend is not born again, you should severely limit that kind of friendship. Many ladies are living a confused life now because of their friends. Friends have let them into bondage and these friends they cannot find any more. Any close friendship with a child of the devil will make you carry other people’s load. Sometime ago, a certain woman noticed that her friend was becoming very rich. She was buying cars and was prosperous. She went to the friend and asked her to show her the way to become rich too. She took her to one herbalist somewhere who did something for her and asked her to put it under her seat in her shop to enable her to have good patronage. She took the thing and did as she was told. The first day, she made very good sales. She was amazed and she rejoiced, but by the time she got home that first day, she found her son rolling on the floor. He was saying, “Mummy, I want to die. Something is pulling my throat.” The woman began to cry. Her friend who took her to the herbalist came, and finding the boy on the floor and the mother crying, she said, “Ah, why are you crying? Don’t cry. This is the price to pay for what you want. Did you not notice that when I did my own, my first son died? So, what is the problem? This one has to go if you want money. You still have two more, let this one go and enjoy your life.” The woman said, “no” and asked her friend to take her back to the herbalist. There she told the herbalist that she was no longer interested. The herbalist got angry and said, “But I asked you if your friend told you the price.” She said, “She did not tell me.” The man asked her to bring certain things so that he would reverse what he did. This cost her all the money she made on the first day. When you follow evil friends, you get into serious trouble. Many unwanted loads are pursuing people all over the place. 6. Dreams: Many unwanted loads are transferred through dreams. People get fed with all kinds of food in the dream and when they wake up, trouble starts. 7. Accidentally: People can pick up unwanted load accidentally. They unknowingly walk into the trap of the enemy and problem begins to happen. A long time ago, a certain lady was going to fetch water and met some men who asked her to kindly tell them where they could find the National Stadium and she described it to them. They said, “Oh, you are a wonderful girl, bring your palm and let us read it for you.” She gave them her palm and they made the sign of the cross on it, and asked her to turn it upside down and when she did, she saw the mark at the back of her hand. From that moment she got carried away and these men raped her, took her home and instructed her to give them all her mother’s property. It was after she had given them the last item that she came to herself. She had to go through very serious deliverance. <P>8. By inheritance: A person can pick up unwanted luggage by inheritance. The heaviest burden that many people carry is most times ancestral in nature. Way out 1. Confess your sins to the Lord. Many people around are under very heavy burdens. Some see the burden, while some do not; some understand it while some do not. How can somebody who has a boiling pot on his or her head fulfil his or her destiny? Likewise, somebody who has a mortar on the head and they are pounding something inside it cannot fulfil his or her divine destiny. You must pray aggressively for owners of evil load to carry their loads. PRAYER POINTS 1. Every owner of witchcraft load, what are you waiting for? Carry your load by fire, in the name of Jesus. |
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In John 11, we see one of the most interesting stories in the Bible. The friend of Jesus had been sick. They called Jesus but He did not show up until four days after the man had died. John 11: 38-44 says, “Jesus therefore again groaning in himself cometh to the grave. It was a cave, and a stone lay upon it. Jesus said, Take ye away the stone. Martha, the sister of him that was dead saith unto him, Lord, by this time he stinketh: for he hath been dead four days. Jesus saith unto her, Said I not unto thee, that, if thou wouldest believe, thou shouldest see the glory of God? (If you refuse to believe, you will see the glory of satan). Then they took away the stone from the place where the dead was laid. And Jesus lifted up his eyes, and said, Father, I thank thee that thou hast heard me. And I knew that thou hearest me always: but because of the people which stand by I said it, that they may believe that thou hast sent me. And when he thus had spoken, he cried with a loud voice, Lazarus, come forth. (He had to be specific because if He said, “come forth,” without being specific, all the dead there would come out). And he that was dead came forth, bound hand and foot with grave clothes and his face was bound about with a napkin. Jesus saith unto them, Loose him, and let him go.”
Lazarus was raised from the dead by the power of God. Likewise all that believe in Christ have been given a new life. They have been lifted out of the graveyard of sin and sorrow. Jesus said, “Loose him and let him go.” It means that he could not go unless they loosed him. He could not go because he was bound. Although Lazarus was raised from dead, he was still bound. He experienced liberty but not freedom. Captivity was over but he was still bound. The grip of death upon his life had been broken but he was still bound. It is a double tragedy that many believers are still walking around with grave clothes on.
There are children of God who speak in tongues but are still bound. They have their grave clothes on like Lazarus. Jesus has set them free but they are still in their grave clothes. This is the sad condition of many people today. A lot of Christians are still bound by their past failures, past sins, guilt and materialism.
Many believers are bound by traditions, that is why you see Christians going for chieftancy titles and they allow evil people access to their heads which are the symbols of their destiny.
Many believers are still bound by bad habits. Lazarus was alive but constrained; he could see, but through a veil; he could hear but not clearly. Why? He was still in grave clothes. So, perhaps you have been born again for years and you still cannot see, it means that something is blinding your spiritual eyes. You have to pray for the grave clothes to be pulled off. Remember when Saul preached in a particular place and the people fought and argued that he was speaking lies, he said, “I have one last thing to tell you before I leave. Remember that what is happening to you is what was written by the prophets that behold, you wander and you perish, for it is written I will send my words unto them, but hearing they will hear but they will not understand, they will behold but cannot see. Their heart is already hardened so that my hands cannot deliver them, so that they can perish.” With that Paul concluded the sermon. If you have read through the whole of the Bible and decided to continue to be evil, a popular passage in the book of Revelation says, “Continue,” and if you want to continue to do good, it says, “You may continue. But behold, I come quickly and my reward is with me, and my reward can be bad or good, to give to every man according to the works of his hands.”
EVIDENCE OF GRAVE CLOTHES
Many people go to churches where they do not understand the language which their leaders speak. After the meetings, they come out, bring out their cigarettes and begin to smoke. As far they are concerned, they are serving the Lord. That is bondage. Also, sex outside marriage is evidence that a person is bound in grave clothes. A believer who is working with a fake certificate is bound in grave clothes. Obtaining sick leave papers when you are not sick is an indication that you are in grave clothes. Sleeping and pretending to be praying is a sign of being in grave clothes. If you are the worst of human beings when you are angry, you are in grave clothes. Masturbation, chronic impatience, and constant fear are evidence that there are grave clothes on. That is why Jesus said, “Loose him and let him go.” The Lord said the same thing to Pharaoh. Unforgiving spirit, sexual sins and failure to break all connections with the devil are evidence of grave clothes. You claim to be born again but still keep complimentary cards of your former boy friends, it means that the grave clothes are still on. If not, why are you keeping them? Failure to confess every sin, envy, backbiting, and not yielding every area of your life to God are evidence of grave clothes.
If God is your lover and you believe the Bible, which says that your Maker is your husband, you will not be in a hurry to get out from His presence. So, rushing out of the service without sharing the grace is evidence of grave clothes. Not having on the whole armour of God means there are grave clothes on.
THE FLESH
The truth is that the percentage of those who are ready for the rapture is very little. Many people who have seen visions of the rapture but did not go up discovered that it was as a result of grave clothes on them. Grave clothes can be in the form of hair and other body attachments.
A certain man was in very big trouble. He was sacked from five jobs. When he could not feed his family again, his wife ran away, leaving him with three daughters. To worsen his sorrow, his first daughter became pregnant while in form three. When he tried to beat her, she said, “Daddy, all the time I did not ask you for bus fare to school. Where do you think the money I was using came from?” The man was very sad, so he cried unto the Lord in prayers. He really cried to God and you know God never rejects the cry from the heart. The Lord Jesus appeared to him while he was praying. The man was very happy. He wanted the Lord Jesus to sympathize with him. He wanted the Lord to promote him and give him deliverance from all his troubles. He wanted comfort, fairness and divine justice. But to his amazement, the Lord pointed at him and said, “Your problem is rooted in you and not in the enemy.” The Lord told him that that was the hardest part of his Christian life. “You have not even agreed that you are your own problem. You are only deceiving yourself by blaming the devil. I am the Almighty. I am not struggling with the devil. I desire that your flesh must submit to me. I want to dethrone you from the centre of your life and be your Lord, but you have not allowed me to do so. You must contend with this power of your flesh, which is hindering my work and preventing me from doing what I want to do in your life,” the Lord said. The man was surprised but for the first time he got the blunt truth, which they say, is sometimes very bitter. You see, the devil is not really the issue as much as the power of the flesh. It is the flesh that is hanging grave clothes onto the body.
Galatians 5: 17 : “For the flesh lust against the spirit, and the spirit against the flesh and these are contrary the one to the other, so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.” The flesh is fighting against the spirit and the spirit is fighting against the flesh. Two of them are contrary so that you cannot do the things you are supposed to do. Here lies the secret of victory against any form of satanic attack. Here lies the victory for you to make heaven without anybody pulling you down. If a dry fast is declared for seven days in the church, what do you think will happen? Some people will protest loudly. Some would say, “Do you not know that we would go to work?” Some would say, “They want to kill people in this place.” Others would say, “I have been telling you about that church. You see, now they want seven days dry fast.” That is the power of flesh. They forget that there is something called the bread of heaven. Once you eat that one, you lose the desire to eat the one that is here on earth. If for example you go on three days dry fast, you find out that by the third day even if someone is abusing you, you are not able to talk too much. The secret of that is that Mr. flesh has been weakened. That is the value of fasting. It does not change God, it is you that has to change, because the flesh lusts against the spirit and the spirit too lusts against the flesh. The two of them are always fighting. When you begin to starve one, say the flesh, your spirit man now becomes stronger. That is the value of fasting. You can pray with more concentration, with more fire, and then you get result.
God has issued a death sentence on Mr. Flesh: “Dust thou art and unto the dust thou shall return.” It is the spirit man inside you that will return back to God. The flesh knows that it is not going to depart from the dust and it wants to pull you along if you allow it.
The devil comes in when we open the door to him through our uncrucified flesh. So our toughest battle is not with the devil, it is with the flesh. The devil is continually looking for open doors through which he can enter to attack us.
John 14: 30 says, “Hereafter I will not talk much with you for the prince of this world cometh, and hath nothing in me.” There was no place in the flesh of Jesus that the devil could have access to. Jesus was dead to Himself. He was dead to His own desires and His own agenda.
The power of darkness operates the most powerful scanning machines. As you are now, they can see you clearly in and out. They know whether any part of them is in you. They know how strong you are; they know those who are spiritual and those who are not. They know those who pray in the morning before going out, they know those who do not pray. They know those who do their quiet time and those who do not. They know those who are merely warming the benches in the church, who are not really serious with the Lord. They know those who are in the church to look for good, obedient, submissive wives, and they know those who are looking for very brilliant and rich husbands. They can detect the smallest compromise. They know the cleverly concealed sin. They know the evil habits you are covering. That is why the day of judgment would be very interesting. There are many things we do not know now, but on that day everything will be made manifest.
Jesus made one statement: “That which was done under the bed shall be proclaimed on housetops.” The person will be shouting it; he will have a megaphone and will be shouting it and everybody will know what he has covered. Those things inside your heart which the gentle voice of the Holy Spirit is saying, “Son this is not good, daughter this is bad,” and you ignore His voice, those are the grave clothes. You have liberty but not freedom. How can a believer go and buy clothes on credit. And then she puts on the dress and would not pass the front of the shop of the person who sold the dress to her for fear of the person saying, “You see the dress that woman is wearing, she has not paid for it.” It is the grave clothes. Why don’t you wash the ones you have, keep them clean and wear them? The devil defeats Christians who live with uncrucified flesh. The devil defeats Christians who leave the doors of their lives open to him. He is looking for houses to dwell in. He is looking for landing spaces and any area of a person’s life can be his landing space if you submit to him.
Mr. Flesh can completely paralyze the destiny of somebody if he submits any part of his life to him. If you submit your hair, he will grab it, If you submit your head, he will grab it, if you submit your thought he will grab it. If you submit your marriage he will grab it. If you submit your sex life, he will grab it. If you submit even ordinary fingernail, he will grab it. There are some people now who have stopped cutting their fingernails and they are as long those of the vultures and they have them painted up. Some buy and put on extra nails and paint them with mermaid colours. Then they start writing to us that they need deliverance from spirit husbands. May be you don’t know, just like physical men find some women very attractive, there are spirits that find some women very attractive. Those are the spirits who go about at night violating women and sexually harassing them. We should not make their job easy. Immediately you are dressing to make their job easy they will visit you.
The church is a house of God, a holy place, not a place you come wearing transparent dresses; or you are a man, you open your shirt and show the chain you put on for all to see. If you come before God you submit and humble yourself.
If you submit your lips to the enemy he will grab it. The number of men of God who hear from God clearly is reducing because of polluted ears. If you submit your ears to the enemy, he will grab them. If you submit your mouth to the enemy, he will grab it. If you submit your job to him he will grab it. If your kind of job requires that you tell lies every time, you better look for another job before you will end up in hell fire. Pray to God to provide you another job where you will not be telling lies. If you submit your eyes to the enemy, he will use it. If you give him your ambition, he will use it. If you give him your certificate, he will use it. If you give him your voice, he will use it. Most of those singing worldly songs that would send people to hell fire were trained by the church, but they are now used by the devil.
Galatians 5: 24 says, “And they that are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with the affection and lusts.” So, if you find that the enemy is strengthening himself against you, the area to check is your flesh. The thief in you must die. The hypocrisy in you must die, and the iniquity in you must die, so that the Spirit of God can use your life as He wants.
They that belong to Christ must crucify the flesh with the affection and lust. That is, if you don’t belong to Christ, you can live your life the way you want. But at he end of the day, you will arrive at the gate of life and the gate-keeper will say, “We don’t have your name here. You are our enemy. Get out, you worker of iniquity.” You may say, “Well, I will be doing it little by little.” The danger with little by little is that you don’t know the day the Lord will say, “Son, it is enough. Come home.” What we are saying is that Mr. death does not give you advance notice.
Somebody brought money to Peter and said, “Take this money, and give me this gift so that whoever I pray for will receive the Holy Spirit and will be speaking in tongues.” Peter looked at him and said, “Your money perish with you.” That is, there was nothing in Peter that would respond to that sensation and temptation for money.
Peter allowed God to crucify that area in his life. But this is the only area where the flesh is on the throne in many lives. The Bible says that we came to the world with nothing and that we will go away with nothing. You came to the world fasting and you will go back with an empty stomach. Why should you glue yourself to this sinking world, because you do not want to crucify the flesh.
The flesh is anything that is not energized by the Holy Spirit and is always fighting you. You want to read your Bible, it says, “sleep.” You want to pray and that would be when somebody will annoy you and you spend two hours fighting. You want to pray and it is that time they bring a vampire movie and you begin to watch. Many Christians engage in activities not ordained by the Holy Spirit. To get rid of our grave clothes, the bottom-line is that God should rule our flesh. Do not deceive yourself. Do not think that the flesh will improve, it cannot improve. It is rotten to the core. Many of the problems we have as individuals are caused by Mr. Flesh. For example, inability to take the right decisions, plain disobedience to God, looseness with the opposite sex, emotional problems, bad thinking, boiling anger, etc. we must take responsibilities for our own lives. When you say, “Mr. Flesh, die,” heavens will rejoice, and they will come to your aid. If you have not pointed your finger to yourself and say: “It is you that annoyed me. You made me to say this, you made me to say that,” you are not serious yet. But the day you point accusing finger to yourself, heaven will rejoice and will come to your aid.
Our most difficult problem is facing ourselves. In 1979, one brother prayed and said that one sister was his wife. The pastor invited him and the sister and said to the sister: “This brother has prayed and he says you are his God’s chosen wife.” The lady looked at the pastor and looked at the brother from head to toe and said, “Sorry, pastor, this one that is sitting down beside you cannot carry my load.” The pastor said, “Which load are you carrying that this person cannot help you to offload.” She said, “Pastor, that is my decision. That is what I want to do and that is it.” This is year 2012, and that sister is still looking for somebody to help her carry that load.
Philippians 3:3 says, “For we are the circumcision, which worship God in the spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh.” There should be no confidence in the flesh, for the flesh is dangerous and has no mercy. The flesh is harder to deal with than the devil. You cannot bind your own flesh. So the flesh is the harder problem, it needs to be crucified. Self-centredness, lack of discipline, boasting and stubbornness are nothing more than the flesh refusing to submit to the Holy Spirit. Many churchgoers are very stubborn. A stubborn person will say, “I will do it in my own way.” But the Bible says, “Woe unto those that at ease in Zion.” It also says, “If you walk with footmen and you are weary, what will you do when you are asked to walk with the horsemen?” It is the foot men that are around now but eventually they will go and the horse riders will come in, and things will get worse because that is what the Bible says. Evil men shall wax stronger and stronger and peace will disappear, unless we welcome the Prince of peace and the Lord of lords.
Everyday, we come across people who are trying to train Mr. Flesh more and more. They want to train Mr. Flesh not to overeat. They want to train their minds to think right but they cannot train the flesh, because the Bible says, “Those that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh, they that are after the spirit do mind the things of the spirit.” The flesh cannot please God. It cannot because it is in enmity with God. It is in contention with the Spirit of God and cannot fight the spiritual battle which we do everyday.
HOW DO WE OVERCOME THE FLESH?
When you are moving close to solution and you see your sad condition, you have started making progress. The day a mad man begins to ask questions like “Why am I wearing these clothes? What am I doing here? Why are you all starring at me?” his solution has started. But when the mad man has dirty clothes on and says, “Give me iron, I want to iron them,” then solution is not insight yet.
You should now prayer like John Knox. The same God who answered his prayer and made it impossible for demons and host of hell to paralyze his destiny, is still alive.
PRAYER POINTS
1. Oh God, break me, in the name of Jesus.
2. Oh God, kill the iniquity in my life, in the name of Jesus.
3. Every hindrance to open doors in my life, give way by fire, in the name of Jesus.
4. Spiritual blindness, clear out of my life, in the name of Jesus.
5. Where others are failing, I shall succeed by fire, in the name of Jesus.
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Dr. D. K. Olukoya
Father Lord, we lift up your name for you are a great God. You are the keeper of Israel who neither slumbers nor sleeps. If it was not the Lord that was with us, what would our Israel now say? Thank you heavenly Father. Accept our thanks, in Jesus’ name. Speak to us through this message. Put your fire in our spirits we bind every spirit of tragedy, in the mighty name of Jesus. Thank You heavenly Father, in Jesus’ name. Amen.
No matter how intelligent a person is, it would be very difficult for the person to switch on his torchlight in the dark and it will come on when the batteries are dead. Our message this week is entitled, “Charge your Batteries.” If the batteries inside your torchlight have rusted and grown old, although you may have a new bulb, you would still have a problem because you need power, which comes from the batteries to run the bulb. Matthew 5: 6: “Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.” Notice the strong phrase: ‘they shall be filled.’ That is, without fail, it must happen. In that passage we can see that the condition for being filled is to hunger and thirst after righteousness. The Bible says that those who fulfill this condition shall be filled. Jeremiah 29: 13: “And ye shall seek me, and find me, (under what condition?) when ye shall search for me with all your heart.” (it didn’t say with a part of your heart.) That is, God is asking for 100 per cent of your heart. In Luke 6: 21, our Lord also says, “Blessed are ye that hunger now: for ye shall be filled.” This is repeating what we read in Matthew 5: 6. In John 7: 37, a spectacular thing happened. Normally, Jesus does not raise His voice but in this verse, He did. Wherever you read about Jesus raising His voice in the Scriptures, know that it must be a very serious matter. John 7: 37 says, “In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, if any man thirst, let him come unto me and drink.” Please raise your voice and pray like this: “I drink now from the well of salvation, in Jesus’ name.
From the four Scriptures we have read, we can see the key to charging our spiritual batteries. The Bible says that in the last days men shall become lovers of money, lovers of themselves and that they would love pleasures more than God. It also says that there would be a lot of uproar and evil men shall wax stronger and stronger. So, we, as believers, cannot afford to sit down and be rejoicing about what happened yesterday, or what happened last year, or about how we prophesied the other time. We must continually charge our batteries. Our spiritual batteries have to be on fire. Any serious Christian must have at least one or two days in the week for fasting and praying. The reasons you need to do this one is to charge your batteries and get your cup filled over and over. Somebody asked a great preacher called D. L. Moody the following question: “Mr. Moody, why are you always talking about being filled and filled with the Holy Spirit?” Mr. Moody answered thus: “I always talk about us being filled and filled because we all leak and have to be re-filling and re-filling.” The power of God will manifest in your life all the time and the enemy cannot catch you unawares when you keep charging your batteries.
The devil is catching many Christians unawares because they are not charging their batteries. It is commonly said that when fire has gone from the cooking place, all kinds of insects and reptiles would have the confidence to go there. But when you have red-hot fire at the cooking place, it would be very difficult for a lizard to come near it. It is not possible.
INGREDIENTS FOR CHARGING OUR BATTERIES
God wants us to charge our batteries and the ingredients that will keep our batteries charged are known as spiritual hunger and thirst. So, two things that you must never lack in your spiritual life are hunger and thirst. Immediately they are gone from your life, forget it. It is a nice thing when you feel hungry to pray, read the word of God, or hear the word of God and it is a feeling of demotion, when you lose interest in these things. Wanting fire to remain in your life without this hunger and thirst, is like players gathering in a football pitch without a ball. The players cannot play any game. Hunger is the football in the football pitch, without it, there is no game. “Blessed are those that thirst and hunger after righteousness for they shall be filled.” It is time for many of us to pray that the snail anointing should get out of our spiritual lives. Sometime ago, in England, I preached the gospel and ministered to an English boy. I spoke to him on a Tuesday, and by the time we met again the following Tuesday for another meeting, this boy of about 17, had read through the whole Bible for the first time. He sat down and read the Bible through in one week. There are many people who have been born again for many years but are yet to read through the New Testament. Some people start, only to give up half way. Some have been saying, “Well, I will make sure that on weekends I’d keep my programme low so that I can be alone with God, pray, fast and read the word of God.” They boasted and started off only to give up by the third week. Such people cannot hope to charge their batteries. Do you want to receive great power from God? Then this hunger is a must; there is no two ways about it. Hunger for God is one of the greatest signs of spiritual people. Why is it that some people can pray for three or four hours non stop? It is because there is something inside their lives. When a person can read the whole of the book of Matthew at a sitting, there is something special inside the life of such a person. It is not possible to climb a spiritual mountain without any discipline. It is not possible for you to receive power without doing any consecration. Out of all the spiritual gifts in the Bible, the one that you see easily in people’s lives is prophecy. There are very few people in other areas because not many people are ready to consecrate themselves and drop a few things so that they can gain the power of God. It is very sad that true and powerful men of God are reducing in number.
Women are even a lot lower in number and this is very sad. Unless we as an end-time church, decides to pick up the mantle and determine that we must affect our own generation positively, God will blame us for allowing so many evil things to happen. Do you want this great power? Hunger is a must. Thousands of people come to the house of God, listen to the word of God, pray the prayers, come to all the services and join the groups but they remain unchanged. Some have already made up their minds on what to do before coming to church. They pick and choose from the messages. When you come to God like that, He would turn His face away. God does not want people who have made up their minds. He wants people He can mould into what He wants. Have you ever decided on your own to fast and pray for days just to be with God and for His power to fall upon your life not because of problems? A certain man said that when somebody is hungry he would not find any fault with the food. He would forget whether there is salt or none in the food. It is only when a person is not hungry that he begins to complain that the food is not okay. When you are hungry for God like that, the hunger drives you closer to God. A hungry man would learn something no matter who is preaching. It can be so sad for people to come before God and leave the same way they came. I pray that the Lord would open up our understanding, in Jesus’ name. Proverbs 8: 17: “I love them that love me; and those that seek me early shall find me.” Many start to seek the Lord at old age. Many always think that there is time and a lot of people don’t bother about God until they go to the cemetery. The above Scripture is saying that the time to seek God is now. Now is the time to be hungry for God not when you are older; not when you can no longer stand and pray for two hours. Some people feel that they have sufficient time to play around a little bit and be serious later. There is no time to be serious later, the time is now because you do not know when your time here would be up. All the excuses of “I am so busy in the office; my schedule is so tight, etc” would be useless. How sad it would be for you to tell the Lord that you spent all your life working in one office or reading Physics on the day of reckoning. A certain little boy who was hungry after God asked his father, “Daddy, what would I do to be on fire for God continually?” His father asked if he really meant what he was saying and the boy said yes. His father then took him to a small pond. Immediately they got there, his father bounced on him and pushed his head underneath the water. The boy began to struggle for air and as he was doing that, he was gulping water. At the third gulp, his father then released him and asked: “What did you desire most when I dipped your head inside the water?” The boy said, “Fresh air,” and the father said, “When you are hungry and thirsty after God like the way you thirsted for air now, fire will fall upon your life.” Beloved, that is it. Our aim should be for God to use us to cause a supernatural revival of apostolic signs and wonders. The apostles moved in the supernatural. They cast down strongholds, uprooted demonic trees, trampled upon satanic powers, worked earth-shaking miracles, turned cities upside down for Jesus, burned demonic materials and God used them to lay the foundation for what we are enjoying now.
WHAT IS THE PROBLEM OF PRESENT DAY CHRISTIANS?
Is sin our problem? No. The Apostles too were not perfect people. Is our problem insufficient quantity of the Holy Spirit? No. We have the same Holy Spirit as they had. Is our problem civilization? No, because it is actually Christianity that brought about civilization. Is it economic problem? No. The Bible says, “The earth is the Lord’s and the fullness thereof.” The problem is lack of hunger. The present-day Christians are not thirsty after God. The Lord picked up Peter who was fishing and catching nothing. And after Jesus picked him up, He said to him” “I will make you fishers of men.” So, God’s purpose for the life of Peter was to be a fisher of men. But the same Peter ran away in John 21 to do something else, the very thing that he was delivered from originally. What is causing our lack of hunger for the Lord these days can be found in the question Jesus asked Peter. John 21: 15 says, “So when they had dined, Jesus saith to Simon, (here, Jesus called him Simon instead of just the new name, Peter, which He had given Him. Meaning that something was wrong. Peter means a rock while Simon means a reed) son of Jonas, lovest thou me more than these? He saith unto him, Yea, Lord: thou knowest that I love thee. He saith unto him, Feed my lambs. He saith to him again the second time, (may be Jesus was suspicious of the first answer) Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me? He saith unto him, Yea, Lord; thou knowest that I love thee. He saith unto him, feed my sheep. He saith unto him the third time, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me? Peter was grieved because he said unto him the third time, Lovest thou me? And he said unto him Lord, thou knowest all things; thou knowest that I love thee. Jesus saith unto him, Feed my sheep.” Peter failed at a profession in which he was an expert. Many, too are failing woefully today at what they know how to do because of lack of the hunger for Jesus in them. Jesus was asking Peter if he loves Him more than all the disciples, more than his boats and more than his fishing. Today, He is asking you the same questions.
Do you love Jesus more than the world? Do you love Jesus more than all the glamorous things that are around you? Are you the kind of person who would abandon fellowship because you want to go to a worldly party? Do you love Jesus? It is the love for Him that would create the hunger. A story I read about Peter said that Peter was eventually arrested and locked up somewhere in Rome and as the soldiers were going to kill him, he escaped when he had the opportunity to do so. On his way out, he met Jesus and asked Him, “Lord where are you going?” and Jesus said. “To go and die for you the second time.” When Peter heard that, he walked back with his own legs to the Prison from which he had escaped because he remembered the words of the Lord to him; Do you love me? Feed my sheep.” He went back and they promptly caught him and as they were going to crucify him he said, Sirs, don’t crucify me the way you crucified Jesus.” So they turned Peter upside down and crucified him. That was how he died because he loved Jesus. The Bible says, “And they loved not their lives unto death.” The reason some people are afraid of death is because they don’t love Jesus. When you love Jesus, and the devil sees that you are no longer afraid of death, he will run away from you. A careful consideration of the following questions will help you to test your level of spiritual hunger for the Lord: Have you forgiven everyone who has offended you? Is there any malice or hatred in your heart? Another year is going now and God is putting everything on record. Do you cherish grudges in your heart? Have you refused to be reconciled with somebody you quarrelled with?
Do you get angry? Do you still lose your temper? Or do you boil internally? Do you get jealous? Is envy in your heart? Are you sweet and clean under heavy pressure or circumstances? Are you easily offended? Does it hurt you when somebody ignores you? Are you disturbed when you are neglected? Is there pride in your heart? Do you always like to be noticed? Are you always dishonest when it comes to money? Do you gossip about people? Do you discuss other people behind their backs in a negative way? Are you on assignment for Jesus? Do you obey Him all the time? Do you steal, particularly God’s money? Would the people of the world regard you as being different from them? It is sad when an unbeliever looks at a Christian and what he or she likes about the Christian is her kind of lipstick and finger nails polish instead of the holiness and righteousness of God in your life. Such a Christian is advertising vanity instead of advertising God. The person has become like Hezekiah who when some people came to visit him, he took them around and showed them the beauty of the temple and they left. Then God asked him, “Hezekiah, what have they found in your house?” He couldn’t talk. God said, “You advertised to them all the decorations and beauty but you refused to talk to them about the God of Israel that added 15 years to your life. Shouldn’t that be the first thing to talk to them about?” God had to deal with him. Have you wronged anyone and you don’t want to make restitution? Are you a spiritual-yes person? Do you receive anything from the Holy Spirit? Have you received the spirit of Zacchaeus? Do you steal spoons, beds, chairs, office equipment, etc from hotels and offices? Are you an extortioner? These are the things that kill spiritual fire. Are you a fornicator or an adulterer? Do you get anxious or worried about any small thing? Do you pretend to have forgiven somebody when you have not really forgiven the person? Do you disobey men of God? Are you guilty of immorality in the heart? Do you harbour in-pure or unholy imaginations? Are you the kind of person who exaggerates? Do you tell lies to cover up your faults? Do you pray for others? Are you guilty of the sin of prayerlessness?
Are you neglecting the Bible? How many chapters a day of the Bible do you read? Do you witness about Jesus to people? Do you have compassion in your heart for souls that are perishing? Have you lost your first love for the Lord? How can a person planning for heaven buy a tie worth N20,000 whereas he cannot spend N5,000 to buy tracts and distribute to people so that they can at least enjoy the benefits of Jesus? Do you attend parties of unbelievers and start to look around and hope that nobody from your church is there to see you because if they see you, you would be used to preach the following Sunday and so you stay in the dark areas? These are the way check the level of your hunger for the Lord. Beloved, think about these things. James the son of Zebedee, an apostle, loved the Lord until his death. When he was going to be killed, he witnessed to the Roman soldiers who were taking him away. The executor became interested and when they got to where James was to be killed, the soldier said, “Sorry, you have to kill us together. I am not killing this man. His colleagues reported him. So James did not die alone. He died with the soldier that was meant to kill him. They loved not their lives unto death. Under harsh conditions, some Christians would deny Jesus. This is very sad. The reason masquerades and other things are running after many people in the dream is because they are afraid of death. The apostles passed that level. They loved not their lives unto death. We read that Philip was dragged on the ground until the whole of his clothes were torn and he was terribly wounded before he was nailed on the tree. Matthew was made to sit down and clubbed to death. They loved not their lives unto death. Stephen was stoned to death. Brother Andrew was crucified naked on a cross with an ‘X’ shape. The man who wrote the book of Mark in the Bible was dragged on the ground before an idol while he was preaching until his flesh was torn into pieces. They loved not their lives unto death. Almost all the apostles died a terrible death because of the gospel. Are you hungry for Jesus? Is the hunger for God in you now higher than what it was last year? Now that another year is coming, are you still at that same level of breaking down and crying instead of standing your ground and fighting the enemy? What then do we do now? We need to pray seriously that the Lord should close down every factory of the enemy in our lives. It is from this factory that anger and all kinds of evil things are coming out. All satanic factories should be closed down because their existence will entrench lack of hunger for God and kill spiritual fire. We also need to pray that the power of resurrection should enter into our lives afresh. When the power of resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ comes upon you, you will not be afraid of anything because since Christ is still living in you, nobody can kill you. We also need to pray that every spirit of death and hell should depart. The spirit of death and hell operates in two ways: 1. They sponsor untimely death. 2. They deposit people in hell fire. We have to stand against them so that the fire of revival will enter into our souls and when this happens to us, you need not tell somebody that God has done a miracle in your life. People will know that something has happened to you. You have to go to the mountain where God wants you to be and if you need to be pushed, for you to get there, you shall be given the push. One practical way of getting started is to get serious with your Bible study. Another practical way is to decide to pray for a minimum of half an hour per day and stick to it no matter what happens. Please pray the following prayer points with these four things: holy stubbornness, holy aggression, holy violence and stubborn faith.
PRAYER POINTS
1. Every factory of the enemy militating against me, fall down and die, in Jesus’ name.
2. O Lord, send your resurrection power into my life in the name of Jesus.
3. Every spirit of death and hell, my life is not your candidate, in the name of Jesus.
4. Every evil root growing in my family, be uprooted by fire, in the name of Jesus.
5. Inherited demotion, fall down and die, in the name of Jesus.
6. Every power sitting on my promotion, be unseated by fire, in the name of Jesus.
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Dr. D. K. Olukoya
Beloved, before we go into this message, I would like you to make the following declaration: “I am not a second class citizen. I declare that greater is He that is in me than he that is in the world. Any power trying to pull me down must scatter to pieces because my feet are on the Rock of ages who will never fail me. I decree that God has something special for me and every stage of my life shall glorify His name. If others are going through a particular problem in my family, my case is different because I am a child of the living God and the hand of the Lord is upon my life, in Jesus’ name.”
Our message this week, which is entitled, “Breaking the evil link,” would focus on a particular item, which has been a source of hindrance for many. We are going to concentrate all our prayers on this area since the Holy Spirit is emphasizing it. Several years ago, a certain man was brought to one of our meetings. He had gone to an all-night party and while the party was on, he told the fellow sitting close to him that he wanted to go and ease himself and the person directed him to the right place. So he went and over there, he saw a relative of his who was dead and he said, “What are you doing at the back of this building?” And the supposed ghost gave him a dirty slap. People wanted to take him to the hospital but he told them to take him to a church that his case was not a hospital one. At the time he was brought to the meeting, his mouth was bent to one side. Members of his family followed him to the church but they were not interested in praying. They pitched a small camp at the back of the church where they cooked his meals and people were going there to pray for them. But I noticed that even during service, these people who came with him were not interested in what we were saying. They just sat down there. I told them that that was a church and if they did not want to pray, they should please excuse us. They said, “You cannot force us to pray. We shall take our brother away.” I said, “Okay, take your brother away.” But the man kept begging that I should not allow them to take him away, that if they did, I would not see him alive again. He knew that he was not safe with them. But one afternoon, they smuggled him out and about 50 meters from the church, the man died in their car. He was slapped by a dead man and surrounded by evil agents who followed him to the house of God and eventually finished him up. Then they rushed back to the church and started crying and saying that he was dead. I asked them why they took him away from the church but none of them answered. What happened to that man? There was an evil link between him and members of his family, which he discovered too late.
There was also the case of a particular sister who at 45, never had a bachelor who showed any interest in her not to talk of proposing marriage to her. It was only married men with many wives that were coming to her. She came to me and I gave her a prayer point which says, “Lord, show me the secret behind this problem, in the name of Jesus.” She prayed the prayer point and in a dream, she saw herself in a big wedding in the dream. At the wedding was a big choir, and a very fat pastor conducting the wedding. Then something told her to look at the face of the bridegroom who was just saying, “I will” to everything they were saying. By the time she looked at the bridegroom, behold it was her own father and she woke up. She didn’t understand. I explained to her that it meant that spiritually, she was married to her daddy. She said, “Well, I just know that we are close. I am closer to him than my mummy and he talks to me about deep things which he doesn’t talk to mummy about.” So, her daddy was not really ready to release her to any man. Spiritually, he got her engaged. That is what we call an evil link. If someone is under such linkage, it has to be broken. Many years ago too, I knew a lady whose mother had died 10 years earlier but had never accepted that she was dead. She told me that she spoke to her everyday. She said, “If you offend me, I will report you to her.” Evil link.
These kinds of things are not the kinds of things any born again Christian should be seeing or experiencing because the Bible says that it is given unto man to die once and after that judgment. The Bible also says that there is no relationship between the dead and the living. The eternal words of those angels to the disciples of Jesus were “Why are you seeking the living amongst the dead?” The people I have just described are examples of those who are being remotely controlled through an unprofitable communication system.
In a small book entitled, “Bitten by Demons” there is the story of a certain girl who was always screaming that some things were biting her. Nobody could see the things biting her but the marks of the bites were all over her body. She was taken to the doctors but the doctors could not help her. They could not even diagnose her problem. The government brought her on air and called the best doctors; neuro-physicians, psychiatrists, etc, but they could not help. Then they brought her on air and said anyone who could help should please come. It was then a certain preacher turned up and said he knew what to do. He asked if anyone knew what was biting the girl but no one could answer him. To address the problem, he first of all gave them a lecture on the three forces in the universe:
He told them that whatever power was biting the girl could not be the positive power. Both the doctors and other people present there agreed with him. Then he started praying, and as he prayed, the girl started screaming saying that all the things biting her were all there and the man of God said, “Yes, let all of them come, I will deal with them.” And to the glory of God, he dealt with the problem in the name of Jesus. That incidence threw the evangelist into limelight. He cut the link between the girl and the demons and she was free. Why were they able to terrorize her for that long? There was a link.
There are some men who are controlled by their mothers and to marry such people, you have a battle to fight. I have seen a case where whenever the mother-in- law came to visit, she would sleep on the same bed with her son while his wife slept in a different room and the man couldn’t see anything wrong in it. When his wife complained, the man said she should stop complaining, after all that was the person he was sleeping with before he met her. My prayer is that every evil link affecting your life shall break, in the name of Jesus.
There could be an evil link between friends. Some of the people we call friends in school are not friends. In fact, there are so many people we call friends that are sent against us to steal our virtues.
A certain young man came to me crying. What was his problem? Sometime ago, he went to a lagoon front to relax and according to him, he was looking at the lagoon and suddenly, he fell into some sort of sleep and by the time he opened his eyes, he found a woman sitting beside him. He didn’t know where the woman came from. She started complaining about JAMB admission, etc. and he got carried away and committed immorality with her. Since that day, every marriage plans he had failed. Every nice woman he got involved with, ran away. They did not want to stay even though he had everything that could make them comfortable. But the prostitutes liked to stay longer. What happened? There was an evil link between him and the strange woman at the lagoon.
There could be an evil tie between children and parents which needs to be broken before there could be marital breakthrough. There could be an evil tie between a person and an adulterer. This is why sex outside marriage is wrong and bad. A person’s problem may sometimes be traced to a casual relationship with a married man or married woman. I got a letter from a young man of 22 in the university. He financed his education by looking around for women who could pay him money to sleep with them. So, there are so many women who play games with their husbands. He got one who wanted more than a casual relationship. She brought him into her matrimonial home and explained to her husband that he was her junior brother from the village. One day, the husband caught them and sued for divorce. The 47 year- old woman and the young man of 22 were ashamed but they could not split. The woman said, “You made me lose my husband, so you stay.” Then the boy wrote me a letter saying, “Sir, I heard that you are coming to Kaduna. I know that my wife /husband will not allow me to go out. Please Sir, help me with prayers. Try and help me sir, but don’t send anybody to this address because if she knows about it, she would kill me.” An evil link. Even if that woman died, he would still be in trouble. Sometimes, some people think they are very smart, not knowing that they are looking for trouble.
There could be an evil tie between close friends. If you sit down and review your friends right from secondary school to primary school and begin to put their spiritual lives on the ladder of fire, the Holy Spirit might help you to locate the terrible ones among them who have done evil things against you. There could be an evil tie between a person and a group. This could come in the form of binding agreements.
There could be an evil tie formed by fornication and immorality. The more women or men you sleep with outside marriage, the tighter the linkage would be. This is why the Bible warns us seriously against these kinds of things.
This then will answer a lot of questions that have been troubling the minds of many. Questions like: Why is it that certain problems are always sticking to certain people? Why is it that sometimes after hot prayers, some problems become stronger? Why is it that sometimes a problem stages a comeback? Why do some evil spirits stick to a particular environment? Why is it that some people see some particular people in the dream all the time? Why should the dead parents of a person keep pursuing the person? Why should the dead friend of somebody keep pursuing the person? Why should a person continue to dream of a particular dangerous animal all the time? Why do some people attach themselves to some people even when they know that it is wrong?
Sometime ago, there was a big fight between a woman and her husband. I went there to pacify them and tell them to stop fighting. But the woman insisted on leaving the man. So I asked what was the problem. The husband said that his wife’s junior sister who was living with them was the one causing problems for them and that he had asked the girl to go back home. The wife caught in and said that if the girl was going, she too would go. Why? Evil link.
Why should an adult of 21 or 25 be cuddling teddy bears or dolls, which she had 15 years ago? This is why Psalms 129: 4: “The Lord is righteous: he hath cut asunder the cords of the wicked.” What is the cord of the wicked? It means their linkage, that with which they operate. Isaiah 5: 18 “Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as it were with a cart rope.”
We have these passages in the Bible because there could be an evil link between a wicked person and somebody who claims to be righteous. There could also be an evil link between a person and an evil spirit. The evil spirit will not be inside the person. Get that clear. It is not all evil spirits that want to enter people. Some evil spirits don’t operate inside. They stay around, outside, pushing away good things. Why are they around? It is because there is a link.
There could be an evil link between a family idol and a person. There could be a link between a person and a curse running in the person’s family. This is why we have to pray for spiritual surgery so that all these evil links can be destroyed. Spiritually, a lot of people are being pulled around with a spiritual rope like an unwilling goat going for slaughter. Such ropes must break today, in Jesus’ name. If you don’t break these things, the soul ties would remain and your life would become a dumping ground for the enemy.
When these links are in place, you would be following another person blindly. You will be fulfilling the desire of another person and may also be experiencing the problems that person is passing through. It can give rise to false love. You may call it love whereas it is lust. It may cause relationship based on lust, witchcraft, domination, etc. These spiritual cords just have to be broken. It is important for you to ensure that none of these linkages are in place.
If, for example, when you were in the world, you had a boyfriend whom you almost married or a girlfriend you were almost going to marry, if that tie is still in place in the spirit, getting a fresh person would be a problem. There are many people who have left their pictures behind in the house of their former girlfriends and boyfriends. Only heavens know what they do with those pictures now. So, now is the time to deal with these issues once and for all. Please, pray the following prayer points with holy madness:
PRAYER POINTS
1. I break every evil unbiblical cord. Break, break, break, in the name of Jesus.
2. I break every evil unbiblical cord by fire, in the name of Jesus.
3. Evil spiritual parents, release me now, in the name of Jesus.
4. Evil spiritual partners, release me now, in the name of Jesus.
5. Evil spiritual marriage, release me now, in the name of Jesus.
6. Every enemy of my marital breakthrough, loose your hold, in the name of Jesus.
7. Every spiritual competitor against my marriage be scattered, in the name of Jesus.
8. I remove every garment magnetizing anything evil to me, in the name of Jesus.
9. Begin to thank the Lord for His deliverance upon your life, in Jesus’ name.
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Dr. D. K. Olukoya
This is a direct message from the Lord to you today. The fact that God has preserved your life up till this time means that He has a purpose for your life. The message is entitled, “Candidates of bewitchment.” Acts. 8: 9 – 13: “But there was a certain man called Simon which beforetime in the same city used sorcery, and bewitched the people of Samaria, giving out that himself was some great one. (So the man had been bewitching the people of Samaria.) To whom they all gave heed, (although he was bewitching them, they all gave him 100 per cent attention) from the least, to the greatest, saying, This man is the great power of God. And to him they had regard, because that of a long time, he had bewitched them with sorceries. But when they believed Philip preaching the things concerning the kingdom of God, and the name of Jesus Christ, they were baptized, both men and women. Then Simon himself believed also; and when he was baptized, he continued with Philip, and wondered, beholding the miracles and signs which were done.” Later, the secret of Simon was revealed and it was known that he was a sorcerer.
Many people and many nations are being bewitched. The Lord has a controversy with many people because they are not walking the way He wants them to walk. Many people go to churches to get themselves entertained instead of getting their spirit man changed. Many are working below the standard God wants them to work. Such people must do something before God looks away from them because bewitchment is a terrible thing and it is taking an epidemic proportion these days. Many people now are behaving just like the Samaritans in the scriptures above. The people of Samaria were under so much suffering but they never realised it. They were under blindness and satanic elusion but they didn’t know. They praised the very man who was destroying them. They did not really know who Simon was. He was sapping them dry but they believed he was delivering them. It is the same thing with a lot of people. They do not know whom they are dealing with and what such people do at night. They are just being sapped dry. Simon was destroying them properly and thoroughly but satan made sure they were blinded to it.
This is not a time to be spiritually blind, so you better pray off the blindness now. The people of Samaria ignorantly hailed their enemy. They called their friends, enemies and called their enemies friends. This is what we call bewitchment.
A lot of people invest their money where they are not supposed to and they have been losing. Some put their legs where they should not put their legs and they are licking their wounds now. In Samaria, destruction had already settled over them, sadness was everywhere in the city; unclean spirits had already possessed so many people. Nevertheless, they went about normally. They dressed in three – piece suits and went about like respected men and women although they were bewitched. Successful businessmen and politicians of Samaria were all blinded by the devil. There were sicknesses in the land, it never bothered them. There were unclean spirits everywhere, almost in every home, yet they felt strangely normal. They thought Simon was the answer to their problems whereas he was the problem. Slowly, ironically, they were dying and praising the man who was drowning their boat.
What was happening in Samaria? Bewitchment. They were bewitched, but all of a sudden, the Holy Spirit located Simon and declared him as a satanic agent. We have a lot of people going about looking normal and respectable but inside, they are bewitched.
WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE BEWITCHED?
It means to be spiritually influenced by the power of witchcraft. Bewitchment is casting a spell on people. You find a lot of people burying cows alive, some eating raw animals in order to bewitch others and they succeed in caging so many people. That is the bewitching power of the devil. It is when a person has been captured like this that he cannot move ahead again. Although he is making motions, he is not making any progress.
Examine your life to see the dark areas of your heart that the light of God has not touched. A lot of negative things are manifesting in the dark regions of people’s lives. Except they allow these dark regions to be reached by the fire of the Holy Ghost, they would continue to be bewitched. They urgently need to work on these areas of their lives that are still bewitched.
Perhaps, you have been allowing sin to bewitch you and God has been warning you, talking to you, and even making some trouble to come your way so that you can sit up, yet you hold on to the sin. A prophet of God is telling you that sin is a viper and that it would certainly kill, but something makes you to continue in that evil excitement and it removes the eyes from the effect of the bewitchment, trouble is coming. All the “I don’t know what made me to do it,” is the work of bewitchment.
Bewitchment paints sin in attractive colours and makes it respectable. Things like pride, drunkenness, indiscipline, rebellion, lying, dishonesty, homosexuality, gossiping, promiscuity, laziness, drug addiction, belonging to one cult or the other, adultery, prostitution, are evidence of bewitchment.
WHO IS A BEWITCHED PERSON?
THE GOOD NEWS
The good news is that Jesus came and was manifest in the flesh. The Creator was made a creature. It was a fantastic process of humility. Jesus who was clothed in glory now wore rags of the flesh. He, whose glory filled the heavens and the earth was now carried into a cot in a manger because He wanted to deliver us from bewitchment.
He, the God of circumcision was circumcised. The one who owns the earth and the fullness thereof got to a level where He said, “I am hungry, I am thirsty.” The God of life was put to death. The One that said, “I and the Father are one,” now cried, “My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?” In His lifetime, He had no where to lay His head. And when He died too, there was nowhere to lay His body. The Kings of kings was punished, a crown of thorns was placed on His head. His holy ears listened to the blasphemies of men; His face was spat upon, His back was beaten, those hands of power that came on the sick and the sick recovered were nailed to the cross. His soul was forsaken on the cross. Why? So that the whole of the bewitching power of satan, of sin and of the world would be broken, so that the light of God can shine into the darkness of our lives. So that the enemy does not bewitch us anymore. That facility is still open now for those who want to take advantage of it.
Nowadays, a lot of people go to the market and never come back. Some go to buy refrigerators and end up inside the refrigerators. A lot of terrible things are happening in the world today but God has better things for us. If we will lay down our sins, come to repentance, humble ourselves so that God can speak peace into every situation of our lives, our lives would be changed for the better.
You have an opportunity to receive the touch of God in a mighty way and for all the bewitchment of the past years in your life to completely disappear so that you can start a new life. If only you can seize this wonderful opportunity.
SIN
Sin says, “I don’t care about what God is saying, I don’t care about God’s commandments, I prefer to please myself to pleasing Him. I am going to be the Lord of myself.” Sin is not moved by the blessings and gifts of God. It makes one to treat the Almighty God with contempt. The music of sinners is; “I don’t care what God requires, I must have my own way. I refuse to submit to the authority of God. I don’t care what God Almighty has threatened to do, I am not afraid. His eyes may be upon me but I am not going to be restrained, I don’t care what He wants and what He hates. I shall please myself.” That is the music of sinners. But God is asking for repentance today. Where there is no Holy Spirit, there is failure. Do not allow your life to remain the same after reading this message.
2 Chronicles 7: 14 says, “If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.” You must turn away from any evil pattern that you have been following. If you have not made peace with God, you must do so now and repent completely. If there are 50 leakages in a ship and you block 49, the one left can still sink the ship. So your repentance must be entire. God does not want you to be serious today and unserious tomorrow. God does not want you to go back to your vomits. This is the message He has for you as you go further into the year.
A lot of people are under the power of bewitchment. A lot of people are being controlled by the powers they do not understand and a lot of people cannot even see the spiritual powers controlling their environments. Many do not even recognise that the fellow they are sitting with in the office may be calling on another thing to undo or subdue them. It is bewitchment. At this juncture, I want you to make this declaration out loud with holy anger: “Bewitchment must die, in the name of Jesus.”
This message is not for entertainment. It is for you to possess your possession. Therefore, I encourage you to give your life to Christ if you have not done so because you cannot defeat bewitchment except by the power in the blood of Jesus.
HOW TO GIVE YOUR LIFE TO CHRIST AND BECOME A CHILD OF GOD
If you are ready to accept Him, then take this prayer before you pray against bewitchment: Father, in the name of Jesus, I come to you knowing that I am a sinner. I confess my sins (mention the ones you can readily remember now and repent of them). Have mercy upon me and forgive me my sins. I accept Jesus as my Lord and Savior. Cleanse me Lord with your blood. Thank you Father Lord, in Jesus’ name. Amen.
PRAYER POINTS
Bewitchment must die, in the name of Jesus.
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Dr. D. K. Olukoya
Psalm 16:10 “For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.”
WHAT IS A DISGRACE?
It is made up of two words: ‘dis’ and ‘gracia’. ‘Dis’ means out of and ‘gracia’ means grace. So, the word disgrace means out of grace. Or rightly put in our modern English, it means loss of honor, loss of respect, loss of good name. It can also mean to bring shame upon a person. The word shame in the Bible has so many aspects to it. Shame can come as an offence or as a consciousness of sin to someone who has done something wrong and has been discovered. Shame can come as a result of pride or when the reputation of a person has been injured. So, the result of being disgraced is shame. Shame also can come from God. In order to reprove sin, God can allow shame to come upon a person.
Many years ago, a man of God went to a village to hold a crusade and as his usual practice , he went to pray on their source of water. As he got to the small river in the village, with a gentle smile, he said to the people who had gathered and were clapping and singing, “Well, I want to pray on this water now. If you know that you are not clean, please don’t drink out of it.” He said this twice, prayed on the water and everybody started drinking. There was a woman there who happened to be respectable in the church. In fact, she was called “Mother in the church.” First of all, she stood at the back and did not want to drink. But later, she changed her mind, being a popular person in the church, because she felt that people would begin to wonder why she, of all persons would not drink out of the water that a father in the Lord had prayed on. That was her mistake. She drank and immediately, somersaulted, and in the process her clothes were flown open and people could see that she had a male organ and a female organ as well. Everybody fled in terror and the man of God smiled again and said, “But I warned that anyone who was not clean should not drink.” God put her to shame.
SOURCES OF SHAME
The Bible makes us to understand that shame can come from God, it can come from satan, and can also come from man. Shame can come from false satanic judgment. The devil can judge a person and declare him guilty even when he is not, in order to put him to shame. Unless this kind of thing is properly dealt with, it can bring a person down. At this juncture, I would like you to say, “I reject disgrace, in the name of Jesus.”
Jeremiah 3: 24 says, “For shame hath devoured the labour of our fathers from our youth; their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.” So, shame can devour the labour of a person. This powerful emotion called shame is a great weapon in the hand of the enemy and he likes to use it on people and places. The terrible thing about it is that it hits people from the inside and destroys them internally. It could eat away the strength of the confidence of a person. It can disable and amputate a person completely and make him ineffective in the service of the Lord. To be mighty in faith and in the Holy Spirit, you must confront the spirit of shame and defeat it.
DIFFERENT KINDS OF SHAME
The shame that comes from God can be handled with God. When you repent, the Lord will forgive you and will remove the shame from you. But the one that the enemy plans must be confronted and dealt with. Proverbs 3: 35 says, “The wise shall inherit glory but shame shall be the promotion of fools.” So foolish living and actions that are not prudent will bring disgrace. Proverbs 10: 5 says, “He that gathereth in summer is a wise son: but he that sleepeth in a harvest is a son that causeth shame.” Sleeping during the time of physical or spiritual harvest will bring disgrace. When others are struggling, and you just sit down and take no action, it means you are inviting disgrace upon your life. Proverbs 11: 2 says, “When pride cometh, then cometh shame: but with the lonely is wisdom.” The Bible says that pride brings shame. Proverbs 16: 18 says, “Pride goeth before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall.” Proverbs 13: 18 says, “Poverty and shame shall be to him that refuseth instruction, but he that regarded reproof shall be honoured.” Refusing instruction will bring disgrace. Proverbs 18:13 says, “He that answereth a matter before he heareth it, it is folly and shame unto him.” That is speaking before you listen and think.” A ‘know it all spirit’ will bring shame. Proverbs 29: 15 says, “The rod and reproof give wisdom but a child left to himself bringeth his mother to shame.” So, parents who allow their children to rear themselves, who shirk their responsibilities as fathers and mothers, are courting shame.
Let’s look at the first instance of disgrace in the Bible. Genesis 3: 9 – 10: “And the Lord God called unto Adam and said unto him, Where art thou? And he said I heard thy voice in the garden and I was afraid because I was naked and I hid myself.” Shame and nakedness are accompanied by fear. So, shame is a spirit on its own and an embodiment of some other powerful agents. As you are reading this message, does something in your life frigthen you? Is there something you are afraid that it may be discovered? Because Adam was afraid, he hid himself. Do you avoid certain issues because you are afraid of being discovered? Or may be the spirit of shame is whispering to your ears that you are a failure? Those spirits that say, “Well, don’t let anybody see you and find out about this one, just cover it up,” are the spirits of shame.
Many times, failure to get ahead financially can be traced back to the sins of one’s forefathers. A curse on a family can produce an inheritance of shame. Alcoholics are people heavily loaded with shame. Sometimes, by the time the spirit of disgrace and shame is sent upon a person, other things like alcoholism and confusion will set in. Eventually, the victim ends up messing himself up in the street. A girl was put in the family way. The father woke her up one morning and asked her who put her in the family way and she said, “Joshua.” “Where does Joshua live?” her father asked. She told him and he asked her to take him there. They went to the house of Joshua and Joshua came out smoking Indian hemp. He asked the father and the daughter what they wanted and the father said, “This girl said that you were the one who got her pregnant. He removed the Indian hemp, looked at the man’s face and said, “I hope you are not mad?” He further said to the old man, “I don’t know this girl. I have not seen her anywhere. If you don’t clear out from this place, I will use cutlass on you.” The man and his daughter went away in shame. He kept on asking the girl if she was sure she did anything with the man called Joshua. The girl told him there was another man too who had an affair with her. They went to his house and knocked at the door. He came out and asked them what they wanted. The father asked him if he was the one that put his daughter in the family way. The man looked at him and said, “Daddy, this your daughter has no home training. It is true that I was involved but I know about four others.” He turned to the girl and said, “Is it true?” The girl could not talk. She told the father that there was still another one living somewhere. But by now the father was totally ashamed. The girl was used to bring shame upon that family.
The spirit of shame can stop a person from becoming a victorious soldier. Perhaps as you are reading this now, there is something in your past which is continually troubling you and you feel that if you expose it, it will totally demolish your world. You have to seek deliverance from the spirit of shame.
Because shame is an extremely strong spiritual weapon, our enemies use it against us. But we can decide to use that same weapon of shame against the enemy. Psalm 109: 29 says, “Let mine adversaries be clothed with shame, and let them cover themselves with their own confusion as with a mantle.” Here, the psalmist is using the same weapon of shame against the enemy. Psalm 35: 4 says, “Let them be confounded and put to shame that seek after my soul, let them be turned back and brought to confusion that devise my hurt.” Again, the psalmist is using the weapon of shame to fight the enemy. Psalm 31: 17 says, “Let me not be ashamed, O Lord for I have called upon thee, let the wicked be ashamed and let them be silent in the grave.” Again, the same weapon against the enemy. There are so many other passages like that.
Shame promotes frustration that is why the enemy uses it. And when shame is backed up with a curse, it can bring dishonour, confusion and poverty. That is why parents should not say to their children, “Shame on you.” It is a powerful curse never to be issued on young children. If you have seen the demon of shame before, you will not ask it to come on anybody apart from your spiritual enemies.
WHAT IS THE PROVISION OF JESUS FOR DISGRACE?
In the substitutionary death of Jesus, our curses, poverty and shame came upon Him. Isaiah 50: 6 says, “I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair: I hid not my face from shame and spitting.” So, Jesus had already borne shame for us that is why we can react to it. Let us look at the example of one man in the Bible that the enemy tried to disgrace. Acts 28:1 says, “And when they were escaped, they knew that the Island was called Melita. (Paul was already in the ship with other prisoners and the captain of the ship who was a Roman solider. He had told them before they travelled that, “Sir, I perceive that this journey will be very hazardous, not only for our luggage, but for our lives also.” But they took him for a common prisoner and did not listen to him. They ran into a storm in the midst of the sea and problems started. For two weeks, they could not eat. They threw all their luggage into the sea.
After two weeks, Paul stood up and said, “Men and brethren, I told you this before it happened. Now you can see for yourselves. However, the angel of the Lord whom I serve, stood by me tonight and said none of us shall perish. Take food and eat.” They still could not eat. Then he broke it and started to eat in their presence. Then the prisoner became the controller of the ship. They eventually got into this Island called Melita. But by the time they got there, their ship was broken to pieces. They escaped to the Island on planks of wood, after spending days and days on the sea). Verse 2 says, “And the barbarous people showed us no little kindness, for they kindled a fire and received us every one, because of the present rain, and because of the cold. And when Paul had gathered a bundle of sticks and laid them on the fire, there came a viper out of the heat, and fastened on his hand. And when the barbarians saw the venomous beast hang on his hand, they said among themselves, No doubt this man is a murderer, whom, though he hath escaped the sea, yet vengeance suffereth not to live. (They knew that they were prisoners and were surprised that in spite of all the suffering they had gone through on the sea, a viper still attacked him. So, they concluded that he must have been an evil person). And he shook off the beast into the fire, and felt no harm. (You too shall shake off the viper of disgrace, in Jesus’ name. Those vipers were so bad and terrible that they fed on scorpions. They knew that anybody who was bitten by them would soon swell up and die). Howbeit, they looked when he should have swollen, or fallen down dead suddenly: but after they had looked a great while, and saw no harm come to him, they changed their minds, and said that he was a god.” In the same quarters were possessions of the chief man of the Island whose name was Publius; who received us, and lodged us three days courteously. And it came to pass, that the father of Publius lay sick of a fever and of a bloody flux: to whom Paul entered in, and prayed, and laid his hands on him, and healed him. So when this was done, other also, which had diseases in the island, came, and were healed. Who also honoured us with many honours; and when we departed, they laded us with such things as were necessary.”
THE HIDDEN VIPER OF THE ENEMY
Look at what satan planned at the end of the book of the Acts of the apostles against apostle Paul. He planted defeat and death for him. He planned to terminate and disgrace Paul. How can it be said that a viper killed the man who raised the dead. The devil has a hidden viper of disgrace within the woods to bite the believer. Satan could hide his viper as you go about your daily duty. There was a viper in the life of Gehazi. Although, he was studying to be a prophet, a viper was lying down there until Naaman came. Naaman thought that prophet Elisha would come out and pray some fire prayers on him. But Elisha did not come out. He just said his servant should tell him to go to the River Jordan and dip himself there seven times and he shall be made whole. He went though hesitantly and dropped his leprosy in Jordan. Beloved, we must be very careful. The spirit of leprosy that left Naaman stayed in the waters waiting for the next candidate. Please pray this prayer point: “I will not carry any evil luggage, in Jesus’ name.” The Bible makes it very clear that there are arrows that are flying about, and destruction and pestilence that are walking around. There are accidents waiting to happen all over the place. (I will not be a part of it, in Jesus’ name). Naaman offered some gifts to Elisha but he refused to accept them. But immediately the viper of disgrace in the life of Gehazi came out and he collected the gifts secretly from Naaman. When he came back, he tried to deceive the prophet, but the prophet said, “Did I not follow you in the spirit when you went outside. Is this the time to receive gifts?” Meaning that there is time to receive gifts and a time to reject them. Why did God not want Elisha to receive that gift? It was because the Syrians were idol worshippers and everything they brought to the land of Israel was polluted stuff. Gehazi went for it and the prophet said to him, “Well, since you have done this, instead of getting the double portion that I got from my master Elijah, the leprosy of Naaman shall cleave unto you.” And unfortunately he did not stop there, he also said “And unto your offspring.” So, it is possible that most of the lepers we see now are descendants of Gehazi. The prosperity of Naaman gave rise to the leprosy of Gehazi. We must be very careful. Gehazi’s viper came out and put him in trouble. When the viper of disgrace is inside the life of a Christian, he will become history while he is still living.
A sister came to me crying saying, “I don’t know, whenever I am struggling to grow in the Lord, a certain man would come and mess everything up.” I said to her, “No. It is not the man messing you up, you have a viper disgracing you.” Beloved, maybe your own is the viper of arrogance, pride, or strife, hidden inside of you. Many have fallen and never rose again and the devil came to their funeral ceremony and sang. One of the best prophets that God has ever sent to Nigeria was a victim of the viper. When you talk about prophetic anointing, it is difficult to find an equal of that fellow. He was so good that if you brought a mad man before him, and his problem was demonic, this prophet would tell you what area of the body haboured the evil materials troubling him and before your eyes, he would call them out, collect and throw them away. They would appear physically and instantly the mad man would be jumping up and rejoicing. He exhibited the power of God anywhere he went. But he had a viper which was women. Eventually, he was completely messed up. When he died, there was no pastor at his burial. It was viper of disgrace. There was also a certain woman whose husband was a very powerful Evangelist. Before they commenced a crusade, she would lead praise worship and miracles would be happening even before the man of God came on stage. All of a sudden, this woman started sleeping with their landlord who was an Alhaji. Before you knew it, she travelled to Mecca. The viper of disgrace in her life had come to the surface. No wonder the Bible says, “Let him that thinketh he stand, take heed lest he falls.” What a bad testimony for people to say that Brother so, so and so who was on fire for God before is now smoking and drinking. What a bad testimony to say that Sister so, so and so was on fire for God once, but fell into sin and ran away with another person’s husband. That is why the following prayer point is a very important one. It says, “My enemies will not write the last chapter of my life, in the name of Jesus.” Our olden days fathers in the Lord used to ask us to pray in those days that God should make us wiser than the devil, because the man you are wiser than cannot deceive you.
The devil carefully selected the audience before whom he wanted to disgrace Paul. Paul’s captors were there, the Roman soldiers, other prisoners like himself and the Barbarians of the island of Melita, and Dr. Luke who followed him were all there. Those he had prepared to demonstrate the power of God to were also there. It is amazing sometimes how satan plans the places and the kind of people before whom he wants to disgrace the people of God. He plotted to disgrace Samson before the same Philistines whom God had used him to disgrace. Unfortunately he succeeded. The Barbarians at the Island of Melita had concluded that Paul was a murderer. That was the kind of testimony satan wanted to write about Paul. But the satanic audience became the same audience before whom satan was disgraced. The devil now lost the Island altogether to Paul and to God. The viper of disgrace lost the battle and Paul overcame. Satan may assemble the worst of men to disgrace the child of God. But certainly, God knows how to turn the game of the devil against him. The viper of disgrace must lose the battle and the satanic audience must glorify God, in Jesus’ name.
We have to shake off the evil viper. The weapon of disgrace the enemy planned against Paul eventually became the doom of the enemy. The same sword of Goliath was used to cut off the head of Goliath. The Red Sea that was supposed to disgrace the Israelites was the same Red Sea that disgraced the Egyptians. The weapon of disgrace fashioned against you by your enemies shall disgrace them, in the name of Jesus.
WAY OUT
Once the weapon of shame is being used against you, all you need do is to repent, confess your own sins, break the curse and seek deliverance. If somebody decides to remove you from what you are doing to feed yourself, and you have not done anything wrong, you can react to it. The enemy is always seeking to disgrace God’s people. He disgraced Adam and Eve. He caused them to be driven out of the garden. He disgraced Cain and a curse was put on him. He disgraced Reuben and Reuben lost his inheritance. He disgraced Moses and he could not enter the Promised land. He almost disgraced Joseph but he was able to escape. He disgraced Saul and completely disgraced Samson who died with his enemies. But the promise of God for us is in Romans 9: 33 which says, “As it is written, I lay in Zion a stumbling stone and a rock of offence: and whomsoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed.”
PRAYER POINTS
1. Every viper of the enemy, come out by fire, in the name of Jesus.
2. O God, arise and let every weapon of the enemy backfire, in the name of Jesus.
3. Every door leading to my blessing, open, in the name of Jesus.
4. O God, manifest your power before every power challenging You in my life, in the name of Jesus.
5. You the bulldozer from heaven, make a way for me by fire, in the name of Jesus.
6. Oh God, I know that you are my God, show it, in the name of Jesus.
7. Let all those who come against me in one way, flee in seven ways, in Jesus’ name.
8. You vulture of death, die, in the name of Jesus.
9. Every distant and immediate enemy, receive double frustration, in Jesus’ name.
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Dr. D. K. Olukoya
Psalm 46:1-11:, “God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. Therefore will not we fear, though the earth be removed and though the mountain be carried into the midst of the sea. Though the waters thereof roar and be troubled though the mountains shake with the swelling thereof. There is a river, the streams whereof shall make glad the city of God, the holy place of the tabernacles of the most high. God is in the midst of her, and that right early. The heathen raged, the kingdoms were moved; he uttered his voice, the earth melted. The Lord of hosts is with us, the God of Jacob is our refuge. Come behold the works of the Lord, what desolation he hath made in the earth. He maketh wars to cease unto the end of the earth. He breaketh the bow, and cutteth the spear in sunder, he burneth the chariot in the fire. Be still, and know that I am God; I will be exalted in the earth. The Lord of hosts is with us, the God of Jacob is our refuge.”
Somebody once said that life was like an onion: you can peel off one layer at a time but as you do so, its juice gets into your eyes and causes your eyes to be filled with tears. There is something that is known as the trouble of life. I read a comment by one man of God called Matthew Henry. Somebody stole his things and the people around him found out that he was not sad about it. So, they asked him why and he said something that shocked me. He said: “I thank God that it was not me that was stolen and that I was not the robber.” That was his way of looking at the case. Sometimes we look so long at closed doors that we do not see the great ones the Lord has opened unto us.
HOW DO YOU TROUBLE YOUR TROUBLE?
Daniel 10:12 :, “Then said he unto me, Fear not, Daniel: for from the first day that thou didst set thine heart to understand, and to chasten thyself before thy God, thy words were heard, and I am come for thy words.” This means that the angel was carrying the answer to Daniel’s prayer for 21 days and somewhere along the line something stood against him saying, “Sorry, you will not give this answer to this man. Although God has answered, and asked you to go and supply this thing to this man, you are not passing here.” He was contending with the angel. Verse 13 says, “But the prince of the kingdom of Persia withstood me one and twenty days: but, lo, Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help me; and I remained there with the kings of Persia.”
The battle against the angel bringing the answer to Daniel was so great that Michael had to come and assist him. What God did was to open the veil of the spiritual world so that he could see what was going on.
The Bible says that there are three heavens. The first one is the one you see when you lift up your eyes, that is where the airplanes travel. Above that is another one where airplanes dare not go. If they move high to that level, they would be lost forever. That is the second heaven. When people say that whatever goes up must come down, it is when it does not go beyond the first heavens; if it goes beyond that, it will just be floating about there and will not come down again. This is the arena of the dark spirits; the headquarters of the kingdom of darkness, the kingdom of Lucifer and Leviathan. But above that is another heaven, which the Bible calls “the heaven of heavens.” It is the third heaven. That is where you find the paradise and the throne of God.
CHECKPOINT OF DARKNESS
The devil sets up a checkpoint at the second heaven. A checkpoint of darkness is a place of fierce warfare. That is why the kind of prayer required to destroy the checkpoint is volcanic and bulldozing kind of prayer, prayer with holy anger, prayer with inner fire, prayer with holy hatred, prayer with your spiritual blood boiling. Good and bad spirits fight there. Sympathetic and unsympathetic spirits fight there as well. There is a battle between truth and falsehood and a battle between light and darkness there. It is a place of wicked confiscation. It is a place of wicked storage in the warehouse of the enemy. It is a place of unprofitable delays. It is a place of destiny destruction. It is a place of wicked spiritual accidents.
Many good things belonging to the children of God are confiscated at evil checkpoints and stored in satanic warehouses. For example, success, children, money, prosperity, wedding gowns, breakthroughs, health, etc. Body parts are stored in these evil warehouses. Many people are walking about the streets without their real selves. Their real selves have been locked up and their blessings stored in the second heaven. That is why the Bible says that no man enters into the house of a strongman and plunders his goods except he first of all binds the strongman. The strongman himself does not have any personal goods, what he guides is what he confiscates from people. The warehouse of the enemy has a gateman and the gateman is the strongman.
Please, take the following prayer point: “I clear my blessings from the warehouse of the strongman, in the name of Jesus.”
It is at this checkpoint that prayer battles take place. This is why prayer is hard work. Sometimes the angel of our blessings get stuck unless you can pray fire prayers to release him. This is why the enemy does not like anybody to pray. Your prayer must be sharp and violent enough to bring answers down. The powers in the second heaven can return your prayers back to you. Imagine the battle in the second heaven for three weeks involving the angel bringing an answer to Daniel’s prayer.
Daniel’s continuous bombardment of that checkpoint reinforced the heavenly army. If Daniel had not been serious with the prayer, the answer would not have come.
Check the level of your purity today. Your purity and violence determine the effectiveness of your prayers. Check whether the enemy has a foothold in your life.
Everything that comes down to us from God passes through the second heaven. There is a spiritual border there with satanic immigration and custom officers. It is at this point that a household strongman stays. That is why we pray that our prayers should become hot coals of untouchable fire. Many prayers go up and bring down nothing. I pray that your prayers shall not be so, in the name of Jesus.
A certain brother called James prayed with aggression for a wife and the Lord called an angel and said, “Angel, take this sister down to him.” When the angel got to the checkpoint at the second heaven, they asked him where he was going and he answered, “I want to go and give a wife to Brother James.” They said, “Sorry, hold on, let us call his ancestral strongman. That one came and said, “Angel, you cannot give him this wife because his own spirit wife is here.” His grandmother has a covenant with us here, therefore, you cannot take this girl to him. Apart from that, his grandfather signed a covenant with us here that all the men from his family must marry witches and this one you are taking there is not a witch. So, angel, return the wife.” The angel returned the wife.
A brother prayed asking for promotion. But as the angel was taking the promotion to him, he was stopped at the second heaven. They asked him where he was gong and he said, “I am going to Brother Johnson Oko. They said, “Sorry, we don’t have that name here. His real name is not Johnson Oko but Fadeyi, therefore you cannot take this to him. His mother had him for another man and transferred him to the wrong father. His real father is Fadeyi. So, go back.” And the angel went back.
Also a sister, Bimpe, prayed to God asking for promotion. She said, “O God, I pay my tithe, but no progress, why? And the queen of heaven turned up with the angel bringing the promotion and said, “You cannot giver her this promotion because here is a list of 40 men she has slept with and 39 of them are our agents. So, she is not going anywhere.
Beloved, this is why we must pray. It can a terrible thing when your battle has been transferred to the checkpoint and you don’t know what to do. The first way to trouble your trouble is to deal with the checkpoint of darkness. Once you attack the evil checkpoint a signal goes into the dark world indicating that you are trying to be free, and they get reinforcement. If you give up at this level, you will lose the answer. Prayers to address evil checkpoints are not prayers on the horizontal level but on a vertical one. You must be sure of what you are doing. A person may come from an area where they have formed a geographical covenant that nobody in that area will prosper. When you start you prayer, it is at that checkpoint that they will stop the angel bringing your answer. Unless you apply violence, the angel will not pass through.
CURSES
Another way to trouble your trouble is by destroying curses. Your mouth contains double barrel power. The words you speak can destroy or promote you. When a man who has a backing force speaks some words those words can cause trouble. The words you now speak, backed up by the force, can limit a life or explode a destiny.
WHAT IS A CURSE?
A curse is a set of words issued for destructive purposes. A curse is a commission given to satan to limit the life of a person. The enemy may decide to take 20 years out of the life of a person by issuing a curse. A curse is a force of retardation. So, if you dream of your primary school days , secondary school days or that somebody converted you to a housemaid or houseboy or slave, then you need to break the curse of retardation.
A curse is a tragedy that moves from generation to generation. You have to understand that. This is why we have a lot of educated illiterates around. Their chains of degrees cannot help them. Education is not an ability to nullify curses or the ability to defeat the forces limiting your life.
A family weakness can move from generation to generation. In some families, it is the curse of premature death. God said to Eli that no man in his family would enter his grave with grey hair. There are families like that. There are some families where their members never rise above a particular level. In Joshua 9:23 we see the curse that was put upon a whole tribe. It says, “Now therefore ye are cursed, and there shall none of you be freed from being bondmen, and hewers of wood and drawers of water for the house of my God.”
A family or a community can be in a position where it never produces a great person. There are communities where you cannot find any educated man. Therefore, a curse is a terrible thing. It has a backing force and what you can call an enforcing spirit. Physical relocation does not stop a curse. You need to know how to destroy it. And immediately you begin to do that, your trouble knows that it is in trouble. Escape by physical relocation is not the answer but spiritual relocation.
I know a brother who ran away to America and did not tell any member of his family. He settled down there, got married and had four children. He was not writing to anybody at home and nobody knew his whereabouts, and he was doing well. But one night, he had a dream where he saw a dog running after him until it caught up with him and started biting him. When he woke up he knew that there was trouble.
The following morning, a letter arrived from Nigeria with the name of his junior brother at the back as the sender. His people did not know where he was for ten years but after he had the dream of the dog which dealt with him, the following morning, policemen came and showed him a form he filled about four years earlier. “Were you the one that filled this form?” they asked. And he was instantly deported to Nigeria. It was with the dress he had on that he arrived at the airport in Nigeria, leaving his wife, children and everything over there. He relocated physically but did not relocate spiritually and trouble followed.
An invisible force may control or destroy somebody’s destiny, future and progress if the person is under a curse. When Elisha came out from where he received double portion of power, the people of Jericho rushed to him and said, “Sir, the foundation of this place is pleasant but the water is bitter and the ground does not yield fruit.” Why did they go to Elisha? Because the anointing of God upon him could break that curse. Elijah did not break it before he left. The man who issued the curse was Joshua. When he got to Jericho, he said, “woe unto that man that will rebuild this city. When he is laying the foundation, his first son shall die and when he completes it, his last son shall die.” Four hundred years later, it happened just like that. Now they wanted the curse upon Jericho to be broken and Elisha broke it. I pray that every old curse that you are labouring under, shall be broken today, in Jesus’ name.
Perhaps you are like Peter who was fishing and catching nothing. You could be labouring under a curse. Something happened to Peter and I pray that the same thing should happen to you today, in Jesus’ name. What happened to Peter? The Lord entered his boat. The Lord shall enter my boat, in Jesus’ name.
The people of Jericho located their curse. Many of us need to locate the source of the thing happening to us. Many people are suffering from bad diseases that doctors cannot understand. In some families every first daughter would have a child without a husband and some none of the women settle down. For some, the women feed their husbands. Even if the man had a job before the marriage, he would lose it after.
These people chose Elisha because his anointing was comparable to that of Joshua. So, if a powerful native doctor puts a curse upon somebody, he or she would need a person with a higher anointing to break it. A certain man lost his five children and wife in one day. He went to a powerful herbalist for retaliation and the herbalist said, “Sorry, I have looked at this thing and I cannot do it. From what I can see, the only group of people who have the capacity to break this kind of thing and to retaliate are those of the church by the UNILAG gate. Go there.” The man came to see me and said, “Sir, a herbalist said I should come here.” So, the herbalist could see what many Christians cannot see.
I know a brother who had many degrees but no job. Everything was upside down for him. Some people took him to the highest gathering of witches in Nigeria where he tabled his problem. They looked at him and said, “It is your grandmother that is in charge of your problem. But, you see, whenever we have problem she is the person we contact. Therefore we cannot help you. Go somewhere else.”
Later he came to MFM and started praying and the Lord delivered him. You may have come from a family where no one is prospering, I prophesy to your life today that henceforth your case shall be different, in the name of Jesus. If you have come from a family where nobody has a lasting marriage, I prophesy unto your life that your case shall be different, in Jesus’ name.
Make the following declaration: My problems are in trouble, because God shall trouble them, in the name of Jesus.”
There are situations where you find people who have a lot of money but no peace. In some families some brothers threaten to kill another. In many situations, many people run in circles because forces of retrogression have set in. If you do your best and nobody appreciates you, it means that your heaven is becoming brass and you need to pray today.
SIN
Another way to trouble your trouble is to get rid of sin from your life. In anything you are doing, you must remember that God is the Lord of harvest. You cannot live in sin and expect prosperity. You cannot cheat people and prosper. An adulterous man who does not repent would one day impregnate a woman outside marriage and that child of adultery would move into the family and dismantle the structures he has put up. That child would be sent so that he harvests what he has sown into life. So, anybody who is living in sin is sowing evil and as he sows evil, he would reap evil. So, sin is terrible.
Some people have what can be called family sins. For example, Abraham told Abimelech that Sarah, his wife, was his sister. Forty years later, Isaac told the same Abimelech that his wife was his sister. Sixty years later, Jacob and his mother deceived their father. Eighty years later, Jacob’s children deceived him that Joseph was dead. Hundred years later, Judah slept with his daughter in-law who deceived him. So, you need to confess every personal and ancestral sins and get rid of them fast.
EVIL DREAMS
Dealing with evil dreams is another way to trouble your trouble. Any dream that you keep having and is setting you back, you should deal with it. All the dreams of climbing and never getting to the top, all the dreams of running around and getting nowhere, is a way of God trying to tell you that something wrong is going on. You need to wake up and start to fight.
God has a purpose for bringing this message to you. He has not brought it to waste your time. He has done so that your enemies will regret. He has done so that your problems can be chained and buried.
Close your eyes and begin to confess your sins. Tell the Lord to forgive your sins and to destroy anything that will strengthen evil angels at the checkpoint of darkness against you. Tell the Lord you want to pray and get results today.
PRAYER POINTS
17. My trouble, you are in trouble by fire, in the name of Jesus.
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We are looking at a message entitled, “Arresting the thief.” John 10:10 says, “The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.”
Many years ago, a thief was caught somewhere along with five others. He was not an ordinary thief because he operated with demonic powers. He usually fortified himself with evil powers. On the day of their execution, the five others said their last prayers as directed by the man of God but this hardened criminal said he was not interested in any prayer because he knew that ordinarily, their guns would not be able to kill him. As the soldiers started to shoot, it did not take minutes before the other five died. But the man refused to die. The soldiers concentrated all their bullets on him, yet he did not die. They got confused. An old man, a child of the devil, who was watching the execution moved closer to the soldiers and said, “You are small boys. Can’t you see that he is saying something? As long as he keeps talking like that, you will not be able to kill him.” They asked the old man what they should do and he said, “I will say one or two things, and then you shoot his mouth.” They obeyed his words, shot the thief’s mouth and he died. You may have to shoot the mouth of your enemies today in order to finish them. You may ask if that is biblical. The Bible says, “Arise O Lord, and save me O my God for thou hast smite all my enemies upon the cheekbone and thou hast broken the teeth of the ungodly.” God has to strike them on their cheekbone in order to stop them from issuing incantations, spells, curses, and evil pronouncements against the children of the living God. Pray like this. “Every mouth pronouncing evil against me, receive the slap of God, in the name of Jesus.”
In John 10:10, we could see two opposite personalities introduced there. One is a thief while the other is a life- giver. The devil is the thief. He is an intensively evil being. There is no goodness at all in him. A white friend of mine used to say that the devil is wickedly wicked and badly bad. There is no evil in God. God is altogether good while the devil is altogether bad. Jesus has nothing good to say about the devil. He says, “The devil has come to steal.”
WHAT DOES THE DEVIL STEAL?
He steals away every good thing that God wants us to have and he has stolen so much from many people for many years. The devil has taken from God’s children much of what God has set for us. One of the saddest statements I hear people make is: “If I knew what I know now, what is happening to me now would not be happening.”
The devil is the most successful thief in the universe. Using the weapon of ignorance, he steals joy, families, children, health, possessions, money, prosperity, peace and many other good things. He steals them and keeps them in his bank, and positions a strongman in front of the bank to guard them. For you to get inside there and take what you want, you would have to confront the strongman standing by the door. Ironically, the strongman is the one who has the best smile for you.
Sometime ago, a couple came to me to complain about each other. It happened that anytime they had money, a fight would erupt from nowhere and before they knew it, the money would finish. And once the money finished, they would become friends again. I said, “Okay, let us pray.” As I prayed with them, the Lord showed me a vision of a big house and both of them were standing in front of the house sharing out money, but behind them, was a naked woman disturbing them. I asked the Lord for the meaning of the vision and He said that the couple was meant to be very rich and to be in the position to help others but there are powers making them to disagree and if they continue to disagree, they will not prosper. The devil was busy stealing their blessings little by little. They had been married for 17 years yet they could not make ends meet. They had money yet they were broke. Instead of the two of them joining hands together and fighting the enemy, they were busy fighting each other and the enemy was rejoicing.
It is sad to know that most of the inheritances of the saints are locked up in the kingdom of darkness when the Bible says that the wealth of the Gentiles is ours. The reason we have unbelievers who are richer than Christians is because Christians allow them. After all, the Bible says, “The earth is the Lord’s and the fullness thereof.” Unbelievers know how to give or take bribes to have their way because it is already settled that they are going to hell fire. But the believer cannot do that so he has to claim what belongs to him by violence. So, determine to make the enemy know that he can no longer steal from you for he has robbed you long enough. I counsel you not to waste time about it.
Sometime ago, I saw a sister whom I knew to be very fat but now she was very lean. I asked her what was the matter and she tearfully told me the story of how she got married and she and her husband were blessed with six children, and also built a house of their own. Fifteen years later, her husband told her to pack out because a certain prophet told him that she was a witch. She refused to move out and her husband ran to the police and reported that she was a witch and wanted to kill him. After interrogation, the police told them it was not a police case that they should go home and settle the matter. Her husband got angry, brought a ‘prophet’ and gave him a room in their house to help him chase her away. He also made it mandatory for her to be cooking the ‘prophet’s meals. Every morning she would wake up and find fresh blood on her door and burnt candles. It got so bad that she found it difficult to eat. Even her prayer partner became overwhelmed and abandoned her. I told her to stop crying as that would not solve her problem. Then I gave her a prayer programme to do for a few days. I told her to wake up at 12midnight, put her hand on the walls of her room and call down the fire of God upon the house, and before she served the so-called prophet’s meals, she should add the fire of God and the blood of Jesus inside it, in the name of Jesus. She did it the first day and by the morning, when the ‘prophet’ woke up, he felt uncomfortable and told her husband that the house was so hot during the night that he could not sleep. Her husband was surprised because the house was air-conditioned. In the afternoon before she served him his meal, she called the fire of God and blood of Jesus into the food and as soon as the ‘prophet’ ate it, problem started. Suddenly, he packed his things and said to her husband, “Excuse me sir, I cannot face your wife. She is a higher witch.” That was how she won the battle. If she had wasted time crying, the enemy would have succeeded in stealing her marriage which she had laboured to build.
Beloved, you must be ready to arrest the thief today. The devil has taken the lion share of the assets and possessions of God’s children. We have to take back what the enemy has stolen.
WHAT ARE THE STRATEGIES OF THE THIEF?
Any Christian who still drinks alcohol cannot be free from the attack of household wickedness. You may do it in secret and think that nobody is seeing you, what about God, the Holy Spirit, and Jesus. You cannot deceive God. He was not joking when He told His prophets not to drink alcohol. Nobody will pray genuine prayers after he has taken a bottle of beer because already, he has evil chemical in his blood and it will affect his spiritual life.
HOW DO YOU DEAL WITH THE THIEF?
Exodus 22:1- 4: “If a man shall steal an ox, or a sheep, and kill it, or sell it; he shall restore five oxen for an ox, and four sheep for a sheep. If a thief be found breaking up, and be smitten that he die, there shall no blood be shed for him. If the sun were risen upon him, there shall be bloodshed for him; for he should make full restitution; if he have nothing, then he shall be sold for his theft. If the theft were certainly found in his hand alive, whether it be ox, or ass, or sheep; he shall restore double.” In the foregoing, we have God’s law concerning theft. It simply means that we have to claim restitution and take back everything that the devil has stolen from the children of God.
HOW DO YOU TAKE THEM BACK?
Sometime ago, a sister wanted to travel to England and was gathering money for her air ticket. One day, she came to service with her savings of two hundred naira in her bag and during the service, the man of God was talking about a project for God and the Lord spoke to her to drop everything she had. She said, “But Lord, you know I am saving money to go abroad.” The voice of the Lord said, “Drop everything,” and she put in all she had. The following morning, somebody gave her double the money she needed to travel and come back. What happened to her? She simply became a partner with the Almighty. Peter was delivered from profitless hardwork and fruitless efforts. A certain brother came to me one day and said, “Doctor, I have no money to give to the fellowship although I would like to give. Please just allow me to be washing the cars and buses of the ministry. At least, I can use my power to do that.” This was what he was doing when he got a scholarship to study abroad. He decided to be a partner with the Almighty. The widow of Zarephath and her son gave up their last meal to the man of God by faith and they received the miracle that promoted them. A little boy handed over his lunch to Jesus and it was used to feed a multitude of five thousand people and they still had some left over of 12 baskets. I am sure the boy would have taken a major portion of it. If you have been stingy with the Lord, it means you want your blessing to remain in the bank of the enemy. It means you do not want the overflowing of blessing. When you are God’s partner, then you can disgrace the great thief.
The thief has representatives in the form of household wickedness, strongman, unfriendly friends, and wicked agents but at end of the day, he is the thief and the one that should return what was stolen. Sometime ago, a child of the devil gave her life to Christ and released a man she had rendered impotent for seven years. The man was in England but she wrecked the havoc here in Nigeria. After she got born again, she confessed that she was in charge of the man’s case. She took us to where she buried the man’s private part and said we should dig it up and we dug up something that looked like a man’s private part dripping with blood. It was still fresh with blood. She had hidden it there for seven years. By the following day, the man telephoned from London that he was okay. Who stole the thing? It was the devil not God, so you cannot be praying, “O God, give me back,” because He did not steal it.
Beloved, these are the ways to go ahead. Therefore, you must pray some demanding prayers. You must demand that certain things be returned to you. Please I want you to pray with holy madness.
PRAYER POINTS
1. Every power aborting the will of God for my life, fall down and die, in the name of Jesus.
2. Every thief represented by household wickedness I summon you now, in the name of Jesus.
3. Return to me seven- fold what you have stolen, in the name of Jesus.
4. I pursue, overtake and recover all that the thief has stolen from me, in the name of Jesus.
5. I claim back everything I have lost to the enemy in the dream, in Jesus’ name.
6. No activity of the thief shall prosper in my life, in the name of Jesus.
7. I refuse to co-operate with the thief, in Jesus’ name.
8. Thank you Father Lord for defeating the thief, in the name of Jesus
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John 12: 20 – 26: “And there were certain Greeks among them, that came up to worship at the feast. The same came therefore to Philip, which was of Bethsaida of Galilee, and desired him, saying, Sir, we would see Jesus. Philip cometh and telleth Andrew: and again Andrew and Philip tell Jesus. And Jesus answered them saying, the hour is come, that the Son of man should be glorified. Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit. He that loveth his life shall lose it; and he that hateth his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal. If any man serve me, let him follow me; and where I am, there shall also my servant be: if any man serve me, him will my Father honour.”
Certain Greeks came to an annual religious feast in Jerusalem. They saw men there practicing religion. They looked at everything, followed all the rituals and attended all the meetings, but were careful enough to note that in all these ceremonies, something was missing. They were still empty. But there was somebody in town who had the real thing so, they began to ask: “Sir, we would see Jesus.” You may ask what their motive was. Maybe it was curiosity or that they wanted to get something out of Jesus or they wanted to solve a problem or they just desired to know this man that people were talking about or they decided to encounter the truth in reality.
Having an encounter with the Lord or the experience of seeing Jesus is fundamental to genuine Christian experience. The reason some people backslide or are not able to appreciate their salvation is due to lack of this encounter. Sometimes people backslide because they have never seen the Man of Galilee. The day God opens your spiritual eyes and you see Him hanging on the cross, with blood dripping down, and suffering, the reality will dawn on you and all other things will be insignificant. The experience of seeing Jesus is so fundamental to the Christian faith.
TWO TYPES OF PEOPLE IN THE CAMP OF GOD
In the camp of the Lord, you can see two types of people.
Those who have not met the Lord lose their temper easily. For example, when they go somewhere and somebody takes up their seat, they would shout, “Get up from there, do you know when I arrived here. Get away.” They know how to pray fire prayer but they have not met the Lord. This is a tragedy. A time will come when all those proclaiming to be Christians shall be distributed into two clear camps. The first group is the group of the goats and the second group is the group of the sheep. The Bible says that eventually, the goats would be cast away into the lake of fire. This is because they did not really encounter the Lord. But if you want to encounter the Lord in reality, there is an essential condition that regulates such an encounter and we can find that in the response of Jesus to the request, “Sir, we would see Jesus,” in John 12: 24. It says, “Verily, verily, I say unto you, except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit.” Herein lies the spiritual law that regulates God’s dealings with men for God is a God of law. This has nothing to do with your post or qualification. It has nothing to do with being a pastor or having attended Bible colleges and having studied theology.
Several years ago, a man who had a Ph.D in Bible Knowledge was invited to a Christian meeting somewhere in Ebute-Metta, Lagos. The meeting was filled with illiterates, carpenters and bricklayers and market men and women. He was supposed to give them a lecture on knowing God. He started by telling them the meaning of the phrase ‘to know.’ He spent about fifteen minutes on that and then went further to explain “God” for another fifteen minutes. After this, he went into the lecture proper and gave a beautiful lecture. But when he finished, one carpenter who did not even attend any school said, “Excuse me sir, I have a question for you. Have you met Jesus yourself? Can you claim that you have experienced Him?” The Ph.D teacher did not understand what the man was asking him so, he replied, “I am sorry, I don’t have an answer to that question.” The carpenter now sat him down and gave him a lecture on practical Christianity. The lecturer was trying to teach others about the man he did not know. God is a God of law and He works by divine principles. When you discover these principles and comply with them, it will bring you into line with God’s will.
God Himself has a pattern. Everything in heaven is well patterned. If God gives you a little opportunity of seeing heavenly organization, you will not want to stay on earth anymore. There is nothing on earth that is as beautiful and orderly as in heaven. This was why God told Moses, “And look that thou make them after their pattern, which was shewed thee in the mount” (Exodus 25: 40). This means that if Moses had decided not to follow the pattern, nothing would have happened.
People write to me suggesting that the MFM should use drums, and allow people to dress the way they like even if it means dressing indecently so that more people can come. I always tell them that it was not the pattern shown to me and that I prefer to stick to the divine pattern given by God. Listening to such proposals would be tantamount to disobedience. If you want to build a house and you look around and see one that you really like and want to fashion yours after it, that would become your model. So, the only way that we are ever going to see Jesus here and in the world to come is by dying to self. John 24: 12 says, “Except a corn of wheat falls into the ground and die, it abideth alone. But if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit.”
In Exodus 33, we read about an interesting encounter. Moses knew that the Israelites were a very stubborn and proud people. He was meant to take them to the Promised land. He knew what he had faced with Pharaoh and knew that he could not go by his own strength. He realized the impossibility of the task unless God Himself went with him. Verses 13 – 15: “Now therefore, I pray thee, if I have found grace in thy sight, shew me now thy way, that I may know thee, that I may find grace in thy sight: and consider that this nation is thy people. And he said, My presence shall go with thee, and I will give thee rest. And he (Moses) said unto him, If thy presence go not with me, carry us not up hence.” Verses 18 – 19: “And he said, I beseech thee, shew me thy glory. And he said, I will make all my goodness pass before thee, and I will proclaim the name of the Lord before thee; and will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will shew mercy on whom I will shew mercy.” There is an ancient powerful hymn by one man called Wesley which says, “To thee O Lord of love, I bow and I prostrate at your feet. By faith, I am seeing you passing now, but now I ask for more. A glimpse of you may not suffice but I want your presence. I cannot see your face and live. Then let me see your face and die.” This song means that his longing to see Jesus was more important than life itself. Herein then lies the great truth. No man can see the face of the Lord unless he is prepared to fall into the ground like a corn of wheat and die.
Prophet Isaiah saw God and his life was never the