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
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.
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
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.
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.
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 whereabout, 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 laboring
under, shall be broken today, in Jesus’ name.
Perhaps you are like Peter who was
fishing and catching nothing. You could be laboring 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.
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.
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.
1. O Lord,
convert my disgrace to grace, in the name of Jesus.
2. O God,
convert my disappointment to divine appointment, in the name of Jesus.
3. God, convert
my weakness to strength, in the name of Jesus.
4. O God,
convert my mess to divine message, in the name of Jesus.
5. O God,
convert my frustration to fulfillment, in the name of Jesus.
6. O God,
convert my ashes to beauty, in the name of Jesus.
7. My father,
convert my pain to pleasure, in the name of Jesus.
8. My father,
convert my lamentation to laughter, in the name of Jesus.
9. O God,
convert my night to day, in the name of Jesus.
10. O God,
arise and convert my problems to promotion, in the name of Jesus.
11. Every
checkpoint of darkness, break, in the name of Jesus.
12. Every masquerade
pursuing me from my father’s side, what are you waiting for? Die, in
Jesus’ name.
13. Every
masquerade pursing me from my mother’s side, what are you waiting for? Die, in
Jesus’ name.
14. Inherited
failure, die, in the name of Jesus.
15. (Lay
your hands on your chest and pray:) Where no member of family has reached,
O Lord, take me there by fire, in the name of Jesus.
16. O
caldron of darkness hanging in the heavenlies, break, in the name of Jesus.
17. My
trouble, you are in trouble by fire, in the name of Jesus.