Wednesday, 19 October 2016

BREAKING DEMONIC HINDGES

DANGEROUS PRAYER

In the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ of Nazareth I rebuke and bind all anti-prayer demons in the air, on the earth, under the earth, in the sea and all the waters above and underneath e.g. rivers, dams, etc.

I destroy all hindrances against my prayers in Jesus’ Name. I also rebuke and bind all anti-deliverance demons, anti-progress demons, anti-prosperity demons and anti-miracle demons.

I use the fire of the Holy Spirit and the Blood of Jesus Christ to destroy all spiritual cellophane covering the air. I destroy every covering that the devil has made around or against me in Jesus’ Name. I destroy every cage, every chain, every cord and every bag of witches against me. I prophesy to the East wind to blow away every smoke screen of the devil against my prayers in Jesus’ Name.

I destroy Satan’s entire web that has entangled me. I loose myself from all the powers of darkness against me. I break myself loose from the powers of witches, wizards, spiritual husbands, spiritual wives, spiritual children, spiritual homes, spiritual properties, familiar spirits, water spirits, dead human spirits, etc.

I break in pieces every spiritual screen, which Satan is using in monitoring me. I destroy everyspiritual mirror, spiritual tape, spiritual camera, spiritual satellites and all spiritual properties that Satan has set against me.

I rebuke, bind and cast out of my life all evil terrestrial and celestial spirits against me in Jesus’ Name. I stand on this Word and condemn all properties and weapons against me in Jesus’ Name. I bind all powers of witches, wizards, demigods, familiar spirits, water spirits, all chief evil spirits, spirits of weakness and every other evil spirit working against my life and my progress in Jesus’ Name.
satan, all evil spirits and servants of Satan, I destroy every covering you have made to protect yourself from the Holy Spirit fire, no matter your level, rank, office and area of operation in the spirit.

In the powerful Name of Jesus Christ I destroy any of my properties in the spirit world – anywheremy image, my properties, my pictures, my clothes, my money, my name, any parts of my body, my finger nails or my hair is in the air, on the earth, underneath the earth or in the waters above or underneath, in rivers and in seas, before swine or idols, in the covens or temple of Satan – I ask the Holy Spirit’s fire to destroy the items of Satan working against me and testifying against me through those properties in Jesus’ Name.

In the victorious and powerful Name of our Lord Jesus Christ of Nazareth, I ask You, Lord to loose my heart, my soul, and my mind in the spirit. I destroy any cage, chain, bag or prison room where Satan has tied my heart, my soul and my mind. I ask You Holy Spirit to destroy all the power of the demons on guard against my heart, my soul and my mind.

Heavenly Father, I bring the sins of my ancestors before You. I confess all their sins, including the killing of human beings, worshipping of idols, selling and buying of human beings, sacrificing human beings to idols, demons and Satan, eating human flesh and every other evil and wicked act that they have done.

I break and nullify all curses, covenants and initiations made by my ancestors or by myself in the air, on the earth, under the earth, in the waters above or underneath. In Jesus’ Name I come against all curses I have made against myself, against my progress and my future knowingly or unknowingly.

I destroy all curses hiding in the air, on the earth, under the earth, in the waters above and beneath the earth, rivers, seas, dams, etc. I nullify and render all of you harmless in Jesus’ Name.
I rebuke and bind the demons assigned to the curses in Jesus’ Name and I command you to become the footstool of the Lord Jesus Christ. I reverse the curses and change them into blessings.

I come against all the covenants I have made with idols, demons, water spirits, spiritual husbands, spiritual wives, spiritual children, dead human spirits, etc. in the physical, in the spiritual or in dreams. I cancel these covenants and declare them null and void in Jesus’ Name.

All the initiations I have made against myself, I destroy all of them in Jesus’ Name. I withdraw my membership from such initiations.

I cancel my Name from the register of satan. I declare myself free from today in the Name of Jesus. JESUS HAS REDEEMED ME BY HIS BLOOD! Remove from me all the curses of disobedience to Your commandments, O Lord. Rebuke the devourer from my life. Withdraw the locust, cankerworm, caterpillar and the palmerworm from me. Give me the former and the latter rain and fill me again with Your blessings in Jesus’ Name.

In Jesus’ Name I destroy and nullify any enchantments, spells, charms, incantations, curses, covenants, initiations and manipulations from any idols, witches, wizards, priests, water spirits, and abortions, from any coven, spiritual temple and mystic homes in the air, the land and the sea.

In the Name of Jesus I destroy all covenants and initiations made on my behalf in the air, on the earth, under the earth and in the waters above and beneath, rivers, dams, seas, etc.
I destroy all the evil properties involved in the curses and covenants and initiations against me with the fire of the Holy Spirit.

I bind and chain all the evil spirit guards (gatekeepers) that are in charge of these curses, covenants, initiations, spells, charms, etc. against my life. I destroy the deed of agreement in the Name of Jesus. I also destroy any salt covenant that was made through any meal.

Heavenly Father, I now separate myself from all curses, covenants, initiations, etc. Made against me. I have been set free to choose whom I serve. I now declare that every curse is broken, nailed to the cross and reversed into a blessing. Christ became a curse so that I can be blessed! Thank You Jesus! I choose to serve the Heavenly Father, God of Israel, the Lord Jesus Christ of Nazareth, and the Holy Spirit. I am a new creation, recreated by Christ Jesus.

MATT 12:37: “For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.”

Father, let me be justified now by the words of my mouth. Today, I __________ declare myself a heavenly citizen and a member of the family of Jesus of Nazareth. Whoever touches me, touches the Apple of God’s Eye. No weapon formed against me any longer shall by any means prosper in my life and any tongue that shall rise against me in judgment shall be destroyed completely in Jesus’ Name. I now receive peace, righteousness, justice, security and victory over ungodly opposition, as part of my inheritance of my Father and declare myself a bondservant of the Lord Jesus Christ, my Advocate and Righteousness.

AMEN.

Deliverance Prayer

Heavenly Father I come to you now in Jesus’ name, to repent of all the sins in my life and also in the lives of my ancestors, that may have resulted in a curse. I repent of all disobedience, rebellion, mistreatment of others, lying, cheating, using or slandering your name in vain. I repent of all perversion, lust, incest, fornication, adultery, idolatry, all witchcraft, murder, and any occult involvement.

Heavenly Father, I ask for your forgiveness and cleansing through the blood of your Son, the Lord Jesus Christ.

Lord Jesus I now take the authority you have given me and ask that you anoint me now as I command all demonic spirits of anger, rage, fear, depression, destruction, torment, guilt, bondage, vagabond, rejection, unforgiveness, bitterness, mind-control, double-mindedness, confusion, passivity, sickness, diseases, pain, fetter and all addictions to food, alcohol, drugs, sex, pornography, gambling, or nicotine to come out in the name of Jesus.

No demonic spirit is welcome in this holy temple!

I break all spoken curse and spells that may have been performed over my life and any curses resulting from involvement with Ouija board, Psychics, tarot cards, Horoscopes, secular music, or through TV, movies or pornography.

I break all curses off my family, marriage, children and relatives. I break every shackle, chain, cord, habit, craving, debt, soul-ties and any spirit that has tried to rob, kill, or destroy my life.

I command my family to be set free. I break every demonic assignment over my family. Satan, loose them now! In Jesus’ name! According to Galations 3:13, Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law.

Jesus Christ is the Way, the Truth, and the Life. I am now God’s child and through my Lord Jesus, I am able to cast down all demonic powers and spirits that come against me or in my family’s lives.

I am not cursed, but blessed! I am blessed coming in and blessed going out. I am above and not beneath. I am the head and not the tail. I am blessed and what God has blessed cannot be cursed. I am free, and I am saved. I have now exercised my faith and know that confession is made unto salvation (Romans 10:9,10). All of my sins have been remitted, and I am loosed from the curse that came as a result of disobedience and rebellion to the Word of God.

Thank you Heavenly Father, thank you Lord Jesus, thank you Holy Spirit for forgiving me and loving me. Thank you for setting me free from every curse and spirit that has operated in my life. Father God, I pray for discernment and for a new vision to help me recognize and resist all evil and all fleshly, worldly ways. I am anointed through the Lord Jesus Christ, and I thank you Jesus for your guidance and discipline as I continue to be a victorious soldier and holy child. AMEN.

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PRE-EMPTIVE STRIKE PRAYERS

Anchor Scriptures: Matthew 12:29; Luke 11:21-22; Proverbs 26:27; Isaiah 7:7; 14:4-5, 8:9-12.

Introduction

In physical warfare, the army that strikes or attacks first using the strategy of surprise usually rattles and confuse the enemy. Most times they win. In spiritual warfare the same principle is applicable. Strike Satan and his demonic forces hard early in the year, month or week and victory will be guaranteed. Pray these strategic prayers loud, standing on your feet.

PRAYER GUIDE

1. I receive the grace, mercy and power in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ of Nazareth.

2. I rebuke and bind all anti-prayer demons in the air, on the earth, under the earth, in the sea and all the waters above and underneath, and in the rivers, dams and other water bodies.

3. I destroy all hindrances against my prayers in Jesus’ name.

4. I also rebuke and bind all anti-deliverance demons, anti-progress demons, anti-prosperity demons, anti-destiny spirits and anti-miracle demons.

5. I use the fire of the Holy Spirit and the blood of Jesus Christ to destroy all spiritual cellophane covering the air and preventing my prayers from going through to heaven.

6. Let every information about me and my family be deleted from the memory bank of the enemy in Jesus name.

7. I destroy by fire every evil monitoring garget, remote control devices and evil chains around me in Jesus name.

8. I destroy every covering that the devil has made around me or against me in Jesus name.

9. I destroy every cage, every chain, every cord and every bag of witches against me.

10. I prophesy to the East wind to blow away every smokescreen of the devil against my prayers in Jesus’ Name.

11. I destroy all Satanic web that has entangled me.

12. I loose myself from all the powers of darkness against me.

13. I break myself loose from the powers of witches, wizards, spiritual husbands, spiritual wives, spiritual children, spiritual homes, spiritual properties, familiar spirits, water spirits, dead human spirits, in Jesus mighty name.

14. I break in pieces every spiritual screen and radars, which Satan is using in monitoring me. I destroy every spiritual mirror, spiritual tape, spiritual camera, spiritual satellites and all spiritual properties that Satan has set against me in Jesus mighty name.

15. I rebuke, bind and cast out of my life and around me, all evil terrestrial and celestial spirits fashioned against me, in Jesus name.

16. I stand on God’s word and condemn all properties and weapons of Satan fashioned against me in Jesus Name.

17. I bind all powers of witches, wizards, demi-gods, familiar sprits, water spirits, all chief evil spirits, spirits of weakness and every other evil spirit working against my life and my progress on Jesus name.

18. Satan, all evil spirits and servants of Satan, I destroy every covering you have made to protect yourself from the Holy Sprit fire, no matter your level, rank, office and area of operation in the spirit, in Jesus mighty name.

19. In the powerful name of Jesus Christ, I destroy any of my properties in the world- anywhere my image, my properties, my pictures, my clothes, my money, my name, any part of my body, finger nails or my hair is, in the air, on the earth, underneath the earth or in the waters above or underneath, in rivers and seas, at grave yards, road junctions, before swine or idols, in the covens or temple of Satan- I ask the Holy Spirit fire to destroy the items of Satan working against me and testifying against me through those properties in Jesus’ name.

20. In the victorious and powerful name of our Lord Jesus Christ of Nazareth, I ask You, Lord to loose my heart, my body, my soul, and my mind by your Holy Spirit.

21. I destroy any cage, chain, bag or prison room where Satan has tied my heart, my soul, my mind and my inheritance in Jesus name.

22. I ask You Holy Spirit, to destroy all the power of the demons on guard against my heart, my soul, my mind and my destiny.

23. Heavenly Father, I bring the sins of my ancestors before you. I confess all their sins, including the killing of human beings, stealing, polygamy, worshipping of idols, selling or buying of human beings or human parts, sacrificing human beings to idols, demons and Satan, eating human flesh and every evil and wicked act that they have done. Forgive me of all generational sins in Jesus name.

24. I break and nullify all curses, covenants and initiations made by my ancestors or by myself in the air, earth, under the earth, in the waters above or underneath.

25. In Jesus’ name, I come against all curses I have made against myself, against my progress and my future knowingly or unknowingly.

26. I destroy all curses targetted against me and hiding in the air, on the earth, under the earth, in the waters above and beneath the earth, rivers, seas, dams, etc. I nullify and render all of you harmless in Jesus’ name. I rebuke and bind the demons assigned to the curses in Jesus’ name, and I command you to become the footstool of the Lord Jesus Christ. I reverse the curses and change them into blessings in Jesus name.

27. I come against all the covenants I have made or made for me with idols, demons, water spirits, spiritual husbands, spiritual wives, spiritual children, dead human spirits, etc,. in the physical, in the spiritual or in dreams. I cancel these covenants and declare them null and void in Jesus’ name.

28. All the initiations I have made against myself or made for me by people, I destroy all of them in Jesus name. I withdraw my membership from such initiations.

29. I cancel my name from the register of Satan.

30. I declare myself free from today in the name of Jesus.

31. Christ has redeemed me by His blood. Remove from me all the curses of disobedience to Your commandments, O Lord.

32. O Lord, rebuke the devourer from my life. Withdraw the locust, cankerworm, caterpillar and the palmerworm from me.

33. Give me the former and the latter rain and fill me again with your blessings in Jesus name.

34. In Jesus name, I destroy and nullify all enchantments, spells, charms, incantations, curses, covenant, initiations and manipulations from any idols, witches, wizards, priests, water spirits, mountain spirits, from any coven, spiritual temple and mystic homes in the air, the land and the sea.

35. In the name of Jesus, I destroy all covenants and initiations made on my behalf in the air, on the earth, under the earth and in the waters above and beneath, rivers, dams, seas and all other marine habitats in Jesus mighty name.

36. I destroy all the evil properties involved in the curses and covenants and initiation against me with the fire of the Holy Spirit.

37. I bind and chain all the evil spirit guards (gatekeepers) that are in charge of these curses, covenants, initiations, spells, charms, etc. against my life. I destroy the deed of agreement in the name of Jesus. I also destroy any salt or sex covenant that was made through any meal or sexual act. Heavenly Father, I now separate myself from all curses, covenants, initiations, etc. made against me. I have been set free to choose whom I will serve.

38. I now declare that every curse is broken, nailed to the cross and reversed into a blessing. Christ became a curse so that I can be blessed! Thank You Jesus!

39. I choose to serve the Heavenly Father, the God of Israel, the Lord Jesus Christ of Nazareth, and the blessed Holy Spirit. I am a new creation, recreated by Christ Jesus to do good works.

40. According to Matt 12:37: For by thy Word thou shall be justified, and by thy words thou shall be condemned.

41. Father, let me be justified now by the words of my mouth.

42. Today, I ________ declare myself a heavenly citizen and a member of the family of Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Whoever touches me, touches the apple of God’s eye. No weapon formed against me shall by any means prosper in my life, and any tongue that shall rise against me in judgement is condemned and destroyed completely in Jesus ‘name. AMEN.

43. On the authority of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, I order and decree that all my goods in the warehouse of the strongman, be released forth with.

44. I clear all my padlocked blessings from the palace of the strongman.

45. Father, I give you praise and thanksgiving for launching me into an endless season of victory, strength, health and wealth in Jesus mighty name.

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BREAKING LOOSE FROM SATANIC PRISON

Psalm 142:7, David cried, bring my soul out of prison that I may praise Your name; the righteous shall surround me, for you shall deal bountifully with me….

Psalm 124:7, Our soul is escaped as bird out of the snare of the fowlers, the snare is broken, and we are escaped.

Beloved, many people today are languishing in satanic prisons without clear awareness. They are held bound by the strongman, Satan, the devil himself in hell fire, thereby denying them the opportunity to be blessed. In satanic prisons, the victims are confined to circumstances or dwell in places of no hope to get out or escape. These prisons are spiritual with physical manifestations. In the book of Psalm 142:7, David cried, Bring my soul out of prison that I may praise Your name; the righteous shall surround me, for you shall deal bountifully with me…. king David the warrior and conqueror was held bound in spiritual prison of the mind, thereby depriving him the ability to build a temple for the LORD God. His mind-set was repeatedly occupied with war after war which caused him to lose the blessings associated with building God’s house. What is your own satanic prison? Is it failure, non-achievement, poverty, suicide, et cetera, arise now and war against it in Jesus name.

PRAYER POINTS:

1. Father LORD, I break loose from every satanic prison entered knowingly or unknowingly in the name of Jesus.
2. Father LORD, I destroy every prison warder operating against my life in the name of Jesus.
3. Father LORD, I shut down every satanic prison of failure, in the name of Jesus.
4. Father LORD, I close the gates of every satanic prison of sickness, in the name of Jesus.
5. Father LORD, I must escape from this satanic prison in the name of Jesus.
6. Father LORD, I shut down every satanic prison of disappointment, in the name of Jesus.
7. Father LORD, I close down every satanic prison of non-achievement, in the name of Jesus.
8. Father LORD, I pull down every satanic prison of rise and fall, in the name of Jesus.
9. Father LORD, I pull down every satanic prison of frustration, in the name of Jesus.
10. Father LORD, I close the doors of every satanic prison of death, in the name of Jesus.
11. Father LORD, I break down by fire every satanic prison of debt, in the name of Jesus.
12. Father LORD, I command every snare of the devil assigned against me be broken by fire in the name of Jesus.
13. Father LORD, I command every satanic cage holding my glory, melt by fire in the name of Jesus.
14. Father LORD, I command every prison of delay in my life be destroyed by fire in the name of Jesus.
15. Father LORD, I command every satanic meeting to bury my breakthrough, die by fire in the name of Jesus.
16. Father LORD, I command every stagnated blessings in my life, receive divine acceleration in the name of Jesus .
17. Father LORD, I command every satanic roadblock to my success be dismantled by fire, in the name of Jesus.
18. Father LORD, let all my stolen blessings in the possession of any prison wardens be released by fire, in the name of Jesus.
19. Father LORD, I claim divine uplifting, success and opportunities in the name of Jesus.
20. Thank you my LORD for setting me free from satanic prison, in the name of Jesus.

CLOSING THE DOOR AGAINST WITCHCRAFT

CONFESSIONS: PSALM 3, ISAIAH 49:25-26, PSALM 27 1-3, LUKE 10:19, COLOSSIANS 2:15.

PRAY IN THE SPIRIT FOR 10 MINUTES.

PRAYER POINTS:

1. I bind all principalities and powers in the air operating over and within my life, in the name of Jesus.
2. I bind all wickedness in high places and evil thrones in the air operating over and within my life, in the name of Jesus.
3. I bind all evil dominions and strongmen in the air operating over and within my life, in the name of Jesus.
4. I bind every witchcraft control and mind binding spirit in the name of Jesus.
5. I strip each spirit off their power and rank and I separate each of them from one another, in the name of Jesus.
6. I cast out every witchcraft arrow afflicting my senses (sight, smell, taste, and hearing) in the name of Jesus.
7. I command every witchcraft arrow to depart from my –spinal cord -spleen – navel – heart – throat – between the eyes – top of the head.
8. I bind every evil presence in my bodily system -Reproductive -digestive -respiratory -nervous -skeletal -Muscular – circulatory – endocrine -excretory.
9. I break the backbone and destroy the root of every spirit speaking against me in the name Jesus.
10. Every astral projection against me, I frustrate you in the name of Jesus.
11. Every complicated evil network against me be eaten up by the elements in the name of Jesus.
12. I bind every power pulling anything in my body towards evil by means of energy drawn from the sun, the moon and the stars in the name Jesus.
13. I bind every power pulling anything in my body towards evil by means of energy drawn from the planets, constellations and the earth in the name Jesus.
14. I bind every power pulling anything in my body towards evil by means of energy drawn from the -air -wind -fire -water -light- darkness -elements in the name Jesus.
15. Any power drawing energy against me from evil lines and circles fall down and die in the name of Jesus.
16. I forbid any transference of spirit into my life from my family, friends, and associates in the name of Jesus.
17. Every altar speaking against my divine destiny be dismantled in the name of Jesus.
18. I bring the blood of Jesus over the spirit that does not want to let me go in the name of Jesus.
19. Let the blood of Jesus purge me of every witchcraft contaminating material in the name of Jesus.
20. I destroy the hand of every witch doctor working against me in the name of Jesus.
21. Every witch craft spirit attempting to build wall against my destiny fall down and die in the name of Jesus.
22. I send the rain of affliction upon every marine witchcraft working against me in the name of Jesus.
23. O sun, moon, stars earth water, and the elements, vomit every enchantment that is against me in the name of Jesus.
24. Every power using the heavenlies against me, fall down and be disgraced in the name of Jesus.
25. Let the stars of heaven begin to fight for me in the name of Jesus.
26. O God, arise and scatter every conspiracy in the heavenlies that is against me in the name of Jesus.
27. I break with the blood of Jesus all evil soul ties affecting my life in the name of Jesus.
28. Spirit of the living God, come upon my life and place a shield of protection around me in the name of Jesus.
29. Every chain of inherited witchcraft in my family, be destroyed, in the name of Jesus.
30. Every ladder used by witchcraft against me be roasted in the name of Jesus.
31. Any door that I have opened to witchcraft in any area of my life be closed for ever by the blood of Jesus.

Prayer for healing and deliverance

*** This is for those who have committed sexual sin, and other sins, including the occult, or been the victim of sexual sin, or other sins, or occult activity, and wish to be free of the emotional and spiritual bondage that results from any of this.
It might be helpful to print this out and keep it where you can read it daily, until you feel better. Get someone to pray with you, if possible.
Never be ashamed that you need help, or forgiveness. Feel reassured that repentance will heal you. God will hear your prayer.

Heavenly Father, I come to you in the name of your son, Jesus Christ.

I accept your gift of His death on the Cross of Calvary, His burial, and His resurrection for my sins and the sins of the world, past, present and future.

I believe and accept Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior.

Father, I ask that you forgive all of my sins all the way back to my mother’s womb.

I ask you to forgive me for the things that I have done and failed to do; the things I have thought that were sinful and the things that I have said that were sinful.

Please forgive me for lying, cheating, gossiping, manipulating, and seducing and for all the selfish, self-centered, willful sins that I have committed; things I should have done but didn’t, and for all the sins of sexual activity that were not in the marriage bed.

I renounce all ungodly soul ties in which I entered by joining myself to any one to whom I was not married.

In Jesus Christ’s Name, I renounce all ungodly soul ties gained through family curses.

In Jesus Christ’s name, I renounce all activity in the occult.

I will, with my own free will, forgive all those who have used me, abused me, rejected me, or failed to love me.

I forgive all those who have had immoral sex with me, with or without my permission.

I forgive myself for allowing people to do these things to me, and for me to do these things to them.

I break all the ungodly soul ties in Jesus Christ’s name. I am free.

I set them free! I am forgiven and I forgive them.

I ask you Father, in the name of Jesus Christ, that you send the promise of your Holy Spirit to fill me with the power to fight the battle for my soul.

I ask that you loose my tongue and give me my prayer language so I can worship you in spirit and in truth.

Holy Spirit, live through me, love through me, and use me. I present my body as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to you.

I praise and thank you with my thoughts and lips, for what you have done, are doing, and will do in my life and in my families’ lives.

Change me into your image, Lord Jesus, and I also ask this for the salvation of all the people that I have just forgiven.

I will give You all the Glory.

And now by the power and authority of the Lord Jesus Christ I ask for myself and all the people to whom

I have referred, that you Heal our minds, bodies, spirits, emotions, relationships, morals, our marriages and our finances.

I pray this prayer in agreement with all others who have prayed it, expecting our healings according to your WILL Father.

Please make me the man/woman of God that you destined me to be.

I ask this in Jesus Name. Amen.

“SELF DELIVERANCE” AND “FREEDOM” FROM THE BONDAGE OF EVIL SPIRITS!

Repeat the following prayer loudly to be delivered from the Occult, Evil Spirits and evil thoughts, words or deeds.

Thank you Lord Jesus for dying for my sins, thank you for your glorious resurrection and for making me a new person through faith in your precious blood.

Dear Lord, I confess that in the past through ignorance, curiosity, foolishness or willfulness, I have disobeyed your Word. I now ask you to help me as I renounce all those things. Lord cleanse me in body, mind, soul and spirit. Satan, I am closing any door which I may have opened to you and your demons through contacts with the occult.

Under the authority of Jesus Christ and by the power of the Holy Ghost, I renounce all contacts or any involvement with Satan, Satanism, black mass and demon worship.(See our complete posting on “The authority of Jesus Christ.)

I renounce all contacts with Witchcraft, White Magic, Black Magic, Voodoo, Dungeons & Dragons (used for advanced training of witches), Spiritist, Black Mass, Ouija boards and other occult games.

I renounce all kinds of fortune telling, tea leaf reading, coffee ground reading, palm reading (Chiromancy), crystal balls, Contumacy (tarot and other card) playing, all dependency on astrology, biorhythm and feedback, Irisology (fortune telling by the iris of the eye), birth signs and horoscopes, spirit guides or counselors, pendulum swinging, false cults and wearing charm earrings.

I renounce all water witching or dowsing, levitation, body-lifting, table tipping, automatic handwriting and handwriting analysis.

I renounce all Psycometry (divination through objects), Geomancy, Promancy, Aeromancy, Arithmancy, Capnomancy, Rhapsodmancy, Phrenology (fortune telling by bumps on the head) and Augury that are part of fortune telling.

I renounce the heresy of reincarnation and all healing groups involved in metaphysics and spiritualism.

I do renounce every psychic and occult contact that I have had.

I renounce all kind of hypnosis, self hypnosis under any excuse or authority.

I renounce all transcendental meditation, yoga, Zen, all eastern cults and religions, mysticism, idol worship and false religions.

I renounce every cult that denies the blood of Jesus Christ and every philosophy which denies the Divinity of the Lord Jesus and the Trinity. Lord I confess the sin of seeking from self or Satan the help that should have only come from God. I confess as sin (name all occult contacts and occult sins committed) and also those occult sins I can not remember.

I renounce all psychic heredity that I may have had and break any demonic hold and curses over myself and my family line back to Adam and Eve on both sides of my parents through the power of the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ.

I renounce all forms of the martial arts, including judo, Kung fu, and Karate.

I renounce all literature I have ever read and studied in all of these fields and I will destroy such books in my possession.

Lord I now repent and renounce all those sins and ask you to forgive me (1John 1:9). I renounce Satan and all his works. I count them as my enemies. I now close the door to all practices and command all such spirits to leave me in the mighty name of Jesus Christ.

I renounce the Prince of Occult Sex and all the sex spirits which entered through the occult involvement, eyes, participation, transfer or by inheritance and command all of his demons to come out of the sex organs, the lips, tongue, the taste buds, throat, and mind in the name of Jesus Christ my Savior.

Heavenly Father, I come to you in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. I believe that he is the Son of God Who takes away the sin of all those who repent and confess him as Lord. I believe that the blood of Jesus Christ cleanses me from all sin. I claim freedom from all filth which has come through my eyes, my ears, my mind or through actual participation in sin. In particular, I confess the following: all preoccupation with sensual desire and appetites, and indulgences of them; all longing and ardent desire for what is forbidden; all inordinate affection, all unnatural and unrestrained passions and lusts; the promoting or partaking of these which produce lewd emotion and foster sexual sin and lust.

In the name of Jesus Christ, I now rebuke and loose myself and my family from any and all evil curses, fetishes, charms, love potions all psychic powers, sorcery, bewitchments, enchantments, hexes, spells, every jinx, and psychic prayers which have been put upon us, from both sides of generations of my father and mother back to Adam and Eve.

I break and loose myself from any connected or related spirits from any person or persons or from any occult or psychic source.

I hereby reclaim all ground that I have ever given to Satan in body, mind, soul, or spirit. I dedicate myself to you Dear Lord, to be used for Your glory alone. I want You to control and empower every area of my life, including all my emotions; including my sexual powers; that from now on that I might be used according to your will. I also now give to You my affections, emotions and desires, and request that they might be motivated and controlled by Your Holy Spirit. I here by claim, total victory and freedom from all my former Bondages In Jesus Christ’ name I ask. – Amen.

DELIVERANCE AND RENUNCIATION FROM SEXUAL SIN

1. I renounce all sexual sin that I have been involved with in the past, including fornication, masturbation, pornography, perversion, fantasy, and adultery in the name of Jesus.

2. I break all curses of adultery, perversion, fornication, lust, incest, rape, molestation, illegitimacy, harlotry, and polygamy in the name of Jesus.

3. I command all spirits of lust and perversion to come out of my stomach, genitals, eyes, mind, mouth, hands, and blood in the name of Jesus.

4. I present my body to the Lord as a living sacrifice (Romans 12:1).

5. My members are the members of Christ. I will not let them be the members of a harlot (1 Corinthians 6:15).

6. I release the fire of God to burn out all unclean lust from my life in the name of Jesus.

7. I break all ungodly soul ties with former lovers and sexual partners in the name of Jesus.

8. I cast out all spirits of loneliness that would drive me to ungodly sexual relationships in the name of Jesus.

9. I command all spirits of hereditary lusts from my ancestors to come out in the name of Jesus.

10. I command all spirits of witchcraft that work with lust to leave in the name of Jesus.

11. I take authority over my thoughts and bind all spirits of fantasy and lustful thinking in the name of Jesus.

12. I cast out all marriage-breaking spirits of lust that would break covenant in the name of Jesus.

13. I cast out and loose myself from any spirit spouses and spirits of incubus and succubus in the name of Jesus.

14. I cast out all spirits of perversion, including Moabite and Ammonite spirits of lust, in the name of Jesus.

15. I receive the spirit of holiness in my life to walk in sexual purity in the name of Jesus (Romans 1:4).

16. I loose myself from the spirit of the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life. I overcome the world through the power of the Holy Spirit (1 John 2:16).

17. I am crucified with Christ. I mortify my members. I do not let sin reign in my body, and I will not obey its lust (Romans 6:6–12).

18. I disconnect my mind from the mind of any past sexual partner (name the names if you can remember)

19. I disconnect my heart, my soul, my spirit, my eyes, my sexual members from every heart, soul, spirit, eyes and sexual partners i have had either by watching porn or indulging any other sexual activities in the name Jesus.

20. I now connect my mind, soul, spirit, eyes, and heart with that of Christ in Jesus name. Jesus take over.

21. Now start worshipping and thanking God for answering your prayers

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Deliverance Prayer From Marine Spirits

Col. 2:14

1. I renounce every marital vows or agreements entered into by my ancestors or my immediate parent on my behalf either now or before I was born in the name of Jesus.

2. I break and deactivate all covenants, vows entered into with the spirit husband or wife, in the name of Jesus.

3. I withdraw by faith every engagement material, visible or invisible presented to the spirit world on my behalf in Jesus name.

4. I command the fire of God to burn to ashes the spiritual wedding gown, ring, photographs, marriage certificate, objects, and all other materials used for the marriage, in the name of Jesus.

5. Every demonic blood covenant as a result of sex in my dream, food in my dream, ceremonies in my dream, with the spirit husband or wife, you are broken in the name of Jesus.

6. All the demonic children I had, in the spirit world, consciously or unconsciously be consume by fire, in the name of Jesus.

7. By the power of the blood of Jesus, and under a new covenant, which is the covenant of the blood of Jesus, I withdraw my sperm, my blood, my destiny or any other part of my body deposited at the altar of the spirit husband or wife, in the name of Jesus.

8. I receive spiritual authority, to break all marital vows and covenants and also to effect an everlasting divorce between me and spirit husband or spirit wife. In the name of the father, and of the son, and of the Holy Ghost.

9. I call heaven and the Earth to witness this day that, I return all demonic property in my possession in the spirit world including satanic symbols, dowry cola, and whatsoever was presented at the satanic altar or shrines for the marriage, in the name of Jesus.

10. Holy Ghost flush my system from all wrong sex and all demonic deposits in my system with the blood of Jesus.

11. Holy Ghost search light go through my body and consume every demonic mark, tag, embargo deposited in my life now, in the name of Jesus.

12. Every strange image, object, symbol, deposit by the spirit husband or wife come out of me, in the name of Jesus.

13. I send my body to the heavenly theater for complete operation to repair and restore every damage done to any part of my body and my earthly marriage by the spirit husband or wife, in the name of Jesus.

14. I renounce and reject the demonic name given to me by the spirit husband or wife, and I soak myself in the blood of Jesus and cancel every demonic mark attached to such name, in the name of Jesus.

15. I request the judge of heaven and earth to issue a decree order of restriction to every spirit wife, or spirit husband harassing me in my dream in the mighty names of Jesus.

16. I destroy every demonic power, assigned to destabilize my earthly marriage to hinder my child bearing for my earthly husband or wife, in the name of Jesus.

17. Every demonic agent commission from the spirit wife or the spirit husband to cause misunderstanding between me and my earthly wife, the Lord rebuke you, in the name of Jesus.

18. Every marriage creeds and stipulation that were done in the spirit, affecting my Earthly marriage vows and stipulation, I break and renounce by the blood of Jesus.

19. I abandon and disown with immediate effect any spirit marriage not in line with the scripture, in the name of the father son and the Holy Spirit.

20. I abandon and disown with immediate effect any spiritual children attached to my name from the spirit wife or the spirit husband in Jesus name.

Prayer Against Evil Dreams

I want to encourage you to cancel, nullify and void satanic, demonic, and evil dreams each morning regardless if you dreamt anything the previous night. Make sure to also decree and declare that the enemy’s plan for your life will not stand nor will it come to pass:

Isaiah 7:7. Yet this is what the Sovereign says: ‘It will not take place, it will not happen,

I command every problem afflicted upon me through dreams to be reversed now by the blood of Jesus Christ.

I command dreams of death, tragedy, spiritual wives and husbands to stop now in the name of Jesus Christ.

I command every sickness that came into my life through dreams to be terminated by the blood of Jesus Christ.

I command every satanic manipulation through dreams to come to an end in the name of Jesus Christ.

I command every doorstop that the enemy has placed on my good dreams to be put to an end in the name of Jesus Christ.

Almighty God repair or replace any part of my life or body organ that has been damaged through dreams.

Father let your covenant manifest in my dreams in the name of Jesus Christ.

I cancel, nullify, and void every destructive dream that I have ever had in the name of Jesus Christ.

I decree that my good dreams shall live and not die and command all of my bad dreams to die in Jesus name.

I command every magnet of evil dreams attached to any area of my life to be destroyed in Jesus name.

I reject every dream from the bottom of hell in Jesus name.

Almighty God sanctify my dream life and turn them into channels of blessings.

I command evil dreams emanating from any body of water to go back to its sender in the name of Jesus Christ.

I command evil dreams emanating from the evil powers of my father and mother’s house to scatter by fire in the name of Jesus Christ.

Finger of the Almighty God uproot whatever the enemy has sown into my life in Jesus name.

I command every dream that is slowing down my destiny and progress in life to die in the name of Jesus Christ.

I command every dream that is being used to introduce fear and confusion into my life to die now in the name of Jesus Christ.

I reject every dream of poverty, nakedness, shame and backwardness and command them to die in Jesus name.

I challenge my dreams with the fire of the Holy Ghost and claim victory over them.

Prayer Points For Destiny Preservation “My Destiny Shall Not Die”

Confession (Genesis 28:15) And, behold, I am with thee, and will keep in all places wither thou goest, and will bring thee again into this land; for i will not leave thee, until I have done that which I have spoken to thee of.

1. Every destiny destroyed by polygamy, be reversed, in the name of Jesus.

2. Every witchcraft power working against my destiny, fall down and die, in the name of Jesus.

3. Every incantation and ritual working against my destiny, be disgraced, in the name of Jesus.

4. Every power of darkness assigned against my destiny, fall down and die, in the name of Jesus.

5. Every evil power trying to re-programme my life, fall down and die, in the name of Jesus.

6. I reject every rearrangement of my destiny by household wickedness, in the name of Jesus.

7. O Lord, anytime I want to make a mistake, direct me aright.

8. I refuse to be removed from the divine agenda, in the name of Jesus.

9. I refuse to be limited by any power of darkness, in the name of Jesus.

10. Every quencher of my destiny, fall down and die, in the name of Jesus.

11. O Lord, let my divine destiny appear and let perverted destiny disappear.

12. I reject every satanic re-arrangement of my destiny, in the name of Jesus.

13. I refuse to live below my divine standard, in Jesus’ name.

14. Every evil power having negative awareness of my destiny, be impotent, in the name of Jesus.

15. I paralyse every destiny polluter, in the name of Jesus.

16. Every damage done to my destiny, be repaired now, in the name of Jesus.

17. The enemy will not convert my body to rags, in the name of Jesus.

18. The enemy will not convert my destiny to rags, in the name of Jesus.

19. O Lord, restore me to Your original design for my life.

20. I reject destiny-demoting names, in the name of Jesus.

21. O Lord, enlarge my coast.

22. I refuse to operate below my divine destiny, in the name of Jesus.

23. O Lord, anoint my eyes, hand and legs to locate my divine purpose.

24. Every power contending with my divine destiny, scatter unto desolation, in the name of Jesus.

25. Let the spirit of excellence come upon me, in Jesus’ name.

26. Satan, I resist and rebuke your efforts to change my destiny, in the name of Jesus.

27. Satan, I remove from you the right to rob me of my divine destiny, in the name of Jesus.

28. I command all powers of darkness assigned to my destiny to leave and never return, in the name of Jesus.

29. Let the earthquake, sea quake, air quake destroy every demoter assigned against my life, in the name of Jesus.

30. I command all the enemies of Jesus Christ that have access to my progress to leave and never return, in the name of Jesus.

31.I paralyse every satanic opportunities contending against my life, in the name of Jesus.

32. Every incantation, ritual and witchcraft power against my destiny, fall down and die, in the name of Jesus.

33. I render null and void the influence of destiny swallowers, in the name of Jesus.

34. Every household wickedness struggling to re-arrange my destiny, loose your hold, in the name of Jesus.

35. The rod of the wicked shall not rest upon my life, in the name of Jesus.

36. I refuse to be removed from the divine agenda, in the name of Jesus.

37. Holy Spirit, I invite You into my imagination.

38. O Lord, bring to light every darkness shielding my potentials, in the name of Jesus.

39. I break every curse of backwardness, in the name of Jesus.

40. I recover myself from every evil diversion, in Jesus’ name.

41. I shall not come to the world in vain, in the name of Jesus.

42. Every forest and rock demons assigned against me, fall down and die, in the name of Jesus.

43. Every local charm burnt against me, be roasted, in the name of Jesus.

44. I release myself from ungodly parental linkage, in the name of Jesus.

45. Lord Jesus, manifest Yourself in my life by Your name called ‘Wonderful’.

46. Every bird of death assigned against me, fall down and die, in the name of Jesus.

47. I withdraw the food and drink of my problems, in the name of Jesus.

48. No evil family river shall flow into my life, in Jesus’ name.

49. I withdraw my progress from every satanic regulation and domination, in the name of Jesus.

50. Every garment of darkness, be roasted by fire, in the name of Jesus.

51. I refuse to live a floating life, in the name of Jesus.

52. Every deeply entrenched problem, dry to the roots, in the name of Jesus.

53.I destroy the weapons of satanic night raiders, in the name of Jesus.

54. Every stronghold of failure, be broken, in Jesus’ name.

55. Every internal warfare in my life, be quenched, in the name of Jesus.

56. Every internal thief, be exposed, in the name of Jesus.

57. Anything planted in my life by my enemies, come out with all your roots, in the name of Jesus.

58. Let the handwriting of household wickedness be rubbed off, in the name of Jesus.

59. I do not ask for your co-operation, I command it, in Jesus’ name.

60. Thieves that have stolen my divine deposits, return them now, in the name of Jesus.

61. O Lord, lay Your hands of fire upon me and change my destiny.

62. I receive explosive breakthroughs, I reject weak breakthroughs, in the name of Jesus.

63. O Lord, change my destiny to the best.

64. Every evil power struggling to re-programme my life, fall down and die, in the name of Jesus.

65. O Lord, shake me to my senses where I have made mistakes.

66. I thank the Lord Jesus for scattering the enemies of my divine destiny.

67. Every organ of my body, be washed by the blood of Jesus.

68. I withdraw every organ of my body from every satanic altar, in the name of Jesus.

69. Every spiritual parent, release me now, in Jesus’ name.

70. Every unprofitable love targeted against me, be broken now, in the name of Jesus.

71. Every evil load prepared by household wickedness, be smashed unto desolation, in the name of Jesus.

72. Every stubborn curse, be broken by fire, in Jesus’ name.

73. I dash every evil clock controlling my life on the wall of fire, in the name of Jesus.

74. Thank the Lord for answering your prayer.

Prayer to Restore a Fragmented Soul

In the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, I break all bondages over my conscious and unconscious mind. I send out God’s angels to gather all portions of my mind that have been affected by witchcraft, Communism, Masonry, any occult or witchcraft practices, false religions, demonic music, drugs and by any other means, to be restored to me now.

(Ps 23:3; 7:1; 35:15; Job 33:10; Eze 13:17. He restores my soul; He leads me in the paths of righteousness For His name’s sake. O my God, in You I put my trust; Save me from all those who persecute me; And deliver me,

But in my adversity they rejoiced And gathered together; Attackers gathered against me, And I did not know it; They tore at me and did not cease;

Yet He finds occasions against me, He counts me as His enemy;

Likewise, son of man, set your face against the daughters of your people, who prophesy out of their own heart; prophesy against them,

Heavenly Father, I break and renounce all evil soul ties I have ever had or may have had. [Name any Masoninc lodges, adulterers, close friends, ex-spouses, cults, binding agreements between buddies, etc.]. I renounce all evil soul ties, break them and declare them destroyed by the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ.

In the name of Jesus Christ I now renounce, break and loose myself from all demonic subjection to my mother, father, grandparents or any other human being, living or dead, who has dominated me in any way which is contrary to the will of God. I thank you Lord Jesus, for setting me free.

I command all demons to be bound and cast out. I ask you, Heavenly Father to send angels to uncoil, untangle, dig out, break, sever off and remove all demons and demonic roots. Also all fetters, bands, ties, bonds, coils, tangles, serpents, cords in Jesus name.

Father I ask that the angels gather and restore the fragments of my soul (mind, will and emotions) to their rightful place in me. In the name of the Lord Jesus, I ask for angels to unearth and break all earthen vessels, cut bonds, bands and bindings that have been put upon my soul, willingly or without my knowledge.

I ask that the angels free my soul from all bondages by whatever means is required. I agree and declare, Father, that the power of the Lord Jesus Christ is all powerful and effective to do this. I ask this that my soul might fully magnify and glorify the Lord.

Alternative or Additional Prayer

“Father, I ask You in the Name of Jesus Christ to send out angels to gather up the fragments of my soul and restore them to their rightful place in me

(Psalm 7:2, 23:3). Lest they tear me like a lion, Rending me in pieces, while there is none to deliver. He restores my soul; He leads me in the paths of righteousness For His name’s sake.

With the full power and authority of the Lord Jesus, I ask that angels unearth and break all earthen vessels, bonds, bands or bindings which have been put upon my soul by any means.

Restore all the pieces of my fragmented mind, will, emotions, appetite, intellect, heart, and personality. Bring them all into proper and original positions where they belong. In Jesus’ Name. Amen.

In the Name of Jesus Christ, I command Satan and all of his demons to loose my mind completely. I ask You, Father to send Your angels to break, cut and sever all fetters, bands, chains, ties and bonds of whatever sort the enemy has managed to place on my mind by word or deed.

I ask You to loose into me and my family the spirits of the Lord: Wisdom, Counsel, Might, Knowledge, Fear of the Lord, Power, Love, Sound Mind, Grace, Peace and the Spirit of the Lord. Thank you Father. Amen.

DELIVERANCE FROM DREAM POLLUTION

SCRIPTURES Gen.37:3-11; Job 33:15-16; Num. 12:5-8; Joel 2:28-32; Jer. 23:28; Matt. 2:12-13; Eccl. 5:3-7; Isa. 29:8; Hosea 4:6; Matt. 13:24-30; Matt 27:19; Gen. 41:32; Matt 2:12 – 23; Job 33:14 – 16; Dan. 2:1 – end.

EXHORTATION: Matt.13:25 “But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat and went his way” Many people have suffered terribly as a result of being very ignorant of what the devil does while men sleep and dream. Dreams are spiritual channels of receiving messages of the happenings in the spiritual world. Dreams can come from God, man or our enemies. In the scriptures: Joseph, Pharaoh, Nebuchadnezzar, Jacob, Solomon, Apostle Paul, Pilate’s wife all had dreams that affected and transformed their lives.

Some people don’t dream at all, some dream but the enemies have blinded their spirit man and soul so that when they awake, the dreams will be forgotten. Thank God for the Holy Spirit who can bring all things into our remembrance John 14:26

Many evil seeds have been sown into people’s lives through dreams right from infancy, growing with them over the years, now making them to have Baptism of failure, defeat and hindrances in all areas of their lives.

Some people would have a PARTICULAR DREAM whenever there is a major breakthrough ahead and immediately after that dream, the expected manifestations will automatically be aborted.

So many people’s vehicle of Destiny have been severely attacked and damaged in the dream and so nothing works for them on the physical. It is important to know that the council of wickedness do spend sleepless night in order to fulfill their quota/target to hinder men from moving forward. That is why we must be engaged in Night battles to really attack our stubborn enemies in the very act.

Please note that it is the Holy Spirit who can interpret our Dreams for us, He is our teacher. Let us enquire from Him the source of our dreams, the meaning and the next step to take.

PRAYERS

1. Cry this confession loud and clear “Thou stubborn invisible power, troubling my life in my dream, my God will trouble you in Jesus name”

2. Repeated satanic dreams attached to my progress, bringing failure and afflictions, be nullified in Jesus name.

3. Anti-progress arrows fired into my life through dreams since infancy, come out by fire in Jesus name.

4. Evil deposit in my life through dreams since my infancy, affecting my progress now, drain out by fire in Jesus name

5. Satanic ANCHOR in my dream holding down my vehicle of progress, break loose by fire in Jesus name.

6. Destiny demoting dreams from infancy troubling my life now, be nullified in Jesus name.

7. Satanic ladder hidden in my dreamland, break and burn in Jesus name.

8. All dreams, visions, imagination contrary to my PROGRESS, be cancelled in Jesus name.

9. Maturity Dates of all evil dreams I have ever had, be cancelled by the blood of Jesus.

10. Sexual intercourse, Eating and Drinking, Slavery, Writing Difficult Examination, Climbing dangerous mountains, Seeing dead people, Being attacked by Dangerous animals/Birds/Reptiles, Being naked (in the dream), be nullified in Jesus name.

11. All my virtues and benefits buried or stolen through dreams, I recover you in Jesus name.

12. My keys of elevation stolen from me through dreams, I recover you in Jesus name.

13. Masquerades and other evil pursuers in my dreams, die by fire in Jesus name.

14. Spiritual problems attached to my life through dreams from infancy between 12 midnight -1am/1am-2am/2am-3am/3am-4am/4am-5am/5am-6am. Be nullified in Jesus name.

15. Any pollution or contamination in my life through dreams, be cleansed by the blood of Jesus.

16. Anointing for victory in my dreams always, fall upon me in Jesus name.

17. O! Lord, set a watch over my dreamland in the name of Jesus.

18. Good dreams in my life from infancy, begin to manifest now in Jesus name.

19. Any strange hand in my dream causing problem for me on the physical, wither by fire in Jesus name

20. Any dark Agent who turns to birds following and monitoring me about, you that bird, die in Jesus name.

21. Every attempt for any evil dream to manifest on the physical, be aborted in Jesus name.

22. Every manipulation in the dream causing problems on the Physical, be cancelled in Jesus name.

23. Anything captured from my life by witchcraft power through dreams, I recover you by fire in Jesus name.

24. Every good thing I have lost through dreams since I was born, I recover you in the name of Jesus.

25. Every evil power of the night that scatters what I gathered in the day, I bind you in the name of Jesus.

26. Any problem presently in my life as a result of bad dreams, jump out and die in the name of Jesus.

27. All dreams that are forgotten since I was born, Holy Spirit remind me in the name of Jesus.

28. All my good dreams that I have ever dreamt come to pass in the name of Jesus.

Problem Solving Prayer For Spiritual Attacks

1. O Lord, locate and destroy by fire every evil charm, hex, spell, jinx, manipulation and witchcraft working against my life, in Jesus name.

2. Holy Ghost fire, flow through me and destroy every demonic personality and plantation in my life, in Jesus name.

3. I remove my name from every evil list, in Jesus name.

4. Every demonic personality following me around be arrested by fire, in Jesus name.

5. I bind every sorcerer, diviner, soothsayer, necromancer, false prophet (ess), psychic and witch doctor hired to do me harm, in Jesus name.

6. I reverse every evil done to me in my dreams, in Jesus name.

7. I dismantle and destroy every monitoring gadget of the enemies, in Jesus name.

8. O Lord, visit the foundation of my life and fix every problem in it, in Jesus name.

9. I destroy every remote controlling power working against my life, in Jesus name.

10. Every power aborting my blessing, be bound, in Jesus name.

11. I command every curse of almost there, but never there to be broken and destroyed, in Jesus name.

12. Every Satanic traffic agent diverting good things from me, be paralyzed, in Jesus name.

13. I destroy all walls of Jericho erected for my sake, in Jesus name.

14. Every fetish material in the ground, in the dream, in demonic altars, in the sky, in a container, on a shelf, be roasted by fire, in Jesus name.

15. Every curse from false prophets and false pastors be broken and destroyed, in Jesus name.

16. Every Satanic padlock in my place of birth working against me, I command it to be roasted , in Jesus name.

17. Every poison in my body from voodoo, obeah, juju, santeria and all witchcraft power, be flushed out by the blood of Jesus, in Jesus name.

18. Every gathering against me by witchcraft, receive confusion, in Jesus name.

19. Every evil tree planted for my sake, be cut down right now, in Jesus name.

20. Every power keeping me low, become powerless, in Jesus name.

21. Holy Ghost fire flow through me from the crown of my head to the sole of my foot and destroy every demonic personality and plantation in me, in Jesus name.

22. Every arrow fired into my destiny, scatter by fire, in Jesus name.

23. Every destiny that have been stolen from me when I was a baby, or while growing up, be returned to me now, in Jesus name.

24. Every door or gate between me and my blessing, move out of the way, in Jesus name.

25. Every wall of Jericho standing against my progress, fall, in Jesus name.

26. Every strange object crawling around in my body, die, in Jesus name.

27. Every hidden authority and stubborn pursuer that is following me around, be arrested, in Jesus name.

28. Every garment of shame on me, be destroyed by fire, in Jesus name.

29. I take back all that has been stolen from me, in Jesus name.

30. I declare all areas of my life danger zone to you devil and all unclean spirits, in Jesus name.

31. I separate my family and I from all evil ancestral curse, in Jesus name.

32. Anything unclean spirits have eaten in my life. Or whatever they have destroyed, I decree a complete restoration now, in Jesus name.

33. Blood of Jesus erase every evil mark upon my life, in Jesus name.

34. I remove my name from every evil list by the Blood of Jesus, in Jesus name.

35. I remove my name from the book of demonic causalities, in Jesus name.

36. I break every family covenant that is affecting my life negatively, in Jesus name.

37. Every evil night visitor, I chain you down, in Jesus name.

38. I remove myself from every demonic hold, in Jesus name.

39. Every demonic personality following me around, be arrested by fire, in Jesus name.

40. I break and loose myself from every manipulation and control of demonic, spiritual, and white garment churches, in Jesus name.

41. I cast out every evil spirit in my soul, spirit and body, in Jesus name.

42. I break all links to demonic spirit in my life by the blood of Jesus, in Jesus name.

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PURGE YOUR FOUNDATION

PRAYER POINTS

1. This session is titled: Deliverance From Placenta Bondage

Every placenta witchcraft targeted against my destiny, what are you waiting for, die, in Jesus name.
Every caldron of darkness that is harassing my destiny, break, in the name of Jesus.
Every chain of darkness around my waist, break, in the name of Jesus.
(Lay your hand on your belly-button)
Placenta witchcraft manipulating my destiny, die, in the name of Jesus.
Thou bank of satan, release my placenta, in the name of Jesus.
Every satanic transfer into my destiny through the placenta, I cut you off, in the name of Jesus.
Blood of Jesus, recover my placenta from the earth, in the name of Jesus.
Blood of Jesus, recover my destiny from the waters, in the name of Jesus.
Every placenta attachment to my place of birth, what are you waiting for, die, in the name of Jesus.
Thou eater of flesh and drinker of blood, vomit my placenta, in the name of Jesus.
Thou power of God, deliver me from placenta bondage, in the name of Jesus.
Every power using my placenta against me, what are you waiting for, die, in the name of Jesus.
Every covenant between any tree and my placenta, break, in the name of Jesus.
Every blessing that I have lost through placenta witchcraft, I possess you, in the name of Jesus.
Every cage of placenta manipulation, break, in the name of Jesus.

2. This session is titled: Lord Purge My Foundations

I release myself from any inherited bondage and limitations in the name of Jesus.
0 Lord, send Your axe of fire to the foundation of my life and destroy every evil plantation.
I release myself from the grip of any problem transferred into my life from the womb in Jesus name.
I break and loose myself from every inherited evil covenant in the name of Jesus.
I break and loose myself from every inherited evil curse in the name of Jesus.
I command all foundational strongmen attached to my life to be paralyzed in the name of Jesus.
Let the roots of family witchcraft be uprooted from the foundation of my life in the name of Jesus.

3. This session is titled: Breaking The Evil Flow

I release myself from any inherited bondage in the name of Jesus.
I release myself from the grip of any problem transferred into my life from the womb in the name of Jesus.
I break and loose myself from every inherited evil covenant in the name of Jesus.
I break and loose myself from every inherited evil curse in the name of Jesus.
I release myself from every inherited disease in the name of Jesus.
Let the blood of Jesus correct any inherited defect in my body in the name of Jesus.
I break any curse of rejection from the womb or illegitimacy that may be in my family back to ten generations on both sides of the family in the name of Jesus..
I break all the curses of deformity, infirmity and sickness in my family back to ten generations on both sides of my family in the name of Jesus.
I command the spirit of death and hell to loose its hold upon my life in the name of Jesus.
I break every demonic circle in my life, in the name of Jesus.
Lord, send your axe of fire to the foundation of my life and destroy every evil plantation.
Father, let the fire of the Holy Ghost enter into my blood stream and cleanse my system, in Jesus name.
I break every curse of automatic failure mechanism working in the name of Jesus.

4. This session is titled: Promoted To Excel

I revoke every satanic decree issued against my promotion in the name of Jesus.
I silence every evil dog barking against my breakthroughs in the name of Jesus.
Every agent of disgrace, backwardness and shame, release me in the mighty name of Jesus.
Let every spiritual vulture delegated against me eat their own flesh in the name of Jesus.
Holy Spirit, transform me from weakness to strength in the name of Jesus.
I disgrace every evil wisdom working against my breakthroughs in the name of Jesus.
Lord, let me be extraordinary.
Holy Spirit, deposit Your wonders in my life in the name of Jesus.
Lord Jesus, set me ablaze with Your Spirit.
Let divine earthquake shake down the foundation of every satanic prison in the name of Jesus.
I bind every evil spirit withstanding good testimonies in my life in the name of Jesus.
Let every satanic river of backwardness dry up in the name of Jesus.
Holy Ghost, fulfil your purpose in me now in the name of Jesus.
O Lord, create within me a hunger and thirsting after purity and holiness.
Holy Spirit, promote divine possibility in my life in the name of Jesus.

5. This session is titled: Breaking Ancestral Evil Hold

Every grip of the evil consequences of the ancestral worship of my forefathers’ god over my life and ministry, break by fire, in the name of Jesus.
Every covenant with ——————————– (pick from below) be broken by the blood of Jesus.
a. water spirits, b. desert spirits, c. witchcraft spirits, d. spirits in evil sacred trees, e. masquerade spirits, f. evil family guardian spirits, g. family gods, h. family / village serpentine spirits, i. inherited spirit husbands / wives, j. spirits inside / under sacred rocks / hills,
Every unconscious evil soul-tie and covenant with the spirits of my dead grandfather, grandmother, occult uncles, aunties, custodian of family
gods/oracles/shrines, be broken by the blood of Jesus.
Every decision, vow or promise made by my forefathers contrary to my divine destiny, loose your hold by fire, in the name of Jesus.
Every legal ground that ancestral/guardian spirits have in my life, be destroyed by the blood of Jesus.
Every generational curse of God resulting from the sin of idolatry on my forefathers, loose your hold, in the name of Jesus.
Every ancestral evil altar prospering against me, be dashed against the Rock of Ages, in Jesus name.
Every hold of any sacrifice ever offered in my family or on my behalf, I break your power in my life, in the name of Jesus.
Any ancestral blood shed of animals, or human beings affecting me, loose your hold by the blood of Jesus.
Any curse placed on my ancestral line by anybody cheated, maltreated or at the point of death, break now, in Jesus’ name.
Every evil ancestral river flowing down to my generation, I cut you off, in the name of Jesus.
Every evil ancestral habit and weakness of moral failures manifesting in my life, loose your grip and release me now, in Jesus’ name.
Every rage and rampage of ancestral and family spirits resulting from my being born again, be quenched by the liquid fire of God, in the name of Jesus.
I recover every good thing stolen by ancestral evil spirits from my forefathers, my immediate family and myself, in Jesus’ name.
Every ancestral embargo, be lifted; and let good things begin to break forth in my life and in my family, in the name of Jesus.

6. This session is titled: Holy Purging

Any demonic incisions loose your hold over my life and be purged out of my foundation.
Any dream pollution loose your hold over my life and be purged out of my foundation.
Any demonic sacrifices loose your hold over my life and be purged out of my foundation.
Any demonic marriages loose your hold over my life and be purged out of my foundation.
Any wrong exposures to sex loose your hold over my life and be purged out of my foundation.
Any demonic incisions loose your hold over my life and be purged out of my foundation.
Any fellowships with family idols loose your hold over my life and be purged out of my foundation.
I command all the enemy of God in my life, husband/wife, family to carry their entire problems today, in Jesus name

7. This session is titled: Cutting Down The Family Strongman

O Lord, nullify the evil influence of family strongman upon my life in the name of Jesus.
Every stronghold of family strongman upon my spirit, soul and body, be shattered to pieces in the name of Jesus.
Let the wickedness of the family strongman be overturned in the mighty name of Jesus.
I arrest the spiritual soldiers of any family strongmen watching over the affairs of my life in the name of Jesus.
Let the thunder of God strike the altar of family strongmen in the name of Jesus.
I cancel the evil dedication of my name to any evil family strongman in the name of Jesus.
I bring the Blood of Jesus over every evil claim from the family strongman over my life in the name of Jesus.
The gates of the ancestral demon working against my divine goal in life is broken by the power of Jesus in the name of Jesus.
I break the yoke of any family strongman upon my life in the name of Jesus.
Every foundation of family strongmen rooted in my dreams, visions and destiny, be uprooted in the name of Jesus.
The tree of family strongmen in my life, be cut down in the name of Jesus.

8. This session is titled: Power Against Destiny Vultures

Destiny vultures, vomit my destiny in the name of Jesus.
Visions of my divine destiny, come upon my life, in Jesus name.
Every witchcraft servant riding on the horse of my destiny, come down now, in the name of Jesus
Every family destiny cage, what are you waiting for? Die, in Jesus name.
Every evil destiny pattern, die, in Jesus name.
Every spiritual bastard pursuing my destiny, die, in Jesus name.
Every job that will not move me forward, change by fire, in Jesus name.
Every spiritual relative stealing from me, scatter now, in Jesus name.
Every curse issued against my destiny, scatter by fire, in the name of Jesus.
Every witchcraft embargo on my finances, die, in the name of Jesus.
Every witchcraft embargo on my career and business, die, in the name of Jesus.
Every witchcraft embargo on my marriage, die, in the name of Jesus.

9. This session is titled: Releasing Goods from The House Of The Strongman

I deliver my goods and my destiny from the hands of the evil strongmen in the name of Jesus.
I recover all my confiscated and stolen properties, in Jesus’ name.
You devil take off your legs from my finances in the name of Jesus.
I bind every strongman holding my privileges and rights captive, in the name of Jesus.
I retrieve all properties from the satanic banks, in Jesus’ name.
I possess all my possessions, in the name of Jesus.
Any power sitting on an evil mat against my prosperity, fall down and die in the name of Jesus.
Lord, restore seven-fold, everything that spiritual thieves have stolen from me.
I bind every spirit sitting on my possession, in the name of Jesus.
I command my money being caged by the enemy to be completely released in the name of Jesus.
Let my proposals be too hot for the enemy to sit upon, in the name of Jesus.
Let the riches of the Gentiles be transferred to me, in Jesus’ name.
I recover my blessings from water, forest and satanic banks, in the name of Jesus.
O Lord, create new and profitable opportunities for me.
Every stolen and satanically transferred virtues, be restored, in the name of Jesus.

10. This session is titled: Power Against Evil Ancestral Transmission

Every darkness planted in my foundation, scatter, in the name of Jesus.
Every foundational arrester, be arrested, in the name of Jesus.
Every serpent in my foundation, die, in the name of Jesus.
Every scorpion in my foundation, die, in the name of Jesus.
Let God arise and let all foundational witchcraft scatter, in the, name of Jesus.
Every seed of witchcraft in my foundation, die, in the name of Jesus.
Every foundational confusion, die, in the name of Jesus.
Every foundational familiar spirit, I bind you and cast you out, in the name of Jesus.
Every foundational marine power, bow, in the name of Jesus.
Every problem attached to my family name, be neutralized, in the name of Jesus.
Family idols, receive the consuming fire of God, in the name of Jesus.
I release myself from every ancestral demonic pollution in the name of Jesus.
I release myself from every demonic pollution emanating from my parents’ religion in the name of Jesus.
I release myself from demonic pollution emanating from my past involvement in any demonic religion in the name of Jesus.
I break and loose myself from every idol and related association in the name of Jesus.

11. This session is titled: I Claim Divine Re-Arrangement

O Lord, rearrange my situation to glorify Your name.
O Lord, re-arrange my situation to defeat and disgrace my enemies.
O Lord, speak deliverance to any bondage situation in my life.
Let the Pharaoh in my place of birth fall down and die, in the name of Jesus.
O Lord, make me attractive to prosperity.
O Lord, let Your purpose for my life be fulfilled.
O Lord, let Your electric love flow into my life.
O Lord, wash and cleanse me from past wounds and scars.
O Lord, bring light into the shadows of my life.
O Lord, bring light into all the dark rooms in my soul.
O Lord, uproot the root cause of any chronic failures.
Let all good things burned alive come forth now, in the name of Jesus.
I cancel the effect of all former satanic benefits upon my life, in the name of Jesus.
I claim back any territory of my life handed over to Satan, in the name of Jesus.

12. This session is titled: Killing The Witchcraft In Your Destiny

Any witchcraft practiced under any water against my life, receive immediate judgment of fire, in Jesus name.
Every witchcraft power that has introduced spirit husband/wife or child into my dreams be roasted by fire, in the mighty name of Jesus.
Every agent of witchcraft power posing as my husband, wife or child in my dreams, be roasted by fire, in Jesus mighty name.
Every agent of witchcraft power physically attached to my marriage to frustrate it, fall down and perish now, in Jesus name.
Every agent of witchcraft power assigned to attack my finances through dream, fall down and perish, in Jesus mighty name.
Let the thunderbolts of God locate and destroy every witchcraft power covens where deliberations and decisions ever fashioned against me, in Jesus name.
Any water spirit from my village, in the place of my birth, practicing witchcraft against me and my family, be amputated by the word of God, in Jesus name.
Any power of witchcraft holding any of my blessings in bondage, receive the fire of judgment of God and release them, in the name of Jesus.
I loose my mind and soul from the bondage of marine witches, in Jesus mighty name.
Any witchcraft power chain, binding my hands and feet from prospering, be broken and shattered to pieces, in the name of Jesus.

13 This session is titled: My Destiny Shall Not Die

I reject every satanic re-arrangement of my destiny, in the name of Jesus.
I refuse to live below my divine standard, in Jesus’ name.
Every evil power having negative awareness of my destiny, be impotent, in the name of Jesus.
I paralyze every destiny polluter, in the name of Jesus.
Every damage done to my destiny, be repaired now, in the name of Jesus.
The enemy will not convert my destiny to rags, in the name of Jesus.
O Lord, restore me to Your original design for my life.
I reject destiny-demoting names, in the name of Jesus.
Every internal warfare in my life, be quenched, in the name of Jesus.
Every internal thief, be exposed, in the name of Jesus.

14. This session is titled: O Lord Plug Me Into your Socket Of Power

0 God arise in your east wind and make my Pharaoh fall into the red sea, in the name of Jesus.
Every evil power struggling to restructure my destiny die, in the name of Jesus.
Umbrella of the Almighty God – cover my life, in the name of Jesus.
0 God, arise and incubate me with wisdom and knowledge, in the name of Jesus.
Power to wait on the Lord fall upon me, in the name of Jesus.
Thou power of inherited failure die, in the name of Jesus.
I am unbeatable by the devil, in the name of Jesus.
I declare myself free from genetic demons, in the name of Jesus.
I declare myself free from national and continental curses, in the name of Jesus.
My enemies shall bow down to me, in the name of Jesus.
Every satanic agenda for my life be aborted, in the name of Jesus.

15. This session is titled: With Healings In His Wings

Let Your deliverance hand be stretched out upon my life now, in the name of Jesus.
I annul every engagement with the spirit of death, in Jesus’ name.
I rebuke every refuge of sickness, in the name of Jesus.
I destroy the grip and operation of sickness upon my life, in the name of Jesus.
Every knee of infirmity in my life, bow, in the name of Jesus.
Let all my negative be converted to positive, in the name of Jesus.
I command death upon any sickness in any area of my life, in the name of Jesus.
I shall see my sickness no more, in the name of Jesus.
Let the whirlwind scatter every vessel of infirmity fashioned against my life, in the name of Jesus.
Every spirit hindering my perfect healing, fall down and die now, in the name of Jesus.
Let all death contractors begin to kill themselves, in Jesus’ name.
Let every germ of infirmity in my body die, in the name of Jesus.
Let every agent of sickness working against my health disappear, in the name of Jesus.
Fountain of discomfort in my life, dry up now, in the name of Jesus.
Every dead organ in my body, receive life now, in Jesus’ name.
Let my blood be transfused with the blood of Jesus to effect my perfect health, in the name of Jesus.
Every internal disorder, receive order, in the name of Jesus.
Every infirmity, come out with all your roots, in the name of Jesus.
I withdraw every conscious and unconscious cooperation with sickness, in the name of Jesus.
Let the whirlwind of the Lord blow every wind of infirmity away, in the name of Jesus.
I release my body from every curse of infirmity, in Jesus’ name.

Monday, 10 October 2016

MOMENTUM OF PRAYER

Prayer Undergirds Revivals

IT has been said that the history of revivals is the history of religion, and no one can study their history without being impressed with their mighty influence on the destiny of the race. To look back over the progress of the divine kingdom upon earth is to review revival periods which have come like refreshing showers upon dry and thirsty ground, making the desert to blossom as the rose, and bringing new eras of spiritual life and activity just when the church had fallen under the influence of the apathy of the times, and needed to be aroused to a new sense of her duty and responsibility. "From one point of view, and that not the least important," writes Principal Lindsay, in "The Church and the Ministry in the Early Centuries," "the history of the church flows on from one time of revival to another, and whether we take the awakenings in the old Catholic, the medieval, or the modern church, these have always been the work of men specially gifted with the power of seeing and declaring the secrets of the deepest Christian life, and the effect of their work has always been proportionate to the spiritual receptivity of the generation they have spoken to."

As God, from the beginning, has wrought prominently through revivals, there can be no denial of the fact that revivals are a part of the divine plan. The kingdom of our Lord has been advanced in large measure by special sea-sons of gracious and rapid accomplishment of the work of conversion, and it may be inferred, therefore, that the means through which God has worked in other times will be employed in our time to produce similar results. "The quiet conversion of one sinner after another, under the ordinary ministry of the gospel," says one writer on the subject,

must always be regarded with feelings of satisfaction and gratitude by the ministers and disciples of Christ; but a periodical manifestation of the simultaneous conversion of thousands is also to be desired, because of its adaptation to afford a visible and impressive demonstration that God has made that same Jesus, who was rejected and crucified, both Lord and Christ; and that, in virtue of his divine mediatorship, he has assumed the royal scepter of universal supremacy, and "must reign till all his enemies be made his footstool.' It is, therefore, reasonable to expect that, from time to time, he will repeat that which on the day of Pentecost formed the conclusive and crowning evidence of his messiahship

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and Sovereignty; and, by so doing, startle the slumbering souls of careless worldlings, gain the attentive ear of the unconverted, and, in a remarkable way, break in on those brilliant dreams of earthly glory, grandeur, wealth, power, and happiness, which the rebellious and God-forgetting multitude so fondly cherish. Such an outpouring of the Holy Spirit forms at once a demonstrative proof of the completeness and acceptance of his once offering of himself as a sacrifice for sin, and a prophetic "earnest" of the certainty that he "shall appear the second time without sin unto salvation," to judge the world in righteousness.

And that revivals are to be expected, proceeding, as they do, from the right use of the appropriate means, is a fact which needs not a little emphasis in these days, when the material is exalted at the expense of the spiritual, and when ethical standards are supposed to be supreme. That a revival is not a miracle was powerfully taught by Charles G. Finney. There might, he said, be a miracle among its antecedent causes, or there might not. The apostles employed miracles simply as a means by which they arrested attention to their message, and established its divine authority. "But the miracle was not the revival. The miracle was one thing; the revival that followed it was quite another thing. The revivals in the apostles' days were connected with miracles, but they were not miracles." All revivals are dependent on God, but in revivals, as in other things, he invites and requires the assistance of man, and the full result is obtained when there is cooperation between the divine and the human. In other words, to employ a familiar phrase, God alone can save the world, but God chooses not to save the world alone. God and man unite for the task, the response of the divine being invariably in proportion to the desire and the effort of the human.

This cooperation, then, being necessary, what is the duty which we, as co-workers with God, require to undertake? First of all, and most important of all—the point which we desire particularly to emphasize—we must give our-selves to prayer. "Revivals," as Dr. J. Wilbur Chapman reminds us, "are born in prayer. When Wesley prayed, England was revived; when Knox prayed, Scotland was refreshed; when the Sunday School teachers of Tannybrook prayed, 11,000 young people were added to the church in a year. Whole nights of prayer have always been succeeded by whole days of soul-winning."

When D. L. Moody's church in Chicago lay in ashes, he went over to England, in 1872, not to preach, but to listen to others preach while his new church was being built. One Sunday morning he was prevailed upon to preach in a London pulpit. But somehow the spiritual atmosphere was lacking. He confessed afterward that he never had such a hard time preaching in his life. Everything was perfectly dead, and, as he vainly tried to preach, he said to himself, "What a fool I was to consent to preach! I came here to listen, and here I am preaching." Then the awful thought came to him that he had to preach again at night, and only the fact that he had given the promise to do so kept him faithful to the engagement. But when Mr. Moody entered the pulpit at night, and faced the crowded congregation, he was conscious of a new

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atmosphere. "The powers of an unseen world seemed to have fallen upon the audience." As he drew toward the close of his sermon he became emboldened to give out an invitation, and as he concluded he said, "If there is a man or woman here who will tonight accept Jesus Christ, please stand up." At once about 500 people rose to their feet. Thinking that there must be some mistake, he asked the people to be seated, and then, in order that there might be no possible misunderstanding, he repeated the invitation, couching it in even more definite and difficult terms. Again the same number rose. Still thinking that something must be wrong, Mr. Moody, for the second time, asked the standing men and women to be seated, and then he invited all who really meant to accept Christ to pass into the vestry. Fully 500 people did as requested, and that was the beginning of a revival in that church and neighborhood, which brought Mr. Moody back from Dublin, a few days later, that he might assist the wonderful work of God.

The sequel, however, must be given, or our purpose in relating the incident will be defeated. When Mr. Moody preached at the morning service there was a woman in the congregation who had an invalid sister. On her return home she told the invalid that the preacher had been a Mr. Moody from Chicago, and on hearing this she turned pale. "What," she said, "Mr. Moody from Chicago! I read about him some time ago in an American paper, and I have been praying God to send him to London, and to our church. If I had known he was going to preach this morning I would have eaten no breakfast. I would have spent the whole time in prayer. Now, sister, go out of the room, lock the door, send me no dinner; no matter who comes, don't let them see me. I am going to spend the whole afternoon and evening in prayer." And so while Mr. Moody stood in the pulpit that had been like an ice-chamber in the morning, the bedridden saint was holding him up before God, and God, who ever delights to answer prayer, poured out his Spirit in mighty power.

The God of revivals who answered the prayer of his child for Mr. Moody, is willing to hear and to answer the faithful, believing prayers of his people today. Wherever God's conditions are met, there the revival is sure to fall. Professor Thomas Nicholson, of Cornell College, U.S.A., relates an experience on his first circuit that impresses anew the old lesson of the place of prayer in the work of God.

There had not been a revival on that circuit in years, and things were not spiritually hopeful. During more than four weeks the pastor had preached faithfully, visited from house to house, in stores, shops, and out-of-the-way places, and had done everything he could. The fifth Monday night saw many of the official members at lodges, but only a corporal's guard at the church.

From that meeting the pastor went home, cast down, but not in despair. He resolved to spend that night in prayer. "Locking the door, he took Bible and hymn book and began to inquire more diligently of the Lord, though the meetings had been the subject of hours of earnest prayer. Only God knows

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the anxiety and the faithful, prayerful study of that night. Near the dawn a great peace and a full assurance came that God would surely bless the plan which had been decided on, and a text was chosen which he felt sure was of the Lord. Dropping upon the bed, the pastor slept about two hours, then rose, hastily breakfasted, and went nine miles to the far side of the circuit to visit some sick people. All day the assurance increased.

Toward night a pouring rain set in, the roads were heavy and we reached home, wet, supperless, and a little late, only to find no fire in the church, the lights unlit, and no signs of service. The janitor had concluded that the rain would prevent the service. We changed the order, rang the bell, and prepared for war. Three young men formed the congregation, but in that "full assurance" the pastor delivered the message which had been prayed out on the preceding night, as earnestly and as fully as if the house had been crowded, then made a personal appeal to each young man in turn. Two yielded, and testified before the meeting closed.

The tired pastor went to a sweet rest, and next morning, rising a little later than usual, learned that one of the young men was going from store to store throughout the town telling of his wonderful deliverance, and exhorting the people to salvation. Night after night conversions occurred, until in two weeks we heard 144 people testify in forty-five minutes. All three points of that circuit saw a blaze of revival that winter, and family after family came into the church, until the membership was more than tripled.

Out of that meeting one convert is a successful pastor in the Michigan Conference, another is the wife of one of the choicest of our pastors, and a third was in the ministry for a number of years, and then went to another denomination, where he is faithful unto this day. Probably none of the members ever knew of the pastor's night of prayer, but he verily believes that God somehow does for the man who thus prays, what he does not do for the man who does not pray, and he is certain that "more things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of."

All the true revivals have been born in prayer. When God's people become so concerned about the state of religion that they lie on their faces day and night in earnest supplication, the blessing will be sure to fall.

It is the same all down the ages. Every revival of which we have any record has been bathed in prayer. Take, for example, the wonderful revival in Shotts (Scotland) in 1630. The fact that several of the then persecuted ministers would take a part in solemn convocation having become generally known, a vast concourse of godly persons assembled on this occasion from all quarters of the country, and several days were spent in social prayer, preparatory to the service. In the evening, instead of retiring to rest, the multitude divided them-selves into little bands, and spent the whole night in supplication and praise. The Monday was consecrated to thanksgiving, a practice not then common, and proved the great day of the feast. After much entreaty, John Livingston, chaplain to the Countess of Wigtown, a young man and not ordained, agreed

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to preach. He had spent the night in prayer and conference—but as the hour of assembling approached his heart quailed at the thought of addressing so many aged and experienced saints, and he actually fled from the duty he had undertaken. But just as the kirk of Shotts was vanishing from his view, those words, "Was I ever a barren wilderness or a land of darkness?" were borne in upon his mind with such force as compelled him to return to the work. He took for his text Ezekiel 36:25, 26, and discoursed with great power for about two hours. Five hundred conversions were believed to have occurred under that one sermon, thus prefaced by prayer. "It was the sowing of a seed through Clydesdale, so that many of the most eminent Christians of that country could date their conversion, or some remarkable confirmation of their case, from that day"

Of Richard Baxter it has been said that "he stained his study walls with praying breath; and after becoming thus anointed with the unction of the Holy Spirit he sent a river of living water over Kidderminster." 'Whitfield once thus prayed, "0 Lord, give me souls or take my soul." After much closet pleading, "he once went to the Devil's fair and took more than a thousand souls out of the paw of the lion in a single day"

Mr. Finney says: "1 once knew a minister who had a revival fourteen winters in succession. I did not know how to account for it till I saw one of his members get up in a prayer meeting and make a confession. `Brethren,' he said, `I have been long in the habit of praying every Saturday night till after midnight for the descent of the Holy Spirit among us. And now, brethren (and he began to weep), I confess that I have neglected it for two or three weeks.' The secret was out. That minister had a praying church."

And so we might go on multiplying illustration upon illustration to show the place of prayer in revival and to demonstrate that every mighty movement of the Spirit of God has had its source in the prayer-chamber. The lesson of it all is this, that as workers together with God we must regard ourselves as in not a little measure responsible for the conditions which prevail around us today. Are we concerned about the coldness of the church? Do we grieve over the lack of conversions? Does our soul go out to God in midnight cries for the outpouring of his Spirit?

If not, part of the blame lies at our door. If we do our part, God will do his. Around us is a world lost in sin, above us is a God willing and able to save; it is ours to build the bridge that links heaven and earth, and prayer is the mighty instrument that does the work.

And so the old cry comes to us with insistent voice, "Pray, brethren, pray"

GETHSEMANE

THE GETHSEMANE PRAYER

The cup! the cup! the cup! Our Lord did not use many words: but He used His few words again and again, till this cup! and Thy will!—Thy will be done, and this cup—was all His prayer. “The cup! The cup! The cup!” cried Christ: first on His feet: and then on His knees: and then on His face. . . . “Lord, teach us to pray!”—Alexander Whyte, D.D.

We come to Gethsamane. What a contrast! The sacerdotal prayer had been one of intense feelings of universal grasp, and of world-wide and illimitable sympathy and solicitude for His church. Perfect calmness and perfect poise reigned. Majestic He was and simple and free from passion or disquiet. The Royal Intercessor and Advocate for others, His petitions are like princely edicts, judicial and authoritative. How changed now! In Gethsemane He seems to have entered another region, and becomes another man. His sacerdotal prayer, so exquisite in its tranquil flow, so unruffled in its strong, deep current, is like the sun, moving in meridian, unsullied glory, brightening, vitalising, ennobling and blessing everything. The Gethsemane prayer is that same sun declining in the west, plunged into an ocean of storm and cloud, storm-covered, storm-eclipsed with gloom, darkness and terror on every side.

The prayer in Gethsemane is exceptional in every way. The super-incumbent load of the world’s sin is upon Him. The lowest point of His depression has been reached. The bitterest cup of all, His bitter cup, is being pressed to His lips. The weakness of all His weaknesses, the sorrow of all His sorrows, the agony of all His agonies are nowupon Him. The flesh is giving out with its fainting and trembling pulsations, like the trickling of His heart’s blood. His enemies have thus far triumphed. Hell is in a jubilee and bad men are joining in the hellish carnival.

Gethsemane was Satan’s hour, Satan’s power, and Satan’s darkness. It was the hour of massing all of Satan’s forces for a final, last conflict Jesus had said, “The prince of this world cometh and findeth nothing in me.” The conflict for earth’s mastery is before Him. The spirit led and drove Him into the stern conflict and severe temptation of the wilderness. But His Comforter, His Leader and His inspiration through His matchless history, seems to have left Him now. “He began to be sorrowful and very heavy,” and we hear Him under this great pressure exclaiming, “My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death.” The depression, conflict and agony had gone to the very core of His spirit, and had sunk Him to the very verge of death. “Sore amazed” He was.

Surprise and awe depress His soul. “Very heavy” was the hour of hell’s midnight which fell upon His spirit. Very heavy was this hour when all the sins of all the world, of every man, of all men, fell upon His immaculate soul, with all their stain and all their guilt.

He cannot abide the presence of His chosen friends. They cannot enter into the depths and demands of this fearful hour. His trusted and set watchers were asleep. His Father’s face is hid. His Father’s approving voice is silent. The Holy Spirit, who had been with Him in all the trying hours of His life, seems to have withdrawn from the scene. Alone He must drink the cup, alone He must tread the winepress of God’s fierce wrath and of Satan’s power and darkness, and of man’s envy, cruelty and vindictiveness. The scene is well described by Luke:

“And he came out and went, as he was wont, to the Mount of Olives: and his disciples also followed him.

“And when he was at the place, he said unto them, Pray that ye enter not into temptation.

“And he was withdrawn from them about a stone’s cast, and kneeled down and prayed.

“Saying, Father, if thou be willing remove this cup from me; nevertheless, not my will, but thine, be done.

“And there appeared an angel unto him from heaven, strengthening him.

“And being in an agony he prayed more earnestly; and his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground.

“And when he rose up from prayer, and was come to his disciples, he found them sleeping for sorrow.

“And said unto them, Why sleep ye? Rise and pray, lest ye enter into temptation.”

The prayer agony of Gethsemane crowns Calvary with glory and while the prayers offered by Christ on the cross are the union of weakness and strength, of deepest agony and desolation, accompanied with sweetest calm, divinest submission and implicit confidence.

Nowhere in prophet or priest, king or ruler, of synagogue or church, does the ministry of prayer assume such marvels of variety, power and fragrance as in the life of Jesus Christ. It is the aroma of God’s sweetest spices, aflame with God’s glory, and consumed by God’s will.

We find in this Gethsemane prayer that which we find nowhere else in the praying of Christ. “O, my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me; nevertheless, not as I will, but as thou wilt.” This is different from the whole tenor and trend of His praying and doing. How different from His. sacerdotal prayer! “Father, I will,” is the law and life of that prayer. In His last directions for prayer, He makes our will the measure and condition of prayer. “If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you,” He said to the Syrophoenician woman, “Great is thy faith! Be it unto thee as thou wilt.”

But in Gethsemane His praying was against the declared will of God. The pressure was so heavy upon Him, the cup was so bitter, the burden was so strange and intolerable, that the flesh cried out for relief. Prostrate, sinking, sorrowful unto death, He sought to be relieved from that which seemed too heavy to bear. He prayed, however, not in revolt against God’s will, but in submission to that will, and yet to change God’s plan and to alter God’s purposes He prayed. Pressed by the weakness of the flesh, and by the powers of hell in all their dire, hellish malignity and might, Jesus was on this one only occasion constrained to pray against the will of God. He did it, though, with great wariness and pious caution. He did it with declared and inviolable submission to God’s will. But this was exceptional.

Simple submission to God’s will is not the highest attitude of the soul to God. Submission may be seeming, induced by conditions, nothing but all enforced surrender, not cheerful but grudging, only a temporary expedient, a fitful resolve. When the occasion or calamity which called it forth is removed, the will returns to its old ways and to its old self.

Jesus Christ prayed always with this one exception in conformity with the will of God. He was one with God’s plan, and one with God’s will. To pray in conformity with God’s will was the life and law of Christ. The same was law of His praying. Conformity, to live one with God, is a far higher and diviner life than to live simply in submission to God. To pray in conformity—together with God—is a far higher and diviner way to pray than mere submission. At its best state, submission is non-rebellion, an acquiescence, which is good, but not the highest. The most powerful form of praying is positive, aggressive, mightily outgoing and creative. It molds things, changes things and brings things to pass.

Conformity means to “stand perfect and complete in all the will of God.” It means to delight to do God’s will, to run with eagerness and ardour to carry out His plans. Conformity to God’s will involves submission, patient, loving, sweet submission. But submission in itself falls short of and does not include conformity. We may be submissive but not conformed. We may accept results against which we have warred, and even be resigned to them.

Conformity means to be one with God, both in result and in processes. Submission may be one with God in the end. Conformity is one with God in the beginning, and the end. Jesus had conformity, absolute and perfect, to God’s will, and by that He prayed. This was the single point where there was a drawing back from God’s processes, extorted by insupportable pain, fear and weariness. His submission was abject, loyal and confiding, as His conformity had been constant and perfect. Conformity is the only true submission, the most loyal, the sweetest and the fullest.

Gethsemane has its lessons of humble supplications as Jesus knelt alone in the garden. Of burdened prostration, as He fell on His face, of intense agony, of distressing dread, of hesitancy and shrinking back, of crying out for relief—yet amid it all of cordial submission to God, accompanied with a singleness of purpose for His glory.

Satan will have for each of us his hour and power of darkness and for each of us the bitter cup and the fearful spirit of gloom.

We can pray against God’s will, as Moses did, to enter the Promised Land; as Paul did about the thorn in the flesh; as David did for his doomed child; as Hezekiah did to live. We must pray against God’s will three times when the stroke is the heaviest, the sorrow is the keenest, and the grief is the deepest. We may lie prostrate all night, as David did, through the hours of darkness. We may pray for hours, as Jesus did, and in the darkness of many nights, not measuring the hours by the clock, nor the nights by the calendar. It must all be, however, the prayer of submission.

When sorrow and the night and desolation of Gethsemane fall in heaviest gloom on us, we ought to submit patiently and tearfully, if need be, but sweetly and resignedly, without tremour, or doubt, to the cup pressed by a Father’s hand to our lips. “Not my will, but thine, be done,” our broken hearts shall say. In God’s own way, mysterious to us, that cup has in its bitterest dregs, as it had for the Son of God, the gem and gold of perfection. We are to be put into the crucible to be refined. Christ was made perfect in Gethsemane, not by the prayer, but by the suffering. “For it became him to make the captain of their salvation perfect through suffering.” The cup could not pass because the suffering must go on and yield its fruit of perfection. Through many an hour of darkness and of hell’s power, through many a sore conflict with the prince of this world, by drinking many a bitter cup, we are to be made perfect. To cry out against the terrific and searching flame of the crucible of a Father’s painful processes is natural and is no sin, if there be perfect acquiescence in the answer to our prayer, perfect submission to God’s will, and perfect devotion to His glory.

If our hearts are true to God, we may plead with Him about His way, and seek relief from His painful processes. But the fierce fire of the crucible and the agonising victim with His agonising and submissive prayer, is not the normal and highest form of majestic and all-commanding prayer. We can cry out in the crucible, and can cry out against the flame which purifies and perfects us. God allows this, hears this, and answers this, not by taking us out of the crucible, nor by mitigating the fierceness of the flame, but by sending more than an angel to strengthen us. And yet crying out thus, with full submission, does not answer the real high, world-wide, royal and eternity-reaching behests of prayer.

The prayer of submission must not be so used as to vitiate or substitute the higher and mightier prayer of faith. Nor must it be so stressed as to break down importunate and prevailing prayer, which would be to disarm prayer of its efficiency and discrown its glorious results and would be to encourage listless, sentimental and feeble praying.

We are ever ready to excuse our lack of earnest and toilsome praying, by a fancied and delusive view of submission. We often end praying just where we ought to begin. We quit praying when God waits and is waiting for us to really pray. We are deterred by obstacles from praying, or we succumb to difficulties, and call it submission to God’s will. A world of beggarly faith, of spiritual laziness, and of half-heartedness in prayer, are covered under the high and pious name of submission. To have no plan but to seek God’s plan and carry it out, is of the essence and inspiration of Christly praying. This is far more than putting in a clause of submission. Jesus did this once in seeking to change the purpose of God, but all His other praying was the output of being perfectly at one with the plans and purposes of God. It is after this order we pray when we abide in Him and when His word abides in us. Then we ask what we will and it is done. It is then our prayers fashion and create things. Our wills then become God’s will and His will becomes ours. The two become one, and there is not a note of discord.

“And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask anything according to his will, he heareth us.” And if we know that He hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of Him. And then it proves true: “And whatsoever we ask, we receive of him, because we keep his commandments, and do those things that are pleasing in his sight.”

What restraint, forbearance, self-denial, and loyalty to duty to God, and what deference to the Old Testament Scriptures are in that statement of our Lord: “Thinkest thou that I cannot now pray to my Father, and he shall presently give me more than twelve legions of angels? But how then shall the scriptures be fulfilled, that thus it must be?”

FRESH UNCTION LORD

Unction a Necessity

One bright benison which private prayer brings down upon the ministry is an indescribable and inimitable something -- an unction from the Holy One . . . . If the anointing which we bear come not from the Lord of hosts, we are deceivers, since only in prayer can we obtain it. Let us continue instant constant fervent in supplication. Let your fleece lie on the thrashing floor of supplication till it is wet with the dew of heaven. -- Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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ALEXANDER KNOX, a Christian philosopher of the days of Wesley, not an adherent but a strong personal friend of Wesley, and with much spiritual sympathy with the Wesleyan movement, writes: "It is strange and lamentable, but I verily believe the fact to be that except among Methodists and Methodistical clergyman, there is not much interesting preaching in England. The clergy, too generally have absolutely lost the art. There is, I conceive, in the great laws of the moral world a kind of secret understanding like the affinities in chemistry, between rightly promulgated religious truth and the deepest feelings of the human mind. Where the one is duly exhibited, the other will respond. Did not our hearts burn within us? -- but to this devout feeling is indispensable in the speaker. Now, I am obliged to state from my own observation that this onction, as the French not unfitly term it, is beyond all comparison more likely to be found in England in a Methodist conventicle than in a parish Church. This, and this alone, seems really to be that which fills the Methodist houses and thins the Churches. I am, I verily think, no enthusiast; I am a most sincere and cordial churchman, a humble disciple of the School of Hale and Boyle, of Burnet and Leighton. Now I must aver that when I was in this country, two years ago, I did not hear a single preacher who taught me like my own great masters but such as are deemed Methodistical. And I now despair of getting an atom of heart instruction from any other quarter. The Methodist preachers (however I may not always approve of all their expressions) do most assuredly diffuse this true religion and undefiled. I felt real pleasure last Sunday. I can bear witness that the preacher did at once speak the words of truth and soberness. There was no eloquence -- the honest man never dreamed of such a thing -- but there was far better: a cordial communication of vitalized truth. I say vitalized because what he declared to others it was impossible not to feel he lived on himself."

This unction is the art of preaching. The preacher who never had this unction never had the art of preaching. The preacher who has lost this unction has lost the art of preaching. Whatever other arts he may have and retain -- the art of sermon-making, the art of eloquence, the art of great, clear thinking, the art of pleasing an audience -- he has lost the divine art of preaching. This unction makes God's truth powerful and interesting, draws and attracts, edifies, convicts, saves.

This unction vitalizes God's revealed truth, makes it living and life-giving. Even God's truth spoken without this unction is light, dead, and deadening. Though abounding in truth, though weighty with thought, though sparkling with rhetoric, though pointed by logic, though powerful by earnestness, without this divine unction it issues in death and not in life. Mr. Spurgeon says: "I wonder how long we might beat our brains before we could plainly put into word what is meant by preaching with unction. Yet he who preaches knows its presence, and he who hears soon detects its absence. Samaria, in famine, typifies a discourse without it. Jerusalem, with her feast of fat things, full of marrow, may represent a sermon enriched with it. Every one knows what the freshness of the morning is when orient pearls abound on every blade of grass, but who can describe it, much less produce it of itself? Such is the mystery of spiritual anointing. We know, but we cannot tell to others what it is. It is as easy as it is foolish, to counterfeit it. Unction is a thing which you cannot manufacture, and its counterfeits are worse than worthless. Yet it is, in itself, priceless, and beyond measure needful if you would edify believers and bring sinners to Christ."

Prayer and Gods Work- E M Bounds

PRAYER AND GOD’S WORK

“If Jacob’s desire had been given him in time for him to get a good night’s sleep he might never have become the prince of prayers we know today. If Hannah’s prayer for a son had been answered at the time she set for herself, the nation might never have known the mighty man of God it found in Samuel. Hannah wanted only a son, but God wanted more. He wanted a prophet, and a saviour, and a ruler for His people. Someone said that ‘God had to get a woman before He could get a man.’ This woman He got in Hannah precisely by those weeks and months and years there came a woman with a vision like God’s, with tempered soul and gentle spirit and a seasoned will, prepared to be the kind of a mother for the kind of a man God knew the nation needed.”—W. E. Binderwolf

God has a great work on hand in this world. This work is involved in the plan of salvation. It embraces redemption and providence. God is governing this world, with its intelligent beings, for His own glory and for their good. What, then, is God’s work in this world? Rather what is the end He seeks in His great work? It is nothing short of holiness of heart and life in the children of fallen Adam. Man is a fallen creature, born with an evil nature, with an evil bent, unholy propensities, sinful desires, wicked inclinations. Man is unholy by nature, born so. “They go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies.”

God’s entire plan is to take hold of fallen man and to seek to change him and make him holy. God’s work is to make holy men out of unholy men. This is the very end of Christ coming into the world:

“For this purpose was the Son of God manifested that he might destroy the works of the devil.”

God is holy in nature and in all His ways, and He wants to make man like Himself.

“As he who hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation; because it is written, Be ye holy, for I am holy.”

This is being Christlike. This is following Jesus Christ. This is the aim of all Christian effort. This is the earnest, heartfelt desire of every truly regenerated soul. This is what is to be constantly and earnestly prayed for. It is that we may be made holy. Not that we must make ourselves holy, but we must be cleansed from all sin by the precious atoning blood of Christ, and be made holy by the direct agency of the Holy Spirit. Not that we are to do holy, but rather to be holy. Being must precede doing. First be, then do. First, obtain a holy heart, then live a holy life. And for this high and gracious end God has made the most ample provisions in the atoning work of our Lord and through the agency of the Holy Spirit.

The work of God in the world is the implantation, the growth and the perfection of holiness in His people. Keep this ever in mind. But we might ask just now, Is this work advancing in the Church? Are men and women being made holy? Is the present-day Church engaged in the business of making holy men and women? This is not a vain and speculative question. It is practical, pertinent and all important.

The present-day Church has vast machinery. Her activities are great, and her material prosperity is unparalleled. The name of religion is widely-spread and well-known. Much money comes into the Lord’s treasury and is paid out. But here is the question: Does the work of holiness keep pace with all this? Is the burden of the prayers of Church people to be made holy? Are our preachers really holy men? Or to go back a little further, are they hungering and thirsting after righteousness, desiring the sincere milk of the Word that they may grow thereby? Are they really seeking to be holy men? Of course men of intelligence are greatly needed in the pulpit, but prior to that, and primary to it, is the fact that we need holy men to stand before dying men and proclaim the salvation of God to them.

Ministers, like laymen, and no more so than laymen, must be holy men in life, in conversation and in temper. They must be examples to the flock of God in all things. By their lives they are to preach as well as to speak. Men in the pulpit are needed who are spotless in life, circumspect in behaviour, “without rebuke and blameless in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom they are to shine in the world.” Are our preachers of this type of men? We are simply asking the question. Let the reader make up his own judgment. Is the work of holiness making progress among our preachers?

Again let us ask: Are our leading laymen examples of holiness? Are they seeking holiness of heart and life? Are they praying men, ever praying that God would fashion them according to His pattern of holiness? Are their business ways without stain of sin, and their gains free from the taint of wrong-doing? Have they the foundation of solid honesty, and does uprightness bring them into elevation and influence? Does business integrity and probity run parallel with religious activity, and with churchly observance?

Then, while we are pursuing our investigation, seeking light as to whether the work of God among His people is making progress, let us ask further as to our women. Are the leading women of our churches dead to the fashions of this world, separated from the world, not conformed to the world’s maxims and customs? Are they in behaviour as becometh holiness, teaching the young women by word and life the lessons of soberness, obedience, and home-keeping? Are our women noted for their praying habits? Are they patterns of prayer?

How searching are all these questions? And will any one dare say they are impertinent and out of place? If God’s work be to make men and women holy, and He has made ample provisions in the law of prayer of doing this very thing, why should it be thought impertinent and useless to propound such personal and pointed questions as these? They have to do directly with the work and with its progress and its perfection. They go to the very seat of the disease. They hit the spot.

We might as well face the situation first as last. There is no use to shut our eyes to real facts. If the Church does not do this sort of work—if the Church does not advance its members in holiness of heart and life—then all our show of activities and all our display of Church work are a delusion and a snare.

But let us ask as to another large and important class of people in our churches. They are the hope of the future Church. To them all eyes are turned. Are our young men and women growing in sober-mindedness and reverence, and in all those graces which have their root in the renewed heart, which mark solid and permanent advance in the Divine life? If we are not growing in holiness, then we are doing nothing religious nor abiding.

Material prosperity is not the infallible sign of spiritual prosperity. The former may exist while the latter is significantly absent. Material prosperity may easily blind the eyes of Church leaders, so much so that they will make it a substitute for spiritual prosperity. How great the need to watch at that point! Prosperity in money matters does not signify growth in holiness. The seasons of material prosperity are rarely seasons of spiritual advance, either to the individual or to the Church. It is so easy to lose sight of God when goods increase. It is so easy to lean on human agencies and cease praying and relying upon God when material prosperity comes to the Church.

If it be contended that the work of God is progressing, and that we are growing in holiness, then some perplexing questions arise which will be hard to answer. If the Church is making advances on the lines of deep spirituality—if we are a praying people, noted for our prayer habits—if our people are hungering after holiness—then let us ask, why do we now have so few mighty outpourings of the Holy Spirit on our chief churches and our principal appointments? Why is it that so few of our revivals spring from the life of the pastor, who is noted for his deep spirituality, or the life of our church? Is the Lord’s hand shortened that He cannot save? Is His ear heavy that He cannot hear? Why is it that in order to have so-called revivals, we must have outside pressure, by the reputation and sensation of some renowned evangelist? This is largely true in our larger charges and with our leading men. Why is it that the pastor is not sufficiently spiritual, holy and in communion with God, that he cannot hold his own revival services, and have large outpourings of the Holy Spirit on the Church, the community and upon himself? There can be but one solution for all this state of things. We have cultivated other things to the neglect of the work of holiness. We have permitted our minds to be preoccupied with material things in the Church. Unfortunately, whether designedly or not, we have substituted the external for the internal. We have put that which is seen to the front and shut out that which is unseen. It is all too true as to the Church, that we are much further advanced in material matters than in matters spiritual.

But the cause of this sad state of things may be traced further back. It is largely due to the decay of prayer. For with the decline of the work of holiness there has come the decline of the business of praying. As praying and holiness go together, so the decline of one, means the decay of the other. Excuse it if we may, justify the present state of things if we will, yet it is all too patent that the emphasis in the work of the present-day Church is not put on prayer. And just as this has occurred, the emphasis has been taken from the great work of God set on foot in the atonement, holiness of heart and life. The Church is not turning out praying men and women, because the Church is not intently engaged in the one great work of holiness.

At one time, John Wesley saw that there was a perceptible decline in the work of holiness, and he stopped short to inquire into the cause, and if we are as honest and spiritual as he was, we will now see the same causes operating to stay God’s work among us. In a letter to his brother, Charles, at one time, he comes directly to the point, and makes short, incisive work of it. Here is how he begins his letter:

“What has hindered the work? I want to consider this. And must we not first say, we are the chief. If we were more holy in heart and life, thoroughly devoted to God, would not all the preachers catch fire, and carry it with them, throughout the land?

“Is not the next hindrance the littleness of grace (rather than of gifts) in a considerable part of our preachers? They have not the whole mind that was in Christ. They do not steadily walk as He walked. And, therefore, the hand of the Lord is stayed, though not altogether; though He does work still. But it is not in such a degree as He surely would, were they holy as He that hath sent them is holy.

“Is not the third hindrance the littleness of grace in the generality of our people? Therefore, they pray little, and with little fervency for a general blessing. And, therefore, their prayer has little power with God. It does not, as once, shut and open heaven.

“Add to this, that as there is much of the spirit of the world in their hearts, so there is much conformity to the world in their lives. They ought to be bright and shining lights, but they neither burn nor shine. They are not true to the rules they profess to observe. They are not holy in all manner of conversation. Nay, many of them are salt that has lost its savour, the little savour they once had. Wherewith then shall the rest of the land be seasoned? What wonder that their neighbours are as unholy as ever?”

He strikes the spot. He hits the centre. He grades the cause. He freely confesses that he and Charles are the first cause, in this decline of holiness. The chief ones occupy positions of responsibility. As they go, so goes the Church. They give colour to the Church. They largely determine its character and its work. What holiness should mark these chief men? What zeal should ever characterise them? What prayerfulness should be seen in them! How influential they ought to be with God! If the head be weak, then the whole body will feel the stroke.

The pastors come next in his catalogue. When the chief shepherds and those who are under them, the immediate pastors, stay their advance in holiness, the panic will reach to the end of the line. As are the pastors, so will the people be as a rule. If the pastors are prayerless, then will the people follow in their footsteps. If the preacher be silent upon the work of holiness, then will there be no hungering and thirsting after holiness in the laymen. If the preacher be careless about obtaining the highest and best God has for him in religious experience, then will the people take after him.

One statement of Wesley needs to be repeated with emphasis. The littleness of grace, rather than the smallness of gifts,—this is largely the case with the preachers. It may be stated as an axiom: That the work of God fails as a general rule, more for the lack of grace, than for the want of gifts. It is more than this. It is more than this, for a full supply of grace brings an increase of gifts. It may be repeated that small results, a low experience, a low religious life, and pointless, powerless preaching always flow from a lack of grace. And a lack of grace flows from a lack of praying. Great grace comes from great praying.

“What is our calling’s glorious hope

But inward holiness?

For this to Jesus I look up,

I calmly wait for this.

“I wait till He shall touch me clean,

Shall life and power impart;

Give me the faith that casts out sin,

And purifies the heart.”

In carrying on His great work in the world, God works through human agents. He works through His Church collectively and through His people individually. In order that they may be effective agents, they must be “vessels unto honour, sanctified, and meet for the Master’s use, and prepared unto every good work.” God works most effectively through holy men. His work makes progress in the hands of praying men. Peter tells us that husbands who might not be reached by the Word of God, might be won by the conversation of their wives. It is those who are “blameless and harmless, the sons of God,” who can hold forth the word of life “in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation.”

The world judges religion not by what the Bible says, but by how Christians live. Christians are the Bible which sinners read. These are the epistles to be read of all men. “By their fruits ye shall know them.” The emphasis, then, is to be placed upon holiness of life. But unfortunately in the present-day Church, emphasis has been placed elsewhere. In selecting Church workers and choosing ecclesiastical officers, the quality of holiness is not considered. The praying fitness seems not to be taken into account, when it was just otherwise in all of God’s movements and in all of His plans. He looked for holy men, those noted for their praying habits. Prayer leaders are scarce. Prayer conduct is not counted as the highest qualification for offices in the Church.

We cannot wonder that so little is accomplished in the great work in the world which God has in hand. The fact is that it is surprising so much has been done with such feeble, defective agents. “Holiness to the Lord” needs again to be written on the banners of the Church. Once more it needs to be sounded out in the ears of modern Christians. “Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord.”

Let it be iterated and reiterated that this is the Divine standard of religion. Nothing short of this will satisfy the Divine requirement. O the danger of deception at this point! How near one can come to being right and yet be wrong! Some men can come very near to pronouncing the test word, “Shibboleth,” but they miss it “Many will say unto me, Lord, Lord, in that day,” says Jesus Christ, but He further states that then will He say unto them, “I never knew you; depart from me, ye that work iniquity.”

Men can do many good things and yet not be holy in heart and righteous in conduct. They can do many good things and lack that spiritual quality of heart called holiness. How great the need of hearing the words of Paul guarding us against self-deception in the great work of personal salvation:

“Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.”

“O may I still from sin depart;

A wise and understanding heart,

Jesus, to me to be given;

And let me through thy Spirit know

To glorify my God below,

And find my way to heaven.”

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Wednesday, 19 October 2016

BREAKING DEMONIC HINDGES

DANGEROUS PRAYER

Deliverance Prayer

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PRAYER GUIDE

BREAKING LOOSE FROM SATANIC PRISON

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MOMENTUM OF PRAYER

GETHSEMANE

FRESH UNCTION LORD

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