MANTLE OF POWER
Dr. D. K. Olukoya
Beloved, God has designed school of power for His children to enable them to flow in
his great power at the fullness of time. When we talk of going through the school of power, it means to pass through a learning process, and with great expectation that at the end of the day, you will succeed. Many people will enroll in a school but not all of them will conclude the programme. Some will pass while others will fail. Some will fail because of unseriousness, nonchalance, lack of knowledge, or their inability to cope with the rigour involved. Others will pass because they will follow the teachings and discipline. Even those that will succeed will come out in different grades. I want you to believe that you will succeed in Jesus’ name. The questions are: Do you really desire to have power? Are you willing to pay the price, whatever it may cost? If your answer is in the affirmative, then you are ready to receive the mantle of power.
When we talk about the mantle of power, we are talking of an outward manifestation of God’s power. 1 Corinthians 4:20: “For the Kingdom of God is not in word, but in power.” Acts of the Apostles 1:8: “But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth.” The word “power” here is got from the Greek word “dunamis” from which we get the word dynamite. So, we can say, “You shall receive “dunamis” after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you.”
WHAT IS A DYNAMITE?
Dynamite is a powerful explosive used in mining. It is used to break mountains. It means that when the power of the Holy Spirit comes upon you, it will break every impediment to the glory of God. When the power comes upon you, every hindrance on your way shall be exploded. This power will only come upon you when you yield your life unto the Lord. That is why Isaiah 55:12 says, “For yea shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace: the mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.”
There is a going forth and a being led forth. When the Bible says you will go out with joy, it means that it is possible to go out with sadness. A lot of people go out and come back frustrated and unaccomplished. It says you shall be led forth with peace; that is talking about the peace of God being with you even when you walk through a bad environment. The Bible says that as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God. As the Spirit of God leads you forth in this dark world, you will be at peace. The mountains and hills mentioned in that passage refer to hindrances on your way; such hindrances will break forth into singing. And all the trees of the field shall clap their hands. Everything will work for your peace. When the power of the Holy Spirit comes upon you, it will break up all the hindrances and they will give glory to the Lord. That is why you need the mantle of power.
Why do we need the mantle of power?
1. To witness Christ to the world: Acts of the Apostles 1:8 makes us to understand that the mantle of power will enable us to be God’s witnesses. Wherever you go, the fullness of Christ will spring forth through you.
2. To do exploit for God: Daniel 11:32: “But the people that do know their God shall be strong, and do exploits.” In difficult situations, such people will be able to prevail by the reason of the mantle of power.
3. The mantle of power is an emblem of God’s presence: The presence of God causes terror to the enemies all the time. Psalms 16:11 : “In thy presence, is fulness of joy; at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore.” The joy of the Lord swells in you as the mantle of power falls upon you.
4. For ransom from destroyers: Hosea 13:14: “I will ransom them from the power of the grave; I will redeem them from death: O death I will be thy plagues; O grave, I will be thy destruction: repentance shall be hid from mine eyes.” You need the mantle of power to be free from the powers of the destroyers. The enemy is out to steal, to kill and to destroy. But by this power, you will be preserved.
5. For the manifestation of Christ: Jesus, who is seated at the right hand of power, said, “All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth.” He really gives this power to as many as trust entirely on Him. So, His manifestation is the mantle of power.
6. To prevent our hearts from fainting: Isaiah 40:29: "He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might, he increaseth strength.” The mantle of power is needed to strengthen our hearts because a lot of people today cannot cope with the situation of the present world. Satanic technology is advancing and the rate of growth of many Christians today is not adequate to withstand it. As a result of this, a lot of people are fainting and cannot really stand for the Lord. But the Bible says that God gives power to the faint and to them that have no might He increases their strength.
7. To prepare us as God’s battle axes: We need the mantle of power to become God’s battle axes. As the battle with the kingdom of darkness is getting fiercer there is need for us to cast off the works of darkness and put on the armour of light.
HOW DO YOU RECEIVE THE MANTLE OF POWER
Let us consider the case of Elisha. I Kings 19:19 – 21: “So he departed thence, and found Elisha the son of Shaphat, who was ploughing with twelve yoke of oxen before him, and he with the twelfth: and Elijah passed by him, and cast his mantle upon him. And he left the oxen, and ran after Elijah, and said, let me, I pray thee, kiss my father, and my mother, and then I will follow thee. And he said unto him, go back again: for what have I done to thee? And he returned back from him, and took a yoke of oxen, and slew them, and boiled their flesh with the instruments of the oxen, and gave unto the people, and they did eat. Then he arose, and went after Elijah, ministered unto him.”
The passage is talking about the call of Elisha. The Lord led Elijah to cast his mantle on him, indicating God’s call on his life. We can learn some lessons from this passage.
1. The immediate response of Elisha to God’s call: The Bible says he ran after Elijah. A lot of us today know that God is calling us to specific things, but we find excuses to delay our response to His call. We procrastinate and by this, abuse His grace upon our lives. For you to receive the mantle of power, you have to immediately respond to God’s call. A lot of us would say that until this and that are fulfilled in our lives, we would not be ready to respond. If you really desire the mantle of power for yourself, you have to make up your mind to respond urgently to God’s call.
2. Elisha made preparations to follow Elijah diligently without looking back: He decided to give his parents a parting kiss. The Bible says that he took a yoke of oxen, slew them and boiled the flesh with the instrument of the oxen and gave people to eat. He organized a farewell party with all he had to tell his family that he was leaving them to follow the Lord whole heartedly and there would not be an occasion to turn back even if the way becomes tough. And even if he wanted to look back, there would be nothing to look back on.
There is a need for you to prepare yourself as you respond to God’s call. You need to be ready to bear whatever it will cost you to follow the Lord. You need to be sure that you are not following Him just because of the earthly benefits that you will receive, but because of the eternal value attached. You need to count the cost if you need the mantle of power because if there is anything pulling you back as you respond, the fullness of the power will not be made manifest in your life. There is a need for you to prepare your home, check yourself and environment, because you cannot receive the mantle of power and be idle. God will endue you with power for a purpose. And the purpose may be hard but you will make preparations for it.
The Israelites had no water until they dug the ditches. (2 Kings 3:16). There was no healing for Naaman until he had the seven dips. There was no oil until the vessels were gathered. And Jesus did not turn water to wine until the vessels were filled with water. There can be no harvest until the ground has been broken up. So you need to break your fallow ground. There can be no reconciliation without repentance, and no entrance into heaven without being cleansed by the blood of the Lamb.
Beloved, you need to count the cost and be ready to pay the price. What is the price? You must be ready to surrender your life and lay your all on the altar of God.
3. Elisha did not make provision for any eventuality: He did not try to keep anything he would fall back on in case things did not go on well with the call of God. The Bible says that he slew the oxen with the instrument thereof and it was not done gradually. He submitted totally. Unlike a lot of people would say, “I am trying, let me do it gradually.” God wants an entire submission. A lot of people are not flowing deeply in the power of God because they are yielding gradually. They don’t want to give all unto the Lord. They still consider some things in the world dear to them better than the riches of God’s glory. The Bible says that after bidding his family farewell, Elisha arose and went after Elijah, and became his servant.
There will not be a quickening by the Holy Spirit until we are ready to give our all unto the Lord. The glory of the Lord will not be made manifest until all is laid at the altar. Elisha followed God diligently and the fullness of His power came upon him. 2 Kings 2:11-14: “And it came to pass, as they still went on, and talked, that, behold, there appeared a chariot of fire, and horses of fire, and parted them both asunder; and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven. And Elisha saw it, and he cried, My father, my father, the chariot of Israel, and the horsemen thereof. And he saw him no more: and he took hold of his own clothes, and rent them in two pieces. He took up also the mantle of Elijah that fell from him, and went back, and stood by the bank of Jordan; And he took the mantle of Elijah that fell from him, and smote the waters, and said, Where is the Lord God of Elijah? and when he also had smitten the waters, they parted hither and thither: and Elisha went over.” He finally received the mantle of power.
Elijah told him that for him to have a double portion of his power, he must be diligent until he saw Elijah taken up. When the whirlwind from heaven was taking Elijah up, one would have expected that Elisha would first lay hold of the mantle of power, which was his priority. But the first thing he did, according to the Bible, was to tear his garment into two before laying hold on the mantle. A lot of us are in a haste to flow in the power of God without being ready to pay the price.
The Bible says rent your hearts and not your garments. Before laying hold on the mantle of power, there is need for you to rend your heart. When you rend your heart, then you will rend the heavens and the power will fall on you. The inability to rend the heart, which is a sign of unbrokenness has sealed up the heavens against many. For the heavens to open unto you, there is a need to break your heart before the Lord. For a broken and a contrite heart, God will not despise. When you are broken before the Lord, you will receive the mantle of power. There is a need for you to rend your hearts today if indeed you want to flow in the power of God. In every aspect of your life, show forth His victory in every place by rending your heart. Then you shall be His true witness and an emblem of His presence.
It is God’s desire to endue us with power. But are you prepared to pay the price? Are you willing to lay all at His altar?
Without this mantle of power, powers of darkness will operate in a greater dimension and a lot of people will be rendered captive. God is not just calling us to come, warm the chairs and shout Alleluia. He is calling us to confound the works of darkness in our environment. A lot of us are falling short of this because of our inability to lay all at the altar.
You can take the decision to come all out for Him now without any further delay so that He will not leave you behind. If there is anything in your life that you find difficult to give up for the Lord, take a bold faith towards conquering it. Remember that His grace is sufficient for you.
PRAYER POINTS
1. O Lord, I rend my heart today before You, in the name of Jesus.
2. O God, endue me now with the mantle of power, in the name of Jesus.
3. O Lord, let your glory overshadow my life, in the name of Jesus.
4. Pray that the Holy Spirit should put the sword of victory in your hand.
5. I paralyze every evil counsel against me, in the name of Jesus.
6. Let every evil priest ordained against me receive confusion, in the name of Jesus.
7. My body reject every evil arrow, in the name of Jesus.
8. Every spirit of war working against this country, be paralysed, in the name of Jesus.
9. All the satanic agents planning trouble for this nation, be paralysed, in the name of Jesus.
10. Let the spirit of peace reign in this nation, in the name of Jesus.The blood of Jesus work against every power of darkness working against my life, in the name of Jesus.
2. Father Lord, fill me afresh with your fire, in the name of Jesus.
3. I refuse to give up at the edge of my breakthrough, in the name of Jesus.
4. Let the fire of God consume every hindrance to my spiritual breakthrough, in the name of Jesus.
5. I loose myself from any bondage by the power in the blood of Jesus, in Jesus’ name.
6. Let the arrows of fire locate my oppressors and cut them into pieces, in Jesus’ name.
7. Let the stone of fire hit the forehead of my Goliath, in the name of Jesus.
8. I reject every spirit of fear, in the name of Jesus.
SPIRITUAL WEAPONS
SPIRITUAL WEAPONS
Dr. D. K. Olukoya
Beloved, the thrust of our message today is that our weapons of warfare are not carnal, and fights with our adversaries are never in the physical but in a realm that is invisible to the naked eye. Therefore I implore you to open up your spirit as you read through this message. It should be known that the first qualification for anybody at all who wants to fight spiritual battles successfully is that he must be born again. Now we are talking of being genuinely born again, often times the thing people call new birth is actually not new birth, as contained in the scriptures. The stance of the Bible is very clear on this issue: “If any man be in Christ, he becomes a new creature, old things are passed away, behold all things are become new.” (2 Corinthians 5:17). And 2 Corinthians 2:17: “For we are not as many, which corrupt the word of God: but as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God speak we in Christ.”
So, the truly born again are the people who have rejected their old forms of life, and have left the world of sin alone only to live in this world as sojourners, visitor, and strangers with the strong conviction that there is a better place already prepared for them by their Creator. These are people who love God more than any other thing. These are the qualifications as far as the Bible is concerned. Anybody who is not born again is not a Christian for all Christians are meant to be born again. Being born-again is not church membership, nor water baptism, nor the signing of baptismal card; neither is it bathing at the Bar beach or the hanging of a very big cross on your neck. New birth is a spiritual thing and those that are born again are the true children of God. They no longer have the urge for things of this world. Vices like drinking, smoking, telling lies, womanizing, anger and the likes are no longer part of their lives. These are the truly born again.
A long time ago I lived close to a place where people were being screened for admission into the police force. There, I saw a friend of mine who could not pass his first and second term examinations trying to enlist in the force. He did not also qualify because he did not meet the required criteria of good height and broad chest. So it is in the spiritual. You must be born again to qualify to use spiritual weapons. I tell you one secret; the reason the enemy is driving many people from pillar to post is because he can find something in their lives which he is using against them. God, too, allows the devil and his evil spirits to be pursuing them. That thing is acting as a magnet, drawing evil into such lives.
2 Corinthians 10:3 – 4: “For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh.“For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds.” The Bible says our weapons are not physical but are spiritual. Some cigarette smokers give dubious reasons like nervousness as being responsible for their indulging in such dangerous act. This is a lie because it amounts to using physical means to solve a spiritual problem. It is not possible at all. For this same reason you cannot use candle and incense to drive away evil spirits. It is not possible! You cannot use a physical material to solve a spiritual problem. It is only a spiritual approach that will solve a spiritual problem.
I was told a story about two boys who went on a journey to a village. They bought certain things and on their way back home, some people met them on the way, beat them up and took away all they had. When they got home they reported to their father who promised to assist them to prevent a future occurrence. So, during their next trip to that village, their daddy gave them a small ring and instructed them to use it on anybody who harassed them. He assured them that the ring carried enough power that if they slap their victim with it, he will fall down and begin to urinate. During the journey, they had the ring on but on the way nobody harassed them. But they themselves now started to look for trouble. They deliberately provoked other people so that they could use the ring on them. They really trusted in the ring. They decided to fight one man but something happened; mistakenly the ring dropped on the floor and they could not pick it. Sensing danger, the man struggled with them and picked the ring, then trouble started.
When the boys had that ring they were confident. The same thing applies to Christians. The reason many Christians are so fearful today is because they do not have power. The spiritual weapons are lacking and many are even ignorant of their usage. The weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but spiritual and when as a Christian you know how to use them, you will begin to experience certain miracles you have never experienced before and you will be confident at all times. If anyone says you should not go to certain places, you will ignore him and go. If they say someone is powerful, you will throw the statement back by saying that Jesus is more powerful. Then you will march forward and employ your weapons there and experience God’s miracle.
The Bible is very clear about confident actions based on the power of God. When you take such actions based on faith, God will just be looking at you because everything you need is already within you. One spiritually troublesome man went to a village, generally regarded as highly demonic, to hold a crusade. As he was preaching he discovered that his interpreter was becoming very afraid. When he said certain things, the man simply refused to interpret them. The man then assured the interpreter that he (the preacher) was the one talking, therefore he should not be afraid but should interpret whatever he said. As the man was preaching people were putting their hands into their pockets and bringing out their juju (charms). But the man began to pray and was not afraid and the result was that most of the young men in the village who were partaking in the worship of the village idols got converted. They started to go to his church in the evenings when he held revival services. Certain demonic villagers got angry at the success of this crusade and planned to attack the church with their juju (charms). On the first day, they gathered themselves at the back of the congregation and started to invoke the powers of their juju, but the Christians were unmoved. On the second day, when they came, the Christians were ready for them. As they started calling on their charms, the preacher ordered the Christians to "bring out their own charms too" and they acted as if they actually had something in their pockets. And as soon as they brought their hands out of their pockets and burst into praises, confusion immediately ensued. Some of the men carrying charms instantly got paralysed.
Beloved, these Christians did not ask for angelic assistance. They only used one of their weapons which is praises and pandemonium occurred.
When Christians become very bold as it used to be in the past, they will not fear all those things witch doctors are hanging on their necks. They will speak the word of God and command the fire of God to fall. But to do this, you need to know the weapons. When David was going to fight Goliath, he did something very simple. He did not pick just one stone, he picked five. Why did he pick five? Because he concluded that if the first one could not get Goliath down, he will use others. He needed just one and by the time he used the first one, Goliath was no more.
Let us clarify one point about this: You must know that we must put our weapons to use offensively. You must go out there to fight. You don’t sit in your house and say: “Well, God save me, protect me, don’t allow my children to die, make sure that your shadow is over my head.” If you only seek to protect yourself without carrying out any attack, you are looking for trouble. No army in this world can win any battle if it concentrates its weapons on defense only. If it does not fight back it can’t win. This is the reason many people are not winning. Some people are Psalms addict. They just recite the Psalms to protect themselves.
Christians are soldiers and the type of warfare that we are fighting is not like that of the army of certain African countries where the generals just relax in their offices everyday. We don’t fight our own that way, we don’t sleep for 24 hours. We should stop our attitude of sitting down and wondering where the devil is going to strike next. It should be the reverse, the devil should be anxiously wondering where we are going to strike. This is so because Colossians 2:15: “And having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it.”
Jesus spoiled principalities and powers. Not only that, he made a show of them in the open. He performed this feat not for Himself but for us. He defeated principalities and powers for you and I. Some people often times use the following phrases: “I don’t know," "perhaps," "may be," "it could be," or possibly.” You must stop speaking this way and start confessing what the Lord wants you to say. The Bible says we are more than conquerors. The conqueror will not only win the battle, he will take captives as well. The Lord has given us weapons and has not left us ignorant concerning their usage. Of course ignorance is no excuse.
Our first spiritual weapon is prayer. Ephesians 6:18: “Praying always with all prayer and supplications in the spirit and watching, there unto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints.” If you begin to read from verse 6 you will discover issues of spiritual defense and many other things that are spiritual. But when it begins to talk about spiritual weapons, the first thing that it mentions is prayer. Beloved, prayer is the greatest of all the weapons and it is in this that many Christians are weak. The devil can perform many functions highlighted in the Bible but he cannot pray because there is nobody he can pray to. Apart from that the devil has fallen. Therefore, he does not fight a battle against a person that prays, because he knows that the advantage such a Christians has over him is that he can pray to God, but he (the devil) cannot do that.
For this reason Luke 18:7: “And shall not God avenge his own elect, which cry day and night unto him, though he bear long with them?” So prayerlessness is a serious disaster and unfortunately most Christians don’t pray. Every Christian must learn the principles of prayer. Some Christians complain that after praying for five minutes they don’t know what to pray about again, but we often counsel them that certain problems in their lives require more than five minutes prayer.
The weapon of persistent prayer produces outstanding results. Daniel prayed for 21 days on a particular issue: he refused to give up until he received the answer. He just kept praying until after 21 days when the angel of the Lord came to him and said: “Daniel, since the first day, the Lord answered but when I was bringing the reply, the prince of Persia met me and has been fighting with me.” If Daniel had stopped praying the angel would not have had enough power to come and give answers to him. The angel also told Daniel: “I am going back now, the devils are going to fight me again.” This event in the Bible shows that there are three heavens. There is the heaven which we call the sky or firmament, where we see the sun, the moon, etc. There is the second heaven, where evil spirits reside. Remember, the Bible talks about spiritual wickedness in high places. This is the headquarters of principalities and powers. Then there is the third heaven, the throne of God. Prayer becomes hard sometimes because it has to pass through the first and second heavens, before it gets to the third heaven; and evil forces try their best to prevent it from passing through to the third heaven. It must struggle to get there before the miracle will happen. If you have not been praying, it means you are not using your weapon. Then you have to start doing so now. Praying as a whole can be divided into two groups: There is what is called praying in the Spirit and there is praying with understanding.
1Corinthians 14:14 –15: “For if I pray in an unknown tongue, my spirit prayeth, but my understanding is unfruitful. What is it then? I will pray with the spirit, and I will pray with the understanding also: I will sing with the spirit and I will sing with the understanding also.”
When you are praying with understanding, that is with your brain, your mind and your intelligence, you are limited by your vocabulary or your knowledge, because you can only pray to the extent to which you are knowledgeable. You can pray only to the extent of the vocabulary that you have. Once you run out of words, nothing happens again. But if you can pray in the spirit, you have the power to bring confusion to the camp of the devil. If you cannot pray in the spirit you need to receive the baptism of the Holy Spirit.
The second weapon is praise. When Moses and the Israelites started praising the Lord in the wilderness, they experienced the manifestation of God’s power. Exodus 15:10: “Thou didst blow with thy wind, the sea covered them: they sank as lead in the mighty water.” So, when somebody begins to praise the Lord, he has a great weapon at his disposal. Psalms 22: 23: “Ye that fear the Lord praise him, all ye the seed of Jacob, glorify him; and fear him, all ye the seed of Israel.” And Psalm 149:5: “Let the saints be joyful in glory: let them sing aloud upon their beds.” When you do that, you are destabilizing the devil. Praises can do wonders. In Acts of the Apostles, we read about Paul and Silas in a prison. When they began to praise God, their chain broke.
Another weapon for fighting the devil to a standstill is the blood of Jesus. Revelation.12:11: “And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, and they loved not their lives unto the death.”
There is power in the blood of Jesus. When you plead the blood of Jesus before you sleep, you have protected yourself. No demon will be able to touch you because of the power in the blood of Jesus. And when we sing songs about the blood of Jesus we are singing powerful songs because the blood is responsible for our redemption, forgiveness, cleansing, justification and sanctification. One small girl of about two years did not know how to sing any other song in the church apart from “There is power, there is power, there is power in the blood of Jesus.” She sang this song both day and night. One day, something interesting happened. Her mother washed the girl’ s underwears and hung it outside to dry and the wind blew it into the house of a herbalist. Immediately, everything that the herbalist put on the wall fell off. He was scared, and began to chant incantations, thinking that something great had come to attack him. He tried to pick up the underwear several times but felt some shocking sensations so he stopped. He tried to use a stick but he still felt the sensations. He decided to pour oil on everything in his house to prevent the underwear from affecting them. He even cried because he had never seen such a thing in his life. He wondered aloud: “What sort of power is this, how can they attack people with an underwear.” As soon as the child’s mother discovered that the underwear was missing she started to inquire from neighbours if they saw it. The herbalist overheard her and then told her that it must be the one in his house. On getting there, the woman recognised the underwear as that of her child, but as she made to pick it up, the herbalist screamed warning her not to touch it. He told her that he had been fighting the mysterious object. As he argued with the woman, the little girl came in and simply picked up her underwear and went away. The herbalists stood dumbstruck.
This shows the power in the blood of Jesus. The little girl confessed the blood so much that it thoroughly soaked the underwear. When you know what you are doing, the devil will tremble. When you don’t know what you are doing, he knows. Evil powers can see. So, we need to equip ourselves with spiritual weapons. A sister who was kidnapped started praying and everything began to scatter in the place. Her kidnappers gave her a serious warning against praying but she persisted to pray silently. They sensed that she was still praying and ordered her to stop. They were almost going to finish her but she used her finger to write the "blood of Jesus" on the ground, then the whole place turned upside down because of the power in that blood. You must understand the weapons that you have and be able to use them. It is very important to know your weapons. Do not leave anyone behind.
Another spiritual weapon is the fire of God. Hebrews 12:29: “For our God is a consuming fire.” What will God consume? He will consume the works of the devil. He is not interested in consuming pieces of paper, which cannot pose problem to anyone. He will simply ask them to disappear and become soil. Psalm 104:4: “Who maketh his angels spirits; His ministers a flaming fire.” God can turn you into a flaming fire so that when somebody touches you with the intention of doing you harm, the person will have a serious problem because he will be touching fire. If you get to an environment and begin to say fire of God come into this environment and somebody says, “No, I don’t want you to pray like that, pray in another way," such a person has a problem and should be suspected.
Some years ago when I was in London, a woman came to me and complained that her husband, children and house girl were demonic. I could discern that was not her first husband. I asked her which of her husbands and she said her fourth husband. I counselled her to go home and pray that the fire of God should come upon her and also upon the walls of her house. She went home that night and prayed the prayer point. The next evening, she was with us again and said that none of her children slept well and that the force that was pressing her down on the bed continued. The next day she prayed the same prayer and the children refused to sleep. She brought the children and we began to pray for them, they were seriously demonic, including the baby among them. They were all from different fathers. Then I said, “When you get home put your hand on your head and command the fire of God to enter into your life.” I noticed that when she came to fellowship the next day her face was swollen. She seemed to have fallen down. I asked her what happened? She said, “Please, sir, give me another prayer point. I don’t want to pray this one again because when I prayed it, I fell down and hit my head on the chair. I said, “Ok, since you don’t want to pray it again we will pray it for you.” You see, when you challenge evil things with the fire of God, they just have to leave and if they do not want to leave, they will suffer. If you shout fire, they will try to endure it, pretending that they are not there, waiting for you to keep quiet but when you are the stubborn type and you refuse to keep quiet, they will be forced to jump out. You are going to use these weapons now and command fire into several areas of your life and I expect you to have results, in Jesus’ name.
PRAYER POINTS
1. I hold the blood of Jesus against every power of darkness working against my life, in the name of Jesus.
2. Father Lord, fill me afresh with your fire, in the name of Jesus.
3. I refuse to give up at the edge of my breakthrough, in the name of Jesus.
4. Let the fire of God consume every hindrance to my spiritual breakthrough, in the name of Jesus.
5. I loose myself from any bondage by the power in the blood of Jesus, in Jesus’ name.
6. Let the arrows of fire locate my oppressors and cut them into pieces, in Jesus’ name.
7. Let the stone of fire hit the forehead of my Goliath, in the name of Jesus.
8. I reject every spirit of fear, in the name of Jesus.
