Every geographical area has its own satanic technology peculiar to that area. The modus operandi of satanic agents vary from place to place. In attacking their victims what they use also varies from one place to another. Some employ what we refer to as “satanic bullets”, or demon idols after people, while some just suffocate their victims in the dream.
Bewitchment is a common local satanic technology. What does it mean to bewitch? It is to bring continuous evil on a person. To bewitch is to charm a person using satanic power or to put a person under a spell using satanic power. In Galatians 3:1, Paul used the word bewitchment to describe the act of being led away into evil doctrines. And because the Galatians were bewitched, he referred to them as being foolish. He said, “Oh foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you?”
Bewitchment is when someone uses evil power like witchcraft to charm, to enslave, or to mislead a person. This evil power can be used on a person, place or thing. Wicked people issue curses on good and innocent people who have not done anything wrong to them. It does not matter whether you have committed an offence or not before they decide to curse you. The mere fact that you have decided to make progress in life makes you their target.
Bewitched people operate under an evil control. They would not listen to good counsel. They are always involved in errors and do the wrong things. Usually, their minds are closed to the truth. A sister went somewhere to pray, and the man of God there said, “You have a special problem, so you need special prayer.” And she said, “Any prayer point you give me, I will pray it.” But the so-called special prayer turned out to be something else as she was told to stand on a mortar naked and hold a candle in her hand until it burnt out, the hot molten wax running down her hands not withstanding. While this demonic prayer was going on the “man of God” was running his hands on her naked body. At the end of the “prayer,” she swore never to go back there again. But by the next day, she was back to this demonic man and his demonic prayer. Why? She has been bewitched.
A bewitched person will experience continuous confusion of the mind, continuous fatigue, anxiety, distress, disjointed thoughts, sense of emptiness and loss of self-control all because he is obeying a strange command. He may be having continuous accident, loss of income, loss of position, loss of reputation, affliction with diseases and pains, etc.
I know a man who married 19 wives, and each of them died after three months. And the foolish girls who heard of what happened to their predecessors still went ahead and married the man all because of the cars he was using to entice them. They did not know that the cars were certificates of death. But when he married the 19th wife, he met the Lord and that bondage was broken. That is what we call bewitchment.
A few things make me sad these days, especially about the lives of present-day Christians. Many things we ought to address, are not being addressed I have come to the conclusion that many of the present-day Christians prefer to look for an easy way to live a victorious Christian life. There are some ministers now who teach people that violent prayer means focusing attention on the devil and by so doing, they discourage people from praying aggressive prayers against the devil. They teach people that just looking at Jesus, worshipping and praising Him is enough for their deliverance from demonic oppression. This is a wrong teaching.
I was at a meeting somewhere a long time ago. As we started praying, somebody fell down at the back of the hall and swam on the hard concrete like a fish towards me at the pulpit. What shocked me was that when I looked at her face, it was the lady that led the praise worship before we started the service and she did it excellently. The message I am trying to pass across is this: all her praise worship could not deliver her from her bewitchment. There was still need for a proper deliverance to be conducted on her. This is where some ministers miss it all.
There was a time Jesus was speaking in the temple. The priests, the Sadducees, the Pharisees and all the people working with Him did not recognise Him, but a demonic man did. Jesus was busy teaching and the demonic man interrupted Him saying, “What have you to do with us, you Jesus
of Nazareth. Have you come to torment us before our time? We know who you are, the holy one of God.” They knew who He was, but the priests did not know. Then what happened? Jesus abandoned His teaching for a few seconds and dealt with him. If teaching would have removed the unclean spirit from the man, Jesus would have continued teaching and ignored him. But He abandoned it a little bit, and said, “Come out of him.” So Jesus conducted deliverance on people.
Those who are bewitching people are called witches. Psalm 69:23-28 says, “Let their eyes be darkened, that they see not; and make their loins continually to shake. Pour out thine indignation upon them, and let thy wrathful anger take hold of them let their habitation be desolate; and let none dwell in their tents. For they persecute him whom thou hast smitten; and they talk to the grief of those whom hast wounded. Add iniquity unto their iniquity: and let them not come into thy righteousness. Let them be blotted out of the book of the living and not be written with the righteous.”
Today, all the witches shall be disgraced and shall flee out of their habitation, in Jesus’ name. I will advise that if you are not interested in breaking the head of serpents, then this message is not for you because whosoever is friendly with our enemy, the fire of the God of Elijah shall fall on him. And every instrument of bewitchment must be roasted today, in Jesus’ name. Therefore, right there, as you are reading this message, you are going to pray with holy anger, holy madness and violent faith like this: “Every instrument of bewitchment, be roasted, in the name of Jesus.”
One day, I followed somebody to one town and he showed me one man, whom he said, had seven uncompleted houses in that town. The problem was that he would build one half way, abandon it and start another one. He never completed anyone. As at that time, he was walking about without even wearing a pair of slippers and was still trying to buy land to start yet another house. He has been bewitched.
A land could be bewitched. Once a land is bewitched, no business will prosper there until the bewitchment upon it is broken. If a land is bewitched, even if you plant crops there, they will not do well. The reason many people find it difficult to complete their houses is because they are building them on bewitched lands. That is why sometimes we advise people to pour anointing oil on such places. What happens when you pour anointing oil on such lands is that all the former occupants will flee. It is just like somebody anointing his house. When you anoint the doorpost of your house with oil, if somebody who has a demon is coming in, his demon would wait for him when he gets to the door while he enters. When he goes out, he carries it again before going away.
A house too could be bewitched. A person may build a fantastic house and all the tenants will just refuse to pay rent. Sometimes, it is not that they do not want to pay but immediately they get into the house, they become broke. Why? It is bewitched. Immediately some people enter into a particular place, their prosperity would be swallowed. Such a place is bewitched. The house may have what we call ‘poverty pregnancy.’ And whenever any tenant comes in, it delivers a baby into his hands.
A town or village could be bewitched, and all the prosperous people there would only succeed if they run away. If they remain there, they would die like paupers.
A marriage could be bewitched. Immediately after the wedding, there will be no money or business. Progress would stop, every good thing would stop and bad things would start to happen. The marriage has been bewitched. Bewitchment is therefore a very wicked satanic weapon that a believer should not treat with levity. It is the product of the work of witches that has turned some people to blind men in the streets. They have held up many people from progressing. They bewitch people by locking up their prosperity with demonic padlock. Such people can only be set free in Jesus’ name.
Many people have been trapped by what we call “midnight caterers” who feed them every night. Sometimes, they bring things that such people do not like eating ordinarily and force-feed them with those things. Sometimes, they even wake up and see the traces of the food in their mouths. It is the work of witches. There are some who specialise in marrying people and they go from one husband to the other in the dream. Some bury people alive in the dream. Such people normally die in their sleep. They put evil marks on people, and such people will not be able to move the way others are moving. They perform spiritual operation on people. They may even replace some normal organs with the organs of an animal. All these are the works of witches. They render a person friendless. It is not a good testimony when as a Christian you say, “I don’t have any friend, because all the friends that I have had were bad.” It means that you are bad as well. The Bible even calls Jesus the friend of sinners. So, He has friends. Although too many friends are bad, but it is not a pleasant testimony for a believer to live the life of a recluse. You may not realise it but maybe your situation is that people find it difficult, if not impossible to get along with you. Then you are bewitched.
A man died sometime ago. A week to the burial, when the members of his family were meant to sit down and organise the burial, they started fighting. They asked the deceased’s wife for his will and she told them there was none. They said, “It is a lie, you are hiding it.”They started fighting and looting things. Nobody was bothered about the dead. This is the work of witches. They render a life hopeless and directionless. They turn people’s fruitful land into deserts.
The manifestation of their operation at times is as if they gave their victim a demonic injection, and the person or object was operating under that influence. They are behind a lot of broken homes. The head of such witches shall break today, in Jesus’ name. They are the ones who put the stamp of multiple husbands on people. They sponsor “fire for fire quarrel” between spouses. They put the stamp of multiple girlfriends on some men just to render them destitute. Such men might be boasting that they are smart and handsome, but the truth of the case is that they are senior projects in the school of bewitchment. Think about this beloved.
Sometime ago, a man went to a party and picked up a girl from there. He took the girl to her house to commit immorality. As they were about to start their immorality, there was a loud knock on the door. The man said, “Who is knocking?” The girl said, “It is my husband.” He said, “Ha, but you did not tell me that you are married, I don’t move with married women. Apart from that, how can you be married? You talk like a single girl.” The girl said, “This is grammar you are talking, you better hide under the bed.” So, the man tried to hide under the bed but something poured on him. He said, “Please, open the window. Let me jump out.” And when she opened the window and the man jumped out, he found himself at the centre of a cemetery. Then he knew there was trouble. Even if your case is like that man's, you shall be set free today, in Jesus’ name. The case of the man was bewitchment. His household enemy had so much bewitched him that he was being controlled by a remote controlling system.
HOW DO WE RENDER WITCHES POWERLESS?
1. By purposeful study of the word of God: A lot of believers are illiterates as far as the Bible is concerned. Purposeless study or religious reading of the Bible will not give anybody victory. When you read your Bible, you must always ask yourself what God is saying to you in the passage you are reading and how you can apply it to your situation. You must form the habit of committing scriptures to memory. This will build up the level of the word of God in your life. There have been people who quoted scriptures against their enemies in the dream and the enemy queried, “Where is it written” Defeat followed when they did not know the passage. We have a lot of weapons in the Bible with which to defend ourselves. But God gave us the sword, which is the word of God, as the one to use for launching the offensive. In the story of Jesus in the wilderness, we were told that whenever the devil said something, Jesus always answered with “It is written.” So, you must know very well what is written and where it is written.
2. By unashamed holiness: It is better for you to be called names than for you to be bewitched. If people say you are looking dull and unattractive, it is better to look like that than to be bewitched. I feel sorry for those who tone their skin to improve upon God’s work which is already perfect. All they are doing is giving the enemy room to operate in their lives. It is very bad to misuse the image of God. When you look at yourself and say, “Oh God, you did not make me bright enough and did not paint some places red, therefore, I will help you,” and you go ahead and do so. You want to improve on what your Maker has done. No, you cannot. All you are doing is to open the door for the enemy.
There was one woman who used to apply make-up a lot. One day, a man married her and told her that he liked her make-up, so she should keep applying it. Eventually, she got to a gospel church where she was taught about the need to be holy both within and without. She was made to understand that the Bible talks about holiness inside and admonishes us to decorate our inside, that is to give the spirit man more attention,because the outside will eventually perish. One day, she employed a housemaid and the housemaid became interested in her husband. The housemaid then took her box of make-up to her witchcraft meeting and got it bewitched. She continued using the make-up because she did not know that it had been tampered with. But as from that day, her husband just started to hate her until eventually, the housemaid replaced her as the wife.
Let it be clear in your spirit that holiness has to be both within and without. Some people put on 20 bangles on one hand at the same time. There are some who, if it is not for God’s grace, will wear ten chains at the same time. And it is the same people who will say that they do not want to be bewitched. They are making a mistake because if bewitchers visit a person’s house, the first thing they look for is where they can hide. They look for the instruments of bewitchment around they can use and the easiest hiding place in this environment is ‘jewelry.’ Some people pray aggressive prayers, but after that, they put on bewitched materials and thereby renew their bondage. You better think very well about it, beloved.
3. Aggressive and prevailing prayers: This is another area which a lot of people do not understand. When you talk about aggressive and prevailing prayers, it must involve your entire being and faculty. That is why a person who is praying prevailing prayer does not even know whether there is mosquito around because the whole of his body, soul and spirit, are involved. Your totality is put into that prayer. It is not like the story of a man who wanted to pray on his food and a goat was starring at him. So, he closed one eye and used the other eye to look at the goat. He did not pray because the presence of the goat has divided his attention. That is not prevailing prayer. Prevailing prayer is like a woman in labour who keeps labouring until she is delivered.
There are some people, before they pray for two minutes, they will be looking for their handkerchiefs to wipe their sweat. There are some too who fan themselves when prayer is going on. Such people cannot concentrate. You have to involve your body, soul and spirit in it. Everything has to go along. God could instruct you to say one sentence for 20 days. If you have a mountain before you and somebody gives you a sledge hammer and says, “Break your way through this rock.” Even if you are a super human being, you will need more than one blow to do it. For some small problems, two or three minutes prayer is enough. But when you get to aggressive prayers, like prayers against bewitchment, you need some time. If somebody has been bewitched from the womb and has been under demonic control for 45 years, and the person wants to break free, it will be very fraudulent for a preacher to tell that person, “Just believe God, two minutes prayers and you will be through.” No, he may be on it for six hours because many things have piled up. The Holy Spirit needs to put oil into the screws in some peoples’ lives so that they can be loosened easily.
WHAT IS THE MINISTRY OF AGGRESSIVE PREVAILING PRAYER?
A. It is a ministry of discipline. Prayer warfare is not a matter for the undisciplined. The body likes to enjoy, relax, dance and giggle, but when it comes to prayer, it becomes weak.
B. It is a ministry of tears. Jesus prayed until He was shedding tears.
C. It is a ministry of travail. Travail is a burden in the heart. You pray it out.
D. It is a ministry of fasting. I don’t mean the fasting where you drink tea and coffee in the morning or orange juice and you say, you have not eaten. I thank God that many people who thought fasting could kill have found out that it is not so with the one day dry fast for the Power Must change Hands programme held by this ministry once every month. Instead of dying, they have become stronger. They have learnt to discipline their body by fasting.
E. It is a ministry of loneliness. The prayer warrior is mostly a lonely man. The Bible says, “Jacob was alone with God,” then he wrestled with an angel.
F. It is a ministry of total surrender.
G. It is a ministry of violence. Prayer must become serious business if we want to overcome the bewitchers in our environment. Prayer must become violent. It must become fearsome. It must become devastating and destructive to the enemy. Warfare prayer is to destroy the authority of the kingdom of hell over a situation. It roots out things, pulls down things, destroys things, throws down things, binds and looses, and executes written judgment. It also rebukes. Until we learn to do these things, many people will only succeed in renovating and refurbishing their prisons instead of destroying them. So, today, decide that bewitchers must be disgraced. Just look at your life. Have you noticed any trend that you don’t like? Do you feel that somehow, somewhere, some forces are laughing at you. Or somehow something is saying, “Give up, go back to the herbalist.” Think about it.
Let me tell you one secret. Forget about your family background. God is greater than your family background. Forget about other members of your family whose lives are upside down. Face the bewitchers! Sometimes we abandon the target and start fighting the houseflies. Holy anger, holy violence and violent faith are required to pray prevailing prayers.
There is an important aspect without which nothing will happen. If you have not yet surrendered your life to Jesus, then you are already a candidate in the hands of the bewitchers. But if you want to be free from their grip, the first thing is to surrender to Jesus. If you are ready to do so, then say, “Lord Jesus, I am a sinner. I want to get born again. I want to surrender to you. Forgive me my sins and cleanse me with your blood and come into my life, in Jesus’ name. Amen. The Bible says, “Today is the day of salvation, tomorrow may be too late.” If you said that prayer, lay your hand on your head now as I pray for you:
Wonderful God, I commit this person into your hands. I pray that every yoke of sin will be broken in his or her life, in the name of Jesus. And as he or she takes this decision now, he or she shall move on with You in Your power and might. Lord Jesus, come into his or her life, in Jesus’ name. Take control, Father Lord, in Jesus’ mighty name. Amen.
PRAYER POINTS
1. I cancel every bewitchment against my life, in Jesus’ name.
2. Every tree of bewitchment, be rooted up, in the name of Jesus.
3. I paralyze every spirit of bewitchment, in Jesus’ name.
4. Satanic bewitchment, go back to your sender, in Jesus’ name.
(If you pray the next prayer point violently, beginning from tomorrow, there will be a change in your business).
5. Every satanic embargo on my handiwork, be nullified, in the name of Jesus.
6. I release myself from every bewitchment, in the name of Jesus.
7. Any power that wants to attack me as a result of my praying these prayer points, be roasted seven-folds, in the name of Jesus.
