The Scriptures reveal that man is a tripartite being, that is, he is made up of a soul and a spirit, both of which live in a body.
God, the wonderful creator, wishes that man prospers in these three departments of his being especially the soul which is the spiritual part of his life.
The enemy knows this, therefore, he attacks and cages man’s soul thus rendering him weakened, and unfulfilled in his earthly and heavenly pursuits.
How can you know when a soul is caged? How can a caged soul be delivered and made to prosper? This life-changing message answers these interesting questions.
Ezekiel 13:18:And say, Thus faith the Lord GOD; Woe to the women that sew pillows to all armholes, and make kerchiefs upon the head of every stature to hunt souls! Will ye hunt the souls of my people, and will ye save the souls alive that come unto you? 19And will ye pollute me among my people for handfuls of barley and for pieces of bread, to slay the souls that should not die, and to save the souls alive that should not live, by your lying to my people that hear your lies? 20Wherefore thus faith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against your pillows, wherewith ye there hunt the souls to make them fly, and I will tear them from your arms, and will let the souls go, even the souls that ye hunt to make them fly.”
The creation of man is a wonderful process. The Bible says:” I am fearfully and wonderfully made.” (Psalm 139:14).
The creation of man took place in three stages:
1. God Himself sat down, took dust, moulded it and formed man.
(Next time, when you feel like boasting, remember that you are ordinary dust); whenever you feel like broadcasting yourself, it is Mr Dust that you are broadcasting.
At burial ceremonies, it is said, “Dust unto dust ashes unto ashes.” That is, the person came from dust and is going back to be dust as it is put in the ground. That is why all the chemicals that make up the human body can also be found in the ground.
It is therefore very interesting to find the dust (man) boasting against his creator. The dust- man fabricates dust - drugs and puts all his faith in the drug.
2. God breathed the breath of life into man’s nostrils, so that the Spirit of God moved into it to create the spirit of man which went straight into the blood.
3. Man became a living soul, a distinct individual, a distinct personality.
The body of man is world-conscious. It is through it that human beings relate with each other.
The soul of a man is the seat of his intellect, will and emotions; it is self- conscious. It is through the soul that a man knows that he is bold, weak, strong, intelligent and that he is different from any other person.
The spirit of man is God - conscious, it is through it that he realises that there is God and recognises His Lordship. It is also through the spirit that man denies the existence of God and refuses to serve Him.
Man is fearfully and wonderfully made.
When the body is caged, it cannot move. It is limited and cannot do what it wishes to do. It has a problem.
A person in Kirikiri prison, for example, is limited. He is being watched and controlled, he cannot go about as he would have desired.
If a parrot is put in a cage, it is limited, it cannot fly. It can only hop within the confines of the cage. Even though it can sing beautifully and recount what it sees or hears, it is still limited to the cage.
When the spirit - man is caged; it means it is possessed and controlled by demonic spirits. They dictate what the spirit man should do and should not do.
All witches, wizards and familiar spirits are possessed and controlled by the demon - spirits. It is amazing to know that these dark powers can summon a person out of his body. The experiences that some people regard as dreams are not so; they are actual happenings in the spirit world.
When you see yourself in the dream in your village or old secondary or primary school, or a house you lived before, it means that an evil covenant had been formed with your spirit at that location or that something went wrong there or that your placenta was buried there.
Sometimes, these powers make sure a tree is planted where the placenta is buried and the life of that child now depends on the growth of the tree. If the witches now decide to make that tree their meeting place, it means the child will be in their cage forever.
One man went abroad to study. He always had a dream that he was carrying an old woman. Each time he tried to look at the face of the old woman, to know who she was, he got a slap and he woke up feeling the pains on his face. When he went to see a doctor, he was told that he was hallucinating.
One day, a woman came into his room with a gun, accusing him of debarring him from having her boy-friend. He told her that he did not know her, neither did he know the man she was talking about . Before he knew what was going on, he received gun-shots and he eventually died. The powers that were pursuing him for 13 years, caught up with him because he did not know what to do.
Take this prayer point:
Every power pursuing my destiny, die, in the name of Jesus.
THE SOUL AND MAN’S EXISTENCE
God gave man a soul and that makes him an individual. He is able to exercise his will and has a personality. There are no two persons with the same soul. The soul belongs to the spirit; not to the body. That is why, when a person dies, his spirit retains the soul which comprises the will, intellect and emotion.
When a Christians dies, his physical body will be discarded and replaced by the resurrection body of the Lord Jesus Christ. The soul will go with the spirit to heaven.
If the person did not have an encounter with the Lord Jesus Christ while alive, his soul goes with the spirit to hell.
The soul is the center point of man. Within it is the mind, the heart (where there is love, consciousness), the will (where you have the capacity to choose between good and evil). The position of the soul in the center, makes it possible for the balance of decision to be swung either to the left or to the right, or either for good or evil, to the things of heaven or hell.
Jesus knows the importance of the soul and He asked : “For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world and lose his own soul? Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?” Matthew 16:26.
Beloved, there are terrible, wicked spirits whose function is to capture the souls of people. I am not talking about witches or wizards. These are terrible spirits and I want you to know the symptoms which indicate that a soul is under their captivity.
IMPORTANT SYMPTOMS TO NOTE
Whenever something good is about to happen, a tragedy occurs and the road closes. Something goes wrong somewhere.
1. When a person is sleeping and talks out to the hearing of everybody around, as if he was engaged in a discussion.
2. When a person knows that he should be highly placed but is relegated.
3. When a person sees God at work and refuses to surrender his or her life to the Lord.
4. When a spouse is saying that his or her spouse is not the person he or she got married to.
5. When a person never feels the stirring of the Holy Spirit within, no matter how many songs he or she sings, the person does not feel His presence.
6. Seeing slow animals in the dream - tortoise, snail serpents etc.
One day, I prayed with a man and as he got up from his seat, I saw a tortoise on the seat and called him back. The man said that he remembered that a herbalist did a charm for him with a tortoise but that the herbalist threw it into the sea, in his presence.
I told him that the devil always does his trade by barter. He will always take something in exchange for what he gives. The tortoise was reprogrammed into his body, even though he saw it thrown into the sea. It was the prayers he prayed that sent out the tortoise from his body.
7. When a person dreams and sees himself in a thick forest and cannot find his way out or in a market place where he buys nothing but goes up and down till the close of day or finds himself lost and cannot find his way home and then wakes up. It means the soul of the person is obeying an evil command.
8. Having a double personalty, that is, being unpredictable, no one knows what your reaction would be to a given situation.
9. Feeling lifeless, as if the person’s blood has been drained.
10. Finding it difficult to detach oneself from a former boyfriend or girlfriend, even though one is now married.
11. If concentration is difficult, it is an indication that the person’s soul has been captured.
12. Seeing oneself in the dream as having a twin substitute.
13. Seeing oneself in the dream as being summoned out of one’s body.
14. Hearing strange voices.
WHAT TO DO
Surrender your life to the Lord Jesus Christ, if you are not born again.
1. Pray deliverance prayers for the mind.
2. Arrest the soul traders.
3. Gather all the fragments of the soul that have been scattered by these powers.
4. Ask God for a total restoration of your spirit, soul and body.
“What shall it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own soul?”
If you are reading this bulletin and you have not yet surrendered your life. to the Lord Jesus Christ, I would advise that you do so now. Pause and think about your life. Are you in line with the dictates of the word of God? I want you to examine your ways.
Don’t say you go to church or that you were baptised as a baby. That is not enough. The Bible says: ”All have sinned and come short of the glory of God.” See yourself as a sinner, confess your sins to God, right there where you are. He is there with you and will cleanse you of all unrighteousness.
Appropriate to yourself, the sacrifice that the Lord Jesus made with His life on the cross at Calvary, as a redemption from sin, for the whole world. Ask Him to come into your life and be your personal Lord and Saviour. Enthrone Him on the seat of your life and hand over everything that concerns you to Him.
Renounce the devil and his cohorts, that have hitherto ruled your life. Renounce the world and all that have drawn you to sin. Say bye-bye to the devil and sin, cling to the Lord Jesus Christ.
Now that you have taken this great decision, the Lord will lay His hands of power and glory upon you, plant you on the Rock of Ages and you will be firmly established in Him, in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen.
Now, I want you to quietly look into your life and see where anything has been arrested by these powers. With the authority in the word of God, I want you to arrest these arresters with the trap of Jesus.
PRAYER POINTS
1. Let the trap of Jesus, arrest every arrester of my soul, in the name of Jesus.
2. Every soul - arrester, be arrested, in the name of Jesus.
3. My placenta, be released from every cage, in the name of Jesus.
4. I possess all my blessings for this year, in the name of Jesus.
5. O God arise and contend with those who are contending with me, in the name of Jesus.
6. O God arise and fight those who are fighting, me in the name of Jesus.
7. All those who seek my life, I command you to receive double disgrace, in the name of Jesus.
8. O Lord, bring to light every darkness shielding my potentials, in the name of Jesus.
9. I break every curse of backwardness, in the name of Jesus.
10. I recover myself from every evil diversion, in Jesus’ name.
11. I shall not come to the world in vain, in the name of Jesus.
12.Every forest and rock demons assigned against me, fall down and die, in the name of Jesus.
13.Every local charm burnt against me, be roasted, in the name of Jesus.
14.I release myself from ungodly parental linkage, in the name of Jesus.
15.Lord Jesus, manifest Yourself in my life by Your name called ‘Wonderful’.
16.Every bird of death assigned against me, fall down and die, in the name of Jesus.
17.I withdraw the food and drink of my problems, in the name of Jesus.
18.No evil family river shall flow into my life, in Jesus’ name.
19.I withdraw my progress from every satanic regulation and domination, in the name of Jesus.
20.Every garment of darkness, be roasted by fire, in the name of Jesus.
21.I refuse to live a floating life, in the name of Jesus.
22.Every deeply entrenched problem, dry to the roots, in the name of Jesus.
23.I destroy the weapons of satanic night raiders, in the name of Jesus.
24.Every stronghold of failure, be broken, in Jesus’ name.
25.Every internal warfare in my life, be quenched, in the name of Jesus.
26.Every internal thief, be exposed, in the name of Jesus.
27.Anything planted in my life by my enemies, come out with all your roots, in the name of Jesus.
