Acts 16:16–19;
Acts 13:4–12;
Acts 8:9–13;
Acts 8:18–20
Acts 8:21–24; &
Deuteronomy 18:9–12
We are going to be looking at several scriptures for a good understanding of what I am talking about.
Acts 16:16–19 (KJV) says:
- “And it came to pass, as we went to prayer, a certain damsel possessed with a spirit of divination met us, which brought her masters much gain by soothsaying:
- The same followed Paul and us, and cried, saying, These men are the servants of the most high God, which shew unto us the way of salvation.
- And this did she many days. But Paul, being grieved, turned and said to the spirit, I command thee in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her. And he came out the same hour.
- And when her masters saw that the hope of their gains was gone, they caught Paul and Silas, and drew them into the marketplace unto the rulers,
They were using this girl to make money. All the apostles did was cast out the evil spirit.
They did not offend anybody;
They did not steal anybody’s money; and
They did not take anybody’s wife.
Paul just addressed a spirit. That is how the people caught them and bundled them into jail. It was in that jail that they began to praise and pray in the night, and the earthquake of deliverance was released.
After Paul addressed that spirit, that was the end of that sorcery. So what did Paul basically do there? He just shut it down.
Bar-Jesus means, son of Jesus. But this man was not a son of Jesus. He was a son of the generation of vipers.
Prophetic Prayer
May your eyes become the eyes of fire! In the name of Jesus.
He called himself, “Bar-Jesus”but Paul called him “child of the devil.” He was fortunate that Paul cursed him just for a season.
Paul sent blindness to a man who was disturbing the gospel. So technically, what did Paul do here? He shut down, forever, the ministry of sorcery.
In Acts 8:9–13, we read another interesting story about Simon the sorcerer.
Are you not surprised that a single man was bewitching a whole city? He was the problem, but people were praising him as the solution.
That was Simon the sorcerer. Signs and wonders were going on in Samaria, and Simon trickishly joined them. But his secret did not come out until Peter came to pray for the people to receive the baptism of the Holy Spirit.
When Peter now prayed for the people to receive that baptism, the man knew straightaway that the power the people were receiving was the real power.
Peter said something to this man that has never been said to anybody in the Scriptures. In fact, each time I read it, I shudder at the acidic words he used to bombard the sorcerer.
Acts 8:21–23 (KJV):
- “Thou hast neither part nor lot in this matter: for thy heart is not right in the sight of God.
- Repent therefore of this thy wickedness, and pray God, if perhaps the thought of thine heart may be forgiven thee.
- For I perceive that thou art in the gall of bitterness, and in the bond of iniquity.”
That is, his name was cut off from salvation. After what Peter said, the man was scared at the violent and acidic nature of those words. He had to beg them.
Acts 8:24 (KJV):
_”Then answered Simon, and said, Pray ye to the Lord for me, that none of these things which ye have spoken come upon me.
What did Peter do in that place? He shut down the door of sorcery.
Please note that in these three passages we have read, shutting down sorcery is not a gentle procedure. The procedures were violent.
To shut down sorcerers is not the job of gentlemen or for those who like to be very nice to people.
In fact, Jesus said, Woe unto you when they say you are good.”
Fornicators are saying you are good, thieves are saying you are good? Woe unto you. Those who must deal with sorcery must be aggressively violent.
In the book of Deuteronomy, God warned that the Israelites should not have any part in sorcery and witchcraft.
Deuteronomy 18:912 (KJV):
- “When thou art come into the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not learn to do after the abominations of those nations.
- There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch.
- Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer.
- For all that do these things are an abomination unto the LORD: and because of these abominations the LORD thy God doth drive them out from before thee.
God warned them not to partake. There are two men in scripture called* Jannes and Jambres (2 Timothy 3:8).
You may not be familiar with those names, so I want to explain them today.
2 Timothy 3:8 (KJV): “Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the faith.
Jannes and Jambres were the magicians that confronted Moses when he went to tell Pharaoh to let God’s people go.
Anytime Moses appeared in the palace and said, Thus said the Lord, ‘let my people go”and did sign one, throwing his rod down to become a snake, Pharaoh would call Jannes and Jambres to repeat the miracle.
They had power. They were sorcerers. They were the names of the sorcerers who worked with Pharaoh. Do not let us deceive ourselves; they had their own power.
Moses converted water into blood; they did the same. Moses changed dust into frogs; they did theirs. Moses said, “Let there be lice on the bodies of men and animals.”Then they tried. Ordinary lice they could not do.
See how God disgraces the enemy. Which one is harder to do, turning water into blood or producing lice? They were able to do those other miracles.
But lice defeated them. Those men were very wise. They recognised their limitations. They cried to Pharaoh and said, “This is the finger of God.”They told him, but he did not listen
Prophetic Prayer
I am praying for somebody reading this message,
“Every enemy that does not want to let you go, that has made your issue a full-time assignment, with a tenfold violent amen, let them destroy themselves! In the name of Jesus.
Technically, what did Moses do in Egypt? He shut down their sorcerers. Notice that the Bible does not say they will not fight you. It says, “They shall fight against you, but they shall not prevail.
What Is Sorcery?
The use of black magic or black art, which in Nigeria is called juju, jazz, and all kinds of names;
Using evil medicine to solve problems;
Engaging demonic powers to fight for you;
The practices and arts of spells and witchcraft;use of supernatural evil power to engage men and defeat them;
Consultation of the spirits of the dead to get information and power;
Using dark and witchcraft powers to fight your battles;
Use of demonic powers, evil magic, mystical powers, or evil medicine for harmful or wicked purposes; and
Wizardry and occultism.
The Bible recognises the existence of sorcery and the reality of dark powers.
Did Jesus not say,”Behold, I give unto you power to tread upon serpents and scorpions and over all the powers of the enemy”?
In Galatians 6, sorcery is listed as a work of the flesh
So what I am trying to explain is that fellow human beings like us can form a covenant or an agreement with the devil to share part of his supernatural power because he is the prince of the powers of darkness and the god of this world.
But God condemns such covenants. Having explained so far, what are the key issues?
It took power for Paul to close down the ministry of sorcery. You see, the reason sorcery,”yahoo,”juju, and all kinds of ritual magic are thriving is because the church lacks the power to overthrow their altars.
So all you are seeing is evidence that the church lacks the power to overthrow them. We have plenty of churches, no doubt, but there is no power.
*It is easy to talk and shout. It is easy to go to social media and begin to talk to people. It is easy to speak phonetics as a preacher, but when there is a Goliath and those powers are facing you, you know where the true power lies.
Prophetic Prayer
I am praying for somebody here today that you will receive the power that cannot be insulted, the power that cannot be reproached, and the power to terrify those who are pursuing you, in the name of Jesus.
So that is where the problem is: so many churches but no power. Go and look around. Many of those who are captured and used for rituals are Christians, but they are finished
Do you and I want to sit down and allow the ministry of sorcery to just continue around us? Make up your mind.
They are still talking to you about behaving properly, about dressing properly, and about holy dressing.
*You are not serious yet, and you want power. There is no power without sacrifice. You cannot live the way yo like and have power. It is not possible.*
Prophetic Prayer
I am praying once again here: the power that will make darkness respect you; receive that power now! In the name of Jesus.
A 7 fold Amen
The ministry of the great Apostle Babalola and the ministry of Prophet Obadare were basically shutting down things.
That is why you are reading about them. Apostle Babalola shut down oracles, altars, diviners, enchanters, and sorcerers.
It is when these people are shut down that the gospel can now move.
The great Apostle went to one demonic king in Yoruba land, and the man was quite happy to welcome him to the palace.
He said to the Apostle, “I have power, and I will show you. The Apostle said “Okay.”
The king went into his inner chambers, brought out a cutlass, and with no electricity, the cutlass in the hand of this man was sparking light, and the great Apostle was looking at him.
It is enough for the majority of Lagos preachers to run away, but he was watching unimpressed.
I think that the Apostle got tired of the show and said,”You cutlass, in the name of Jesus, shut up!”and the light went off.
The king began an incantation to bring back the light to the cutlass, but the Apostle had shut it down.
The mystery was this: immediately that sparking in the cutlass seized, the greatest iroko tree in the market fell down.
Here was a man sparking a cutlass in the palace, but the root of his power was an iroko tree in the market place.
Prophetic Prayer
I am praying for somebody here: every remote controlling enemies against the destiny of anyone here, we bury you here! In the name of Jesus!
A Tenfold Amen!!
Prophet Obadare was holding a crusade in a place called the”Mount of Victory.”
These men had amazing energy. The crusade went on for 3 months nonstop.
The man was on that pulpit preaching every day for 3 months. Little by little, all the native doctors surrounding the crusade area began to disappear.
They were running away. There was a particular native doctor who was very popular.
He must have gotten so embarrassed ecause people would come and share testimonies and say that when they had problems, they went to that man, and the problem was not solved.
But when they got to the crusade, the problem would be solved. The witch doctor later ran away. So they shut down sorcerers.
I am praying for somebody here: the anointing to shut down those altars that are calling your name; receive that anointing! In the name of Jesus.
In the church, I used to attend many years ago in Makoko, a native doctor had been there before we arrived._
Then his fifth wife started coming for our meetings. A very young and beautiful lady, the wife of a very old man.
We did not know that what happened was this: this young lady became insane, and the parents started taking her from native doctor to native doctor.
So they took her to a native doctor, who said* “I will heal her on one condition: she has to become my wife.
The parents said, If she will be okay, heal her and marry her.”That was how she became the wife of this witch doctor.
I am praying for anyone here: any problem that will send you back to the enemy shall backfire! In the name of Jesus.
What is the name of this fifth wife? Christiana
So she began to come for the fellowship, and after coming from the church, she would start calling the name of Jesus and begin to pray, and so the medicine the man was making for his customers was not working again.
So he consulted his oracle, who told him that Christiana was saying some things that were spoiling the medicine.
May your prayers spoil all the medicines of the wicked! In the name of Jesus.
The man ordered Christiana to stop going there. We were surprised when the lady argued back and said, “I will keep going there, and there is nothing you can do.
The man said,”What? You will run mad again o.”She said,”I can never run mad again in the name of Jesus.”
What happened? The native doctor now came to church to confront me physically and said,”Young man, I hear you are the one preaching here. You are doing your business; I am not disturbing you.
I am doing my business, and I do not want you to disturb me. So please, I have not come to fight you; all I want you to do is tell Christiana to stop coming to this church.”*
I said, Ah, I have no power to stop her from coming.”Our church in those days had no door. It was just wooden and iron sheets; there was no fan, door, or window.
So we did not have enough ushers to be in the church and be hunting for Christiana. So I said, am sorry, sir; I cannot stop her.
The man said,”Okay, I did not come to fight you before, but now we are going to fight.”
I said, Excuse me, sir, is it boxing, fighting, or wrestling?”The man said, No, you think I am joking. It is spiritual.”
I said,Fine, sir, let us start.He said “Okay, you will see.”He went back home. I just noticed that he had disappeared.
I never saw him again. All we did was point there and say,We shut you down; we shut down your oracles; we shut down your altars and sorcery.” And that was all.
I am believing that there will be somebody who will shut down all the altars assigned against their lives! In the name of Jesus.
I am going to pray one prayer before we start praying again. If you shout amen and lose your voice, you have made a good bargain. But if you keep quiet, it is not my fault.
I decree upon your life that any tongues using incantations against you, their tongues shall glue to their mouths! In the name of Jesus.
So , what Elijah did at Mount Carmel was to shut down all the sorceries of the Baal powers.
PRAYER POINTS
- Pray this three hot times!
Sorcery of the sorcerers, working against me, backfire and expire! In the name of Jesus;
- Pray this three hot times.
Dark powers on assignment against me; attack your senders! In the name of Jesus;
- Altars in my place of birth, working against my life, catch fire! In the name of Jesus;
- O finger of God, arise, write death sentence upon the walls of wicked elders that are troubling my life! In the name of Jesus.
Before you go to bed tonight, spend 10 minutes on this prayer.
After dealing with elders, Put sorcerers, and covens troubling your life.God bless you and your family, in Jesus name.
There are some prayers that work better during the day, and there are some prayers that work better at night. Listen carefully: there are prayers, and there are prayers.
In other words, you are to secure yourself first before you begin to discuss the security of your neighbour. You must remain alive first before you say you want to help somebody.
You may remain afloat first before you say you want to rescue somebody who wants to sink.
When that woman in the Bible prayed that prayer to the judge, I want to assume first that the adversary was known to her and that the adversary was not a strange person.
Since the adversary was known to her, it means that the enemy this widow was praying about was not a new enemy. The adversary must have really wounded her or offended her seriously. She must have had an unpleasant encounter with this adversary. That is why we have to fight.
The moment the adversary discovers your weaknesses, he will keep hitting you at that particular spot. It is like those in the boxing ring. If one gives a blow to his opponent and notices that the opponent’s eye is bleeding and can no longer see very well, his next blow will be targeted at that bleeding eye.
Next, when the widow said “Avenge me of my adversary”, it meant that the adversary was personal to her, a personal enemy she wanted to fight.
It is amazing that some people fight other people’s enemies, leaving their own enemies unchallenged. This is foolishness. That is why you must appreciate pastors who, by virtue of their calling, have to fight on behalf of other people. The fact that that woman cried to the judge showed that she knew she could not fight for herself. The psalmist is always talking about enemies stronger than him. I am praying for somebody here:
All the enemies that are stronger than you, heaven will bury them today! In the name of Jesus. (a 7-fold amen).
A person may never find peace in life until certain works of darkness are judged and judged thoroughly.
Some testimonies will not manifest, and some breakthroughs will not come until the sword of Elijah has gone into
