Fighting For The Gates Of Your Life

This message emphasises the importance of spiritual gates in our lives, such as the head, eyes, ears, mouth, and more. Each gate serves as an entry point for both positive and negative influences. The message underscores the need for prayer to cleanse these gates and protect against enemy control, highlighting the critical nature of spiritual…

Theme: STRATEGIC DELIVERANCE (4)

Text: Genesis 28:16-17, Matthew 16:18, 6:22-23

Read this message carefully so you will have an understanding before we start praying. The Bible makes us understand that there are gates.

Genesis 28:16-17 (KJV) says: “And Jacob awaked out of his sleep, and he said, Surely the LORD is in this place; and I knew it not. And he was afraid, and said, How dreadful is this place! this is none other but the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven.”

Matthew 16:18 (KJV) says: “And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.”

Gates have to do with places of control, places of exit, and places of entrance.

Gates has four meanings in the Bible:

¶¶ Points of entrance.

¶¶ Points of exit.

¶¶ Points of control.

¶¶ Points of authority, power and dominion.

Our lives too have gates. The worst thing that can happen to you is for the enemy to be in control of vital gates of your life. If the enemy is in control of vital gates of your life, he will open the gate when evil is coming and shut the gate when good things are coming. Gates in ancient times were focal points of power. Business was conducted at the city gates, military strategies were planned at the gates, judgements and punishments were delivered at the gates, the husband of a virtuous woman was known at the gates, you will find that Lot sat at the gates of Sodom as an elder, and the safety of a city was determined by the strength of the gates.

So if the enemies storm the gates and succeed, then the horses, chariots and weapons will be able to enter into the town. Most of the time when the gates came down, the city too was conquered. So this is a very serious matter when we bring it down to our level. We have gates in our body:

1. The first gate through which things can enter our lives is the gate of the head. The psalmist says, “Thou anointest my head with oil, and my cup runneth over.” When they pray for people, they lay hands on their heads; when they want to crown a king, they put a crown on his head. This means there is an access route through which things can enter the head. When they lay hands on the head and anoint the head, it means there is an access route too, and it can transfer throughout the body. Negative or positive anointing can flow through your head to the rest of your body.

Your head is the symbol of your destiny. When you begin to shave your hair for no other reason than as a symbol of death, it is a serious problem. That head is a storehouse of your brain. It can also be manipulated. This is why deliverance of the head is a serious matter, and you need to be careful of what you do with your head and hair. That hair represents your glory. So it is not just anybody that should put hands on your hair and do anything to it.

Many women are in trouble today because witchcraft hands have plaited their hair in evil salons, and they put all sorts of evil things on their heads. The head is a gate.

Lay your right hand on your head and shout:

My head, be cleansed by the blood of Jesus, in the name of Jesus (shout this three times).

My head, vomit every bewitchment, in the name of Jesus. (Shout it three times).

2. The eye gate: Matthew 6:22-23 (KJV) says, ‘The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light.’

But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If, therefore, the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness!

The eye is a very important organ in the body. It gives light to the entire body. The eye is the window of your thought life. With our eyes, we can fill our lives with darkness or light. The eye is like the lens of a camera, taking pictures and transferring the image to the spirit man.

So the eye is a major spiritual gate, receiving both positive and negative messages into the human spirit. Messages of the eye enjoy very quick transfer into the brains and lives of people. Eyes of lust, covetousness, fornication, adultery, robbery, and gossiping are gates into your life.

If you are watching pornography or something really bad, you are really harming yourself a lot because you are transferring those images into your spirit man, and so the gates of your eyes are open to the enemy.

Can you lay your hands on your eyes and shout loud and clear:

Blood of Jesus, sanitise my eyes, in the name of Jesus.