Rising Above Your Roots To The Top

Isaiah 2:2, Matthew 5:14–16, 2 Chronicles 33:1–7, 9; 34:1-2

Isaiah 2:2 (KJV) says: “And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the LORD’S house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it.”

Matthew 5:14–16 (KJV) says, “Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid. Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it giveth light unto all that are in the house. Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.”……

The major fact in these two scriptures we just read is that God wants you at the top. The top place for the child of God is not just a possibility to desire but a responsibility to accept and pursue it. The Bible says, “Ye shall be the head and not the tail. You shall be above only and not beneath.” Those places are available. There are some who like the bottom region. There are some who like the middle position, a very dangerous position called “mediocre.” There is the top.

You can be a top businessman or a bottom businessman; a top academician or a bottom academician, or a mediocre; you are not at the top, you are not at the bottom; you are just playing somewhere at the middle.

The top place is God’s desire for us to accept and pursue it. But there is a problem: the roots. That is why this programme is called Deep Deliverance. It is the battle against root battles. Anytime you, as a believer, see a problem, the first thing your mind should run to very quickly is a tree. A tree has roots, stems, branches, leaves, and flowers.

The problem with our problems is that the roots are either unknown or unaddressed. A lady was talking to me. At the age of 37, she was just discovering that her father was not her father. The person she thought was her father was not her father. Her mother went to commit adultery, got pregnant, and tried to terminate the pregnancy, but she could not. On the day of delivery, she almost died. That was how she confessed to her husband, and that was how this lady was born: raised under a father she thought was her father, but not his father.

How did this happen? When she began to pray to know the root of her problem, she began to ask the question “why.” It was when she was praying at Prayer City that her phone rang. It was her mother on the phone. She said, “I have offended you. I have something to confess to you. This was how you were born. So, continue your prayers. The Lord will deliver you.”

She did not know that that was the root of what she was battling. So the problem with our problems is that sometimes we do not want to address the root, or we fail to address the root.

The problem with deliverance is that spirits that are not deeply rooted will leave easily. The deliverance minister will say, “Get out, in the name of Jesus,” and they will get out. But those that are deeply rooted will hear the command “Get out, in the name of Jesus” and will query the man and say, “Why? Were you there when they handed her over? I am not going.” So the battle starts between the deliverance minister and this spirit because it is deeply rooted. When prayers get to a certain level, what is hiding inside people’s lives comes out. Then you will know that human beings really are just boasting. It is all vanity upon vanity. All is vanity.

This is a very serious problem. I have seen very sophisticated ladies. One like that came all the way from the United Kingdom. She could not find a husband; work was not going well. She was speaking very sparkling British English, very sophisticated looking, but by the time prayer got to a level, she began to move about on her head, and we were trying to save her from using her head to hang things, only for her mouth to open, and a deep Ijesha language was coming from somebody who had never been there.

Her parents were from there, but they never took her there. They never spoke the language at home, but when prayer got to where it should, spirits had no option but to react. “Why are you troubling our lives? We have been there for a long time. We tried to prevent her from coming here, but she still came. Why did you come here? We said you should not come.”

Those are deeply rooted problems. Those that are not deeply rooted can just be thrown off easily. But, however, stronger and heavily entrenched spirits will require more time and effort to dislodge.

The most stubborn, aggressive, and tenacious ones may require the help of other believers. That is why we advise people, “If you want to do personal deliverance in the house, make sure you remove all sharp objects. Make sure you do not stay where you can bang your head on the floor because anything can happen.”

You must have heard the testimony of the Canadian woman . She was praying at home with the book.