Text: 1 Samuel 19:23–24, Acts 7:47–50
We have seen very decent people dressed in three-piece suits and looking very nice, but by the time prayers started, the demons in them started shouting back at us and saying, “Why did we come here today? We have been hiding in his life for years. He is an elder in the church. We tried to make him not come here. Ooooh, why did we come to this place of fire?”. So the thing was inside him. It did not prevent him from preaching. It did not prevent him from doing Bible lessons. It did not prevent him from doing praise worship. Those things do not bother them.
They stay there, hidden, waiting for your unguarded hour. And then people begin to wonder and say, “What happened? But this man is a pastor.” It is because there were cryptic demons hiding in those lives and building a stronghold for themselves. The cryptic demons could be resistant to all kinds of attacks. If you call one weapon, it does not touch them. You may keep calling, and it does not affect them until it gets to the one that enters their blood. Then there is a violent reaction. They have the capacity to lie low for a long time, as if they are not there.
I feel very sad as I talk to you today about my times as a young believer when I was very ignorant. In a wedding ceremony, the wedding was concluded, and they were dancing out of the church to the popular “all will be well” hymn. Immediately they stepped outside, and the bride began to tear her clothes. They rushed at her to prevent her from tearing herself naked, but she overpowered them, tore herself naked, and ran only in underwear. The bridegroom started to cry, but crying does not impress demons. We were so ignorant that we did not know that it was a demonic attack.
They said, “Oh, she ran mad on the day of her wedding,” but no, there was a cryptic demon there with an instruction to stay there and manifest on the day she was to be married. That was what happened. If I knew what I know now, I would have been able to step in and say, “No! You, the stubborn spirit husband working through the cryptic demon, let her go!” A command like that would have caused deliverance, and there would have been joy that day. Looking back now, I feel really sad because I would have been able to step in and act.
That is the first one. Ignorance in the spirit realm is not an excuse. There was a second story like this. This was also at a wedding, and the pastor asked the woman, “Will you take this man as your lawfully wedded husband, to love and to cherish, until death do you part?” She said “No”. The pastor thought she did not hear it very well. He started again and asked the woman the same question, and she replied, “I said no!” All of us ignorant people sitting there did not know that she was seeing a spirit husband there telling her, If you say yes, you are gone’.
If I knew what I know now, then, it cannot happen that you will come to the altar of MFM to say no, when it is not that you were drunk before you came here. I would just say “No problem, take her to the back”. After pouring some fire prayer on her head, return her back to the same altar and ask her the same question again. That is what we should have done in those days, but we did not know any better.
Again, I am praying for anyone reading this Article , if there is a hidden stranger in your spirit that has been troubling your life in hiding, receive your deliverance! in the name of Jesus.
Listen: The first man in the Bible to bring an acceptable offering to God was a man called Abel. After Abel, men began to build altars to God. In the wilderness, the children of Israel made tabernacles. God taught them how to make tabernacles, although the tabernacle was a shadow of heavenly things to come. So all the time they were moving about in the wilderness, they were carrying the tabernacles about. When Israel eventually settled in the land, they needed a place of worship.
David conceived the idea of building a temple. But God said, “No, your child will build it. You cannot build it, because you are a man of war and you have shed too much blood”. So Solomon was the first man to build a temple in Israel. There was a problem. That time, God was in the temple. God was not in their lives. So they messed up. That temple that Solomon built is indescribable to modern-day man. What happened to that temple? It was destroyed. God folded His hands and watched it being destroyed by the Babylonians.
Seventy years after that temple was destroyed, the Israelites came back from captivity. They tried to rebuild that temple, but it did not look like the former one. It did not have the majesty and glory of the first one. During the time of Jesus, Herod the Great began to renovate that temple. He spent 46 years renovating that temple, yet Jesus looked at the temple and said, “Do you see this temple standing here? A time is coming that there shall not be one stone upon each other that will not be thrown down”.
