SPIRITUAL WARFARE N°11

 

This teaching is the 11^th part in a series of eleven teachings, and will be incomplete if read without the others.

 

Other sorcerers in order to pray for the sick tell them that if they have faith to be healed, they should go round the yard seven times while running. It is quite pitiful when you see old people without strength running outside the yard.

 

Another sorcerer who calls himself a prophet send round chewing gums from Ghana, which he calls "chewing gum missile" while promising to the ignorant who receive them that if they chew one of these "chewing gum missiles", it will be a missile that they will be sending in the camp of their enemies. There are other sorcerers who use fans to deliver people. They deceive the ignorant by telling them that the air released by the fans will chase out their demons. These poor and simple are therefore called to fall the moment the wind or the air from the fan blows on them. Others also draw a line on the ground with a piece of chalk and order the sick to cross the line drawn so as to obtain their healing.

 

In the big sect called "universal church", sorcerers sell oil they claim to have come from Israel, and they use brooms (to chase out evil spirits from the house), photos (to pray for somebody afar or who is unable to get to them), salt (for your husband to love you), etc. In front of their temples it is written "stop suffering; come a better life waits for you".

 

Other sorcerers in order to demonstrate their powers create a scene a little bit similar to that of the woman with the issue of blood in the Bible and who made efforts to defy the crowd to touch Jesus. These sorcerers create similar situations, surround themselves with a large crowd of youths who stand as obstacles, and ask the sick who want healing to do everything they can to sneak in with these obstacles and touch them.

 

We also followed another teaching where people were recommended to eat a lot of meat in other to be strong in spiritual warfare. If this teaching were true, what would become of people who cannot afford to buy meat? Do not forget that meat is still a luxury to millions of people. It is not by eating a lot of meat that we become strong in spiritual warfare, it is by fasting and praying.

 

Many other sects like the Catholics and the so-called "evangelical" churches ask their faithful to bring litres of waters which they pray over to transform it into what they call holy water. And you see faithful who carry along flasks and gallons of waters to be blessed, and this water will be carefully preserved in their houses for several practices according to the recommendations given to them. Other sects abusively use oil for witchcraft practices.

 

You even find sorcerers pastors who sell Chinese drugs in their assemblies, under the pretext of helping those who are suffering. All methods are good for satan today, to initiate people into witchcraft. These demons lie to their faithful by telling them that those drugs cure all types of diseases. In this way, they enrich themselves at the expense of these poor and miserable faithful. They have created a whole network of marketing to commercialise these products, promising the sellers great fortunes going from big Mercedes to boats, without forgetting houses.

 

Other demon pastors actually engage into investing money by convincing and promising their faithful high interest rates that no bank in the world could offer. At times they even offer interest rates of up to two hundred percents in just few months. They even run after unbelievers in order to propose their "enticing business".

 

The gospel of satan called the gospel of prosperity that sorcerers preach today, is a powerful weapon that satan has used to capture the greedy and all those whose hearts are attached to the things of the world.

 

6. OTHER DEVIATIONS

 

The last time we were in West Africa, we received these sad testimonies from some pastors that I would like to share with you. It concerns what happened in Ivory Coast some time ago. More than fifty pastors who were recognised as "great men of God", having churches with thousands of faithful each, were exposed by great Voodoo priests. It was in fact at the homes of those great voodoo priests that these so-called great pastors, founders, powerful and renowned sought for sorcery in order to attract people into churches. To succeed in their evil projects, some of these sorcerers buried the humps of people with hump backs beneath their altars as recommended to them by the priests of satan with the aim of having absolute control over each and every member of the church; others buried a white horse beneath their altars before construction so as to have absolute power of seduction and control over all the faithful, etc.

 

This explains why today, many people recognise the truth when it is preached to them, but they find it difficult to leave the false assemblies full of all rotten practices in which they find themselves, whereas these abominable practices are visible to all. It is because they are bound by the incantations that were done in those satanic places, by these satanists that are mistakenly called pastors.

 

When I asked these pastors who explained the testimonies to us, how these sorcerers obtained the humps of people with humpbacks, they explained to us that they are generally offered to them by these voodoo priests themselves. Voodoo priests generally go to the grave yards of people who in their live time were recognised as humpbacked so as to dig their remains.

 

These sorcerers received the power to "inflict" women with sicknesses such as sterility, fibroids and other sicknesses common to women. After these women were confirmed as being sick, they were again capable of healing them through witchcraft, and all these were registered as miracles and miraculous healings.

 

Imagine the extent of the abominations of sorcerers' pastors, all with the aim of attracting heavy crowd. You should understand once more that all what you call big churches or mega churches are the churches of satan based on sorcery and many other abominable practices that one cannot name. This example is not peculiar to West Africa; it is the same practice world wide. You now understand that the spiritual warfare is really tough and Children of God must plunge themselves into warfare so as to liberate those that are under the chains of satan.

 

Many servants of satan to win the crowd today, comply with unbelievers and other agents of satan, giving them heavy sums of money, by asking them to come into their churches and pretend to be lame, or blind or people with chronic illnesses who are in search of healing, deliverance, or even miracles. These sorcerers cause so much confusion in the work of Evangelism in such a way that people have become sceptical even when true miracles or healings take place. We are in the last days, do not be amazed. You should instead equip yourself for spiritual warfare.

 

Below are some of the testimonies that we gathered for you:

 

Artificial flowers: A brother found himself in the "universal church" where artificial flowers were being distributed to each and every member. According to the explanations given by their leaders, these flowers were to help suck all the evil spirits, impurities, forces, spells etc, in their houses. Every faithful, at a given period, and according to the instructions received, return the flowers to them so that they could drive out the evil spirits that were captured.

 

Let every thing that has breath praise the Lord... Ps 150:6: Other leaders of so-called prayer camps ask all the participants to pray while shaking every part of their bodies, with the pretext that these parts breathe and so must live prayers. You find them praying and violently shaking their heads, moving their arms, legs etc.

 

Deliverance techniques: with regard to deliverance, other leaders use what they call spiritual nails which they send deep with a spiritual hammer into the heads of the person for whom they are praying so as to torment and flush out a stubborn demon. And you hear the so-called demon that they want to drive out shouting: "do not nail me, I will come out!" What a comedy!

 

Other leaders explain how to put spiritual tourniquets when you want a demon to come out through a precise part of the body. As for the "mysterious demon" that moves all over the body, many tourniquets need to be put. These sorcerers say to the presumed demon: "go up to the stomach! I place a tourniquet at the level of the abdomen so that you will not descend any more” and so on and so forth until according to them, the demon comes out either through the mouth or through the fingers.

 

Others still, in order to fight well, say this: "Satan I arrest you, I place you in front of me, I box you in the name of Jesus. I strike you in the name of Jesus, I break your leg, I paralyse you, I beat you on the stomach." As for them, it is a real fight "with satan" that they fight in the name of Jesus.

 

Physico-spiritual weapons: In some assemblies, so-called christians fight while saying this: I take up my gun now, my rocket shootings, etc. And, while imitating soldiers in the war front, they release so much noise according to the respective sounds of warfare instruments. Just imagine the disorder. The noise often appears as that of speaking in tongues, but when you listen carefully, you realise that they are carnally fighting with demons. They assume having their weapons in hand while imitating the noise produced by bullets with their mouths. When looking at the scene, you just think they have weapons in their hands considering even the position they maintain.

 

Prophetic action: There are other assemblies in which so-called servants of God, ask their faithful to bring sand. They pray over this sand, so as to make the sand an instrument of destruction of all their enemies. They say if these enemies move like them on the earth (if they are physical persons), they will die. If not, they will escape. By so doing, they kill physical persons while protecting their demon brothers.

 

Others instead tell their faithful during night vigil, to line up at midnight and go round the quarter so as to win souls. According to them, it is a prophetic way by which the Lord will deliver the quarter and so draws the dwellers' hearts of the quarter to the church. Each step or each stride corresponds to a soul that will be attracted to their church.

 

Other sorcerers go further by asking their faithful to bring their handkerchiefs on which some spiritual enchantments will be made so that they can deposit in various places: For business people they will deposit theirs at their business sites, for students, they will deposit in their school bags, and for workers, they will deposit in their offices at precise places. These spiritual enchantments according to these pastors will enable their followers to get innumerable successes that could not be got otherwise.

 

Others base their ideas on the story of Jericho and ask their faithful to count up to seven times, followed by a loud shout of joy, of deliverance and of victory. According to these sorcerers, if they act with faith, they will obtain their long waiting deliverance. With this, you hear them screaming with all their strength, others carry chairs on their heads while shouting. The musical group amplifies the noise with their instruments; children also engage in uncontrollable disorder.

 

This practice varies according to the churches: For some others, instead of shouting, they are told to dance for long so as to obtain similar deliverance as with Jericho, or to welcome the presence of Jesus Christ with a great shout. By so doing, curses, poverty and other chains would fall off according to their faith. Even when their breath has finished they must continue until they receive a signal from the person leading.

 

Demonology: Other sorcerers venture in the study of demons: Their names, their position in the government of satan, their location, their manifestations when they possess a human body and the different doors through which they can come out. They put all this into writing on pieces of paper that they give to each person who is to undergo deliverance through `soul cleansing`. They sell these sheets to people at various prices, and the cost of deliverance varies according to the level of possession. They teach that deliverance through "soul cleansing" is indispensable and renewable after every three months. Even pastors have to undergo this process. They either go to those that have consecrated them, or to the prayer camps (most often in Ghana, etc).

 

7. OUR WEAPONS OF WARFARE

 

- The Bible tells us in 1Timothy 2:8 I want men everywhere to lift up holy hands in prayer, without anger or disputing. Pure hands therefore are powerful weapons of warfare. When true Children of God lift up pure hands in prayers, the effects are felt in the spiritual world.

 

- Oil: the Lord has placed oil at our disposal, and we can use it for several purposes. The use of oil is not restricted in the Bible; this implies that every child of God can freely use oil to anoint themselves and pray if they are ill, or to anoint their house or their properties, etc.

 

But today, many agents of satan have introduced many satanic practices in which they instead use oil to initiate people. There are sects that prescribe special oil to their followers, others ask them to bring oil so that they can purify, and define what they have to do with the said purified oil; others ask their faithful to drink the oil at specific time, while reciting certain verses of the book of psalms, etc. Escape from all such satanic practices and come out of all those satanic sects.

 

Know that you can use any oil of your choice, particularly that which you have at your disposal, instead of indebting yourself to buy specific oil prescribed by these sorcerers. Greedy sorcerers use this to make great profits today. They sell satanic oil to people while deceiving them that the oil comes from Israel.

 

- The blood of Jesus, the name of Jesus, and the fire of God constitute great weapons at the disposal of the Children of God for the daily fight.

 

You should be careful about the use of physical objects during warfare. Many satanic sects today recommend objects to their members to fight spiritual warfare. Know very well that spiritual warfare is really spiritual as the name implies and no carnal weapon can be of any help to you.

 

Escape those who prescribe special food in warfare. It is the contrary that is true. True warfare takes place in fasting and prayers and not in the type of food or meat eaten.

 

CONCLUSION

 

Dear brethren, spiritual warfare must not be considered as a separate topic, but instead as part of our pilgrim life. You should therefore not neglect spiritual warfare. Also watch out that spiritual warfare does not become a subject of pride to you, and it should not also be an element of seduction. The fact of driving out demons or having some victories in warfare is not a proof that you fear God, or that you are in order before God, or that heaven is already open before you.

 

Already, warfare as we have just studied is something difficult and delicate, and to be victorious, Children of God must make every effort to deny self and attach themselves to the truth.

 

I have endeavoured to give you the maximum elements in spiritual warfare, however, there are some elements of warfare that I have chosen not to develop in this teaching, for fear of exposing Children of God, who despite all the warnings that I have given, might still venture themselves into the camp of satan and be destroyed.

 

The fact of not developing these points on warfare is not in any way holding the truth captive, but instead the desire to preserve or protect those who still do not know how to make the difference between their zeal and the knowledge of the things of God.

 

However, I have the deep conviction that the Holy Spirit will reveal it to you if He judges you worthy of being able to victoriously fight that type of warfare.

 

Several times, brethren after listening to the teachings were touched by the doctrine of the Lord Jesus Christ, and asked me who I was, and why this truth was hidden until now. Others do not hesitate to say I am like the Lord Jesus. To this I would like to bring some precision: You should understand beloved that a simple instrument cannot be like the one who made it. Jesus Christ is the only Master; I am only an instrument amongst the many that He chooses to use. I therefore find it pretentious to be considered like the Master. I know that the word of God tells us in Luke 6:40 that "The disciple is not above his master: but an accomplished disciple shall be as his master". But even if the Lord were to consider me as an accomplished disciple, I would always keep myself from thinking that I am like Him.

 

For those of you who also want to know who I am, my answer has always been this: I am simply your brother, a child of God like others. I am just a poor mortal. I am not any thing special, just somebody that God in His great love and mercy has chosen to consider amongst His numerous servants. In these end times, I had the privilege to have been chosen by God to be as our brother John the Baptist used to say: The voice of one crying in the wilderness.

 

The battle has not been easy, but the Lord has always come to my assistance. The more the enemy multiplied his attacks, the more the Lord reinforced His security around me.

 

"I lead all the circumstances of your life". This word the Lord told me at the beginning of my ministry has always been the precious instrument which, in all the difficult moments I endured, gave me the courage I needed in order to march forward, and the necessary strength to remain steadfast.

 

As for testimonies, the Lord has given me sufficiently, enough to make some few books if I were to write them. Tribulations have been as numerous as possible; and trials have also been my share.

 

I was not spared the attacks, they have been many. Several times satan sent his agents to lay a snare for me; some people moved from one continent to another, others travelled across countries, just to accomplish the mission of satan. This is just to show the extent to which satan fights those the Lord has chosen for Himself. With this, we see with what commitment the camp of satan mobilises itself each time there is a grain of light in the world so as to quench it.

 

Satanists can claim to have some victories over us, but always know that their victories over us are temporal whereas ours over them are eternal. The Lord our God is the strongest and the fire of hell awaits satan and his agents, for ever. Alleluia!

 

Like my brother Paul I can by faith declare: I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. Now there is in store for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will award to me on that Day, and not only to me, but also to all who have longed for his appearing. 2Tim.4:7-8.

 

With all my heart I give thanks to Jesus Christ, my confidant, who sustained and kept me in this difficult battle, and who granted me the grace to finish the work which He entrusted to me. I can now without reserve, shout out: Amen! Come, Lord Jesus! While toning this refrain:

 

I shall soon say: "Goodbye mortal things!

Away from you I will take up wings,

Gladly towards eternal dwellings,

To Jesus Christ."

 

May the grace of the Lord Jesus be with you all! Amen!