NOW WE ARE AT WAR

Dag Heward-Mills

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Unless otherwise stated, all Scripture quotations are taken from the King James Version of the Bible.

Now We Are At War

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“NOW WE ARE AT WAR…

AND WE ARE GOING TO MAKE WAR…

AND PERSEVERE IN MAKING WAR

AND FIGHT FIERCELY …

UNTIL THE OTHER SIDE HAVE HAD ENOUGH OF US...

UNTIL THE ENEMY REGRETS …

EVER HAVING KNOWN US …

UNTIL EVERY FOE IS VANQUISHED …

AND JESUS CHRIST IS LORD ….”

Dag Heward-Mills

Introduction

This is a book about spiritual warfare. It is a book about spiritual revenge and spiritual retaliation. No part of this book refers to physically attacking, seeking revenge or retaliating against a human being. This book is about attacking the devil and evil spirits. It is about fighting spiritually.

Anyone who uses this material improperly or makes any unfounded claims to the fact that I am teaching people to fight and kill one another is completely dishonest, deceptive, seeking to be mischievous and does so in bad faith.

This book will give you something to do when war breaks out. You no longer have to sit and defend yourself. You can attack! You can launch out and strike the enemy! It is important that you understand what it means to be at war. Every Christian is at war, whether you know it or not.

Use this book to give you something to do against the enemy who seeks to end your life and your ministry. Do not misunderstand the calm atmosphere around you. It does not mean that there is peace. There will be no peace until we get to heaven. The enemy will hate you until you are out of this world. Not every enemy is a murderer but our enemy is a murderer. Our enemy is a wicked liar and a deceiver.

Our enemy is the enemy of God. Satan is a stubborn, fallen angel who could have repented and apologised a long time ago.

Satan could even have apologised this year for all that he has done in spoiling the world. Yet, there is no apology! There is no retraction! There is no yielding! There is no agreeableness with the devil. It is this obstinate, adamant and wicked creature who has become our enemy too.

From the day satan deceived Eve and destroyed the peace of this world, turning it into an evil place, we recognised that satan was a malevolent, envious and wicked being with no kindness at all. Satan will take everything from you if you allow him!

Satan is full of ill-will and malice.

It is time for you to rise up and make a real war with the devil.

Now we are at war! Now we want to make a real war happen in the realm of the spirit.

We are going to make war with the devil and his representatives. We are going to fight fiercely until the other side has had enough.

We are going to fight until the other side wish that they had never known us. We are going to fight until the other side wish that they had never engaged us.

I wish you good fighting skills and revelation in your fight for God’s kingdom. Jehovah is the Lord of Hosts. This means that Jehovah is the Commander of the Host of Armies.

Jesus is our commander and He is pleased with you for joining in the war effort.

And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war. His eyes were as a flame of fire, and on his head were many crowns; and he had a name written, that no man knew, but he himself. And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name is called The Word of God. AND THE ARMIES WHICH WERE IN HEAVEN FOLLOWED HIM UPON WHITE HORSES, CLOTHED IN FINE LINEN, WHITE AND CLEAN. And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God. And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS.

Revelation 19:11-16

Chapter 1

BECOME THE ATTACKER

Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, “BE HOSTILE TO THE MIDIANITES AND ATTACK THEM; FOR THEY HAVE BEEN HOSTILE TO YOU WITH THEIR TRICKS, with which they have deceived you in the matter of Peor and in the matter of Cozbi, the daughter of the leader of Midian, their sister who was killed on the day of the plague because of Peor.”

Numbers 25:16-18 (NASB)

I am writing this book to help you fight the devil and whatever opposes you. Instead of sitting down and defending yourself all the time, there is something more that you can do. You can launch attacks on the enemy. You can be the one to start an offensive against your enemy.

This book is about what to do that will constitute an attack on satan and all your adversaries. From today you are not going to sit down and let the enemy trick you.

Notice the scripture above; the enemies have been hostile to you with their tricks and have deceived you! Many enemies are indirect and diplomatic about their hostility. It is time to launch pre-emptive strikes and attacks on the enemy.

Why wait until you are attacked before doing something about satan and other evil spirits? Why wait until you are attacked before doing something about your haters? Why wait until you are attacked before doing something about your enemies? Attack your enemies now before they even plan what to do next.

After we had passed through Moab, the LORD told us, Now, start and cross the Arnon River. I am placing in your power Sihon, the Amorite king of Heshbon, along with his land. Attack him, and begin occupying his land.

Deuteronomy 2:24 (GNT)

You must launch formidable attacks on satan so that he will regret ever knowing you! You must attack first and let satan fall into the defending position. By attacking first, your enemy will be found on the wrong foot and be forced to defend himself incessantly against you. Your life is about to change as you accept this amazing role of an attacker of satanic strongholds.

As for Gad, a band of raiders shall attack him, But he will attack at their heels.

Genesis 49:19 (NASB)

It is time to turn the tables on the enemy! Your very defence against the enemy must be a fierce attack on him. He must regret ever drawing you into battle. The prophetic direction is for you to launch an attack on your haters and mockers! Your defence must always be a form of attack.

The dominant mood of war is one of danger, hesitancy, physical effort, spiritual effort, fear, the unpredictable and the unusual! You can attack the enemy and achieve success as well as safety amid this uncertainty.

You will need spirituality, physical energy, firmness, determination and strength of mind.

It is time to deliver a continuance of blows to the enemy! It is your turn to begin hostilities against the enemy!

Beginning from today, your enemy will discover that you are a painfully aggressive, hostile, forceful and spiritually violent enemy!

Chapter 2

GIVE YOURSELF TO THE WAR

Meditate upon these things; give thyself wholly to them; that thy profiting may appear to all.

1 Timothy 4:15

Our works as passionate leaders and fighters are being recorded in heaven. Let us give ourselves to this great battle that we face. All the criticisms will mean nothing when eternity begins. All the fights, the insults, the blasphemies, and the setbacks will have little meaning except to give us a greater weight of glory!

I know thy works and thy labour, and thy patience, and how thou canst not bear them which are evil: and thou hast tried them which say they are apostles and are not, and hast found them liars: And hast borne, and hast patience, and for my name’s sake hast laboured, and hast not fainted.

Revelation 2:2-3

God is monitoring all our works! He is watching every single move we make. Let us therefore give ourselves to this glorious mission unreservedly! Let us never think that our time, our strength, and our families are our own. Let us dedicate them all to God and to His work. Let us give ourselves wholly that our profiting may appear to all!

1Are we justified in staying here while so many are perishing without means of grace in other lands?1 We must take every chance of doing good to the lost. We must be found labouring and we must be found travelling, day and night!

We must instruct, we must teach, exhort, rebuke and preach the Word with all long-suffering. We must have an anxious desire for the lost. We must be instant in prayer for the pouring out of the sweet Holy Spirit upon all the people. 2Surely, it is worthwhile to push ourselves with all our might in promoting the gospel and the kingdom of our Christ.2 Dear friends, God is gracious! Do not run away from Him!

A few more days and our work down here will be done! When it’s done, it’s done for eternity!

3Your life spent is irrevocable and your life will be contemplated through all eternity!3 You will have a lot of time to contemplate what you did with your short time on earth.

These words above are the words of William Carey and Adoniram Judson. These are men who gave themselves to the war effort with all their hearts! They gave everything to the cause of the gospel!

They were men who risked their lives with the understanding that once it’s done, it’s done for eternity!

Their leadership and their efforts are noticed by discerning Christian leaders today. Most people do not know what these heroes did but eternity will reveal their greatness and how they gave themselves to fight a good fight for the Lord!

A WARNING FROM HISTORY

Even in the secular world, people who give themselves unreservedly to their task of leadership are remembered for their efforts in times of war! Winston Churchill was one such person who gave himself wholeheartedly to the war effort. In his first remarks as prime minister, which took less than six minutes to deliver, Winston Churchill famously declared that his policy was:

4To wage war by sea, land and air…

To wage war with the single aim of victory …

Victory at all costs…

Victory in spite of all terror…

Victory however long and hard the road may be!4

Winston Churchill’s approach to war was not to have a great, long-term vision and strategy, it was simply to win at all costs!

Winston Churchill was Britain’s leader through five years of war in Europe, from 10 May 1940 to 8 May 1945. As Prime Minister, he made at least twenty-five foreign trips, spending no fewer than 369 days (more than one year of the five) out of the country.

Winston Churchill travelled many times to dangerous places during the war. He crossed the Atlantic Ocean by ship to visit America, risking being sunk and drowned in the ocean at a time when the Germans had sunk over 4000 ships in that same ocean.

Winston Churchill was not young when he took over. He was 65 years old when he became Prime Minister, working long hours and not exercising at all. One would have expected him to stay at home and remain in a bunker for his safety. But that was not so! Churchill travelled farther and more extensively than any other wartime leader. He believed strongly in face-to-face negotiations with his overseas counterparts.

We see Winston Churchill as a great man of iconic status today; but he fought his way through many fires and many hard labours to achieve the victories that he did.

Winston Churchill faced much more internal opposition than people remember. He suffered three votes of no confidence, encountered many disputes in Cabinet and faced plenty of criticism from the press during his wartime administration.

Prime Minister Churchill gave himself totally to the war effort. He gave himself to defending his country, fighting for Britain and attacking the enemy relentlessly.

Winston Churchill was no sleepy, casual, apathetic leader. He took up the offensive and helped win the war. He gave himself wholeheartedly to the art and ministry of hostility, aggression and war!

Do the same! Do not be detached and laid back! There is a war going on and you must relentlessly lead the effort to fight and to win!

Chapter 3

RESIST!

Submit yourselves therefore to God. RESIST THE DEVIL, and he will flee from you.

James 4:7

RESIST! Resist the devil! Fight back! Don’t just lie down and let the enemy walk all over you!

Be an enemy never to be forgotten!

A dreaded enemy is one who resists attacks and fights back directly and relentlessly.

Become someone whom the enemy knows will resist attacks and invasions.

And when the tempter came to him, he said, If thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread. But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God….

Jesus said unto him, It is written again, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God. Again, the devil taketh him up into an exceeding high mountain, and sheweth him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them; And saith unto him, All these things will I give thee, if thou wilt fall down and worship me. Then saith Jesus unto him, Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve. Then the devil leaveth him, and, behold, angels came and ministered unto him.

Matthew 4:3-4, 7-11

You can resist satan by developing a stubborn opposition to nonsense. You can resist a determined attacker by repelling him each time he attacks.

You can resist a determined and repeated attacker by giving equally determined and repeated sharp rebukes without any negotiations whatsoever.

1. Resist: Do not give up any ground

Jesus did not chat with satan or discuss anything with satan. A meeting, a discussion, a negotiation, or an explanation is a sign that you understand and accept the nonsense expounded by a foolish enemy.

Adam discussed matters with Eve and Eve discussed issues with the serpent and where did that end us? The discussions of Adam and Eve put the whole world in darkness, death and curses!

The second Adam, who is Jesus Christ, quoted one scripture and dismissed satan outright. Do not allow an irrational enemy to speak or express his views or opinions. Do not have discussions with satan.

Administer a profound and ultimate rejection of satan by repeatedly saying “No” to any and every suggestion he has. Resist every suggestion just because the suggestion comes from the devil!

2. Resist: Become a dreaded enemy

A dreaded enemy is one who is not restrained by the love of money or the love of anything else.

Have no regard for silver and gold and you will be a formidable enemy. You cannot truly prosecute a war and also love money. Prosecuting a war requires love and a passion for the purpose of the war. Having any other love will lead to the weakening of the hand of a good general.

A frightening enemy does not mind or consider things that an ordinary person would consider. An enemy who considers embarrassment is weak. It means his pride and self-respect are so important to him that he is far less aggressive in a fight than he ought to be.

BEHOLD, I WILL STIR UP THE MEDES AGAINST THEM, WHICH SHALL NOT REGARD SILVER; AND AS FOR GOLD, THEY SHALL NOT DELIGHT IN IT. Their bows also shall dash the young men to pieces, AND THEY SHALL HAVE NO PITY ON THE FRUIT OF THE WOMB; THEIR EYE SHALL NOT SPARE CHILDREN. And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldees’ excellency, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation: neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there; neither shall the shepherds make their fold there. But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there, and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and owls shall dwell there, and satyrs shall dance there. And the wild beasts of the islands shall cry in their desolate houses, and dragons in their pleasant palaces: and her time is near to come, and her days shall not be prolonged.

Isaiah 13:17-22

God promised to punish the nation of Israel by sending them an unusual enemy - the Medes. These people were unlike any other enemy the children of God had encountered. They were a terrifying group of people to have as enemies. They had no desire for reward or money. That was unusual. They had no love or pity even for children.

3. Resist: Become a frightening enemy

The Medes were indeed a frightening enemy. It was God’s punishment to the Jews to send such people to fight them. The Medes had no desire for money and they had no compassion or pity in their eyes. Their eyes were focused on their goal of wiping out their enemies.

Fight your enemy by being focussed on their destruction. Have no distractions! Have no visions other than to destroy the enemy!

Your enemy will never forget how you concentrated on his destruction. Let them never forget you! Let them have an experience that will make them think twice about attacking you again. Wage a long and inflexible war with the enemy.

Be a formidable enemy to satan! Have no love or desire for worldly things. Have no desire for more money. Have no pity or benevolence for wickedness.

I receive not honour from men.

John 5:41

Jesus was a formidable enemy to the Jewish Sanhedrin. He feared no one! Nothing restrained Him when He preached and taught the word of God. Jesus was unstoppable because He did not seek respect nor did He seek to be respectable.

4. Resist: Don’t fear anything or anyone

Your fear of people and your fear of the media or any public outcry against yourself is something the enemy will use against you.

Today, Israel is a very resistant and formidable enemy. A lot of media pressure is put out against Israel to restrain them. However, the murder of 6 million Jews in the Second World War has made them a resistant nation that is largely concerned with securing themselves and nothing else. They have become a resistant and formidable enemy, not needing to impress any outsider.

Every home in Israel today has someone whose relative was murdered by the Germans during the Holocaust.

The nation of Israel has learned that securing its land and being a formidable and frightening enemy is more important than securing the respect of certain people.

Make the enemy regret ever coming against you. Be a resistant, formidable, fearless and relentless enemy. Others who are planning things against you will think twice before attacking you when they see how you fight. Destroy the enemy’s confidence in creating trouble for you.

5. Resist: Promise the enemy an endless fight

And Moab was sore afraid of the people, because they were many: and Moab was distressed because of the children of Israel. And Moab said unto the elders of Midian, Now shall this company lick up all that are round about us, as the ox licketh up the grass of the field. And Balak the son of Zippor was king of the Moabites at that time.

Numbers 22:3-4

Instill fear in your enemies’ hearts to prevent future attacks. Become a resistant and formidable enemy. Become a kind of enemy that never surrenders.

6. Resist: Fighting you will be a kind of self-destruction

Become the kind of enemy that resists profoundly until the end and one that causes great pain to the offending or invading force such that they never think of invading you again. That is the kind of enemy you must be.

“And all the kings of the Amorites came and took their stand in the field to consult with their counsellors what was to be done with the sons of Jacob, for they were still afraid of them, saying, Behold, two of them slew the whole of the city of Shechem.

And the Lord heard the prayers of Isaac and Jacob, and he filled the hearts of all these kings’ advisers with great fear and terror that they unanimously exclaimed,

ARE YOU SILLY THIS DAY, OR IS THERE NO UNDERSTANDING IN YOU, THAT YOU WILL FIGHT WITH THE HEBREWS, AND WHY WILL YOU TAKE A DELIGHT IN YOUR OWN DESTRUCTION THIS DAY?

Behold two of them came to the city of Shechem without fear or terror, and they killed all the inhabitants of the city, that no man stood up against them, and how will you be able to fight with them all?

Surely you know that their God is exceedingly fond of them, and has done mighty things for them, such as have not been done from days of old, and amongst all the gods of nations, there is none can do like unto his mighty deeds.

Surely he delivered their father Abraham, the Hebrew, from the hand of Nimrod, and from the hand of all his people who had many times sought to slay him.

He delivered him also from the fire in which King Nimrod had cast him, and his God delivered him from it.

And who else can do the like? surely it was Abraham who slew the five kings of Elam, when they had touched his brother’s son who in those days dwelt in Sodom.

And took his servant that was faithful in his house and a few of his men, and they pursued the kings of Elam in one night and killed them, and restored to his brother’s son all his property which they had taken from him.

And surely you know the God of these Hebrews is much delighted with them, and they are also delighted with him, for they know that he delivered them from all their enemies.

And behold through his love toward his God, Abraham took his only and precious son and intended to bring him up as a burnt offering to his God, and had it not been for God who prevented him from doing this, he would then have done it through his love to his God.” (*Book of Jasher 35:1-11)

Moab was distressed at the idea of fighting with Israel. The Israelites were not nice enemies to have.

The Amorites also feared to attack Jacob. Notice how they fearfully discussed the possibility of war with Israel. They felt that fighting with Israel was a form of self-destruction.

7. Resist: A warning from history

Japan was a formidable and resistant enemy. The Second World War lasted from 1939 to 1945. Japan entered the Second World War on the day they attacked Pearl Harbour on December 7, 1941.

During the Second World War, Germany fought against America, Russia and Britain in Europe. However, that part of the war ended on May 7, 1945. Even though Germany was defeated in Europe, Japan continued fighting against America in the Pacific islands.

The Japanese were an unusually resistant and brutal enemy. By the end of the Second World War, they showed the world that they were a unique and terrifying enemy. No one wanted to fight with the Japanese. Even though the Americans would eventually win the war, it cost them a lot to fight with the Japanese. It was very painful to fight against the resistant Japanese soldiers.

America knew that the only way to defeat Japan was to invade the Japanese mainland itself and defeat the Japanese on their own soil in Tokyo. To invade the Japanese mainland however, America needed to defeat the Japanese on two strategic islands. These two islands were the island of Iwo Jima and the island of Okinawa. These islands were like stepping stones to the mainland of Japan. If the Americans could capture these islands, they would be able to use them as launching pads against the Japanese mainland itself.

The Resistance of Iwo Jima

Iwo Jima was a small island measuring only about eight miles wide in between Saipan, Guam and Tokyo. There were no civilians on Iwo Jima. Iwo Jima was important because it had airfields that the Americans could use to launch fighter aircrafts against mainland Japan. These fighter escorts were important to protect the long-range bombers which were flying from Saipan and Guam to Tokyo to drop bombs on them.

In February of 1945, America invaded the small island of Iwo Jima thinking that it would be a quick victory. However, it did not turn out to be so. They met a formidable, resistant enemy that had no intention of ever surrendering the island. The Japanese had the intention of fighting till every single person was dead. Within two days 3500 marines were killed by the Japanese enemy whose only objective was to make the Americans pay in time and blood for their invasion of Japanese lands.

America put 80,000 troops onto this tiny island. However, they met a resistant and brutal enemy who wanted to die fighting and would never surrender no matter what.

After five days of fighting America raised a flag on Mount Suribachi on Iwo Jima to signify victory. But it was a big mistake because the Japanese were not defeated at all.

The Japanese army had prepared to resist the invasion through caves, interconnected tunnels, pill boxes and various positions across the island causing the Americans to have to practically walk through a horror-filled minefield of fire and death.

The Japanese were under clear instructions which made them formidable and frightening enemies to fight with. These were some of their instructions to resist the invaders:

Under no circumstances will you surrender!

Do not take the shame of being captured!

You are not allowed to die until you have killed ten Americans!

These instructions meant that the Americans were fighting with resistant, ferocious and suicidal men. The Japanese would make the Americans pay very dearly for fighting for Iwo Jima. The Japanese would fight on until the bitter end, never seeing reason or the need to settle anything by discussion.

Anytime the Americans attacked a position of the Japanese, the Japanese would simply disappear into several miles of their interconnected tunnels and move to another part of the island. The Japanese became an invisible and frightening enemy to the Americans because they had created this honeycomb tunnel system throughout the entire island that connected Mount Suribachi in the south to the commander in the north. Iwo Jima turned out to be one of the most fortified islands in the world, well prepared for the invaders.

The Japanese were basically an underground enemy, and the Americans rarely saw any dead Japanese. When, finally, the Japanese ran out of water and ammunition, the commander of the Japanese force, General Kuribayashi radioed his situation and informed the imperial high command that he was about to make his final counterattack. A few days later 300 Japanese soldiers carried out a suicidal attack on the Americans and killed 100 Americans. All 300 Japanese died in this attack bringing the war for Iwo Jima to an end.

It took 36 days of brutal fighting to conquer this tiny island of Iwo Jima. Only 3,000 Japanese survived out of a total of 21,000. There were 28,000 American casualties in all. This was the first time that the American casualties outnumbered the Japanese casualties in a battle.

*The Book of Jasher (also spelled Jashar; Hebrew: רׇׁשׇּיַה רֶפֵס Sēfer haYyāšār), which means the Book of the Upright or the Book of the Just Man, is a lost book mentioned in the Tanakh/Miqra (The Hebrew Bible) often interpreted as a lost non-canonical book. “Book of Jasher”. Wikipedia. Web 10 Mar 2025 Retrieved from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Jasher_(biblical_book)

Chapter 4

DEFEAT STUBBORNNESS

Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.

1 Corinthians 15:58

One of the battles you will have to win is the battle against stubbornness.

To defeat stubbornness, you must become more unyielding and resistant than your enemy.

1. Stubborn and resistant enemies are only defeated by unrelenting resistance!

2. Stubborn and resistant enemies are only defeated by adamant inflexibility!

3. Defeat demonic stubbornness by being unmovable!

4. Defeat stubbornness by outlasting the enemy!

5. Defeat stubbornness by a relentless and long response!

Satan is a stubborn enemy! Indeed, from my experience, stubbornness is one of the foremost signs of demonic activity and presence. Satan has had thousands of years to apologise to the Heavenly Father for all the confusion he has caused. Our Heavenly Father is a loving and merciful God and I am sure there would have been some mercy and forgiveness. However, satan has not bothered to apologise or to back down from his relentless rebellion. Satan is an obstinate, adamant, hard-headed, wicked and stubborn personality. All forms of stubbornness come from the devil. Stubbornness is inspired by satan.

Remember that no one could bind the madman of Gadara. He was resistant to instructions, commands, advice and counsel. Usually, when you are dealing with a person who is taken up by evil spirits, you will notice that he is opinionated, headstrong and resistant to instructions, commands, advice, reason and even the use of force.

In marriages where you meet parties who are fixated on their stances, there is often a demonic element in the breakdown of the marriage.

One of the tasks of a Christian warrior is to defeat stubbornness by also being unmovable. Remember, the word of God teaches us to be unmovable! (1 Corinthians 15:58)

Your goal must be to destroy a stubborn enemy who is resistant to all advice and counsel.

Do not be shocked that you have to deal with Christians who will never change their minds no matter what. Such Christians are often demonized. Many Christians never change their minds about issues. Many married couples will never change their minds about the issues they are dealing with.

Enemies who refuse to settle disputes or be reasonable in their discussions are simply hosts of demons. Remember that the wisdom from above is easy to entreat, easy to advice, easy to counsel!

But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.

James 3:17

Every war is started by a demonized and stubborn personality who will not yield to reason, threats, or counsel. Many lawsuits are initiated by capricious personalities who are both stubborn and unreasonable. Such personalities are doomed to destruction. Such people must be defeated by an equally strong and unyielding response.

He, that being often reproved hardeneth his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy.

Proverbs 29:1

If you get more stubborn every time you are corrected, one day you will be crushed and never recover.

Proverbs 29:1 (GNB)

If you keep being stubborn after many warnings, you will suddenly discover you have gone too far.

Proverbs 29:1 (CEV)

This is a warning for all who are stubbornly fighting against the kingdom of God. You will be destroyed supernaturally!

We are dealing with a fiercely stubborn enemy. We must therefore approach any battle with the enemy as though it will last forever. You must never give up or slack in any way. It is only when you meet satan’s stubbornness with equal ferocity and determination that you can overcome him.

A Lesson from History

Stubborn people will only back down because they are absolutely defeated and not because they see reason or understand anything. Such was the experience with Adolf Hitler! He started the Second World War and never retreated from his goals of fighting against the Allies, until he killed himself. Through his unyielding stubbornness, Adolf Hitler caused the deaths of over 50 million people during the Second World War.

Though the Second World War ended with the death of Hitler, fighting continued between Japan and America, even after Hitler died. Japan entered the Second World War by bombing Pearl Harbour. The Japanese became an equally stubborn enemy who also caused the deaths of another 25 million people.

The Defeat of Stubborn Okinawa

America knew it could only defeat Japan by invading the Japanese mainland itself and defeating the Japanese on their own soil. To make this possible, America needed to control two strategic Japanese islands - Iwo Jima and Okinawa. These two islands were like stepping stones to the mainland of Japan and could be used as launching pads against the Japanese mainland itself if captured.

The invasion of Okinawa turned out to be the final battle of World War 2. The invasion of Okinawa could be compared to the invasion of Europe by Britain in what is called D-Day. However, the Okinawa invasion involved more than double the number of battle cruisers, destroyers and aircraft carriers that were used for the D-Day invasion of Europe in Normandy, France.

Indeed, the Okinawa invasion was bigger by far than the D-Day invasion and was incidentally called Love Day*.

The island of Okinawa was the first real Japanese territory that the Americans fought on. It was 70 miles long and much bigger than the other strategic island, Iwo Jima. It had 250,000 Japanese citizens living on it, unlike the island Iwo Jima which had only military personnel on it.

Okinawa was defended by an Army of nearly 80,000 Japanese soldiers and 50,000 Navy ground troops and militia. The Americans sent over 180,000 troops onto the island. Okinawa was also defended by 1900 kamikaze suicide fighter planes that attacked the Americans and sank thirty-six ships in total.

The Americans were shocked by the suicidal behaviour of the Japanese in the war. No one expected the enemy to fly its planes straight into their ships. This suicidal kamikaze spirit emphasised to the Americans the reality that the Japanese were an unbending and extremely resistant enemy.

Stubbornness of the Okinawa Resistance

The Japanese fought fiercely to the very end. In the end, after 82 days of stubborn fighting, over 250,000 people were killed in Okinawa because of the stubborn resistance of the Japanese. Over a hundred thousand of these were Japanese soldiers.

The death toll from this terrible war on the island, as well as the brutality of the Okinawa soldiers discouraged the Americans from a land invasion of Japan. Yes, Okinawa was eventually defeated and captured but at a great cost to the Americans.

After the battle of Okinawa, instead of surrendering, Japan mustered up over one million troops to defend Kyushu, which was the part of mainland Japan that America would invade first. The Japanese were not discouraged by the Okinawa defeat. They fortified themselves to resist the expected invasion of the Japanese mainland. With over one million troops they intended to give the Americans a good blood bath, if they attempted to invade them. However, the Americans were not keen on a Kyushu land invasion after what happened in Okinawa. After the battle of Okinawa, all the American commanders believed that they would have as many as two million casualties if they tried to invade Japan.

The Americans had had enough of fighting with a stubborn and unreasonable enemy. Instead of invading Japan with conventional weapons, the Americans decided to deploy a nuclear bomb on Japan. They considered that it would save a lot of lives if they just dropped nuclear bombs on Japan.

Six weeks after the battle for Okinawa ended, the Americans used a nuclear weapon on Japan. That is the first and only time nuclear weapons have been used in the world.

Okinawa revealed the profound stubbornness and resistance of the Japanese army during the Second World War. The stubbornness of Japan in Okinawa revealed to the Americans that they were dealing with an intractable enemy who would never see reason nor surrender.

The End of Stubbornness

Fire-bombing was used against Japan to break their resistance. Firebombs were bombs that caused wildfires to break out and ferociously burn the city after the bomb exploded.

Towards the summer of 1945, Japan experienced the fire-bombing of Tokyo where over 100,000 people were killed and burnt from the American bombing raids. Tokyo, Osaka and Kobe were all fire-bombed by the Americans.

The Americans had also blocked ships from reaching Japan in order to starve the population. Japan was now starving because of the naval blockade which did not allow food or supplies to be brought to over 100 million of their citizens. Yet Japan would not surrender! They would prefer for everyone to die than for them to surrender.

Japan had leaders who were talking about “the suicide of an entire nation.” In other words, they were expecting the entire nation of 100 million people to commit suicide in defence of its land. In January 1945, in a radio broadcast, Lieutenant General Ryotaro Nakai called for the suicide of a hundred million people! Such statements reveal the kind of enemy and the kind of stubbornness the Americans encountered. Indeed, America had encountered a really stubborn enemy and needed extreme determination to overwhelm the suicidal, self-destructive tendencies of the Japanese military.

You will also encounter stubborn people in your ministry. There will be people who will prefer to destroy themselves than admit that they were ever wrong about anything. The end of stubborn people is their utter destruction!

It was hoped that the dropping of an atomic bomb on Hiroshima would make the Japanese give up, but it still did not make them surrender!

Perhaps, the Japanese thought that America had only one atomic bomb and still needed to be convinced that America had several such bombs and would deploy them if necessary.

After dropping the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, America went ahead and dropped the second one on Nagasaki. It was only after the bombing of Nagasaki, the second city in Japan that Japan surrendered. Even then, the Japanese army commander still committed suicide.

Pearl Harbour was a devastating attack by Japan against the USA in 1941 but the response was an equally long-lasting war, including two atomic bombs against Japan. Clearly, the Japanese did not envisage the relentless and long response by the USA when they attacked Pearl Harbour. America was able to break the stubbornness of the Japanese army with an equally strong and overwhelming force.

*“Love Day” (L-Day) on April 1, 1945, marked the start of the Allied invasion of Okinawa, also known as Operation Iceberg, and was chosen to avoid confusion with D-Day in Normandy.

Chapter 5

OUTLAST SATAN!

Joshua made war A LONG TIME with all those kings.

Joshua 11:18

Outlast satan’s war by fighting endlessly and relentlessly. It is important for the enemy to know what kind of person he is about to engage with. He will think twice before attacking again, knowing that you are an inflexible, adamant, unrelenting and implacable kind of person. Your enemy will discover, in his dealings with you, that it is not everyone that you should touch or attack.

Waging a long merciless, inflexible, adamant, unrelenting and obstinate war is an important spiritual response to the enemy. Many enemies do not expect a long war when they attack you. However, you must respond by attacking and retaliating with a long, debilitating and unbearable war. As your enemy continues to engage with your unrelenting posture, his energy and strength will be sapped and drained away by the long and merciless war.

As Winston Churchill said, “Now we are at war, and we are going to make war, and persevere in making war until the other side has had enough of it.”

A long war is an important response to a particularly wicked enemy. Some enemies need a long, uncompromising war. Nothing short-lived will help to end the conflict and quench the evil fires of satan.

Wickedness must be met with an equally resistant and opposite response. When a very evil enemy like Adolf Hitler came against England, the only response was to be determined to fight him as long as it would take. And it took 6 years to wipe out Adolf Hitler! 6 whole years!

There was a war between Israel and the Arabs in 1967 that lasted only 6 days. But the war against Hitler lasted 6 long years! Some enemies need a long war for their annihilation!

Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

James 4:7

You must offer satan a very stiff and unwavering resistance because it is a direct command in the word of God to resist the devil. Stiff, persistent resistance to demonic onslaught is a sure divine way of responding to the devil’s onslaughts. Resist until divine settlement comes! That is the way to go.

Respond to your attacks properly with a long war. A response to a devastating attack is to enter into a long war with your enemy. Long wars are signs of good resistance! God expects you to give a long drawn out, strong and determined resistance to the devil and all his temptations.

You enter a long war by deciding to fight for a long time. Deciding to fight for a long time changes everything. Your plans and strategies will be different as you ready yourself to be at war for years on end.

You must determine that your enemy will be tired before you are tired! He must see your determined responses which have signs of energy and long-term zeal.

Satan will soon drop you as a coal of fire and be glad to see you go. Resist steadfast in the faith!

Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour: WHOM RESIST STEDFAST IN THE FAITH, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world. But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you.

1 Peter 5:8-10

Chapter 6

DE-HOUSE THE ENEMY

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.

Matthew 16:18

Hell is satan’s home! Everyone lives behind the gates of his house! Satan also lives behind the gates of hell. According to the scripture, as you build the church, the gates of hell will break down. Building the church of God breaks down the gates of hell!

Building the church is the same as breaking down satan’s gates and exposing his dwelling place. Satan is not happy to have his gates broken down. Satan is completely exposed by the breaking down of his gates and walls. Satan becomes unconcealed by the presence of a church which breaks down his gates!

Satan hates being uncovered, unsheltered and unprotected when you break down the gates of hell every time you build a church!

Therefore, building the church is your way of de-housing and stripping the devil of his covering; causing him to be discovered and laid bare! You can now break down satan’s dwelling places by building the church.

Satan also lives in specific places. The Bible tells us that satan lived in Pergamos.

I know thy works, and where thou dwellest, even where Satan’s seat is: and thou holdest fast my name, and hast not denied my faith, even in those days wherein Antipas was my faithful martyr, who was slain among you, WHERE SATAN DWELLETH.

Revelation 2:13

Every time a church is built, satan is unable to continue dwelling in that city in the same way.

The way to smash your way into satan’s house is to build churches. Jesus said, “I will build my church and the gates of hell will not prevail against it.”

Simply put, every time you build a church, the gates of hell suffer a strong bashing, a strong bombardment and a good battering. You must learn to attack satan by demolishing his very gates. You must understand the spiritual effect of the presence of a church.

This is why there are several countries where churches are banned completely, and church buildings are not allowed to be built.

Satan always attacks you. It is time to counter-strike. Push the enemy back with an attack of your own. Take new territories for the Lord by pushing hard and deep into the enemy’s territory and building churches there. Take lands and nations for God!

Counterstrike fast, deep and hard. Counterstrike by going deep into enemy territory and building the church in unexpected territories for the Lord. Strike deep, strike hard and strike fast with a strike that counters every strike against you. Build a church! Give a return strike against the rebel stronghold. Any attack of satan should be met with an equally devastating counterstrike.

Build a church! Building the church in many places is a very personal and direct attack on satan’s dwelling place. When you decide to build the church, you become like a “spiritual demolition man”.

Every single church you build is a bombardment on the personal gate of satan’s residence. Building the church is a de-housing campaign against satan.

Looking back on the history of Ghana, I see that many people came as missionaries to this nation. However, those who preached without building churches did not have the same effect as those who preached and also built the church. It is those who built churches who seem to have had a really devastating effect on satan’s kingdom.

Europe was invaded by the gospel of Jesus Christ. Satan’s personal home and seat were completely devastated, shattered and destroyed by church builders. Satan was completely thrown out of Europe by church builders. That is how Europe became the bastion of Christianity.

Because of this, Europe has been the target of satanic hatred. Satan has sought to empty the churches and drive God out of the hearts of people in Europe so that fewer and fewer people would go to church.

In France alone, some sources say there are approximately 45,000 Catholic church buildings and chapels spread among thirty-five cities, towns and villages in France. No wonder Europe was completely Christianised and other religions were wiped out.

The UK has about 40,300 church buildings. That tells you how much the church invaded the UK and destroyed the gates of hell. The number of church buildings is substantially higher than other major public buildings. There are only 39,000 pubs and currently, about 14,300 supermarkets, 11,500 post office branches, 7,500 bank branches and 3,600 public libraries. Indeed, satan’s home was smashed into and his home was demolished in the UK. As church buildings were built and scattered around the nation, satan was consistently being attacked with the gates of his house being smashed and bombed.

Italy has about 100,000 church buildings! They say that Rome is the world capital of churches, with over 1,600 churches in Rome alone. As you can see, when Christianity was strong in Europe, they built many church buildings.

This is why Europe was the bastion and the seat of Christianity. Satan was completely smashed and driven out of his residence in Europe. Anyone who wants to personally attack satan and drive him out of his personal residence must build a church. Any building of the church will have a significant impact on the enemy.

In Ghana, for instance, missionaries came to various sections of the nation in the nineteenth century, some of which practised voodoo and juju.

Some people may have thought that satan’s kingdom was too strong for the invading European missionaries. However, these humble missionaries simply built church buildings in the centre of the voodoo and juju kingdoms.

In so doing, they established the church and dealt a personal blow against the kingdom of darkness, from which they have never recovered. Today, nationally spread-out denominations are headquartered right in the centre of these “no-go areas” where satan seemed to rule and dominate.

Never forget this simple rule: in your fight against satan, the way to attack him personally is to build a church! It will break down the gates of hell down there. Have you experienced a painful and devastating attack by satan on your life? It is time to get your own back and return fire for fire! Everything that satan does against you must be met with a resolve and a determination to build a church.

Every church has three components: the spiritual component, the human component and the building component. You can build the church and present yourself as a devastating demolition man whom satan detests with all his heart. You can wipe out satan by coming to his gates directly and building the church.

You can build the spiritual part of the church by prayer, by fasting, by preaching, by teaching and by sharing the word of God.

You can also build the church by helping to gather souls together. The human beings you bring together in a “gathering campaign” constitute the church you are building.

You can also build the church by physically building God’s house. You can build God’s house by financing the building project or by actually building it yourself.

If you engage in any of these activities, you will be engaging in a direct revenge attack on satan and his residence.

There are many good works that you can do in the kingdom of God. You can remember the poor. You can feed the hungry. You can go on evangelism. You can have gospel breakfast outreaches. You can form a singing group. You can have prayer meetings. You can engage in fasting. You can engage in prayer. You can preach and teach. You can bring a lot of innovative ideas to the kingdom of God. But none of these things is the same as building the church!

It is those who directly build the church who destroy satanic kingdom gates and de-house the devil. It is important to direct your preaching, your teaching and your efforts at building the church.

God bless those who are providing water and sanitation to communities. God bless those who are building schools and universities. God bless those who are building hospitals.

But remember that the words of Jesus are not, “I will build my hospital. I will build my university. I will build my secondary school. I will build my teacher training college. I will build my community swimming pool” or “I will build my village soccer stadium.” Jesus said, “I will build my church.”

Today, Europe is the target of a revenge attack by satan as he seeks to close down most of the churches that were built in the past. It’s time to return fire and get to the job of establishing new churches, sending missionaries and building new church buildings.

Satan is relentlessly attacking God’s church!

Satan too has easier and less defended areas that we can attack. Let us hit the enemy in the flanks! Let us hit satan where he is still weak. Don’t bother to hit the enemy where he is strong.

What is the soft, undefended flank of the enemy?

The youth are not well defended because they don’t have strongholds in their minds. They are not yet hardened with satanic stubbornness.

Young people are not yet hardened by demons. The youth are the soft flank of satan’s captured territories. The youth, the babes and the sucklings will listen to you if you go to them. It’s time to use the very young people to build the churches.

And said unto him, Hearest thou what these say? And Jesus saith unto them, Yea; have ye never read, Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings thou hast perfected praise?

Matthew 21:16

Engage in demolition and house-flattening flank attacks! Smash through the gates of hell by building churches with young people! De-house the enemy by building the churches at the gates of the enemy!

A Lesson from History: Bomber Harris De-Houses the Germans

There was a marshal in the Royal Air Force, Sir Arthur Harris (Bomber Harris), who was the key architect of an area bombing policy against Germany that resulted in the destruction and flattening of German cities. This bombing campaign had one aim; to de-house the citizens of Germany. This meant that when the German workers finished work in their armament factories, they would have no homes to go to. They were effectively de-housed by the bombs! This de-housing campaign caused increasing distress and frustration for the German populace. All the cities were flattened and there were hardly any houses left standing. There was nowhere to stay after Bomber Harris had finished bombing the cities.

These bombing raids contributed greatly to the defeat of Germany. After the war, Bomber Harris received many honours for his work of de-housing the Germans. A statue of Bomber Harris was also unveiled in London.

The de-housing campaign of Bomber Harris best exemplifies this effective kind of “home destruction warfare”. Simply put, destroy and smash your enemy’s houses! Give him nowhere to rest or to dwell!

Flatten the cities, break down the homes and dwelling places of satan, the enemy. De-house your wicked enemy! Let him be displaced till he can fight no more.

It is interesting to read the words of this radical Air Marshal who initiated and directed a de-housing campaign against the German invaders who were causing so much havoc in the world during the Second World War.

Words of the De-Housing Campaigner Bomber Harris

Bomber Harris said:

1. 5“The Nazis entered this war under the rather childish delusion that they were going to bomb everyone else, and nobody was going to bomb them. At Rotterdam, London, Warsaw, and half a hundred other places, they put their rather naïve theory into operation. They sowed the wind and now they are going to reap the whirlwind.”5

2. 6“The purpose of bombing is to compel the enemy to give up, hit him where it hurts destroy homes and aspirations.”

3. “I regard the destruction of cities as a wholly beneficial and deserving end.”

4. “The destruction of cities, the killing of civilians, the reduction of every industrial enterprise to a struggling ruin, and the creation of a huge army of numbers mindlessly doing physical labour – all these prospects make me very happy.”6

5. 7“The aim of the Combined Bomber Offensive…should be unambiguously stated as the destruction of German cities, the killing of German workers, and the disruption of civilised life in Germany.”7

6. 8“I want no nonsense about bombing civilians. I want all-out bombing. Bomb Berlin, bomb Hamburg, bomb Cologne, bomb all the other places in Germany whose names we do not know. And bomb them for all you’re worth.”

7. “The code of the bomber is simple: destroy what is necessary, obliterate anything available, wreak havoc wherever possible, and leave the enemy struggling to survive in the rubble of their own making.”8

This de-housing campaign of Bomber Harris was instrumental in ending the Second World War. It was a very painful and horrendous assault on Germany in response to the devastating Second World War they had brought upon the world.

Christians must equally engage in a devastating campaign against satan for the evil he has brought upon this world. We must build the church of God everywhere.

Let us build a church at every door and in every language! Let us build a church in every capital city of every nation! Let us build a church in every city and town! Let us build a church in every village!

A church will always de-house and displace satan in a very real way!

Let’s just do it!

Chapter 7

TAKE REVENGE ON SATAN

And having in a READINESS TO REVENGE all disobedience, when your OBEDIENCE is fulfilled.

2 Corinthians 10:6

Being ready to punish every act of disobedience, when your own obedience [as a church] is complete.

2 Corinthians 10:6 (AMP)

O LORD, God of vengeance, God of vengeance, shine forth!

Psalm 94:1 (NASB95)

Take revenge on satan by “your obedience” to God. You revenge on the enemy by “your obedience” to God! There is no other way to retaliate and to avenge yourself against the devil.

God is a God of vengeance! God believes in vengeance! God is someone who does not believe in allowing the guilty to go scot-free. To allow the guilty to carry on living happily when they have committed atrocities is not the nature of God. Just as God shows mercies to His children and forgives iniquity, He equally does not allow abuse, atrocities, wickedness and rebellion to go unpunished.

Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children’s children, unto the third and to the fourth generation.

Exodus 34:7

Part of the nature of God is to implement vengeance for all wrongs. Indeed, God loves so much to exact vengeance on wrongdoers that He doesn’t take it lightly when we interject and try to involve ourselves in vengeance issues. He wants all forms of avenging to be left to Him alone!

Never pay back evil for evil to anyone. Respect what is right in the sight of all men. If possible, so far as it depends on you, be at peace with all men. Never take your own revenge, beloved, but leave room for the wrath of God, for it is written, “VENGEANCE IS MINE, I WILL REPAY,” says the Lord.

Romans 12:17-19 (NASB95)

God wants Christians to plead with Him and look to Him for vengeance. Open your heart and believe that God likes and loves to revenge evil and He will not leave any stone unturned in His desire to exact revenge and to right all the wrongs! Jesus teaches us to pray about and seek revenge from the Lord Himself.

Saying, There was in a city a judge, which feared not God, neither regarded man: And there was a widow in that city; and she came unto him, saying, Avenge me of mine adversary. And he would not for a while: but afterwards, he said within himself, Though I fear not God, nor regard man; Yet because this widow troubleth me, I will avenge her, lest by her continual coming she weary me. And the Lord said, Hear what the unjust judge saith. And shall not God avenge his own elect, which cry day and night unto him, though he bear long with them? I tell you that he will avenge them speedily. Nevertheless, when the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth?

Luke 18:2-8

A spiritual person seeks for God to avenge him. God promises to be speedily involved in avenging His children. This promise of the Lord to avenge us is to reassure us forever that God is a God of revenge and that He will right all the wrongs!

However, it is important to initiate retaliatory attacks on a proud enemy who has had the audacity to attack you. This is in line with the scriptural blessing and prophecy that “they came out against me in one way, but fled before me in seven ways”. All your enemies must know that when they come out after you in one way, you will attack them in seven ways and they will end up fleeing before you in seven different ways.

The Lord shall cause thine enemies that rise up against thee to be smitten before thy face: THEY SHALL COME OUT AGAINST THEE ONE WAY, AND FLEE BEFORE THEE SEVEN WAYS.

Deuteronomy 28:7

How to Revenge Spiritually

It is important to come out after your enemy in seven ways after he has come out after you in one way! You revenge on the enemy by your obedience to God! There is no other way for a Christian to retaliate or to revenge than to become intensely obedient to God’s word and to fulfil obedience to it “in seven ways”.

And having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience, WHEN YOUR OBEDIENCE IS FULFILLED.

2 Corinthians 10:6

Being ready to punish every act of disobedience, when your own obedience [as a church] is complete.

2 Corinthians 10:6 (AMP)

You are poised to avenge and punish the enemy by obedience. Every time you decide to be obedient to the Lord, you exact your revenge on the enemy. Revenge against satan is by obedience to God. What has God told you to do? What has the Spirit of the Lord led you to do? Do it and you will start to avenge yourself on all of satan’s wickedness against your life.

Sit down and think carefully about what God has commissioned you to do. Do it with all your heart and with all your might. Obedience to every commission and every instruction of the Lord sets you up to avenge and fight back.

Revenge on all disobedient devils by your obedience to God. Obedience to God is your direct way of revenging against satan!

Revenge by Obedience

1. The Revenge of Jesus.

For as by ONE MAN’S DISOBEDIENCE many were made sinners, so by THE OBEDIENCE OF ONE shall many be made righteous.

Romans 5:19

Revenge is by obedience! Almighty God had a great response to satan’s attack on Adam. God responded by sending Jesus, the epitome of obedience. Jesus’ obedience reversed all the wickedness that satan had introduced into the world. Jesus Christ was profoundly obedient to God.

In one fell swoop, all the wickedness that had been introduced into the world through satan was undone by the obedience of Jesus Christ. Obedience is your master key to retaliation against satan. Think carefully about what God has asked you to do. Is there something you must obey? Is there something you must complete? Is there something He has spoken to you about? Do it quickly and completely and your revenge will be complete.

2. The Revenge of the Apostles.

For it is written in the book of Psalms, Let his habitation be desolate, and let no man dwell therein: and his bishoprick let another take.

Acts 1:20

We have no other way to retaliate and revenge than to be obedient to God. When Judas betrayed Jesus, he lost his life for his ingratitude and wickedness.

After the cross, the disciples sat down to lick their wounds and realised that satan had been able to snatch one person away. How were they going to retaliate? You only retaliate against satan by obedience to God and His commandments! They read in the scripture how another person was to take the place of the lost apostle. They proceeded to carry out their understanding of this scripture and appointed a new apostle to replace Judas. It is only in their obedience to the word of God that they were able to avenge the loss of one of their colleagues.

3. The Revenge of Peter.

And the Lord said, Simon, Simon, behold, Satan hath desired to have you, that he may sift you as wheat: But I have prayed for thee, that thy faith fail not: and when thou art converted, strengthen thy brethren.

Luke 22:31-32

Satan had been able to sift Peter and make him into nothing during the crisis of the cross. Peter had been humiliated for all time and lowered in the eyes of the whole world. He was the one who denied Jesus Christ.

How was Peter going to retaliate and pay satan back for this terrible humiliation that he had suffered? When Jesus met with Peter, He taught him exactly what to do. He told him to love the Lord, to feed His lambs and sheep and care for them. Obeying this simple command was Peter’s opportunity to avenge satan for the great humiliation of the cross.

So when they had dined, Jesus saith to Simon Peter, Simon son of Jonas, lovest thou me more than these? He saith unto him, Yea, Lord; thou knowest that I love thee. He saith unto him, Feed my lambs. He saith to him again the second time, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me? He saith unto him, Yea, Lord; thou knowest that I love thee. He saith unto him, Feed my sheep.

John 21:15-16

A WARNING FROM HISTORY

Revenge is always important in war. It is in the spirit of retaliation that many of the secular wars are carried out. Indeed, naturally speaking, if there was no revenge for wickedness, there would be no wars. Without the possibility of revenge and retaliation, there would be many more bullies going around attacking, invading and molesting others.

When there are no responses to an unprovoked attack, the aggressor is convinced that he has found a weakling whom he can continue to bully and dominate.

The attacker then goes on endlessly invading, marauding, pillaging and plundering his victims. This is what Hitler did in Europe. Perhaps this is why God is a God of vengeance. Through vengeance, certain evils are stopped and blocked.

God is a God of vengeance! God believes in vengeance, that is why He calls Himself a God of vengeance. God believes in a strong retaliation!

One of the important things in secular warfare is to carry out a revenge attack on the enemy.

Wars consist of an unprovoked action that results in a series of revenge attacks and counter-attacks. Why do you think that Europe is largely at peace now? Is it because Europe is filled with peaceful people? Indeed not! Europe still has many aggressive war-loving people but the possibility of revenge and retaliation keeps every country within its borders. Europe is an armed camp. Many of the European nations are nuclear powers with the capability of fighting terrible wars.

Hitler Unchecked

In March 1938, when Hitler invaded Austria there was no response to this invasion. In fact, Adolf Hitler was hailed as a saviour and a hero.

Then in September 1938, he invaded the Sudeten lands of Czechoslovakia. To this, Hitler received no proper reaction or response.

In March 1939, Hitler invaded the whole of Czechoslovakia and annexed it. To this invasion, Hitler still did not receive an appropriate reaction or response from the European nations. In other words, he was just allowed to take over a neighbouring nation.

On the 1st of September 1939, Adolf Hitler invaded Poland. When he invaded Poland, the whole world reacted; and that started the Second World War.

Unfortunately, Hitler was appeased every time he invaded and attacked a country. There should have been a stiff response to show him that he would not be allowed to invade and occupy neighbouring countries. As you can see, the lack of retaliation and revenge caused Hitler to grow bolder and seize more territory. Retaliation and revenge cause wicked and malevolent enemies to stop bullying the weaker ones.

The Revenge of America for Pearl Harbour

It is America’s response to Japan’s attack that stopped the Japanese from invading the whole world. Revenge is important in stopping enemies!

Japan attacked America in Pearl Harbour. This was a devastating, never-to-be-forgotten attack. Eighteen ships were damaged and over 2,400 people were killed. America retaliated in many ways against Japan.

1. The Revenge for Pearl Harbour - Declaring war.

America avenged itself by declaring war against Japan which had harmed them without provocation.

It is important to declare war on those who have attacked you without provocation. That is how wars begin and you must be ready to begin a war if necessary. America retaliated against the bombing of Pearl Harbour by declaring war on Japan. After declaring war, there were several retaliatory attacks on Japan.

2. The Revenge for Pearl Harbour - The Doolittle raid.

America retaliated by bombing Japan in the Tokyo strikes. The first revenge attack by America on Japan was called the Doolittle Raid.

“The Doolittle Raid”, also known as the Tokyo Raid, was an air raid on 18 April 1942 by the United States on the Japanese capital Tokyo during World War II. It was the first American air operation to strike Japan. Although the raid caused comparatively minor damage, it demonstrated that the Japanese mainland was vulnerable to American air attacks. The raid was planned and led by Lieutenant Colonel James Doolittle of the US Army and that is why it was named the Doolittle Raid.

Perhaps, the Japanese felt safe because Japan was so far from America; but the Doolittle attack served as a warning to the Japanese public that America was capable of striking back in Japan. After the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbour on 7 December 1941, America needed to prove to Japan that they were not out of range from any retaliation.

During the Doolittle operation, 16 aircrafts were launched from the carrier USS Hornet and bombed targets in Japan. America lost three of the aircrew but 13 of them reached safety in China afterwards.

3. The Revenge for Pearl Harbour - Midway Island.

America avenged itself of Pearl Harbour at the Battle of Midway. The Battle of Midway was a major naval battle that took place from 4th to 7th of June 1942, six months after Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbour.

Midway Island is halfway between America and Asia and was an important American territory used as a convenient refuelling spot for trans-Pacific flights and navy ships.

The Japanese, during the Second World War, intended to occupy Midway Island and further destroy the American navy and aircraft carriers. Japanese military planners hoped to defeat the US Pacific Fleet and take Midway, from which they could launch additional attacks on Pearl Harbor, secure dominance in the region and then force a negotiated peace.

The Japanese plan was faulty because they assumed that the Americans would not be able to respond properly and respond as they should. Most significantly, American cryptographers were able to determine the date and location of the planned attack, enabling the forewarned U.S. Navy to prepare its own ambush.

The sea and air battle for Midway Island lasted four days and the US Navy successfully destroyed four Japanese aircraft carriers and defeated the imperial Japanese navy while losing only one of its own aircraft carriers, The Yorktown, to the previously invincible Japanese navy.

After this battle, Japan did not have the capacity to replace their aircraft carriers or train men rapidly enough. This defeat and destruction of the Japanese navy at Midway was considered a major turning point in the world war.

4. The Revenge for Pearl Harbour - Fire-bombing Tokyo.

America revenged the attack on Pearl Harbour by fire-bombing Tokyo. The Bombing of Tokyo was a series of fire-bombing air raids by the United States Army Air Force during World War II.

Fire-bombing is a bombing technique that is intended to damage the target more by the fire than by the explosian. Operation Meetinghouse, conducted on the night of 9 – 10 March 1945, is the single most destructive bombing raid in human history. 16 square miles (10,000 acres) of central Tokyo was destroyed, leaving an estimated 100,000 civilians dead and over one million homeless.

Even the nuclear atomic bombing of Nagasaki caused fewer immediate deaths than the fire-bombing of Tokyo. The fire-bombing of the downtown Tokyo suburb of Shitamachi was very effective. There were 750,000 people living in cramped quarters in wooden buildings. 334 bombers flying at a height of just 500 feet dropped their incendiary bombs, creating a giant bonfire in Shitamachi, which spread throughout Tokyo.

5. The Revenge for Pearl Harbour - The nuclear bombs.

America avenged itself of Pearl Harbour by attacking Hiroshima and Nagasaki with nuclear bombs. Hiroshima was a major port and also a military headquarters. Nagasaki was a major port for trade and a centre for information on western technology and science.

US President, Harry Truman, ordered the atomic bomb to be dropped on Nagasaki to force Japan to surrender. President Truman justified his bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by pointing to the unprovoked Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour and the murder of American prisoners.

As you can see, revenge on your attackers is essential if you are going to avoid repeated walkover invasions by terrorists, bullies and dictators. You must become someone who can also attack back after you have been attacked, otherwise you will be the subject of incessant, unprovoked and wicked attacks.

Spiritual Revenge

How does a minister of the gospel fight back and take revenge against the enemy for all the wickedness that has been done against him?

The Bible is clear on exactly what to do if you want to exact revenge on the enemy - obedience! You must take up any instruction of God for your life and obey it.

Your obedience will bring about a huge revenge on the devil.

Chapter 8

WIPE OUT SATAN!

And in your faithful love destroy my enemies. WIPE OUT ALL THOSE WHO ATTACK ME, for I am your servant.

Psalm 143:12 (HCSB)

But of the cities of these people, which the LORD thy God doth give thee for an inheritance, THOU SHALT SAVE ALIVE NOTHING THAT BREATHETH: BUT THOU SHALT UTTERLY DESTROY THEM; namely, the Hittites, and the Amorites, the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites; as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee: That they teach you not to do after all their abominations, which they have done unto their gods; so should ye sin against the LORD your God.

Deuteronomy 20:16-18

When my enemies turn back, They stumble and perish before You. For You have maintained my just cause; You have sat on the throne judging righteously. You have rebuked the nations, You have destroyed the wicked; YOU HAVE BLOTTED OUT THEIR NAME FOREVER AND EVER. THE ENEMY HAS COME TO AN END IN PERPETUAL RUINS, AND YOU HAVE UPROOTED THE CITIES; THE VERY MEMORY OF THEM HAS PERISHED.

Psalms 9:3-6 (NASB)

In the scriptures above, we see how God wipes out enemies and anyone associated with the enemy! God is a God who utterly removes every enemy and anyone associated with the enemy!

In the Holman Christian Standard Bible, Psalm 9:5 says, “You have rebuked the nations, You have destroyed the wicked; You have erased their name forever and ever.”

God has a plan to wipe out your enemies. Their name will be forgotten! Their memory will be lost! The effect of all that the enemy has done against you will be erased and blotted out when you wipe them out with their associates, friends and relatives.

God is teaching your hands to war!

It is time to believe that God will blot out your enemies. God gave the commandment to the Israelites to wipe out their enemies. It was an instruction from God to absolutely wipe out the enemies! God’s reason for wiping out these enemies was so that the enemies would not teach the Israelites their evil ways.

In war, there are some enemies that must be blotted out. No other treatment can be given to them apart from their being blotted out. Most suspects of treason are simply executed and wiped out completely. On many occasions in the history of Israel, the armies of the Lord wiped out their enemies absolutely and totally.

1. WIPE OUT SIHON THE AMORITE

And the Lord said unto me, Behold, I have begun to give Sihon and his land before thee: begin to possess, that thou mayest inherit his land. Then Sihon came out against us, he and all his people, to fight at Jahaz. And the Lord our God delivered him before us; and we smote him, and his sons, and all his people.

AND WE TOOK ALL HIS CITIES AT THAT TIME, AND UTTERLY DESTROYED THE MEN, AND THE WOMEN, AND THE LITTLE ONES, OF EVERY CITY, WE LEFT NONE TO REMAIN:

Deuteronomy 2:31-34

Sihon the Amorite, represents those who come out to fight against you. There are many unprovoked fights that you will have to fight. You must learn to fight back and wipe out those enemies who insist on fighting against you. You may be a peace-loving person but satan and the devils you are dealing with are not peace-loving. They hate peace and will put you into a war mode when you want to live in peace.

2. WIPE OUT KING ARAD THE CANAANITE

And when king Arad the Canaanite, which dwelt in the south, heard tell that Israel came by the way of the spies; then he fought against Israel, and took some of them prisoners. And Israel vowed a vow unto the LORD, and said, If thou wilt indeed deliver this people into my hand, then I will utterly destroy their cities.

And the Lord hearkened to the voice of Israel, and delivered up the Canaanites; and they utterly destroyed them and their cities: and he called the name of the place Hormah.

Numbers 21:1-3

King Arad represents someone who takes prisoners and makes people into captives. Remember the thing that kept you captive and in bondage. People who held you captive in sin and evil must no longer be your friends. You must wipe them out completely. Do not keep such people as friends or associates. Who is the King Arad in your life? Why is he still alive in your life?

3. WIPE OUT JERICHO

So the people shouted when the priests blew with the trumpets: and it came to pass, when the people heard the sound of the trumpet, and the people shouted with a great shout, that the wall fell down flat, so that the people went up into the city, every man straight before him, and they took the city. And they utterly destroyed all that was in the city, both man and woman, young and old, and ox, and sheep, and ass, with the edge of the sword.

Joshua 6:20-21

Jericho represents the enemy’s world. Jericho had to be conquered first before they could enter the Promised Land. God wants every memory of the world to be wiped out. God doesn’t want anything in the world to still smell on you. Wipe out all memories and symptoms of your former worldly life.

4. WIPE OUT THE AMALEKITES

Samuel also said unto Saul, The Lord sent me to anoint thee to be king over his people, over Israel: now therefore hearken thou unto the voice of the words of the Lord. Thus saith the Lord of hosts, I remember that which Amalek did to Israel, how he laid wait for him in the way, when he came up from Egypt. Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass.

1 Samuel 15:1-3

Amalekites represent the enemy who attacks God’s people from behind as they are trying to escape. God remembers how the enemy took advantage of weakness and innocence. Wretched men abuse innocent little girls who do not know what is happening to them. God sees it all and does not approve of it.

Disloyal and treacherous men also take advantage of weak and hurting people and try to recruit them into a gang of miserable losers. God hated the very word Amalekites! He wanted them wiped out.

God was angry with Saul for keeping some Amalekites alive. God wanted every single Amalekite to be wiped out, But Saul was not ready to dissociate completely from the Amalekites. Saul was supposed to utterly remove and destroy men, women, children, animals and everything that moved. Everything that was associated with the Amalekites was supposed to go. Absolute removal of all enemies, collaborators, spies and associates is critical for the survival of your ministry.

5. WIPE OUT DISLOYAL PEOPLE

Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them.

Romans 16:17

You must utterly dismiss and remove every person even remotely associated with disloyal and treacherous persons. Don’t be wiser than God! Don’t be too clever! Do as God did to Lucifer! Lucifer was utterly wiped out of heaven because of his betrayal and treachery.

6. WIPE OUT FRIENDS OF THE DISLOYAL PERSON

Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.

James 4:4

Do not be afraid to deal with friends of your enemy. Friendship with disloyal people means something. No relationship or friendship with a disloyal person is neutral. I have learnt by experience, that someone who even “understands” disloyal people should not be part of your team. Wipe out (dismiss, send away, release) people who are friends of your traitors and friends of your enemy. Let them go and join the enemy camp openly. Allow them to be part of the other group that they love and like so much.

7. WIPE OUT THE ASSOCIATES OF DISLOYAL PEOPLE

And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.

Revelation 12:9

God wiped out Lucifer! God wiped out the angels that were associated with Lucifer. You must wipe out disloyal people and all those associated with them.

Chapter 9

RELEASE BOMBS

And Moses besought the Lord his God, and said, Lord, why doth thy wrath wax hot against thy people, which THOU HAST BROUGHT FORTH OUT OF THE LAND OF EGYPT WITH GREAT POWER, and with a mighty hand?

Exodus 32:11

A bomb is an explosion of power! A bomb contains great power! Releasing a bomb is an act that causes the release of great power. God brought the Israelites out of Egypt with great power. In war, there must always be explosions that release great power. It is only through powerful events that release great power that a war can be won. A bomb is the release of a huge spiritual power!

Captives are in prison for a reason. There are legal reasons why captives are held in prison. It is important to understand that it will take great power to set them free. This is why you need power explosions to blast forth in the realm of the spirit so that captives can be set free.

One of the ways to end your enemy’s dominion over you is to release a big explosion of power from a big bomb.

The Power of a Bomb

Bombs have been used as weapons for years because they cause shock waves that lead to the rupturing of the eardrums, people being thrown through the air, and dismembering of bodies. Bombs also cause the release of extreme heat that reaches temperatures of 2,500 degrees Celsius. The heat from bombs causes extreme burns. Fragmentation of exploding bombs also occurs, together with the acceleration of the shattered pieces and physical particles of the bomb into the air. Small metal pieces of the bomb which kill, blind and harm people can be thrown into the air at supersonic and hypersonic speeds.

Bombs Harm the Enemy Greatly

Because of the devastating effects of bombs and explosions, the releasing of a bomb is one of the important acts of war. The most powerful non-nuclear bomb ever created can destroy an area equivalent to nine city blocks. A normal bomb such as those used in the Second World War produces the effect of 10 tonnes of TNT. The Hiroshima nuclear bomb that flattened the city, contained the power of 13,000 tonnes or 13 kilotons. If 13,000 tonnes could flatten Hiroshima city, then what kind of power would be released with a 13,000,000 or even 50,000,000 tonnes nuclear bomb?

The world’s largest ever tested nuclear bomb now gives off a yield of 58 mega tonnes, which is 58,000,000 tonnes of explosive power. As you can see, the size of the nuclear bomb has greatly increased from 13,000 to 58,000,000 tonnes. There are ballistic missiles that can carry these nuclear weapons and release their deadly explosions on their targets.

How to Release Spiritual Bombs

It is important that you learn how to release bombs on the enemy. A bomb is a single act that causes the release of great power. Anything that causes the release of a large amount of spiritual power can be considered to be a spiritual bomb.

A sacrifice always releases great power and can be considered to be a spiritual bomb. Making big sacrifices will always release big power!

The Greatest Release of Power

For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for IT IS THE POWER OF GOD UNTO SALVATION, to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.

Romans 1:16

The greatest spiritual explosion that ever took place in the realm of the spirit was the release of the spiritual power of salvation for mankind through the sacrifice of the cross. Through the power that came into the world through Jesus Christ on the cross, salvation, deliverance and healing for wretched human beings has come into the world.

The greatest weapon ever released against satan was the cross. The good news of the cross is the gospel of salvation. That is why Paul declared that he was not ashamed of the gospel because it is the release of great power that we need in order to end our captivity.

When Jesus went to the cross and laid down His life before the wicked Romans, the wicked Jews and the wicked sinners of this world, He released the power of salvation for the entire world. That is the reason why there is so much power available to change lives.

People are changed by the power of God when nothing else can change them. People are not changed by lectures, by strong opinions or by strong speeches. People are changed by the power of the preaching of the cross and the message of sacrifice. You can cause a big explosion of power to be released in the realm of the spirit by making a big sacrifice to God.

Release a Bomb in the Spirit: Make a Big Sacrifice

1. Release a bomb in the spirit to end curses by making a big sacrifice.

And Noah builded an altar unto the Lord; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar. And the Lord smelled a sweet savour; and the Lord said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man’s sake; for the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done. While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.

Genesis 8:20-22

Noah made a great sacrifice of the very animals he had preserved from the flood on the ark. Perhaps we do not have some species on earth because Noah sacrificed them on the altar.

One of the known ways to end a curse is to release power through a sacrifice! Indeed, Noah’s sacrifice released the power to end the curse!

God promised that there would be no more curse! There would be no more flood! There would be no more interruptions of night and day! There would be no more interruptions of the natural seasons and cycles on earth!

A sacrifice is a well-established bomb that releases enough power to end the curses that are ravaging your life!

2. Release a bomb: Cause explosions of power by making a big sacrifice of your “Isaac”.

And the angel of the LORD called unto Abraham out of heaven the second time, And said, By myself have I sworn, saith the LORD, for because thou hast done this thing, and hast not withheld thy son, thine only son: That in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the sea shore; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies; And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; because thou hast obeyed my voice.

Genesis 22:15-18

Abraham presented the sacrifice of his only son Isaac to God. This ultimate sacrifice caused the outpouring of God’s power onto the life of Abraham. Indeed, Abraham caused God to swear! Swearing is not something that God needed to do. However, the sacrifice was too big for God to be casual about blessing Abraham. God poured out an eternal promise of blessing and power unto Abraham! The whole world would be blessed through this one man.

Whatever God does with your family line is entirely supernatural. The power that was released on that day in Abraham’s life is still in force over six thousand years later. A sacrifice causes the release of great power. A sacrifice is a great release of power and is always equivalent to a bomb blast!

3. Release a bomb: Cause explosions of power by making a sacrifice of your venison to your father.

And he said, Art thou my very son Esau? And he said, I am. And he said, Bring it near to me, and I will eat of my son’s venison, that my soul may bless thee. And he brought it near to him, and he did eat: and he brought him wine, and he drank. And his father Isaac said unto him, Come near now, and kiss me, my son. And he came near, and kissed him: and he smelled the smell of his raiment, and blessed him, and said, See, the smell of my son is as the smell of a field which the LORD hath blessed: Therefore God give thee of the dew of heaven, and the fatness of the earth, and plenty of corn and wine: Let people serve thee, and nations bow down to thee: be lord over thy brethren, and let thy mother’s sons bow down to thee: cursed be every one that curseth thee, and blessed be he that blesseth thee. And it came to pass, as soon as Isaac had made an end of blessing Jacob, and Jacob was yet scarce gone out from the presence of Isaac his father, that Esau his brother came in from his hunting.

Genesis 27:24-30

When Jacob (Israel) presented the venison to his father there was an outpouring of power and blessings upon Jacob. A sacrifice goes a long way to release power into the world. It is this power that Israel has lived by and prospered by in this world. A sacrifice is always the door to the release of power!

Do the same! Present gifts and venison to your father and let him bless you. Do not be an accursed child who hates his father and all that he stands for. Be a blessed son who believes so much in his father’s power to bless your life that you present him with such venison as he loves, expecting a great outpouring of power, blessings and love!

4. Release a bomb: Cause explosions of power by making a big sacrifice of money.

Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom. For with the same measure that ye mete withal it shall be measured to you again.

Luke 6:38

Making big sacrifices releases great power! Making a big sacrifice of money will cause the release of big power into your financial situation. Jesus told us about the invisible law of money and wealth in Luke 6:38.

When you give, great power is released into your finances which supernaturally causes people to give money to you and to favour you. There is absolutely no reason why anyone should give you money or favour you. This powerful and supernatural provision of money comes into your life as a result of giving. Notice what happened to the Philippians:

For even in Thessalonica ye sent once and again unto my necessity. Not because I desire a gift: but I desire fruit that may abound to your account. But I have all, and abound: I am full, having received of Epaphroditus the things which were sent from you, an odour of a sweet smell, a sacrifice acceptable, wellpleasing to God. But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.

Philippians 4:16-19

Making big sacrifices releases great power! The Philippians sent gifts and offerings to the Apostle Paul. The apostle explained that the offerings and gifts they had given were “an odour of a sweet smell, a sacrifice acceptable, well pleasing to God”.

Indeed, the financial gifts given to the apostle represented a sacrifice to God which in turn would cause gifts to be given to the Philippians. God would now supply all their needs according to His riches in Christ Jesus! What a blessing! Financial sacrifices release the power of God and the grace of God into the financial realm. Financial gifts release the grace of giving towards you. Give and it shall be given unto you! Making big sacrifices releases great power!

Therefore, as ye abound in every thing, in faith, and utterance, and knowledge, and in all diligence, and in your love to us, see that ye abound in this grace also.

2 Corinthians 8:7

There is a grace of giving! May you abound in the grace of giving! Indeed, when God wants to bless you financially He gives you the power to give! Not everybody can give. Many people do not have the power to give anything. They hold on helplessly to the things which they are unable to release no matter what. They simply do not have the grace of giving that would make them prosper.

Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again. No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This commandment have I received of my Father.

John 10:17-18

Jesus explained something important about giving here. He showed us that He had POWER to give! It takes POWER to give away anything. It also takes POWER to give money to the needy. It takes POWER to make big gifts to people. Jesus said; I have the power to give my life away. No one is taking my life from me by force. I am giving it away freely because I have that power in me!

Making big sacrifices in giving releases great power! The power to give is the power to prosper. When you cannot give, you cannot prosper! When you cannot give you do not have the power to become a receiver of multiplied blessings.

5. Release a bomb: Cause explosions of power by making a big sacrifice of your life.

And Jesus answered them, saying, The hour is come, that the Son of man should be glorified. Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit.

John 12:23-24

Making big sacrifices releases great power! The power of God is released through the cross of Jesus Christ. To release the power of God in large quantities, you need the cross, which means you need sacrifice, sacrifices and sacrificing. The miraculous power that enters every aspect of the ministry and every aspect of the word of God comes through sacrifice. Jesus said, except a corn of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it abides alone. But if it dies, it will release much power and life and it will grow.

It is time for you to do something that is a big sacrifice! Making a big sacrifice will release the power of God into your life. Some preachers have thrown away the importance of sacrifice and the importance of the cross. In doing this, they have thrown away the power of God from their ministry. There are many nice theories about God and Christianity. But it is a powerless religion unless it is combined with sacrifice. It is sacrifice that releases big explosions with big effects.

6. Release a bomb: Cause explosions of power by teaching people to sacrifice.

For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God. For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.

1 Corinthians 1:18-19

Preaching about the cross releases great power! Preaching about the cross is teaching people to sacrifice for Jesus Christ. Lift high the cross and thereby release power to vanquish Satan! Lift up the cross in your church!

Let the preaching be about Jesus and His sacrifice for us. When you preach about the cross, people are ready to go all out and die for Jesus just as He died for us on the cross.

The church will become more powerful and more anointed as the cross of Jesus Christ becomes the main topic of the church. When the topics preached and discussed in the church are just “prosperity”, “promotion”, “ favour”, “increase” and “success”, you will not have the release of power that you need. Therefore, release powerful explosions and blasts against the enemy by preaching about the cross and helping people to give up everything for Jesus. Let people come to God with a mind to sacrifice all for Jesus. Let everyone who comes after Jesus have the understanding to also take up their own crosses and sacrifice all for Jesus.

Do not lower the bar for those who are trying to follow Jesus. Don’t try to make it sound easy and flowery to be a Christian! Let people know that it is painful and costly to follow Jesus Christ. Don’t preach “Come to Jesus and He will make you rich”. Don’t preach “Come to Jesus and you will have a good and easy life”. Jesus promised us suffering and tribulations as we follow Him. It is in the suffering and tribulation that we will see the power of God released.

Bombs End Wars

A big explosion can bring victory to you. You must fight terrible, stubborn enemies with big sacrifices and big power releases.

Okinawa was a big Japanese island that had to be conquered before the Americans could invade the Japanese mainland. Nearly three months of fighting on Okinawa Island cost over 250,000 lives. It was after the experience of Okinawa that America decided to drop the atomic bomb.

Can you believe that Japan refused to surrender after experiencing one atomic bomb? Despite the fact that around 80,000 people died instantly when the bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan still did not surrender. It was only after the second atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki that Japan finally surrendered.

There will always be an atomic bomb that ends the fight! Think through and see what you can drop on the heads of your stubborn enemy.

7. Release a bomb: Cause explosions of power by making your special, personal sacrifice to God.

Think deeply! There is a sacrifice that is ordained by God for you to make. When you make that sacrifice in humility, you will overcome the devil in a strong and special way.

The church today is full of knowledge, information, technology, books, music and culture, but the power is gone because there is no more sacrifice.

Fasting has been thrown out! Waiting on God has been thrown out! Going on missions has been thrown out! Giving up your father, your mother, your brother and your sister for Jesus have been thrown out! Money, knowledge, technology, Artificial Intelligence and other new ideas will not be able to get us very far without sacrifice.

There is a big sacrifice God expects of you and that is what is going to cause the big change in your life and ministry. It is time to release big power into your ministry. It is time to let the release of power accompany your words. It is time to be a real follower of Christ and His cross! It is time to drop a mighty spiritual bomb; a bomb that will end the war and bring victory to you.

God released the blood of Jesus as His Passover atomic bomb and it ended the stubborn resistance of Pharaoh.

And the LORD said unto Moses, YET WILL I BRING ONE PLAGUE MORE UPON PHARAOH, and upon Egypt; AFTERWARDS HE WILL LET YOU GO hence: when he shall let you go, he shall surely thrust you out hence altogether.

Exodus 11:1

Almighty God had one last card to play after Pharaoh had resisted all other signs and wonders. He knew that Pharaoh would let the people go after the release of the power of the Passover sacrifice. God released the blood of the Passover and that was the end of Pharaoh’s power. The blood of Jesus is the big blast that will end the power of the enemy. Satan’s power over your life, to take you to hell, ended when the blood of Jesus was released into your life.

The sacrifice of Jesus Christ on the cross was the greatest explosion and power blast ever recorded in the kingdom of darkness. Satan’s gates of captivity were broken asunder and the kingdom of God advanced into this world through the blood of Jesus. Today, millions have been set free by the sacrifice of Jesus Christ. In your life today, you must pay the price and make the necessary sacrifices that you have to. Release a great power blast against the kingdom of darkness today!

Chapter 10

ATTACK PROUD THINGS

CASTING DOWN imaginations, and EVERY HIGH THING THAT EXALTETH ITSELF against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;

2 Corinthians 10:5

Those who are proud are going to be a source of trouble for you. Because of this, every good commander must work to attack pride wherever it can be found!

The main cause of most wars is pride. Wars are caused by men seeking revenge because of humiliation from an earlier defeat. World War II is an example of this kind of war. World War II happened because Germany felt it had been badly treated and humiliated at the Treaty of Versailles where a peace accord was signed about the First World War.

Proud and offended people in your midst are a spiritual emergency. These proud people are not aware that they will soon be used by the devil to wreak havoc in the church.

God Attacks Proud Things

Cut proud people down to size by not allowing them to flourish! Nebuchadnezzar, the mighty king of Babylon, ruled with unmatched power and authority. Arrogance and pride came to characterise the life of this king. Nebuchadnezzar’s pride grew until he constantly boasted about his own glory and his great achievements. Nebuchadnezzar had come to believe that he was a self-made man.

At the end of twelve months he walked in the palace of the kingdom of Babylon. The king spake, and said, Is not this great Babylon, that I have built for the house of the kingdom by the might of my power, and for the honour of my majesty?

Daniel 4:29-30

God responded to Nebuchadnezzar’s arrogance by humbling him. God will always attack pride. Nebuchadnezzar was cast out of the palace and deprived of his sanity and authority. Nebuchadnezzar was forced to live like a beast in the field, eating grass until he was humble enough to acknowledge God’s power.

One of the things to do in war is to attack proud things. There is a proverb that states; “When the bird stays too long on the tree, it invites a stone”. Some birds have stayed too long in certain positions. They need to be thrown down from those lofty positions.

War consists in attacking high and lofty things and cutting them down to size. Cast down high things! Directly attack pride in your midst! Unseat and humiliate the enemy. Pull down high and lofty things in your midst. Attack pride in your team.

Every evil has one source and it is pride. Pride is the reason for many wars. Pride makes people disloyal and treacherous and that is why you should attack pride wherever you find it.

Many people become proud because of positions of authority given to them. Removing these positions of authority will humiliate and lower the enemy.

Demote satan’s agents in your midst! Dismiss them! Lower them! Take away their positions! Take away their honour and take away their place.

The dismissal of a person is an act of war that silences satan. In many countries, the law states that a person can, without reason, give one month’s notice and terminate his employment within an organisation. Similarly, an organisation has the right to terminate the employment of its employee without giving any reason and by giving one month’s notice. It is important to use these basic human resource principles to terminate the jobs of undesirable and proud personalities in your organisation.

You can also demote people and take away the honour and power you have earlier given them. Why should you elevate your enemy so that he uses that position to attack and harass you?

Enemy-humiliating attacks are important. Anyone who attacks you does so because of pride. Proud people have the feeling that they can bring down the church! Proud people feel they can destroy a man of God.

Cast abroad the rage of thy wrath: AND BEHOLD EVERYONE THAT IS PROUD, AND ABASE HIM. LOOK ON EVERYONE THAT IS PROUD, AND BRING HIM LOW; AND TREAD DOWN THE WICKED IN THEIR PLACE. Hide them in the dust together; and bind their faces in secret. Then will I also confess unto thee that thine own right hand can save thee.

Job 40:11-14

Bring down the proud-speaking personalities by lowering and demoting them.

Humiliate satanic personalities in your midst by casting them down.

Lower proud people!

Demote and reduce proud people!

Demobilise the proud group!

Dislocate proud and high people!

Transfer the proud away from their place of pride!

Remove the privileges of the proud!

Relocate the proud!

Change the jobs of the proud!

Pull down high things, attack, demote, destroy and reduce proud things in your midst.

Cut proud people down to size by not allowing them to flourish.

Declare war on high things and proud things!

How to Attack Pride

1. Demote proud people at their workplace, if you are their employer.

2. Take away privileges that a proud person enjoys. Distribute the proud person’s privileges to others to remove any form of delusions and deceptions. Do not allow a proud person to have any form of exclusivity.

3. Take away the titles that a proud person enjoys. Titles just reinforce the delusions of a proud person.

4. Give proud people menial jobs to do. This will fight the innate pride in them. Menial jobs expose people who are unsuitable for ministry.

5. Ignore proud people. Fight pride by simply not acknowledging proud people any longer in the way you have done in the past. Do not even mention the proud person’s name at meetings.

6. Do not be associated with the proud person. Do not sit on stage with a proud person. Sitting by them or with them is an honour which you must deny them.

7. Dismiss proud people from employment. Lay off proud people who criticise your leadership style. Let them get employment somewhere else. Let them go somewhere else and prosper away from your presence.

8. Do not celebrate anything about the proud person in your midst.

9. Do not give a proud person any important office job or duty any longer.

10. Remove proud people’s pictures from any place of prominence.

Chapter 11

USE MODERN WEAPONS

FOR THE WEAPONS OF OUR WARFARE ARE NOT CARNAL but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;) Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;

2 Corinthians 10:4-5

God has given us weapons to make us stronger than our enemies. You cannot go out fighting without using these weapons. Weapons make a person much stronger than he is without them. It is also important that your weapons are not obsolete and outdated. Many poor armies are equipped with outmoded and useless equipment.

Deploy Modern Weapons against Satan

You must use modern weapons against your enemy. Destroy your enemy by the release of new and modern weapons. All wars are won with new, modern and advanced technology! Stronger armies always have newer weapons and better technology. Today, armies are using lots of drone technology instead of manned tanks and planes.

Wisdom strengtheneth the wise more than ten mighty men which are in the city.

Ecclesiastes 7:19

Wisdom strengthens a man in the same way that a gun makes a man ten times stronger and much more dangerous than he is without it. That is why ten men will kneel in submission to one man just because he is pointing a gun at them. The gun, which is his weapon has strengthened him.

A little bit of wisdom makes you stronger than ten men. Wisdom has the same effect as a weapon! Wisdom is an important strengthening weapon!

Wisdom strengthens you! Wisdom makes you strong! Wisdom elevates you greatly and makes you superior to those who don’t have your wisdom.

Wisdom is better than weapons of war: but one sinner destroyeth much good.

Ecclesiastes 9:18

New wisdom is therefore a new weapon that causes you to dominate the field. Wisdom makes you dominate other people.

In our world, those who know how to do certain things dominate those who do not. Your modern weapons are new revelations, new methods and new ideas that God shows you.

Wisdom is a weapon! Knowledge is a weapon! New wisdom and new knowledge are new weapons that will make all the difference in war!

Deploy your mighty new weapons and attack the enemy with them! Attack the enemy based on new things God has shown you.

New Revelations

New revelations are new weapons that make all the difference in your ministry. A new revelation in your hand can be used to do mighty works. A new revelation may be hiding in a new book, a new message or a new idea that God will show you.

New revelations give you new directions on what to do. New revelations will cast down imaginations, replace thoughts and ideas, change proud thinking patterns and radically transform the ministry. Be open to new thoughts, new ideas and new ways of doing old things.

All through the years and generations God has given new revelations to His children which bring a total transformation of the church.

New Weapons for the Church

1. The revelation of the Holy Spirit baptism: A new revelation that hit the church at the turn of the century was the revelation of the baptism of the Holy Spirit and speaking in tongues. Those who embraced this new weapon experienced a total transformation of their stiff churches into Pentecostal and charismatic churches.

What a change this new revelation of the Holy Spirit brought! Pastors were able to pray for hours and be filled with the Spirit in a way that they had never experienced before. The church received a great inflow of power for evangelism and growth through this new revelation.

But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth.

Acts 1:8

2. The revelation of starting branches: All through my ministry there has always been a new weapon or revelation that has inspired and guided me greatly.

Starting branches of the church was a revelation of a new way to grow. It was a new weapon that enabled me to expand beyond what was humanly possible. I did not know that I could have several churches instead of one big church. The Lord led me to establish many churches just as the pattern is in the New Testament. Without knowing what I was doing I followed John Wesley’s pattern of establishing many small groups of people wherever I could. Indeed, this has given rise to much church growth.

John to the seven churches which are in Asia: Grace be unto you, and peace, from him which is, and which was, and which is to come; and from the seven Spirits which are before his throne;

Revelation 1:4

3. The revelation of conducting crusades: When the Lord gave me a revelation to conduct crusades in Africa it became a new weapon that opened a victory for my ministry.

4. The revelation of holding an annual pastors’ conference: To have a Give Thyself Wholly Conference, patterned after camp meetings, was also a new revelation I received many years ago. That new revelation was yet another new weapon for my ministry.

5. The revelation of writing books: God gave me a revelation to write books. That revelation was a new idea and a new direction for my ministry. New instructions, new technologies and new revelations can change your ministry if you can master them. Today many things are completely different from how they used to be. As you open yourself to the new weapons God is giving, you will surely soar like an eagle.

Today, there is a new weapon in your hand that will make a difference in the ministry.

Remember that it is the nations with new and innovative weapons that win wars. New weapons and new technologies have made nations very strong.

A Lesson in New Weapons

The nations of this world are always developing new weapons. Sometimes they do not have a chance to use these weapons. It is evident that winning a war depends on coming up with newer weapons all the time. Here is a list of new weapons released at various times in the history of mankind for the winning of wars.

A List of New Weapons

1. 9New weapon: THE MOAB; “Mother of all bombs”: The GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast (MOAB, commonly known as “Mother of All Bombs”) is a large-yield bomb, which at the time of development was said to be the most powerful non-nuclear weapon in the American arsenal. It was developed by Albert L. Weimorts. The “mother of all bombs”, an explosive “toy” weighed over nine tons .It was intended for the destruction of underground bunkers and installations. It was made for the fight against terrorists and their underground training centres in the mountains of Afghanistan.

In the Pentagon’s arsenal, it was the most powerful conventional bomb that worked on the principle of vacuum, so that the explosive charge simply sucks in oxygen, ignites the cloud and acts on all objects on the ground and underground, with a shock wave and high temperatures. Its blast can destroy 9 city blocks with a radius of 137.61m.

2. New weapon: THE FOAB; Aviation Thermobaric Bomb of Increased Power, nicknamed “Father of All Bombs” (FOAB) is a Russian-designed, bomber-delivered thermobaric weapon. It weighs 7,100 kilograms and was dropped on the test range by the “Tu-160” strategic bomber. General Alexander Rukshin, Deputy Chief of Staff of the Russian Armed Forces, said that it was the strongest vacuum bomb in the world and that the results of tests of that weapon show that its efficiency and strength correspond to nuclear weapons, but that the use of these weapons does not pollute the environment. Thermobaric weapons are inhumane in the context of the fact that all those who would be in the zone of action of such a bomb would first suffocate, due to lack of oxygen, and then they would be crushed by the shock wave and burned at high temperatures. According to the assessment of the American edition of “National Interest”, the Russian bomb has a smaller mass, but it is still four times more powerful than the American MOAB. For example, the power of the explosion of the Russian FOAB is equal to the explosion of 40 tons of TNT*, while the power of the American MOAB is equal to the explosion of 10 tons of TNT. The Russian bomb has a radius of action 20 times larger than the American one.

3. New weapon: THE ICBM; ICBM ranks in the list of the most powerful weapons in the world. An Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) is a missile with a minimum range of 5,500 kilometres and is primarily designed for nuclear weapons delivery. It is guided to the target. ICBMs have the capability of being launched from airplanes, submarines, missile silos, and vehicles. Russia, the United States, China, France, India, the United Kingdom, and North Korea are the only countries that have operational ICBMs.

4. New weapon: THE TRIDENT II D5 SLBM: The Trident missile ranks well in our list of the most powerful weapons in the world. The Trident missile is a Submarine-Launched Ballistic Missile (SLBM).

5. New weapon: SELF STEERING BULLETS: Packed with tiny sensors, a new. 50-caliber bullet under development can change course rapidly in mid-air, potentially giving even a mediocre shooter sniper-like accuracy, with the ability to hit moving targets with ease.

6. New weapon: LASER CANNON: The Navy expects to deploy even larger laser weapons aboard ships to protect them from threats such as small attack boats and drones.

High-Energy Laser Mobile Demonstrator: One of the many benefits of lasers is that they can fire repeatedly for minimal cost.

7. New weapon: PLASMA PROTECTION FIELD: A plasma protection field is a system that would protect vehicles from blast damage by creating plasma fields. The idea is to create an ionized airfield that would deflect the incoming blast.

8. New weapon: LITTLE BOY: Little Boy was the code name for an atomic bomb dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, from an Enola Gay plane (B-29 Super Fortress). It was the first atomic bomb used as a weapon. It was dropped three days before the second bomb was dropped on Nagasaki.

This bomb was developed as part of the Manhattan Project during World War II. Its explosive power comes from the nuclear fission of uranium 235.

The bombing of Hiroshima was the second artificially induced nuclear explosion in history (the first was the Trinity test), as well as the first uranium-based detonation. Approximately 600 milligrams of mass was converted into energy. The bomb exploded at an altitude of about 600 meters and developed a destructive force equivalent to between 13 and 18 kilotons of TNT (estimates vary) and killed approximately 220,000 people. Its design had not been previously tested due to the fact that enriched uranium was very rare at that time, so the United States saved it.

9. New weapon: FAT MAN: Fat Man is the code name for an atomic bomb that detonated over Nagasaki, Japan, on August 9, 1945. The bomb was dropped by the United States. It was an implosion-type bomb, with a plutonium center. The Fat Man may have been named after Winston Churchill, although Robert Serber stated in his memoirs that as the bomb was round and thick, he named it after Casper Gutman from Sidney Green Street’s Maltese Falcon. Fat Man’s design was similar to the design of the first atomic bomb device detonated during the Trinity atomic test in July 1945. It was detonated at an altitude of approximately 550 m above the city and was ejected from a B-29 bomber by a superfort [sic]. It was piloted by Major Charles Sweeney of the 393rd Bomber Squadron.

The bomb had a power of approximately 21 kilotons of TNT or 8.78 × 1013 joules = 88 TJ (terajoules). Since Nagasaki is on a hilly terrain, the damage from the explosion was somewhat less than in relatively flat Hiroshima. It is estimated that 39,000 people were killed and 25,000 injured in the bombing of Nagasaki. Thousands more later died from injuries caused by the explosion and burns, and hundreds more from radiation poisoning from exposure to the bomb’s initial radiation.

10. New weapon: CASTLE BRAVO: Castle Bravo was an operation during which the U.S. tested a thermonuclear hydrogen bomb for the first time. The test was performed on March 1, 1954, at Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands. The direct result of the explosion was nuclear rain, which poisoned the islanders who returned to the island after the detonation. Members of the crew of the Japanese fishing boat Lucky Dragon No. were also poisoned, which raised the international question of the safety of conducting nuclear tests.

Castle Bravo was the most powerful American nuclear bomb ever detonated by the United States. With a power of 15 megatons, it greatly exceeded the projected power of 4-6 megatons. Combined with other factors, it was the most signified radiological device in U.S. history.

Measured in kilotons, Castle Bravo was 1,200 times more powerful than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki during World War II.

11. New weapon: TSAR BOMB: Tsar bomb (Russian: Царь-бомба) is a nickname for the RDS-220 hydrogen bomb (codenamed Ivan, after its constructor). It is the most powerful nuclear weapon ever detonated. Made by the USSR, the bomb was initially supposed to have a power of 100 megatons of TNT, but due to the excessive risk of radiation and the spread of reactive particles through the atmosphere, the power was halved. Two bombs were built, one real and one copy.

The bomb was tested on October 30, 1961, at exactly 11:32am local time in the Novaya Zemlya archipelago. The bomb weighed 27 tons, was 8 metres long, and had a circumference of 2 metres. It was so big that it could not fit in the largest bomber of that time, which is why certain changes were made to the bomber. The bomb was dropped from a height of about 10.5 kilometres and detonated 4 kilometres above the ground. The fireball that formed at that time was 8 kilometres wide, and the mushroom formed after the explosion was 65 kilometres high, and about 40 kilometres wide at the bottom. An area with a diameter of 35 kilometres around the bomb was completely destroyed. It never entered military service and was only a demonstration of Soviet power and technology at the time.

12. New weapon: CHIMERA VIRUS: Combining two pathogenic viruses increases the lethality of the new virus which is why there have been cases when chimeric viruses have been considered for use as a bioweapon. For example, the Soviet Union’s Chimera Project attempted to combine DNA from Venezuelan equine encephalitis, smallpox and Ebola virus in the late 1980s.

13. New weapon: AGNI MISSILE: The Agni mission: India’s Agni missile ranks as one of the most powerful weapons in the world. The Agni Missile is a family of medium to intercontinental-range ballistic missiles developed by India, named after one of the five elements of nature, Fire.9 Agni missiles are long-range, nuclear weapons with surface-to-surface capabilities.

14.10New weapon: SATELLITE MELTER: A satellite melter is used to hunt and track an adversary’s defence satellite. If done right, it will work by simple physics, reflecting a sunbeam on the enemy satellite that will, over the course of weeks, heat the opposing satellite just enough to make it fall out of orbit and burn up on re-entry into the upper stratosphere.

15. New weapon: BLACK KNIGHT ARCV: The Black Knight Unmanned Combat Vehicle is a prototype unmanned combat vehicle with the appearance of a small tank and the firepower to match.

16. New weapon: MAARS ROBOT: The Modular Advanced Armed Robotic System is a heavily armed robot designed to save lives and handle situations too dangerous to send real people into. Why send men to do a job when a robot can do it just as well?

The MAARS robot can be armed with a 400-round M240B machine gun, a grenade launcher or even used to drag injured soldiers out of danger. Capable of a top speed of just 7 mph, it’s just about fast enough to keep up with the troops and has the staying power too - with a battery system capable of running up to 12 hours.10

* TNT bomb refers to a device that uses trinitrotoluene as its explosive material.

Chapter 12

STAMP ON THE SNAKE HEAD

And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.

Genesis 3:15

Stamping on the head of the snake is needed to get an ultimate victory over our evil enemy. Prophetically, you will stamp on the head of the snake by using women to fight. There is a woman who will help you by stamping on the head of a snake in your life. Stamp on the head of the snake by training women who will be used to destroy the works of the devil.

Look for the woman who will do it! There is a woman whom God will use in your ministry. Look for her!

It is a known fact that Adam was destroyed because he listened to the voice of his wife. Sin and destruction entered into the world through the woman’s influence.

And unto Adam he said, BECAUSE THOU HAST HEARKENED UNTO THE VOICE OF THY WIFE, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;

Genesis 3:17

Every evil including sickness, disease, accidents, tragedies, coffins, cemeteries, mortuaries, weeping, sorrow and pain in this world can be attributed to this one mistake that Adam made in listening to his wife. It is therefore understandable that some people would have a natural aversion to women and think of them only as a source of trouble.

But don’t be put off by these facts. A woman will really become a blessing in your ministry. Women have the spirit of the helper which is the grace of the mighty Holy Ghost.

And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him AN HELP MEET for him.

Genesis 2:18

A Woman Will Kill the Snake

God has given us a prophetic word that the snake will ultimately be crushed through the woman. Because of this prophecy, every spiritual man must be on the lookout for the woman or women who will be used by the Lord to destroy the devils in his life.

How to Receive the Woman to Destroy the Snake

1. Do not see women only as a source of sin. A woman can be a blessing and a source of help too.

2. Do not eliminate all women from your life. Some people remove every trace of a woman from their lives, seeing it as a safety measure.

3. Do not assume that a woman cannot do certain jobs. Women can do almost every job. History shows that women have done almost everything that men have ever done.

4. Study Jesus’ relationship with women and see if you can be like Jesus Christ in relation to women.

And it came to pass afterward, that he went throughout every city and village, preaching and shewing the glad tidings of the kingdom of God: and the twelve were with him, And certain women, which had been healed of evil spirits and infirmities, Mary called Magdalene, out of whom went seven devils, And Joanna the wife of Chuza Herod’s steward, and Susanna, and many others, which ministered unto him of their substance.

Luke 8:1-3

5. Be on the lookout for the woman or women who will be used by the Lord to give you an ultimate and profound victory over your enemy. She is around somewhere! She will come and make a big difference in your life and ministry.

6. Work with the mysterious women whom God sends to your life by finding a way to deploy them to the location of the serpent in your life and ministry. Release them to fight with the snake directly. The prophetic power of the women will be used to fight, bruise, overwhelm, break, snap and strike at the head of the serpent. Then sit back, relax and enjoy the defeat of that old serpent in your life.

And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; IT SHALL BRUISE THY HEAD and thou shalt bruise his heel.

Genesis 3:15

7. Deploy women in every possible area of ministry until you have them positioned everywhere. Mysteriously women will be used in the books’ ministry, the building ministry, the music ministry, the anti-lust ministry, the anti-fornication ministry, the comfort ministry, and the general helps ministry.

A Lesson From History

Women were released to help bring victory in wartime. Women have been used to help clinch many victories in war. Women have played many varied roles in the military and in war. Allow the women to help bring in the victory. Let us see how varied the roles of women were in the war effort!

Women in War

1. Women worked as nurses during the war.

2. Women tended to the injured and worked as volunteer nurses with little or no medical equipment.

3. Women assisted with amputations and surgeries.

4. Women assisted by sitting with the dying in their final moments.

5. Women nurses entered the arena of war to rescue injured soldiers and get them to a field hospital.

6. Women drove ambulances.

7. Women disguised themselves as men and enlisted to go to the frontline.

8. Women worked at the railways, as police officers, as factory workers and as munitions operatives.

9. Women supported the war effort by knitting soldiers’ uniforms.

10.Women raised money for charities such as the newly formed Red Cross.

11. Women worked as spies, special agents, uniformed officers, and as administrative, technical and professional personnel of the Secret Service.

12. Women were code breakers, decrypting secret messages.

13. Women worked in clerical jobs during the World Wars.

14. Women drove vehicles, repaired aeroplanes, worked in laboratories and cryptology, served as radio and telephone operators, rigged parachutes, test-flew planes and even trained their male counterparts in air combat tactics.

15. Women bore arms and charged into battle, too. Like the men, there were women who lived in camps, suffered in prisons, and died for their respective causes.

Allow the women to bring victory according to the prophetic word of the Lord. God is working mysteriously through women to stamp on the head of the snake and finish him off permanently!

Chapter 13

RECOVER QUICKLY

And David enquired at the Lord, saying, Shall I pursue after this troop? shall I overtake them? And he answered him, Pursue: FOR THOU SHALT SURELY OVERTAKE THEM, AND WITHOUT FAIL RECOVER ALL.

1 Samuel 30:8

Recover from your interaction with the devil. Man’s interaction with satan has changed everything. Perhaps, you have fallen to satan’s deceptions. Perhaps you have fallen into sin. Perhaps you have fallen into stupid deceptions and delusions. Perhaps you have made stupid mistakes. Perhaps satan made a fool out of you and abused you!

Recover Your Holiness

It is important to recover from your interaction with demons, as well as demonic men and women. Interacting with certain humans is like interacting with the devil himself. This is why certain sexual interactions can destroy people forever. They are contaminated with injections and serpentine seeds of evil. These seeds germinate and grow into even more evil.

Recover Your Openness

Perhaps you have followed the wrong crowd. Perhaps you have fallen into adultery. Perhaps you have fallen into fornication. Perhaps, you have become a liar, a deceiver and a treacherous person. You never thought you could fall this low. Satan seems to have won a big victory in your life and ministry.

Take heart! This chapter is about how to recover quickly from your interaction with satan and his agents. You can and must recover quickly. What was God’s response to the attack of satan on His beautiful creation?

And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were NAKED; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons. And they heard the voice of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife HID THEMSELVES from the presence of the Lord God amongst the trees of the garden.

Genesis 3:7-8

God reacted immediately to man’s fall. Satan attacked mankind in the Garden of Eden. This devastating attack caused man to be separated from God and God’s presence. Man lost his purity, his holiness, innocence and his openness.

Recover Your Innocence

Adam and Eve went straight into hiding, into the shadows and began to sit at the back! But our Lord did not just accept the loss of Adam and Eve to this wicked being. God immediately made efforts to recover what was lost and to draw His children out of the darkness and into light. God has been working on this rescue plan for years and it is working slowly.

Recover Your Truthfulness

Rebuild after every war! You must cancel the devastations that war brings. Neutralize the pollution in your life that is caused by satan’s interactions and temptations. It is important to start rebuilding after a war with satan. You must seek to undo the effects of every interaction you have had with the enemy.

Satan’s interaction with man produced a profound darkness, secrecy, deception and deterioration in our human character. A devastating retreat from intimacy with God occurred when satan attacked Adam and Eve. A devastating retreat from openness occurred after the fall of man.

After sin, you retreat into secrecy, into darkness and into deceptions. It means that a devastating loss of true fellowship and koinonia has happened to you.

It is important to overcome and recover from the devastating attacks of satan on your life by restoring relationships and closeness to God. Jesus came to this world to restore the closeness and the relationships we once had.

Recover Your Closeness

God reintroduced the possibility of closeness and intimacy with Him through Jesus. God wants you to recover completely from your fall. That’s why we are brought near by the blood of Christ.

Recover Your Intimacy

The lingering effects of war have affected people for many years. Many nations are impoverished and live in constant fear because they once had a war.

Deep darkness, hiding and curses are all effects of the poisonous attack unleashed by satan on the human race in the garden.

This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, AND IN HIM IS NO DARKNESS AT ALL.

1 John 1:5

God seeks to reverse every negative outcome of our war with satan! You must reverse darkness! You must reverse the tendency to hide! You must reverse the wickedness!

Recover Your Faithfulness

You must reverse the tendency for divisions! You must reverse the tendency for disloyalty and treachery in yourself. Reverse these things by determining to walk in light and truth. In God, there is no darkness at all.

This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth: But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.

1 John 1:5-7

Neutralizing and dismantling the devastating attack of satan involves reintroducing the idea of walking in the light and walking in closeness to one another. It is possible to restore intimacy to God and one another by walking in the light.

Recover Your Transparency

Many satanic pillars are dismantled when we can achieve “walking in the light” towards one another and towards God.

Come out from among the trees! Come out from the shadows! Throw light on everything! Prevent the development of hypocrisy in your midst.

From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love.

Ephesians 4:16

God gives fivefold ministries to compact the church so that we can become close and tightly joined to each other again. This direct effort to fitly join the church together is intended to dismantle the effects of satan’s attack on the human race, which has produced so much division, disloyalty, separation and hostility.

Declare a war against pride.

Declare a war against division.

Declare a war against hiding.

Declare a war against secrecy.

Declare a war against darkness.

Declare a love for the truth no matter what it costs.

Declare a love for the implications of the truth.

Declare a war on self-deceiving.

Declare your intention to achieve the original condition of openness which was the pure state in which God created us.

Remove from me the way of lying: and grant me thy law graciously. I have chosen the way of truth: thy judgments have I laid before me. I have stuck unto thy testimonies: O Lord, put me not to shame. I will run the way of thy commandments, when thou shalt enlarge my heart.

Psalm 119:29-32

How to Achieve Openness

a. Speak openly about sin.

b. Speak openly about marriage.

c. Speak openly about relationships.

d. Speak openly about finances.

e. Speak openly about your fears.

f. Speak openly about temptations.

g. Speak openly about weaknesses.

h. Speak openly about temperamental realities.

i. Speak openly about spiritual things.

A Lesson of Recovery

In the secular world, they always attempt to recover from every war and crisis. Great efforts are put in place to recover from the devastation of a war. It’s important to put measures in place to recover from any attack that has happened in your life. Let us see how worldly people make efforts to recover, rather than leaving recovery to chance and happenstance.

The Devastation of World War ll

The effect of World War II was the ultimate and profound destruction everywhere. Millions of European citizens were killed or seriously wounded in World War II and the Holocaust.

Many cities like London, Dresden, Berlin, Cologne, Liverpool, Birmingham and Hamburg were partly or wholly destroyed by the war.

Some regions of Europe experienced famine because agriculture and food production were disrupted by the fighting.

Railways, electric utilities, port facilities, roads, bridges and airports suffered extensive damage during airstrikes and artillery attacks, and the shipping fleets of many countries were sunk.

The Marshall Plan for Recovery

The Marshall Plan was a four-year plan to reconstruct cities, industries and infrastructure that were heavily damaged during the war. This plan aimed also to remove trade barriers between European countries as well as foster commerce between those countries and the United States.

11The Marshall Plan, also known as the European Recovery Program, was a U.S. program providing aid to Western Europe following the devastation of World War II. It was enacted in 1948 and provided more than $15 billion to help finance rebuilding efforts on the continent.11

The Marshall Plan was named after the U.S. Secretary of State George C. Marshall.

The Success of the Marshall Recovery Plan

12By and large, the Marshall Plan was successful in the recovery effort. It gave the needed boost to the European nations that were devastated by the six-year-long war.

As the designer of the plan, George C. Marshall himself said, “Our policy is not directed against any country but against hunger, poverty, desperation and chaos.”12

The countries that received funds under the plan didn’t have to repay the United States, as the monies were awarded in the form of grants. However, the countries did return roughly five per cent of the money to cover the administrative costs of the plan’s implementation. The Marshall Plan was a successful recovery plan that made Europe come back strongly after the war.

Chapter 14

PIERCE SATAN’S HEART

For the word of God is quick, and powerful, AND SHARPER THAN ANY TWOEDGED SWORD piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

Hebrews 4:12

You need an attack weapon in your fight against the devil. You need something that hurts the devil. You need something that pierces your enemy’s heart. I have good news for you. There is something that does that.

The word of God is a sword. In the realm of the spirit, the word of God is a knife! In the realm of the spirit, the word of God is a large hunting knife. Pierce satan’s heart with this knife by teaching fiercely and continually. Attacks and retaliation against satan are possible by piercing the heart of the enemy with the sword of the Spirit.

Take a sword and a knife and pass it through the heart of satan! Which sword? Which knife? Take the sword of the Holy Spirit and use it endlessly. Speak the Word endlessly! Quote it endlessly! Be a man of the Bible!

John Wesley was a man who declared himself to be Unius Libri Homos - A man of one book! What a declaration! Shamelessly declare and brandish the word of God as the basis for everything you say or do!

Use the sword for everything! Use the sword even as your cutlery.

Attack the devil and pierce his heart by preaching, teaching, writing books, writing songs, publishing books and spreading the word of God. The sword of the Spirit is the attack weapon of choice to pierce the enemy’s heart. The strongest, deepest piercings of the sword happen when the word of God is preached repeatedly and with concentration!

Have camps relentlessly and pierce the sword relentlessly into the heart of satan. Teach relentlessly, preach continuously and sink the knife deep into the heart of satan. Surely there will be a reaction in the realm of the spirit.

Remember how the demon reacted to Jesus when he was preaching in the synagogue? The demons burst out and screamed, “Leave us alone”. They could feel the spiritual knife piercing through their demonic hearts and couldn’t bear it any more.

And they were astonished at his doctrine: FOR HE TAUGHT THEM as one that had authority, and not as the scribes. And there was in their synagogue a man with an unclean spirit; AND HE CRIED OUT, SAYING, LET US ALONE; what have we to do with thee, thou Jesus of Nazareth? art thou come to destroy us? I know thee who thou art, the Holy One of God.

Mark 1:22-24

The word of God is a sword. Swords are deadly weapons. Anyone would be frightened to encounter a frenzied enemy brandishing a sword, an axe, a cutlass or a knife. Every enemy would cringe at the thought of a sword fight! If the swords of medieval battles were deadly and frightening it means the sword of the Spirit is equally deadly and frightening to the enemy.

Rise up and let satan meet you as a crazed, frenzied man with a sharp and deadly knife!

You must rise up and use the sword of the Spirit to slash, to stab, to hit and decapitate your enemy the devil.

Take a knife and slash at your enemy by preaching the word of God. Decapitate your deadly enemy with a strong and frightening blow from the word of God.

A LESSON FROM HISTORY: SWORDS ARE DEADLY WEAPONS

1. Swords, axes, cutlasses, hatchets and knives were the main deadly weapons in use before guns were invented.

2. Even after the invention of the gun, knives have remained as secondary weapons used in hand-to-hand combat.

3. The edges of most swords are strong enough to cut through flesh and bone, and cut off legs, arms and heads with a single swipe. A sword can plunge deep into the abdomen. A man can easily be incapacitated by a single well-placed stab or cut in hand-to-hand combat.

4. If the sword hits a major artery or vein, or a nerve plexus, death can occur very quickly. A direct thrust through the heart can kill in ten seconds.

Can you imagine how Satan feels each time you take up the pure word of God and start teaching, writing, preaching and singing it? He sees you swinging a sharp sword all over the place and he is terrified.

What do the demons feel each time they see you swinging this spiritual cutlass, spiritual sword, spiritual hatchet, spiritual tomahawk, spiritual blade and spiritual knife? They are terrified!

Wow! Satan is terrified by the word of God! He is genuinely frightened by it!

Let’s do this thing! Let’s preach the word and terrify the demons with our flashing, sharpened swords!

Chapter 15

RESTRICT ENEMY MOVEMENT

Leave no [such] room or foothold for the devil [give no opportunity to him].

Ephesians 4:27 (AMPC)

In war, you must restrict your enemy’s movement. The enemy must not have free access to you. Devils must not be able to freely walk around your space. This is what Paul meant when he said “Give no place to the devil”! Give no place to the devil means limit satan’s movement and restrict satan in your life. Give the devil very little space in your life!

Don’t give him room to manoeuvre! When the devil is free to roam around in your garden, he will notice all the options he can use to enter your house.

Give satan very few options of things he can do against you. How do you do this? Leave no space, no room or place for demons to move into and settle! To restrict your enemy is to limit him greatly and give him no room to manoeuvre around you.

Wherefore PUTTING AWAY LYING, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another. Be ye ANGRY AND SIN NOT: let not the sun go down upon your wrath: NEITHER GIVE PLACE TO THE DEVIL. Let him that stole STEAL NO MORE: but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth. LET NO CORRUPT COMMUNICATION proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.

Ephesians 4:25-29

The devil will have very little to work with if you are not a liar, not easily angered, not a thief, and not an evil speaker. Avoiding these four sins will truly limit demons and restrict them in relation to you!

In the scriptures above we learn how to restrict the enemy’s movement in our lives and to give no place to the devil. We learn the physical actions which are associated with giving a place and opportunity to satan. Satan wants opportunities to invade your life.

Limit the enemy’s movements in your life by restricting his access to you! There are certain actions of yours that will open the way and give access to demons to operate.

From the scriptures above, we see that four things - lying, anger, stealing and evil speaking - allow evil spirits to operate freely in our lives and give place to devils!

Apostle Paul described these four things (lying, anger, stealing and evil speaking) in association with giving a place for the devil to manoeuvre against you. These four things give satan many options for the types of attacks he could launch against you. Let’s look at each one of these activities.

1. Lying is a principal door opener for satan. It gives demons access to you. It gives the devil several options of temptations, tests and trials he can launch against you. Liars are often greatly demoted and mistrusted when they are found out. If you are a liar, you have allowed the enemy a free and easy room to enter and destroy you one day. Demons are moving all around you in the dark because they can see the open access to you through your many lies and deceptions!

2. Uncontrolled anger is another activity that gives satan liberty around you. Your anger causes your brain not to function well and opens doors for demons. As long as your reasoning and understanding are darkened, you will be exposed to demonic attacks! If you have uncontrolled anger, you have given the devil a place to enter and destroy you one day. It is important to restrict the enemy’s movement around you. Demons are prowling around you in the dark because they can see open doors through your uncontrolled anger!

3. Stealing also opens doors to the devil. Once you steal and are a thief, you have given room for devils to freely invade and feel free in your life. Most thieves are eventually discovered and dealt with harshly. If you are a thief, you have allowed the enemy to take you up and destroy you one day. Demons are everywhere around you because they can see the access to you because you steal!

4. Evil speaking like slander, lying, criticizing, murmuring, and flattery is also a demon-liberating action. Satan is free to move in your life when you speak in an evil way. When you speak evil, slander, speak maliciously, lie, insult etc, you give the devil a place to enter in and destroy you one day. Demons are moving all around you in the dark because they can see the open access to you through your many slanderous and blasphemous statements.

Therefore, to give no place to the devil, restrict satan’s movements in your life! Completely distance yourself in every way from these four things; anger, deception, evil speaking and stealing. This will greatly limit satan’s options and opportunities when he is seeking a place to launch out against you!

The devil will have very little to work with if you are not a liar, not a thief, not an evil speaker and not easily angered. Avoiding these four sins will truly limit demons and restrict them in relation to you!

Chapter 16

BIND STRONG MEN!

Or else how can one enter into a strong man’s house, and spoil his goods, except he first BIND THE STRONG MAN? and then he will spoil his house.

Matthew 12:29

Binding the strong man is about restricting the strong man. Binding the strong man is to tie him up, just like how it is done in the movies! How do you tie up satan? Which ropes are used to tie up the devil?

A strong man is the cause of your crises. The strong man is the person who holds the key to ending your conflict. The strong man is the reason why you still have a problem. When you take him down the beast will die and the crises will melt away.

First of all, you must identify the strong man. You must identify the main spirit behind the conflict. Then and only then can you deal with the strong man. Take up a special lamentation against the spirit that is behind him.

Do not allow evil spirits to operate freely in your midst. Deal with him and fight the strong man specifically.

If there is a strong man who is the cause of your conflict and crises, he needs to be dealt with! When the strong man is bound, the conflict will die naturally.

How do we bind strong men?

1. A strong man is dealt with by prayers of agreement.

Verily I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever ye shall loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven. Again I say unto you, That if two of you shall agree on earth as touching any thing that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my Father which is in heaven.

Matthew 18:18-19

You can deal with the strong man through prayers of agreement. You can bind the devil when you meet with other believers and agree in prayer.

Bind up the devil in your prayer times. Do not have prayer times where there is no binding of devils. In your prayer times specifically bind demons and their activities. Prayers of binding and loosing are very effective in dealing with the strong man.

2. A strong man is dealt with by prayers and fasting.

Then came the disciples to Jesus apart, and said, Why could not we cast him out? And Jesus said unto them, Because of your unbelief: for verily I say unto you, If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you. Howbeit this kind goeth not out but by prayer and fasting.

Matthew 17:19-21

You can deal with the strong man through prayer and fasting. You can bind the devil in prayer and fasting!

Bind up the devil in prayer and fasting. In your prayer time specifically bind demons and their activities. Binding of the strong man is a very powerful and effective method of prayer.

3. Evangelists must bind the strong man.

Soul-winning ministries must deal with the strong man if they are to ever win souls. How do you know when you have bound the strong man? The answer is very simple. When you have the goods (souls) of the strong man in your possession, it is evidence that your binding of the strong man was successful!

4. Pastors must bind strong men .

And that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, who are taken captive by him at his will.

2 Timothy 2:26

Church growth is only possible by binding the strong man. Many church members are taken captive by satan and that is why they behave badly. Winning souls is winning captives from satan’s prison. Pastors who do not spend quality time binding the strong man will not experience genuine church growth.

Declare prayer sessions to bind the strong man! As you keep praying, you will see a mysterious church growth taking place.

When the church grows larger, it is evident that captive souls are being set free. As strong men are bound, captives go free and the church grows. As your church grows, it shows that you have actually bound satan in his own house and walked away with his former captives!

5. A strong man is dealt with by preaching.

The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, TO PREACH DELIVERANCE TO THE CAPTIVES and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised,

Luke 4:18

Deliverance from captivity takes place through preaching. The word of God is a sword that severs the chains that keep us bound as captives.

Preaching is a mighty tool of deliverance from captivity! As strong men are bound, captives go free and the church grows.

Captives are released by the preaching of deliverance!

Chapter 17

LAUNCH UNEXPECTED STRIKES

Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judaea in the days of Herod the king, behold, there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem,

Matthew 2:1

The birth of Jesus was the most astonishing strike from Jehovah against the wickedness and pride of satan! Surprise satan by being unusually and unexpectedly humble!

Satan never expected the Son of God on this planet. Satan thought he was safe here on earth and was establishing himself as the god of this world!

Demons thought they were untouchable as they plagued the human race with unbearable diseases and torments.

Almighty God released an amazing strike against satan by sending His only Son, Jesus, to be born of a woman. This was an unusual and unexpected act of humility!

If the Almighty were to make a move against satan, surely it would not be in one of the most humble and lowly places on earth. Jesus would have been expected to come to earth as a king because He was the King of kings and the Lord of lords. Instead, He was born as a vulnerable little baby in Bethlehem.Acts of humility are always great surprise attacks that unsettle the enemy.

It is time to surprise the enemy with your unexpected and extraordinary step of humility! Launch a noteworthy, humbling surprise attack on satan. Surprise satan by being unusually and unexpectedly humble!

But He gives a greater grace. Therefore it says, “God is opposed to the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”

James 4:6 (NASB)

Satan is the father of all pride. He does not expect nor want humble things. Satan is the originator of all forms of pride in all types of people.

Put on a humble disguise and slip through all the defences of satan. You will arrive inside the stronghold of satan with all your weapons.

Surprise satan in many ways. Learn from Apostle Paul. Apostle Paul had a great revelation of humility. He shocked satan by rejoicing over the distressing aspects of his life.

And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ’s sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong.

2 Corinthians 12:9-10

Unexpected Strikes of Humility

1. Hide your glory: Hide your beauty intentionally. Hide the glory and shine on your life and ministry with every opportunity. Resign from glorious, high and mighty groups and join children’s groups. That’s how to keep on the drab clothes of humility and cover the glory.

2. Talk about your weaknesses and personal problems rather than your achievements and victories: That’s how to keep on the drab clothes of humility. That’s how to cover your glory.

3. Be a child in allowing yourself to be cared for and looked after as a child: Be a child in allowing yourself to be ministered to in innocence, purity and holiness.

4. Confess your sins more and more: Be humble about your sinful self. David confessed his sins more than anyone and became a man after God’s heart.

5. Forgive others, and release others from their mistakes by considering yourself: Your consideration of yourself as a low sinner is revealed in your releasing others from their sins. A person who sees himself as low and unworthy is also not willing to prosecute and reject sinners.

6. Go to humble places: That is a direct surprise move. It will lead you to a defenceless enemy. Satan was blind to the horse stables and other lowly places in Bethlehem. Satan was shocked to find Jesus suddenly on the earth and among animals in a stable. Satan was expecting Jesus in kings’ palaces.

7. Be humble and listen to others: There are those who never listen to another person. Open yourself to listen to others. Hear other opinions and change direction to prove to yourself that you are malleable.

8. Be humble and have youthful and exciting sex: Youthful sex (as against the Begrudging and Reluctant Sex of the Irritable; BRSI) makes you a young and excitable person. Proud women do not have happy or exciting sex at all. They give grudging, very poor and minimal performances because they see themselves as doing someone a favour. They also see themselves as above base and youthful sexual activities. Queenly pride is revealed in a sexual life full of excuses and reasons. Proud people are simply unable to flow as young and humble children.

9. Be humble by embracing embarrassing situations: Embrace what people find shameful and embarrassing and press on in the service of the King.

10. Be humble. Do not criticize or verbally attack your attackers: Criticism reveals an awful arrogance.

11. Humble yourself; take young people as your assistants: Appoint new and young people into important positions as an act of humility. Prideful older people look down on young people. Older people see themselves as being above the young ones. They will not even attend the appointment services of these young ones because they despise them. The proud are often unable to stoop down and work properly with the young.

12. Humble yourself; appoint people from humble backgrounds: The appointment and acceptance of people with humble backgrounds is an unexpected move of humility.

13. Humble yourself; relate with foreigners: Being able to relate well with any foreigner will be one of the greatest signs of your unexpected humility.

14. Be devoted to teaching basics and doing basic things: Those lowly “basic teachings” and activities are the signs of humility in your ministry. Teach young people. Teach children. This is your great sign of humility.

Chapter 18

KEEP MOVING

Those who want to kill me set their traps, those who would harm me talk of my ruin; all day long they scheme and lie.

Psalm 38:12 (NIV)

A trap exists to stop you from moving about freely. Your very movement is what prevents the enemy from having access to you.

A moving target is far more difficult to destroy than a stationary one. Satan’s wish is for you to be stationary, trapped in one spot. Just the fact that there is movement in your life and ministry gives you some form of safety.

Indeed, if you are stuck in one place, you are in danger of being killed or destroyed. Those who want to kill you would love to trap you and pin you down. They want to fasten you to one spot.

Your continuous movement is a great mystery to the enemy. It is not so easy to hit a moving target. Satan cannot fix his eyes on you because one moment you are here, in the next moment, you are not there.

God has embedded your victory over satan in the mystery of movement! You must escape every form of entrapment and keep moving. What is holding you down? What has trapped you? Who has trapped you? Are you in a snare?

I find more bitter than death the woman who is a snare, whose heart is a trap and whose hands are chains. The man who pleases God will escape her, but the sinner she will ensnare.

Ecclesiastes 7:26 (NIV)

Movement is important for victory against your great enemy. Satan’s great effort is to fasten you to one spot and finish you off.

Movement is mysterious because God does not change His callings and decisions. God is unchanging and seems to be stationary. Yet all that God has ever done is to create things which never stop moving. Today God is going to set you free so that you can be mobile! You will escape from any entrapment.

Our souls have escaped like a bird from the trapper’s snare; The snare is broken and we have escaped.

Psalm 124:7 (NASB)

God created you to move and never stop moving! Do not allow satan to pin you down!

Understand the mystery of movement! Understand the power of movement! Keep moving financially. Keep moving in the ministry. Keep moving in your pastoral ministry. Keep moving as a prophet. There are many new things ahead and you will only see them if you keep moving.

The Mystery of Movement

1. Your ministry must be full of the mystery of movement.

For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring.

Acts 17:28

Keep moving for your own survival! Without movement, you will not survive! Keep movements alive!

2. The ministry of Jesus was full of the mystery of movement.

And JESUS WENT ABOUT all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every sickness and every disease among the people.

Matthew 9:35

Ministry is movement. You need to keep moving to survive. Wild animals know that they must move without having read this book.

A minister of the gospel must know that movement is important for his safety, his survival and the continuation of his ministry. There must be some kind of movement in your life. Everything God has created is moving. The earth is moving right now at a speed of 107,000 km/h. The earth is rotating at a speed of 1,670km/h. Isn’t that amazing? Our sun and its solar system are moving around in the Milky Way Galaxy at a speed of 828,000 km/h.

When therefore the Lord knew how the Pharisees had heard that Jesus made and baptized MORE DISCIPLES THAN JOHN (Though Jesus himself baptized not, but his disciples,) HE LEFT JUDEA, and departed again into Galilee. And he must needs go through Samaria.

John 4:1-4

When Jesus’ ministry started working, He made many converts and had crowds thronging Him. Notice that Jesus’ response to His successful ministry was to just keep moving. When the ministry grew, Jesus simply moved out of town to the next place.

Spiritual people are always on the move! Jesus refused to be encircled! He kept moving to prevent encirclement. That is what you must do. Keep moving! Break out of entrapment and overcome every overwhelming encirclement by your enemy.

Jesus refused to be fastened to one spot. Just moving forward will cause you to escape encirclement. Everything God has created is moving!

3. The Holy Spirit is full of the mystery of movement .

And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And THE SPIRIT OF GOD MOVED upon the face of the waters.

Genesis 1:2

The first time we hear of the Holy Spirit, He is moving. He moved to create the world and to do the mighty works of God. All through the Bible we see the Spirit moving in people and moving through people. The Holy Spirit leads people to keep moving.

For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as THEY WERE MOVED by the Holy Ghost.

2 Peter 1:21

The Holy Spirit gets men to move because He is always moving. When the Spirit comes upon you there will be movement. There will be movement in the Spirit! Movement in your heart! Movement in your mind! Movement in your body! Movement in your life! Movement in your ministry!

4. God reveals the mystery of movement in the planets.

Everything God has created is moving! That is a great mystery and reveals God’s plans and purposes. The planets are moving at incredible speeds. Since we were born, we have never stopped moving. As I write this book, I am moving at an incredulous speed of 107,000 km/h. That’s faster than any jet in this world. That is the speed with which the earth is moving around the sun.

The Earth is Moving

1. The Earth is moving around the sun at 107,000 km/h.

2. The Earth is rotating at a speed of 1,670 km/h.

3. The Earth takes 365 days to go around the sun.

4. The Earth takes 24 hours to rotate to create day and night.

Mercury is Moving

1. Mercury is moving around the sun at about 170,500 km/h

2. Mercury is rotating at a speed of 10.8 km/h.

3. Mercury takes 88 days to move around the sun at top speed.

4. Mercury takes 176 days to create day and night.

Venus is Moving

1. Venus is moving around the sun at 126,000km/h.

2. Venus is rotating at a speed of 6.5 km/h.

3. Venus takes 225 days to move around the sun at top speed.

4. Venus takes 117 days to create day and night.

Mars is Moving

1. Mars is moving around the sun at 86,871 km/h.

2. Mars is rotating at a speed of about 870 km/h.

3. Mars takes 687 days to move around the sun at top speed.

4. Mars takes 25 hours to rotate and to create days and nights.

Jupiter is moving

1. Jupiter is moving around the sun at 47,000 km/h.

2. Jupiter is rotating at a speed of 43,000 km/h.

3. Jupiter takes 4,333 days (12 years) to move around the sun.

4. Jupiter takes about 10 hours to rotate creating day and night.

Saturn is moving

1. Saturn is moving around the sun at 35,000 km/h

2. Saturn is rotating at a speed of 37,000km/h.

3. Saturn takes 10,759 days (30 years) to move around the sun.

4. Saturn takes 10.7 hours to rotate creating day and night.

The Sun is Moving

Everything God has created is moving. That is a great mystery and reveals God’s will, God’s plans and purposes. Our solar system is moving with an average velocity of 720,000 kilometres per hour. That means the sun is also moving at a tremendous speed.

The Animals are Moving

Everything God has created is moving. That is a great mystery and reveals God’s plans and purposes.

It is a great mystery that animals constantly move, covering great distances. Migrating animals decide where to go and in which direction to fly. Some animals travel with the help of the sea currents.

The reindeer find their direction with the help of the sun’s rays, whilst birds follow the coastline. Animals move to escape harsh weather, to search for food and to reach their breeding grounds.

Here is a list of some animals and their amazing migrations:

13THE WILDEBEEST: These make a yearly round trip that spans hundreds of miles and two countries, Tanzania and Kenya. The herds move in a great column between the two countries.

THE EEL: Eels spend their lives in rivers. They travel from the river to the sea to lay eggs. When the eggs hatch, the parent eels die and the young ones travel back to the river from where the parents had started their journey.

THE MONARCH BUTTERFLY: The Monarch Butterfly flies 4,800 km from Canada to Mexico. Each year, millions of monarch butterflies leave the northern ranges and fly south to the Oyamel Fir Forests near the Sierra Madre mountains, where they gather in huge roosts to survive the winter.

THE ARCTIC TERN: The Arctic Tern travels a distance of nearly 35,000 km between the Arctic and the Antarctic twice a year. These small birds fly from pole to pole every year. It is the longest bird migration.

THE EUROPEAN STORK: The European Stork travels from Europe to Africa every winter. When spring comes, it returns to Europe to the same nest.

THE SIBERIAN CRANE: The Siberian Cranes nest in Western Siberia and migrate to India. Their migration route stretches to about 6,450km.

THE HUMPBACK WHALE: These giants spend their summers at feeding grounds in cold, nutrient-rich waters that support an abundance of krill and small fish. In the winter, they migrate to warmer waters to raise their calves and avoid predation by killer whales. It is a journey that can take over 8,000 kilometres each way, making it the longest migration of any mammal on earth. Humpback whales are slow swimmers, but they make up for it by travelling non-stop for days at a time.

SALMON: Salmon spend most of their lives in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, where they feed and grow before migrating back to the rivers where they were born. Salmon swim across the ocean to the mouth of the river. To reach their final destination, the salmon must swim up the river, in an event known as “the salmon run”. In an incredible feat of endurance, they swim up to 400 kilometres (250 miles) against the current, battling rapids and leaping up waterfalls, all the while avoiding predators that congregate along the banks in hopes of catching a nutritious meal. When they finally reach their birthplace, the salmon produce and deposit eggs in large numbers and then die.13

Learn from this great mystery of movement! God will keep you alive and well just by this mystery of movement. Our unchanging God has created a world of continuous movement within a stable, orderly and unchanging structure. What an amazing design! Movement was created for survival and continuity! Keep moving!

Chapter 19

MAINTAIN SUPERIOR INTELLIGENCE

For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.

Romans 8:14

Becoming a son of God is becoming mightier than a mere man.

You can maintain superiority over satan by having a superior intelligence network. The Holy Spirit is the One who will give you advanced knowledge and superiority over satan. God knows everything. If you can follow the leading of the Holy Spirit, you will be like someone with the highest level of military intelligence.

The key to superior intelligence and knowledge is the Holy Spirit’s leading and guidance. Through the Holy Spirit, you receive critical words of wisdom, revelation and knowledge. Following the Spirit is the key to having the upper hand and defeating the enemy.

Thus saith the Lord, thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel; I am the Lord thy God which teacheth thee to profit, which leadeth thee by the way that thou shouldest go. O that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments! then had thy peace been as a river, and thy righteousness as the waves of the sea: Thy seed also had been as the sand, and the offspring of thy bowels like the gravel thereof; his name should not have been cut off nor destroyed from before me. And they thirsted not when he led them through the deserts: he caused the waters to flow out of the rock for them: he clave the rock also, and the waters gushed out.

Isaiah 48:17-19, 21

A LESSON FROM HISTORY

Military intelligence is the collection of information of military or political value for your war. You can develop a calm overwhelming superiority over the enemy through a highly developed intelligence network which gives and provides critical information.

Defeat the enemy using superior intelligence that keeps you one step ahead. Military intelligence makes your army superhuman. Having accurate, timely, useful intelligence and information is the key to defeating an enemy.

Israel’s Mossad is known as a formidable intelligence agency because of its intelligence gathering abilities. This makes Israel a frightening enemy and gives them the upper hand in their wars.

Military Intelligence

1. A good military intelligence network means you will know your enemy’s capabilities.

2. A good military intelligence network lets you know about your enemy’s intentions.

3. A good military intelligence network makes you properly estimate your own strength.

4. A good military intelligence network lets you understand how effective your current efforts and systems are.

5. Good military intelligence will help you to prepare for attacks.

6. Good military intelligence will help you estimate how good your responses will be in the event of war.

7. Good military intelligence helps prevent losses of life and territory.

The Holy Spirit’s Intelligence

It is interesting that all the above functions of a good, secular military intelligence and spy network are perfectly done by the Holy Spirit.

1. The Holy Spirit’s intelligence and guidance means you will know your enemy’s capabilities. You will learn what satan is capable of doing to you if you allow him to.

2. The Holy Spirit’s intelligence lets you know about your enemy’s intentions. Through the Holy Spirit, you will know what demons are planning to do to you.

3. The Holy Spirit’s intelligence and guidance make you properly estimate your own strength. The Holy Spirit will not allow you to have a wrong impression of your own strengths and weaknesses.

4. The Holy Spirit’s intelligence lets you understand how effective your current efforts and systems are.

5. The Holy Spirit’s intelligence will help you prepare for attacks.

6. The Holy Spirit’s intelligence will help you estimate how good your responses will be in the event of war.

7. The Holy Spirit’s intelligence helps prevent loss of life and territory.

Chapter 20

USE ENCRYPTED CODES

For he that speaketh in an unknown tongue speaketh not unto men, but unto God: for no man understandeth him; howbeit in the spirit he speaketh mysteries.

1 Corinthians 14:2

Fighting with an encrypted language that no one understands is a master key to winning a war. God has given us an encrypted language to use in our warfare and our ministries. Tongues afford us secret communication with heaven. You can communicate directly with heaven using your special encrypted code, which is speaking in tongues!

Secret communication which no man understands is the key to defeating satan. When you speak in tongues, no man understands you. Men do not understand you and evil entities equally do not know what you are saying. This is our great weapon; speaking in tongues! The language which no man understands.

Rarely have I not seen any great man of God who does not speak in tongues for hours at a stretch. From my little experience in ministry, speaking in tongues is essential and life-changing. When I look back over the years, I can say that I never really knew what my real problems were! I did not know who my real enemies were! I did not really know what to pray about!

Over the years I think that most of the prayers I prayed with my understanding were not addressing the really serious issues around me. God knew many things and He expected me to pray in the Spirit and to be led by the Spirit in prayer.

Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.

Romans 8:26

Indeed, the Holy Spirit knows what I must pray for. The Holy Spirit knows what I need. He is guiding me! I can pray endlessly in tongues! I believe in praying in tongues for days. This is the secret weapon that wins wars against satan.

It is your time to pray in tongues for hours, days and weeks. In the Spirit, you will be operating mysteriously and your enemy will wonder what is happening to him.

Wait on God and pray in tongues for three hours. Pray in tongues for seven hours! Pray in tongues for twelve hours! Satan is losing heavily against you as you spend hours and days speaking in tongues and using your encrypted code.

A WARNING FROM HISTORY

Fighting with an encrypted and coded language was a major part of the Second World War. During the Second World War, the Atlantic Ocean became a very important route because British and American ships travelled across it to bring supplies and goods to Britain. Without travelling across the Atlantic Ocean, Britain could not survive the war. Everything that came to Britain from anywhere somehow had to come through the Atlantic Ocean.

The Germans developed submarines which they called U-boats which lined up in the Atlantic Ocean and torpedoed and sunk all ships going to Britain with supplies.

The submarines of the Germans were a terrible menace to the British during the war. During the first seven months of the war, the U-boats (German submarines) sank 200 ships.

The Famous Submarine U-boat Encrypted Code

The German submarines had to communicate with each other under the water so they could congregate where the British ships were, torpedo them and sink them. Unfortunately for the Germans, these radio messages from the submarines could be intercepted by the British ships and they could localise where the German submarines were and bomb them out of the water. The German submarines therefore developed a special encrypted language that no one could understand or interpret. This helped them to escape from the British under the water.

The Germans had what they called an enigma machine which could send highly coded messages that the British could not understand no matter what they did. If only the British could understand the radio messages, they would know where the U-boats were and be able to attack them!

The Germans used the Morse code that was encrypted by the enigma machine. Every letter that was typed into the enigma machine would cause another letter to come up. There were millions of different settings and it was simply impossible for the British to understand their enemy’s messages or plans.

The secret and encrypted language of communication used by the German submarines was so successful that by the time the war was over they had sunk over 4,000 ships and killed over 29,000 seamen. This encrypted message of communication was very successful and was the great secret of the German submarines.

The Day the Encrypted Code of the Germans Was Discovered

Britain only began to win the war against Germany when they decoded the secret unintelligible and encrypted messages of the German submarines.

One day, one of the German submarines (code-named U-110) was damaged and surfaced on the ocean. U-110 had survived an attack but was seriously damaged. The captain of the submarine, Kapitänleutnant Lemp announced “Last stop, everybody out”, meaning “Abandon ship”.

The submarine crew came under fire from the British when they came up onto the U-boat’s deck. As the crew attempted to swim away, Kapitan Lemp realised that U-110 was not sinking and attempted to swim back to it to destroy the secret material but was shot by a British soldier and was never seen again.

A British naval boarding party, led by Sub-Lieutenant David Balme, got onto the U-110 submarine and stripped it of everything portable, including her Kurzsignale (Short Signal Book) and the long sought-after enigma machine. The British had now captured a submarine that had their enigma machines on board.

With the help of the captured enigma machine, the British were able to figure out the codes of the German U-Boats and from then on, intercepted all the messages of the submarines.

How the Code Won the War

After they took the enigma machine and cracked the code, the British were able to divert all their convoys away from the submarines and no longer experienced terrible losses of ships and lives.

This immediately turned the tide of the war against Germany and the Germans never understood why things were changing so much. After a while, the Germans must have realized that their secret encrypted messages were being read by the British.

A Coded Language Can Win the War

It is important to see how an encrypted and coded messaging system defeated and wreaked havoc against Britain and its allies for so long. Sinking 4000 ships of your enemy just because of a special coded language that keeps the enemy out of the loop! Imagine that!

For he that speaketh in an unknown tongue speaketh not unto men, but unto God: for no man understandeth him; howbeit in the spirit he speaketh mysteries.

1 Corinthians 14:2

In the same way, secret communication which no man understands is the key to defeating satan. When you speak in tongues, no man understands you. Men do not understand you and evil entities equally do not know what you are saying.

For years, Great Britain did not understand the moves of the German submarines and encountered severe and painful losses for years.

Satan does not understand our prayer language when we speak in tongues. “No man understandeth …”! The devil does not understand it either! It is a secret language which we have with God. Let us use it and turn the tide of the war against satan!

This is our great weapon - speaking in tongues! The language which no man understands. Do not be carnal. Do not be diplomatic! Do not try to be stiff and formal! Satan is losing heavily against you as you spend hours and days speaking in tongues.

Wait on God and pray in tongues for hours and days. Pray in tongues all night! A change will most definitely happen in your ministry!

Chapter 21

PREPARE ESCAPE ROUTES

There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but GOD IS FAITHFUL, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also MAKE A WAY TO ESCAPE that ye may be able to bear it.

1 Corinthians 10:13

There is a clear escape plan for you in the realm of the Spirit. God has an alternative route that you should know about. God has an alternative way that you can use to escape to safety.

You may never have intended to use a spare tyre, but it is a blessing that a spare tyre exists and that you can use it when the need arises.

You may not have intended to use a parachute, but you must use it if the need arises. I believe fighter pilots are happier to come back to the ground on a parachute than to die in a plane crash.

You will be happy that lifeboats exist in the hour that you need one. If the owners of the Titanic had had more lifeboats for their passengers, they would have at least saved more lives. I know the passengers of the Titanic never intended to be out on the icy sea in a small lifeboat, but that alternative was a way of escape from a far greater evil.

Believe in the idea of lifeboats! God has an alternative that will help you escape from satan’s traps and schemes.

Predetermined escapes are the strategy of choice in battling surprise attacks. What are the expected strikes of the enemy? All ministers can expect an attack of pride, lust and deception!

Previously prepared escape routes are important. Take a step in the opposite direction of all these evils and be determined to stay as far from these things as possible.

Do not be afraid of alternative routes, ways and methods God gives you. God creates ways of escape from sticky situations. You must discover the ways God has created for you to overcome and escape.

Expect your enemy to attack you with every kind of wicked strategy. Encirclement! Sieges! Flank attacks! Counter attacks! Expect them all! But prepare for yourself an escape plan!

An escape plan is a good plan to have because you will defeat the enemy by escaping with all your troops and weapons and be ready to fight again another day!

Many divine escapes are given by the Lord, and a good general needs to prepare and create escape routes ready to be used in the event of encirclement or entrapment.

Overcome and break out of a siege by using your well-prepared escape plan. Have a well-thought-through escape plan which can be used to the amazement of your enemy who has besieged and encircled you. God is in the business of creating divine escapes and alternative routes!

Satan is always seeking to trap you and to prevent your escape. Satan sought to trap Jesus on earth. Satan sought to entice Jesus with security, peace, stability and a good earthly life.

Jesus saw through all that!

Jesus was never trapped by satan!

A LESSON FROM HISTORY

The Escape of the British Army from France

After Germany invaded Poland in September of 1939, Britain sent part of its army to France to help fight against Germany. However, they did not accomplish much and were driven out of Europe.

The British armies ended up being trapped in the coastal town of Dunkirk and needed to cross the British Channel to get to England. There were not enough boats and there was not enough time to get this large army out of Dunkirk and across the sea. The Germans were closing in and threatening to wipe them out in Dunkirk.

As the mighty, well-prepared armies of Germany closed in on the British forces, the British Royal Navy organized a seaborne escape for them. An improvised assortment of ships and small vessels were mobilized to evacuate the surrounded British armies. Various ferries, private little boats, tugboats, yachts, and an assortment of “little ships” were dispatched to Dunkirk’s beaches to collect British troops and transfer men to bigger ships for the voyage to England.

Whilst the evacuation was being carried out, the Germans bombarded the ships from the air and sea, trying to prevent their escape. The vessels had to contend with attacks by German S-boats, dive-bombers, and artillery.

More than 330,000 stranded troops escaped from France; only a skeleton force was left behind to man the perimeter of Dunkirk. What an escape that was!

On 6 June 1944 (D-Day), these same British armies who escaped from Dunkirk, came back to re-invade France on their way to defeat the German armies. By escaping, the British forces were able to prepare themselves and come back to liberate Europe from Hitler’s grip.

Escaping from the enemy will always be important so that you can fight again another day.

Chapter 22

FIGHT BY WRESTLING

For WE WRESTLE not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.

Ephesians 6:12

There is a wrestling match you are going to have in the ministry! You must win the wrestling battles! Wrestling is a very personal battle. Wrestling has to do with an intimate fight. Something personal and intimate! Wrestling is a fight in the secret places!

Many ministers wrestle personally and continually with particular intimate and personal demons! Whether you believe it or not, you may be wrestling with an enemy who knows you and fights you intimately.

Wrestling speaks of close and personal combat. A wrestling demon may fight you about something private, something in your marriage, or something to do with your health or sexuality.

You must understand that the demons which target a minister of the gospel, engage in personal battles and intend to destroy him through intimate issues.

When men strive together one with another, and the wife of the one draweth near for to deliver her husband out of the hand of him that smiteth him, and putteth forth her hand, and taketh him by the secrets: Then thou shalt cut off her hand, thine eye shall not pity her.

Deuteronomy 25:11-12

There are personal battles where the enemy takes you up in the secret places of your life. In the scripture above the woman attacked the man in his secret places. What is an attack in the secrets? Usually, the sign that you have been attacked in the secrets are simple:

a. Nobody knows the problems you have in the secrets.

b. You cannot easily share the problem that you have.

c. People would not understand the problem that you have.

For personal battles, you must develop man-to-man wrestling skills. When wrestling, you are alone in the fight and few people will understand what you are going through.

To help you overcome every single wrestling match you must know the common spirits that love to target you. Demons target ministers personally and torment them intimately and daily. Wrestling demons fight you based on their knowledge of you. Everyone in the ministry should expect to encounter these wrestling spirits. Many of these battles are in your mind and your inner thoughts. Prepare for satan to do battle with you by wrestling with you in the secret and intimate aspects of your life.

Wrestling Spirits

1. EXPECT TO WRESTLE WITH THE SPIRIT OF DISOBEDIENCE

Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?

Genesis 3:1

Wrestle with and bind the spirit of disobedience that is fighting against you. Obedience is sometimes a very personal thing. Whatever God has shown you that is right and good, is what you must do. You must personally obey the Lord because you will stand alone before Him at the judgment.

There is always pressure from your relatives and friends to do something close and parallel to the will of God.

Sometimes your spouse will operate by the prince of the power of the air. This is the spirit of disobedience that personally attacked Adam, through Eve. Demons know your circumstances and target you and are always suggesting things that appeal to you personally. These demons constantly push you to disobey God.

You must win this close and personal wrestling match. You must obey the Lord. You must win!

2. EXPECT TO WRESTLE WITH THE ANTI-ANOINTING SPIRIT

And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world.

1 John 4:3

This is the spirit of anti-anointing and anti-giftings. This is the spirit of opposition to high anointings, great giftings and senior offices of ministry. Great opposition and great accusations are often very personal things. Satan knows that he should fight anointed people privately.

Out in the open, the anointing works wonders, and it is not easy to fight the anointed out in public. The anti-anointing spirit will take up the Lord’s anointed by private, secret and intimate oppositions and accusations! Expect to win every wrestling match against the spirit that has decided to oppose the anointing on your life.

3. EXPECT TO WRESTLE WITH THE SPIRIT OF ZANUN

They will not frame their doings to turn unto their God: for the spirit of whoredoms is in the midst of them, and they have not known the Lord.

Hosea 5:4

Their doings will not allow them to turn to their God; for the spirit of fornication is in their midst, and they have not known Jehovah.

Hosea 5:4 (MKJV)

Their deeds do not permit them to return to their God. A spirit of prostitution is in their heart; they do not acknowledge the LORD.

Hosea 5:4 (NIV)

Their deeds will not allow them To return to their God. For a spirit of harlotry is within them, And they do not know the LORD.

Hosea 5:4 (NASB)

The spirit of Zanun is the spirit of whoredoms, the spirit of adultery, the spirit of fornication, the spirit of prostitution and idolatry. Satan’s sexual attacks result in God’s servants being turned into serial fornicators, serial adulterers and perverts. Expect an attack by the spirit of Zanun on your sexuality. May the Lord grant you victory in your wrestling battle!

4. EXPECT TO WRESTLE WITH THE SPIRIT OF SATANAS

Then entered Satan into Judas surnamed Iscariot, being of the number of the twelve. And he went his way, and communed with the chief priests and captains, how he might betray him unto them.

Luke 22:3-4

The word “satan” in the scripture above is translated “Satanas”. This is the spirit that turned Judas into a betrayer and a traitor. Satan entered into Judas and turned him into a monster. Judas became a betrayer because this evil spirit had entered into him. He betrayed the one who had trusted him with a high office and a high position. Betrayal is an experience that is difficult to explain to others. Expect to wrestle with the spirit of Satanas!

This spirit of satan is the accuser, the devil, the betrayer, the spirit of untrustworthiness and treachery. This demon hopes to turn you into a traitor. This spirit will wrestle with you, trying to turn you into a traitor.

Most people can’t believe that satan wishes to turn people into Judases. Even Judas could not believe what he had done when he did it. Most orangus* cannot believe what they have done to themselves!

5. EXPECT TO WRESTLE WITH THE SPIRIT OF ERROR

We are of God: he that knoweth God heareth us; he that is not of God heareth not us. Hereby know we the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.

1 John 4:6

Expect an attack by the spirit of error. This spirit seeks to let you make a personal mistake. This is a personal fight to cause you to make a private mistake and an error in judgment. It is this spirit of error that leads to costly mistakes. It is the spirit that makes you take a false step and a misstep.

Notice how David was led by the spirit of error to make a mistake in the ministry. It was satan who provoked David to make that mistake! David took a false step that cost the lives of many people.

AND SATAN STOOD UP AGAINST ISRAEL, AND PROVOKED DAVID TO NUMBER ISRAEL And David said to Joab and to the rulers of the people, Go, number Israel from Beer-sheba even to Dan; and bring the number of them to me, that I may know it.

1 Chronicles 21:1-2

6. EXPECT TO WRESTLE WITH THE SPIRIT OF TSO-TSO

And he shewed me Joshua the high priest standing before the angel of the Lord, and Satan standing at his right hand to resist him. And the Lord said unto Satan, The Lord rebuke thee, O Satan; even the Lord that hath chosen Jerusalem rebuke thee: is not this a brand plucked out of the fire? Now Joshua was clothed with filthy garments, and stood before the angel. And he answered and spake unto those that stood before him, saying, Take away the filthy garments from him. And unto him he said, Behold, I have caused thine iniquity to pass from thee, and I will clothe thee with change of raiment.

Zechariah 3:1-4

The word “filthy” is translated from the word “tso-tso”. Expect an attack by the spirit of tso-tso. The spirit of tso-tso is the spirit of filthiness. It is the spirit of being soiled; the spirit of iniquity. Notice that Joshua was soiled and filthy in the realm of the spirit. May you be free from anything that soils you, abuses you and makes you filthy!

What does it mean to be filthy? When you are filthy, you are like a drinking glass that has been picked out of a septic tank and then washed clean. Even after being washed, everyone would still be uncertain about using a glass that was once submerged into a septic tank full of faeces.

The glass may be washed clean and disinfected but it is still not the glass you would want to use. There seems to be something wrong with that glass. It is defiled by having been in the septic tank.

It may be a psychological filthiness, but it is still defiling, it is a filthiness that is difficult to erase! This is what it means to be filthy and defiled in spirit. Something has changed because of your experience of being in the septic tank and it has turned you into a defiled vessel!

God does not want defiled and filthy vessels. Be delivered from whatever would make you into a defiled and filthy vessel!

7. EXPECT TO WRESTLE WITH THE SPIRIT OF DEMONIC SURPRISES

In meekness instructing those that oppose themselves; if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth; And that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, who are taken captive by him at his will.

2 Timothy 2:25-26

A snare is a surprise! Expect snares! Expect surprises! Expect an attack by the spirit of sudden surprises. This is the spirit of a snare and of a sudden and unexpected peril. Surprises are powerful in their own right. A surprise can affect you adversely. That is why some people don’t even want a surprise birthday party.

Many people have entered into relationships and connections which they did not plan for. A surprise is overwhelming and can cause all your defences to go down. Many people are surprised when they fall into immorality. This is because what happened was simply a surprise attack! They never expected to fall as low as they did. It was all a big surprise!

It is the snare of the devil that comes to you as a demonic surprise. A snare carries the spirit of sudden peril and sudden, unexpected danger. This spirit of a snare leads to captivity. Captivities, connections, bondages, marriages, alliances, sin and addictions come to people when they are taken by surprise.

Satan longs to launch surprises against you and catch you unexpectedly. The snare is for your peril, your captivity and your permanent lockdown.

God will set you free! I declare you the winner of every surprise wrestling match!

8. EXPECT TO WRESTLE WITH THE SPIRIT OF THE VIPER

But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees come to his baptism, he said unto them, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come?

Matthew 3:7

Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?

Matthew 23:33

Expect an attack by the spirit of a viper! This is the spirit of hypocrisy, fakeness, duplicity and doubleness that hated Jesus. Both Jesus and John the Baptist recognized the Pharisees as vipers! Jesus and John the Baptist knew in the realm of the spirit that fakeness, hypocrisy and pretence were from a viper spirit.

The gaboon viper was once thought to be harmless because it stays very still. What a great deception that is because it is indeed a very poisonous snake! Cunning, sly, artful, malignant, wicked men are the epitome of fakeness and duplicity.

John Wesley and the Criminal

John Wesley was delivered from damnation when he rejected hypocrisy in his life. He was a minister of the gospel but believed that a man was only saved by his good works. One day he and his brother Charles Wesley prayed for a criminal as part of their prison ministry. This man was executed the very next day. This event made John Wesley analyse the hypocrisy of his own beliefs. How could this criminal do any good works to be saved since he was executed just after receiving Christ?

He realized then that there was something wrong with his beliefs of salvation through good works. He was forced to consider that salvation could not be by works of righteousness, but by the grace of God and the blood of Jesus. This event helped John Wesley to eventually receive Christ as his Saviour through faith and not through works.

John Wesley’s salvation and the entire Methodist church came into existence because John Wesley rejected the falsity and the hypocrisy of his own long-standing beliefs! Amazing!

*“Orangu” is a coined term to describe rebellious persons

Chapter 23

USE DETERRENTS

And they slew every one his man: and the Syrians fled; and Israel pursued them: and Ben-hadad the king of Syria escaped on an horse with the horsemen. And the king of Israel went out, and smote the horses and chariots, and slew the Syrians with a great slaughter. And the prophet came to the king of Israel, and said unto him, GO, STRENGTHEN THYSELF, AND MARK, AND SEE WHAT THOU DOEST: FOR AT THE RETURN OF THE YEAR THE KING OF SYRIA WILL COME UP AGAINST THEE.

1 Kings 20:20-22

Your strength is a deterrent to the enemy! The enemy will consider your strength before planning an attack against you. Make yourself so strong that your strength alone will be a deterrent to anyone planning an attack against you.

Destroy the enemy by making it difficult or impossible for him to repeat an attack. Remember the reasons why satan had the upper hand in the past. Make a great investment in the prevention of a repeat attack! This is the wisdom in identifying the reasons for every defeat you have ever had.

Invest heavily in the prevention of such an attack in the same way. Identify all the weak points in your defences and strategies. Build yourself up to make it a hundred times more difficult for anyone to do the exact same thing to you again.

Teach the Word so that people do not once again become those who forget, those who are ungrateful, those who are ignorant, those who are proud and those who pretend. Defences must be raised against all bad experiences so that they cannot easily be repeated.

A LESSON FROM HISTORY: THE “MAD” POLICY

In the military world there is a policy called “MAD”. It stands for “Mutually Assured Destruction”. This is the principle of deterrence, founded on the notion that a nuclear attack by one superpower would be met with an overwhelming nuclear counter-attack such that both the attacker and the defender would be annihilated.

The investment of European countries in nuclear weapons and other weapons reveals this principle of having a strong deterrent. Europe has been turned into an armed camp filled with deadly weapons. These nuclear weapons are a deterrent to anyone who has ideas of dropping a nuclear bomb.

There was a First World War filled with many disasters and painful deaths. Yet, within thirty years, the same groups were on the battlefield again engaging in the same things.

14Only thirty years had passed between the First World War and the Second World War. Both wars were triggered by conflicts between European states and plunged the nations of the world into war.14

It has now been over eighty years since the Second World War ended. Perhaps the deterrent of Mutually Assured Destruction is helping to keep world wars away.

15At the heart of the World Wars was the conflict between Germany and its European neighbours. These were some of the most developed countries in the world and yet they sought to destroy each other.

Germany invaded France twice in 26 years, each time also invading Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg, and drawing Great Britain and Russia into the conflict. Eventually, both of these wars grew to affect the whole world.

The Second World War was more brutal and bloodier than the First World War. The Second World War caused the deaths of about 70 million people. World War II was the first war that claimed the lives of more civilians than soldiers and witnessed the horror of the first systematic genocide in modern history. In addition, many cities, towns and villages across Europe were destroyed by aerial bombing and heavy artillery. The wanton destruction of homes created thousands of refugees and displaced persons. Almost everyone in Europe was affected by the war.15

It is important that a Third World War does not take place, although everyone expects it to happen one day. Perhaps the only thing that will prevent one party from starting the Third World War is the Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD) policy.

Chapter 24

DO URBAN WARFARE

And how I kept back nothing that was profitable unto you, but have shewed you, and have taught you publicly, AND FROM HOUSE TO HOUSE , Testifying both to the Jews, and also to the Greeks, repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.

Acts 20:20-21

Urban warfare is the art of fighting from house to house, from door to door and from person to person. Winning the war in the realm of the spirit also requires a door to door and a house to house approach. The military call this kind of fighting, urban warfare. In this type of battle, you cannot just send bombs or missiles against the enemy. You must go on the ground and move from house to house and from person to person on the streets.

Day by day continuing with one mind in the temple, and breaking bread FROM HOUSE TO HOUSE they were taking their meals together with gladness and sincerity of heart

Acts 2:46 (NASB)

Many ministers of the gospel have forgotten the basics of ministry. The basics of ministry include achieving victory from house to house.

Indeed, many churches were actually churches in people’s houses. Today many see ministry as a pulpit ministry where there is a large crowd out there listening to you. But real ministry is often from house to house - urban warfare.

And every day, in the temple and FROM HOUSE TO HOUSE, they did not stop teaching and preaching the good news of Jesus as the Christ.

Acts 5:42 (NASB)

The first time I led someone to Christ was in an urban warfare situation. The first time I prayed for someone to be filled with the Spirit was an urban warfare situation. The first time I saw someone fall under the power of the Spirit was in someone’s house.

It is time to see that war is not just fighting by sending missiles from a remote location. Prayer is good! But there comes a time that you must go from house to house. Fasting is good but there comes a time when you must go ministering from door-to-door. Television and YouTube ministry are good but there comes a time when you must go out on the streets and move from house to house. Praying, sending money and sending gifts are good. But there comes a time when you must send missionaries on the ground to win the nations!

Urban warfare is the most vicious form of fighting. That is the kind of warfare that was done in the Gaza war and also in Stalingrad. Street by street! House by house! Room by room!

Even Saul knew that he had to go from house to house to root out the Christians. Saul was into urban warfare before he got saved. He continued in urban warfare after he got saved.

As for Saul, he made havock of the church, ENTERING INTO EVERY HOUSE, and haling men and women committed them to prison. Therefore they that were scattered abroad went every where preaching the word.

Acts 8:3-4

Proud pastors who are doomed to fail in ministry will not go from door to door, from house to house, and from person to person. There comes a time when urban warfare is the only way to advance with the war of ministry. Urban warfare is house to house fighting for Jesus Christ!

A LESSON FROM HISTORY

1. Urban warfare is street fighting!

The American army call urban warfare FIBUA; “ Fighting in a Built-Up Area”.

The British army calls urban warfare FISH; “ Fighting in Someone’s House”.

2. Urban warfare is so important that entire cities are built for training in urban warfare. Israel has built a facility called the urban warfare training centre with over 600 buildings including eight storey buildings!

Training for urban warfare is done in the USA and in the United Kingdom too. Entire cities are built specially for this kind of training.

3. Urban warfare is warfare in urban areas such as towns and cities. Urban combat differs from combat in the open at both the operational and the tactical levels. Complicating factors in urban warfare include the presence of civilians and the complexity of the urban terrain.

4. Urban warfare, therefore, is high-intensity warfare which requires the command of small, flexible units. The difficult terrain, narrow streets, lack of open spaces, and high-rise buildings expose soldiers to ambushes and make evacuation of the wounded more difficult.

Famous urban warfare battles

1. The Battle of Hue, Vietnam:

16The 1968 Battle of Hue stands as a stark representation of how tactical manoeuvers can have profound strategic implications in urban warfare. As Vietnam’s third-largest city, Hue witnessed 26 days of intense fighting among its 140,000 civilians against a combined force of roughly 7,500 from the North Vietnamese Army and Viet Cong. While the US Army eventually regained control, the extensive devastation left about 80% of the city in ruins and uprooted an estimated 116,000 inhabitants.

2. The first Chechen war, Grozny:

During the First Chechen War that began in 1994, the Russian Federation sought to reclaim the breakaway Republic of Chechnya. The urban combat that unfolded in this conflict was intense, with both sides employing distinct strategies. Chechen fighters, usually grouped in squads of about 25 men, were predominantly equipped with hand-held anti-tank weapons and precision firearms. They set up three defence lines in the city around fortified posts. Underground tunnels and basements played a pivotal role in their manoeuvers, providing shelter from Russian artillery and air raids.

3. Fallujah, Iraq:

After the U.S. invasion of Iraq, one city would become known to Americans as the epicentre of the war - Fallujah. Vast areas of the city were levelled in two huge battles between insurgents and U.S. troops. The city’s intricate network of streets, structures, defences, and its civilian populace made for a challenging urban battlefield. Although the Coalition excelled in open-field combat, they faced increased difficulties in Fallujah’s urban confines.16

4. The Battle of Stalingrad:

In World War II, from August 1942 into February 1943, German and Soviet forces fought in, and around Stalingrad for the city. It was a sad, hard, house to house battle for this city. Thousands died in this terrible battle.

5. The Battle for Berlin:

Urban warfare was fought from February to early May 1945. In this period there was fierce fighting in and around Berlin to capture the city.

6. The Israel-Hamas war in Gaza:

Bombs and missiles could not win the war in Gaza. It was a good example of urban warfare. Without going from house to house, the Israelis could have no hope of retrieving their hostages.

Chapter 25

CHANGE COMMANDERS

And the Lord said unto Samuel, How long wilt thou mourn for Saul, seeing I have rejected him from reigning over Israel? fill thine horn with oil, and go, I will send thee to Jesse the Beth-lehemite: for I have provided me a king among his sons. And Samuel said, How can I go? if Saul hear it, he will kill me. And the Lord said, Take an heifer with thee, and say, I am come to sacrifice to the Lord.

1 Samuel 16:1-2

It is important to change commanders and leaders who are failing to bring the victory. The key to monumental improvements is to change the commanders. God is a God who changes people. Be a follower of God! You must change people who you have appointed when they are not performing well. You must transfer people who are not able to bring church growth. It is also important to tell people why they are being transferred.

I remember one pastor who complained that he was being transferred from place to place. In actual fact, he had been moved because he was not doing well. If you are part of an army, you will be subject to a change in the commanders. Even God changes his commanders. Anyone who fails to make a change in the commanders is setting himself up for more defeat.

Do not be afraid to dismiss people. Do not be afraid to institute major changes. Do not be afraid to make new appointments. A good general is often forced to change commanders in the midst of the war. Do not be afraid to try new commanders! A change in commanders can help you win the war. Your churches will change when you change commanders.

God Changes Commanders

1. God changed His commander when He withdrew the first Adam and replaced him with the second Adam. This change brought about a great change in the destiny of the human race.

For as by one man’s disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous.

Romans 5:19

2. God changed His commander when He withdrew Elijah and replaced him with Elisha.

And the Lord said unto him, Go, return on thy way to the wilderness of Damascus: and when thou comest, anoint Hazael to be king over Syria: And Jehu the son of Nimshi shalt thou anoint to be king over Israel: and Elisha the son of Shaphat of Abel-meholah shalt thou anoint to be prophet in thy room.

1 Kings 19:15-16

3. God changed His commander when He withdrew Moses and replaced him with Joshua.

And when thou hast seen it, thou also shalt be gathered unto thy people, as Aaron thy brother was gathered. For ye rebelled against my commandment in the desert of Zin, in the strife of the congregation, to sanctify me at the water before their eyes: that is the water of Meribah in Kadesh in the wilderness of Zin. And Moses spake unto the Lord, saying, Let the Lord, the God of the spirits of all flesh, set a man over the congregation, Which may go out before them, and which may go in before them, and which may lead them out, and which may bring them in; that the congregation of the Lord be not as sheep which have no shepherd. And the Lord said unto Moses, Take thee Joshua the son of Nun, a man in whom is the spirit, and lay thine hand upon him;

Numbers 27:13-18

4. God changed commanders when He replaced Saul with David.

And the Lord said unto Samuel, How long wilt thou mourn for Saul, seeing I have rejected him from reigning over Israel? fill thine horn with oil, and go, I will send thee to Jesse the Bethlehemite: for I have provided me a king among his sons.

1 Samuel 16:1

A LESSON FROM HISTORY

There are two names that are famous in the military campaigns of the Second World War - General Montgomery and General Patton. Both of these famous men were replacements and came into the war as replacements and new commanders. Winston Churchill and General Eisenhower were not afraid to try out these new commanders on the field of battle.

General Montgomery

General Montgomery was brought in to become the commander in North Africa. Why was General Montgomery brought in? Why was the previous commander changed? Why did the British Army change their commander in North Africa?

The commander before General Montgomery was called Auchinleck. This man had a strained relationship with the Prime Minister, Winston Churchill. Prime Minister Winston Churchill was intensely frustrated by the slow progress and repeated setbacks in North Africa. He constantly pressed Auchinleck for offensive action and a decisive victory.

Auchinleck, while a capable strategist, often resisted Churchill’s impatient demands, believing the army needed more time for training, reinforcement and proper preparation before launching major offensives. This led to a very poor relationship between the two, with Churchill feeling that Auchinleck lacked the necessary aggression. Auchinleck was seen by many as being too defensive in his approach.

Churchill wanted a commander who would seize the initiative and launch a strong counter-offensive to defeat the Germans decisively. This is why Prime Minister Winston Churchill opted to change his commander. The change in the commander brought about the change in the war, with the British eventually winning the war in North Africa.

Initially, the change in the North African campaign was to bring in General William Gott. Unfortunately, General Gott was killed when his plane was shot down while enroute to take up the position as the new commander.

General Bernard Montgomery was then brought in to replace General William Gott as the commander of the Eighth Army.

17Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery ended up becoming one of the most prominent and successful British commanders of the Second World War (1939-45). The name General Montgomery is well known. He brought major victories to the allied armies. Affectionately known as ‘Monty’, he commanded the Allies in North Africa and in the subsequent invasions of Italy and Normandy.17

After the British Army had suffered many defeats and was in retreat against German General Erwin Rommel’s forces, Montgomery was appointed as the new commander with the hope that he would be capable of restoring confidence and turning the tide. Montgomery succeeded and led the eighth army to a decisive victory at the Battle of El Alamein.

General Patton

General Patton was brought in as commander because his predecessor, General Lloyd Fredendall, had a more cautious and methodical style contrasting with General Patton’s highly aggressive breakout style. Patton, with his aggressive “Blitzkrieg” style, was later able to demonstrate a much faster manoeuvre warfare once he was unleashed.

General George Patton of the US army was brought in to replace General Lloyd Fredendall. General Fredendall was responsible for the disastrous massacre of 3000 American troops in two days in the Atlas Mountains. They were massacred by the German General Rommel. General Fredendall was fired for this terrible failure and replaced with a little-known officer called Lieutenant General George Patton.

Upon taking command, General Patton set about to transform the demoralized and disorganised army into an effective fighting force. His actions were swift, decisive and characteristic of his leadership style. He restored discipline and morale. He imposed strict dress codes and disciplinary rules. He cracked down on sloppiness and demanded obedience and aggressive action. He implemented rigorous training.

Just ten days after taking command, Patton led the army in the Battle of El Guettar. Patton’s presence and aggressive leadership were instrumental in this successful turnaround.

Quotations from General Patton

General George S. Patton Jr. was to become famous for helping to win the war! He was known for his inspirational speeches and strategic thinking during World War II. Some of his most famous quotes include:

1. “Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way”: A famous quote from Patton that conveys his commanding style.

2. “A pint of sweat will save a gallon of blood”: A famous quote that conveys Patton’s strategic thinking.

3. “A good plan, violently executed now, is better than a perfect plan next week”: A famous quote that conveys Patton’s decisive thinking.

4. “No good decision was ever made in a swivel chair”: A quote that conveys Patton’s strategic thinking.

5. “You’re never beaten until you admit it”: A quote that conveys Patton’s strategic thinking.

6. “May God have mercy for my enemies because I won’t”: A famous quote from Patton.

7. “The test of success is not what you do when you are on top. Success is how high you bounce when you hit the bottom”: A famous quote from Patton.

8. “When in doubt, attack”: A famous quote from Patton.

9. “Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity”: A famous quote from Patton.

Chapter 26

EXECUTE PRE-EMPTIVE STRIKES

Joshua traveled all night from Gilgal and TOOK THE AMORITE ARMIES BY SURPRISE. The LORD threw them into a panic, and the Israelites slaughtered great numbers of them at Gibeon. Then the Israelites chased the enemy along the road to Beth-horon, killing them all along the way to Azekah and Makkedah.

Joshua 10:9-10 (NLT)

A pre-emptive strike is an attack against an enemy you perceive will soon attack you. A pre-emptive strike is something you do because you sense a threat of attack by your enemy. You must notice imminent danger and you must not take threats lightly.

A minister must, by all means, know the attacks to expect. It would be stupid for you to think that you will not experience some of the attacks that happen to most ministers.

Every small crocodile becomes a big crocodile

A pre-emptive strike is needed to kill the crocodile whilst it is still a small crocodile. Every big crocodile has once been a small crocodile! It’s not that easy to kill a crocodile once it is grown. It is better to kill the crocodile whilst it is small! That is a pre-emptive strike. It is important to identify all the small crocodiles around you.

I once knew a brother who had two baby crocodiles. He kept them in the bathtub at home because they could not climb out. I warned him that he would not be happy when these crocodiles grew up because every small crocodile becomes a big crocodile!

It is important to identify disloyal people and potential traitors and to strike out at them first. Betrayal, disloyalty and treachery are ultimate evils.

To identify those who could possibly become traitors, you need to know the definite symptoms and signs of disloyalty. These are some of the important pre-emptive strikes you must take:

1. Pre-emptive strike: Remove fearful men

And I was afraid, and went and hid thy talent in the earth: lo, there thou hast that is thine. His lord answered and said unto him, Thou wicked and slothful servant, thou knewest that I reap where I sowed not, and gather where I have not strawed: Thou oughtest therefore to have put my money to the exchangers, and then at my coming I should have received mine own with usury.

Matthew 25:25-27

In the Parable of the Talents, we see profound evils in one of the employees of the master. What evils? The evils of laziness, of wickedness, of fault finding and of non-performance! Amazingly, all these evils in the employees came out of fear! The non-performing employee with one talent was basically a man with a lot of fear. Fear is a demon!

For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.

2 Timothy 1:7

Fearful men have demons in them! One demon brings in another demon. In this parable, the man who was fearful was also filled with suspicion, accusations, wickedness and laziness. It is amazing how this fearful man had so many evil spirits working in him.

Fear is a precursor to many evils: accusation, fault-finding, laziness, wickedness and poor performance.

God in His wisdom made Gideon remove all the fearful men from his army. The spirit of fear is one of the spirits that come in advance as an alert to future danger. Gideon removed all fearful men because they would have given him a lot of trouble in the future.

Now therefore go to, proclaim in the ears of the people, saying, WHOSOEVER IS FEARFUL AND AFRAID LET HIM RETURN let him return and depart early from mount Gilead. And there returned of the people twenty and two thousand; and there remained ten thousand. And the Lord said unto Gideon, The people are yet too many; bring them down unto the water, and I will try them for thee there: and it shall be, that of whom I say unto thee, This shall go with thee, the same shall go with thee; and of whomsoever I say unto thee, This shall not go with thee, the same shall not go.

Judges 7:3-4

Fearful men are suspicious men.

Fearful men are accusative.

Fearful men are dangerous men.

Fearful men are insecure and do not take correction well.

Fearful men can become disloyal!

Fear not to make a pre-emptive strike against this spirit of fear and its associated evils! Do not marry a fearful and insecure person. Remove fearful people before their fears wreck your whole life.

2. Pre-emptive strike: Remove poor performers

Then he which had received the one talent came and said, Lord, I knew thee that thou art an hard man, reaping where thou hast not sown, and gathering where thou hast not strawed: And I was afraid, and went and hid thy talent in the earth: lo, there thou hast that is thine.

Matthew 25:24-25

The man with the one talent was a poor performer! Watch out for people who don’t achieve their targets at work. Watch out for people who are always getting in trouble at work. Poor performers always complain about their supervisors. Poor performers do not get along well with their bosses. Poor performers are dangerous people. Why is that?

A poor performer usually lacks knowledge and lacks good skills.

A poor performer is usually a lazy person with many bad personal traits! Intractable poverty will be found in the lives of these non-performers along with several personal problems and bad traits.

Poor performers rely on outside help for the most basic achievements. Therefore, they blame others for their gross failures.

Poor performers are often plagued with evil spirits of murmuring, treachery, dissatisfaction, discontentment and bad attitudes. All these are preludes to disloyalty and treachery.

It is important to pre-emptively remove all such people from your organization. Such poorly performing workers will only rise up to fight you in the future. Poor performers are the ones who will sue you in court for frivolous, vexatious and non-existent reasons.

3. Pre-emptive strike: Remove passive leaders

Cursed be he that doeth the work of the Lord deceitfully, and cursed be he that keepeth back his sword from blood.

Jeremiah 48:10

Passive men seem to have no strong opinions or feelings about important things. Meanwhile, such indifferent people will have strong feelings about other things that they deem important.

Passivity is just a stage in the development of disloyalty and treachery. Many disloyal people are indifferent about what they should be energetic and zealous about. Passive people are often pleasant and seem peaceful. However, passive people can be the repositories of many evils.

The calmness and ambivalence of your assistants and your leaders are not meaningless. The cool, unconcerned attitude of your assistants does mean something.

Zeal and passion are important things. Do not marry someone who seems to lack the energy and passion for the relationship. The unexcited and casual approach will soon grow into other evils.

4. Pre-emptive strike: Remove proud men

And Samuel said, When thou wast little in thine own sight, wast thou not made the head of the tribes of Israel, and the Lord anointed thee king over Israel?

1 Samuel 15:17

Saul turned into a rebellious monster when he became the king. He was a nobody who was elevated to the throne by the grace of God. Saul began to think of himself more highly than he should have! He was no longer “little in his own sight.” He could no longer be advised, corrected or rebuked.

People who think more highly of themselves than they ought, often become dangerous. Most people who become rebellious cannot be corrected or disciplined any more. They say things like “I don’t want to be the subject of any more meetings. I am tired of all these meetings. I want to be free from all these rebukes. I feel I am always being put down! I feel like people are judging me. I need to hear uplifting words. I am tired of constant condemnation!”

Saul had come to see himself as a great person. He was no longer little in his own eyes. Such people, who are no longer little in their own eyes, will soon be dismissed. Some long-standing employees develop this same problem that Saul had and no longer see themselves as little in their own eyes.

Different things affect people differently. Be on the watch for people who are puffed up because a title is conferred upon them. Watch out for people who allow the titles they bear to get into their heads. The titles - “Pastor”, “Reverend”, and “Bishop”, affect some people more than others. People are sometimes deceived about what these titles really mean and no longer see themselves as little in their own eyes.

5. Pre-emptive strike: Remove stubborn men

For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and STUBBORNNESS is as iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hast rejected the word of the Lord, he hath also rejected thee from being king.

1 Samuel 15:23

Be careful of unyielding and stubborn men. Stubbornness is a very important sign you must not miss.

Watch out for how long each meeting and discussion lasts. Long meetings with endless discussions and explanations are signs of a stubborn spirit. Saul basically suffered from a spirit of stubbornness, and it was his undoing.

Once, I predicted that someone was going to become rebellious and it was because he was a very stubborn and unyielding person. Stubbornness is such a bad sign that the Israelites were asked to stone any stubborn sons and pre-emptively eliminate any potential evil from their midst.

IF A MAN HAVE A STUBBORN AND REBELLIOUS SON which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that, when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them: Then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out unto the elders of his city, and unto the gate of his place; And they shall say unto the elders of his city, This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton and a drunkard. And all the men of his city shall stone him with stones, that he die: so shalt thou put evil away from among you; and all Israel shall hear, and fear.

Deuteronomy 21:18-21

A LESSON FROM HISTORY

The 6-day War in 1967 is seen as the best example of a pre-emptive strike. In June 1967, Israel launched a series of air strikes against Egyptian airfields, followed by ground invasions of the Sinai Peninsula, the Gaza Strip, the West Bank and the Golan Heights.

Israel acted pre-emptively because Arab states; Egypt, Syria and Jordan, were amassing troops on its borders, expelling UN peacekeepers and blocking the Straits of Tiran, indicating an imminent attack.

Chapter 27

CONTAIN INTERNAL WEAKNESS

APART FROM SUCH EXTERNAL THINGS, there is the daily pressure on me of concern for all the churches.

2 Corinthians 11:28 (NASB)

Paul had external pressures and crises. But apart from those external pressures, he had internal weaknesses and pressures that he had to contain.

...Most gladly, therefore, I will rather boast about my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may dwell in me. Therefore I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in distresses, in persecutions, in difficulties, in behalf of Christ; for when I am weak, then I am strong.

2 Corinthians 12:9-10 (NASB)

There are insults, embarrassments, reproaches, shameful things and distressing things that multiply the stresses and tensions of ministry. There are times when the internal pressure of ministry is greater than anything external.

Internal weakness and human failure cause conflict, shame, weakness and embarrassment. Internal weakness and failings can weaken and embarrass the whole church. Many good generals are distracted more by their internal weaknesses than anything else.

We who are strong ought to bear with the failings of the weak and not to please ourselves.

Romans 15:1 (NIV)

Your ability to contain embarrassments, internal weaknesses and failings is a reflection of the strength of the church. Weak nations can hardly look after the normal people in society, let alone the weak. In weaker nations, people with weaknesses and embarrassing conditions are set aside and neglected. The blind, the poor, the handicapped and the prisoners of wealthy nations are much better looked after than those in poorer nations.

Containing Internal Weakness

1. Achan: A cause of embarrassment

And Joshua said unto Achan, My son, give, I pray thee, glory to the Lord God of Israel, and make confession unto him; and tell me now what thou hast done; hide it not from me.

Joshua 7:19

Achan was a source of internal weakness and embarrassment to Israel. Achan represents weakness, treachery and deception. Such people take away the strength of the whole church.

An Achan is somebody whose presence takes away the victory. Achan was an internal failing and weakness of Israel and had to be handled with care so as to please God. How do you deal with an embarrassing Achan? Every Achan must be properly disciplined and judged. It may even cost him his life and ministry.

2. Peter: A source of internal weakness

Then Peter took him, and began to rebuke him, saying, Be it far from thee, Lord: this shall not be unto thee. But he turned, and said unto Peter, Get thee behind me, Satan: thou art an offence unto me: for thou savourest not the things that be of God, but those that be of men.

Matthew 16:22-23

Peter attempted to rebuke Jesus. Peter wanted to take over and direct the ministry for a few minutes. Peter was sure he knew what to do next.

Peter was the appointed head of the church who embarrassed the Lord. How could you rebuke the son of God just because you received an appointment to be the head of the church? What an embarrassing and mistaken appointment that seemed to be!

Peter clearly appeared to be the wrong man for the job. Weaknesses in the leadership can lead to difficulty for the whole team. Many army commanders bungle up their jobs. However, it is the duty of the army to handle things carefully and manage internal weakness.

What do you do with people who seem out of place? Peter was given a very stern rebuke and even called satan! I am sure he never forgot it.

3. Judas: A source of shame

Judas was an embarrassment to Jesus’ ministry. He collaborated with the murderous Pharisees and made them have a much lower impression of Jesus and His disciples.

Judas was a thief! How could Jesus have put a thief in charge of money? Perhaps all the other disciples were also thieves. It looked like a gross mistake to put Judas in charge of the money. Perhaps people in town knew that Jesus’ financial secretary was a thief. He probably had deals with people in town.

Jesus allowed Judas to judge himself and execute himself. He was an embarrassment to the team and the end came in a fitting and appropriate way and by his own hand.

This he said, not that he cared for the poor; but because he was a thief, and had the bag, and bare what was put therein.

John 12:6

Jesus allowed Judas to be overcome with remorse and to take his own life. Jesus could have advised Judas against suicide, but He allowed Judas to implement his own judgment. Jesus was never seen to have lifted His hand against His own wicked betrayer. Thus, Judas was eliminated by his own hand. The elimination of internal embarrassing weakness must be done with decorum and must have all the hallmarks of love, decency, respect and mercy.

A Warning from History

Marcus Aurelius was one of the five good and famous emperors of the Roman Empire. His wife was Empress Faustina. While Marcus Aurelius walked a path of decency, his wife, Faustina the Younger, was controversial, to say the least. The Roman elite whispered tales of her cruel and scandalous behaviour, yet the philosopher-king humbly accepted her as she was and contained the weaknesses and embarrassment that she brought to Rome.

On a certain occasion, Faustina, saw some gladiators pass by and was inflamed with love for one of them. Afterwards, she confessed her passion to her husband. When Marcus Aurelius reported this affair to his advisors, it was suggested that Faustina should bathe in the gladiator’s blood to restore her to her husband. Aside gladiators, Faustina is believed to have slept with other sailors and soldiers. One lasting legacy of these affairs was the rumours about her son, Emperor Commodus, who people said was the son of Faustina’s gladiator lover.

Though never confirmed, many believe that she had an affair with a gladiator because Commodus, her son, actually acted as a gladiator during his reign as emperor. There were also rumours about Faustina ordering deaths, including poisonings and executions, which made many believe she was evil.

Not once did Marcus Aurelius publicly reproach Faustina during her lifetime. Instead, he only spoke of her with unwavering respect.

In addition to all this, Faustina was alleged to have been involved in an affair with Avidius Cassius who had rebelled against her husband the emperor. She believed her husband, Marcus Aurelius, was dying and she wanted a strong successor to protect her and her young son Commodus who was thirteen years old.

The revolt of Avidius Cassius failed after three months when he was killed and it is said that Faustina committed suicide because of this turn of events.

Marcus Aurelius only spoke of his wife with deep love, respect and admiration and never hinted at infidelity. He buried Faustina the Younger at the Mausoleum of Hadrian in Rome and deified her name.

You must learn to deal with embarrassment and weakness in a way that would not make you look like a merciless leader. Your elimination of your internal and embarrassing weaknesses must be done with decorum and must have all the hallmarks of love, decency and respect.

Chapter 28

ROOT OUT SLEEPER CELLS

But there are some of you that believe not. FOR JESUS KNEW FROM THE BEGINNING WHO THEY WERE THAT BELIEVED NOT, and who should betray him. And he said, Therefore said I unto you, that no man can come unto me, except it were given unto him of my Father.

John 6:64-65

What is a sleeper cell? A sleeper cell is a group of people who remain dormant in a country until activated by a prearranged signal to perform acts of terrorism and wickedness.

In that sense, Judas was a sleeper cell because Jesus knew long before it happened that Judas would be a source of terror and horror. Judas was a sleeper cell!

Be aware of the reality of sleeper cells (people who will one day rise up to destroy you)!

You must root out sleeper cells! Wage war on sleeper cells waiting to manifest and attack you one day. Uncover any sleeper cell of enemies within your church. How do you do that? In the same way you uncover snakes! You can only uncover and locate snakes if you know a lot about snakes.

You must remove the disguises and camouflage of the snakes! You must uncover traitors and all forms of disloyalty. Teaching against all forms of disloyalty is a direct campaign against silent wickedness that is waiting to manifest itself.

Root out disloyal elements by describing them in plain language. Mention the names of disloyal people. Describe them in detail and describe their modus operandi. Describe the steps they are taking and what they plan to do so that when they take their first steps they are immediately noticed. That is how to expose the sleeper cells in your midst.

You must go from house to house rooting out sleeper cells of wickedness. You must become an expert raider of sleeper cells.

Raid sleeper cells by teaching against disloyalty. Do not ever be dissuaded from teaching against disloyalty because that is exactly what uncovers silent, ambiguous, indirect, ambivalent and mysterious enemies within the church.

Teach, so that sleeper cells like those who forget, those who are ungrateful, those who are ignorant, those who pretend, those who want money and those who are wolves are exposed.

Disloyalty is a veiled evil. It is important to teach and expose this indirect wickedness that devastates the church. The enemy within is the fifth column. The fifth column wishes to sleep quietly by your side until it can strike.

Jesus answered them, Have not I chosen you twelve, and one of you is a devil?

John 6:70

A Warning from History

On August 7, 1998, at 10:30 am, truck bombs exploded at U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, killing more than 200 people and wounding more than 4,000. The attacks were later linked to terrorists. The twin attacks of terrorists on the Tanzanian and Kenyan American embassies, carried out by sleeper cells of terrorists who laid in wait for years, are examples of the power of sleeper cells.

The commander of this sleeper cell in the field was Fadhil Muhammad, codenamed Fazul Harun, whose ethnic origin was the Comoros Islands in the Indian Ocean.

18Like many other al-Qaeda members and commanders, Fazul was recruited into the organization after volunteering to fight in Afghanistan during the Soviet invasion and after proving his ability as a warrior. While some members of the cell had trained in Afghanistan in 1994 and were of different nationalities, most were Tanzanian and Kenyan. The suicide attacker in Tanzania was the cousin of Abdallah al-Nishiri, the commander of the suicide attack in Yemen two years later.

The operation in Nairobi was conducted in the morning when a car bomb carrying hundreds of kilograms of explosives and two suicide attackers exploded next to the American embassy. Two hundred and thirteen people were killed in the explosion, and more than 4,000 were injured.

One of the two suicide attackers survived the attack after getting out of the car to pursue an embassy guard who had refused to open the embassy gate and fled from the area when the attackers threw a hand grenade at him and threatened him with their weapons. A few minutes later, a suicide terrorist driving a tanker filled with explosives attacked the American Embassy in Dar es Salaam, killing eleven people.

Preparations for the attacks in East Africa began five years before the attack. Osama Bin Laden himself, the leader of al-Qaeda, was involved in the decision to send men to Kenya to gather preliminary intelligence, check operational feasibility and assess suitable targets in order to draft a basic plan of attack. Operatives were sent to Kenya to integrate into the area, marry local women, open businesses, prepare a local infrastructure under a commercial guise, and continue gathering intelligence on selected targets.

Planning by this sleeper cell continued for a number of years with a few operational setbacks. Some feared that the cell had been compromised, and the attack was therefore delayed. When it was finally decided that the time had come to attack Western targets in Africa, the operational field commander of the attack was dispatched from Afghanistan to the region. Preparations then moved into high gear under the supervision of al-Qaeda headquarters operational commanders.18

It is amazing that sleeper cells can remain by your side and function normally for years without detection. Today, there are many disloyal people who are waiting to manifest their wickedness at the right time. The time has not yet come so they look like normal people who are regular members of the ministry. Don’t be deceived! Some of these normal looking people are actually sleeper cells!

Be aware of the reality of sleeper cells (people who will one day rise up to destroy you). God will help you to expose them and defeat them before they even strike.

Chapter 29

RELEASE HOSTAGES

If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.

John 8:36

Sin makes us captives! When a man sins, he becomes a captive to the sin and the consequences of the sins he has committed. Jesus came to set us free! Jesus is in the business of making people free.

Jesus answered them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin.

John 8:34

Satan takes people hostage because of their sins. Most of us cannot overcome even the memory of our sins. After making mistakes, people are never the same. Sin changes people’s lives. People are taken hostage by their own sins! Sin has a way of taking people captive.

Today, we have many people who are gagged and unable to work for God because they feel bad about their sins and failings. Release all such people to do their best for Jesus whilst there is still time to bear fruit.

One of the acts of war is to release hostages. The release of hostages can cause a war to end. Jesus released many who were prisoners to sin and allowed them to serve and do great things for God.

1. Release hostages: God will scourge His sons Himself.

For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.

Hebrews 12:6

Many people with a religious spirit do not want to allow people to go free and serve God again.

Imagine this - supposing you went out and left your children with a neighbour for the afternoon. How would you feel if you came and found your neighbour thrashing your children with whips, belts and canes? Supposing your neighbour told you he was disciplining your children for misbehaving; would you be happy for your neighbour to continue beating your children? I don’t think so!

In the same way, God is not happy with people who think they can discipline His servants who have sinned and fallen short of the glory. Of course, we have to take steps to protect the church, but it is only God who can discipline and scourge His children appropriately.

2. Release hostages: God loves those who restore sinners.

Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such a one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted.

Galatians 6:1

Only spiritual people can restore fallen sinners. Restoration and redemption are the heart of our Saviour. God is a Redeemer and a Restorer. You can never change the loving heart of our God who is love.

Supposing you came to pick up your child from school and found that your child had fallen into the septic tank of the school. Supposing the whole school was standing around, laughing and mocking your child as she tried to swim out of the cesspool. If someone rose up and went to pull your daughter out of the cesspool and rescued her from the mockery of the entire school, would you not have a special feeling towards this person? You would feel a debt of gratitude and love towards the person who rescued your daughter from the septic tank.

That is how God feels towards those who help to rescue and restore His children who have fallen into sin and difficulty.

3. Release hostages: Jesus released the woman caught in adultery.

When Jesus had lifted up himself, and saw none but the woman, he said unto her, Woman, where are those thine accusers? Hath no man condemned thee? She said, No man, Lord. And Jesus said unto her, Neither do I condemn thee: go, and sin no more. Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.

John 8:10-12

Jesus said He was the light of the world when He absolutely forgave the sinful woman and allowed her to go home and told her to sin no more. The sin of adultery was about to destroy this woman’s life.

The sin of adultery had happened and satan noticed a gap in the hedge. Satan planned to release unrighteous judgment, self-righteousness, revenge, murder and wickedness into the situation. However, through the forgiveness that came through Jesus, satan’s darkness was neutralized by huge shining lights of love and forgiveness. All these things- revenge, murder, unrighteous judgment, self-righteousness and wickedness, were blocked and wiped out by Jesus’ love and forgiveness for this lady.

Forgiveness and mercy are the greatest lights ever shown to a dark and sinful world of wicked men who deserve only judgment. Satan does not want the light of forgiveness at all!

Forgiveness neutralizes the hostage-taking effect of human sin. All have sinned and therefore all need forgiveness! If every sin was to be judged instantaneously, few people would be left alive. Adultery, deception, fornication and wickedness are everywhere, and many are taken hostage by these sins. Love, forgiveness, mercy, and restoration must be abundant as a weapon to release the hostages of sin.

And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.

John 1:5

You can wipe out satan’s attack and release hostages through the power of forgiveness.

Release hostages! Wipe out satan’s presence and influence by issuing a major counter-strike of forgiveness, clemency, pardon, compassion, pity, mercy and amnesty. Release hostages by releasing people from their mistakes.

Release hostages and let them work for God. Wipe out the attacks of satan by shining the light of God’s forgiveness. Pardon and mercy will cause people to live on and still have a chance to serve God, just as if it had never happened.

4. Release hostages: Jesus released Peter to serve.

But Peter, standing up with the eleven, lifted up his voice, and said unto them, Ye men of Judaea, and all ye that dwell at Jerusalem, be this known unto you, and hearken to my words: For these are not drunken, as ye suppose, seeing it is but the third hour of the day. But this is that which was spoken by the prophet Joel;

Acts 2:14-16

Peter vehemently denied even knowing Jesus Christ. How could such a person be a leader of God’s worldwide church of Jesus Christ? Peter would have remained hostage of his failures and sins. But Jesus forgave him! JESUS DID NOT TAKE BACK THE KEYS THAT HE HAD GIVEN PETER!

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. And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.

Matthew 16:18-19

5. Release hostages: Jesus released the other disciples.

In that same hour said Jesus to the multitudes, Are ye come out as against a thief with swords and staves for to take me? I sat daily with you teaching in the temple, and ye laid no hold on me. But all this was done, that the scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled. Then all the disciples forsook him, and fled.

Matthew 26:55-56

From this scripture, we see that it was not only Peter who denied Christ. Indeed, all the disciples deserted, forsook and fled from Jesus. Their sin of betrayal happened at the eleventh hour when Jesus needed help the most. They were not good friends to Jesus; yet Jesus set them free and commissioned them to go into the whole world on His behalf.

6. Release hostages: Jesus released the woman of Samaria.

And many of the Samaritans of that city believed on him for the saying of the woman, which testified, He told me all that ever I did. So when the Samaritans were come unto him, they besought him that he would tarry with them: and he abode there two days. And many more believed because of his own word;

John 4:39-41

Jesus ministered in Samaria for two whole days because of the woman of Samaria. This woman was a well-known immoral person. She had several men on her list. Yet Jesus released this woman from her sins to become the first ever evangelist. It’s time to release the hostages who are isolated, rejected and held captive.

7. Release hostages: Jesus released Paul.

And I thank Christ Jesus our Lord, who hath enabled me, for that he counted me faithful, putting me into the ministry; Who was before a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and injurious: but I obtained mercy because I did it ignorantly in unbelief.

1 Timothy 1:12-13

Paul was released from the captivity of his sin. He had committed grievous sins that would haunt him for the rest of his life. There was no way he could ever have been associated with Christianity. Yet Jesus set him free to be a servant and an apostle of God. What a mighty release from the captivity of sin! What a mighty release of a spiritual hostage from his sins!

Release hostages! Do the same to those who have fallen into sin and you will have great victories in the ministry. Let the captives go and do something for Jesus whilst there is time to serve on earth!

“And further, by these, my son, be admonished: of making many books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the flesh.” Ecclesiastes 12:12

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