Praise the Lord! Shall we pray; immortal and invisible Father, the Father of light, the giver of life, the joy and the hope of mankind, we bless Your name this morning; thank You because it has pleased You to spare our lives to witness today, today no doubt is a day that You have made and we rejoice and be glad in it,
Father please accept our thanks in the name of Jesus Christ.
Lord we have come before Your presence, firstly to worship You and secondly to have our strength renewed and so Lord we pray in the name of Jesus that first and foremost Lord, today You will register Your presence in our midst in Jesus name; You will encounter us in Jesus name; every constricting spirit using our lives for profit contrary to Your purpose in our lives, Lord You will destroy in Jesus name.
We pray today in the name of God the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit that You will grant us total victory oh Lord from the spirit of divination in Jesus name; bless us with the blessings of the Lord and at the end of everything today, You will take all the glory; You have brought us this far Lord, please see us through.
The rest of this year is committed onto Your hands Lord Almighty, according to Your word, let every day that comes be better than the previous one in Jesus name. Thank You Father, in Jesus wonderful name we have prayed.
I welcome everyone of you to this glorious service in the name of the Almighty God; personally I want to say that I am grateful to God for the gift of life and of course for His grace upon us. I also want to appreciate you, like I told the workers in the morning that it’s been a blessing partnering with you, you’ve touched me in the most sensitive part today; when I realized that my birthday will fall on Sunday I was not comfortable with it because I would have loved all the things to be my text message, ‘happy birthday’, I say happy birthday to everybody but coming to face you and Pastor Jenrola only came to inform me, ‘sorry sir, we have something to do’. I encountered the same pleasant surprise during the workers meeting and I want to say that we are grateful to every one of you, you are one of the best congregations we have ever had to do with and I say this with every sense of responsibility, I’m sure by now you know who I am and what I stand for, the day I want to express myself even if you bring a gun you know I will still go ahead and say it because I know a man can only die once and I say this that you are one of the best congregation ever, and I don’t see you as congregants but I see you all as brothers, as friends and of course as partners in the kingdom’s business, and I want to promise you one thing that we will not take you for granted, we will not take your love, the care you have shown, everything that you’ve been to us we will not take for granted for whatever reason.
I shared with the workers in the morning according to Shakespeare, he said that the love that we share, the love that we show goes round, sometimes to become a
Challenge; when you show love to those who appreciate, not to ingrates, the love that we show correspondingly becomes a challenge, so I must tell you that today, I stand before you as your pastor carrying a huge burden of the love that you have shown, but I pray that God in His infinite mercy will continue to take good care of you and will continue to bless you for us in Jesus name. I appreciate you all, God bless you!
Acts of Apostles 16, I’m sure you know to recall, today is the last Sunday of the month of April and that suggests to us that we are making steady progress in our journey to eternity, I’m sure somebody will say what is he talking about? Life is a journey onto death, we only have today and none of us can boldly talk about what happens tomorrow, but by faith we’ll all appropriate a better tomorrow, so our tomorrow will be all right but we need to note that we are making progress in our journey in the year 2025 and the good Lord that has brought us this far will see us through in Jesus name.
Acts of Apostle 16: 16 -19, “And it came to pass, as we went to prayer, a certain damsel possessed with a spirit of divination met us, which brought her masters much gain by soothsaying“; I decree once again that every spirit that is being used against you to make you a profit to their masters, contrary to your own knowledge, the Lord will put an end to it today in Jesus name. 17The same followed Paul and us, and cried, saying, these men are the servants of the most high God, which shew
unto us the way of salvation. 18And this did she many days. But Paul, being grieved (I pray that every one of us will come to that point this morning to say look, enough is enough) turned and said to the spirit, I command thee in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her. And he came out the same hour. 19And when her masters saw that the hope of their gains was gone, they caught Paul and Silas, and drew them into the marketplace unto the rulers”.
Today by the grace of God, I’ll be talking to us briefly on the topic “Overcoming the Spirit of Divination”; in Numbers 23:23, the Bible says surely there is no enchantment against Jacob, neither is there any divination against Israel: (It says) according to this time it shall be said of Jacob and of Israel, what hath God wrought! I pray in the mighty name of Jesus that from today, every enchantment against you, the Lord will destroy; every divination deployed against you and your loved one will not stand in the mighty name of Jesus.
Talking about the spirit of divination is talking about the spirit of oppression, prolong cruelty and unjust treatment; when someone will just decide to be cruel, to treat you with indignation, to undermine your whole being, to make you look ordinary so that you can look like nobody and life on its own is a cycle of continuous warfare and breakthroughs, one breakthrough leads to warfare and another warfare leads to another breakthrough, and like I said before, Williams Shakespeare said the love that follow us sometimes is also our enemy, in other words, the more you achieve in life the greater the challenges you face, and I always tell my friends jokingly that if you don’t want to have problems then don’t pursue the cause of success, if you don’t want to be envied then don’t dare to make progress, because the day you decide to be an extraordinary man then you must be ready to face extraordinary challenges, if you remain low nobody will bother about you and that’s why this saying resonates with me that when you make progress people will envy you, but when you are low people will pity you, but guess what, it is better to be envied than to be pitied. I pray for every one of you under the influence of my voice this morning that never again will you be pitied.
Brethren, the higher a monkey climbs the more it becomes more exposed to danger; those of you who are from the village like myself who have hunted monkey before, you hardly see the biggest of monkeys, it is those small ones that you will see, they’ll be jumping from here and jumping there, the big ones usually go on top but that is their major problem, it is when they climb beyond branches you’ll now say ah, that is their mama oh, that is their baba, the next thing you fire; nobody (and that is the truth) will want to bother himself with an irrelevant fellow, nobody will want to bother himself with somebody that is just down, but I pray today in the mighty name of Jesus that every one of us, wherever you are, regardless of your level, God will lift you up in the name of Jesus.
So therefore, there is no vacation in our prayer life because the Bible says for we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, that is Ephesians 6: 12, it says 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. Let me tell you that life is more tragic than [inaudible] they gravitate to you when they have something to get from you, the moment they find out that you have nothing to give, they abandon you. In Matthew 13:25, it tells us that it was where men slept that the enemies came and sowed tares among the wheat, but I decree concerning you today that every tare the enemy has sown in your life, today they shall be uprooted; the one that have been sown into your finances, today shall be uprooted; the one that is sown to your health that is making you unbalanced, you are up today tomorrow you are down, every day you are looking for doctor’s attention, I decree, everything that the enemies have sown into your body to weaken you, to make you of nobody health-wise, the Lord will take away today in Jesus name; and everything they have sown into your finances that is making you to work like an elephant but yet eating like an ant, today we mark its end in Jesus name.
Brethren, the nature of our warfare determines the strategy that has to be adopted in tackling the camouflaging divination or of oppressing spirit; Bible scholars agree that the word translated as the spirit of divination, (I was surprised)| is also known as the ‘constrict spirits’, that is a spirit that folds around someone and presses the fellow down. I don’t know how many of you that watched Nat Geo Wild, you have seen a python, when a python captures its prey, what it does is that it folds around that prey and before you know it, it begins to constrict until it suffocates its prey. There are many of us that are wrestling with the constrict spirit, the spirit that folds around you and make life unbearable for you, but as long as God lives, today will mark their end in the name of Jesus.
The spirit of divination is also the spirit of distraction, it doesn’t matter wherever useful tips – useful and insightful presentations are being made, you will be looking at your phone; when things that will benefit you, that will transform your life are being said, it makes you to look elsewhere, don’t forget knowledge is power, what the spirit of divination makes you to do is that it makes you not to gain knowledge so that you will remain a captive.
The spirit of divination is a spirit of manipulation, it manipulates you, it tells you things that you wish to hear, things that you love to hear as against the raw truth so that you can be delusional and become weak, ignorant.
The spirit of divination is a spirit of deception, you enjoy deception, there are people who love to be deceived. Somebody once told me, I know that person was deceiving me but I was enjoying it, I said Jesus Christ, how can you enjoy deception, how can a man, a rational being enjoy deception; you know somebody is deceiving you and you say honestly I knew he was deceiving me but I was enjoying it and I was following, it could be the effect of divinition on that person, every spirit that makes you to enjoy deception the Lord will destroy it today in Jesus name.
The Bible says there is no relationship between light and darkness, the light shineth into darkness and darkness comprehend it not; in fact, the moment I know that you are deceiving me, that moment you lost me because there is a spirit in me that will not accept, I don’t enjoy lies.
The spirit of divination is the spirit of suffocation, you find out that before you collect your salary, your salary is #2 million but debt of #8 million is already
waiting for you, so financially you are suffocated, before you pay one another one – I remember in 1986 when I was working, I came to Lagos, my salary was #100, those were the years of NPF, we were paying National Providence Fund #2 and my paye then was also #100, so my total take home was 96 naira but I find out that before the end of the month I will have taken gari, I would have taken Geisha, I would have taken Titus on credit, that woman beside the house has a permanent notebook for me, she knew I will pay but I was under the spirit of divination; by the time the #96 is paid, I will go to Cut Chicken in Yaba, there were two major eateries there then – Cut Chicken in Yaba and another one in Pa;mgroover, I’d go and give myself a treat before I get home to pay the debt and start accumulating another. I pray today in the name of Jesus, everything that is suffocating your life, maybe in the financial world, in your marital experience, in every area of your life, God Almighty will drown them today in the name of Jesus. Everything that is not of God, by the apostolic authority, I stand on the exalted order of God and today being my birthday, I decree in the name of Jesus that none of you will leave here with shackles, with problems that you brought here today in the name of Jesus Christ.
In most nations of the world, the python spirits are at work causing marital issues, they engender financial breakdowns and creates all manners of problems, is a spirit that operates within the neighborhood, spirit of divination, you have people around you who you think they are your friends but they are never your friends. Somebody approached me some years ago, we were classmates where we were doing our Masters long time ago and it’s a lady, she said something that really put my mind on inquiry, she said sir, let’s be careful, these people you are playing with, ti a ba n sere, e je ka fi aye ija sile; I said wow, you know the Bible says abundance of what is the heart the man speaketh, when you tell me oh, if you are playing with somebody you have to create room for conflict, then there is no loyalty, the test of loyalty lies on your trust in that fellow that you are relating with until he or she proves otherwise, but if ab initio you have a relationship and you have already created a kind of a rule that one day there’s going to be a problem, you are not a friend. I decree today in the name of Jesus that every activity of unfriendly friends in your life, the Lord will expose in Jesus name.
But I tell you, for the spirit of divination to operate in your neighborhood, there must be a relationship, there must be a link because without a link there’s no way they can find expression and that’s why if you are not in Jesus Christ, you provide express links for this spirit; however, Jeremiah 12:14 says something and that is a big consolation to every one of us, it says thus saith the Lord against all mine evil neighbors, (so it is not today that there are evil neighbors, even from the Bible times there have always been evil neighbors), (it was Jeremiah) that touch the inheritance which I have caused my people Israel to inherit; behold, I will pluck them out of their land, and pluck out the house of Judah from among them. I stand on the authority of the word of God today and I decree in the mighty name of Jesus that God Almighty will pluck out all your evil neighbors – evil neighbors at work, evil neighbors at home, the one in your community, even the one in the church, God will pluck them away in the name of Jesus.
He said those things that are touching your inheritance, good health is part of your inheritance, joy is part of your inheritance, peace is part of your inheritance, good children are all part of your inheritance, anything that is touching them will touch fire today in the name of Jesus. And Jeremiah said God will even pluck out the house of Judah from among them, what that means is that where there is need for you to be relocated you’ll be relocated; where there is need for you to relocate, to change position, maybe at work, maybe at home, God will take you to that lofty place, the place of joy, the place of favor, the place of breakthrough, the place of fulfillment, if you believe that shout hallelujah.
Apostle Paul, after being grieved by the girl with the familiar spirit in our scriptures today, that is Acts 16:16-18, he said who is this lady? And he rebuked the spirit, and the Bible says he delivered the girl in the name of Jesus, and what that simply means is that even the girl was being used, the master was using her to profit, she was being used for gain with the spirit of the devil in her life but that day, she came face to face with a man of God and she was set free.
Now brethren, there comes a time in life where you need to take a stand and break away from evil forces, you don’t have to be comfortable with your situation; there are many of us going through terrible situations yet we are safe to be comfortable, the children of Israel went through cruelty in the hands of the Egyptians and what did they do, they cried unto the Lord until God heard their voice, God heard their cry and God intervened and I want to also encourage us that in such situations we also need to be mindful of what we say, not that ‘oh I am doomed’, remember in the mouth lies the power of life and death.
Paul says wait a minute, something got to be done, but it was not the first day, she was tolerated for a while until the man of God came back to his face, he said what is going on here? Brethren, don’t tolerate evil, what you tolerate is what you accommodate, when you don’t tolerate you cannot accommodate; I pray that from today, your life will become a no-go area to the devil in Jesus name.
The spirit of divination operates in every facet of life; like I said before, financial, marital, natural and of course even spiritual and etc., but I decree today in the name of Jesus that you will not be strangulated in life.
Now very quickly, what do I need to do to be free from the spirit of divination? Number one, you must submit yourself to God and resist the devil. James 4: 7 says submit yourself therefore to God, resist the devil, and he will flee from you; but you need to remember that you cannot fight for yourself, you need a higher power, you need a stronger power in Jesus Christ to take over your battle.
Number two, repent from your evil deeds and turn to God, the great deliverer. Acts 3:1 19, it says repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord.
And of course number three says the wickedness of the wicked must be put to an end, according to Psalm 7: 9. Paul was able to confront the demon possessed lady and of course abated that spirit of evil in her life; it says oh let the wickedness of
the wicked come to an end; but establish the just: for the righteous God trieth the hearts and reins.
So for God to minister to you, for God to break the spirit of divination, you must align yourself with God, you must be on the same page with God, you must repent of your sin and you must be willing to carry God along henceforth in your journey of life.
Shall we rise on our feet; today is your day, how many of you want to be free from the spirit of divination, then say to God, God, I am here today, thank You for bringing me here today, thank You for making it possible for me to be part of this gathering, take all the glory, take all the honor and take all the adoration now and forever more in Jesus name.
Now we want to raise some prayers and I want us to pray; the first prayer, you are going to cry to God and say Father, please deliver me from the influences and the effect of the spirit of divination in my life in the mighty name of Jesus. Father, please deliver me oh God from the influences and effects of the spirit of divination in every aspect of my life from today, oh Lord Almighty God, hence forth in the name of Jesus. Thank You Father because You have answered, in Jesus mighty name we have prayed.
In Matthew, the Bible says while men slept, the enemies came and sowed tares; manipulation, the man thought he had good plants unknown that it has been counterfeited; so you are going to cry unto the Lord and say Father, please uproot everything that the enemies have sown into my marriage, into my finances, into my health and etc in the name of Jesus. Father please uproot every tear, every seed that the enemies have sown in my life, in my body, in my health, in every area of my life from today in the name of Jesus.
Every plan of the evil one, every plan of the evil neighbors, my Lord and my Father, we pray that You will frustrate in the name of Jesus; Father that You will destroy in the name of Jesus, thank You blessed Savior, in Jesus mighty name we have prayed.
You are going to cry to the Lord and say Father, you know we talk about evil neighbors, people with the spirit of python, they come to suffocate, they come to manipulate, they come to strangulate but from today you are free from them. You’re going to cry to the Lord, say Father, please frustrate every activity of the pythons operating in my neighborhood in the mighty name of Jesus; every activity of the pythons, every activity of the spirit of divination operating in my neighborhood, Father please frustrate in the name of Jesus, thank You Father because You have answered, in Jesus mighty name we have prayed.
We are going to cry out to the Lord and say Father, please break, severe every link between me and unfriendly neighbors in the name of Jesus. Father please break, put asunder every link between me oh God and my evil neighbors, my unfriendly friends in the name of Jesus; Father Almighty God, frustrate and break into pieces oh God, every relationship, every link between me (oh God) and my evil neighbors, thank You glorious Father, in Jesus mighty name we have prayed.
In Jeremiah 12:14 that we read, it said I will pluck out everyone that is touching the inheritance of God for my life; it said I will even pluck out the house of Judah from among them. God is ready to relocate us, God is ready to repackage our life, God is ready to restore those things that have been stolen away from us, therefore you are going to cry out to the Lord and say Father, according to Your word, please pluck out everyone touching my divine inheritance in the mighty name of Jesus; everyone, every spirit, every human, everything that is touching my divine inheritance that will not allow me to get married, that will not allow me to get job, that will not allow me to be stable, that will not allow me to have a sound health, everything Lord Almighty God that is touching my divine inheritance, Father please uproot today, Father please destroy today in the name of Jesus; let me see Your hands upon my life and let Your name be glorified, in Jesus mighty name we have prayed.
Brethren, you’ll all agree with me that the church is being suffocated just as the nation is not free; our morning dew today, we talked about the suspension and implication of naira for crude but whichever way you look at the matter, the thing get as e be, the country is under suffocation, there are some people who are just hellbent not to see this country make progress; Plateau state has become a a place of the blood, maybe we’ll name it another Golgotha; Plateau, Benue, Kogi, bandits. I read last night, the legal adviser of a local government has been kidnapped and of course though we cannot deny the connivance of some of the locals but we know the major people who are spearheading this.
We are going to cry to the Lord and say Father, every activity of the miscreants, every activities of the spirit of divination deployed against the church, deployed against our nation to suffocate our nation, to subjugate our nation, Father destroy them in the name of Jesus, in Jesus mighty name we have prayed.
And you are going to pray, every spirit that is making you for profit, they are profiting on you without you knowing, they are using you for gain, they are using you for profit, by the power that is in heaven, today marks your freedom in Jesus name. I want you to cry unto the Lord and say Father, please deliver me from those spirits that are using me for profit against Your divine purpose for my life in the mighty name of Jesus, in Jesus mighty name we have prayed.
I join my faith with yours and declare your victory completely in the mighty name of Jesus; by the authority of the most high, I prophesy today that the snare is broken, the weight of your divine benefits shall be notably great in the name of Jesus. From today, by the power that raised Jesus from the dead, you are far from oppression, you are far from error in the mighty name of Jesus.
Every bait that the enemies has put in place to lure you just for destruction, every bait that the enemies [inaudible] will be exposed and destroyed; your hand shall be strengthened and from today you’ll walk in dominion, so shall it be for so we decree in the name of God the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Let somebody shout hallelujah!
My God will bless you, never again will you walk back to captivity in the mighty name of Jesus. But if you are here you have not surrendered your life to Christ, all eyes closed now, I was going to leave but it just occurred to me because the Bible says sinners are meant to travail, sinners are meant to suffer and the only thing that can free you from the spirit of divination is your confession and repentance…
[Altar call]
Acts 3:19 says repent ye therefore so that your sins may be blotted out, in order for the time of refreshing to come and the time of refreshing comes from the presence of the Lord; come and say yes Lord, I surrender to You and to no other; I surrender to You and onto no man, when God has your back all those spirits will not be able to come near you again and from today you become the carrier of the power of God, you become the carrier of the Holy Spirit and from today no weapon fashioned against you shall prosper, and from today every tongue that shall rise against you in judgment shall be condemned, so shall it be.
I pray mercy will prevail for you, your sins are forgiven and your names are written in the Book of life; thank You for Lord because You’ve answered, in Jesus mighty name we have prayed. God bless you, have a wonderful week!
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