THE SKELETON IN YOUR GRANDFATHER'S CUPBOARD

Published 2005.

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 TABLE OF CONTENTS

TITLE PAGE
COPYRIGHT & PERMISSIONS
Chapter 1: THE SKELETON IN YOUR GRANDFATHER'S CUPBOARD
DEEP-ROOTED PROBLEMS
ANCESTRAL BONDAGE
MYSTERY
UGLY FAMILY TRENDS
PAYING ANCESTRAL DEBTS
SALIENT LESSONS
THE SPIRITUAL BARRIER
CURSED OBJECTS
THE WAY OUT
A STRANGE EXPERIENCE
PRAYER POINTS

Chapter 2: INVASION FROM THE PAST

THE POWER OF THE PAST
THE DEMAND FOR SETTLEMENT
THE INVASION
BEWARE!
THE EVIL PATTERN
THE GREAT MONSTER
A GREAT EXAMPLE
MOSES' PAST
THE WAR
SIX WAYS TO DEAL WITH THE INVADING PAST
PRAYER POINTS

Chapter 3: THE VOICE OF THE ROTTEN FAMILY TREE

THE VOICE AS AN ENTITY
ANCESTRAL VOICES
THE ROOT
 THE FAMILY TREE
WHY FAMILIES HAVE ROTTEN TREES
THE FAMILY CHECKLIST
THE EVIL THREAD
CONSEQUENCES OF EVIL BACKGROUND
MYSTERIOUS HAPPENINGS
THE SOLUTION
PRAYER POINTS

Chapter 4: THE RAT IN YOUR DESTINY

TIME AND PURPOSE
THE PERIL OF LOST OPPORTUNITIES
THE VALUE OF TIME
DESTINY DIVERSION
TIME IS LIFE
TIME SHAPES LIFE
REDEEMING THE TIME
THE INVENTORY
THE NEED FOR WATCHFULNESS
EXAMPLES OF THE DEMONIC RATS
HOW TO DESTROY THE WASTE RATS
PRAYER POINTS

Chapter 5: TRANSFERENCE OF SPIRITS

THE SPIRIT OF GOD
THE SPIRIT OF EXPLOITS
THE DEVIL'S TOOLS
TRANSFERENCE OF SPIRITS EXPLAINED
DIMENSIONS OF TRANSFERENCE OF SPIRITS
A BITTER EXPERIENCE
THE SPIRIT MAN
REASONS FOR SATAN'S ATTACKS ON THE SPIRIT
VICTORY STRATEGIES
DESTROYED DESTINIES
SOURCES OF TRANSFERENCE OF SPIRITS
DELIVERANCE PRAYERS

OTHER PUBLICATIONS BY DR. D. K. OLUKOYA

BACKCOVER
 CHAPTER ONE
THE SKELETON IN YOUR GRANDFATHER'S
CUPBOARD

In recent times, I have had experience, that touched my heart. One of those
heart rending situations was, when I met a sister who told me that she
had been married five times and all the five men were dead. I gave her some
prayer points. In the process, it was revealed that her forefathers were
involved in the slavery business. These ancestors used to grind day old
babies given birth to by the slaves. As the babies were being ground, the
slave mothers issued curses on all the daughters of the family of the man.
That was the origin of the sister's problem.

DEEP-ROOTED PROBLEMS
A brother once came to tell me that within January and July, eleven
members of his family had died, leaving only two survivors. We prayed and
it was revealed that, their father was caught stealing yams. When they took
him to the village court, he denied and the village jury asked him to issue a
curse saying, "If I stole the yams may all my children die in six months".
He issued the curse, even when he knew that he was guilty. That was how
the whole family was wiped out with only two fellows who were born again
left

There was also the case of five beautiful sisters, who could not get
married to anyone. Men were just interested in their money and when they
got some money they would run away. Their surname had something to do
with the Ifa oracle. When we began to pray, it was revealed that all the
sisters were betrothed to the Ifa oracle. So, it was hard for them to get
married. We got them to sit and pray together. They prayed, "I divorce
myself from Ifa oracle in the name of Jesus". As they continued, they began
to vomit cowries one after the other. Today, four of them are married and I
am sure that the fifth one would soon get married.
 An old man came for counseling because his entire family were suffering
from acidic poverty. When we began to pray, it was revealed that his father
stole a local delicacy made from maize. The owner of the delicacy asked
everybody but no one admitted to having stolen it. At last, all of them were
made to swear that if they were the one, all their children would not prosper.
The curse stuck and acidic poverty took root in the lives of all the children
of the man.

ANCESTRAL BONDAGE
A sister, was still in her mother's womb, when she encountered a problem.
Her mother was having problems and so she went to a fetish priest for help.
The fetish priest told her that the baby would be his wife. So, as a baby
when her mother was going to the market, she would call to see the fetish
priest and would tell him that she came to greet him with his wife. A baby
on the back of the mother was being called a wife of an old man. Today, the
sister is having problem getting married. No husband, no friend, no child.

Sometime ago, we asked a family to undergo family deliverance. The

Spirit of God said the prayer has to be done in their family house. While the
prayer vigil was going on, somebody shouted and said, "Look! Look!!
Look!!!. In the midst of everybody at the via was a life tortoise. The tortoise
was anointed and killed. There was a spirit in that house that dragged
people back. These are some of the few cases I have handled in the last few
years.

MYSTERY
Let us take a look at the Scriptures and draw certain conclusions about
these things. The Bible says, the secret things belong unto the Lord our
God, but those things that are revealed are revealed unto us and unto our
children that we may obey the laws of God. You need to know some secrets.
There are skeletons in the cupboard of our fathers.

Gen 15:16 But in the fourth generation they shall come hither again: for the
iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full
Note the above Scripture. Most of the time, the children continue with the
suffering which their fathers started. No matter where they go, they are
bound to reap the iniquity of their parents.

Let us consider what 2 Samuel 12:9-11 has to say.

2 Sam 12:9-11: Wherefore hast thou despised the commandment of the

LORD, to do evil in his sight) thou hast killed Uriah the Hittite with the
sword, and hast taken his wife to be thy wife, and hast slain him with the
sword of the children of Ammon. Now therefore the sword shall never
depart from thine house; because thou hast despised me, and hast taken the
wife of Uriah the Hittite to be thy wife. Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will
raise up evil against thee out of thine own house, and I will take thy wives
before thine eyes, and give them unto thy neighbour, and he shall lie with
thy wives in the sight of this sun. For thou didst it secretly: but I will do this
thing before all Israel, and before the sun.

But before you begin to say "David married many wives I can marry at
least two", weigh the ugly consequences.

UGLY FAMILY TRENDS

Have you noticed that your family members are always fighting each
other? Then check your grandfather's cupboard, there may be a skeleton
there. The third thing that God said he would do can be found in the next
verse.

2 Samuel 12:11b: "And I will take thy wives before thine eyes, and give
them unto thy neighbour, and he shall lie with thy wives in the sight of this
sun. For thou didst it secretly: but I will do this thing before all Israel, and
before the sun".

You can see the number of curses that David acquired. His children were
not there when it happened but they were partakers. The prayer I am going
to ask you to pray will have to do with things that has happened 200 or even
400 years ago.
Lam 5:7: Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their
iniquities,

What were those iniquities that were borne? The Bible expatiates on them
as follows:

Lam 5:8-18: Servants have ruled over us : there is none that doth deliver us
out of their hand. We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the
sword of the wilderness. Our skin was black like an oven because of the
terrible famine. They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the
cities of Judah Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were
not honoured. They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under
the wood. The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their
musick. The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.
The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned! For
this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes are dim. Because of the
mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the faxes walk upon it.

All these evils are what the children suffered because of the sins of their
parents who were long dead.

PAYING ANCESTRAL DEBTS

Jesus said many things in the Bible and each time he said those things the
disciples understood what he meant What the disciples understood, you
may not understand. The Jews knew that their grandfathers could have
skeletons in their cupboard. Lets look at John 9.

John 91-2: And as Jesus passed by, he saw a man which was blind from his
birth. And his disciples asked him, saying, Master, who did sin, this man, or
his parents, that he was born blind?

The Jews had a knowledge that something could go wrong with someone
as a result of what his father did.

Matt 27:24-25: When Pilate saw that he could prevail nothing, but that
rather a tumult was made, he took water, and washed his hands before the
multitude, saying, I am innocent of the blood of this just person: see ye to it.
Then answered all the people, and said, His blood be on us, and on our
children.

The Jews who stood before Pilate said that, the blood of Jesus should be
on them. Unfortunately, they also said "And on our children" Today, the
children of Israel are still , suffering for that oath which the fathers put
swore themselves and on their children. Their parents acquired I curses on
their behalf. I pray that every evil which you are going through today as a
result of what your parents have done will be cancelled today, in the name
of Jesus.

There is one scripture that bothers me more than the ones I have quoted
so far

1 Sam 3:14: And therefore I have sworn unto the house of Eli, that the ,
iniquity of Eli's house shall not be purged with sacrifice nor offering for
ever.

This passage shows that anyone from the house of Eli would have to keep
pleading for mercy since his or her iniquity cannot be purged by sacrifice. It
is a serious problem for anyone to operate under that kind of a curse.
Let us analyse a few facts, from the passages which we have read. The
first conclusion we can draw is that, your parents could put you in a serious
spiritual trouble. The second lesson is that you can suffer for the
consequences of the sins of another person.

SALIENT LESSONS
Another thing you can discover from the scriptures is that, the cup of
iniquity of parents can be shared among the children, and the moment the
cup is full, succeeding generations will continue to suffer for the
consequences.

Another thing we can understand from the Scriptures is that anyone can
drink from the cup of judgment without knowing it. We also discover that,
our ancestors can write promisory notes on behalf of the descendants. We
have also realised that our ancestors can bring curses upon their children
and one evil chain can bind a whole family. Again, punishment can be
attached to a geographical location and the consequences can be seen in a
particular place.

From the passages above, we see that the evil forces in our background
can ensure a 'back to square one' syndrome. What does this mean? No
matter how high the person goes he will still come back to square one. No
matter how rich he becomes, he will still go back to poverty level. We also
learn from the Scriptures that parents can acquire killer swords for the
family, and the same parents would be running around to solve their
problems.

THE SPIRITUAL BARRIER

We have also discovered that, disgrace can be the trademark of a family.
The Lord told David. You slept with a man's wife secretly but I will make
another man to sleep with your own wife openly. When it began, it was
David's own son that started it. Another lesson you can gather from the
scriptures, particularly from the book of Lamentations is that the skeletons
in the grandfather's cupboard can lead to servants ruling over sons.
Skeletons in the grandfather's cupboard can lead to lack of access to:
deliverance as the victim will keep going to the wrong places or churches.

Difficulties in finding a good job is also part of the consequence. Being

pursued by untimely death is part of it. Terrible famine, strange changes on
the skin and being disfigured spiritually could all be part of it as it is
recorded in Lamentations chapter five, Bastardization of womanhood,
marital cruelty against women, prostitution, bewitched hands, (hands that
cannot prosper) shame, slavery, untimely death, depression, sadness,
demotion and harassment by powers of darkness are all consequences of the
skeleton in our ancestral lineage.

CURSED OBJECTS
Curses issued on parents can be more violent on the children. The truth is
that, many of our forefathers hid terrible skeletons in their cupboards. They
were busy eating food sacrificed to idols, and they also fed us with it. Some
of them dedicated their lives to satan and violated the terms of the covenant,
without the power of the blood of Jesus. The enemy will revenge. Many of
them received cursed gifts and had covenant with Satan and his agents.

In many family houses, there are satanic and occult drawings. Cursed
materials and abominations were kept in many houses. Many of our
ancestors, honoured demons, lived in demonic houses and farmed on cursed
lands. They were into "lodge" membership and other demonic social clubs.
Some of them used powers, contrary to the power of God, to achieve their
goals. Many of the family names were demonic and were transferred to the
children. All these things created skeletons in the cupboard of nature
generations of children. You need to act fast.

THE WAY OUT

What you need to do, is to first of all deeply and sincerely confess your
sins. Second, you must destroy all ancestral collections, that are evil in
nature. The third thing to do is to break and destroy, all generational curses
through prayer. The fourth thing is to reverse the effect of these powers. The
fifth thing to do is to release yourself from satanic curses and prison so that
your life can move forward rapidly.

We serve a God who specializes in making the impossible possible. When

men seems to have given up because they have drawn a conclusion that
there is no way, that is when God will come to demonstrate his power and
ability to do the impossible.

The sixth thing you must do is to barricade your life and belonging with
the power in the blood of Jesus, so that the avenger of blood and the evil
pursuers will not be able to harm you. The last thing to do is to pursue,
overtake and recover your possessions from ancestral robbers.

A STRANGE EXPERIENCE
Many people are praying blindly, believing God, for a breakthrough and
not knowing that there is a skeleton in the cupboard working against them. I
have always shared the story of a girl called Usuah. She was the best
student in Mathematics department in the University. Suddenly, during
lectures, she ran mad.

Her father was sent for. He came and took the girl to church for prayers.
As we were praying, the Lord said, "Don't bother praying for the girl, tell
the man (the father of Usuah) to go to the sitting room of his father (Usuah's
grand father) there is a coffin buried in the sitting mom; the man should
bring out the coffin and destroy it, then Usuah would be well". But Usuah's
father said 'No, man of God pray for her, please". We did not pray for the
girl. The man then ran to his father's home and said, "Daddy, Usuah is not
well and we took her to a man of God who said if we dig the floor of your
sitting room we will find a coffin and if we destroy the coffin, Usuah would
be well.". The man looked at his son and said "Who is the man of God who
said that? Describe him". Usuah's father described me. Then the father said,
"Okay". So, they dug the sitting room and brought out a small coffin with a
paper on which Usuah's name was written on it.

Young girls like Usuah have been dying in the family, while the old man
had been growing younger and stronger?
Many strange things are going to happen if you take the prayer points
listed below in an aggressive way. But you have to give your life to Jesus if
you have not done that before. Take all the necessary steps towards dealing
with the skeleton in your grandfather's cupboard today.

PRAYER POINTS:
. Every evil harvest, scatter by fire in the name of Jesus.

. Every destructive ancestral promise, made for my sake, die in the name of
Jesus.

. Blood of Jesus, arise in your power and deliver my foundation in the name
of Jesus.
 CHAPTER TWO
INVASION FROM THE PAST

Genesis 49:1-7: And Jacob called unto his sons, and said, Gather
yourselves together, that I may tell you that which shall befall you in the
last days. Gather yourselves together, and hear, ye sons of Jacob; and
hearken unto Israel your father. Reuben, thou art my firstborn, my might,
and the beginning of my strength, the excellency of dignity, and the
excellency of power: Unstable as water, thou shalt not excel; because thou
wentest up to thy father. Simeon and Levi are brethren; instruments of
cruelty are in their habitations. O my soul, come not thou into their secret;
unto their assembly, mine honour, be not thou united: for in their anger they
slew a man, and in their self will they digged down a wall. Cursed be their
anger, for it was fierce; and their wrath, for it was cruel: I will divide them
in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel.

The past has a sinister invading power. Your past is not a sleeping dog
that should be allowed to lie. In every past, there is a lion ready to pounce
on our mistakes and use it as a ladder. The currency of the past, can buy off
a negative future for you. Whatever was supposed to die in the past, that
was not killed, has the power to kill in the future.

The past is like a journalist who has the power to report you to your
future. Your past is quite gone but it is not quite dead. It has the capacity for
a kind of destructive resurrection.

THE POWER OF THE PAST

Reuben would have being rejoicing, that his father was about to die, and
that most of the property of the father would become his. The truth is that,
the best of the blessings of his father ought to have gone to him. But there
was a day lust entered into the flesh of Reuben, and he never knew that a
great deal of evil consequence lay ahead of him, or yielding to his flesh.
The whole sin lasted for some five minutes. If, when he was about to
commit the fornication, someone had told him that there would be great
consequences that he would not be able to recover from in the future,
maybe he would have refrained from committing the sin.

Your designation in the church has nothing to do with what we are saying
here; Moses was highly anointed but that did not stop his past from
invading him.

A man slept with a girl while she was in the secondary school and she
conceived and he denied it. So, the girl began to suffer. She graduated and
managed to take care of the bastard baby. Finally, she got married to another
man later in her life. The boy she gave birth to, became so unruly and
disobedient and would not go to school. Meanwhile, his father who denied
him had become very rich and affluent.

One day, the man was driving to his office and a young man stopped him
at gunpoint and shot him to death. When the police apprehended the young
man, they discovered that it was the boy he denied when her mother got
pregnant for him many years back. Now his past error had gathered
momentum and had become a killing force, which caught up with him and
shot down his destiny.

THE DEMAND FOR SETTLEMENT

Many people are destined for greatness. Many see greatness in their
dreams and in their revelations. A lot of people are so talented that if you
explore just one of their talents, it is enough to make then rich. However,
some of these people are incapacitated. Each time they want to move
forward, something drags them back. People who are less anointed and are
less talented are moving forward, but those who are greatly endowed
remain backward. Each time they make any move, something in their past
would say, "You haven't settled me. So, where are you going?"

The past sometimes demands settlement before we could be allowed to

move on. It is like an evil rope, tied around a person's waist.
 A woman brought her three daughters for prayers. One was attending the
University of Lagos, the second was attending the Obafemi Awolowo
University, while the third was in another University. When we began to
pray, we discovered that they were trying to pull something out of their
waists. We discovered that, what they were trying to pull out of their waist
was the ancient bead which primitive ladies used to put around their waists.
Young ladies, are introducing the old culture by using those beads without
knowing the origin of the waist beads. The ladies, are trying to revive a
past, that was already in a state of confusion.

THE INVASION
Jacob went away for forty years but Esau was waiting for him to return
one day. It is very important to ask God to kill anything in your life that
must die for you to move forward. If not, the past would invade your life
like an army of invaders.

If you ignore the past, it will become a torment. That is why your today is
very important. If you fail to tame your today, it will grow into a terrible
wild Lion in the future. Those who become addicted to sex, drugs,
prostitution and other vices did not start in a big way; it was gradually.
When they did it the first time and their conscience commanded them to
stop; they might have said, "I can always stop; but that would be much
later", only to discover that they couldn't stop anymore as they have been
caged.

BEWARE!
A young man was brought for prayer, about five years ago. He was about
17 years-old, by the time they brought him to me. By then, he had slept with
about 350 prostitutes. I said, "What do you want me to do for you?". He
said, "Pray for me so I can stop". He said he wasn't feeling well and that he
wanted to stop, but each time he determined to stop something would be
telling him to continue. Before I could say in Jesus' name he had removed
his trousers and all over his manhood were sores. I asked him, "With this
kind of sores all over your manhood when last did you go to a prostitute?"
'Yesterday', he answered. A playful act which he got involved in with an
house help, when he was 10 years (not knowing the level of the spiritual
bondage of the girl), later developed into what he was passing through.

THE EVIL PATTERN

There is a pattern of life, some people have lived on earth before we were
born. That pattern of life did not favour them. Though some people could
see that a pattern of life did not favour those who got involved in it, they
still went ahead to repeat it. If you are a sister who has no father and you are
living with your mother and no man is ready to marry you and you have
many boy friends, know that the trend which your mother got into, has
started manifesting in you.

If some mothers had heard the messages preached in their own time, they
would not have made the mistakes we are making today. Today, some
people are repeating the same mistake, made by other people in the past. It
is foolishness, to think that your past associations, would not have any evil
influence on you today. Even if you are a friend of God, you can still be
invaded by your past.

The anointing does not cancel the law and order of heaven. Let me give
you a simple example of what I mean.

1 Samuel 15.2: 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.

The instruction was clear and Saul understood it; but he didn't see things
with the eye of the Lord. He must have wondered why God would be so
wicked to the people to the point that he would command that both women
and children and beasts be killed. So he spared king Agag who was
supposed to be the first person to be killed; he wanted to display him as a
trophy. At the end of the day, it was Samuel who killed Agag. So, Saul did
not fulfill his assignment. That mistake was a tragic disaster for the future
of the whole nation of Israel. David in latter year, had to battle with the
remnants of the Amalekites. But David with all his anointing and war skills
could not wipe out the Amalekites anymore because, the first person who
was given the assignment failed to carry it out.

THE GREAT MONSTER

Many years after King Saul had died, a surviving seed of Amalek grew
into a great monster who threatened the nation of Israel. The man's name is
Haman the Agagite.

Esther 8:3: And Esther spake yet again before the king, and fell dawn at
his feet, and besought him with tears to put away the mischief of Haman the
Agagite, and his device that he had devised against the Jews.

Esther 9:24: Because Haman the son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, the
enemy of all the Jews, had devised against the Jews to destroy them, and
had cast Pur, that is, the lot, to consume them, and to destroy them;

So as you can see from the scriptures, the Amalekites of the past who
were not destroyed by Saul later gave birth to a man who became a source
of trouble for the Jews. The seed even became more violent, mischievous
and terrible.

Maybe, you have discovered that whenever you want to move forward,
something draws you back or when you want to move to the left something
pushes you to the right or when you want to move ahead it knocks you
down. You can roar a desperate prayer to heaven today, for the Amalekites
of your past that want to resurrect, to die and for the ones that have
developed into Haman to be destroyed!

A GREAT EXAMPLE
Moses is the next example. Moses could not achieve the plan and purpose
of God for him to take the children of Israel to the Promised Land. Besides,
he was sentenced to an early death. In spite of being the meekest man on the
face of the earth as it is written in the Scripture, he could not control his
anger when it mattered most. Moses lived a fascinating and mysterious life;
a distinguishing and a controversial and an unparalled life.
 Moses was the prince of Egypt and he was also the giver of the law. The
Bible says, the law came by Moses. Moreover, the Bible says Moses was
God's faithful servant The Bible teaches that he was more humble than any
man on the face of the earth. He spoke with God face to face. It was in the
days of Moses that God began to deal with people by a mediator. God
wanted to talk with everybody, but when the people saw the blast, the fire
and the smoke on the mountain, they pleaded with Moses to hear from God
and bring words to them. They cast off their privileges and gave them to
Moses.

Moses was a spokesman and a psalmist The popular psalms were actually
written by Moses. The Bible says there was no prophet like Moses. He was
the son of a slave at the same time the son of a queen. He was meant for
death but those who masterminded his death, were the ones that brought
him up. He was born in a hut but lived in a palace. He inherited poverty but
he enjoyed great riches in the house of Pharaoh. He was a leader of an army
and a keeper of flocks at the same time.

MOSES' PAST
He was educated in the courts of Pharaoh, but he dwelt in the wilderness.
He had the wisdom of Egypt, but he also had the faith of a child. He was a
man that was fit for the city but he lived in the wilderness.

He had the opportunity to enjoy the pleasures of Egypt but he decided to

go the way of hardship. When he talked with men he stammered but when
he talked with God he was fluent. He had the rod of a shepherd in his hand,
but he also had the power of the infinite God in his hands.

He ran away from Pharaoh, but God recognized him as the ambassador of
heaven. He was the forerunner of both the law and grace. He died alone on
Mount Moab. No man assisted in the funeral of Moses, nevertheless, as
great as he was, his past still caught up with him. When his past rose up
against him he could not stand. If Moses, as anointed as he was, could
suffer the consequence of the past, what about those who are struggling
with one sin or the other? Many people have never heard the gospel from
man let a lone from an angel. Many have not even heard from an angel, let
alone God.

THE WAR
Moses was born under the sentence of death; he was to be drowned in the
river. The river in which he would have been drowned was a river that
people worshipped. His parents put him in a secret cover for three months.
If you want to hide a baby for three months, without letting people hear the
cry of the baby, you need a lot of cover-ups.

The name 'Moses' was not given to him by God, it was given to him by
Pharaoh's daughter. The name means 'drawn out' in other words, 'drawn
from the water'. He was a victim of marine attacks. He grew up in Pharaoh's
palace, the center of Egyptian demons. He learnt ail the wisdom of the
Egyptians and about their gods. All these waged war against Moses for a
very long time. They attacked him and he could not survive it.

If a person is invaded by the past, even if the truth is staring him in the
face, he would reject it. If a person is invaded by the past, even if you
surround him with a thousand prophets, he would still reject their words. A
person who is invaded by the past would never take correction or
precaution. If a person is invaded by the past, when it is time for him to
ascend to more greatness, he would be pulled down from grace to grass,
and when he is brought down to grass, the agents of Satan would write
'Ichabod, the glory has departed' on his forehead.

SIX WAYS TO DEAL WITH THE INVADING

PAST
. Pray Violently That The Lord May Reveal Every Area Of Darkness In
Your Life. Many people need serious deliverance. Some spirits generally
remain in hiding until they are exposed. They wouldn't show up until
someone brings in a magnet and magnetizes them.
 We held a campus crusade many years ago. I was in charge of
counselling. One fair and beautiful lady came for counselling. I could not
understand what she was saying, so I told her to get up and let us pray.
Immediately I said, 'Father in the name of Jesus,' the lady started an Indian
dance. Meanwhile, I had no time for her acrobatic display because there
were many people I had to attend to. Then one brother came and said "Let
me take this girl away and deal with her problem while you take care of the
other people." I agreed and they went away. The next thing I heard was, a
shout, "Brethren! Brethren!! Brethren!!!" People rushed there to see what
the problem was. They discovered that the lady was on the floor and the
brother was on top of her. He was trying to remove his trousers when
another brother came to pull him away from her. He did not succeed; that
was why he cried out. About six people went there to take him away from
her but he was still insisting that they should leave him to pray for the girl.

Why did this happen? There was something in the brother's past that was
hidden. Though he had a very big Bible, walked as if the ground was going
to crack like an egg, that day a magnet from the water attracted him. His
mother, too, was from the water and there was an attack. I pray that you will
be delivered from any spirit that is attacking you from the past in Jesus'
name.

Many people come to the church with their minds screwed up. In the
early days of Pentecostalism, whenever prayer was going on, our fathers
would say, "Open up your heart. Don't resist God". When you get to the red
sea or the river Jordan it is not a time to dance; neither is it a time to pray
like a gentleman. How can you pray like a gentle man when there is a
Pharaoh chasing you?

Pharaoh was the "past" of the Israelites, this time he was pursuing their
future and would have caught up with them. Moses cried unto God and God
told him to stretch forth his rod and divide the sea.

. Deal With The Manifestations. This is not what you can just get up and do
in a hurry. You need to do a lot of homework about this.
 . Seek The Lord's Face For A Deeper Revelation Of Your Life. Sometimes,
if God shows you who you are, you will break down in tears. Maybe God
has made you to be an elephant you have married a cockroach. Maybe, God
has made you to be a lion, but your husband is a lizard; how would such a
relationship work? You need a deeper revelation of your life so as not to
settle for what will bring you down from the great height where God has
positioned you.

4. Enter Into Spiritual Warfare Against me Esau Of Your Past. Make sure you
have settled with your Esau.

. You Must Systematically Reclaim Any Ground You Have Given To The
Enemy. The two magicians (Janes and Jambres) who came to confront
Moses in the palace were the former colleagues of Moses when he was in
the palace. Your former spiritual friends with whom you were operating
with satanic power in the past, would become your future Haman, unless
you deal with them today.

6. Bind All Ancestral Powers That May Be Militating Against You. There are
some people, who have all it takes, to single handedly finance the entire
needs of the church if not that they have been invaded by their past. But
anytime they want to move forward, the past would say, "No, you can't go
because I have not been settled". Their past set up an automatic mechanism
to put a stop to their movement. The Lord may say, "I want you to go to
Australia or Switzerland. Your wealth is there", while you are going through
bushy paths to get to Republic of Benin to buy a car". How can you fulfill
what the Lord has spoken concerning you, when a cry has gone against you
and you are yielding to the cry? The truth is, if you are not operating at a
level where God has destined you to be, you are in trouble, if you fail to get
there.

PRAYER POINTS
. Every Haman of my father's house, assigned to shut down my destiny, die
in the name of Jesus.

. I break away, from every company of stagnancy, in the name of Jesus.

 . Every serpent and scorpion of my past, that is attacking my future, die in
the name of Jesus.

4. Every handwriting of man, upon my destiny, scatter in the name of Jesus.

. Every rottenness, that has gathered into my life die in the name of Jesus.
 CHAPTER THREE
THE VOICE OF THE ROTTEN FAMILY TREE

1 Cor 14:10: There are, it may be, so many kinds of voices in the world,
and none of them is without signification

There are many voices in the world. There is the voice of God. There is
the voice of man. There is the voice of the devil. Every voice has a
spirit behind it. There is a spirit behind the message you are reading right
now. There is a purpose and an agenda for it. Every voice has a spirit,
purpose and agenda. Please note that a voice does not have to make any
sound to be significant, because there are voices without sounds in the
world.

Adam and Eve heard the voice of God, but Eve also heard the voice of the
serpent. The point I want to establish, here, is that, there are many kinds of
voices in the world, today.

Ex 4:8: And it shall come to pass, if they will not believe thee, neither
hearken to the voice of the first sign, that they will believe the voice of the
latter sign.

THE VOICE AS AN ENTITY

The Scripture above tells us that a sign had a voice. So signs and wonders
have the capacity to speak.

Gen 4:10: And he said, What hast thou done? the voice of thy brothers
blood crieth unto me from the ground.

The blood of Abel that was shed was crying for vengeance against Cain.
So, a voice can cry against someone and a voice can cry on your behalf.

Ps 55:3: Because of the voice of the enemy, because of the oppression of

the wicked: for they cast iniquity upon me, and in wrath they hate me.
 The Scripture above shows us that there is a voice known as the voice of
the enemy.

Luke 4:33: And in the synagogue there was a man, which had a spirit of an
unclean devil, and cried out with a loud voice.

The Bible tells us here that the devil has a loud voice.

John 10:5: And a stranger will they not follow, but will flee from him: for
they know not the voice of strangers.

ANCESTRAL VOICES
The fact to be established from all these scriptures is that every family has
a voice, and every family has a tree. Your family tree cries out when things
walk contrary to the set agenda. Until you have thoroughly dealt with it,
you cannot move forward. I want you to understand that you can fight a
borrowed battle, buy your battle, steal your battle and you can be married to
your battle. You can also inherit your battle. Your family can be the source
of your trouble or battle. The voice of the rotten family tree is not a voice
that should be ignored. It is a message that one must meditate on, time and
again. Let us examine a revealing passage.
Deut 29:18: Lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family or
tribe, whose heart turneth away this day from the LORD our God, to go and
serve the gods of these nations; lest there should be among you a root that
beareth gall and wormwood;

THE ROOT
As you can see from the Scripture passage above, a man can be a root, a
woman can be a root and a family can be a root that bears gall and
wormwood. A tribe can be a root, that bears gall and wormwood. That is
what the Scripture above is telling us. Your problem can come from a man,
a woman, a family or from your tribe.

It is indeed true that the family is a divine creation; an institution made by

God. The family comes before the church. Everyone here on earth is a leaf
or a branch from a family tree.

If you want to put the world in order you have to first of all put the
nations in order. But to put the nations of the world in order, you have to put
the families in order. Every family has a destiny and a programme. That is
why you need to understand the fact that there is a family tree and therefore
you need to know your family history.

THE FAMILY TREE

If you don't know your family history you don't know anything. Do not be
part of a tree without knowing the other parts of the tree. When a family
tree is polluted, defiled, sick and stunted, the society as well would be
polluted, defiled, sick and stunted. The enemy knows this. That is why he is
trying to make sure that every family tree is polluted.
A lot of people have grown as leaves on a rotten family tree. This is a
serious problem. But we need to know why a family tree is rotten.
Several years ago, when I was a student at the University of Lagos. I used
to know a girl, who was very bright and intelligent. Her rich parents lived
overseas. Whatever she needed was sent from abroad But the amazing thing
is that, though this girl had expensive under wears sent to her from abroad,
she still went to steal cheap locally-made under wears. It was difficult for
anyone to understand what she did. Later policemen raided a gang of
robbers and it was discovered that her father was their baron. The father
was a godfather to the notorious robbers. He was caught and shot. Then
someone sat back to do a research about the girl's family and discovered
that all the members of that family went to jail, except one who happened to
be a preacher. That was a rotten family tree. If your roots are part of a rotten
family tree, what you draw from that tree will decide your destiny.

WHY FAMILIES HAVE ROTTEN TREES

. ANCESTRAL PROBLEM: "We do not want the God of the Christians to
reign over us". They did terrible things in order to demonstrate their hatred
for God. Some of them pounded day-old babies in mortars. They did all
kinds of horrible things which have made the judgment of God to fall upon
many families. This explains why there are rotten family trees.

. ACCUMULATED SINS: If a family is used to committing sins, time and

again and the cup of iniquity of that family is full and is overflowing, the
sins of the family will become accumulated. When the sins become
accumulated and is overflowing the offspring will suffer for what he or she
did not do. If your ancestors shed blood and you begin to commit abortion,
you are adding to the bloody crime of your ancestors. If your forefathers
were murderers and you are now killing people, you are accumulating the
sins of your lineage. Judgment shall descend on your family tree.

Matt 23:29-36: Woe unto you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites because
ye build the tombs of the prophets, and garnish the sepulchers of the
righteous. And say, If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not
have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets. Wherefore ye
be witnesses unto yourselves, that ye are the children of them which killed
the prophets. Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers. Ye serpents, ye
generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell? Wherefore,
behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: and some of
them ye shall kill and crucify; and some of them shall ye scourge in your
synagogues, and persecute them from city to city. That upon you may come
all the righteous blood shed upon the earth, from the blood of righteous
Abel unto the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias, whom ye slew between
the temple and the altar. Verily I say unto you, all these things shall come
upon this generation.

The family tree, of the people Jesus was talking to, was rotten because
they killed the prophets of God. The Lord told them that judgment shall be
visited upon them. If you are a Christian, don't fail to address the problem
of the rotten family tree caused by accumulated family sins but you fold
your arms while judgment had been pronounced the same thing will be
happening to you Consider how long Abel had died and remember that
Jesus stated that his blood will be required from and judged on the people
who lived
. DELAYED JUDGMENT: Some of the sins in the family that were not
judge immediately they were committed would be later judged and the new
generation would suffer for them. Sometimes ago, I sat back to consider the
consequence of the tribal wars fought in Africa and other countries. Those
who were involved in the killings, would leave behind very terrible
consequences for children yet unborn. All ritual killers and kidnappers, are
pilling some terrible problems for their present and future children. I
watched a movie sometime ago, which lasted for about fifteen minutes but I
remained shocked for over five hours. The movie centred on the happenings
in war torn areas of the West African coast.

When anyone was caught they would ask him whether he wanted long
sleeve or short sleeve. What they meant by that was how long the person
would want his hand to be. The long sleeve means only the palm of the
hand would be cut off while the short sleeve means the arm would be cut
off. The worst of all these was that, they were even cutting off babies
"hands". What judgment do you think God should mete upon people who
killed human beings like that? Murderers would not bear the judgment
alone; their families too, would bear in it.

Isa 48:9: For my own name's sake I delay my wrath; for the sake of my
praise I hold it back from you.

The Scripture above tells us that judgment can be postponed or delayed. If

you have ever read the twenty-first chapter of the book of 2 Samuel you
would discover that in the time of David there was famine in the land.
When David went to inquire from the Lord, the Lord told him that it was
because of what Saul did to the Gibeonites. It was Saul that did it but David
had to suffer the consequence. David could simply have argued with God
saying "Since it was Saul who did it, I don't have to suffer for it", but no, he
did not. Every successor must inherit all delayed judgments.

I want you to understand that if your father, for instance, was a "lodge"
member, eating the heart of human beings and drinking blood and
eventually, on his sick bed, he decided to give his life to Jesus, that would
not exclude you from the consequences of his evil deeds. God might have
issued a curse on him when he was still doing those evils.
 Mannaseh, was the most wicked witchcraft king that Israel ever had. The
Bible gives us an account of his deeds.

2 Chron 33:9-16: So Manasseh made Judah and the inhabitants of

Jerusalem to err, and to do worse than the heathen, whom the LORD had
destroyed before the children of Israel. And the LORD spake to Manasseh,
and to his people: but they would not hearken. Wherefore the LORD
brought upon them the captains of the host of the king of Assyria, which
took Manasseh among the thorns, and bound him with fetters, and carried
him to Babylon. And when he was in affliction, he besought the LORD his
God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers, And
prayed unto him: and he was intreated of him, and heard his supplication,
and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew
that the LORD he was God. Now after this he built a wall without the city
of David, on the west side of Gihon, in the valley, even to the entering in at
the fish gate, and compassed about Ophel, and raised it up a very great
height, and put captains of war in all the fenced cities of Judah. And he took
away the strange gods, and the idol out of the house of the LORD, and all
the altars that he had built in the mount of the house of the LORD, and in
Jerusalem, and cast them out of the city. And he repaired the altar of the
LORD, and sacrificed thereon peace offerings and thank offerings, and
commanded Judah to serve the LORD God of Israel.

Manasseh repented, and broke dawn all the altars of the other gods, cast
away strange gods, made sacrifices of peace and told the people of Israel to
serve God; not withstanding, a curse was already in place, when he was
committing those sins. Let us examine what happened after he had
repented.

2 Kings 21:1-4: Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign,
and reigned fifty and five years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was
Hephzi-bah. And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, after
the abominations of the heathen, whom the LORD cast out before the
children of Israel. For he built up again the high places which Hezekiah his
father had destroyed; and he reared up altars for Baal, and made a grove, as
did Ahabking of Israel; and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served
 them. And he built altars in the house of the LORD, of which the LORD
said, In Jerusalem will I put my name.

Manasseh's abominations attracted a curse.

2 Kings 21:10-13: And the LORD spake by his servants the prophets,
saying, Because Manasseh king of Judah hath done these abominations, and
hath done wickedly above all that the Amorites did, which were before him,
and hath made Judah also to sin with his idols: Therefore thus saith the
LORD God of Israel, Behold, I am bringing such evil upon Jerusalem and
Judah, that whosoever heareth of it, both his ears shall tingle. And I will
stretch over Jerusalem the line of Samaria, and the plummet of the house of
Ahab: and I will wipe Jerusalem as a man wipeth a dish, wiping it, and
turning it upside down.

In chapter 22 Manasseh's son took over. We came across the fourth

generation below.

2 Kings 24:1-3: In his days Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up, and
Jehoiakim became his servant three years: then he turned and rebelled
against him. And the LORD sent against him bands of the Chaldees, and
bands of the Syrians, and bands of the Moabites, and bands of the children
of Ammon, and sent them against Judah to destroy it, according to the word
of the LORD, which he spake by his servants the prophets. Surely at the
commandment of the LORD came this upon Judah, to remove them out of
his sight, for the sins of Manasseh, according to all that he did.

During the fourth generation, God's judgment upon the sins of Manasseh
came to pass. It happened when his son was on the throne. You may say that
Manasseh repented and did well, that not withstanding; judgment had been
pronounced. Delayed judgment, does not grant anyone any form of
immunity.

4. CURSES DIRECTED AT BOTH SINNER AND OFFSPRING. When

the sons of Eli sinned, God told Eli that there would never be an old man in
his house forever. So, all the young men in his family died at the prime of
their lives. This is recorded in 2 Samuel Chapter Two. Curses issued on
sinners would affect their children. That means that, if a child is born into
 the family of Eli, right there in the maternity room, premature death would
be waiting and standing behind him. The same thing happened in the case
of Gehazi in 2 Kings 5. Elisha said that the leprosy of Naaman shall be
upon him and upon his generations. That means immediately a child was
born into the family of Gehazi, leprosy would be waiting to catch up with
him right there at the maternity room.

. JUDGEMENT DUE TO IDOLATRY. The worship of idols is the cause

of this "almost successful" syndrome. God has issued a curse against
idolayry. One of the troubles that come from the foundation of idolatry is
complex sorrow and trouble.

Psalms 16:4: Their sorrows shall be multiplied that hasten after another
god: their drink offerings of blood will I not offer, nor take up their names
into my lips.

6. SATANIC PRIESTHOOD IN A FAMILY. If anyone has officiated as

Satan's priest in a family, Satan would want to make that priesthood
perpetual. He will do everything to make the evil priesthood entrenched in
the lineage. Often times, most of what we blame God for, are not caused by
God; They are often caused by Satan and the priest of Satan in the family.
One of the ways to recognize a family that has satanic priesthood is that the
offspring generally suffer. If your mother worshipped the water spirits, you
will see the result in your own life. If your father was an idol worshipper,
you will discover that you will lead a miserable life.

7. SHEDDING OF BLOOD IN THE FAMILY LINE. No one can shed

blood and go scot-free. Wherever you find bad homes, lack of progress and
masturbation, it may be the consequences of blood shed. I want you to take
this prayer point: Every unseen fire, burning in my family line, die in the
name of Jesus.

If your ancestors practiced witchcraft, don't be surprised if you are

suffering from demonic harassment and backwardness. Maybe your
ancestors were tormenting widows when they were alive, don't be surprised
if you are being tormented by chains of problems. If your ancestors were
people who got involved in fetish activities, don't be surprised if enemies
are tormenting you and you cannot easily find helpers. If some members of
your family line had memorized powerful incantations, don't be surprised if
you are going through mental blockage and you are experiencing closed
doors.

THE FAMILY CHECKLIST

If there were people in your family tree, who practiced fetish things and
the use of herbs, you may find yourself suffering from incurable diseases
and all sorts of tragedies. Maybe, some members of your family line were
drummers, who played at idol worship centres, don't be surprised if you are
going through chains of tragedy, terrible diseases and first class poverty.

If in your family line, someone has forced others into marriage, you will
surely begin to experience marital problems. It is possible that there is a
bloody money in your family line, you don't have to be surprised if there is
confusion, sudden death and lack of fulfillment in your family. If all your
family members were involved in visiting and worshipping at demonic
shrines, you will discover that anywhere you go there is a demonic traffic
on your way. You will discover that anywhere you go, whether far or near,
those demons would always come to visit you in the dream. If there were
people in your family lineage, who draw wicked evil power from the grave,
don't be surprised if the spirit of death is pursuing you.

THE EVIL THREAD

If your ancestors were drawing power from the sun, you will discover that
anywhere you go you will always have problems. If you are from a family
where men capture women and forcefully marry them, don't be surprised if
you are going through marital problems. Maybe you come from a family:
where your ancestors used fetish power for increased agricultural yields,
don't be surprised if you are going through a general lack and you are
suffering health problems. Don't be surprised if you are going through
surgical operations repeatedly.

If there were people in the lineage of your family, who had familiar
spirits, don't be surprised if everyone is living as vagabonds and prostitution
is rife in your family. If there were star gazers and astrologers in your
family, don't be surprised if the spirit of bad luck is always trailing you. If
there were people in your family, who were involved in making money
through magic or rituals, don't be surprised if your family members are
always missing.

CONSEQUENCES OF EVIL BACKGROUND

Perhaps, in your family, people were used to patronizing prostitutes, don't
be surprised today if all the women in your family are finding it difficult to
get married. If you are from a family where people were involved in the
obnoxious slave trade, don't be surprised if everybody in your family is
caged and there is general backwardness. Maybe, there were people in your
family who drink blood, or consume the so called holy water, don't be
surprised if tragedy, robbery and shedding of blood are besetting you now.

If there were people in your family who kept carved satanic objects in the
house, don't be surprised that there is a wastage of property in your life. If
there were people in your family line who were masquerades, don't be
surprised if you are suffering from stagnancy and you are going through a
circle of vanity. If you have people who worshipped water in your family
line, don't be surprised if your life is as unstable as water. Maybe your
family line had been involved in stealing, don't be surprised if you have
incurable diseases now. If there were people along your family line, who
were bastards, don't be surprised if you are now going through an
unprofitable life and spiritual blindness.

If you are from a family where people used charms to catch fish, don't be
surprised if you cannot catch anything or hold on to any tangible thing in
life. If you are from a royal family, don't be surprised if you are being
bombarded by forces of frustration and affliction. The palace is a center of
all kinds of demonic activities. If your grandfather was a palm wine tapper,
don't be surprised if poverty and dullness are harassing you. If your
forefathers were aggressive to and hated missionaries, don't be surprised if
you are now suffering from general blockage.
 MYSTERIOUS HAPPENINGS
This is a serious matter. It goes beyond pointing an accusing finger at the
devil. If God puts laws in place and men are breaking those laws; the forces
of divine punishment will be released! And because the enemy hates man
with a perfect hatred, he would take the opportunity to join the forces and
torment man.

If your forefathers were involved in forcefully taking people's lands, don't

be surprised if you are now a symbol of shame and ridicule. If your
forefathers were murderers, you don't have to be surprised if you are being
chased around today.

I want you to understand these so that you would know how to pray your
way out. If the voice of your family tree speaks against you to stop, you
can't move forward unless through divine intervention.

THE SOLUTION
A woman came to ask me to pray for his son; the boy had been jailed for
raping a three-year-old girl. After his release, people began to hide their
daughters from him, and when he discovered he could not find anyone to
rape anymore, he decided to rape a goat. Strange enough he raped the goat
to death. The owner of the goat had to call the police to arrest him. Finally,
he was jailed once more for raping a goat.

You have a wicked enemy hence the first thing to do to get out of the
trouble of family trees, is to confess your sins. The second thing to do is to
confess the sins of your ancestors. The third thing is to destroy the evil
foundation made for you. The fourth thing is to pray to purge your family
me. Then you should begin to live a holy life.

If you would cry unto the Lord concerning the curses in your family tree,
you would be released from the bondages that seem unbreakable to you.

PRAYER POINTS:
. Bitter water of my family line, dry up, in the name of Jesus.
. Every wickedness, assigned against my family tree, die in the name of
Jesus.
 CHAPTER FOUR
THE RAT IN YOUR DESTINY

TIME AND PURPOSE

Eccl 3:1: To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose
under the heaven

There is a season or a time for everything and there is a purpose for what
is happening. A specific time frame has been attached to every
purpose. It is not the day you stop smoking that you will suffer lung cancer,
but the day you start smoking is the day the lung cancer starts. There is a
time and purpose.

Eccl 3:2-11: A time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that
which is planted; A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down,
and a time to dance in his life. A time to cast away stones, and a time to
gather stones together, a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from
embracing; A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to
cast away; A time to rend, and a time to sew, a time to keep, silence, and a
time to speak; A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time
of peace. What profit hath he that worketh in that wherein he laboureth? I
have seen the travail, which God hath given to the sons of men to be
exercised in it. He hath made everything beautiful in his time: also he hath
set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God
maketh from the beginning to the end.

In Psalms 90:12, we are counseled

Ps 90:12: So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts
unto wisdom.

Another translation says, "So teach us to count our days so we may know
how to behave well".
 The Bible tells us that we need to redeem time

Eph 5:16: Redeeming the time, because the days are evil.

THE PERIL OF LOST OPPORTUNITIES

I want you to pay attention to what I am about to say concerning time. It
is a tragedy for a person to live his life and to look back at the years gone
by, only to see that they are wasted years. To prevent the wastage of years,
you must recognize all the evil rat and kill them before they grow into a
giant and begin to cause trouble. Some people would get to heaven and they
would still be weeping because of the opportunities which they lost. They
will see so many things they would have done which they did not do. So, it
is better you realise this fact.

To gain mastery over the hour, you must make every minute of your life
count. The moment you begin to lose the minutes, you begin to lose the
hours; when you lose the hours you lose the day and gradually you lose out
of life. So, to be a master of the hour, you must maximise every minute of
your life.

Of all commodities, time is the most wasted. If you waste your time you
are wasting your most precious commodity. Anyone who is killing time is
committing spiritual suicide. Time lost is forever gone.

THE VALUE OF TIME

Time is one of God's greatest gift, and it is very short. Even the longest
life on earth is very short. Time is irrevocable. In our junior school in those
days, we were taught this poem: "Tick! says the clock, Tick! Tick! What
you have to do, do quick. The clock is no man's friend. It is only fulfilling
its own purpose. If you kill your time, you injure eternity. That is why they
say life is a book of three volumes. Volume one is the past. Volume two is
the present. Volume three is the future. The first volume which is the past
has been written and kept behind. There is nothing you can do about the
past. The second volume is the one we all write daily. Your life is a pen and
you are writing a chapter everyday. The third volume is locked away from
our sight; that is the future. Only God has the key to that. Although they say
time flies, the good news, however, is that, you are the pilot of your own
time. If you let it fly then it will fly away.

DESTINY DIVERSION
Time is God's way of keeping everything from happening at once. Time is
life. You can determine how you are going to spend your time.
Unfortunately, if you don't chart a direction for your life, you will go
nowhere and then someone else will tell you where to go.

Sometimes ago, I read something in a British newspaper. They wanted to

know the best secretary in the country. Five thousand people competed.
They were tested on two things their speed on the typewriter and their level
of intelligence. Eventually it was a woman called Pamela who won the
award. People clapped their hands for her and at the end of the day, she was
given the microphone to make a speech. So everybody was waiting to hear
what she had to say. The first statement she made was "I hate this job, I
don't want to be a secretary. To be honest, I don't know what I am doing as a
secretary. If other people can work for me why am I a secretary?" People
looked at her in dismay. She had become an expert in what she believed
was outside her destiny. Many people are like that. I want you to pray that
you will not be an expert in a diverted destiny. A person can be an expert in
something that is a diversion of his destiny.

The trouble is that the longer you stay in the valley of diversion, the more
time you waste, and the more query you will get from God. You may say 'I
lived my life'; the Lord will say yes! but you wasted it! Pray that God
should change whatever you redoing that will not move you forward.

Time wasted is knowledge lost. That is why as a wise Christian you must
have a Bible or one Christian literature with you anywhere you go to keep
you occupied instead of wasting time. One of the tragedies of the black man
is that if you board a plane you will find the white man reading a book or
using a laptop, while the blackman is either eating or sleeping.
 A person who is disciplined is one who does what needs be done at the
right time. Of all the teachers in nature, the most powerful one is time.
Unfortunately, it kills almost all his students.

TIME IS LIFE
Time is life, if you waste time, you waste life. If you don't find the time to
do it right when you need to do it right, you may never find time to do it.
That is why we say sometimes that, experience is not the best teacher. The
best teacher is the Holy Spirit, the wisdom of God. If I want to know
whether experience is the best teacher, as you drive along the road and you
see a signpost with "Slow down, narrow bridge ahead", you can tell
yourself, "I want to experience what it is like to drive fast on a narrow
bridge". If you drive fast you may find yourself inside the water under the
bridge. If you don't know how to swim, you would never live to learn
anything from that experience. So, experience is only a teacher when you
are alive to know what happened.

The secret of your future is in the way you spend your days. If you want
to sleep for 14 hours a day, that means you are planning for disaster
tomorrow. Time is the wisest of all counsellors. It is the toughest of all
judges, because wouldn't wait to hear your pleading. If you waste your
present, then you will waste your future. Until you value your time, you will
not do anything with it.

TIME SHAPES LIFE

Your present shapes your future. That is why no prayer is wasted. You
may not see the manifestation right away but it is not wasted. Some of our
old fathers in the Lord, who have gone to meet the Lord have their prayers
in their lifetime working even up till this moment, There was a yesterday
was a tomorrow, but many have killed that day and it has gone for ever.
That is why the Bible says "Today is the day of salvation". That rich man
that told his soul" Relax, enjoy yourself and be happy, but the Lord said
"Thou fool, this night your soul shall be required of you and all the things
you have gathered of whom shall they be?". So, the way you use your time
shapes your life.
 Everything about your life is governed by time. If you don't have time for
God you will have time for sickness; you will have time to waste on
quarrelling. When time is wasted existence is wasted as well.

REDEEMING THE TIME

There is no prophet who can pray for the resurrection of time. Time can
not resurrect. A man of God said, "Yesterday is a cancelled check.
Tomorrow is a promissory note and today is raw cash, but you have to use it
wisely".

If you are not careful with the gift of time which God has given you, you
may get to an age in your life when you would look back and discover that
you have wasted all your time. Since our time on earth is limited, God holds
us accountable for how we spend it.

As a Christian, you have to establish God's priority for your life and
pursue it. At the end of the day, the question you would have to answer is
how you spent your time. Nobody will ask you about how many certificates
you have when you get to heaven. Nobody will ask you how many houses
you built. People who live their lives according to God's priority, do not sit
down with people who gossip. There is no time for gossips in God's
programme. The Bible says, "Redeeming the time, for the days are evil".

A sister was brought for prayers, recently. Someone had touched and had
asked her to go home and bring all her money. She ran home to carry the
money. Even unbelievers tried to stop her from doing it, but she would not
listen. They bundled her and brought her to the church. Now, if a child of
God gets hypnotized, it means that something is wrong with the spiritual
life of the victim.

THE INVENTORY
You need to sit back and take stock of how you spend your time. How
many hours do you spend to serve the Lord in the whole of twenty-four
hours? How many hours do you use doing useful things? How many hours,
do you spend chatting unnecessarily? How many hour, do you spend talking
with someone, who cannot move you forward? The Bible says, "If you walk
with the wise you will be wise, but the companion of fools shall be
destroyed".

When I was quite young, it used to happen that on every last day of
December we used to gather to pray in order to usher in the new year.
Whenever we gathered, the Church leadership would begin to read the
account of how much money each of the members contributed and how
much was spent on notebooks and writing material like pen and pencil. I
used to tell then that all the trivialities were useless, but they would not
listen. Today, those people's lives are symbols of poverty. They spent the
time they would have spent to pray in doing things that were not profitable.

Someone may say, I don't want to contribute money because they would
spend it; I would advice you in that case to look for God's address and send
it to Him. You don't have to bother about what happens to the money you
have given out to God's work. If anyone eats God's money the person has
only eaten dust, gravel and stones. The punishment goes from generation to
generation.

THE NEED FOR WATCHFULNESS

Don't waste time with people who would not move you forward. If you
are with friends who spend time talking about perfumes, bangles, necklace,
cloths and shoes, you will not move forward. Don't allow demonic rats to
destroy your destiny. Stay where you are and remain focused.

There was Moses, and there was Aaron and there was a man called Hur; It
was the responsibility of Moses to raise his hands, but it was the job of
Aaron and Hur to see to it that the hand did not come down. It was the job
of Joshua to fight in the war front; but if Joshua or Aaron had said, "No! I
must be the one to raise my hands", then all the people would have perished
in the battle.

Joshua was like a personal assistant to Moses. Initially, anytime Moses

wanted to go to a place, Joshua would stay afar off. But gradually, he began
to move closer. Gradually the anointing began to rob off on Joshua.
 Association brought promotion. The Bible says that if you move with the
wise you will be wise, but the companion of fools shall be destroyed.

In those days, people used to have prayer partners, but now there are no
prayer partners. There are rumour partners. If you keep the right company
you will move forward. Therefore you have to know how to use your time.

My original training was in the sciences. I have noticed that there are
many great discoveries in the science Scientific discoveries were achieved
by people who mal good use of their time. The man who discovered
photography was an army officer. The person who discovered the typewriter
was a farmer. These inventors made good use of their spare time, for
something important. The person who invented the telephone was just a
school teacher, who thought of what to do after official hours. You must
make a good use of your time. Chase away the rat in your destiny. If you
don't kill them, they will waste your life.

EXAMPLES OF THE DEMONIC RATS

. PROCRASTINATION. The spirit of waiting till the last minute.
Procrastination is a robber of destiny. If you continually postpone things
and actions, planning to read the whole Bible next year, promising to fast
next week, you will end up achieving nothing. If you spend fifteen minutes
reading the Bible everyday, by three hundred and sixty-five days of the
year, you would have finished reading the Bible. But procrastination is a rat
that will never allow you to do it.

. FAILURE TO PLAN YOUR LIFE. If you fail to plan no programme to

execute and take all things as they come, you will fail. Sit down and plan
your life. If not your destiny would be eaten up by these demonic rats.

. THE TELEVISION SET: If you become addicted to the TV, you will
waste your destiny. If you ask to know what the greatest witchcraft in the
world is, I will tell you that it is the TV.

4. NOT LEARNING TO SAY NO. When you know that you wouldn't do
something and someone asks you to come and do it and you cannot say 'No
 I wouldn't do it' your destiny would be eaten up. You don't have focus hence
anyone can divert your attention if you cannot say no. If you are not honest
about what you can do and what you cannot do, you will end up wasting
your time in life.

. LACK OF PRIORITY: You must get your priorities right. If you set your
priorities right, you won't have any business with unnecessary programmes.
Any visitor, who spends too much time with you is not the kind of visitor
you should welcome. A visitor, who is not out to discuss the word of God
with you or has no interest in praying with you but just wants to chat with
you, is a visitor to avoid, if you don't want your time to be eaten up by the
rats.

6. SELF-PITY AND WORRY: If you spend time pitying yourself and

getting worried about past events, your destiny would be eaten up. Weeping
and worry would only amount to wastage, because worry and self-pity
never solved any problem.

7. INDISCIPLINE. Discipline develops character. You must do what has to

be done, not just what you feel like doing. What you want may not be what
you need. Instead of doing what you want, do what you need to do. For
example, what some people need is someone to inject some military
discipline into their lives, but what they are looking for is someone who will
pamper them.

. TRYING TO DO EVERYTHING AT ONCE. You should learn to tackle

one thing at a time and finish it before you go for another. Don't be a jack of
all trades but master of none.

. WALKING BY SIGHT: If you walk by sight you will not experience a

miracle. If you walk by faith, you will experience breakthroughs. The Bible
says, "All things are possible to them that believeth". If you walk by sight
you will waste a lot of time, but if you walk by the Spirit, you will save a lot
of time.

There was a man who was about to go out of his house in the morning. He
felt like saying a kind of short prayer, but the Holy Spirit asked him to
continue praying. He stood by the door there for almost twenty minutes,
then he began to feel bored and said "Oh Lord let me go to work. I am
already late". Then he said, "In Jesus name I pray Amen!" So, he went his
way. The last thing he remembered was that he was in a taxi cab but later
found himself in a thick forest.

Men and women were slaughtered in the forest. All the parts of the body
were sliced up, including the breast and the private parts of the victims.
Then the man began to pray. But as he was praying, the ritualists began to
get confused; They received an order but they could not do things according
to the order given to them by their boss. A ritualist looked at the man and
said "You are saying something, I want you to stop saying that thing. So he
kept quiet, but he continued praying silently.

The ritualists were still getting confused. So they went back to him and
said, "What we told you to stop saying is still going on in your mind". So,
he stopped thinking about it. Then he discovered that they were about to
slaughter one of the victims. At that point he decided like Esther, If I perish
I perish" and spoke aloud in tongues, and there was confusion all aver. He
ran out in a jiffy. By the time he ran out of the forest, he found himself at a
filling station at Ore, a town in western Nigeria.

If in his house he had obeyed God and had continued praying he wouldn't
have ended up being a victim. Though he didn't die in the process, the time
he spent in the bush would have been avoided. So, if you walk by sight you
will waste a lot of time.

0. GOVERNED BY ANGER. All the time you are wasting losing your
temper and getting angry is an opportunity for your enemy to fight you
hard.

1. PURSUING OTHER THINGS MORE SERIOUSLY THAN

ETERNITY.

2. VAGABOND VISITORS. They are those who would say, "We were just
passing by and we said we should stop by to greet you". Now you may be
busy doing something, but because of these vagabond visitors, you would
have to abandon what you are doing to attend to their idle time. And if you
say "Please I can't attend to you now, go away", they would assume that you
are proud.

You must be wise, because you are accountable to God for your time.
There is something known as brilliant disaster. "Someone is intelligent but
as intelligent as he is, he is still a waste. You need to call upon the Lord to
deliver you from the spirit that makes you waste your time. This wastage
takes place gradually. A lot of people come crying to God.

Sometimes, the same people have broken this law and when the season of
reaping the harvest comes they begin to sorrow. You need to get ready to
begin to pray, if you know you have being wasting your time. The moment
you lose your temper and people are begging you saying "it is alright! It is
alright! please don't fight!" You are wasting your time. Time does not wait
for anyone and no one is getting younger either. By the time you get into
tomorrow, another day is gone forever.

The first thing God did when man fell in the Garden of Eden was that, he
came down to seek out the lost ones. One of the greatest problems of Eve
was that she devoted too much time to talk with the serpent. The irony of
the whole thing after man sinned in the Garden of Eden was that when man
sinned, instead of him looking for God and crying unto him to have mercy
and to forgive him, it was God who came down looking for man to find out
where he was. God came down and began to cry out, "Adam! Adam! where
art thou?". I'll like to ask you the same question: "Where are you? Not
where you are in the sight of the people of your community. It is of a very
minor account where you are in the sight of another man, it is of very little
account. It is not important, what men think about you. The first question
God asked man when he fell was, "Where art thou?"

As far as your destiny is concerned, where are you? Are you fulfilling it
or are you wasting your time about it?

HOW TO DESTROY THE WASTE RATS.

. BE A WISE STEWARD OF YOUR TIME. Right now if you consider
what I have been saying, the Holy Spirit can open your eyes to see the
 amount of time you have wasted. If you are one of those who spend the
whole of your time watching football, what have you brought out of
watching it? Someone said that it was the Christians that put the Nigerian
players in trouble sometime ago. When they ought to have gone to church
on Sunday they were rather sitting by their television to watch football. The
Lord said, Since you want to be watching football on Sunday morning when
you ought to be in church, I would rather make sure your footballers are
defeated. You need to be a wise steward of time. Don't be ignorant of the
importance of time. Be watchful and conscious of the fact that you are
going to account for the use of the time. If someone is saying something
and that thing does not edify you, just take your leave. I used to have a
friend, a white-man who is born again; anytime anyone talks to him, he will
get to a point in listening and he will close his eyes and say, "Brother is
what you are saying edifying?" If you don't answer that question, he will
tell you, "If you don't mind, I've got to go" and he will leave you standing
there because he knows the value of the time.

. MAKE THE MOST OF ANY OPPORTUNITY GOD GIVES YOU.

The Bible says, "Redeeming the time, for the days are evil".

. LEARN FROM YOUR PAST MISTAKES. People say history repeats

itself because no one regards it.

4. SPEND TIME IN INTIMATE COMMUNICATION WITH THE

LORD. The more you talk to God, the less you waste your time. You may
want to do a business and God may say you shouldn't do it. If you are
intimate with God to hear him when he says, don't do that business you will
save yourself the pain of incurring debts. You wouldn't need prayer points
for your debtors to pay you your money if you had listened to God.

. PRAY AGAINST THE WASTE RAT. You can discover the tragedy of
your life if you take a good look at your past and see how much time you
have wasted.

I want you to say the following prayers because they can change your
destiny. You cannot afford to come to God without getting anything from
him. Ask God to forgive you for all the ways you have wasted your time
 Finally you must take the following prayer points aggressively.

PRAYER POINTS
. Every waster rat, in my destiny, die in the name of Jesus.

. Every power, that wants to waste my life, die in the name, of Jesus.

. Thou power of wastage, in my family life, die in the name of Jesus.

4. Every power of Pisgah, in my life, clear away in the name of Jesus.

. I recover by fire, all my wasted years in the name of Jesus.

6. Every transaction, contrary to my breakthrough; die in the name of Jesus.

7. Every sorcerer in my place of work, I turn your battle against you in the
name of Jesus.

. I decree great casualty, upon every negative power in my environment in

the name of Jesus.
 CHAPTER FIVE
TRANSFERENCE OF SPIRITS

The subject of transference of spirits is still not clear to many people.

There are people who do not know that it is possible for spirits to be
transferred from one person to another. A working knowledge of this
spiritual principle will help you, to be fully armed with what it takes to
escape the trap of the devil.

Let me make it clear to you that, is possible for spirits to be transferred

either positively or negatively. We are given an insight into how the
transference of spirits occurred during the days of Moses. As the ministerial
burden in the life of Moses was becoming complicated, it dawned on him to
transfer the spirit of the Lord upon him to the seventy elders.

Numbers 11:16-17: And the LORD said unto Moses, Gather unto me
seventy men of the elders of Israel, whom thou knowest to be the elders of
the people, and officers over them; and bring them unto the tabernacle of
the congregation, that they may stand therewith thee. And I will come down
and talk with thee there: and I will take of the spirit which is upon thee, and
will put it upon them; and they shall bear the burden of the people with
thee, that thou bear it not thyself alone.

THE SPIRIT OF GOD

This, therefore, shows us that it is possible for the spirit of God to be
transferred. And, you will agree with me that when that happens, a new
thing begins. There is no way a man will receive the spirit of God and
remain the same. The Spirit of God awakens and rejuvenates. When the
Spirit of God comes, all satanic works will be destroyed in your life.

A blood of Jesus washed child of God, should have the spirit of God.
Immediately you give your life to Christ in total surrender, you become an
heir to the spirit of God. Without the spirit of God in us, it may be difficult
for us to please God. For us to be called the sons and daughters of God,
there must be the mark of the Spirit of God in us. It is the spirit of God that
grants us liberty from sins and eternal death.

You should also know that at the time of the rapture, it is the Spirit of God
that will make us worthy to be caught up together with the Lord in the air.

Romans 8:14-16: For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the
sons of God. For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear;
but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.
The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of
God:

THE SPIRIT OF EXPLOITS

The spirit of God is what you need for exploits, in all areas of life.
Without the spirit of God, you are nothing and can do nothing. We have
read how the spirit of God in Moses was transferred to the seventy elders,
so that they could also do exploits.

You have only one life to live. Why not devote your life to furtherance of
the gospel. You cannot do exploits when you have closed your eyes in
death. You should know that it is the life you live now that will determine
how and where you will spend eternity. No doubt you have heard countless
messages on evangelism and have even read many books on soul winning
but hardly can they point to a soul you have won for Christ. This is the time
to do exploit for the Lord.

It is when the Holy Spirit comes upon you, in an overwhelming manner,

that you will be able to achieve great feats for Christ.

It will however be difficult for you to achieve great feats in the cause of
the gospel, if you do not have the Holy Spirit baptism in an overwhelming
measure. It is the Sprit of God in you that will make you to do exploits for
God and leave an indelible landmark in the sand of time.

THE DEVIL'S TOOLS

 The devil is a destroyer and a devourer. He uses the weapon of
transference of spirits to make steadfast believers to fall. The phenomenon
of the transference of spirits explains in clear terms what goes on in the
Church in the society and in the lives of people.

What would you think is responsible, for the drastic change, in the life of
a youth, who is bred and brought up in a Christian family and under the
power of God? The answer is not far fetched; the change is as a result of the
devil's manipulation through the weapon of transference of spirits. There
are parents who wonder ceaselessly, when a lady just suddenly becomes
pregnant. Children who are born to reputable homes sometimes make
wrong choices in marriage as a result of the transference of spirit.

Sudden negative changes in the lives of steadfast believer, can be

attributed to the weapon of the devil known as transference of spirits. It is
this tool that the devil normally uses to bring lukewarmness, worldliness,
fleshly lust and carnality into the Church and into the lives of the children
of God.

TRANSFERENCE OF SPIRITS EXPLAINED

What then can we call transference of spirits? To transfer means to
convey from one person to another or to move from one person to another.
When sprits are transferred from one person or place to another, character,
attitude, motive and actions will be transferred.

In other words, the transfer of a terrible spirit into the persons can
influence a person spiritually. A person can likewise influence another
person by making his own negative spirit to be transferred to another
person.

DIMENSIONS OF TRANSFERENCE OF
SPIRITS
There are people who are ignorant of what happens to a person after an
incident of a transfer of spirits. Four things generally happen after
transference of spirits. The first one is that, the spirit can be manifesting and
using the person on regular basis. This is easily noticed. The second way is
that, it is possible for the spirit to continue going in and out of the victim.

When the spirit leaves temporarily the victim will behave normally. But,
immediately the spirit comes back, there is a loss of self-control and the
victim gives in to the deceptions and wiles of the devil. The devil fires his
fiery darts and the victim has no sense for direction. Those who are
suffering in this regard can hardly live an overcoming life over the devices
of the devil

The third thing that can happen is that, the spirit can go into hiding. Quite
a lot of people are walking time bombs, ready to explode. This is very
dangerous because it is difficult for the victim to experience freedom. It is
only through divine A, intervention that the spirit can be overcome.

This type of spirit becomes obvious when we look at the instance when
Samuel wanted to anoint David, king over Israel. Prophet Samuel was about
to anoint Eliab; the brother of David and God said he should not. In other
words, there was something in Eliab that was hidden from the eyes of men
and even from the eyes of prophet Samuel but God saw it. That is why you
must allow your understanding to be opened to the dynamism of
transference of spirits. However, If you can challenge the spirit by intense
prayers, you are bound to get results. Therefore, the more you pray, the
more you will discover. Also, the more you discover, the more progress you
will make. The more progress you make the more you will recover. And the
more you recover, the more you will be able to fulfill your destiny.

It is tragic to note that, many people are going about with cleverly
concealed bondages in their lives. They may appear okay outwardly, but
they are battling with intense problems and difficulties. It is when these
spirits, hear the word of the Lord, that they will flee from their hiding
places.

A BITTER EXPERIENCE
A sister was healthwisely sound before a man made a serious marriage
proposal to her. Immediately the person came to her, she had an upsurge of
a strange occurrence in her life. Just the same day that somebody proposed
marriage to her, she slept and woke up only to discover that, apart from the
female reproductive organ, a new one was in place. A horrible sight!

The simple answer to this terrible experience is the presence of a cleverly

concealed spirit that is waiting for the right hour to strike. And when the
right hour came, the wicked power struck. This also attests to how some
people sleep and never wake up, to see the light of the day.

The fourth thing that could happen as a result of transference of spirit is

the subtle presence of the spirit. In other words, the spirit seems dead but
only comes alive when activated. If the spirit is not activated, there is no
problem, but once it is activated the negative manifestations begins.

For instance, there are quite a lot of people in Africa who are going about
with malaria and typhoid fever parasites. They appear not to be sick or
disturbed but immediately they are stressed or tensed up, the symptoms of
the sickness shows up.

For there to be a complete deliverance, all the hidden structures that

people can't see must be taken out of the way. For the influence of
transference of spirit to be completely taken out of the way, one might need
to engage in serious prayers of deliverance. There are times, when simple
and general prayers will not get you the desired result. Only the power of
God and dangerous, acidic, fire prayers will grant you the complete
deliverance. This kind of prayer will make you sweat.

THE SPIRIT MAN

Man is a composite being that is made up of three different parts; the
spirit, the soul and the body. The devil can attack all the parts of the human
body. The devil however specifically targets human spirits for some reasons

The major attacks come against the spirit man. In other words, if the spirit
man is not defeated, man cannot be defected. Also, if your spirit man has
not been caged, you cannot be caged. If your spirit man is not sold under
satanic burden, you cannot afford to be put in bondage. This is because, the
 real you lies inside the spirit man. Therefore, once your spirit refuses to
accept defeat, it will be difficult for you to succumb to defeat.

Whenever somebody calls your name, the person who really bears the
name is the spirit man inside you. The devil knows this fact and that is why
he targets the spirit man inside you.

REASONS FOR SATAN'S ATTACKS ON THE

SPIRIT
The spirit of man is very powerful. Thus, arrows are sent by agents of
darkness against the spirit for the underlisted reasons.

. God created the spirit: The devil wants to pollute what God has created.
This fact is made clear in the verse below.

Zechariah 12:1: The burden of the word of the LORD for Israel, saith the
LORD, which stretcheth forth the heavens, and layeth the foundation of the
earth, and forrneth the spirit of man within him.

. The spirit gives life: Therefore, if the spirit that gives life is attacked, your
life is under attack.

James 2:26: For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without
works is dead also.
. At death, the spirit returns to God: Therefore, the devil does not want the
spirit to return to God but to hell fire.

Ecclesiastes 3:21: Who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward, and
the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth?

Ecclesiastes 12:7: Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the
spirit shall return unto God who gave it.

4. God guides through the spirit: Your spirit man is your guide, when the
spirit is attacked, you might lose sight of God's direction for your life. Many
people are, therefore, without direction in life because their spirit man is
under attack. Let it settle in your mind that satan is an imitator t and not an
originator. He uses the pattern of God in the wrong way to afflict men. He
normally uses the pattern created by God for transferring good spirit to
transfer his own evil and tormenting spirits.

A good example of transference of devilish spirits can be found in the

account of the Bible when Moses sent Joshua and Caleb with other twelve
elders to search out the land of Canaan. The spirit of fear and defeat
engulfed the ten elders and they spoke to discourage the people, because of
what they have seen. After the people heard the words of the ten elders who
had been seduced by the spirit of fear, the children of Israel began,
immediately, to grumble, complain and cry.

But the men that went up with him said, We will not be able to go up
against the people; for they are stronger than we.

Numbers 13:31-33: And they brought up an evil report of the land which
they had searched unto the children of Israel, saying, The land, through
which we have gone to search it, is a land that eateth up the inhabitants
thereof; and all the people that we saw in it are men of a great stature. And
there we saw the giants, the sons of Anak, which come of the giants: and we
were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight.

Numbers 14:14: And all the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried;
and the people wept that night. And all the children of Israel murmured
against Moses and against Aaron: and the whole congregation said unto
them, Would God that we had died in the land of Egypt! or would God we
had died in this wilderness! And wherefore hath the LORD brought us unto
this land, to fall by the sword, that our wives and our children should be a
prey? were it not better for us to return into Egypt? And they said one to
another, Let us make a captain, and let us return into Egypt.

The ten elders transferred the spirit of fear and jeopardy to the
congregation of the children of Israel and they were destroyed because of
the wrath of God burning over them.

VICTORY STRATEGIES
 For you to have victory over negative transference of spirits you will need
to take the following into cognizance.

. Control your own spirit, so that you will not be an instrument of negative
transference of spirit.

Proverbs 25:28: He that hath no rule over his own spirit is like a city that is
broken down, and without walls.

Proverbs 16:32: He that is slow to anger is better than the might; and he
that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city.

. Guard you tongue and watch what you say.

. Guide your heart

Proverbs 4:23: Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues
of life.

4. Do not associate with those who have wrong spirits. In order words, watch
your associate.

Proverbs 22:24: Make no friendship with an angry man; and with a furious
man thou shalt not go.

. Protect you ear from hearing evil reports, gossip, criticism, accusations and
all other negative things. Know that the person who can gossip about others
to you will also gossip about you before others.

6. Guard your eyes, from materials that can transfer evil spirits into your life.
Pornography, bad films, and obscene music can pollute your heart and make
it hardened. There are books you can read, that can programme violence
into your life. Also, there are pictures you can feed your eyes upon that will
make evil spirit to enter into you. There are some novels you can read that
can turn your life upside down completely

I remember the time I was at the University of Lagos as an undergraduate.

A boy was in my class, who usually read occult books and had no time for
lectures. He said he was reading under the water. When the final
examination was to start, we sat around the same place. And suddenly, he
fell down and went into a state of comatose. To worsen the case, he never
recovered till we had finished the whole examinations.

Of course, the occult book be indulged in, destroyed his career.

DESTROYED DESTINIES
There are quite a lot of people, whose destinies have been destroyed by
laying of hands. You should know that your head is the symbol of your
destiny. If you allow a demonic or devilish person to lay hands on you, you
might receive an evil spirit. Also, you are not supposed to lay hands
suddenly on a person without any just reason. Doing this can damn your
soul. The Bible gives us an admonition below.

1 Timothy 5:22: Lay hands suddenly on no man, neither be partaker of

other men's sins keep thyself pure.

You need to be careful about who lays hands on you and on whom you
lay hands upon. Be careful also that an unclean priest does not lay hands on
you. If a fornicating priest or pastor should lay hands on your head, the
spirit of fornication could be transferred to you. The spirit of anger could
become your lot, if a volatile priest should lay hands on you.

There is the need for you to understand the troublers of Israel. If you don't
identify your problem, making progress in life may be almost impossible.
After you must have identified what is troubling your Israel, effort must be
made to give a quick notice to such powers. When this has been done, you
will need to cast those powers out by fire and then barricade your life
against satanic invasion.

SOURCES OF TRANSFERENCE OF SPIRITS

Before you begin to pray, there is the need for you to understand the sources
of evil transference of spirit.

. Ancestral transfer: Evil spirits are transferred through ancestral links.

 . Sexual transfer: This is the easiest way of transferring evil spirits. When a
person is involved in sex outside marriage, such a person will soon be
invaded by demons.

. Inherited transfer: A lot of people have inherited evil spirits.

4. Environmental transfer: Many people have had demonic spirits transferred

to them through their environment.

. Ordination transfer: Those who are ordained by evil priests and fake
ministers are victims.

6. Ministerial transfer: If you are under the influence of a minister who is

spiritually contaminated, you will be contaminated.

7. Unfriendly friend transfer: If you are unequally yoked with an unfriendly

friend you will experience an evil transfer.

. Food transfer: Evil spirits can be transferred through food.

. Occult transfer: Those who are into occult activities experience

transference of spirits.

0. Ornament transfer: Trauma or tragic incidents can effect evil transfer.

1. Blood covenant transfer: Inanimate objects or materials are vehicles of

spiritual transfer.

2. Traumatic transfer

3. Material transfer

DELIVERANCE PRAYERS
You can be delivered from the spirit of negative transfer. Victory lies only
in Christ Jesus. The power of God that raised up Jesus Christ from the dead
can break all yokes from your neck. Prepare your hands for war and your
finger for battle, as you take the following prayer points with zeal.
 . Hidden strangers, in the temple of my life, come out now in the name of
Jesus.

. Strangers of darkness in my life, die in the name of Jesus.

. Anything planted in my life, by household wickedness, die in the name of

Jesus.

4. Pharaoh of my father's house, let me go in the name of Jesus.

. Pharaoh from the waters, let me go in the name of Jesus.

6. Anything planted in my life, in order to kill me, die in the name of Jesus.

7. Anything planted in my life, to trouble my destiny, die in the name of

Jesus.

. Every troublers of my Israel, what are you waiting for die in the name of
Jesus.

. Blood of Jesus, arise in your power, deliver my foundation in the name of

Jesus.

0. Every rope of darkness connecting me to any dead relative, break in the

name of Jesus.

1. Harvest of iniquity, of my father's house, die by the blood of Jesus.

2. Harvest of iniquity, of my mother's house, die by the blood of Jesus.

3. Foundational poverty, die in the name of Jesus.

4. Foundational witchcraf, die in the name of Jesus.

5. Foundational backwardness, in my life, die in the name

6. Every witchcraft power, delegated against my progress, die in the name of

Jesus.

7. Every arrow of failure, backfire in the name of Jesus.

8. Where is the Lord God of Elijah rise by fire purse my pursuer, in the name
of Jesus

9. Every altar of satan, in my family, die, in the name of Jesus.

0. Every territorial bondage, walking against my destiny die, in the name of

Jesus.

1. Every foundational power, summoning me to the bottom, scatter in the

name of Jesus.

2. Every serpent and scorpion of frustration, die in the name of Jesus.

3. The yoke of the family shrine, over my life, shall be broken in the name of
Jesus.
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