Culled and revised jottings from a sermon from Dr. D.K Olukoya.
General Overseer of the Mountain of fire and Miracles Ministries.
Behold Their Threatening
In Acts
4, the apostles had been pushed around. They had been warned not to preach in
the name of Jesus. Then in verse 29, they started praying, "And now, Lord, behold their threatening
and grant unto thy servants, that with all boldness they may speak thy word."
Illustration Story
I had a
visitor some time ago, who told me that she had been born again for
thirty-three years, but recently, she met a member of Mountain of Fire and
Miracles ministries who started praying with him. And right from the time that
she started praying with him, it was as if she was not born again at all. She
said that the way that the prayer was going and the kind of prayer points the
sister called were strange to her, although he had been born again for
thirty-three years. Despite the fact that the prayer points were strange, she
prayed them, and she was getting results instantly for the first time and that
her life was never the same. According to her, this sister who prayed with her
did not seem to recognize that there is something called fear. When you say something
is big and terrible, she just moved in and demolished it with prayer. She said
several weeks back, somebody fired an arrow at her and one hand and one leg was
getting paralyzed. And that sister just came with what she called anointing
oil, applied it on her, and everything disappeared. She said she asked the
sister if she was a pastor and she said no. She told her that she was only an
ordinary member. Then she said to the sister, "If you, an ordinary member
can be this good, I must come and see your pastor." Those are the kind of
testimonies that encourage us. And not those who would say, "When my
husband was talking rubbish, I just gave him a dirty slap and later, asked the
Lord to forgive me."
My prayer is that you too, will be a good example. And your life
will record testimonies.
Any power
militating against a true child of God is looking for problems. Such a power
wants to sink into the red sea after the order of Pharaoh. It is also seeking
to be destroyed by God’s anger after the order of Senacherib. One angel
defeated 185,000 people. I am very sure that nobody has up to 185,000 enemies.
Any power militating against a true child of God is seeking to fight and oppose
itself. It is seeking to receive the stones of fire, after the order of Goliath.
Any power militating against a true child of God is seeking to be substituted
in the evil that he or she is trying. Such a power wants to receive what we
call divine hail stones. Any power militating against a true child of God is
looking for compulsory and forceful burial like after the order of Korah,
Dathan, and Abiram. It is seeking to be eaten up by worms, after the order of
Herod and to be pursued by terrifying noises after the order of the Syrians.
Few
months ago, I heard another testimony that gladdened my heart. The testimony
was that the co-tenants of one of our members came to report him. What did he
do? He said since this brother man moved into their compound, the whole place
was always hot at night. Apart from that, his wife who used to attend
witchcraft meetings to assist him could no longer attend because the brother
has blocked her way. Then I said, since you could see that this man is praying
and because he is praying, he has blocked the journey of your wife, why don’t
you seek to get the kind of power that he has? He said, "We are just
appealing to him, we don’t mind refunding what he has paid; but he should
leave." I said this is good, for a change. That is how it should be; the
wicked should run when they see a Christian. They are the ones who should be
having the problems, not believers. Not the kind of testimony where somebody
comes and says "Pray on these prayer requests for me sir, my
co-tenant, the man on the first floor is a herbalist and the other one
a witch, therefore, they are harassing me at night."
This one
was different; he was the one harassing them.
Take the
following prayer points with holy anger:
a. Every witch living
in my surrounding, receive the stones of fire, in the name of Jesus.
b. Any evil vessel
conveying my information to the evil world be paralyzed now, in the name of
Jesus.
What is the principle
of praying to get results?
There are
many examples in the Bible of those who prayed and got results instantly. For
us to understand the principles of praying to get results, we shall study the
prayer points of some people who prayed and received instant answers in the
Bible. There are many examples but we will look at three.
1. In
Numbers 16, Korah, Dathan and Abiram offended God by offending his servant, and
in verses 28 - 33, that servant of God began to pray; "And Moses said,
hereby ye shall know that the Lord hath sent me to do all these works, for I
have not done them of mine own mind. If these men die the common death of all
men, or if they be visited after the visitation of all men; then the Lord hath
not sent me. But if the Lord make a new thing and the earth open her mouth and
swallow them up, with all that appertain unto them, and they go down quick into
the pit; then ye shall understand that these men have provoked the Lord. And it
came to pass, as he had made an end of speaking all these words, that the
ground clave asunder that was under them; And the earth opened her mouth; and
swallowed them up and their houses and all the men that appertained unto Korah and
all their goods. They and all that appertained to them went down alive into the
pit and the earth closed upon them and they perished from among the
congregation."
2. 1 Kings
18 : 36 says, "And it came to pass at the time of the offering of the
evening sacrifice, that Elijah the prophet came near and said, Lord God of
Abraham, Isaac and of Israel, let it be known this day that thou art God in
Israel and that I am thy servant, and that I have done all these things at thy
word. Hear me O Lord, hear me that this people may know that thou art the Lord
God and that thou hast turned their heart back again. Then the fire of the Lord
fell, and consumed the burnt sacrifice, and the wood, and the stones, and the
dust, and licked up the water that was in the trench. And when all the people
saw it, they fell on their faces: and they said, the Lord, he is the God; the
Lord he is the God."
The man
prayed a prayer point of about 60 words and instantly, things began to happen.
Compare his wordings with the wordings of the prayer of Moses.
3. In Acts
4, the apostles had been beaten up. They had been told not to preach in the
name of Jesus. They had been threatened that if they continued to preach in
that name, they would be killed. Verses 23 - 27 say, "And being let go, they
went to their own company and reported all that the chief priests and elders
had said unto them. And when they heard that, they lifted up their voice to God
with one accord, and said, Lord, thou art God, which hast made heaven and earth
and the sea and all that in them is; who by the mouth of thy servant David hast
said why did the heathen rage and the people imagine vain things? The kings of
the earth stood up, and the rulers were gathered together against the Lord, and
against his Christ" Verse 29 - 31 say, "And now, Lord, behold their
threatening and grant unto thy servants, that with all boldness they may speak
thy word. By stretching forth thine hand to heal; and that signs and wonders
may be done by the name of thy holy child Jesus. And when they had prayed, the
place was shaken where they were assembled together; and they were all filled
with the Holy Ghost and they spake the word of God with boldness."
What are the
characteristics of these three passages?
1. A
petition was filed to God. The Bible says, plead your cause before the
Almighty.
2. The
troublers of Israel were reported directly to God as if God did not see them.
We too should form that kind of habit. Talk to God as a friend. When you wake
up at night and you don’t like the kind of dreams you had, you can sit down and
say, "Father, when I slept last night, I had so and so dream. I don’t
understand what this means, explain to me and teach me what to do. Report the
case to God, as if He did not know about the dream.
3. A war
was declared against the opposing forces.
4.
Instant divine intervention was requested. That is even if God is not going to give you the cash now; you
can at least go with the cheque. That is a good way to start with.
5. They prayed from the bottom of
their hearts. There is a difference between surface prayer and deep
prayer. Whenever prayer comes from the bottom of the heart, it yields results.
6. There
was instant faith and holy expectancy.
7. They
prayed using the standard of somebody who is divinely dissatisfied. You have to
declare today too that you are divinely dissatisfied with your unfavourable
situation.
8. They
asked for divine judgment against opposition.
9. They
made an urgent request for the display of the supernatural.
10. Signs
and wonders were expressly requested.
Having looked at the major characteristics of these three
passages, let us consider the prayer points. I
was not there but from what I can see in the word of God, I have an idea of the
kind of prayer points they prayed. They must have prayed the kind of prayer
points we sometimes pray for example, "Let God be God in my red sea
situation." When you check what Moses, Elijah and the apostles said;
"Let it be known that I do this thing, because You sent me; therefore, let
it be known, that thou art God."
They
might have also prayed: "Let it be known that you are God in every
department of my life." Or, "Lord, do a new thing to my enemies that
will permanently destroy their powers." God did a new thing to Korah,
Dathan and Abiram. They broke record. They were the first men to go to hell
fire without dying. They must have prayed like this: "O Lord, utilise
uncommon techniques to disgrace my opposition." They must have said,
"Let the earth open up and swallow every stubborn pursuer," O Lord,
God of Abraham, God of Isaac, God of Jacob, manifest yourself in your
power," "O Lord, answer me by fire and roast every single
stronghold," "Every power challenging your power in my life, be
disgraced," "Let every rage of the enemy quench," "Let
every evil imagination fashioned against me, be frustrated and disgraced,"
"Let every satanic plan that concerns my life be rendered a failure,"
"Every evil ruler assembled against me, be scattered unto
desolation," "O Lord, behold these powers threatening me," O Lord,
give me divine boldness to disgrace my oppressor," "O Lord, stretch
out your mighty hand to perform signs and wonders in my life." These are
examples of the kind of prayer they prayed and had instant results.
Many of
us, whether we like it or not, have arrived at our Red sea situations. Some got
there very early in life. Some have arrived now, some have just started to hear
the sound of Pharaoh running them on.
A woman
came to me and broke down and cried saying, "This is disgusting, if I had
known that Nigeria was like this, I would have kept my husband in England.
Immediately, we got here, he just forgot us and started running after other
women who he brings to the house and they take anything they like and go away.
The first time I tried to challenge them, three of them beat me up. O, what
kind of thing is this!" Then I said, "Well, if you want to cry, I
give you one week to do that and when you finish, you can come back. She said,
"I have stopped sir." I told her so because prayer and crying do not
work together. You may only cry for your sins, that is fine. Exodus 14: 30
says, "Thus the Lord saved Israel that day out of the hands of the
Egyptians; and Israel saw the Egyptians dead upon the sea shore." That was
the end of that contest. They sank like lead in the Red sea.
A sister
came all the way from Ijebu-Ode for the anointing service. She brought her boy
who was five or six years old. The boy had never talked. At his young age, he
had arrived a the Red sea. It is like when you go for an examination, and
immediately you get to the door of the examination hall, the examiner asks you
to bring your answer sheet. You give it to him. You have not even answered any
question and he says, "Minus fifty!" A lot of people like that. Their
enemies start with them from the womb. He has removed fifty marks from hundred
before they even became adults. That was the case of that boy. At the anointing
service, there as a word of knowledge that somebody who could not speak would
speak. After the service, the mother gave him the anointing oil and they
travelled back to Ijebu-ode. They both slept. And suddenly, the woman started
to hear, "Amen, Amen, Amen! And by the time she looked up, it was her boy
making the sound. The first sound that this boy produced in five to six years
was Amen! That was how the boy started to talk.
Many
people are presently camping by the Red sea. They were moving forward only to
find out that they cannot move further. They have arrived at the Red sea!
Things were moving smoothly and suddenly, the smoothness just faded out. Heaven
became brass and the coloured prophets began to make money out of them. And the
herbalists started using their money to build their own houses.
A man
told me that one prophet told him to sell his big house in Allen Avenue, Ikeja,
Lagos for three million naira, a house he spent 11.5 million to build. This
prophet told him to sell it and use the money to work for Jesus. He did and the
prophet collected the whole money and went away. That was the only house he
had.
The door
of escape for some people is getting farther and farther. That is the Red sea.
The joyful morning of some is bringing in fearful nights now. Red sea. The nice
flower in the hands of some people is being buried. Red sea.
Illustration Story
A boy
used to fail all available examinations. He failed the school certificate exam
several times. Every year, he had F9 in all subjects. There was a particular
year he did not enter for the examination, W.A.E.C. still sent him a result of
failure. It was that bad. What am I trying to say? He was barricaded on every
side. Some people are under hot pursuit. They are being pursued by forces with
evil rage, it is a Red sea. Perhaps, you too have been hearing the battle cry
of the enemy, the battle cry of witches and wizards, sounding right there in
your ears.
I have
news for you now: The Lord shall fight for you.
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Prayer Point
1.
Let
God be God in all my situations in the name of Jesus.
2.
Lord,
let it be known that you are God in the name of Jesus.
3.
Lord,
do a new thing to my enemy.
4.
Let
the earth open up and swallow every stubborn pursuer in the name of Jesus.
5.
Lord
God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, manifest yourself in your power.
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Declare these Confessions to
yourself:
1.
The lord shall make all
things work together for me by the power of the Holy Ghost.
2.
The lord shall arise
and silence every threat of the enemy in the name Jesus.
3.
Nigeria shall arise
and shine in the name Jesus.
Seven Fold Amen with Faith!!!
Amen!
Amen! Amen! Amen! Amen! Amen! Amen!
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