FREEDOM FROM SATANIC PRISON HOUSE – Part 4

One of the most outstanding scriptures is found in Psalm 78: 40-42.

How often they provoked Him in the wilderness,
And grieved Him in the desert!
Yes, again and again they tempted God,
And limited the Holy One of Israel.
They did not remember His power:
The day when He redeemed them from the enemy

The Israelites had got used to living in bondage that they limited God. When you blame God or other people for your circumstances, the barrier remains in place.

Can you imagine that as powerful as God is, you and I can limit Him in our lives? That is what that scripture is saying. It says,

“They turned back and limited the Holy One of Israel.”

Has it ever occurred to you that you might be the one limiting God in your life? You may be wondering how possible it is for you to hinder God when He has all the powers. God did not create us like robots or lifeless equipment. He created us with a soul and we can choose what we want.

How you can limit God:

1. By forgetting what God has done for you:

When you forget what He has done for you, you cannot overcome the captivity in your life because you have limited God’s ability to work for you. Always remember your position before and your situation now. Remember the victories God has won for you. To forget is to plan fo.r present and future failure.

The Lord gave food to the Israelites without a bakery. He gave them water without a well, electricity without machines, health without medicines, clothes and shoes that never got worn out for forty years. But they hindered God in their lives.

Some people are afraid that the enemy would start running after them now that they have given their lives to God.
Some are saying that since they testified to what God did in their lives, the problem has started.

The devil uses things like that to shut people’s mouth because he does not want them to get out. That way, people limit God.

2. Turning back on the day of battle:

Proverbs 24: 10 says,

“If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is small.”

Turning back on the day of battle is limiting God. Turning back on the day of battle is limiting God. When you say, “I am fed up,” you limit God because the angel bringing your miracle could be standing at the door, and because you could not see beyond your nose, you are busy saying negative things.

Once you do that, you are turning God away.  When you go back to your old ways, you limit God’s power.

When you try witchdoctors because answer to your prayer seems delayed, you are limiting God.

Know that since the devil is the one putting diseases on people, he has some power to remove some diseases in order to convince people that he has power. He would remove tuberculosis and replace it with Aids.

Never limit God’s power. It is when the battle becomes tough that the tough people get going. So you cannot have a distinction without sitting for any exam. You cannot become an army general by sleeping on your bed.

No enemy, there will be no victory.
No enemy, there will be no throne.
No battle, there will be no crown.
So giving up is like disobeying God.

Adversity is a breeding ground for miracle. The land of opportunity is the land of opposition. Canaan was a land flowing with milk and honey but right in the midst of the land, were giants.

God may be waiting for you to grow up to the level where you can maintain your breakthrough. There is no triumph without trial. Do not allow fear to turn you back. When you fear that a problem will overcome you, you limit God. “Thou shall not be afraid.” Fear is a spiritual problem. The Bible says that the fearful ones will go to hell fire like the fornicators.

Are you afraid that a sickness will kill you? Have you started reading about a sickness to know more about it? Are you bothered that you will not be able to pay your children’s school fees? Are you afraid that you will loose your husband that you are monitoring him around? Are you worried that something a sharp dreamer saw about you will come to pass? Are you afraid that you will never come to the top? These are ways of limiting God.

3. Following other gods:

Despite the many wonderful things God did for the Israelites, they turned against Him forgetting that He is a jealous God (Exodus 20:5). Everybody is worshipping something. If you do not worship the true God, you are an idol worshipper. An idol is anything that is exalted above God.

Idol worshippers include those who say, “My job does not allow me to come for fellowship.” Many people these days are worshipping the god of their belly. Such people are not interested in anything that does not have to do with food.

Giving God’s glory to something else is idolatry. Stubbornness is idolatry. Some have turned sex to their idol. That is all they talk about. In their rooms, you find calendars of naked women, and all kinds of obscene pictures.

For some people, it is sport. During football matches, they forget about fellowship. They abandon the house of God for what they call soccer. Sometime ago, some believers cried because a particular team lost a match but never in their lives have they cried for a sinner to repent.

When you bow down to worship an image, whether the image is Mary, Diana or Venus, you are an idol worshipper. The Bible did not say you should be bowing down for Mary. She was a sinner like all of us and she knew that she needed the Holy Spirit that was why she gathered at the upper room to receive the baptism in the Holy Spirit with the other disciples.

God became angry with the Israelites for forsaking the tabernacle of the Lord.

What is the focus of your own life? What is the most important thing in your life? What do you spend your money on? How do you spend your time? Are you willing to give up those things separating you from God?

(NEXT POST – How to be Loosed from Captivity.)

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FREEDOM FROM SATANIC PRISON – PART 3

POWER AGAINST CAPTIVITY

You must learn the lesson that God wants you to learn in your present situation. God would not give you power against captivity until you have learned those lessons. This is to ensure that you do not go back into captivity again and He does not want you to lose what He has helped you restore. You may be in a particular situation right now, which is not making you happy. Perhaps God wants you to learn patience.

The Bible says that we, by faith and patience will win the promises of God (Hebrews 10: 36). If some people were more patient, their marriages would still be steady now. In some cases, it is anger and may be God is warning you presently to learn and refrain from anger; and because God wants to take you somewhere and having seen that your anger is grave, He would rather wait for you to remove the anger first because if you get there (your promise land) you will cause more problems for yourself.

Perhaps your own is fornication.
You roam around with all sorts of men and women. Your friends hail you for your immoral exploits and you think you are achieving something. In case you do not know, you have only got yourself an express ticket to hell fire. God could be waiting for you to repent now!
A brother was paralyzed on one part of his body and some brethren went to Mulago hospital to pray for him and he was healed by God. But on the same day that he left the hospital, he visited his former girlfriend to test the potency of his manhood and after the exercise he collapsed and that was how he eventually died.

Maybe your own is alcohol.
God is waiting for you to throw your bottle of alcohol away and forget about it completely. God is waiting for a time when friends would request of you saying, “Serve us beer,” and you would reply, “No, we no longer serve beer in this home”; for the Bible says “woe unto him that giveth his neighbor strong drink”. If you are comfortable with this curse – ‘woe’, may God have mercy on you because ‘woe’ means serious calamity.

Maybe your own is fighting.
You are always fighting — in the market, in the bus in the house, and in the evening you carry the Bible. God is saying, “When will this one stop fighting so that I can make progress in her or his life?”

Or maybe yours is abortion.
You have aborted all God’s prophets and they are making noise at the throne of God saying, “Lord, will you allow this dirty woman to continue to kill your prophets? Require our blood from her hand.” And you are busy saying, “It is not my fault.” God is not asking whether it is your fault or not. All He wants is repentance.

Maybe it is idol worship that God wants you to forsake.
Many people have exalted many things above God.

Maybe your own is nagging.
You are always complaining about your husband or your wife at home.

Maybe God wants you to get out of evil associations.
For example, the school of disrespect and dirtiness, bad companies, demonic associations,etc. God waited for Job to learn his lessons. It was after Job had learned his lessons that God overturned his captivity to become captive.

From your present problem, what lessons have you learned?

Recently a young man visited me and narrated how bad his situations have been. I told him that God is not happy with his attitudes which he acknowledged and repented. But after two days he sent me a text message that he was going to commit suicide. I tried to discourage him from doing so, but he argued that if there was God as I claimed, why he has allowed him to suffer this way.

Do you feel limited? Do you feel confined? Do you feel like you are in bondage? Are there barriers and chains in your life that need to be broken? Do you fall in and out of favors? Somebody loves you today, and tomorrow when you get there and he says, “Get out; I don’t want to see you again.” Do you experience powerlessness? Do you notice that what used to take five minutes of praying now takes five days? Are you busy looking for a job without success? You are praying, believing that your prayers would bring answer but no solution and the devil is even tempting you to go back to the world. Do you pretend about your problems? You have occasionally thought about yourself and said, “Well the best thing is to give up.” You need to repent.

Some people are too scared to commit fornication physically but the thought has completely gripped their hearts. They just cannot stop their hearts from thinking about fornication. You have gone for countless counseling and theresults seem to have yielded nothing. The devil keeps singing to your earthat you are a failure, and you notice that you always experience hindrancein anything you want to do. You have been going to the house of God foryears, yet nothing is happening; or you are a sister and you have turned yourself into an emergency cook because you wanted a husband. These are all signs of bondage.

Many people have ladders or gateways through which evil spirits come into their lives. If such people decide to pray with aggression and violence, and take to heart what this message is saying – Freedom is sure!

Why? “Jesus is the same yesterday, today and forever.”

That voice that said, “Let there be light and there was light, only has to say to you, “Today, thou art loosed!” and there will be abundance freedom. He does not have to say more.

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FREEDOM FROM SATANIC PRISON HOUSE – Part 2

SOME SIGNS OF CAPTIVITY.

1. Some people have sharp and retentive memories to discover all of a sudden that they no longer remember things and events easily.
2. For a prosperous person to suddenly become broke is a sign of captivity.
3. For once a very healthy person to all of a suddenly become sickly.
4. When a woman’s husband suddenly loses interest in her.
5. When you do your best to normalize things but they keep getting worse.

Perhaps, one of these has been your situation. I have good news for you. God is able to reverse your captivity today. He can make your enemies to swallow their words. He has done it before, He has been doing it and He can do it again in your own case. God knows that many people got themselves into their present situations ignorantly. All our young brothers and sisters who have the opportunity of being taught how to pray, to receive their God-chosen partners, and are not grabbing it, should ask the older ones about their experiences. If these older ones knew one quarter of what they know now, they would not have made present mistakes of their lives.

A lot of people saw captivity and out of ignorance went headlong into it. If some sisters had prayed very well, they would not have ended up marrying their enemies. In the past, it is used to be, “Love is blind.” But now that the same ‘love’ is beating and harassing them, they are running helter-skelter. But God who is faithful can forgive you for those periods of ignorance. The Bible says that God winks at the time of ignorance. Since He can forgive you, He is able to bring you out of your captivity.

The devil dealt with Job, but God brought him out of captivity and turned his weeping into joy. It is my prayer that your sorrow shall be turned into laughter today in Jesus name.

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FREEDOM FROM SATANIC PRISON HOUSE – Part 1

“When the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion, we were like them that dream. Then was our mouth filled with laughter, and our tongue with singing: then said they among the heathen, The Lord hath done great things for them. The Lord hath done great things for us; whereof we are glad. Turn again our captivity, O Lord, as the streams in the south.” (Psalm 126: 1–4)

“Oh that the salvation of Israel were come out of Zion! When God bringeth back the captivity of his people, Jacob shall rejoice, and Israel shall be glad.” (Psalm 53: 6)

The word ‘captivity’ is taken from the word ‘captive’. Somebody who is in captivity is a prisoner, whether the person knows it or not. We have so many spiritually unconscious prisoners – those who think they are actually enjoying their lives but are real time prisoners.

There are several KINDS OF CAPTIVITY that sons of men experience. They are grouped under four major categories:

1. Internal captivity:
This is when a person is a prisoner inside, although he may be smiling to people in the outside. The person’s external life may not reflect really what is going on internally in such person’s life.

2. External captivity:
This is the obvious type. It can be seen that a person is under a form of bondage.

3. Remote controlled captivity:
Usually, this is when a person is being controlled by a demonic personality, usually from far off remote place. Satanic people construct dolls or effigies to represent people. Whatever they do to these effigies would be happening to the people anywhere they are. Sometimes they do this by evil summoning. They summon the judgment on the person spirit of a person to their demonic meetings and pass a wicked judgment on the person.
Some of these people you see all over the town wearing suit and speaking huge and wonderful grammars are remotely being controlled (often from their towns of birth). When the sword of the Holy Spirit shatters the chain of someone under remote-control captivity, fresh miracles would begin to bombard such a person in a dumbfounding way.

4. Personal Captivity:
This is when someone goes ahead to do something he assuredly knows would harm him/her. For example, if someone knows too well that anytime he goes drinking and smoking, he comes home with a headache, and yet he goes on to drink, such a person is under personal captivity.
I remember a case of a young man who got involved when we were building our church. When I discovered he was smoking Indian hemp (Marijuana), I counseled him to stop it but he laughed me to scorn and responded that he cannot do without it. Eventually, he became completely insane walking around the streets of Kampala as a mad fellow today.

The ability of God to loose us from captivity is something that is not clear to so many people. Some people are quick to forget that aspect of God. God has a method which is not clear to all men yet. When you talk about light and darkness, hot and cold, death and life, it takes a lot of effort to go from one extreme to another.

In most cases people just give up and learn to live with their conditions, but Jesus can reverse all things. He can make darkness to become light. He can change a bad person to a good person. He makes the dead to come alive. He replaces fear with peace.*

UNCONSCIOUS CAPTIVITY
Unfortunately, man sometimes finds himself in helpless situations for which he may not be personally responsible. These are the kinds of people I feel sorry for most.

The parents of a certain young girl were very poor and could not afford to continue sponsoring her education even though they knew that she was very intelligent. At the age of eight, even though she was the most brilliant in her class, they stopped her education.

Soon afterwards, a 42 years old man came along and inquired why this young girl dropped out of school. The parents of the girl told him that they could no longer afford her school fees. He volunteered to sponsor this young girl back to school, but under one condition – that the parents of the young girl allow him to marry the young girl.

So the girl got married at the age of 8 years. But at the age of 21, she became converted and found out that she was and had been in captivity. The truth is that she did not get into captivity by herself. Circumstances and situations got her into it. It is also like the case of a young girl who was raped by a demonic man of 50 when she was two years old and caused her some injuries.

Likewise, many people are unconsciously led into captivity through dreams also. A sister shared with me a very terrifying dream she had. She found herself in a hospital lying on the operating table for some reason. The Doctor held her hand and was making an incision on her hand with a razor blade saying thathe would give her spirit to the devil by way of blood covenant.

The sister said she pulled her hands immediately and shouted “NO! Never! I belong to God and I made a covenant with God,” and afterwards found herself speaking in tongues.

If not for the resistance of this sister, she would have been initiated into the kingdom of darkness. Matter of fact, many Christians has been led into captivity through such dreams.

(NEXT POST – SOME SIGNS OF CAPTIVITY)….

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