His parents were religious, and he was raised in the church, went to church with the crowd but never knows or acknowledges the God of the church.  He is well aware of the national and world statistics about the impact of smoking on life, family expenses and human health, but guys in his school, office, and in the neighborhood are doing it, so are his friends. He thought he could try it out but never know that it could be an unending fix from hell. His friends told him that all type of smoking feels great and gives its victims an internal high feeling without a change in their physical stature regardless of what it was they were smoking. He assumed that putting a cigarette, cigar or weed in his mouth, holding and flicking the lighter for the first time is a proof of adulthood and evidence of been in charge without knowing that he had been sold a lie.

Even though he had seen and could hear the voice of ex-smokers from their hellish experiences on earth who were agonising and suffering in the hand of the toxic of nicotine released into their bodies from smoking but they wish had never had a first stab at the destructive, killing habits or those crying from their grave like the rich man in hell saying to the smokers, don’t have a go at it, so that you don’t journey to the route of diminishing sense of smell and taste, smokers cough, chronic bronchitis, heart disease and other related health issues they were facing but it was  too late for they were on their way out or dead.

Yet he believed in his friends rather than the voice of those sufferers, assuming that he is strong enough to deal with the first itching in his lungs or coughing hoping that once he can get going, he would be sailing on the pleasure of smoking rather than its related pain.  Little did he know that what started off as an offer from friends without any associated cost, apart from what he considered the likely risk of coughing could invariably cause a long-term damage.

It started free, but he never knew that the prize of addiction to nicotine could outweigh its price; the immediate pleasure of smoking could outweigh the long term pain caused by pollution or corrosion to his clean, clear and unpolluted lungs.  He is now hooked up to that destructive habit, what he thought could not have a negative impact on him has inflicted all manner of affliction on his lifestyle, health and he has receded in a world of his own but crying out for help and a way-out.  What is the way out?

Like others, he tried his hand on the patches and continued with an unending investment on patches that never delivered the expected result.  Just like it sounds, patch of whatever sort is like casting out the devil with the spirit of Beelzebub, sewing of a new garment into an old garment for both to eventually tear, solving internal problem with external means which is not out rightly wrong as a methodology for cure but worse, as the provided solution is not nicotine free but adds small doses of nicotine externally to the blood stream rather than inhaling the nicotine via smoking with the hope of dealing with the withdrawal symptoms.  The medical solution has not produced and will never produce a 100% cure to the nicotine addicts. Why patching it, it’s not working, Stop it!’

It is not an issue affecting one or many it is a national crisis, for statistics documented by “Vanderbilt University Health Psychology home document an article on ‘The Real story behind the Nicotine Patch and Smoking Cessation By: Amy Renshaw” shows that 500,000 North Americans die each year of smoking related diseases and that smoking cuts life expectancy by more than 14 years, yet more than 1/3 of the adult population of the world (1.1 billion) continues this addictive and dangerous habit” while “Statistics on smoking, England – 2013 [NS] Publication dated 15th August 2013 key facts” confirmed that UK household expenditure on tobacco has more than trebled from £4.8 billion in 1980 to £18.7 billion in 2012. There were approximately 1.6 million hospital admissions, in England in 2011/12, among adults aged 35 and over with a primary diagnosis of a disease that can be caused by smoking. The annual number of admissions has been rising steadily since 1996/97, when the number of such admissions was 1.1 million.  Also indicated the success rate of medical intervention through the use of patches as 5.9% over a period 6 weeks and 2.8% over a period of 24 weeks for participant that gets the patch and are paying for it” It implies that most victims of smoking habits are not paying for the patch and it has an effect on our national economy.  Are you affected? Everyone is if it is affecting our nation and our world, it could also affect our nations tomorrow.

Beloved, is this young man your son or your husband or your father, it could have been you, your sister, mother or wife, who is enslaved by habits that has taking over your life, your health or work even though it started innocently, and you are looking for a way out.  The medical solution of nicotine patches or Placebo patches that has minimum success rate might not have worked in your case, or the homeopathic solution might have failed to deliver what was promised or provide you a rescue from the deadly habit.  I have good news for you, try Christ today, Christ offers to every sufferer’s total deliverance from all habits and total cure which he has secured for those who know him through his death burial and resurrection.

How can I access it?  BY FAITH:

You can take the first step by believing and receiving the gift of God’s Love to you through Christ Jesus and be born again, rather than been just a church goer.   John 3:16

Having accepted Christ Jesus as your Lord and Saviour, you must believe that you are now a child of God “for as many have believed him to them that received Him, he has given power to become the sons of God”.  John 1:12

Put on Christ as you publicly identify with Him through the baptism of immersion in water, publicly, professing your identification to Christ death, burial and resurrection through baptism of water. It affords you the ability to die to your old ways of the flesh which includes your habits, and enable you to embrace the life of the spirit in Christ Jesus that produces life in you.  “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creature; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come.  Now all these things are from God, who reconciled us to Himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation” 2 Cor 5:17-18.

Embrace internal cleansing and freedom by continued study of the Word of God and be filled with the Holy Spirit for your body is now the temple of God and the spirit of God is in you.  So your body does not need to polluted or defiled any more by the desire of the fleshly habits that could lead into sickness, destruction and death. Joh 8:32-36, 1 Cor 6:19-20

Live lives of the spirit put on the Lord Jesus Christ and make no provision for the flesh and its lustful desires. Rom 13:14

Consider this:

• Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and that you are not your own? For you have been bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body. [1 Cor 6:19-20 NIV]
• But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh in regard to its lusts. [Rom 13:14 NIV]

Or don’t you know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? [Rom 6:3 NIV]

Life issues most often than not seem to his victims while undergoing the same as unique, believe or  thought it had never happen before, and they assumed that they were the only one going through such, it is a dark place that is void of light, and it seems peculiar to the individual.  Similarly, staying in the dark is not a desire of any man neither could it be considered a delight but at one time or the other every natural man had found themselves in the dark of some sorts or on an issue of life that had become a concern or that needs addressing or require divine or supernatural intervention to resolve.  Man is considered to be in the dark when confronted with issues that keep him awake in the night, put him in perpetual obscurity, physical or invisible imprisonment or bondage, oppression or harassment, physical or spiritual disability, blindness or sickness, lack of direction, bareness, sinful nature and ignorance of the truth or lack of understanding of purpose, joblessness, hardship or when in need of urgent help or supernatural assistance.

For it is a trying period, even though it looks dark there is a need to “turn on the light”.  Why? A man would remain in a state of darkness with persisted problems until the light of God’s revealed word is located by him and the truth of God’s word is embraced in the area of concern. God’s supernatural ability needed to prevail over the circumstances, or to address the issues of concern, resolve the problem and secure the right answer for the question is only available through the sent word of God.  So the light of God’s word must be turned on.

Life issues are not peculiar only to her victim neither would it be, for there is no temptation has overtaken you except what is common to mankind. And God is faithful; he will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, he will also provide a way out so that you can endure it.  The way out of the issues is available through the Revealed word of God, but every man must take responsibility to turn on the light of God’s word in the area of their issues. 1 Cor 10:13

The word was present at creation, all things were created by the word including you and I, and in God’s word was the light that gave light to all mankind, the light of God’s word cannot be subdued by darkness.  As the physical light, when turned on terminates the darkness so also would the light of God’s word eliminates the issues of concern if located through divine revelation, received, believed and applied to the issues of concern . Joseph remained in the prison until his word came to pass.  Joh 1:1-5, Psa 105: 17-22

Beloved, rather than been overwhelmed with the issues of concern, turn the light on and terminate the darkness related to your issue, connect with the revealed word of God through Christ. Search the scriptures to locate what has been written concerning your issues, believe the word, receive it, pray through the word, and apply the word to the issues of concern for a change of story and supernatural turnaround.  Psa 119:18, Joh 5:39, Joh 8:12, 1 Tim 1: 18, Psa 78:14, Psa 107:20

Consider This:

• My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children. [Hos 4:6 KJV]
• In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning. Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made.  In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind.  The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it. [Joh 1:1-5 – KJV]
• When Jesus spoke again to the people, he said, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.” [Jhn 8:12 NIV]
• But as many as received him, to them gave He power to become the sons of God, [even] to them that believe on his name: Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth. [Joh 1:12-14 KJV]
• Then they cried to the LORD in their trouble, and he saved them from their distress. 20 He sent out his word and healed them; he rescued them from the grave. [Psa 107:19-20 NIV]

Passing through the mini grocery store, it is so obvious through the shop window, many turn the other eye but walking into the mall it is well placed towards the entrance, so that all that pass through the kiosk and shopping isles would notice her, she is difficult to miss, for her sketches are visible on the road side commercial billboards, her artwork is in high demand and advertisers have made fortune by using her for product marketing.  Her footage and prints are visible through the night hour when men were meant to rest after their days labour, but the restless men in hotels and in the corner of their own homes stumble into her through the midnight television and satellite programs. The issues of life overwhelm the mind and the excitement of man’s ambitious achievement, fill their minds with thoughts of ‘I have now arrived’ only to tune in to the nightmare channel of the night, the destroyer of life, marriages and destiny, the great polluter and armed robber of good things; the eraser of innocence and  the enemy of righteousness that turned the satellite box that was purchased for pleasure into an object of displeasure, convert the family treasure to  familiar pain, bringing her victim into a life of secrecy, shamefulness, humiliation, a life of lies; making men happy for the moment and on the long run, deluded men of truthfulness, and deprive her victim the God kind of life or having exceeding joy and from obtaining immeasurable success, deriving unimaginable profits, accomplishing indescribable victories and achieving exceeding greatness.  It promises pleasure but it’s a game of enslavement. How?

She is a subject of debates on the street by kids and young adults who have seen her in the schools, learnt about her, she is well spoken of in business meetings and modelled in the board room to boost company image.  Tuning to the radio from work in the evening or at home in the night time, her voice is heard on the radio by the rich, the poor, the fathers and the sons. She is talked about in the high places, it is a free world they said and there should be freedom of speech, views and what men buy with their own money, so it is considered legal not just to behold her, but she can be touched, and could be taken home by those who desire her and are able to afford her price.

She is well presented and modelled through the cat walk, from the “Hollywood” to the “Bollywood” “Nollywood” and the “Nudyworld” of our society by those considered to be “the prim and proper” little do they know that it is an accursed thing. So many innocent kids and young adult who are the future of our nations, our humble brothers and our respected fathers, the loving husband and single men and single parents;  our trusted clergy and lay men, men from different religious sects, wrongly assumed that if she is good for one, she should  be considered good for all.  For those who like her not or choose not to look in her direction or have her as a treasure, she is imposed on them without words; paraded before their eyes with a mission of turning the freemen to her slave men; making them captives without physical chain and lock. They have become victims of mind paralysis, mental instability, sufferers of habitual pain and traumatic experiences, victims of invisible imprisonment and shameful acts.

Though they are still persons with names and fames, they are still the subject matter experts in most professional fields and are still known in the political parties, they are service men on public duties, the parliamentarians, and the physicist in our hospitals, the psychologist, innovators and scientist.  They are known among the religious and non-religious groups; or in our children’s schools, they are still married or divorced or are single men doing business as usual, men living and seen outwardly as the “ok” men but inwardly they are empty inside, for the internal experience does not match the external showbiz.

It is all about faking life to make it look as if they lovingly love the life they live. What a catastrophe! The seller has sold to many the unsellable commodity that entrapped men in the cage of the idol of their own habit, purchased with their own money which was gained from their hard work, or from the reward of their ambitious performance, or stolen from their spouse or from their family, enemies and friends.  They have grabbed the ungrabbeable and touched the untouchable; having seen the unseen able but there is yet a cry in the heart of men from every nation who cares to know from the prison to the palace, calling a question.  How did he get into it and how have we legalised it?

It started with a quick turn to the wrong aisle, he saw and he had a quick glimpse at her, resulting in an instantaneous look, he selected the pop up image, navigated to the page to see the details by drilling down to her image.  He listened to her voice for few seconds; for her appearance is like a rose shrub in the garden without knowing that it is deceptive and could be dangerous.  Her petals from afar is brood and dirt-free, so colourful and the variation of her colours makes it tempting and good to behold, its red like crimson; who would not behold this image he said in his mind. He got attracted to her and thought it was only for the moment but while others admire her shinning, her good looking and her petals from afar, his mere attraction to her has grown to a desire.  He suddenly got hooked up with the look and became devoted to her appearance until that quick nano seconds look progresses to a touch.  Touching her becomes like being snared in a death trap, sentencing his own mind to the prison of a dreadful and deadly habit but yet he took her home without any resistance not knowing the damage that is ahead.  Jos 7:20-21

He went home with her beautiful look in his mind and she became a delight to his soul, whether he is in the public place with a companion of one or many; in the market place or in the business center, in the pub or in the palace, among friends or family he is always physically present but absentminded, for his mind was engulfed and captivated by what his eyes had behold and his hands had touched.  The quick excitement soon turned into an internal torment for her invisible voice of “must have” has so dominated his soul, clouded his reasoning and blinded his eyes from the truth of God’s word.  He dived into the world of uncleanness taking his own money which is the fruit of his labour and the proceeds from his investment to purchase a long term habits, yoking him with a lifestyle of pornography, drug addiction, alcoholism, prostitution, mention it… etc.

However, it resulted in the abuse of his own body by embracing the unnatural use of what was given to him by God, developing an uncontrollable appetite and lustful desire that led to an imprisonment that is too shameful to discuss but needed to be maintained by cook or crook.  A gentle, kind hearted man, brother, son or husband, a smart and intelligent entrepreneur becoming a wanderer in the world of confusion; groping in darkness as if it was in noonday.  The once celebrated became the humiliated, the once favoured now swimming in disfavour, the all-time victorious army became defeated in his battle against a low graded army, the armies on horses running from the battle field away from the civilians that are walking bare footed.  He that was once the king of the jungle had become fearful of his prey, the accepted has now become the rejected for he that was once known to be sincere, pure and holy had become polluted and his pollution is having an adverse impact on his life, family and world.  It does not take time for others to give up on him, the wife, the friends, the colleagues, business partners and political allies who were now looking at him from afar; for he has resigned to fate and given up on himself, isolating himself by himself from himself, trading the path of self-denial, and afraid of facing the degradation that landed him in a shameful place and an embarrassing state. Many thought it is over for him so he feels like ending it.  But who is this? 2 Cor 6:14-19, Jos 7:1-12

Beloved, is this you or it resembles the “Achan” in your camp? Does it sound like your son, your brother, your husband or your manager at work? Could this be your enterprise manager, your COO and CEO, the community, national, religious and non-religious leaders who once know the truth but have embraced a lie having grabbed the ungrabbeable, touched the untouchable; having seen the unseen able?

Here is the word of God designed for your deliverance:  “Be strong and courageous, rend your heart and not your garment, return to the LORD your God, for he is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and abounding in love, and he relents from sending calamity”.  It is not over yet, you can let go of the accursed thing, the idol of your habits and return to God for his arms of love is open wide to receive you. And His irresistible power remains strong to destroy the yoke of the habits in your life regardless of what they are and how long you have been entrapped by the same, Mercy is available for you through the blood of Jesus, receive the gift of God’s love to you today, come out of the cage of destructive habits and be made free in Jesus Name.  Jos 1: 6-9, Joe 2:13, Jos 7:20-21, Jam 5:16.

Consider this:

• “This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.  If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth:  But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.  If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.  If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.” [1 John 1:5-10 KJV]
• Achan replied, “It is true! I have sinned against the LORD, the God of Israel. Among the plunder I saw a beautiful robe from Babylon, 200 silver coins, and a bar of gold weighing more than a pound. I wanted them so much that I took them. They are hidden in the ground beneath my tent, with the silver buried deeper than the rest.” [Jos 7:20-21 NLT]
• “And what union can there be between God’s temple and idols? For we are the temple of the living God. As God said, I will live in them and walk among them. I will be their God, and they will be my people. Therefore, come out from among unbelievers, and separate yourselves from them, says the LORD. Don’t touch their filthy things, and I will welcome you. And I will be your Father, and you will be my sons and daughters, says the LORD Almighty”. [2Cr 6:16-18 NLT]
• And it shall come to pass in that day, [that] his burden shall be taken away from off thy shoulder, and his yoke from off thy neck and the yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing. [Isa 10:27 KJV]

The journey to exceeding greatness with achieving untold possibilities, obtaining immeasurable success and results, deriving unimaginable profits and indescribable victories in varied area of human endeavors’, from the home front to the market place and from the political arena to the business arena is a desire of every man.

Everyone embarks on the journey to greatness, navigating through their varied paths to the desired end of greatness. Some may have started the journey early while others started late, but nothing changes the fact that all men desire to arrive at the same goal of exceeding greatness, in order to take charge or exercise their dominion mandate to be the first achiever, the pace setter and the greatest amongst men where other men serve them, but they are exempted from serving.  Everyone aims and hope for greatness, but not all men reach the end of the goal.   So, egos are bruised, men rage with anger, and become disappointed of their non-achievement, non-attainment or non-arrival at their assumed land of exceeding greatness.

Having embraced the fallacy thought us by motivational speakers, that every man is born great, so many sees themselves as been born great and must become great by all means and at any cost as a result the journey to greatness becomes like a rat race, competitive but not in the context of purpose but according self-ambition, self-gain so they continued running but most men never discover or are able to unravel what it requires to attain untold greatness that has eternal significance.     So, let us see who is on the Journey of greatness; the laid back and the highfliers; how they are running; on low speed or high speed?

Some are laid back but believed in the easy way out and that there is no need to worry, hence embarked on their journey with an attitude of “slow and steady win the race”, assuming that time is on their side.  However long it takes they are sure of reaching their goals; hence they choose to take the slow lane and travel through life on minimum speed of 30miles an hour. The road seems busy and narrow with many checkpoints so the speed is contained but they care less about who is waiting or watching neither are they mindful of eternal plan and purpose, for them all it takes is to keep on keeping on, for they are sure of getting to their goals of greatness and satisfy their ambition to become the first achiever, the first researcher, outstanding husband, the best employee or employer, an outstanding entrepreneur, best politician or best business man.

But the highfliers, soared through life with high enthusiasm, great passion and unequivocal zeal, always jetting on high motion, going through the motor way of life on high speed of 70miles an hour.  The road is wide, the traffic lights are fewer than those travelling on the slow lanes, the vehicle are sound and the driver is focused on reaching the destined destination of greatness whose interpretation is the same as those travelling on low speed regardless of who how they get there.

However, both the laid back and the high fliers have the same life ambition to become great; for greatness to man means superiority in quality, outstanding significance or importance that make others wait on them and while they are free from serving, only to come to the end of their journey and realise the emptiness and the lack of flavour to life when it becomes lonely at the top.  For there has been a disconnection between the great and those that they were meant to serve. Why?

For exceeding greatness is demonstrated through exceeding service and having a servant heart.  “Have this attitude in yourselves which was also in Christ Jesus, who, although He existed in the form of God, did not regard equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied Himself, taking the form of a bond-servant, and being made in the likeness of men. Being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross. For this reason, also, God highly exalted Him, and bestowed on Him the name which is above every name that at the name of Jesus EVERY KNEE WILL BOW, of those who are in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and that every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. Phil 2:5-11

Nothing just happen; Beloved, wisdom says that man can only achieve untold greatness and arrived at the secured heritage of supernatural untold greatness when we have a good understanding of God’s purpose; embark on the journey of greatness with a servant heart, being motivated by our love for Jesus, having a right attitude that fear God and trembles at his Word. Whether you are in the market place or on the home front, whatsoever you do, you must do it as unto the Lord with an attitude of gratitude with total obedience as you see your opportunity to serve as God’s favour rather than a burden.  For it takes journeying through the service lane in life to arrive at the secured land of exceeding greatness through love, faithfulness and obedience to God’s word. The wait is over; you too can join the service lane today.  Mar 9:33-35, Joh 13:3-5, Col 3:17, Gen 18:1-5

Consider this:

• They came to Capernaum; and when He was in the house, He began to question them, what were you discussing on the way? But they kept silent, for on the way they had discussed with one another which of them was the greatest. Sitting down, He called the twelve and said to them, “If anyone wants to be first, he shall be last of all and servant of all”. [Mark 9:33-35 NIV]
• Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into His hands, and that He had come forth from God and was going back to God, got up from supper, and laid aside His garments; and taking a towel, He girded Himself. Then He poured water into the basin, and began to wash the disciples’ feet and to wipe them with the towel with which He was girded [Joh 13:3-5 NIV]
• Therefore, holy brethren, partakers of a heavenly calling, consider Jesus, the Apostle and High Priest of our confession; He was faithful to Him who appointed Him, as Moses also was in all His house. For He has been counted worthy of more glory than Moses, by just so much as the builder of the house has more honor than the house. For every house is built by someone; but the builder of all things is God. Now Moses was faithful in all his house as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were to be spoken later; but Christ was faithful as a Son over His house whose house we are, if we hold fast our confidence and the boast of our hope firm until the end [Heb 3:1-6 NIV]
• Not that I have already obtained it or have already become perfect, but I press on so that I may lay hold of that for which also I was laid hold of by Christ Jesus. Brethren, I do not regard myself as having laid hold of it yet; but one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and reaching forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. Let us therefore, as many as are perfect, have this attitude; and if in anything you have a different attitude, God will reveal that also to you; however, let us keep living by that same standard to which we have attained. [Phi 3:12-16 NIV]
• For though I am free from all men, I have made myself a slave to all, so that I may win more. To the Jews I became as a Jew, so that I might win Jews; to those who are under the Law, as under the Law though not being myself under the Law, so that I might win those who are under the Law [1 Cor 9:19-20 NIV]

For though I am free from all men, I have made myself a slave to all, so that I may win more. To the Jews I became as a Jew, so that I might win Jews; to those who are under the Law, as under the Law though not being myself under the Law, so that I might win those who are under the Law [1 Cor 9:19-20 NIV]

Cutting across many spectrum of today’s global village and her relative issues, misconception and many challenges from the home front to the market place and schools; issues with anti-social behaviours and gang rages due to lack of clear understanding of Gods original purpose for holy matrimony with her related benefits; there have been national misrepresentation and misconstruction of what is good about been married which has resulted in negativities that affect varied classes in the society and has introduced pain and problems into our world that has and is taking efforts, time, money, legal and social process to resolve.  For to raise a good nation, there must be a good community with individuals that come from good families who have cohesive voice and right family values.

Looking closely to our society from the religious and non religious groups or background,  it is obvious that at various stages that some may have stumbled into marriage for diverse and odd reasons, from fantasy of Mills and Boons romance stories, to lovingly loving the idea of been married or getting married because it sounds good and generates a  feel good factor, some may have stumbled into marriage unplanned, unsure, but yet their relationship whether short or long term partnership progresses into marriage because of society pressure, personal gain to be derived from being married; some find themselves in marriage today because they wanted to respond to family demands, lone parents challenges of raising their kids alone, ethical and cultural reasons, age pressure; noises and voices of “I am getting old, and time is going”, medical advices on child bearing and voices of “biological clock” is ticking but without much preparation or clear understanding of God’s purpose for holy matrimony neither an anticipation of the responsibility that comes with been married.

If the truth be told, only those nations, communities, families that understood and hold true to God’s originally intended purpose, values and benefits of marriage are able to model God’s kind of marriage based on God’s kind of love, wisdom and have embraced  God’s principle are able to make their marriages a success and raise their children likewise.  But so many have been in enduring marriages rather than enjoyable marriages, some have or are going through painful process of separation or divorce because of the challenges of building on defective marital foundation that has a serious impact on our community, our nation and our world today.  If the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do?  Psa 11:3

If you are undergoing the pain, the problem, the shame, the abuse, dejection and rejection and the reproach of dysfunctional marriage and you are overwhelmed with the traumatic process of separation and divorce, don’t throw in the towel; there is good news for you today, your broken heart can be healed for there is a balm in Gilead to soothe and heal the pain of your broken heart.  There is comfort for you today as you turn to the God of all comfort and make peace with God by receiving the gift of love in Christ Jesus and be saved.  Having a readiness to embrace and learn from the divine principle of God’s word with the right character and attitude of a builder to make your marriage a success. 2Cor 10:13

Always remember that God instituted the idea of marriage and the key to build and make it work has been given to you through His word, but you must search through the word of God with a readiness to obey God’s word and allow God’s word to govern and direct your heart in all things and at all times.    For every “wise woman builds her house, but the foolish tears it down with her own hands. He who walks in his uprightness fears the LORD, but he who is devious in his ways despises Him”.  God is committed to endow you with the untold blessings, wisdom to build and benefits that were instituted by God for your marriage. Prov 25:2, Jer 8:21-22 Pro 14:1

Beloved, your ability to resist the devil’s influence over your marriage or life is determined by and proportional to your total submission to God and His word.  Therefore receive the grace of God that  converts and turns around  your broken, battered marriage or life from an enduring one to an enjoyable life and marriage as a testimony of God’s model of a successful marriage in Jesus name Jer 8:21-22 Pro 14:1, Jam 4:7, Luk 10:19, Psa 18:44-45

Consider this:

• But from the beginning of creation, God made them and female, for this reason a man shall leave his father and mother, and the two shall become one flesh; so they are no longer two, but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let no man separate [Mar 10:6-9 NIV]
• For the brokenness of the daughter of my people I am broken; I mourn, dismay has taken hold of me. Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there? Why then has not the health of the daughter of my people been restored? [Jer 8:21 NIV]
• Unless the LORD builds the house, they labor in vain who build it; unless the LORD guards the city, the watchman keeps awake in vain. It is vain for you to rise up early, To retire late, To eat the bread of painful labors; For He gives to His beloved even in his sleep [Psa 127:1-2 NIV]
• Come to me, all who are weary and heavy-laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and YOU WILL FIND REST FOR YOUR SOULS. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light. [Mat 11:28-30 NIV]
• In the same way, you wives, be submissive to your own husbands so that even if any of them are disobedient to the word, they may be won without a word by the behavior of their wives, as they observe your chaste and respectful behavior. Your adornment must not be merely external– braiding the hair, and wearing gold jewelry, or putting on dresses; but let it be the hidden person of the heart, with the imperishable quality of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is precious in the sight of God. For in this way in former times the holy women also, who hoped in God, used to adorn themselves, being submissive to their own husbands just as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord, and you have become her children if you do what is right without being frightened by any fear. You husbands in the same way, live with your wives in an understanding way, as with someone weaker, since she is a woman; and show her honor as a fellow heir of the grace of life, so that your prayers will not be hindered. [1 Pet 3:1-7 NIV]

Submit therefore to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you. [Jam 4:7 NIV]

He was received as a friend; for he acted like one but inwardly raged like a voracious wolf looking for whom to devour; yet he was embraced with irrevocable love and entrusted with unique responsibility that was profitable for gain. Only to discover that the value he placed on friendship was nothing compared with his zeal for betraying the one who trusted him, his act of friendship was only pretence, he was very friendly when the going is good and there is something to gain from those who called him or made him their trusted friend. Befriending him is like lying in bed with a chameleon; you never could have reasoned him out, whether happy or sad. He was considered quite but possessed high powered reasoning, calculative and assuming, his exhibited smartness was only by despising what is good, he calls the act of good deeds done to his friends and those who trusted him wasteful, why? As long as an act of goodness is not done to him and he was not the main benefactor of the same, good deeds remained unacknowledged and uncelebrated, for it denied him another opportunity to enrich himself or become noticeable or applauded by all. He was always too sad to celebrate his friends and rejoice with those rejoicing. Joh 12:4-6

He was assigned to raise the purchase order but decided to get the goods by himself. A callous man, who claimed to know where the goods are cheap not for the benefits of his friends, family, colleagues, employer, partners or enterprise, but coming home with vases that seems full of roses and bags full of nice goods to prove wrong those who stood up to him; the goods were plenteous but were of a lower and less significant quality, having worthless value. The roses looked beautiful but faded away in a short while, so he took so much out of his victim in investment of time, money, in love and trust without a readiness to pay the price, so he returned with goods that did not match the price.

Giving him the bag of money to hold is like putting your money in the hole and never thought of coming back to meet any change. He claimed to love secretly, but kissed outwardly with a poisonous kiss, a deceptive man, an unfriendly friend, a cruel man whose confidence is in himself and his strength is in his plan of wickedness and cruelty, a lover of money whose appetite for wealth and riches led him to sell true friendship for mere thirty pieces of silver. A Judas who could not bear the moment of exposure to the world or handle the disgrace that his wicked act and betrayal had brought; he gave back what he has gained, returned the money only when his friend had become a captive in the hand of their captures. So that the damage done for the momentary gain almost became implausible, irreparable and irrecoverable. You wonder why he was on the lookout for the quickest way out, rather than fixing what was wrong and giving true friendship, true trust and true love a chance of blossoming again but headed in the determined end for a carnal nature. He became an enemy of God, for a carnal mind is an enmity with God and to be carnally minded is death but to be spiritually minded is life forever more.

Judas became a victim of self-destruction, what he gave himself to, took him on a journey of no return, he ended up destroying his own life through suicidal death, he missed the true life that is available in Christ Jesus for a repentant heart like Peter; for the thief comes to steal, kill and destroy. What a tragedy! Satan had entered into him. Luk 22:3 Rom 8:5-8, Joh 10:10, Mat 26: 14-35, 69-75

It’s time to call the question, does this look like me, who is that boy, that man, that friend, that lover or that father or husband, who has he intermingled with, what has entered into him that has changed him to another man. He was raised in the church but has become antagonistic to the Truth, what went wrong for the beginning was once good, the race started with joy and with promises of running to the end and winning the crown but suddenly the victims became depressed, distressed and hopeless because the motivation of the flesh can only go so far but never all the way. Its profit or proceeds is temporary and it’s never eternal, for the thought of suicide seems to be playing on its victim’s mind.

If this is you, it’s not over yet; you can navigate your way back to the altar of sacrifice like Peter, crucify the flesh and embrace the life of the spirit in Christ Jesus by the word of God. “There is a way which seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death. A worker’s appetite works for him, for his hunger urges him on. A worthless man digs up evil, while his words are like scorching fire”. You don’t have to travel on the path of self-destruction, but if you are already on this pathway or laying with him or have his goods in your custody, wake up, give no room to the devil, he is an enemy, disengage from this enemy within and embrace the spirit of life in Christ Jesus. “It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing; the words that I have spoken to you are spirit and are life”. You can have a new start today. Prov 16:25-27, John 6:63.

Consider this:

• Then Satan entered Judas, called Iscariot, one of the Twelve. [Luk 22:3]
• Then one of the Twelve—the one called Judas Iscariot—went to the chief priests and asked, “What are you willing to give me if I deliver him over to you?” So they counted out for him thirty pieces of silver. From then on Judas watched for an opportunity to hand him over. [Mat 26: 14-16]
• When the morning was come, all the chief priests and elders of the people took counsel against Jesus to put him to death: And when they had bound him, they led him away, and delivered him to Pontius Pilate the governor. Then Judas, which had betrayed him, when he saw that he was condemned, repented himself, and brought again the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders, Saying, I have sinned in that I have betrayed the innocent blood. And they said, what is that to us? See thou to that. And he cast down the pieces of silver in the temple, and departed, and went and hanged himself. And the chief priests took the silver pieces, and said, it is not lawful for to put them into the treasury, because it is the price of blood. And they took counsel, and bought with them the potter’s field, to bury strangers in. Wherefore that field was called, the field of blood, unto this day. [Mat 27:1-8]

For those who are according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who are according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit. For the mind set on the flesh is death, but the mind set on the Spirit is life and peace, because the mind set on the flesh is hostile toward God; for it does not subject itself to the law of God, for it is not even able to do so[Rom 8: 5-8]

Her problems had persisted for a long while and did not seem to have a promising end, it was like being in between the rock and the hard place where no one has bothered to look at how she could be helped, even if they plan to, she perceived that the room is too tight for two, her issue seems peculiar. To her no one seems to understand, no one seems to care, it’s too distressing, very depressing, she is wasting away but yet she could not explained it away.  She has explored all available options and considered many alternatives but she is yet to locate the divine key for her way out of her issues and her trouble. She has been written off by many, who considered her case hopeless and thought her wound could not be healed, her flow of blood cannot end, her bondage seems to be getting stronger every day for her captors refuse to let her go.  Luke 8:43-48.

Her feet were chained, and her hands were not free either, she is confined in herself by herself, in a place that she least expected, her destiny seems to have lost opportunity for expression, she saw the doors opened but the chains prevented her journeying through the opened door.  Why? She may have been limited by lack of skill, no experience, no funds, family, friends, none can stand for her and none could recommend her.  Acts 16: 20-26

It looks like being in a dark place, going through the darkest season and the darkest night where she has lost the melodious song, but had only saturated her garment with tears that she did not plan to shed but that was flowing out of her painful past, her pain of the moment and no visibility of the future.  Indeed the darkness was thick for she reckoned that there is unlikely to be a dawning of a new day, she looks at herself and around her only to conclude, it’s a wasting place, a dangerous place, nothing seems to work and she has no idea of how to make it work for her affliction seems to be many, her trial seems to be plenty, but little did she know that the darkness may have been thick but it has an expiry date, for whatsoever has a beginning surely must have an end. Even when weeping seems to have continued throughout the darkness of the night, her joy of a new day is about to burst forth.   Psa 34-17-19, Psa 126:1-3, Psa 30:5

Beloved, if this is you, I have  good news for you today, stop the complaining, moaning and groaning, release yourself from trying to reason it out but rejoice in the Lord your God always; engaging the power of prayer and praise to usher in the ‘God of suddenly’ in to your darkest night and see it converted to a noon day as He gives you joy in the morning, destroy the yokes, break the chains and bring you out of every prison,  heal your wounds and terminate all your affliction.  You can praise your way out of the sudden oppression, sudden afflictions, sudden troubles and trials, sudden pain and problems, sudden lack and want, hopelessness and toiling, out of every prison, limitation and cages of life, into the suddenly of your God given liberty and wholeness  in Christ Jesus. “For the Lord whom you seek in Zion, will suddenly come into His temple, the messenger of the covenant you desire to see, He is coming, says the LORD of Host” Psa 22:3, Mal 3:1

Consider this:

• For the LORD will rise up as at Mount Perazim, He will be stirred up as in the valley of Gibeon, to do His task, His unusual task, And to work His work, His extraordinary work. [Isa: 28:21]
• The word of the LORD came to Jeremiah, saying, “Thus says the LORD, ‘If you can break My covenant for the day and My covenant for the night, so that day and night will not be at their appointed time, then My covenant may also be broken with David My servant so that he will not have a son to reign on his throne, and with the Levitical priests, My ministers [Jer 33:19-21]
• See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise, redeeming the time, because the days are evil. Wherefore be ye not unwise but understanding what the will of the Lord [is]. And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit; Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord; [Eph 5:15-19 KJV]
• But thou [art] holy, [O thou] that inhabitest the praises of Israel. [Psa 22:3 KJV]

But about midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns of praise to God, and the prisoners were listening to them; and suddenly there came a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison house were shaken; and immediately all the doors were opened, and everyone’s chains were unfastened. [Acts 16:25-26]

The King of Judah (Jehoshaphat) received sudden news about the intended invasion of external enemies from Moab, Ammon and Mount Seir, with their vast armies’ plot to drive the king of Judah and his people out of the land given to them by God as an inheritance.  Even though he reckoned that the enemy’s armies were stronger and mightier than the armies of Judah, he was fearful but yet refused to engage the enemy until he sought the lord for direction and divine help against the vast armies that rose up against them through prayer, supplication, praise and thanksgiving.  Divine direction was given to him with divine strategy for winning the battle against the enemy through prophetic utterance.

King Jehoshaphat and the people of Judah believed the word of the Lord and started to celebrate their expected untold victories before the war began as they offered high praises unto the LORD.  Their high praises ushered in the Lion of the Tribe of Judah, who caused the armies of Ammon, Moab, and Mount Seir to start fighting one another until they helped destroy one another.   Moreover, Jehoshaphat and the people of Judah obtained untold victories’ in a supernatural way as the Lord fought for them, only to get to the camp of the enemy and found them all dead. But King Jehoshaphat and all the armies of Judah gathered the spoils of war for three days as a result of engaging praise as a prevailing instrument for untold victories.  2 Chr20:1-29

Is your heart overwhelmed by un-resolved issues, challenges and circumstances that demand urgent intervention?  Are you anxious or terrified because of the rage of the enemy, the voice of the oppressor, the sound of war or satanic attack from powers or personalities that are stronger or mightier than you?

Beloved, do not be anxious or worried about the magnitude of the issue that confronts you, or the volume or pitch of the noise of the adversary, you can engage the right tools for supernatural intervention as you present your case through prayer and supplication with thanksgiving unto God.  Your praise will provoke Gods divine intervention that obtains for you untold victories without having to fight in the battle while you get ready to gather the spoil of war.  Phil 4:6

Consider This:

• Praise the Lord. Sing to the Lord a new song, his praise in the assembly of his faithful people. Let Israel rejoice in their Maker; let the people of Zion be glad in their King. Let them praise his name with dancing and make music to him with timbrel and harp. For the Lord takes delight in his people; he crowns the humble with victory. Let his faithful people rejoice in this honor and sing for joy on their beds. May the praise of God be in their mouths and a double-edged sword in their hands, to inflict vengeance on the nations and punishment on the peoples, to bind their kings with fetters, their nobles with shackles of iron, to carry out the sentence written against them this is the glory of all his faithful people? Praise the Lord [Psa 149:1-9 NIV]
• As they began to sing and praise, the Lord set ambushes against the men of Ammon and Moab and Mount Seir who were invading Judah, and they were defeated. The Ammonites and Moabites rose up against the men from Mount Seir to destroy and annihilate them. After they finished slaughtering the men from Seir, they helped to destroy one another. When the men of Judah came to the place that overlooks the desert and looked toward the vast army, they saw only dead bodies lying on the ground; no one had escaped. So Jehoshaphat and his men went to carry off their plunder, and they found among them a great amount of equipment and clothing and also articles of value—more than they could take away. There was so much plunder that it took three days to collect it. [2 Chr 20:22-25 NIV]

Gates are usually situated in an open place that is visible to all. Regardless of class, age, or frame, everyone can access the gates. The nobles, the famous, the kings and the subjects, the rich and the poor come in through the gate provided they have the right key. Whenever the right key is used, the gates open up to everyone and any one.  Similarly, the gates to the throne room of God, are accessible to all but the key to it, is thanksgiving from a thankful heart.  Nevertheless, it takes a grateful and joyful heart who remembers the faithfulness of God and his deeds to be thankful, for thanksgiving flows like a river from men that appreciate God for what he has done, what he is doing and what he is about to do, whether they are visible or invisible, tangible or intangible, physical or spiritual whether they are houses, jobs, wife or children.  We can all join David as he gave God thanks for His mercy and for His goodness; His deeds in the life of men, for producing proofs of His word in our life, for forgiving all our iniquities, healing all our diseases and provided all men an access through the gates with thanksgiving.  If you will stop complaining today and offer God thanksgiving from a grateful heart, your thankfulness would terminate sorrowfulness, mournfulness, and grumpiness from your heart and give you access to the throne room of God.   Psalm 100:3-5, Psa 103:3-5, 2Chr 6:1-11

However, only those who know and love God and believe in his spoken word celebrate, reference, honour and praise Him for whom he is and not just for what He has done.  Solomon was a whole king of Israel but yet he was not ashamed to kneel down and lift up his hands to God before his own people, demonstrating his profound act of unreserved reference, love, humility and submission to God, acknowledging God as the Highest Authority above the kings of the earth, confessing His continued Mercy to those who fear Him.  He praised God for His faithfulness and covenant keeping attribute, he acknowledged God through his action and posture of praise as the ultimate King and the king maker, the God of His fathers, the Mighty God, who is the possessor of heaven and earth.  2Chronicles 6:12-14

Through praise Solomon gained access to the throne room of God, he entered into the presence of the Most High and presented a request that received heaven’s attention and immediate response as fire descended from heaven and the glory of the Lord filled the temple, such that the priest could not enter but caused all knees to bow down and worship and give thanks to the Lord.   Let the praise of God arise from your heart that opens your heavens and draw all men to God as your life is filled and radiates the glory of God. 2Chr6:16-42, 2Chr 7:1-3

Consider this:

• Make a joyful noise unto the LORD, all ye lands. 2 Serve the LORD with gladness: come before his presence with singing. Know ye that the LORD he [is] God: [it is] he [that] hath made us, and not we ourselves; [we are] his people, and the sheep of his pasture. 4 Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, [and] into his courts with praise: be thankful unto him, [and] bless his name. 5 For the LORD [is] good; his mercy [is] everlasting; and his truth [endureth] to all generations. [Psa 100:1-5 KJV]

When Solomon finished praying, fire came down from heaven and consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices, and the glory of the Lord filled the temple. 2The priests could not enter the temple of the Lord because the glory of the Lord filled it. 3When all the Israelites saw the fire coming down and the glory of the Lord above the temple, they knelt on the pavement with their faces to the ground, and they worshiped and gave thanks to the Lord, saying, “He is good; his love endures forever.”[2Chr 7:1-3 NIV]

In the world history, it is evident that no nation sends out their armies to war against another nation without adequate training and the right weapons of war.  Regardless of the scale or magnitude of the war whether, they are tribal war in the nation or external war between the boundaries of nations.  The weapon of war in the hand of well-trained men, if well utilized becomes instruments of defense in their favor and victories against their adversaries in the battle.  Similarly, the best weapon in the hand of untrained men in many nations’ tribal or civil war may be abused due to lack of understanding of its usage and may be wrongly used not only against their opponents but against their colleagues.

As we are conversant with natural laws that there is no peace without war, it is important to note the parallel in the spiritual realm, that there is invisible battle to fight in order to gain access to what has been secured for every believer by Christ Jesus.  Hence we need to contend against the adversary in order to gain access to what is rightfully ours and obtain the great and precious promises of God’s word which are only possible as we enforce the victory of Calvary that propel us to the fulfillment of every prophetic word of God.

So, it is good to know that prophetic utterances will remain a promise that is void of its fulfillment until someone does something about it, that is fight for it.   Why?  For our adversary the devil knows that his time is very short, and he has continued to mount up an aggression against the inhabitant of the earth.  This is why we were admonished to be sober, be vigilant; because our adversary the devil, prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.  You and I must be shielded by the blood of Jesus in order not to be victims of the devourer. 1 Tim 1:18, Rev 12:12, 1 Pet 5:8.

How do I start engaging the Blood of Jesus as my instrument of victory?

Crucify the Enemy Within:

Christ our Passover Lamb had been sacrificed for us and we overcame the devil, by the blood of the lamb, the word of our testimony; and we do not love our life unto death. As our Saviour Jesus Christ demonstrated His love for the father and His commitment to him on the mount of Gethsemane, by submitting to the will of God above his own life, so must every believer commit to God in words and in our service.   It is time to engage the prevailing power of the blood of Jesus against the internal enemy of the flesh within us that is warring against the law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus.  “For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh, for the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but divinely powerful for the destruction of fortresses. We are destroying speculations and every lofty thing raised up against the knowledge of God, and we are taking every thought captive to the obedience of Christ”.  So we must submit ourselves to God completely and allow him to cleanse us from all unrighteousness, by the blood of Jesus before we can deal with the enemy without.   Rev 12:11, James 4:7-10, 2Cr 10:4-5

Overcome the Enemy Without:

To deal with the power that held the Israelites in bondage, hard labour and toiling with little or no reward for 430years in Egypt. God through His servant Moses wrought mighty miracles and demonstrated His power against their adversary (Pharaoh) in order to bring the Israelites out of the bondage of Egypt.   Pharaoh, contended with divine instruction delivered by Moses saying, “Let my people go, that they may serve Me”. God through the Rod of Aaron turned the water of Egypt into blood, smote the borders of Egypt with frogs (such that the rivers brought forth frogs that entered into the Kings palace, their bedrooms and in the house of all the servants of Pharaoh), the Egyptians were infested with lice, swarms and flies; their livestock were infected and deceased. Plague of boils broke out in their land, a heavy rain with thunder and hail stone such as they had never seen before, their crops were infested with locust and their land became engulfed with thick darkness as Moses stretched forth his hand to the heavens.  However, Pharaoh refused to let the Israelites go, until the last plague that was executed after the Passover lamb was sacrificed by each family. And the blood of the sacrificed lamb poured in the basin was used to strike the lintel at the top and the two side posts of the house of the Israelites.  This represented the cross upon which Christ was sacrificed.  The blood of Passover became a token of protection, security, deliverance and preservation for the Israelites such that when the angel of destruction passed through Egypt and killed the first born of Pharaoh, his servants and their livestock, God preserved the Israelites and they overcame destruction by the blood of the lamb that was placed on the lintel of their houses. Exo 7:19, 8:2-4, 8:16, 8:21, 9:3, 9:8-9, 9:18, 10:4-5, 10:21, 11:4-5.

Likewise, Jesus shed his blood on the cross of cavalry, not just for the atonement of our sin but to provide us with a powerful weapon to fight and prevail against the adversary of our faith (the devil) who contends with the spoken word of God in our lives.  The Bible presents us with the process that Jesus went through prior to his death on Gethsemane where he prayed with such an agony that the sweat of his body was like drops of blood.  They presented him to Pilate requesting for him to be crucified.  “The soldiers led Jesus away into the palace (that is, the Praetorium) and called together the whole company of soldiers. They put a purple robe on him, then twisted together a crown of thorns and set it on him. And they began to call out to him, Hail, king of the Jews! Again, and again they struck him on the head with a staff and spat on him. Falling on their knees, they paid homage to him. And when they had mocked him, they took off the purple robe and they put his own clothes on him. Then they led him out to crucify him”.  Jesus endured the pain, the shame, and humiliation, distress and so much agony on the cross to secure our salvation, redemption and total freedom from the power of darkness as he brought us into the kingdom of light.  Mark 14:32-41 & 15:1-40

Beloved, our warfare is not against flesh and blood (one and another) but against operations of darkness.  For our wrestling is “against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places” that may have manifested or may be manifesting as spiritual serpents or spiritual scorpions, spirit spouse, consulters with necromancers (spirit of the dead), familiar spirits or wizards, and those who practice witchcraft and divination, enchantment, observers of times (Star gazers), that are oppressing, harassing and troubling our life and destiny.  Eph 6:10-18, Luke 10:19, Deut 30 18:10.

It is time to arise and engage our weapon of victory and deliverance by covering our habitation and pleading the blood of Jesus over our lives, our destinies, our family, children, businesses and our career.  This provides us with vindication, defense, protection, deliverance, restoration, healing, provision and access into what was secured for us in Christ Jesus.  At the same time the blood of Jesus serves as the believer’s weapon of judgement against our adversary as God vindicated the Israelites against the powers that held them bound under the yoke of hardship and tolling.   Having been redeemed by the blood of Jesus; we must engage our weapon rightly, ensuring that there is no residue of the enemy in our vessel and enforce the victory of Calvary against the enemy without rather than contracting our responsibility to others (Pastors, Bishops, prophets etc) to fight for us or on our behalf.  Are you ready?

Consider this:

• Who hath believed our report? And to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed? For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form or comeliness; and when we shall see him, [there is] no beauty that we should desire him. He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were [our] faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not. Surely he hath borne our griefs and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. But he [was] wounded for our transgressions, [he was] bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace [was] upon him; and with his stripes we are healed. [Isa 53:1-6 KJV]
• And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death. Therefore rejoice, [ye] heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe to the inhibiters of the earth and of the sea! For the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time. [Rev 12:11-12 KJV]
• Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world. [1Jo 4:4 KJV]

For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, [even] our faith. [1Jo 5:4 KJV]