HOLY VIOLENCE | When God Fights For You by Dr. D. K. Olukoya

HOLY VIOLENCE

For thou hast broken the yoke of his burden, and the staff of his shoulder, the rod of his oppressor, as in the day of Midian. For every battle of the warrior is with confused noise, and garments rolled in blood; but this shall be with burning and fuel of fire. Isaiah 9:4-5.

And from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force. Matthew 11 :12.

AGGRESSIVE METHODS

This means that, there are some demons that will leave at a simple command, but there are some that have to be chased out violently because they are stubborn and have probably installed themselves in the life of that person through a covenant, that has been in place from generation to generation. Such demons can only be evicted through aggressive methods.

I do not see anything wrong in going to battle over-armed. It is better than being under-armed. If you require only three bullets to finish the enemy and you take 1,000 with you, there is no harm in that; you will bring back the rest. But if you need three and take only one, you would only succeed in provoking the rage of the enemy and he will rise and finish you.

DAVID’S FIVE STONES

David took five stones when he was going to face Goliath. He would have thought that if the first one missed his forehead, one of the others would hit him. He succeeded at the first attempt and he went away with the rest of the stones.

And he took his staff in his hand, and chose him five smooth stones out of the brook, and put them in a shepherd’s bag which he had, even in a scrip; and his sling was in his hand: and he drew near to the Philistine. And the Philistine came on and drew near unto David; and the man that bare the shield went before him. And when the Philistine looked about, and saw David, he disdained him: for he was but a youth, and ruddy, and of a fair countenance. And the Philistine

said unto David, Am I a dog, that thou comest to me with staves? And the Philistine cursed David by his gods. And the Philistine said to David, Come to me, and I will give thy flesh unto the fowls of the air, and to the beasts of the field. Then said David to the Philistine, Thou comest to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a shield: but I come to thee in the name of the LORD of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom thou hast defied. This day will the LORD deliver thee into mine hand; and I will smite thee, and take thine head from thee; and I will give the carcases of the host of the Philistines this day unto the fowls of the air, and to the wild beasts of the earth; that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel. And all this assembly shall know that the LORD saveth not with sword and spear: for the battle is the LORD’s, and he will give you into our hands. And it came to pass, when the Philistine arose, and came and drew nigh to meet David, that David hasted, and ran toward the army to meet the Philistine. And David put his hand in his bag, and took thence a stone, and slang it, and smote the Philistine in his forehead, that the stone sunk into his forehead; and he fell upon his face to the earth. So David prevailed over the Philistine with a sling and with a stone, and smote the Philistine, and slew him; but there was no sword in the hand of David. 1Samuel 17:40-50.

IDENTIFY, CONFRONT AND CONQUER

Modem-day believers do not understand this principle but the people of the Bible did. Beloved, we have to know that dark powers are at the root of most of the problems that we are facing, though they will try to hide from us. We have a mission to identify them, confront them and conquer them. When we have this at the back of our minds, we will be unstoppable. Then unbelievable miracles will begin to happen. That is what we call WONDER. It is a bit higher than a miracle. It is something that happens and when people hear it, their ears will tingle and their mouths will open and will not close until they have overcome the surprise.

When the Bible says; “Ye shall be for signs and wonders,” it means what

transformed you and you will tell them that you are serving the God of signs and wonders and they will ask you to take them to Him.

I pray that every enemy of your signs and wonders shall be disgraced today, in the name of Jesus. The apostles turned their cities upside down. WHY?

They knew the Lord whom they served, they bragged and boasted about Him, they upset the world in which they found themselves. They worried the devil and gave the rulers sleepless nights. They did not worry about where the devil would strike next; it was the devil that worried about what they would do in the next moment.

FIRE-BRAND BELIEVERS

They did not run away from demons but harassed them. They were not diplomats who would not tell people the truth about their deeds. They confronted the rulers and told them that they killed Jesus the Messiah. The rulers were forced to ask the apostles what they should do to be saved and the apostles told them to repent and turn to the Lord.

They held Holy Ghost services in the streets; they got people baptised in the streets, they carried out deliverance sessions in the streets. They went about without fear; they were on fire. They had something that the prisons could not withhold; when they were arrested, the rulers had to release them speedily.

When the rulers wanted to interrogate them, they had to be cautious, they could not apply force, they had to invite them for interrogation. When they got there, the apostles repeated the same things they had been teaching about Jesus. They had something in them that fire could not burn, that water could not drown, that salt could not spoil. They were unbeatable.

What was their secret? They CONFRONTED and CONQUERED. Many years ago, there was a revival that broke out in a place. A brother used to go out for morning cry. It was a simple cry of “Repent, for the kingdom of God is at hand. “One day, the brother went out very early and was saying the same words as usual. It happened to be a day of sacrifice and occult men were at their shrine. Usually, nobody should come near the place, not even the villagers.

THE CONFRONTATION

The brother did not know that there was anything like that going on. Occult men shouted incantations against him but found that they had no effect on him. It surprised them and they all came out and brought their charms. The brother started feeling weak but as quickly as he started speaking in tongues, he regained his strength and the occult men became weak and helpless.

Then they resorted to physical beating. They beat the brother until he became unconscious and they dragged him to the shrine and left him there.

At about 5.30 a.m, another brother was going to church for morning service, when he saw a Bible on the ground and then a bell. He became curious and looked round and went towards the hut and found that brother in front of the shrine. He ran to the church to call the pastor who had already started the service. The brother interrupted the service and announced that that brother had been sacrificed.

The whole congregation got up with a battle cry and went towards the shrine. They got there and found that the brother was still breathing. He was revived and they destroyed the shrine and the hut. When the news got to the king, he summoned the pastor and his congregation went with him. When he saw them, he had no choice but to say that he only wanted to make peace; that there was freedom of worship in the country and that they should learn to co-habit. The idols worshippers were disgraced.

As from that day, many people started to renounce idol worship and gave their lives to the Lord Jesus Christ. The shrine was never re-erected and a revival broke out. No child of God died in the process, whereas the people believed that the idol would kill anyone who dared move close to the shrine.

NO WAR, NO PEACE

Sometimes, there is no option for peace until there is war. Peace-loving people have had to take up arms to defend themselves. There is an English adage that says “No war, no peace.” There is a local adage that says “The child that decides not to allow his mother to sleep at night, will be restless.” This means that, the powers that have decided not to allow a child of God to have peace,

must themselves be restless.

If they get up after midnight to do havoc, it means that as a child of God, you must wake up before midnight to bombard them with your prayer bullets and arrows. When you continually bombard them with your arrows and bullets, they will flee and will not dare come again. In fact, when they hear your name, they will run away.

One night, two witches and one wizard were sent on assignment to pour leprosy on a Christian brother who was said to be praying too hard and disrupting witchcraft activities in his area.

THE ARREST

As they were going, they had to pass in front of a church where a vigil was going on. The leader of the prayer meeting sensed an evil spiritual presence and the Holy Spirit ministered to him to raise this prayer point: “Let the blood of Jesus become fire and burn every evil presence, in the name of Jesus.”

Everybody prayed hard and aggressively and immediately, the witches and the wizard were arrested. One of the witches was stuck to the ground and the one carrying the evil pot containing the leprosy fell with it and part of it poured on her. The wizard fled. The two witches could not move and were calling him to carry the pot and go to accomplish the assignment.

He refused and ran away. Later, as he thought over the situation, he acknowledged the power of the Lord Jesus Christ and surrendered his life to Him. He was the one that lived to narrate the story. God spared his life so that he would be able to testify to the fact that God is greater than any power that can ever exist.

THE ENEMY’S CONFRONTATION

You may find it difficult to believe that life is a battle; but it is true. We have battles to fight and each person must fight. Some start their fight very early in life, some start in the womb, and for some is at particular spectacular stages in life that their battles start. For some, it is when they become adults or in their old age.

Anyone who will prosper or is a threat to the devil, will surely have confrontations from the camp of the enemy.

There are some powers that know what a person will become, right from the womb; they try to capture the star of the person or quench it totally. If parents are prayerful, they will save their children from a lot of havoc.

Most psychiatric cases are the handiwork of destiny quenchers and evil diversion. They know the potentials of these people and they hinder them through insanity.

If you look back at your achievements, you will find out that there were some obstacles that you had to pass through before you became successful. The lord, who saved you, wants you to serve Him sincerely in return. You must understand the ministry of conflict and spiritual confrontation, otherwise you will continue to suffer. Many have accepted that there is no way out, that they have to bear every problem as their cross. That is wrong.

THE BATTLE

If a preacher has never experienced headache, he can never understand what migraine means. He would not appreciate what it means to have sleepless nights. Many pat people on the back and ask them to claim their victory by faith but nothing happens.

During deliverance sessions, we have heard vicious demons speak through their victims and have answered us and argued about our intervention and even cried but eventually, they were thrown out. You would have discovered by now that problems are not removed by television show-business, nor by “Jesus loves you’ smiles. At least, not in the African environment; but by spiritual battle. Any Christian that does not engage in spiritual warfare is still wasting time.

A lot of Christians are plain lazy. Lazy people are useless in spiritual battles. They are engaged in many activities that wear them out during the day and at night they are too weak to pray. The enemy engages them in evil occupations and before they know it, he has captured them.

There is no nice way of cleaning a septic tank. All the methods are aggressive. In spiritual warfare, you pump out the demonic sewage, empty the tank of all the filth that has been accumulated and throw them out.

VICTORY IN MY SOUL

When I was a young Christian, an old preacher came to our church and before he started his sermon, he sang this song:

“There is victory within my soul:

For the Spirit with me abides.

Let the waves of temptation roll.

Jesus keeps me whatever betides.”

Chorus:

“Victory! Victory! Victory in my soul;

I have glorious victory since Jesus took control.

Victory! Victory! Sweeping like a flood.

I have glorious victory through Jesus’ blood.”

When he finished singing, he asked how many people wanted victory and the whole congregation signified. He asked us to shout Hallelujah and we did, at the top of our voices. He then asked, “How many of you want to fight wars?” No one answered. He then asked how we wanted to win if we did not want to fight.

If there is no problem, there will be no solution; if there is no conflict, there will be no victory. For the enemy to flee from you, you have to first come out against him.

THE REALITY OF WARFARE

We need not fear the enemy but we must not under-estimate him, nor ignore him. To ignore the devil means entering your house and finding a stranger there and instead of chasing him out, you say; “Hello, I hope you are not a robber; and I hope you are not armed.” You then go to sleep. You will wake up to find out that your house has been emptied. You do not leave fire burning on your roof and go to sleep.

We teach people warfare, we don’t tell them that the devil has no power. We

make them” realise that he has power but that there is a Super Power that has the power that supercedes all other powers. We train them to know how to acquire and utilise the power of the Holy Spirit.

Beloved, the Lord is calling you into aggressive Christianity; He is looking for violent Christians. The battle is not for the chicken-hearted, neither is it for those who cannot fight, nor for the easily discouraged. He is looking for those who will slay giants; those who will go up to the gates of the enemy and fight until victory is won.

Jesus says; “Behold, I will build my church and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.”

This means that there is conflict and that we must flight.

Prayer points

1. My cry, provoke angelic violence, in the name of Jesus.

• Lord, do everything in Your power to bring me victory.

• Every jinx upon me, be broken, in the name of Jesus.

• Every spell upon me, be broken, in the name of Jesus.

• Let the rod of the wrath of the Lord come upon every enemy of my life, in the name of Jesus.
• Let the angels of God invade them and lead them into darkness, in the name of Jesus.
• Let the hand of the Lord turn against every enemy of my life day by day, in the name of Jesus.
• Let the flesh and skin Of every spiritual consultancy over my life become old and let their bones be broken, in the name of Jesus.