THE INVISIBLE CHAINS | Dealing With Hidden Curses by Dr. D.K Olukoya

THE INVISIBLE CHAINS

This message will affect your life and destiny for good. There are certain spiritual facts which you will do well to consider. These facts will lead you to the mountain top of victory.

IMPORTANT SPIRITUAL FACTS

Life’s problems are like trees, they also have roots. Therefore cutting the branches and pruning the leaves does not solve the problem. The only solution lies in attacking the problem from the root.

There is nobody without enemies. God has enemies. The Bible says “Let God arise, let his enemies be scattered. Let them also that hate him nee before him” (Psalm 68:1).

Even the Lord Jesus Christ when He was on earth had enemies. It was they who crucified Him. The Bible goes further to identify enemies of the cross.

Many battles are lost because of lack of understanding of the strength of the enemy. Lack of the understanding of the strategy and the weapons of the enemy has accounted for the loss of many battles.

Evil words are fertilizers which aid the growth of evil plants.

Negative words act like fertilizers to firm up our enemies’ strength.

For the purposes of clarity, there are three classes of evil words:

Evil words that others spoke against us that were never cancelled.

Evil words which we have spoken against other people.

Evil words which we spoke against ourselves.

Unless you deal with the effect of these evil words, you may be responsible for adding fertilizers to the evil plants being sown by the enemy.

Curses are one of the main weapons used by satanic agents against God’s people.

A brother once shared a very powerful testimony. A child of the devil combined the power of curses with witchcraft burial and used both as the weapons of attack against this brother.

What did the satanic agent do?

He wrote terrible curses on a piece of cloth, dug the ground and buried it. Thank God the brother was connected to the power of God who answereth by fire that was how he became victorious.

Lack of the understanding of the principles of spiritual warfare will lead to defeat. It could even lead to untimely death or marital turbulence.

A lot of strange things are happening.

A particular man did not know that he had been earmarked for destruction by evil powers. He thought it was business as usual until he woke up one day only to discover that part of his hair was cut off by satanic agents. Initially, he tried to dismiss the incident by a wave of the hand then another thing happened to him. Each time he slept at night, a light complexioned woman would come to commit immorality with him.

Again, he decided to ignore the incident calling it hallucination. He decided to swallow valium tablets to ward off unnecessary hallucination.

The man happened to have a praying wife who shielded him a little bit. Before the man could understand what was happening to him, the wife decided to pack out in some strange circumstances. This worsened the man’s situation.

As if that was not enough, he began to suffer from diabetes. Within a short period, he also developed hypertension. Again, he found an explanation for those ailments, he simply stated that the sicknesses were hereditary.

By the time he realised that he was at the centre of a very hot battle, it was too late. He lost out. Although the man was religious, he was not born again. Hence he knew nothing about the principles of spiritual warfare. He was quite popular in his church, being the patron of the ladies’ guild society. Members of the society could not rescue him when eaters of flesh and drinkers of blood were feasting on him.

A lot of religious people are languishing in the sea of life’s battles just because their hands are yet to be taught to fight and fingers to war.

The most dangerous place to be in spiritual warfare is the middle of the road. By this, you are placing your life under a risk if you remain in that position. The middle of the road position is most injurious spiritually and physically. You don’t really belong to the camp of the enemy and you do not have the power of God.

Once powers of darkness attack you, you will not be able to muster the support of heavenly host.

You will end up being a victim of bullets from both camps.

If you allow the devil to control your will, he will control your destiny. The more you delay in acting on the directives given to you by God, the more confused you would become.

I hope someone who is busy running away from the call of God is reading this.

When God gives you direction, everything would be very clear at the beginning, but the more you revel in disobedience and rebellion the more the vision will begin to disappear. God may even decide to leave you to follow the dictates of your depraved mind. This may lead to irreparable loss and damages.

The spiritual disease called worry or anxiety is one of the strongest agents of defeat. Simply put, worry is the triumph of fear over faith. If your life is ruled and controlled by worry or anxiety, victory is already lost.

The problem of most people today can be traced to the kind of friends they keep. Show me your friends and I will show you a candidate of victory or defeat.

Unfortunately, many people are blind spiritually. The moment God open’s your eyes you will discover that the people you call childhood friends are the strongmen attached to your life by the devil.

Unfriendly friends are many. True friends are scarce. We have been told the truth. “And a man’s foes shall be they of his own household” (Matthew 10:36).

Therefore it is better to be alone than to keep the wrong company.

The best formula for failure is to decide to please everybody. The Bible says “Woe unto you, when all men shall speak well of you! for so did their fathers to the false prophets (Luke 6:26).

Again, the Bible says “Not with eye-service, as men-pleasers, but as the servants of Christ doing the will of God from the heart” (Ephesians 6:6).

Those who please men will always displease God. The Bible says. “For do I now persuade men, or God? Or do I seek to please men? for I yet pleased men, I should not be the servants of Christ (Galatians 1:10).

Compromise will lead to defeat and failure. If you try to please everybody around you, you will end up displeasing God and living in the valley of defeat.

One of the biggest lies of the devil is to state that things or situations will never change.

I want you to keep these principles in your mind. They will be of immense benefits to you as you fight the battles of life. Soldiers are normally taught basic principles of physical warfare. They are taught things like objectives for warfare. Importance of using offensive strategy. The importance of intelligent reports.

Now let me give you a prayer point which you must use on daily bases.

Let your arrow of deliverance go out on my behalf today and do the work of deliverance in my life in the name of Jesus.

You devil, hear me and hear me again, that thing which you hate to see happen in my life will happen today, in the name of Jesus.

Every problem with stubborn roots, receive the axe of God in the name of Jesus.

Every Christian is expected to get involved in spiritual warfare. Those who fold their hands will become casualties on the field of battle.

The devil is a restless fighter. He has vowed that he would never give us any breathing space. A Christian without adequate knowledge of spiritual warfare becomes a prey in the hands of the enemy and is reduced to chewing sticks in the mouth of the enemy.

It is unfortunate however, that many modem day Christians know next to nothing about the power of God. This is the lamentation of the scriptures “Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof from such, turn away” (II Timothy 3:5).

A lot of people today only hold on to empty religion. They lack the evidence which accompanies a glorious contact with the powers of the Almighty.

Life is a battle. You must fight if you must survive. You must understand the principles of warfare and fight back. You must identify the powers in-charge of life’s battles and overcome them. You have to fight in order to defend yourself and retrieve what the enemy has stolen.

A lot of people who are going through satanic attacks are obvious of what is happening to them. Such people cannot suffer apparent losses because they are destitute of the good things of life. They are yet to acquire what belongs to them. It is as if the devil has nothing to steal from their lives I

One of the most wicked strategies used by the devil against us is what I call hidden secret dangers.

How does the devil use this strategy?

He tries to hide the problem. He also tries to conceal and hide his identity.

Satanic agents are very smart. They try to programme dangerous problems into the lives of their victims and wait for a moment of weakness in the victims’ lives. Then they will spring a surprise. The problem will surface. This kind of problem thrives best at a time which a song writer called the ‘unguarded hour’.

Today, Christian believers need a new orientation. The theories of yester years will simply not work today. Traditional view points have proved ineffective.

Beloved, evil spirits do not always appear ugly and fearful.

Satanic agents operate secretly. The best environment in which they perform their tasks is where darkness prevails. The enemies of our souls function effectively when they are able to carry out their assignments in the secret. They are never in a hurry. They patiently bury problems deep into people’s lives and wait for the time of maturity.

Satanic agents can spend ten years incubating one single problem. They concentrate on that problem and watch it wreck the victim’s life. Such problems cannot be handled by positive confessions and snap short prayers.

Problems that are deeply rooted in nature cannot be removed by casual prayers. Such problems require the force of aggressive prayers and constant prayer bombardments before they are removed.

Ordinary problems require ordinary prayers. Problems that are barely on the surface are the only ones that can be removed through ordinary prayers.

But how do you handle stubborn problems? How can you deal with an invisible enemy who knows minutest details of your life? How would you fight against an enemy who sees you but cannot be seen by you? This is why I have always prescribed aggressive prayers, as the only solution to life’s problems that are stubborn in nature.

The rules of wrestling the control of all territories which the enemy has taken over in your life off his hands lies on you. You must eject all wrong occupants and possess your possession.

To become a winner in spiritual warfare you must observe the rules of the battles, you need to follow the guidelines which will guarantee your safety and victory. God wants us to win. Hence, He has given us a blue print for energy victorious at the end of every battle.

Below is God’s blue print for your survival and triumph.

Recognise the source of your power.

It is interesting to know that our power comes from the headquarters of power in the universe. The headquarters of power is located in the third heavens. If you do not recognise your source of power and you go ahead to confront your enemy you may land yourself in trouble.

Learn how to use your own weapons.

God has given every believer a line of powerful spiritual weapons. If you do not make use of your weapons, you are courting defeat and disaster.

For example, believers who fail to use the weapon of aggressive prayers will experience defeat each time the enemy attacks them. God has given you powerful weapons. Use them on the field of battle, and you will always win.

You must identify your enemies.

Identify the spiritual personalities behind what you are going through. Locate the root cause of the problems, failure to do this will make you an aimless drifter.

A well-trained soldier will never shoot shadows. Such well trained personnel always direct their bullets at the target. A blind mark man will hit the wrong target. Such a soldier may even shoot members of his own battalion.

Know the weakness of your enemies.

You must come to the realisation of the fact that satan, the leader of the enemies’ camp, is limited. Two thousand years ago, he was defeated on the cross of calvary. It is an open secret that satan and all his hosts are fighting a war which they had already lost. Satan’s head is already bruised. He suffered a fatal blow on the cross where Jesus declared “It is finished”. It was not done in secret. The Bible even states that Jesus made an open show of the devil. The cross has remained satan’s undoing.

Thus the wound on his bruised head can never be healed.

Therefore, it is important that you know the limitation and the weakness of your enemy. There is no point fighting a battle when you don’t know the weaknesses of your enemy.

You must be battle ready, be it in the morning, afternoon and night.

The devil never gives notice to his victims. He will never tell you to get ready for him. He doesn’t give such notices. He tries most on surprise attacks. This explains why you must be ready for battle every moment of the day. To be ready at all times, you must be free from sin.

If you are conscious of the fact that you engage in warfare at all times, you will never commit any sin that will weaken your position. As soon as the enemy recognises any weak spot in your territory, he will move in swiftly in order to take over. Be watchful and remain at alert.

Rejoice and celebrate the victory which Christ has given you.

Don’t allow the devil to attack you with a melancholic frame of mind. Rejoice, the joy of the Lord is your strength.

Every sincere minister will tell you that there are stubborn cases. If you have ministered to a thousand of people as God has graciously granted me the grace to do, you would have discovered that one or two cases proved stubborn and resistant to prayer.

When such people come to you and you give them some prayer programmes to do, things may work smoothly until they reach a dead end. What will surprise you as a minister is that the kind of prayer points which have led many into their breakthroughs will just not work for them when they reach a particular point. You will discover at that point that an invisible barrier has been mounted against their lives.

Such people are generally sincere and dedicated. In fact, they are more hardworking and dedicated than those who are making fantasy progress. They spend time carrying out the prayer programmes assigned to them.

Yet, they are embittered when they discover that they are unable to get results. This experience is both frustrating to the minister and the ‘counsellee’. A compassionate minister will wonder why such brick walls are encountered by the counsellee. If you decide to ask God to show you the secret behind such abnormal situations, the Lord will open your eyes and you will recognise the activities of some powerful forces that do not operate according to natural laws.

At that point, you will come to the understanding of the fact that many people are operating under hidden curses. These hidden curses can constitute great barriers to healing, prosperity, spiritual growth, marital breakthroughs, academic success and promotion.

Hidden curses can hinder several people from being healed. A minister who is worth his salt will know that the first thing to do in a healing meeting is to break the curses of infirmity. If is the curse of infirmity is in place and you continue to shout your voice hoarse without breaking the curse, no single healing will take place.

The prayer of healing will not work if the victim is still under the umbrella of infirmity. In the same vein, the prayer of prosperity will not work until the curse of poverty is broken. Moreover, marital problems will not be solved until anti-marriage forces are paralysed.

Even if you call all the men of God in the world and the parents of both the husband and the wife to a peace meeting, there would be no solution until anti-marriage forces are dealt with.

Hidden curses are hidden as the name implies. Such curses generally come into people’s lives when the victims least expect them.

The curses are generally enforced by the spirit assigned to effect it. They stay in hiding and carry out clever operations until their victims are led to the point of destruction.

WHY DO THESE CURSES REMAIN CONCEALED?

The powers behind them generally try to keep their activities concealed, since they know that the moment you detect their hiding places, you will employ the totality of your strength to dislodge them. They know that if you ever find out their places of abode you would muster all your strength and use all your weapons against them. You would surely chase them out of their hiding places. The scripture did not say in vain strangers shall submit themselves unto me as soon as they hear, they shall be obedient unto me. Strangers shall fade away, and they shall be afraid out of their close places (II Samuel 22:45-46).

Why would the strangers run? It is because they are challenged.

WHAT THEN ARE HIDDEN CURSES?

Let us examine an example in the scriptures.

And Joshua adjured them at that time, ‘saying, cursed be the man before the Lord, that riseth up and buildeth this city Jericho. He shall lay the foundation thereof in his first born and in his youngest son

shall he set up the gates of it (Joshua 6:26).

Jericho constituted an obstacle to the people of God and it was pulled down supernaturally. Joshua decided to do something in order to ensure that the walls would never be built again. Joshua issued a curse upon Jericho immediately it was destroyed.

It appeared to be a hidden curse but it worked. The Bible says:

1 Kings 16:34: In his days did Hiel the Bethelite build Jericho: he laid the foundation thereof in Abiram his firstborn, and set up the gates thereof in his youngest son Segub, according to the word of the Lord, which he spake by Joshua the son of Nun.

The curse issued by Joshua continued to take effect five hundred years after it has been issued. He lost his first son at the commencement of the building and lost his last son at the time of completion, Every thing happened according to the dictates of the curse. No prophet or deliverance ministration could have saved Hiel and his family members without the appropriate knowledge of the terms of the curse, The problem would have been solved if the curse had been cancelled by someone with Joshua’s level of prophetic anointing. The prophet would have succeeded if he was able to detect and cancel the five hundred years curse.

Elisha came to Jericho and the problem of a curse resurfaced again.

2 Kings 2:20-22: And he said, Bring me a new cruse. and put salt therein. And they bring it to him.

²¹And he went forth unto the spring of the waters, and cast the salt in there, and said, Thus saith the Lord. I have healed these waters; there shall not be from thence any more death or barren land. ²²So the waters were healed unto this day, according to the saying of Elisha which he spake.

Elisha understood the crux of the matter. He knew that Jericho was under a curse. He applied salt at the source of the killer water and the curse became cancelled.

My prayer for you as you read this book is that the Spirit of the living God will put divine salt on the foundation of your life, in the name of Jesus.

Salt has preservative properties. It prevents food from getting spoilt, it is also used for seasoning food. It also stands for happiness and salvation. Again, it stands for eternal life.

The Bible even states that believers are meant to be the salt of the earth. Salt is also a purifier. But when salt goes bad, it becomes useless. Inferior salt can be used as fertilizers.

Jericho had lost its salt. This had to be replaced by Elijah, salt is indeed powerful.

At this point, I want you to close your eyes and take this crucial prayer point.

Any power that has removed the salt of my foundation, I command a replacement in the name of Jesus.

The hidden curse that was issued on Jericho removed the salt that was placed on the foundation of the city. Hence, everything in that city lacked every benefit and properties of salt. Likewise, hidden curses remove salt from people’s lives’. Jesus said

And whosoever shall not receive you, nor hear your words, when ye depart out of that house or city, shake off the dust of your feet (Matthew 10:14).

A whole country, or a city or a village can come under a curse. The fact that you are a Christian cannot exempt you from such a general curse.

For example, preachers of the gospel once shook off the dust of their feet as a sign of cursing the city. You are under the curse placed on that village even if you are a Christian. You have to personally cancel the effect of such a curse.

There are lots of general curses in many communities and localities.

For example, many of us often wonder why several communities are sold out to polygamy. The reason is not far-fetched. Such communities are obviously under terrible foundational curses. That is why, those who come from such communities battle with sexual sins.

We know many localities in this country where polygamy and having concubines are the order of the day. Men from those areas are never satisfied with one woman. It is because the place is under a curse.

I know a community in this country where almost every woman from that place ends up having raw deals in their marriages. Their husbands would probably not stay with them or die prematurely. If you come from such an environment, you have to go through deliverance in order to set yourself free.

A lot of people in Africa come from communities where twin babies are killed because such deliveries are viewed as abomination. No doubt, the blood of such innocent babies has continued to cry against members of the community.

Worse still, are communities where blood of ministers of the gospel was shared in the days preceding civilisation. If you are a believer, you must remove yourself of under the umbrella from such a curse.

THE CHARACTERISTICS OF HIDDEN CURSES

How can we identify curses that are cleverly cancelled by the devil?

You must note the following:

1. When your efforts and total input yield no result.

• When things that have no natural explanation continue to happen to you.

• When you go through mysterious experiences.

• When you notice that you are always moving backward instead of moving forward.

• When those who are inferior to you are being made superior officers.

• When you experience loss of memory and you are unable to recollect simple things.

• When men and women who are supposed to be winners are failing woefully.

• When you are governed and controlled by powers that are contrary to your own will.

• When unexplainable hatred comes up between husband and wife. An incident took place about thirty years ago.

A couple dragged themselves to court in order to sue for divorce. The husband and the wife were seventy-five and seventy years respectively. The preceding judge was confused. He simply asked to know how old the marriage was. They told him that they have been married for forty years.

The judge simply said,

“Why did you wait this long before suing for divorce?”

They unanimously declared,

“Judge, that’s none of your business. All we want you to do is to dissolve the marriage.

The children were also in court. They told the judge that they were not in support of the divorce.

The father angrily snarled at them.

“If you dare oppose the suit, I will place curses upon all of you”. This is a classical example of hidden curses. The aged couple had suppressed a marital curse for forty years.

• When a brilliant student suddenly becomes dull.

• When a child that was previously gentle and obedient suddenly becomes stubborn.

1. When a rich person suddenly becomes poor.

1. When uncontrollable temper suddenly surfaces.

1. When you pray for the baptism of the Holy Ghost and nothing happens.

1. When problems begin to multiply.

1. When you continue to battle with periodic problems.

1. When you experience sicknesses that are associated with dry or wet seasons.

1. When trials refuse to come to an end.

1. When you begin to dream of communicating with the dead.

For example, if a particular dead person continues to run after you in your dream, such a person would have issued a curse against you.

1. When some strange dreams always precede the beginning of certain problems in your life.

1. When you are fed by satanic agents in your dream.

• When you experience these and other symptoms, you are under a hidden curse. Hidden curses can also be regarded as the hidden chain.

Each time you try to move ahead, the invisible chain will pull you back. You may not understand what is happening but the invisible chain is terrible.

HOW THEN CAN WE DEAL WITH THE INVISIBLE CHAIN?

You must destroy the legal ground upon which the evil chain or the hidden curse is established.

Challenge your body, soul and spirit with the fire of the Holy Ghost and the blood of Jesus.

Continue to bombard the hiding place of the curses as well as the chains. This will frighten the strangers out of their hiding places. The devil knows that many Christians lack the ability to persist in prayer. He knows that few Christians can pray about the same subject for more than two hours.

The devil has taught his agents how to endure the heat of the fire of the Holy Ghost just in case believers get tired too soon. When your challenge is weak. there will be no reaction. However, persistence brings results.

Issue aggressive commands. Order them to go and never to return.

Revoke the curse and bind all the spirits that are connected to it. Remember, every curse is enforced by a spirit.

Replace curses with blessings.

Let me say a word here concerning how to challenge and deal with hidden curses. Many people give up, when they are almost becoming free from hidden curses. Never give up.

Pray with violent faith. Pray aggressively and tirelessly. Place yourself under the protective shield of the blood of Jesus. Challenge hidden curses with the fire of God. Challenge every invisible chain with the name of Jesus. I challenge you to pray from the bottom of your spirit.

PRAYER POINTS

1. Any stranger in any area of my life, flee, in the name of Jesus.

• I release myself from all hidden curses, in the name of Jesus.

• Drawers of spiritual salt, release the salt of my life, in the name of Jesus.