THE MYSTERY OF DOMESTIC BATTLES | Family Deliverance by Dr. D. K. Olukoya

THE MYSTERY OF DOMESTIC BATTLES

Domestic wickedness is one battle of life that is hard to fight. You can fight and win any battle with ease, but when a battle emanates from the home front, it is hard to win.

Sometimes, when somebody is in the cage of domestic wickedness, all the good advice given would be turned down. Such a person would never go to the correct place for prayer. This is part of domestic manipulation.

Now let us focus our attention on domestic battles

THE HABITATIONS OF CRUELTY

The battle of life could be fought at domestic levels. Domestic here, relates to the family or household. This implies internal affairs. It refers to home-made battles. This kind of battle is terrible. It is stubborn, merciless and hazardous.

I came across a sad case not too long ago. A young man had a dream. In that dream his uncle vomited seven snakes. The snakes landed on the floor and started pursuing the brother. The brother ran but to no avail. In the dream, the snakes started biting him at different parts of the body.

When he woke up from his dream, he was still feeling the pain. By the evening of the same day he found himself in the hospital. When the doctor tested the young man it was discovered that his kidney had packed up. This is an example of domestic wickedness.

One day, I felt terribly grieved in my spirit when I came across a very bad case in the area of domestic wickedness. A woman dragged her husband to

me with his daughter. She said. “Pastor, look at this wicked man” I asked the woman, “What happened?” The man said that I should also ask his wife.

The wife said, “I will not say it he must say it. Eventually, the man opened his mouth and said, Pastor “I am the one who gave birth to this daughter, and I am the same person who made her pregnant, is anything wrong in that? That was a first class scandal. The young girl had a domestic enemy; her father. She became a victim of domestic wickedness.

THE EVIL FOUNDATION

I want you to understand that every household has its own foundation. Every household has its own culture. Every household has its own language. Every household has its own pattern. Every household also has its own enemies.

Your family has its enemies. The enemy of an individual family becomes part of the domestic enemy. Every family has its own legacy. Every household also has its traditional religious past, which most often, is idolatory. This situation remains so until one member in the family tree is born again.

We are unlikely to find people whose grandfather and great-grandfathers were born again. What we are likely to find are those whose grandfathers or great-grandfathers were idolatrous and wicked.

Fetish priests and idol worshippers are the ancestors of most Africans.

For example, Abraham came out of the family of idol worshippers. Although Abraham came out of an idolatrous family, his descendants were still influenced by the idolatrous background of his parents. That was why the household of Jacob was still carrying idols, inspite of God’s covenant with Abraham.

Genesis 35:1-4: And God said unto Jacob, Arise, go up to Bethel, and dwell there: and make there an altar unto God, that appeared unto thee when thou fleddest from the face of Esau thy brother. Then Jacob said unto his household, and to all that were with him, Put away the strange gods that are among you, and be clean, and change your garments: And let us arise,

and go up to Bethel; and I will make there an altar unto God, who answered me in the day of my distress, and was with me in the way which I went. And they gave unto Jacob all the strange gods which were in their hand, and all their earrings which were in their ears; and Jacob hid them under the oak which was by Shechem.

David’s prayers were very acidic. His prayers were potent because David experienced domestic wickedness. This is one of the terrible things that could happen to a person. This might be one of the reasons you have been suffering all this while.

When you battle with domestic wickedness, it is as if a dog is chasing its own tail. Or it is like someone who is thirsty but was given poisoned-water to drink. Or, someone who desires to marry but the person presented to him is a serpent. It is also like sucking the breast of one’s mother whereas the milk in the breast is deadly poison.

Domestic wickedness can be likened to a sun that heats by day or the moon that smites by night. When you fight an enemy that is likened to the sun, you are contending with an enemy that declares that he is your enemy before attacking you. But when you are fighting enemies that look like the moon then you are fighting unfriendly friends.

Many people today, are facing various categories of domestic wickedness.

There is ancestral domestic wickedness. There are generational domestic problems.

There is residential domestic wickedness. This is a type of wickedness which is known and recognised before someone gets to a particular place.

There are also domestic strongmen. There is parental domestic wickedness too.

There are siblings’ domestic wickedness.

There is polygamous domestic witchcraft. Many polygamists go into witchcraft in order to protect their children.

Husbands can be sponsored as evil agents against their wives and wives can be sponsored as evil agents against their husbands.

There are external aggressions of domestic wickedness.

There is also domestic wickedness that has to do with strange children in the family.

There is domestic wickedness in which parental battles are transferred to the children.

There are also acts of domestic wickedness from step-parents.

There are spirits whose duty is to revenge domestic wickedness. These spirits want to retaliate.

There is domestic wickedness sponsored by polluted family houses where destinies of people are being smashed.

There is domestic wickedness emanating from soliciting evil assistance.

All these are sources for receiving attacks from the quarters of domestic wickedness.

The Scripture has clearly stated that we should never toy with these kind of attacks.

EXAMPLES IN THE SCRIPTURE

Let us now examine scriptural references on domestic or household wickedness.

 Eve and Adam

In this case, the devil used a woman, Eve, to lead a family into bondage.

Genesis 3:1: Now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?

 Cain and Abel

In this case, Cain killed his brother.

Genesis 4:8: And Cain talked with Abel his brother: and it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him.

 Lot and Abraham

Here, Lot gave Abraham a lot of problems.

Genesis 13:7-9: And there was a strife between the herdmen of Abram’s cattle and the herdmen of Lot’s cattle: and the Canaanite and the Perizzite dwelled then in the land.

And Abram said unto Lot, Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between me and thee, and between my herdmen and thy herdmen; for we be brethren. Is not the whole land before thee? separate thyself, I pray thee, from me: if thou wilt take the left hand. then I will go to the right; or if thou depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left.

 Esau and Jacob

Genesis 27:19-23: And Jacob said unto his father, I am Esau thy firstborn; I have done according as thou badest me: arise, I pray thee, sit and eat of my venison, that thy soul may bless me. And Isaac said unto his son, How is it that thou hast found it so quickly, my son? And he said, Because the Lord thy God brought it to me. And Isaac said unto Jacob, Come near, I pray thee, that I may feel thee, my son, whether thou be my very son Esau or not. And Jacob went near unto Isaac his father; and he felt him, and said, The voice is Jacob’s voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau. And he discerned him not, because his hands were hairy, as his brother Esau’s hands: so he blessed him.

 Joseph

Genesis 37:18-20: And when they saw him afar off, even before he came near unto them, they conspired against him to slay him. And they said one to another, Behold, this dreamer cometh. Come now therefore, and let us slay him, and cast him into some pit, and we will say, Some evil beast hath devoured him: and we shall see what will become of his dreams.

 Job

Job’s wife said, “curse God and die” Someone as close to Job as his wife was almost used by the devil to derail

Job’s destiny.

The Bible says, “And a man’s foes shall be they of his own household” (Matthew 10:36).

For anyone with a colourful destiny, it is certain that household wickedness will rear up its ugly head against such a person. The deeper the satanic hook someone swallowed. the more difficult it would be to extract the hook. That is why the level of prayer needed by some set of people may be higher than others.

Every family with potentials, generally have hidden resident destroyers. Everyone has a case file in the spirit realm. Some people’s files keep passing from one agent of darkness to another. Wickedness plans aimed at destroying lives and destinies are often secretly concluded by household wickedness.