WHEN GOD FIGHTS FOR YOU | The Unconquerable Power By Dr. D. K. Olukoya

WHEN GOD FIGHTS FOR YOU

he Bible states very clearly that, God has provided an Tarmour for every believer. The weapons of our warfare are both defensive and offensive. God did not provide weapons  for  anybody  to  retire  spiritually  and  go  to permanent rest. The reality of the Christian, armour re-enforces the reality of spiritual battle. It pre-supposes that God  has  called  every  believer  to  a  battlefield.  If  the government of a country does not want its men to go to war against external or internal enemies, there won’t be any need to enlist them in the armed forces and give them weapons. The armour God has given you is to enable you to

fight and celebrate the victory of the cross.

Ephesians 6:11-13: Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.

The devil has his own weapon as well. The most potent of them is ignorance. The second most effective weapon of the enemy is discouragement. It is either people are ignorant of what they should know or they are discouraged in pursuing what they know. Many church-goers are not just ignorant, they are chronically ignorant as some people are surrounded by their enemies, but they don’t know. The Samsons are playing love upon the laps of the Delilahs and

these mighty men of unusual strength are not aware that every kiss brings them nearer to their grave. They do not know that every touch of the Delilahs is a seal on the contract to destroy them. They do not know that every bedroom conversation with. the Delilahs means a total loss of everything that makes them unique.

TOTAL COMMITMENT

Your determination to follow the Lord through in His battles must be total. Some people decamp to join forces with the enemies. After a while of being in the church, they feel like trying out some alternative powers because they are yet to get what they want from Jesus. You are a most miserable person, if you are in this category. In warfare, there are casualties, prisoners of war held captive and victorious soldiers. Be on the victorious side. Fight to win through the strength of the Lord.

There was a boxing match sometime ago in this country. It was between a Nigerian called Dick Tiger and Johnnie Fulmar. The Nigerian boxer won the match though, but he had a swollen face. His picture on the front page of the Nigeria Daily Times showed that he had it tough even though he won.

SECRETS OF SPIRITUAL WARFARE

What I have just said teaches a spiritual lesson. Don’t think the enemies would fold their arms, just watching you assault them. No, they too will fight back if peradventure they would win. The household enemies that had kept somebody in bondage for five years would pursue him, after he has prayed a fiery prayer of deliverance. Although he has come out of that bondage, they would pursue him to see if they could bring him back into bondage again.

Spiritual warfare does not have respect for age. You cannot outgrow it. Each stage of life has its own battles. I

have seen young men wasting away. And I have also seen old men wasting away. No matter your age in life, you have spiritual battles confronting you.

The most effective entry point of the enemy is through those closest to you. For this reason, prayers against household enemies should not be taken lightly. Another secret about spiritual warfare which you need to know is that, all serious Christians always attract satanic attention.

Some ministers of God had a chat with an old Pentecostal father sometime ago. They told the old man about their zeal to work for the Lord. And the old man told them the implication of a serious service for God. He tried to prepare their minds against the inevitable encounters they will face in the course of fulfilling their ministries. He said they should expect challenges from demonic personalities. So when they heard this, they told him they needed a rethink.

STRATEGIC SPIRITUAL WARFARE

There is a higher stage in spiritual contest. Although satan fights serious Christians, it gets to a point that any serious Christian becomes a terror to him. These are people known in heaven and in hell. When such warriors emerge, satan flees. Even when the devil fights them, he cannot win.

Deut 28:7: The LORD shall cause thine enemies that rise up against thee to be smitten before thy face: they shall come out against thee one way, and flee before thee seven ways.

Jer 1:19: And they shall fight against thee; but they shall not prevail against thee; for I am with thee, saith the LORD, to deliver thee.

The devil, does not grant freedom to his captives. It is therefore not enough that you are violent in the spirit against him, you must demand your freedom from him. No

matter how much good behaviour and proven character a prisoner exhibits, if his freedom is not pressed for and enforced legally, he will continue to serve his jail term. As a Christian, you are no longer a civilian. You are a spiritual soldier. And so you must endeavour to know your enemies very well.

Exodus 15:3: The LORD is a man of war: the LORD is his name.

THE LORD’S ARMY

God is the greatest fighter of all times. Be is a man of war. Everywhere in the Bible, God is revealed as a Master warrior. Belonging to His side automatically makes you a fellow warrior.

Psalms 24:8: Who is this King of glory? The LORD strong and mighty, the LORD mighty in battle.

Jesus Himself fought a terrible battle in the garden of Gethsemane. The prayer He prayed in that garden was concentrated at once against the entire forces of hell. The victory or defeat at Cal vary was to be decided once and for all.

Dialogue was useless in this discourse. Satan had summoned all the forces of hell to join their strength to defeat the plan of redemption and make Christ to forfeit Calvary. Jesus engaged them to the point of oozing sweat like drops of blood. Halleluyah! the victory is won forever. Jesus recognized the peak period of the hours of satanic operations. So don’t be ignorant of the activities in the invisible realm.

Luke 22:53: When I was daily with you in the temple, ye stretched forth no hands against me: but this is your hour, and the power of darkness.

As long as you are alive, you cannot but face spiritual battles. After Jesus fasted for forty days and forty nights, the devil came to tempt Him. Jesus overcame all the temptation and the devil left him for a season. He left Him to reorganize himself against the battle in Gethsemane. Spiritual discernment is necessary for success in spiritual battles. A brave spiritual soldier understands the times and the seasons of the enemies.

Matt 4:11: Then the devil leaveth him, and, behold, angels came and ministered unto him.

SEASONS OF SATANIC ATTACKS

The devil selects the seasons of his attacks. During the Gulf war, the Iraqi soldiers preferred a face-to-face attack on land in daytime. Immediately the allied forces know where their strength was, they started attacking them from the air at night. There is a season favorable to satan’s most ferocious attacks.

The devil usually chooses any of these times and seasons below to launch his attacks.

1. After A Breakthrough: After you have experienced a mighty breakthrough or miracle, a challenge, will come. The devil chooses a time most suitable for his attack to ensure he succeeds. He might not worry much about you in the midst of a large Christian gathering where prayers roll like thunder. Immediately you leave the place, he lays ambush for you. Satan deceived Eve when she was alone. He knew that her company with Adam was a time most unlikely for her to fall into the trap. Satan is a clever enemy. He will flee from you when you are on the mountain and wait for you to come down to the valley.

• When Your Faith Is Weak: Satan waits to attack you when your faith is weak. He stays away when you are

strong and vibrant in faith. But when something happens and the power of your faith grows weak, he uses the opportunity to attack you.

• When You Are Tired: Tiredness is natural after exercising yourself. It is not a sin to be tired. Jesus was passing through a village of the Samaritans, and sat on a well because He was tired. Anybody could be tired. That time of tiredness when you desire rest most, is when satan chooses to attack. He knows you will be most unwilling to stir up yourself and fight. Watch out when you are tired; The devil is not far.

• When Your Divine Promotion Is Near: People have found the worst and strangest things befalling them just about the time when their greatest and best desires is to come. This is the work of the devil

Bartimaeus was blind, begging alms by the roadside. One day when Jesus passed the road Bartimaeus was informed that the reason for the noise was because the Messiah was passing by. He raised his voice and shouted, “Have mercy on me”. Immediately he cried out, a number of counter voices attacked him saying, “Keep quiet”. The miracle of receiving his sight was just about to happen when he was attacked. Watch out! when something good is about to happen to you, the devil attacks to make you lose your miracles.

• At The Crossroads or Decision-Making: The enemies attack at the point of taking a very important decision of your life. There are decisions you take that are capable of making the rest of your life or marring it. The devil waits at the juncture where crucial decisions are to be taken. He launches attacks to influence people to take decision that will destroy them. Be very, very careful when you are deciding whom to marry. Mind your decision about ministry work and also be careful about your decision of location.

• During Spiritual Progress: One of the most suitable times of satanic attacks is when your spiritual progress is attracting attention. The enemies sent one hundred and two soldiers to arrest Elijah. Being a prophet of fire, he commanded fire from heaven to consume them. But in the case of Elisha who got the double portion of Elijah’s power, the enemies sent an entire army against him. The law of nature is that the higher you go, the cooler it becomes. Contrary to this, the higher you go spiritually, the hotter the battle becomes. Elisha’s double portion of anointing attracted a double number of enemies.

• At The Birth or A Destiny Child: The devil attacks when a child destined to be great, is about to be born. Jesus was attacked as a baby. Some children are under attack now because the enemies are aware of the glory of their future. When I was about writing my School Certificate Examination, some hot oil poured On my leg, and I couldn’t walk. To worsen the situation, I was attending a dead church where the source of that attack could not be discerned. That same time my arm was broken. It was held up in a plaster of paris. I was on my bed and in pains when the Lord spoke to me at night and said if I didn’t, start praying, my life and career would be destroyed.

• When A Blessing Is Coming: When a blessing is coming your way from the Lord, the devil is also set to attack. A blessing was coming to Daniel from the Lord, but the prince of Persia withstood it for twenty-one days.

• At The Commencement Of A New Ministry: The enemy attacks when you are about to begin a new ministry for God. Satan left everything he was doing to attack Jesus at the commencement of His ministry.

• After Attacking The Enemies: Satan launches a counter-attack after you have just plundered his kingdom.

GOD’S WARFARE METHODS.

God bas various ways through which He fights His enemies. He has the strangest and most miraculous ways of fighting. Let me just give you some of the divine ways of warfare.

1. By Angelic Ministry: During the reign of Hezekiah, the Assyrian army besieged the people of God. God sent only one angel to fight the enemies. The angel killed one hundred and eighty five thousand Assyrian soldiers before daybreak. The few survivors woke up to find a dead army spread out on the ground. God can send His angels to pursue, to kill, to destroy, to ambush, and to arrest your enemies.

• By a Divide And Fight Rule: God can look down from heaven and partition the unity of your enemies, such that, they get busy fighting one another while you are singing praises to Him. God spoke in Isaiah that He was going to set the Egyptians against themselves. This methods is called divide and fight rule. It is wonderful to watch your enemies face one another in their plan to attack you.

• By Improving Normal Skills: David was naturally skillful at throwing stones with a sling. The armour of Saul was too heavy for him because he never used or tested them. He decided to use the sling and the stone, a weapon he was already skillful in handling. But when he released the stone, God took it over and directed it to the forehead of Goliath. God can fight for you by using your skills and gifts to deliver you.

• By Converting The Enemy: God can fight for you by converting your enemies to become your friends. The moment your enemy becomes your friend, he can no longer attack you with his weapons, but has to look for a different target to attack. The fire of king

Nebuchadnezzerar did not have power over Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego. The king called out to them that they should come out of the burning furnace. He announced to everyone that only the God of these three Hebrews should be worshipped. He became their friends and began to use the resources of his kingdom to publicize their God.

• By Using Unusual Weapon: God has a lot of unusual weapons. He used the shepherd’s rod in the hands of Moses to destroy the army of Egypt. He used the jawbone of an ass in the hands of Samson to destroy the Philistines. He can fight for you by using unusual weapons against the adversaries.

• By Throwing Hailstones: Some soldiers from the camp of the enemies were escaping slaughter from the army of Israel, when God caught up with them, hailstones rained down from heaven. They were crushed to death. God has a reserve of stones and other elements of creation in the invisible realm. He can release hailstones to crush all your enemies in their secret places.

• By Thunder: The Lord can discomfit a whole army by sending thunder upon them. Thunder rolls at His command. And when His anger is full, He expresses it in voices of many thunders.

• Earthquake: God used this method of fighting the enemies much in the Old Testament. Nevertheless, to show the world that He can still use it again, He sent an earthquake to the prison where Paul and Silas were kept and the prison doors gave way. God can choose to plunder all the barricades around you by sending an earthquake.

• By Darkness: The Egyptians can never, forget this experience. Their day suddenly turned into very thick darkness-the kind they had never experienced all their lives. All human activities during this dark hour of Egypt

was totally paralyzed. God can paralyse the activities of your enemies by enveloping them in a darkness so thick as to hinder their operations.

1. By Opening The Earth: God can speak to the ground from above and it will open its mouth to swallow up the enemies. Bible history, does not forget Korah, Dathan and Abiram as the first human beings that the earth swallowed up alive. They descended into hell with those that were loyal to their hypocrisy. God can still do that again.

1. By Fire: The psalmist wrote and said that the Lord will arise to fight His enemies. He said that a tempestuous fire will go before Him to devour His adversaries. So the Lord can fight your enemies by sending down fire upon them.

1. By Sending Spiritual Worms: The Bible describes hell as a place of torment, a lake of everlasting fire where there are worms that do not die. Only spiritual worms can exist in the fire of hell. God can send spiritual worms to devour your enemies. He sent worms upon Herod as seen in the Acts of the Apostles.

1. By Ordaining Terrifying Noises: God can make your enemies to hear terrifying noises, which can lead to their stampede and destruction. He sent terrifying noises against the enemies to turn around the economic situation of Samaria overnight.

God is greatly to be feared in battle. I congratulate you if you are on His side already. If not, you belong to a dangerous camp by choosing to remain with satan.

HOW TO DELIVER UP YOUR ENEMIES

1. Identify The Source of Your Problems: Until you tell a doctor your complain, he wouldn’t know which test to

carry out on you. You need to identify the specific area of your life where satan is inflicting punishment on you. Look at your health, career, marriage, ministry, business, travels, etc. Identify the source of the problem.

• Call It By Name: Call a spade a spade. Call your problem by its proper name. A stomach pain is not the same problem as a runny stomach. The problem of a brother was mentioned by the word of knowledge in one of our meetings. Because it was important, he was asked to lay his hands on where the problem was, but he laid hands on his thigh. There was nothing wrong with his thigh and so, he missed his miracles as a result of shyness.

• Intense Hatred: Have an intense hatred for the things that open the door for the enemy to strike.

Ps 139:21-22: Do not I hate them, O LORD, that hate thee?

and am not I grieved with those that rise up against thee?

Psalm 139:21-22: I hate them with perfect hatred: I count them mine enemies.

• Renounce And Reject: as soon you identify what opens the door for the enemies to attack you, let your perfect hatred for it lead you to renounce and reject it. Put it off outright. Don’t be polite to satan. Command him to leave at once.

• Break Evil Association: Break every satanic and evil association to keep your blessings. Separate yourself from occultic churches, immoral literatures, idols etc. Break every previous link you had with the devil.

• Grow Violent: In the kingdom of God, violence is allowed. The very condition for survival in the kingdom is violence in the spirit. Be violent against your problem. Others may want to keep their problems by refusing to be violent. Dare to

stand alone and be different. Physically, violent people are seen as dangerous and men do everything to curb their violence. Otherwise they flee from them.

PRAYER POINTS:

1. I summon every power, that has done me wrong and I issue judgment upon you all in the name of Jesus.
2. I command all my oppressors, to fall by their own counsel, in the name of Jesus.

• All my chained blessings, be released in the name of Jesus.

• I refuse to be paralysed physically or spiritually in the name of Jesus.
• Let every problem, attached to my name, be revoked in the name of Jesus.

• Oh Lord, reveal to me every secret of my life that I need to know in the name of Jesus.

• Every wicked voice, calling my name, be silent in the name of Jesus.
• Every physical and spiritual poison, I reject you in the name of Jesus.

• (place one hand on your head and the other on your chest. You are going to stand against the marks of the witches, the wizards and the wicked men). Every mark of the witches, the wizards and the wicked men, in any department of my life, be robbed off in the name of Jesus.

1. I stand against, faith destroyer, in the name of Jesus.

1. I stand against, the spirit of ignorance, in the name of Jesus.

1. I stand against, the spirit of strife, in the name of Jesus.

1. I stand against, every spirit working against love in my life in the name of Jesus.
2. I paralyse, every evil observer of my life, in the name of Jesus.

1. Let every organ in my body, that is not functioning well, receive divine touch in the name of Jesus.
2. Every secret, about the strong man, be revealed to me by the Holy Spirit in the name of Jesus.

1. All the blocked way of success, be opened in the name of Jesus.

1. Let favour, bombard my life from every direction in the name of Jesus.
2. Every evil attachment, to my place of birth, be nullified in the name of Jesus.

• Oh Lord, anoint me for supernatural breakthroughs in the name of Jesus.

• All the power, chasing blessings away from me, be roasted in the name of Jesus.
• I neutralize, every power converting my beneficiaries to enemies in the name of Jesus.

• You household enemies, I disarm you in the name of Jesus.

• All the troublers of Israel in my life, be troubed in the name of Jesus.
• Let my enemies begin to pitch their tents against one another in the name of Jesus.

• You devil, every good thing you have stolen from me, I command you to return them in the name of Jesus.

• Pick one particular problem in your life and mentioned it seven times. Repeat the process two more times. Then command it to loose its hold upon your life in the name of Jesus.