Biblical Principles of Long Life - Written By Dr D.K Olukoya
In the last few years, we have witnessed or heard
about a lot of tragedy. People that were expected to be alive were dead. A lot
of young people were dead and some of them were born again. Is it God’s will?
No. We must also realize that the devil has some powers to kill but the only
strongest power is the power of God. Just as the Bible has principles for long
life, it also outlines what could cause short life.
God’s original plan for man was life not death,
health not sickness, energy not weariness and radiance not dullness. So, if
Brother Adam had not sinned, he would have lived forever. The Bible emphasizes
that God is not interested in short life. One man of God said that it was a
tragedy for a plant to die at the seed stage because it could not become a
plant. A situation where young people are dying shows that a lot of things are
going wrong.
Deuteronomy
6:1-2: “Now these are the commandments, the statutes,
and the judgments, which the Lord your God commanded to teach you, that ye
might do them in the land whither ye go to possess it. That thou mightiest fear
the Lord thy God to keep all his statutes and his commandments which I command
thee, thou, and thy son, and thy son’s son, all the days of thy life; and that
thy days may be prolonged.”
Here,
we can see that God is not interested in short life. Job 5:26 also says, “Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, like as a shock of
corn cometh in his season.”
Proverbs
3:3: “My son, forget not my law; but let thine heart keep my
commandments. For length of days, and long life, and peace, shall they add to
thee. Let not mercy and truth forsake thee, bind them about thy neck; write
them upon the table of thine heart”.
Proverb
9:11: “For by me thy days shall be multiplied, and the years of thy life
shall be increased.”
Proverbs
10:27: “The fear of the Lord prolongeth days: but the
years of the wicked shall be shortened.”
God
is not interested in short life for His children.
Proverbs
16:31: “The hoary head is a crown of glory, if it be
found in the way of righteousness.”
That is, if you hair is gray it is a crown of glory if you are in the way of
righteousness.
Psalm
90:10: “The days of our years are three score years
and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their
strength labour and sorrow. For it is soon cut off, and we fly away.”
This
verse is a curse and not a blessing. It is the minimum, which a lot of people
now claim whereas they should not claim it. But even this minimum, which is a
curse, is difficult for a lot of people to attain.
Psalm
91:16: “With long life will I satisfy him, and shew
him my salvation.”
Isaiah
65:22: “They shall not build, and another inhabit;
they shall not plant, and another eat: for as the days of a tree are the days
of my people, and mine elect shall long enjoy the work of their hands.”
The
Bible is telling us that it is a tragedy for somebody to sweat to gather, but
before he would begin to reap the fruits, he dies.
Ecclesiastes
6: 1-2: “There is an evil which I have seen under the
sun, and it is common among men. (The Bible calls it an evil thing). A man to
whom God has given riches, wealth and honour, so that he wanteth nothing for
his soul of all that he desireth, yet God giveth him not power to eat thereof,
but a stranger eateth it, this is vanity, and it is an evil disease."
Six
major ways by which people die on earth
1. A person can die by his own hand: This
is when a person just destroys himself, for example, by personal execution,
personal murder, or assassination. It is possible for a person to eliminate
himself. Sometime ago, a man fainted in the street and people rushed to help
him. By the time a doctor that was passing by got there, he found a packet of
drugs in his pocket, which he must have taken. As a medical personnel, he found
out that they were hard drugs which he ought not to have taken. But he went to
the chemist bought it and swallowed it. He decided to kill himself.
2. A person can die by the hands of
another man. It may be robbers, witches or wizard, etc
3. A person can die by fear, especially
the fear of death.
4. A person can die by breaking natural
laws. For example, if a person decides to jump down from the top of a 25-storey
building he would die. Or if a person knows that he cannot swim, but decides to
go and swim, it could lead to his death.
5. A person can die by succumbing to the
aging process. When everything in the body is old, the system may stop working.
6. A person can die by sickness or
disease.
What
Are The Causes Of Short Life?
1.
DISOBEDIENCE TO PARENTS:
Ephesians
6:1-3: “Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for
this is right. Honour thy father and mother; which is the first commandment
with promise. That it may be well with thee and thou mayest live long on the
earth.”
If
you don’t honour your father and mother, the reverse too will be the case, and
that is untimely death. You may say that your parents are very bad, but any
assignment that the Lord has given to you, you must do. We are not taught to
hate any human being but if there is any evil spirit within them walking
against our destiny, we must contend with the evil spirit. The Bible says “that we wrestle not against blood and flesh, but against
principalities, against powers, against rulers of darkness of this world and
against spiritual wickedness in high places” (Ephesians
6:12).
Also,
the Bible says that he who does not look after his family is worse than an
infidel. You may say, “But anytime I give them money, they use it against me.”
Anoint the money and send it. A lot of young people are dying today because
they decided not to listen to their parents’ cry. Some will go out with their
fathers' cars after their fathers have warned them several times not to drive
the cars. They decide to do otherwise and their corpses are brought home.
2. Not
walking in the way of the Lord:
Failure
to walk in the way of the Lord will bring short life. Deuteronomy 5:33: “Ye shall walk in all the ways which the Lord thy God had
commanded you, that ye may live and that it may be well with you, and that he
may prolong your days in the land which ye shall possess.”
When
you walk in the part of righteousness, the Lord will prolong your life. The
Lord has no obligation to protect you when He knows that your life is a
disgrace to Him.
3.
FAILURE TO TEACH THE WORD OF GOD AT HOME:
If
you fail to teach the word of God at home, it leads to short life.
Deuteronomy
11:19-21: “And ye shall teach your children, speaking of
them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, when
thou liest down, and when thou risest up. And thou shall write them upon the
doorposts of thine house, and upon thy gates. That thy days may be multiplied,
and the days of your children, in the land which the Lord sware unto your
fathers to give them, as the days of heaven upon the earth.”
4. NOT
FEARING THE LORD:
Proverb
10:27 says, “The fear of the Lord prolongeth days; but the
years of the wicked shall be shortened.”
Please,
note very well that nothing happens by chance; everything is programmed in the
spirit. There is nothing like a stray bullet or somebody using cutlass on you
accidentally. It has been programmed in the spirit. What will make these
seeming accidents not to happen are the kinds of things we are talking about in
this message.
The
fear of God is rapidly jumping out of the house of God now. People are not
afraid of God any more. They dress anyhow, talk anyhow, and insult the men of
God without knowing that they are inviting curses upon themselves. When you
insult a man of God, his anointing will fight you, the blood of Jesus will
fight you, the angels will fight you, anything can fight against you. The fear
that people had when they got born again in those days is fading out. We need
to bring that fear back into the house of God. You need to fear the Lord from
the bottom of your heart and know that there are certain things you cannot do.
It may be convenient and comfortable for others but you cannot do them. There
are certain things that a Christian does not touch at all because of the fear
of the Lord. It is these days that people come to the house of the Lord with
chewing gum in their mouth. Sometimes it seems as if the Lord was not quick in
punishing us. But we must not take that for granted because the devil would be
doing a deeper harm.
Do
you fear the Lord? If you do, then your days will be long, but if you don’t,
your days will be short. Some people talk to the Lord anyhow. For example, they
would say, “I am sorry Lord, that I committed that sin, this is not the first
time. Any way you wrote that even if my sin is as red as scarlet it will become
as white as snow, so forgive me for I am a human being.” They command God to forgive
them without fear. In those days, people used to cry at the altar showing godly
sorrow for their sins. There is no fear of God again, believers fall into
fornication and all kinds of sins and still smile, saying that there is a limit
to human endurance. These are the causes of short lives. When arrows are fired
in the spirit world it goes around looking for loopholes. If they see that
there is no fear of God in your life, although you are coming to the house of
God, they would enter into your life.
5.FAILURE
TO CONTROL THE TONGUE:
I
Peter 3:10 says, “For he that will love life,
and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that they
speak no guile.”
One
of the greatest causes of short life is the tongue. If it were possible to padlock
the mouth of human beings, a lot of people would not have died when they died.
Many have gone into bondage because of their tongues. It is not everything that
we have to say. Sometimes you just have to keep quiet. Most of the time it is
better to listen. If your tongue has no control and you can speak 200 words per
minute then you are writing an invitation to short life. Some people can talk
and abuse an angel of God without knowing that the fellow that they are talking
to is an angel of God, and they end up inviting curses because angels don’t
operate like us. They don’t tolerate indiscipline and they can be easily
provoked. That was why God warned the Israelites: “I will place my angel before
you to go on the way that you will go but take heed that you do not provoke
him. If you do, he will not pardon you. Don’t provoke him because he does not
understand the word “please”. The angel
did not forgive Zechariah when he doubted him and said, “Can these things be? I
am old and my wife is advanced in age.” The angel said, “I am Gabriel, I came
from the throne of God to give you this message and you are talking rubbish.
For that, you shall be dumb.” He had to close his mouth and send him on a
compulsory holiday. The tongue has killed so many people. I pray that the Lord
will deliver us from the trap of the tongue, in Jesus’ name.
6.PURSUING
EVIL:
Proverbs 11:19 says, “As righteousness tendeth to
life: so he that pursueth evil pursueth it to his own death.”If
you are pursuing an evil agenda, you are doing so at your own hurt.
5.
FORGETTING THE LAWS OF GOD:
This leads to short life.
6.
ALLOWING AN EVIL WEIGHT ON YOUR HEART:
Proverbs 17:22:, “The merry heart doeth good
like medicine but a broken spirit drieth the bones.” So,
when you allow evil weight in your heart or when you allow a spiritual wound in
your heart, you will waste away. Whatever is in your heart, whether it is envy,
anger, cruelty, fear, immorality, it would affect your body, soul and spirit.
Many people do not understand that what goes on in the heart determines whether
the body, soul and spirit will be healthy or not. Many sicknesses can be
directly related to the attitude of the heart. Proverb 14:30 says, “A sound
heart is the life of the flesh: but envy the rottenness of the bones.” When a
heart is polluted with bitterness, anger, malice or is filled with sin, it will
shorten the life span of the person. If all you are thinking about is sin and
lust, it means that you want to die young. Eventually, you might develop high
blood pressure.
7.
WOUNDED HEART AND NEGATIVE EMOTIONS:
This can cause all kinds of sicknesses. It means people are being cruel to
themselves.
8. LACK
OF KNOWLEDGE OF SPIRITUAL PREVENTION:
This also shortens life. An English adage says that prevention is better than
cure. God wants the totality of our being to be in good health and not for us
to be seeking for healing. It is better to be immune than to have a disease and
start taking drugs. The word of God shows clearly that Christians are supposed
to have some immunity. To have immunity is better than having to evacuate the
enemy anytime he gains entrance. So, we have to clothe ourselves with the fire
of God and the blood of Jesus so that the enemy will not gain entrance.
Prevention,
even in the spiritual world, is better than cure. Some people say that it is
because they were living in a particular town that they were having a
particular problem. But when they moved to another town, the problem continues.
Some, even when they move to another accommodation, witches would still be pressing
them down on their beds. Such people should realize that it is because the
enemy has entered inside them. The evil dreams are being played from inside. A
man may sleep and another world opens up to him. Sometime ago, we were praying
with somebody and a whole human being wearing rags walked out of him. The man
and ourselves saw the thing left. It waved at the man and he waved back. Later,
for the first time in his life, he had a financial breakthrough. It would have
been better not to allow the spirit to enter into him than for it to enter and
he had to go on seven days dry fasting.
Many
believers find it very hard to memorize scriptures. Some will tell you that
their brains are getting older, whereas unbelievers spend quality time
memorizing incantations, which they use against the children of God. The word
of God says that we can build a hedge around us, which the enemy cannot
penetrate.
There
are some passages in the Bible that believers should know off hand, if they
want prevention and protection and do not want the enemy to shorten their
lives. We call them immunity scriptures
1. Exodus 15:26: says, “If thou will
diligently hearken to the voice of the Lord thy God, and wilt do that which is
right in his sight, and will give ear to his commandment, and keep all these
statutes, I will put none of these diseases upon thee. Which I have brought
upon the Egyptians for I am the Lord that health thee.”
2. Deuteronomy 7:15: “And the Lord will
take away from thee all sicknesses, and will put none of the evil disease of
Egypt, which thou knoweth, upon thee, but will lay them upon all them that hate
thee.”
3. Isaiah 43:2: “When thou passest
through the waters, I will be with thee, and through the rivers, they shall not
overflow thee, when thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned,
neither shall the flame kindle upon thee.” This is talking about immunity
against the waters of tribulation, immunity against the rivers of trouble and
immunity against the fire of affliction.
4. Isaiah 54:17: “No weapon that is formed
against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against thee in
judgment thou shall condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord,
and their righteousness is of me, saith the Lord.”
5. Psalm 46:1: “God is our refuge and
strength, a very present help in trouble.”
6. Psalm 27:1-2: “The Lord is my light
and my salvation, whom shall I fear? The Lord is the strength of my life; of
whom shall I be afraid?. When the wicked, even mine enemies and my foes came
upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell.”
7. Psalm 91:1: “He that dwelleth in the
secret place of the most high shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.”
This Psalm tells us about immunity against the power of the night. It might interest
you to know that most people do not sleep at night. The Psalm also talks about
the arrow that flies by the day. It tells us about immunity against pestilence
that walks about in darkness. It tells us about the power that causes
destruction at noonday. It talks about power against the lion and the dragon.
It talks about immunity against evil in all its ramifications.
8. Psalm 105: 14-15: “He suffered no man
to do them wrong, yea he reproved kings for their sake, saying, Touch not my
anointed and do my prophet no harm.”
9. Zechariah 2:5: “For I saith the Lord
will be unto her a wall of fire around about her and will be the glory in the
midst of her.” Verse 8: “For thus saith the Lord of hosts, after the glory hath
he sent me unto the nations, which soiled you for he that toucheth you toucheth
the apple of his eyes.”
10. Psalm 34:7: “The angel of the Lord
encampeth around about them that fear him and delivereth them.”
11. Proverbs 3:24: “When thou liest down,
thou shalt not be afraid; yea, thou shalt lie down, and thy sleep shall be
sweet.”
12. Mark 16:18: “They shall take up
serpents and if they drink any deadly thing it shall not hurt them, they shall
lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.”
13. Luke 10:19: “Behold I give unto you
power to tread upon serpents and scorpions and over all the power of the enemy
and nothing shall by any means hurt you.”
My
prayer is that your spiritual immunity shall not break down, in Jesus' name. We
have so many outstanding promises that God will protect us, but if we break
certain laws this immunity will break down. If you don’t know what to do or you
do the wrong thing your immunity can break down. So many things can break down
the immunity. For example, wrong attitude. If somebody hurts you and you
harbour resentment in your heart against him the enemy can see the dark cloud
in your heart and that will break down your immunity.
Following
the fashion of the world is another way you can break down your immunity. When
someone lets you down or disappoints you and you begin to broadcast it to the
whole world, your immunity will be broken down. When you pay evil for evil,
when you decide to pay people back in their own coin, your immunity will break
down. When you are very angry and you throw tantrums on people, your immunity
will break down. Calling people insulting names, gossiping and not forgiving
those that have hurt you will make your immunity to break down. All the demonic
jewelries that people put on make their immunity to break down. Demonic herbal
concoctions and other terrible things that people swallow make immunity to
break down.
Leviticus
17:11: “For the life of the flesh is in the blood and I have given it to you
upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls, for it is the blood that
maketh an atonement for the soul.”
For
you to be healthy and be moving about without any sickness, your blood must be
immune. All the diseases that are available actually drink people’s blood. If a
person loses a lot of blood, and nothing is done to restore it, he will soon
die. Malaria is a terrible disease because it sucks people’s blood and uses it
to produce more of its kind. Surely every sickness came as the result of the
failure of Adam and Eve.
Somebody
had a fever in the Bible. Let us see what Jesus did.
Luke 4:38: “And he arose out of the synagogue, and
entered into Simon’s house. And Simon’s wife’s mother was taken with a great
fever and they besought him for her. And he stood over her and rebuked the
fever and it left her and immediately she arose and ministered unto them.” It
means that you can talk to the fever or to your blood. You may say that this is
madness. That would not be strange, after all, people said that Jesus and Paul
were mad.
But
when you learn to pray the following prayer points, you give yourself immunity:
1. Let the blood of Jesus be transfused into my blood, in Jesus’ name.
2. I render my blood untouchable to any disease, in Jesus’ name.
When
you pray like this, any disease that comes in contact with your blood will die.
There are so many other things that you can do. For example, you can anoint
your body or put the anointing oil in your cream. You must be careful the kind
of food you eat. You must always pray on your food and your water. Make sure
you don’t over eat things.
The
children of darkness often fortify and prepare themselves because they know
that they can be attacked, but sometime the children of God are so foolish that
they don’t fortify themselves. In the light of this, I want you to pray the
following prayer points aggressively.
PRAYER
POINTS
1.
(Lay your hands on your head): I challenge my body with the fire of God, in
Jesus’ name.
2. Every evil eternal enemy, come out by fire, in the name of Jesus.
3. O God, establish your kingdom in every department of my life, in the name of
Jesus.
God’s original plan for man was life not death,
health not sickness, energy not weariness and radiance not dullness. So, if
Brother Adam had not sinned, he would have lived forever. The Bible emphasizes
that God is not interested in short life. One man of God said that it was a
tragedy for a plant to die at the seed stage because it could not become a
plant. A situation where young people are dying shows that a lot of things are
going wrong.
Deuteronomy
6:1-2: “Now these are the commandments, the statutes,
and the judgments, which the Lord your God commanded to teach you, that ye
might do them in the land whither ye go to possess it. That thou mightiest fear
the Lord thy God to keep all his statutes and his commandments which I command
thee, thou, and thy son, and thy son’s son, all the days of thy life; and that
thy days may be prolonged.”
Here,
we can see that God is not interested in short life. Job 5:26 also says, “Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, like as a shock of
corn cometh in his season.”
Proverbs
3:3: “My son, forget not my law; but let thine heart keep my
commandments. For length of days, and long life, and peace, shall they add to
thee. Let not mercy and truth forsake thee, bind them about thy neck; write
them upon the table of thine heart”.
Proverb
9:11: “For by me thy days shall be multiplied, and the years of thy life
shall be increased.”
Proverbs
10:27: “The fear of the Lord prolongeth days: but the
years of the wicked shall be shortened.”
God
is not interested in short life for His children.
Proverbs
16:31: “The hoary head is a crown of glory, if it be
found in the way of righteousness.”
That is, if you hair is gray it is a crown of glory if you are in the way of
righteousness.
Psalm
90:10: “The days of our years are three score years
and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their
strength labour and sorrow. For it is soon cut off, and we fly away.”
This
verse is a curse and not a blessing. It is the minimum, which a lot of people
now claim whereas they should not claim it. But even this minimum, which is a
curse, is difficult for a lot of people to attain.
Psalm
91:16: “With long life will I satisfy him, and shew
him my salvation.”
Isaiah
65:22: “They shall not build, and another inhabit;
they shall not plant, and another eat: for as the days of a tree are the days
of my people, and mine elect shall long enjoy the work of their hands.”
The
Bible is telling us that it is a tragedy for somebody to sweat to gather, but
before he would begin to reap the fruits, he dies.
Ecclesiastes
6: 1-2: “There is an evil which I have seen under the
sun, and it is common among men. (The Bible calls it an evil thing). A man to
whom God has given riches, wealth and honour, so that he wanteth nothing for
his soul of all that he desireth, yet God giveth him not power to eat thereof,
but a stranger eateth it, this is vanity, and it is an evil disease."
Six
major ways by which people die on earth
1. A person can die by his own hand: This
is when a person just destroys himself, for example, by personal execution,
personal murder, or assassination. It is possible for a person to eliminate
himself. Sometime ago, a man fainted in the street and people rushed to help
him. By the time a doctor that was passing by got there, he found a packet of
drugs in his pocket, which he must have taken. As a medical personnel, he found
out that they were hard drugs which he ought not to have taken. But he went to
the chemist bought it and swallowed it. He decided to kill himself.
2. A person can die by the hands of
another man. It may be robbers, witches or wizard, etc
3. A person can die by fear, especially
the fear of death.
4. A person can die by breaking natural
laws. For example, if a person decides to jump down from the top of a 25-storey
building he would die. Or if a person knows that he cannot swim, but decides to
go and swim, it could lead to his death.
5. A person can die by succumbing to the
aging process. When everything in the body is old, the system may stop working.
6. A person can die by sickness or
disease.
What
Are The Causes Of Short Life?
1.
DISOBEDIENCE TO PARENTS:
Ephesians
6:1-3: “Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for
this is right. Honour thy father and mother; which is the first commandment
with promise. That it may be well with thee and thou mayest live long on the
earth.”
If
you don’t honour your father and mother, the reverse too will be the case, and
that is untimely death. You may say that your parents are very bad, but any
assignment that the Lord has given to you, you must do. We are not taught to
hate any human being but if there is any evil spirit within them walking
against our destiny, we must contend with the evil spirit. The Bible says “that we wrestle not against blood and flesh, but against
principalities, against powers, against rulers of darkness of this world and
against spiritual wickedness in high places” (Ephesians
6:12).
Also,
the Bible says that he who does not look after his family is worse than an
infidel. You may say, “But anytime I give them money, they use it against me.”
Anoint the money and send it. A lot of young people are dying today because
they decided not to listen to their parents’ cry. Some will go out with their
fathers' cars after their fathers have warned them several times not to drive
the cars. They decide to do otherwise and their corpses are brought home.
2. Not
walking in the way of the Lord:
Failure
to walk in the way of the Lord will bring short life. Deuteronomy 5:33: “Ye shall walk in all the ways which the Lord thy God had
commanded you, that ye may live and that it may be well with you, and that he
may prolong your days in the land which ye shall possess.”
When
you walk in the part of righteousness, the Lord will prolong your life. The
Lord has no obligation to protect you when He knows that your life is a
disgrace to Him.
3.
FAILURE TO TEACH THE WORD OF GOD AT HOME:
If
you fail to teach the word of God at home, it leads to short life.
Deuteronomy
11:19-21: “And ye shall teach your children, speaking of
them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, when
thou liest down, and when thou risest up. And thou shall write them upon the
doorposts of thine house, and upon thy gates. That thy days may be multiplied,
and the days of your children, in the land which the Lord sware unto your
fathers to give them, as the days of heaven upon the earth.”
4. NOT
FEARING THE LORD:
Proverb
10:27 says, “The fear of the Lord prolongeth days; but the
years of the wicked shall be shortened.”
Please,
note very well that nothing happens by chance; everything is programmed in the
spirit. There is nothing like a stray bullet or somebody using cutlass on you
accidentally. It has been programmed in the spirit. What will make these
seeming accidents not to happen are the kinds of things we are talking about in
this message.
The
fear of God is rapidly jumping out of the house of God now. People are not
afraid of God any more. They dress anyhow, talk anyhow, and insult the men of
God without knowing that they are inviting curses upon themselves. When you
insult a man of God, his anointing will fight you, the blood of Jesus will
fight you, the angels will fight you, anything can fight against you. The fear
that people had when they got born again in those days is fading out. We need
to bring that fear back into the house of God. You need to fear the Lord from
the bottom of your heart and know that there are certain things you cannot do.
It may be convenient and comfortable for others but you cannot do them. There
are certain things that a Christian does not touch at all because of the fear
of the Lord. It is these days that people come to the house of the Lord with
chewing gum in their mouth. Sometimes it seems as if the Lord was not quick in
punishing us. But we must not take that for granted because the devil would be
doing a deeper harm.
Do
you fear the Lord? If you do, then your days will be long, but if you don’t,
your days will be short. Some people talk to the Lord anyhow. For example, they
would say, “I am sorry Lord, that I committed that sin, this is not the first
time. Any way you wrote that even if my sin is as red as scarlet it will become
as white as snow, so forgive me for I am a human being.” They command God to forgive
them without fear. In those days, people used to cry at the altar showing godly
sorrow for their sins. There is no fear of God again, believers fall into
fornication and all kinds of sins and still smile, saying that there is a limit
to human endurance. These are the causes of short lives. When arrows are fired
in the spirit world it goes around looking for loopholes. If they see that
there is no fear of God in your life, although you are coming to the house of
God, they would enter into your life.
5.FAILURE
TO CONTROL THE TONGUE:
I
Peter 3:10 says, “For he that will love life,
and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that they
speak no guile.”
One
of the greatest causes of short life is the tongue. If it were possible to padlock
the mouth of human beings, a lot of people would not have died when they died.
Many have gone into bondage because of their tongues. It is not everything that
we have to say. Sometimes you just have to keep quiet. Most of the time it is
better to listen. If your tongue has no control and you can speak 200 words per
minute then you are writing an invitation to short life. Some people can talk
and abuse an angel of God without knowing that the fellow that they are talking
to is an angel of God, and they end up inviting curses because angels don’t
operate like us. They don’t tolerate indiscipline and they can be easily
provoked. That was why God warned the Israelites: “I will place my angel before
you to go on the way that you will go but take heed that you do not provoke
him. If you do, he will not pardon you. Don’t provoke him because he does not
understand the word “please”. The angel
did not forgive Zechariah when he doubted him and said, “Can these things be? I
am old and my wife is advanced in age.” The angel said, “I am Gabriel, I came
from the throne of God to give you this message and you are talking rubbish.
For that, you shall be dumb.” He had to close his mouth and send him on a
compulsory holiday. The tongue has killed so many people. I pray that the Lord
will deliver us from the trap of the tongue, in Jesus’ name.
6.PURSUING
EVIL:
Proverbs 11:19 says, “As righteousness tendeth to
life: so he that pursueth evil pursueth it to his own death.”If
you are pursuing an evil agenda, you are doing so at your own hurt.
5.
FORGETTING THE LAWS OF GOD:
This leads to short life.
6.
ALLOWING AN EVIL WEIGHT ON YOUR HEART:
Proverbs 17:22:, “The merry heart doeth good
like medicine but a broken spirit drieth the bones.” So,
when you allow evil weight in your heart or when you allow a spiritual wound in
your heart, you will waste away. Whatever is in your heart, whether it is envy,
anger, cruelty, fear, immorality, it would affect your body, soul and spirit.
Many people do not understand that what goes on in the heart determines whether
the body, soul and spirit will be healthy or not. Many sicknesses can be
directly related to the attitude of the heart. Proverb 14:30 says, “A sound
heart is the life of the flesh: but envy the rottenness of the bones.” When a
heart is polluted with bitterness, anger, malice or is filled with sin, it will
shorten the life span of the person. If all you are thinking about is sin and
lust, it means that you want to die young. Eventually, you might develop high
blood pressure.
7.
WOUNDED HEART AND NEGATIVE EMOTIONS:
This can cause all kinds of sicknesses. It means people are being cruel to
themselves.
8. LACK
OF KNOWLEDGE OF SPIRITUAL PREVENTION:
This also shortens life. An English adage says that prevention is better than
cure. God wants the totality of our being to be in good health and not for us
to be seeking for healing. It is better to be immune than to have a disease and
start taking drugs. The word of God shows clearly that Christians are supposed
to have some immunity. To have immunity is better than having to evacuate the
enemy anytime he gains entrance. So, we have to clothe ourselves with the fire
of God and the blood of Jesus so that the enemy will not gain entrance.
Prevention,
even in the spiritual world, is better than cure. Some people say that it is
because they were living in a particular town that they were having a
particular problem. But when they moved to another town, the problem continues.
Some, even when they move to another accommodation, witches would still be pressing
them down on their beds. Such people should realize that it is because the
enemy has entered inside them. The evil dreams are being played from inside. A
man may sleep and another world opens up to him. Sometime ago, we were praying
with somebody and a whole human being wearing rags walked out of him. The man
and ourselves saw the thing left. It waved at the man and he waved back. Later,
for the first time in his life, he had a financial breakthrough. It would have
been better not to allow the spirit to enter into him than for it to enter and
he had to go on seven days dry fasting.
Many
believers find it very hard to memorize scriptures. Some will tell you that
their brains are getting older, whereas unbelievers spend quality time
memorizing incantations, which they use against the children of God. The word
of God says that we can build a hedge around us, which the enemy cannot
penetrate.
There
are some passages in the Bible that believers should know off hand, if they
want prevention and protection and do not want the enemy to shorten their
lives. We call them immunity scriptures
1. Exodus 15:26: says, “If thou will
diligently hearken to the voice of the Lord thy God, and wilt do that which is
right in his sight, and will give ear to his commandment, and keep all these
statutes, I will put none of these diseases upon thee. Which I have brought
upon the Egyptians for I am the Lord that health thee.”
2. Deuteronomy 7:15: “And the Lord will
take away from thee all sicknesses, and will put none of the evil disease of
Egypt, which thou knoweth, upon thee, but will lay them upon all them that hate
thee.”
3. Isaiah 43:2: “When thou passest
through the waters, I will be with thee, and through the rivers, they shall not
overflow thee, when thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned,
neither shall the flame kindle upon thee.” This is talking about immunity
against the waters of tribulation, immunity against the rivers of trouble and
immunity against the fire of affliction.
4. Isaiah 54:17: “No weapon that is formed
against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against thee in
judgment thou shall condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord,
and their righteousness is of me, saith the Lord.”
5. Psalm 46:1: “God is our refuge and
strength, a very present help in trouble.”
6. Psalm 27:1-2: “The Lord is my light
and my salvation, whom shall I fear? The Lord is the strength of my life; of
whom shall I be afraid?. When the wicked, even mine enemies and my foes came
upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell.”
7. Psalm 91:1: “He that dwelleth in the
secret place of the most high shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.”
This Psalm tells us about immunity against the power of the night. It might interest
you to know that most people do not sleep at night. The Psalm also talks about
the arrow that flies by the day. It tells us about immunity against pestilence
that walks about in darkness. It tells us about the power that causes
destruction at noonday. It talks about power against the lion and the dragon.
It talks about immunity against evil in all its ramifications.
8. Psalm 105: 14-15: “He suffered no man
to do them wrong, yea he reproved kings for their sake, saying, Touch not my
anointed and do my prophet no harm.”
9. Zechariah 2:5: “For I saith the Lord
will be unto her a wall of fire around about her and will be the glory in the
midst of her.” Verse 8: “For thus saith the Lord of hosts, after the glory hath
he sent me unto the nations, which soiled you for he that toucheth you toucheth
the apple of his eyes.”
10. Psalm 34:7: “The angel of the Lord
encampeth around about them that fear him and delivereth them.”
11. Proverbs 3:24: “When thou liest down,
thou shalt not be afraid; yea, thou shalt lie down, and thy sleep shall be
sweet.”
12. Mark 16:18: “They shall take up
serpents and if they drink any deadly thing it shall not hurt them, they shall
lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.”
13. Luke 10:19: “Behold I give unto you
power to tread upon serpents and scorpions and over all the power of the enemy
and nothing shall by any means hurt you.”
My
prayer is that your spiritual immunity shall not break down, in Jesus' name. We
have so many outstanding promises that God will protect us, but if we break
certain laws this immunity will break down. If you don’t know what to do or you
do the wrong thing your immunity can break down. So many things can break down
the immunity. For example, wrong attitude. If somebody hurts you and you
harbour resentment in your heart against him the enemy can see the dark cloud
in your heart and that will break down your immunity.
Following
the fashion of the world is another way you can break down your immunity. When
someone lets you down or disappoints you and you begin to broadcast it to the
whole world, your immunity will be broken down. When you pay evil for evil,
when you decide to pay people back in their own coin, your immunity will break
down. When you are very angry and you throw tantrums on people, your immunity
will break down. Calling people insulting names, gossiping and not forgiving
those that have hurt you will make your immunity to break down. All the demonic
jewelries that people put on make their immunity to break down. Demonic herbal
concoctions and other terrible things that people swallow make immunity to
break down.
Leviticus
17:11: “For the life of the flesh is in the blood and I have given it to you
upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls, for it is the blood that
maketh an atonement for the soul.”
For
you to be healthy and be moving about without any sickness, your blood must be
immune. All the diseases that are available actually drink people’s blood. If a
person loses a lot of blood, and nothing is done to restore it, he will soon
die. Malaria is a terrible disease because it sucks people’s blood and uses it
to produce more of its kind. Surely every sickness came as the result of the
failure of Adam and Eve.
Somebody
had a fever in the Bible. Let us see what Jesus did.
Luke 4:38: “And he arose out of the synagogue, and
entered into Simon’s house. And Simon’s wife’s mother was taken with a great
fever and they besought him for her. And he stood over her and rebuked the
fever and it left her and immediately she arose and ministered unto them.” It
means that you can talk to the fever or to your blood. You may say that this is
madness. That would not be strange, after all, people said that Jesus and Paul
were mad.
But
when you learn to pray the following prayer points, you give yourself immunity:
1. Let the blood of Jesus be transfused into my blood, in Jesus’ name.
2. I render my blood untouchable to any disease, in Jesus’ name.
When
you pray like this, any disease that comes in contact with your blood will die.
There are so many other things that you can do. For example, you can anoint
your body or put the anointing oil in your cream. You must be careful the kind
of food you eat. You must always pray on your food and your water. Make sure
you don’t over eat things.
The
children of darkness often fortify and prepare themselves because they know
that they can be attacked, but sometime the children of God are so foolish that
they don’t fortify themselves. In the light of this, I want you to pray the
following prayer points aggressively.
PRAYER
POINTS
1.
(Lay your hands on your head): I challenge my body with the fire of God, in
Jesus’ name.
2. Every evil eternal enemy, come out by fire, in the name of Jesus.
3. O God, establish your kingdom in every department of my life, in the name of
Jesus.
In the last few years, we have witnessed or heard
about a lot of tragedy. People that were expected to be alive were dead. A lot
of young people were dead and some of them were born again. Is it God’s will?
No. We must also realize that the devil has some powers to kill but the only
strongest power is the power of God. Just as the Bible has principles for long
life, it also outlines what could cause short life.
God’s original plan for man was life not death,
health not sickness, energy not weariness and radiance not dullness. So, if
Brother Adam had not sinned, he would have lived forever. The Bible emphasizes
that God is not interested in short life. One man of God said that it was a
tragedy for a plant to die at the seed stage because it could not become a
plant. A situation where young people are dying shows that a lot of things are
going wrong.
Deuteronomy
6:1-2: “Now these are the commandments, the statutes,
and the judgments, which the Lord your God commanded to teach you, that ye
might do them in the land whither ye go to possess it. That thou mightiest fear
the Lord thy God to keep all his statutes and his commandments which I command
thee, thou, and thy son, and thy son’s son, all the days of thy life; and that
thy days may be prolonged.”
Here,
we can see that God is not interested in short life. Job 5:26 also says, “Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, like as a shock of
corn cometh in his season.”
Proverbs
3:3: “My son, forget not my law; but let thine heart keep my
commandments. For length of days, and long life, and peace, shall they add to
thee. Let not mercy and truth forsake thee, bind them about thy neck; write
them upon the table of thine heart”.
Proverb
9:11: “For by me thy days shall be multiplied, and the years of thy life
shall be increased.”
Proverbs
10:27: “The fear of the Lord prolongeth days: but the
years of the wicked shall be shortened.”
God
is not interested in short life for His children.
Proverbs
16:31: “The hoary head is a crown of glory, if it be
found in the way of righteousness.”
That is, if you hair is gray it is a crown of glory if you are in the way of righteousness.
That is, if you hair is gray it is a crown of glory if you are in the way of righteousness.
Psalm
90:10: “The days of our years are three score years
and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their
strength labour and sorrow. For it is soon cut off, and we fly away.”
This
verse is a curse and not a blessing. It is the minimum, which a lot of people
now claim whereas they should not claim it. But even this minimum, which is a
curse, is difficult for a lot of people to attain.
Psalm
91:16: “With long life will I satisfy him, and shew
him my salvation.”
Isaiah
65:22: “They shall not build, and another inhabit;
they shall not plant, and another eat: for as the days of a tree are the days
of my people, and mine elect shall long enjoy the work of their hands.”
The
Bible is telling us that it is a tragedy for somebody to sweat to gather, but
before he would begin to reap the fruits, he dies.
Ecclesiastes
6: 1-2: “There is an evil which I have seen under the
sun, and it is common among men. (The Bible calls it an evil thing). A man to
whom God has given riches, wealth and honour, so that he wanteth nothing for
his soul of all that he desireth, yet God giveth him not power to eat thereof,
but a stranger eateth it, this is vanity, and it is an evil disease."
Six
major ways by which people die on earth
1. A person can die by his own hand: This
is when a person just destroys himself, for example, by personal execution,
personal murder, or assassination. It is possible for a person to eliminate
himself. Sometime ago, a man fainted in the street and people rushed to help
him. By the time a doctor that was passing by got there, he found a packet of
drugs in his pocket, which he must have taken. As a medical personnel, he found
out that they were hard drugs which he ought not to have taken. But he went to
the chemist bought it and swallowed it. He decided to kill himself.
2. A person can die by the hands of
another man. It may be robbers, witches or wizard, etc
3. A person can die by fear, especially
the fear of death.
4. A person can die by breaking natural
laws. For example, if a person decides to jump down from the top of a 25-storey
building he would die. Or if a person knows that he cannot swim, but decides to
go and swim, it could lead to his death.
5. A person can die by succumbing to the
aging process. When everything in the body is old, the system may stop working.
6. A person can die by sickness or
disease.
What
Are The Causes Of Short Life?
1.
DISOBEDIENCE TO PARENTS:
Ephesians
6:1-3: “Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for
this is right. Honour thy father and mother; which is the first commandment
with promise. That it may be well with thee and thou mayest live long on the
earth.”
If
you don’t honour your father and mother, the reverse too will be the case, and
that is untimely death. You may say that your parents are very bad, but any
assignment that the Lord has given to you, you must do. We are not taught to
hate any human being but if there is any evil spirit within them walking
against our destiny, we must contend with the evil spirit. The Bible says “that we wrestle not against blood and flesh, but against
principalities, against powers, against rulers of darkness of this world and
against spiritual wickedness in high places” (Ephesians
6:12).
Also,
the Bible says that he who does not look after his family is worse than an
infidel. You may say, “But anytime I give them money, they use it against me.”
Anoint the money and send it. A lot of young people are dying today because
they decided not to listen to their parents’ cry. Some will go out with their
fathers' cars after their fathers have warned them several times not to drive
the cars. They decide to do otherwise and their corpses are brought home.
2. Not
walking in the way of the Lord:
Failure
to walk in the way of the Lord will bring short life. Deuteronomy 5:33: “Ye shall walk in all the ways which the Lord thy God had
commanded you, that ye may live and that it may be well with you, and that he
may prolong your days in the land which ye shall possess.”
When
you walk in the part of righteousness, the Lord will prolong your life. The
Lord has no obligation to protect you when He knows that your life is a
disgrace to Him.
3.
FAILURE TO TEACH THE WORD OF GOD AT HOME:
If
you fail to teach the word of God at home, it leads to short life.
Deuteronomy
11:19-21: “And ye shall teach your children, speaking of
them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, when
thou liest down, and when thou risest up. And thou shall write them upon the
doorposts of thine house, and upon thy gates. That thy days may be multiplied,
and the days of your children, in the land which the Lord sware unto your
fathers to give them, as the days of heaven upon the earth.”
4. NOT
FEARING THE LORD:
Proverb
10:27 says, “The fear of the Lord prolongeth days; but the
years of the wicked shall be shortened.”
Please,
note very well that nothing happens by chance; everything is programmed in the
spirit. There is nothing like a stray bullet or somebody using cutlass on you
accidentally. It has been programmed in the spirit. What will make these
seeming accidents not to happen are the kinds of things we are talking about in
this message.
The
fear of God is rapidly jumping out of the house of God now. People are not
afraid of God any more. They dress anyhow, talk anyhow, and insult the men of
God without knowing that they are inviting curses upon themselves. When you
insult a man of God, his anointing will fight you, the blood of Jesus will
fight you, the angels will fight you, anything can fight against you. The fear
that people had when they got born again in those days is fading out. We need
to bring that fear back into the house of God. You need to fear the Lord from
the bottom of your heart and know that there are certain things you cannot do.
It may be convenient and comfortable for others but you cannot do them. There
are certain things that a Christian does not touch at all because of the fear
of the Lord. It is these days that people come to the house of the Lord with
chewing gum in their mouth. Sometimes it seems as if the Lord was not quick in
punishing us. But we must not take that for granted because the devil would be
doing a deeper harm.
Do
you fear the Lord? If you do, then your days will be long, but if you don’t,
your days will be short. Some people talk to the Lord anyhow. For example, they
would say, “I am sorry Lord, that I committed that sin, this is not the first
time. Any way you wrote that even if my sin is as red as scarlet it will become
as white as snow, so forgive me for I am a human being.” They command God to forgive
them without fear. In those days, people used to cry at the altar showing godly
sorrow for their sins. There is no fear of God again, believers fall into
fornication and all kinds of sins and still smile, saying that there is a limit
to human endurance. These are the causes of short lives. When arrows are fired
in the spirit world it goes around looking for loopholes. If they see that
there is no fear of God in your life, although you are coming to the house of
God, they would enter into your life.
5.FAILURE
TO CONTROL THE TONGUE:
I
Peter 3:10 says, “For he that will love life,
and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that they
speak no guile.”
One
of the greatest causes of short life is the tongue. If it were possible to padlock
the mouth of human beings, a lot of people would not have died when they died.
Many have gone into bondage because of their tongues. It is not everything that
we have to say. Sometimes you just have to keep quiet. Most of the time it is
better to listen. If your tongue has no control and you can speak 200 words per
minute then you are writing an invitation to short life. Some people can talk
and abuse an angel of God without knowing that the fellow that they are talking
to is an angel of God, and they end up inviting curses because angels don’t
operate like us. They don’t tolerate indiscipline and they can be easily
provoked. That was why God warned the Israelites: “I will place my angel before
you to go on the way that you will go but take heed that you do not provoke
him. If you do, he will not pardon you. Don’t provoke him because he does not
understand the word “please”. The angel
did not forgive Zechariah when he doubted him and said, “Can these things be? I
am old and my wife is advanced in age.” The angel said, “I am Gabriel, I came
from the throne of God to give you this message and you are talking rubbish.
For that, you shall be dumb.” He had to close his mouth and send him on a
compulsory holiday. The tongue has killed so many people. I pray that the Lord
will deliver us from the trap of the tongue, in Jesus’ name.
6.PURSUING
EVIL:
Proverbs 11:19 says, “As righteousness tendeth to life: so he that pursueth evil pursueth it to his own death.”If you are pursuing an evil agenda, you are doing so at your own hurt.
Proverbs 11:19 says, “As righteousness tendeth to life: so he that pursueth evil pursueth it to his own death.”If you are pursuing an evil agenda, you are doing so at your own hurt.
5.
FORGETTING THE LAWS OF GOD:
This leads to short life.
This leads to short life.
6.
ALLOWING AN EVIL WEIGHT ON YOUR HEART:
Proverbs 17:22:, “The merry heart doeth good like medicine but a broken spirit drieth the bones.” So, when you allow evil weight in your heart or when you allow a spiritual wound in your heart, you will waste away. Whatever is in your heart, whether it is envy, anger, cruelty, fear, immorality, it would affect your body, soul and spirit. Many people do not understand that what goes on in the heart determines whether the body, soul and spirit will be healthy or not. Many sicknesses can be directly related to the attitude of the heart. Proverb 14:30 says, “A sound heart is the life of the flesh: but envy the rottenness of the bones.” When a heart is polluted with bitterness, anger, malice or is filled with sin, it will shorten the life span of the person. If all you are thinking about is sin and lust, it means that you want to die young. Eventually, you might develop high blood pressure.
Proverbs 17:22:, “The merry heart doeth good like medicine but a broken spirit drieth the bones.” So, when you allow evil weight in your heart or when you allow a spiritual wound in your heart, you will waste away. Whatever is in your heart, whether it is envy, anger, cruelty, fear, immorality, it would affect your body, soul and spirit. Many people do not understand that what goes on in the heart determines whether the body, soul and spirit will be healthy or not. Many sicknesses can be directly related to the attitude of the heart. Proverb 14:30 says, “A sound heart is the life of the flesh: but envy the rottenness of the bones.” When a heart is polluted with bitterness, anger, malice or is filled with sin, it will shorten the life span of the person. If all you are thinking about is sin and lust, it means that you want to die young. Eventually, you might develop high blood pressure.
7.
WOUNDED HEART AND NEGATIVE EMOTIONS:
This can cause all kinds of sicknesses. It means people are being cruel to themselves.
This can cause all kinds of sicknesses. It means people are being cruel to themselves.
8. LACK
OF KNOWLEDGE OF SPIRITUAL PREVENTION:
This also shortens life. An English adage says that prevention is better than cure. God wants the totality of our being to be in good health and not for us to be seeking for healing. It is better to be immune than to have a disease and start taking drugs. The word of God shows clearly that Christians are supposed to have some immunity. To have immunity is better than having to evacuate the enemy anytime he gains entrance. So, we have to clothe ourselves with the fire of God and the blood of Jesus so that the enemy will not gain entrance.
This also shortens life. An English adage says that prevention is better than cure. God wants the totality of our being to be in good health and not for us to be seeking for healing. It is better to be immune than to have a disease and start taking drugs. The word of God shows clearly that Christians are supposed to have some immunity. To have immunity is better than having to evacuate the enemy anytime he gains entrance. So, we have to clothe ourselves with the fire of God and the blood of Jesus so that the enemy will not gain entrance.
Prevention,
even in the spiritual world, is better than cure. Some people say that it is
because they were living in a particular town that they were having a
particular problem. But when they moved to another town, the problem continues.
Some, even when they move to another accommodation, witches would still be pressing
them down on their beds. Such people should realize that it is because the
enemy has entered inside them. The evil dreams are being played from inside. A
man may sleep and another world opens up to him. Sometime ago, we were praying
with somebody and a whole human being wearing rags walked out of him. The man
and ourselves saw the thing left. It waved at the man and he waved back. Later,
for the first time in his life, he had a financial breakthrough. It would have
been better not to allow the spirit to enter into him than for it to enter and
he had to go on seven days dry fasting.
Many
believers find it very hard to memorize scriptures. Some will tell you that
their brains are getting older, whereas unbelievers spend quality time
memorizing incantations, which they use against the children of God. The word
of God says that we can build a hedge around us, which the enemy cannot
penetrate.
There
are some passages in the Bible that believers should know off hand, if they
want prevention and protection and do not want the enemy to shorten their
lives. We call them immunity scriptures
1. Exodus 15:26: says, “If thou will
diligently hearken to the voice of the Lord thy God, and wilt do that which is
right in his sight, and will give ear to his commandment, and keep all these
statutes, I will put none of these diseases upon thee. Which I have brought
upon the Egyptians for I am the Lord that health thee.”
2. Deuteronomy 7:15: “And the Lord will
take away from thee all sicknesses, and will put none of the evil disease of
Egypt, which thou knoweth, upon thee, but will lay them upon all them that hate
thee.”
3. Isaiah 43:2: “When thou passest
through the waters, I will be with thee, and through the rivers, they shall not
overflow thee, when thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned,
neither shall the flame kindle upon thee.” This is talking about immunity
against the waters of tribulation, immunity against the rivers of trouble and
immunity against the fire of affliction.
4. Isaiah 54:17: “No weapon that is formed
against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against thee in
judgment thou shall condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord,
and their righteousness is of me, saith the Lord.”
5. Psalm 46:1: “God is our refuge and
strength, a very present help in trouble.”
6. Psalm 27:1-2: “The Lord is my light
and my salvation, whom shall I fear? The Lord is the strength of my life; of
whom shall I be afraid?. When the wicked, even mine enemies and my foes came
upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell.”
7. Psalm 91:1: “He that dwelleth in the
secret place of the most high shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.”
This Psalm tells us about immunity against the power of the night. It might interest
you to know that most people do not sleep at night. The Psalm also talks about
the arrow that flies by the day. It tells us about immunity against pestilence
that walks about in darkness. It tells us about the power that causes
destruction at noonday. It talks about power against the lion and the dragon.
It talks about immunity against evil in all its ramifications.
8. Psalm 105: 14-15: “He suffered no man
to do them wrong, yea he reproved kings for their sake, saying, Touch not my
anointed and do my prophet no harm.”
9. Zechariah 2:5: “For I saith the Lord
will be unto her a wall of fire around about her and will be the glory in the
midst of her.” Verse 8: “For thus saith the Lord of hosts, after the glory hath
he sent me unto the nations, which soiled you for he that toucheth you toucheth
the apple of his eyes.”
10. Psalm 34:7: “The angel of the Lord
encampeth around about them that fear him and delivereth them.”
11. Proverbs 3:24: “When thou liest down,
thou shalt not be afraid; yea, thou shalt lie down, and thy sleep shall be
sweet.”
12. Mark 16:18: “They shall take up
serpents and if they drink any deadly thing it shall not hurt them, they shall
lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.”
13. Luke 10:19: “Behold I give unto you
power to tread upon serpents and scorpions and over all the power of the enemy
and nothing shall by any means hurt you.”
My
prayer is that your spiritual immunity shall not break down, in Jesus' name. We
have so many outstanding promises that God will protect us, but if we break
certain laws this immunity will break down. If you don’t know what to do or you
do the wrong thing your immunity can break down. So many things can break down
the immunity. For example, wrong attitude. If somebody hurts you and you
harbour resentment in your heart against him the enemy can see the dark cloud
in your heart and that will break down your immunity.
Following
the fashion of the world is another way you can break down your immunity. When
someone lets you down or disappoints you and you begin to broadcast it to the
whole world, your immunity will be broken down. When you pay evil for evil,
when you decide to pay people back in their own coin, your immunity will break
down. When you are very angry and you throw tantrums on people, your immunity
will break down. Calling people insulting names, gossiping and not forgiving
those that have hurt you will make your immunity to break down. All the demonic
jewelries that people put on make their immunity to break down. Demonic herbal
concoctions and other terrible things that people swallow make immunity to
break down.
Leviticus
17:11: “For the life of the flesh is in the blood and I have given it to you
upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls, for it is the blood that
maketh an atonement for the soul.”
For
you to be healthy and be moving about without any sickness, your blood must be
immune. All the diseases that are available actually drink people’s blood. If a
person loses a lot of blood, and nothing is done to restore it, he will soon
die. Malaria is a terrible disease because it sucks people’s blood and uses it
to produce more of its kind. Surely every sickness came as the result of the
failure of Adam and Eve.
Somebody
had a fever in the Bible. Let us see what Jesus did.
Luke 4:38: “And he arose out of the synagogue, and entered into Simon’s house. And Simon’s wife’s mother was taken with a great fever and they besought him for her. And he stood over her and rebuked the fever and it left her and immediately she arose and ministered unto them.” It means that you can talk to the fever or to your blood. You may say that this is madness. That would not be strange, after all, people said that Jesus and Paul were mad.
Luke 4:38: “And he arose out of the synagogue, and entered into Simon’s house. And Simon’s wife’s mother was taken with a great fever and they besought him for her. And he stood over her and rebuked the fever and it left her and immediately she arose and ministered unto them.” It means that you can talk to the fever or to your blood. You may say that this is madness. That would not be strange, after all, people said that Jesus and Paul were mad.
But
when you learn to pray the following prayer points, you give yourself immunity:
1. Let the blood of Jesus be transfused into my blood, in Jesus’ name.
2. I render my blood untouchable to any disease, in Jesus’ name.
1. Let the blood of Jesus be transfused into my blood, in Jesus’ name.
2. I render my blood untouchable to any disease, in Jesus’ name.
When
you pray like this, any disease that comes in contact with your blood will die.
There are so many other things that you can do. For example, you can anoint
your body or put the anointing oil in your cream. You must be careful the kind
of food you eat. You must always pray on your food and your water. Make sure
you don’t over eat things.
The
children of darkness often fortify and prepare themselves because they know
that they can be attacked, but sometime the children of God are so foolish that
they don’t fortify themselves. In the light of this, I want you to pray the
following prayer points aggressively.
PRAYER
POINTS
1.
(Lay your hands on your head): I challenge my body with the fire of God, in
Jesus’ name.
2. Every evil eternal enemy, come out by fire, in the name of Jesus.
3. O God, establish your kingdom in every department of my life, in the name of Jesus.
2. Every evil eternal enemy, come out by fire, in the name of Jesus.
3. O God, establish your kingdom in every department of my life, in the name of Jesus.
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