Prophetic Spiritual Warfare

Pr James Kawalya

What is deliverance?

Deliverance is not an event but a process of discipleship for transformation. (2 Corinthians 3:16-18)

Deliverance involves renouncing the past, renewing the mind and embracing the whole counsel of God to serve the purpose of God. (Luke 1:74-75)

Deliverance involves identifying bloodline covenants, seeking forgiveness from bloodshed, opening the prison with the keys of the kingdom, asking the soul to be born and match the body, spirit and age.

Deliverance is complete through acts of righteousness to draw the glory of God to our souls, family, workplace and all the other aspects of our lives. When our soul is healed, we can host the glory of God. God wants us to be delivered so that we can carry the light. The Word of God in us produces light.

Acts of righteousness include:

1) Prayer lifestyle

2) Consecration fasting

3) Giving from the heart

Fasting, the power to deliver

Fasting is a form of worship that humbles us and reminds us of our dependent on God, and brings us back to our first love.

Fasting causes the roots of our relationship with Jesus to go deeper.

Fasting is a proclamation that God is greater than our appetites and situations. in this we magnify Him as He enlarges our spiritual coverage.

Fasting is the secret key that unlocks heaven's door and slams shut the gates of hell.

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Introduction to Prophetic Spiritual Warfare

Spiritual warfare is a demonstration of power, through the victory of the Cross (resurrection power).

Deliverance is the demonstration of authority. (2 Corinthians 4)

Before resurrection, the disciples mostly did deliverance because Jesus had given them authority but they had not received power.

Power came after the resurrection when He descended to the deeper parts of the earth and disarmed Satan. (Matthew 28:18)

The church is called to battle and dislodge forces of the kingdom of darkness.

Ephesians 3:9 New King James Version (NKJV)

⁹ and to make all see what is the ^[a]fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the ages has been hidden in God who created all things ^[b]through Jesus Christ;

Spiritual warfare started in heaven. (Revelation 10)

Traditional vs Prophetic Warfare

Traditional spiritual warfare focuses on binding spirits and pulling down strongholds. Prophetic spiritual warfare focuses on dislodging satanic infrastructures and systems, and establishes nations and communities into their destinies.

Prophetic spiritual warfare centres on bringing nations into their God ordained destinies. Traditional warfare is more of pushing back powers of darkness and their agendas.

Prophetic deliverance is introducing the presence of God into communities and nations. Traditional warfare deals with strongmen, strongholds and powers. Prophetic deliverances deal with waves, currents, storms and elements.

Both approaches must understand the operation of the three venues of spiritual power and influence.

1) Altars

2) Gates

3) Thrones

Purposes:

1) Establish the Kingdom of God on earth.

2) Bring nations, tribes, people into their destiny.

3) Set at liberty those oppressed.

4) Manifest the reason of the appearing of the sons of God.

5) Reclaim inheritance surrendered to the devil.

Requirements:

1) Spiritual sensitivity and spiritual intelligence.

2) Spiritual skills and disciplines.

3) Endued with power.

4) Angelic engagement.

5) The status of our spirit through exercise.

The Stand of the Church

Jesus destroyed the devil’s empire and gave us authority. Jesus did not only conquer demons that inhabit people but also demons that operate outside human bodies. (Matthew 28:18)

Establishing the Kingdom of God implies entering territories that are terribly occupied by forces of darkness. The power to destroy such forces has been given to the Church.

Matthew 12:28-29 New King James Version (NKJV)

²⁸ But if I cast out demons by the Spirit of God, surely the kingdom of God has come upon you. ²⁹ Or how can one enter a strong man’s house and plunder his goods, unless he first binds the strong man? And then he will plunder his house.

Ephesians 1:19-23 New King James Version (NKJV)

¹⁹ and what is the exceeding greatness of His power toward us who believe, according to the working of His mighty power ²⁰ which He worked in Christ when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His right hand in the heavenly places, ²¹ far above all principality^[a] and ^[b]power and ^[c]might and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this age but also in that which is to come.

²² And He put all things under His feet, and gave Him to be head over all things to the church, ²³ which is His body, the fullness of Him who fills all in all.

Matthew 16:18-19 New King James Version (NKJV)

¹⁸ And I also say to you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build My church, and the gates of Hades shall not ^[a]prevail against it. ¹⁹ And I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on earth ^[b]will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.”

Luke 10:19 New King James Version (NKJV)

¹⁹ Behold, I give you the authority to trample on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing shall by any means hurt you.

An army chosen by God. The Lord desires to raise generals of faith in the Church. Through constant engagement, the Church will rise as the latter army of the Lord. We are soldiers of the Cross.

War Against Evil Altars

Altars are gates into the spiritual realm.

Deuteronomy 12:2-3 New King James Version (NKJV)

2 You shall utterly destroy all the places where the nations which you shall dispossess served their gods, on the high mountains and on the hills and under every green tree. 3 And you shall destroy their altars, break their sacred pillars, and burn their [a]wooden images with fire; you shall cut down the carved images of their gods and destroy their names from that place.

1) Destroy the Horns

Psalm 75:10 New King James Version (NKJV)

10 “All the [a]horns of the wicked I will also cut off,

But the horns of the righteous shall be exalted.”

Oh carpenter of God, break the horns of darkness to irreparable pieces in the name of Jesus. Amen.

Every power causing stagnant in my life be disgraced forever in the name of Jesus. Amen.

Evil counsel against my breakthrough turn into foolishness in the name of Jesus. Amen.

Every hunter looking for my destiny be blinded in the name of Jesus. Amen.

2) Nullify Sacrifices

Ask God to reject all petitions and sacrifices of evil altars in your territory and your bloodline.

Eg. Elijah and Baal prophets. (1 Kings 18)

2.1) Activate the Sacrifice of Calvary.

I acknowledge that there can be no greater or more potent sacrifice than the blood of Jesus Christ. Amen.

2.2) Charge the Blood of Jesus against evil sacrifices.

I raise the blood of Jesus Christ against any evil sacrifice offered on evil altars around my territory. Amen.

2.3) Petition God to Nullify Covenants of evil sacrifices.

I cause the voice of the blood of Jesus Christ to speak a better covenant. Amen.

3) Retrench Evil Priesthood.

Declare that you are a holy priesthood, a chosen nation. A people belonging to God. (1 Peter 2:9)

Ask God to wipe out every form of evil priesthood in the bloodline and your territory.

Evict evil priests from their offices and positions and cancel all their decrees and petitions.

Desecrate and paralyse every tool and skill they use in their duties.

Forces, Powers, Personalities and Systems

Ephesians 6:12 New King James Version (NKJV)

¹² For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of ^[a]the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places.

We are dealing with forces, powers, personalities and systems.

Most of our battles are against personalities.

But wars are against systems. For example, communism against capitalism, the Cold War [geopolitical tensions after World War II between powers in the Eastern Bloc (Soviet Union and its satellite states) and powers in the Western Bloc (United States and its allies)].

Also in spiritual warfare, there are times that it is not against demons but against a system or a culture in the city, tribe or nation. 

For example, how are you going to battle against a political system that promotes wickedness and injustice?

It is a system, a doctrine or a belief that you are fighting against.

How do you deal with materialism? 

How do you deal with a religious system that is holding people captive or an idealogy that is hindering the purposes of God?

How did Paul battle the Greeks? What did he do in Athens? He went around the city and preached to the altars of the city before he went before the council to present the gospel to the Greeks. (Acts 17:16–34) Because he knew it was a system supported by a force and promoted by personalities. There was a personality behind the force. And there was a network that Paul had to preach to until their minds were cleared.

The war against terrorism is not against the terrorists. You remove one suicide bomber and another would appear. You arrest one and another ten would appear. There is an ideology behind them. Behind them, there is a system. Eg, how explosives are made, etc. Dealing with the person and the personality may not break terrorism in a nation. Behind them, there is also the force. When they attack, they target the personality and the system of a city or a nation. Break the system and the nation becomes a failed nation. Manipulate the system and they can possess an entire city.

When the enemy attacks the church, the pastor is targeted. The enemy assassinates the character of the pastor. Break the person or destroy the personality, interfere with the system or fail the system and cause the people to support the new system or agenda.

Signs, Wonders and Miracles

1 Kings 18:15-40 New Century Version (NCV)

¹⁵ Elijah answered, “As surely as the Lord All-Powerful lives, whom I serve, I will be seen by Ahab today.”

¹⁶ So Obadiah went to Ahab and told him where Elijah was. Then Ahab went to meet Elijah.

¹⁷ When he saw Elijah, he asked, “Is it you—the biggest troublemaker in Israel?”

¹⁸ Elijah answered, “I have not made trouble in Israel. You and your father’s family have made all this trouble by not obeying the Lord’s commands. You have gone after the Baals. ¹⁹ Now tell all Israel to meet me at Mount Carmel. Also bring the four hundred fifty prophets of Baal and the four hundred prophets of Asherah, who eat at Jezebel’s table.”

²⁰ So Ahab called all the Israelites and those prophets to Mount Carmel. ²¹ Elijah approached the people and said, “How long will you not decide between two choices? If the Lord is the true God, follow him, but if Baal is the true God, follow him!” But the people said nothing.

²² Elijah said, “I am the only prophet of the Lord here, but there are four hundred fifty prophets of Baal. ²³ Bring two bulls. Let the prophets of Baal choose one bull and kill it and cut it into pieces. Then let them put the meat on the wood, but they are not to set fire to it. I will prepare the other bull, putting the meat on the wood but not setting fire to it. ²⁴ You prophets of Baal, pray to your god, and I will pray to the Lord. The god who answers by setting fire to his wood is the true God.”

All the people agreed that this was a good idea.

²⁵ Then Elijah said to the prophets of Baal, “There are many of you, so you go first. Choose a bull and prepare it. Pray to your god, but don’t start the fire.”

²⁶ So they took the bull that was given to them and prepared it. They prayed to Baal from morning until noon, shouting “Baal, answer us!” But there was no sound, and no one answered. They danced around the altar they had built.

²⁷ At noon Elijah began to make fun of them. “Pray louder!” he said. “If Baal really is a god, maybe he is thinking, or busy, or traveling! Maybe he is sleeping so you will have to wake him!” ²⁸ The prophets prayed louder, cutting themselves with swords and spears until their blood flowed, which was the way they worshiped. ²⁹ The afternoon passed, and the prophets continued to act like this until it was time for the evening sacrifice. But no voice was heard; Baal did not answer, and no one paid attention.

³⁰ Then Elijah said to all the people, “Now come to me.” So they gathered around him, and Elijah rebuilt the altar of the Lord, which had been torn down. ³¹ He took twelve stones, one stone for each of the twelve tribes, the number of Jacob’s sons. (The Lord changed Jacob’s name to Israel.) ³² Elijah used these stones to rebuild the altar in honor of the Lord. Then he dug a ditch around the altar that was big enough to hold about thirteen quarts of seed. ³³ Elijah put the wood on the altar, cut the bull into pieces, and laid the pieces on the wood. ³⁴ Then he said, “Fill four jars with water, and pour it on the meat and on the wood.” Then Elijah said, “Do it again,” and they did it again. Then he said, “Do it a third time,” and they did it the third time. ³⁵ So the water ran off the altar and filled the ditch.

³⁶ At the time for the evening sacrifice, the prophet Elijah went near the altar. “Lord, you are the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel,” he prayed. “Prove that you are the God of Israel and that I am your servant. Show these people that you commanded me to do all these things. ³⁷ Lord, answer my prayer so these people will know that you, Lord, are God and that you will change their minds.”

³⁸ Then fire from the Lord came down and burned the sacrifice, the wood, the stones, and the ground around the altar. It also dried up the water in the ditch. ³⁹ When all the people saw this, they fell down to the ground, crying, “The Lord is God! The Lord is God!”

⁴⁰ Then Elijah said, “Capture the prophets of Baal! Don’t let any of them run away!” The people captured all the prophets. Then Elijah led them down to the Kishon Valley, where he killed them.

How did Elijah break the stronghold of Baal in the entire Israel?

At that time, Baal was the official god of Israel. King Ahab’s wife, Queen Jezebel, was also a prophetess of Baal and she had 500 prophets.

Elijah appeared and said, “I serve the living LORD, the God of Israel. And it will not rain until I say so.” (1 Kings 17:1)

It was a prophetic declaration. It was a prophetic proclamation.

Then he went into hiding and later reappeared and said, “The God who answers by fire, He is God.” (1 Kings 18:24)

The miracle of fire from heaven was the answer to the prayer of Elijah.

Then Elijah prayed for rain and it did. When it rained, the nation knew that the God of Elijah is a true God. The people’s minds changed. Demons had to leave. Strongholds are in the minds.

God wants you to go to your community and people will see a demonstration of signs, wonders and miracles.

Filled with the Holy Spirit, we are able to operate in the miracle working power of God; we are able to do warfare through signs and wonders.

Through prophetic warfare, Jesus encountered a Samaritan woman at the well, told her all that she ever did, and an entire city was saved. (John 4:1-42)

Are you that one person whom God will use to save an entire city?

Rules for Effective Spiritual Warfare:

1) Rule of Alliance

1.1) Break all alliances in the soul with the strongman.

In every warfare, the personality that we are dealing with is a strongman.

1.2) Study the characteristics of the strongman and decide if his character traits are in your soul.

When the devil came to Jesus, Jesus said He has nothing in common with the devil. (Matthew 4:1-11)

Check if there is pride, arrogance, anger or rebellion in you or your team members. Check if there is immorality or fornication in your soul. Make sure there is no covenants with the strongman.

God is ready and willing to do miracles.

But miracles do not happen because you still have alliances, attachments or connections with the evil strongman. There is still deception in your soul. How do you expect to fight the devil who is the father of lies when your own life is full of lies?

The devil only needs a foothold to build a stronghold.

Always check your soul. Iniquity in the soul is an alliance with the evil one.

Ephesians 5:11 New King James Version (NKJV)

¹¹ And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather ^[a]expose them.

2) Rule of Authority

2.1) The level in which we can attack and do warfare is directly related to the level of our authority and the level of our relationship with the Lord.

The deeper our relationship with God, the higher the level we can do warfare.

How is your relationship with the Lord? How close and intimate are you with the Lord?

Are you friends with Jesus? Do you love Him or do you love His power?

Do you know His voice?

Is Jesus more precious to you than the victory that you want in this battle, that even if you lose the battle you’ll still have Jesus? Are you going for the battle for fame and money or for the love of Jesus? Is it because you going for the battle to live a life of freedom and prosperity or is it because you love the Lord so much that you are ready to lay down your life, even if you are to die in the battle? There are times that you have to put aside your ambition and desires because you love Jesus.

3) Rule of Silence

Power in silence.

Every spiritual man’s power is in his ability to spend enough time in silence in the quiet time.

3.1) The power of the spirit is in the clear communication of the spirit which comes from the renewal we get every day from silence.

The power of Jesus was in His routine. Every day He would look for a place and spend time alone in silence.

Elijah was in silence for three and a half years before he came to deal with Baal.

Power is quiet time. Let God minister to you.

If you are a person who performs miracles and does spiritual warfare, you must be a person who practices silence.

Silence is a way of renewing the spirit and healing the spirit so that you are able to fight.

3.2) The practice of silence enables a man to reach a high state of stillness.

“Be still, and know that I am God.” (Psalm 46:10)

Just stand and see the punishment of the wicked.

In stillness and quietness, we have the confidence and power.

In stillness and quietness, your spirit commands the angels.

There are times God will tell you not to do anything. Just go to the corner of the street and stand there.

Stillness means letting the Holy Spirit minister to your mind as you forget what is surrounding you.

In your heart and in your mind, you are active.

What you are doing is that you are making the other faculties of your body to be quiet in order to concentrate on the ministry of the Holy Spirit to you.

3.3) Stillness sharpens a man’s sensitivity and discernment.

Many people in the church have not been baptised in the Holy Spirit. It is a process.

A spirit cannot enter you without a point of contact in you because the gates of your spirit and the gates of your soul are guarded by what you are covenanted with. It has to go through different phases, different layers, different membranes in the spirit, different gates and different doors in order to establish itself into your spirit.

Demons enter through your will. That’s why they come through the power of suggestion. They will suggest something and if you agree, they will come into you.

The gates of the body, mind, soul, heart and the seven gates of the spirit must open for a spirit to enter you.

Meditate on the Word of God. Go through the Bible as you are still and quiet.

Battles are easy if you are discerned and sensitive.

3.4) Silence every morning helps the spirit to heal from the bruises of the previous day’s spiritual battle. This means that every day we are being renewed inwardly by silence.

When the spirit is bruised and wounded and you keep going to battle, it will begin to wound and hurt the soul. Before you know it, the body becomes sick.

All sicknesses and diseases begin in the spirit that is bruised and wounded.

Every morning you need to heal and take away all the wounds and bruises of the previous day before you start to battle again.

Spiritual warfare is done by your spirit, not your soul. It is your spirit that is in combat. It is your spirit that is tapping into heaven to draw power from the heart of God and to bring down the power to release the power and cause the miracle. It is a spiritual transaction.

Ephesians 6:13-18 New King James Version (NKJV)

¹³ Therefore take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.

¹⁴ Stand therefore, having girded your waist with truth, having put on the breastplate of righteousness, ¹⁵ and having shod your feet with the preparation of the gospel of peace; ¹⁶ above all, taking the shield of faith with which you will be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked one. ¹⁷ And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God; ¹⁸ praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, being watchful to this end with all perseverance and supplication for all the saints—

The Table of the Full Armour of God

ARMOUR	MEANING	APPLICATION
Belt	Revelation of our freedom from captivity	Guard the heart and mind not to doubt your confession
Breastplate	The confidence of our righteousness in Christ Jesus	Walk by faith in the finished work of Calvary
Gospel	Rest that comes from making peace with God	Stand firm as a witness of His resurrection
Shield	Assurance of the power in the name of Jesus	Obeying His commands
Helmet	The joy of eternal life and preservation	Living with the hope of eternal life
Sword	The victory in the Word of Christ	Teaching, praying and living by the Word

Related topics: 

Understanding the Spiritual Body

Bless the Lord, O my Soul

Healing the Wounded Soul

Healing the Body

Opening Territories "Taking Our Possession" (Deliverance from Bloodline Iniquities)

Prophetic Spiritual Warfare

Strategic Prayer Altars

Strategic Prayer Altars

Pr James Kawalya

Prayer transforms.

We are a product of revival.

We are transformed because someone prayed.

The Spirit of the Lord will breakthrough with signs and wonders.

There must be salvation, sanctification and baptism in the Holy Spirit.

We must see people saved, sanctified and baptised.

We must see people saved. We must be convicted and accept Jesus Christ. We confess to Him and be born again. But that’s not the end.

After being born again, we must seek God for sanctification to cleanse us, to remove the filth, the presence of God fills our lives, and the fire of God to burn in our lives.

And there must be baptism of the Holy Spirit.

If we are to see revival, there has to be more than just healing and miracles and deliverance. We must emphasise salvation, sanctification and baptism of the Holy Spirit.

We must be sure that we have accepted the Lord. It is not about joining a church or going to church on Sunday mornings. Christianity sounded good to them and they joined a church. These people are just convinced but not converted. They do not have an encounter with Jesus.

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After coming to the Lord, many people remain at the stage of salvation. They have not come to the place of being sanctified.

Sanctification comes through seeking God—praying every day, being before the Lord, reading the Bible, letting the Holy Spirit convict you until you have removed all that the enemy has deposited in you. We need to seek God for sanctification, not only for salvation. We come by salvation, but when we come, we must go deeper in seeking the face of God, in staying in the presence of God, in praying, in reading the Bible, that we may be sanctified, that the presence of God now goes through all parts of our lives and make us clean and holy.

After the sanctification, we continue pressing on until we are baptised in the Holy Spirit. Every one of us must go through the baptism of the Holy Spirit, accompanied by signs of speaking in tongues and prophesying. When you are baptised in the Holy Spirit, you will lose all things that defile you because the Holy Spirit satisfies you.

That is transformation. A man who is saved, sanctified and baptised in the Holy Spirit is a transformed man. He is not just a church-going man but a transformed man. No man who has been baptised in the Holy Spirit will keep on lying and cheating, and continue to live in sin and unforgiveness because the Holy Spirit will give you the image and nature of Christ. 

The Word of God sanctifies you and the Spirit of God sanctifies you. You are transformed by the renewal of your mind.

You will be like Christ. Sin will not be part of you because now you are full of the life, power and spirit of the living God.

When God is ready, nothing will hinder Him. 

If you are not ready, He will go to your children.

No power and principality can stop God.

Go with the wave and move of God.

We are coming as midwives. We are not the revival. We are not the ones to lead the revival. Our work is to facilitate the birth of the revival.

It is time to raise platforms—spiritual structures—that will host the move of God. The structures are what we call prayer altars.

It is the prayer altars that will host the move of God.

Strategic principles of prayer altars:

1) Purposes and ordained functions

2) Protocols

3) Power

4) Preservation

Psalm 19 New King James Version (NKJV)

The Perfect Revelation of the Lord

To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.

19 The heavens declare the glory of God;

And the firmament[a] shows [b]His handiwork.

2 Day unto day utters speech,

And night unto night reveals knowledge.

3 There is no speech nor language

Where their voice is not heard.

4 Their [c]line has gone out through all the earth,

And their words to the end of the world.

In them He has set a [d]tabernacle for the sun,

5 Which is like a bridegroom coming out of his chamber,

And rejoices like a strong man to run its race.

6 Its rising is from one end of heaven,

And its circuit to the other end;

And there is nothing hidden from its heat.

7 The law of the Lord is perfect, [e]converting the soul;

The testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple;

8 The statutes of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart;

The commandment of the Lord is pure, enlightening the eyes;

9 The fear of the Lord is clean, enduring forever;

The judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.

10 More to be desired are they than gold,

Yea, than much fine gold;

Sweeter also than honey and the [f]honeycomb.

11 Moreover by them Your servant is warned,

And in keeping them there is great reward.

12 Who can understand his errors?

Cleanse me from secret faults.

13 Keep back Your servant also from presumptuous sins;

Let them not have dominion over me.

Then I shall be blameless,

And I shall be innocent of [g]great transgression.

14 Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart

Be acceptable in Your sight,

O Lord, my [h]strength and my Redeemer.

Jude New King James Version (NKJV)

Greeting to the Called

1 Jude, a bondservant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James,

To those who are called, [a]sanctified by God the Father, and preserved in Jesus Christ:

2 Mercy, peace, and love be multiplied to you.

Contend for the Faith

3 Beloved, while I was very diligent to write to you concerning our common salvation, I found it necessary to write to you exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints. 4 For certain men have crept in unnoticed, who long ago were marked out for this condemnation, ungodly men, who turn the grace of our God into lewdness and deny the only Lord [b]God and our Lord Jesus Christ.

Old and New Apostates

5 But I want to remind you, though you once knew this, that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who did not believe. 6 And the angels who did not keep their [c]proper domain, but left their own abode, He has reserved in everlasting chains under darkness for the judgment of the great day; 7 as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities around them in a similar manner to these, having given themselves over to sexual immorality and gone after strange flesh, are set forth as an example, suffering the [d]vengeance of eternal fire.

8 Likewise also these dreamers defile the flesh, reject authority, and speak evil of [e]dignitaries. 9 Yet Michael the archangel, in [f]contending with the devil, when he disputed about the body of Moses, dared not bring against him a reviling accusation, but said, “The Lord rebuke you!” 10 But these speak evil of whatever they do not know; and whatever they know naturally, like brute beasts, in these things they corrupt themselves. 11 Woe to them! For they have gone in the way of Cain, have run greedily in the error of Balaam for profit, and perished in the rebellion of Korah.

Apostates Depraved and Doomed

12 These are [g]spots in your love feasts, while they feast with you without fear, serving only themselves. They are clouds without water, carried [h]about by the winds; late autumn trees without fruit, twice dead, pulled up by the roots; 13 raging waves of the sea, foaming up their own shame; wandering stars for whom is reserved the blackness of darkness forever.

14 Now Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied about these men also, saying, “Behold, the Lord comes with ten thousands of His saints, 15 to execute judgment on all, to convict all who are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have committed in an ungodly way, and of all the harsh things which ungodly sinners have spoken against Him.”

Apostates Predicted

16 These are grumblers, complainers, walking according to their own lusts; and they mouth great swelling words, flattering people to gain advantage. 17 But you, beloved, remember the words which were spoken before by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ: 18 how they told you that there would be mockers in the last time who would walk according to their own ungodly lusts. 19 These are [i]sensual persons, who cause divisions, not having the Spirit.

Maintain Your Life with God

20 But you, beloved, building yourselves up on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit, 21 keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.

22 And on some have compassion, [j]making a distinction; 23 but others save [k]with fear, pulling them out of the [l]fire, hating even the garment defiled by the flesh.

Glory to God

24 Now to Him who is able to keep [m]you from stumbling,

And to present you faultless

Before the presence of His glory with exceeding joy,

25 To [n]God our Savior,

[o]Who alone is wise,

Be glory and majesty,

Dominion and [p]power,

Both now and forever.

Amen.

Purposes of prayer altars:

1) To attract the presence and activity of the kingdom of God.

Jesus has always been about preaching the kingdom of God, and then healing of the sick.

Today we want to heal the sick but we do not want to preach the kingdom. Today we want to raise the dead but we do not want to preach the kingdom.

But the power of the kingdom is in the altar.

We raise prayer altars to attract the presence and activity of the kingdom of God.

When we raise altars to God, we raise a highway of holiness between earth and heaven. We create a route, a conduit for angels to ascend and descend. We bring the kingdom of God where there is joy, peace and righteousness in the Holy Spirit. The altars begin to influence people in the things of the kingdom of God. The kingdom of God is not just words, the kingdom of God is power.

When we let people raise demonic and Satanic altars of darkness on earth, they raise a network of tunnels connecting that place to hell. These tunnels are used as ways of capturing souls.

2) To be a platform of presenting spiritual cases in courts of the spiritual realm.

In the spirit, it is not who shouts that wins. It is about who is doing it legally. Whatever the enemy is trying to do in your life, city and nation, he is looking for a legal basis to do it.

Without a prayer altar, what you are praying is informal. Being informal, the spirit realm does not recognise it. It is illegal. 

There are prayers that we pray that we do not get answers. But we take them to the altars and present them as a case before God, we are doing it legally.

3) To dissolve curses and establish the blessing.

The prayer altar destroys curses. It is on the altar that you come to confess sins, to offer sacrifices, and to worship God. 

You cannot break a curse but you can dissolve it by bringing the presence of God to remove the curse.

4) To launch out and fight spiritual battles for families, communities and nations.

Spiritual battles are not man against man. Spiritual battles are between an altar and another altar.

Otherwise, it means that you are fighting in your own strength. 

As you raise a prayer altar, you are creating a platform to launch and fight spiritual battles.

5) To establish the influence of the kingdom of God, over individuals, institutions and territories.

If you move in a certain area and you identify key places and you raise prayer altars in those places, you’ll find that the entire place is now influenced by the power and the will of God.

Ordained functions of prayer altars:

1) Gates into the spiritual realm.

When you establish a prayer altar whether in your church or in your home, it becomes a gate.

In Genesis, Abraham raises a prayer altar in a place called Bethel. (Genesis 13:4) After many years, his grandson Jacob finds himself sleeping in that place. While he is sleeping, he has a dream in which he sees the heaven opening. He wakes up and says, “How awesome is this place! This is none other than the house of God; this is the gate of heaven.” (Genesis 28:10-22)

He didn’t pray. He just picked a stone and slept. But that place was an altar some years ago and it remained opened to heaven.

You are not normal. You are from another kingdom. You are here on a mission to establish your kingdom authority and go back. You are an ambassador of another kingdom. You work is to bring the rule of your kingdom into this kingdom of darkness. So wherever you go, you possess by raising altars. You sanctify it, you declare it holy, and you claim it in the name of Jesus. You commission angels to arrest the demons and save the person’s soul. The next person that comes after you will be healed and delivered.

2) Foundations of communities.

Why do you feel like a bird? When the foundations are being destroyed, what can the righteous do? (Psalm 11:1,3)

Spiritual foundations are laid when communities are being formed. Before they build houses, they raise altars as foundations of communities. 

As a man of God, as an apostle of God, as a prophet of God, break evil foundations and raise altars for God that become foundations of communities.

You may go as the Lord’s secret service agents to change the spiritual atmosphere.

3) Command centres of spiritual activities.

In spiritual and physical activities, the real power is at the command centre. It is where information is received and sent out. 

A prayer altar can cause people who are not willing to pray, to pray. 

You can command spiritual activities in an area.

4) Custodians of covenants.

Covenants are stored, established and proclaimed on the prayer altar.

5) Governmental places.

Through prayer altars, you can influence systems of government.

For example, when you raise a prayer altar in your house, a mountain of the Lord’s house is established in your house.

It is on Mount Zion—the mountain that shakes and burns with fire--that innumerable multitudes of angels joyfully gather together; that Jesus the Mediator of the new covenant and the saved and the great men that have gone before us; that the blood of the new covenant that speaks of a better covenant than that of Abel. (Hebrews 12:18-24)

All of these are at the altars on the governmental places.

Because an altar of God is a mountain, Jesus Christ the Mediator is on the altar.Thousands of angels are on the altar. All the men that are in paradise (Elijah, Elisha, Moses, John, Peter, James) are also on the altar. The blood of the new covenant is on the altar. And the blood is not silent. The voice of the blood of Jesus is speaking a better covenant on the altar than the blood that has been condemning all this while. There is a voice 24/7 on the altar.

On Mount Zion, there shall be deliverance, and there shall be holiness. And the house of Jacob and Joseph shall take possessions. (Obadiah 1:17-18)

The prayer altar is a mountain that is not easily destroyed. Demons find it difficult to climb the mountain. Because the mountain of the Lord is above the mountains of the world. (Isaiah 2:1-4)

And on this mountain, the Lord shall establish His will.

6) Maintain cries, voices and sounds of sacrifices.

Cries, voices and sounds are symbols of the spirit realm. 

Sometimes, you may have to blow the shofar. The sound keeps echoing in the spirit realm until it has fulfilled the purposes of God.

As you release the sound, the spirit recognises it and follows what is being declared by the sound.

It is on the prayer altars that we maintain these cries, voices and sounds.

The Lord told Moses that He heard the cry of the people of Israel. (Exodus 3:7-9)

The spirit realm responds quickly to songs and cries than words. Songs and cries are spiritual sounds. That’s why you forget a sermon but not a song. Your deliverance is connected to a certain song. When the Lord is to deliver you, He brings a song of deliverance. When the Lord is to heal you, He brings songs of healing. There’s also songs of salvation and songs of victory because that’s what the spirit world listens to. 

On the prayer altar, there must be a song. 

There is always a song for the season. The heaven releases a song for the season of your life. 

Recognise the song of the altar in a given season and keep singing and get the message in it because that sound will be a memorial in the spirit every time you come onto the altar. Maintain that sound until it has created a cycle, a pattern in the spirit until other altars speak the sound. Then it will become a wave, an atmosphere of the power of God because of that sound.

The children of Israel complained and said how they could sing the Song of the Lord while being held in captivity in Babylon. (Psalm 137)

May the Lord put a song on your lips in this season. May your heart begin to sing the Song of the Lord in this season of revival. May your spirit arise in song in this season of deliverance. 

7) Execute judgments and verdicts.

Declarations and proclamations made at the altar execute the judgments of God and the verdicts of heaven. The angels will run from the altar and bring deliverance. 

2 Samuel 24:10-21 New King James Version (NKJV)

The Judgment on David’s Sin

10 And David’s heart condemned him after he had numbered the people. So David said to the Lord, “I have sinned greatly in what I have done; but now, I pray, O Lord, take away the iniquity of Your servant, for I have done very foolishly.”

11 Now when David arose in the morning, the word of the Lord came to the prophet Gad, David’s seer, saying, 12 “Go and tell David, ‘Thus says the Lord: “I offer you three things; choose one of them for yourself, that I may do it to you.” ’ ” 13 So Gad came to David and told him; and he said to him, “Shall seven[a] years of famine come to you in your land? Or shall you flee three months before your enemies, while they pursue you? Or shall there be three days’ plague in your land? Now consider and see what answer I should take back to Him who sent me.”

14 And David said to Gad, “I am in great distress. Please let us fall into the hand of the Lord, for His mercies are great; but do not let me fall into the hand of man.”

15 So the Lord sent a plague upon Israel from the morning till the appointed time. From Dan to Beersheba seventy thousand men of the people died. 16 And when the [b]angel stretched out His hand over Jerusalem to destroy it, the Lord relented from the destruction, and said to the angel who was destroying the people, “It is enough; now restrain your hand.” And the angel of the Lord was by the threshing floor of [c]Araunahthe Jebusite.

17 Then David spoke to the Lord when he saw the angel who was striking the people, and said, “Surely I have sinned, and I have done wickedly; but these sheep, what have they done? Let Your hand, I pray, be against me and against my father’s house.”

The Altar on the Threshing Floor

18 And Gad came that day to David and said to him, “Go up, erect an altar to the Lord on the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.” 19 So David, according to the word of Gad, went up as the Lord commanded. 20 Now Araunah looked, and saw the king and his servants coming toward him. So Araunah went out and bowed before the king with his face to the ground.

21 Then Araunah said, “Why has my lord the king come to his servant?”

And David said, “To buy the threshing floor from you, to build an altar to the Lord, that the plague may be withdrawn from the people.”

David binds the property to raise an altar to God that the plague may be withdrawn from the people.

Protocols of prayer altars:

Protocols are systems of rules that explain the correct conduct and procedures to be followed in formal situations.

When it comes to praying on the altar, it is a formal situation.

An altar is a time and place sanctioned, set apart and sanctified for formal spiritual activities and transactions by a recognised authority.

In a family, there is an authority. In every altar, there must be an authority.

1) Protocol of faith.

Hebrews 11:4 New King James Version (NKJV)

Faith at the Dawn of History

4 By faith Abel offered to God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, through which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts; and through it he being dead still speaks.

God rejected the sacrifice of Cain because he brought a sacrifice without faith.

Hebrews 11:5 New King James Version (NKJV)

5 By faith Enoch was taken away so that he did not see death, “and was not found, because God had taken him”; for before he was taken he had this testimony, that he pleased God.

Hebrews 11:6 New King James Version (NKJV)

6 But without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him.

We come to the altar by faith.

The just shall live by faith. (Habakkuk 2:4) 

The righteous shall live by faith, not by sight. (2 Corinthians 5:7)

How does faith come? Faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God and the word of Christ. (Romans 10:17)

Come to the altar by keep on hearing and reading the word so that your faith is strengthened. Then you can discover the altar.

The word of God is spiritual food for the soul. (1 Corinthians 10:3-4) You need a full course of spiritual food, not a few verses here and there. That’s why so many people are malnourished in the spirit. 

2) Protocol of honour.

Leviticus 10:2-3 New King James Version (NKJV)

2 So fire went out from the Lord and devoured them, and they died before the Lord. 3 And Moses said to Aaron, “This is what the Lord spoke, saying:

‘By those who come near Me

I must be regarded as holy;

And before all the people

I must be glorified.’ ”

Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, brought "strange fire" (unauthorised, foreign or profane) to the altar and the fire of the Lord consumed them.

The prayer altar is serious business. Stop all the games. 

God is holy. When He comes, He comes in His holiness. 

And because God is holy, you need to be holy. Men and women that God has trusted with revival have to be holy. Honour God as God.

Where is the fear of God in the church? Service starts at 8 and you only start your journey at 8:30? You fear your spouse more than God. You fear your bosses at work than God. 

God says, “Do not use My name in vain.” But people use His name as a full stop. For example, “I shall slap you in the name of Jesus” or “Come here in the name of Jesus.”

What are you doing? That name is holy. It should be feared. At the mention of that name, every knee must bow.

But you are playing with that name.

Do not defile the name of the Lord.

The name of the Lord is holy.

Jesus Himself calls God “Father.”

The fear of God must be back to our churches.

3) Protocol of harmony and agreement.

Matthew 5:23-25 New King James Version (NKJV)

23 Therefore if you bring your gift to the altar, and there remember that your brother has something against you, 24 leave your gift there before the altar, and go your way. First be reconciled to your brother, and then come and offer your gift. 25 Agree with your adversary quickly, while you are on the way with him, lest your adversary deliver you to the judge, the judge hand you over to the officer, and you be thrown into prison.

How many people are raising altars but are not talking to one another?

You cannot reconcile with fellow men and now you are coming to the church altar.

Before you come to the altar, there must be harmony and agreement. You must be in the same spirit.

But for most people, our altars have become places of competition to prove who is more spiritual, who speaks more tongues and better tongues, and who prophesies and sees in the spirit.

That’s why our altars are weak. We are not in the prayer covenant and we are not in agreement. There is only confusion. 

The Holy Spirit is not a spirit of confusion. 

There must be harmony and agreement at the prayer altar.

Matthew 18:19-20 New King James Version (NKJV)

19 “Again[a] I say to you that if two of you agree on earth concerning anything that they ask, it will be done for them by My Father in heaven. 20 For where two or three are gathered together in My name, I am there in the midst of them.”

Power of prayer altars:

1) Integrity of the priesthood.

The person has to be holy. You cannot be hurting everyone in church and be in charge of the prayer altar. You cannot be the one breaking marriages in prophecies and be interceding for the church.

Why people do not come to the altar is because the so-called intercessors at the altar are the source of problem for the ministry.

The priest—the one at the altar—must be the one who walks without blame and has a great life’s testimony. Where is your testimony, even at home?

2) Consistency of the sacrifice.

3) Status of the ruling spirit.

The Holy Spirit is the spirit of revival and transformation.

4) Timing and seasons of operation.

Preservation of prayer altars:

Preserve against:

1) Familiar spirits.

They are church-going people who still talk to the dead. (Eg. “My dead mother still comes to give me instructions. My dead grandfather comes and tells me what to do” or “My pastor comes. My pastor is Jesus. I hear His voice in my room” or “The Holy Spirit has come on my head, then it moves to my hands, and it’s now on my feet.”) When the ghost of Samuel appeared to Saul after his death, it was a familiar spirit. (1 Samuel 28)

2) Jezebel spirits.

Jezebel spirits love to prophesy. They like to show that spiritually, they are greater than you. Jezebel spirits love to control. (eg. “God is telling me…, God has shown me…”)

3) Spirit of sorcery.

The spirit of sorcery defiles the mind and brings false knowledge. Sorcery corrupts the mind. It brings spiritual practices and activities that are not acceptable before God. (eg. Necromancy, transcendental meditation, oriental things, Scientology) There’s also false dreams, lying visions and strange powers. The altar is now a place of demonstrating power.

4) Spirit of infirmities.

Spirit of infirmities brings sickness and diseases on the altar. Everyone becomes sick until they cannot pray.

5) Leviathan spirit.

Leviathan is the spirit of pride. Leviathan is the father of pride.

Watch against these powers that defile and break altars.

When the enemy cannot destroy you, he will join you on the altar to defile you and the Lord rejects your altar.

People are believing in objects. Now people are carrying pictures of men of God.

People are believing in oil than the Holy Spirit, and say, “In the name of Jesus, go!” That’s witchcraft. You’ve become a witch now.

Jesus is enough. The name of Jesus is enough. Do not bring other things to add on the name of Jesus. Do not carry Jesus on the handkerchiefs, on stones and on sticks. That is evil!

We need the Holy Spirit in us, not in the stick. Or in the bottle. So when they steal the bottle, they steal the Holy Spirit?

Lord, I thank You that Your name is enough. I am more than a conqueror. I overcome every familiar spirit, the spirit of Jezebel, the spirit of sorcery, the spirit of infirmities, the Leviathan spirit in the name of Jesus. In the name of Jesus, I have victory over the spirit of fear, disease, torment, pain. I defeat every evil spirit, force, principality, personality, power, throne in the name of Jesus. In the name of Jesus, I turn every defeat into victory. I plead the blood of Jesus upon my family, my home, my children, my office, my body. On this altar, there shall be deliverance, healing and transformation. In the name of Jesus, I overcome and defeat the spirit of sorcery and witchcraft in my family, in my bloodline, and in my community. No weapon formed against me will prosper. I declare that victory belongs to Jesus. Amen.

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