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Healing the Body

Pr James Kawalya

Proverbs 17:22 New King James Version (NKJV)
22 A merry heart [a]does good, like medicine,
But a broken spirit dries the bones.

Proverbs 18:14 New King James Version (NKJV)
14 The spirit of a man will sustain him in sickness,
But who can bear a broken spirit?

What is the connection between the body, the soul and the spirit?

1 Thessalonians 5:23 New King James Version (NKJV)
Blessing and Admonition



23 Now may the God of peace Himself sanctify[a] you completely; and may your whole spirit, soul, and body be preserved blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

The body has bones, flesh, tissues, glands, nerves, veins and organs. The body also has systems.

All these parts in the body connect with the same parts in the soul.

All those in the soul connect with the same parts in the spirit.

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What you see as sickness in the body, especially those where the doctors say there is no pathological cause, is showing you the state of the man’s spirit.

We need to know how life flows from the spirit to the soul into the body. Whatever we see in our body starts in the spirit as a spiritual substance.

For example, faith. Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. (Hebrews 11:1)

When we believe in God, it comes as a faith in the spirit. In the spirit, healing comes as a substance. It can be released as faith, joy, peace, righteousness but it must go through a system to be converted into medicine.

It starts as a substance of faith. From the spirit, it comes to the heart. And the heart converts it from just faith to peptides. For it to come from the spirit where it is faith, the heart converts it into something. That something is sent to the mind and the mind will tell the brain and the brain will tell the glands and the glands will release the right hormones to heal the organ.

For many people, they have faith but they never touch it; they have faith but they are never healed because they do not understand how the spirit is connected to the soul and how the soul connects with the body.

Where are the connection points?

The spirit connects with the soul through the heart. Faith brings peace, joy and hope to your heart. (Romans 5:1-5) The heart then sends the information to the mind and the mind will begin to see the possibilities. The brain will then command the lymphatic system. The lymphatic system is where we find the lymphocytes, a certain type of white blood cells that fight. The lymphatic system will tell the brain that there is not enough lymphocytes and will then command the bone marrow to release more and the body starts to be healed.

This is how life flows from the spirit into the body.


Flow of spiritual life

SPIRIT
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SOUL
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BODY
destiny
desires
dreams
HEART
MIND
WORDS

In the spirit, it begins as destiny, purposes and the will of God. It is part of your destiny to be alive and be healthy, not to be sick.

The heart is the converter. The heart receives power and energy in a spiritual form and converts the spiritual into emotional. It converts faith into the right emotions the bring healing to the body.

Every healing begins with the healing of your heart. People are sick in the body because life is not flowing from the spirit through the heart into the soul and into the body. So if we are to bring healing to the masses, we must know how to be men and women that bring healing to the heart. Some hearts are too faulty that when the power comes to them, there is a backflow. Power goes back to the spirit and crushes the spirit. That’s why we have a crushed spirit. (Proverbs 18:14)

Laughter is medicine to the heart. When you laugh, different positive peptides are released and the body begins to heal itself because of laughing. This is not spiritual as we know it. Laughter that heals the heart converts faith and power in the spirit into the right emotions. We are not healed because we are not in the mood to be healed and our hearts are releasing wrong, negative and dangerous emotions.

Emotion means energy in motion. And energy is power.

The heart converts faith into joy. The joy of the Lord becomes your strength. During the time of prayer and the release of faith, you feel joy in the heart. The joy in the heart is communicated to the mind and the brain then commands the lymphatic system, the endocrine system and the nervous system to connect with the soul and brings joy from the soul to become a physical substance to be released in the bloodstream. The blood now flows to where the organ is sick and the organ receives the medicine. A merry and cheerful heart is medicine.

When you are sick, you get an injection. Injection is the act of putting a certain liquid into a person’s body using a needle and a syringe. That liquid intends to excite a certain organ. It dupes the system and deceives the organ to think it is the brain that is releasing the chemical. When the organ receives many lies, it begins to reject it and becomes resistant. So you are in pain and you take painkillers but the pain won’t go away because the organ has learned about your lie and it begins to send back the lie. That’s what you call side effects.

From the spirit, it goes into the soul and creates a desire. Jesus would always say that you have faith but have you converted it into a desire?  Do you have the zeal and the inspiration? Do you have the inner drive or the afflatus?

The mind picks the desire in the soul and sends it to the body as a dream. The dream intends to tell the brain to do the right thing.

From the spirit, power and energy may come as blessing. Blessing is spiritual substance. You can be blessed in the spirit but poor in the body. Blessing is converted from the substance called blessing into the right emotion of the blessed and into the right confession until it manifests.

Interrelation of the spirit, soul and body
Our entire being (spirit, soul and body) are intimately related in all parts. There is a spiritual heart as well as a physical heart.

The way the natural body is assembled is similar to how the spiritual body is put together. Your soul is exactly as you are in the body. Your spirit is exactly as you are in the body. The three are connected. Your spirit and your soul are connected by a silver cord. The silver cord breaks and you die. (Ecclesiastes 12:6-7)

You need to know why men and women of God do things when they are praying for you for healing. Are laying hands a spiritual ritual? A man of God gets faith and the heart gives it the right emotion but he needs to impart that into your body so that your body receives a spiritual injection that causes the system to react.

For example, a person abuses you and your physical heart is in pain. Someone calls you a name and physically the heart is sick. Your heart is hurt.

Or someone says something that is good and tears start to flow from your eyes. Tears are a physical substance. The body is releasing it because it has gotten a spiritual information.

The person touches you physically but he has released something from the spirit into your spirit and into your soul and now your soul is connecting with your body and is causing your body to heal itself.

Each one of the components of the spirit has its equivalent in the soul.

The soul and the spirit connect with the body through joints, ligaments, nodules, plexuses and glands.

It is in your joints and ligaments that your soul connects with your body. (Colossians 2:19)

In your body, there is a system that is a conductor of energy—the carrier of power. It is the system where the anointing flows. You feel the anointing in the lymphatic system (thymus, spleen, bones). That’s why the prophet Jeremiah says he feels God’s Word burning like fire in his bones. (Jeremiah 20:9) The Word is spiritual and is connected to his body through a system in the body.

There are points in your body that are more sensitive than others. Those are gates that connect your body to your soul.

Power comes in the spirit. From the spirit, it comes into the soul. From the soul, it comes into the body.

Most sicknesses have a connection with the nerves. The nerves are not sending the right information to the organ and it is starving. There is iniquity in the organ that the nerves cannot touch. The iniquity has insulated the organ and it is dying.

We have the nervous system (plexuses), the endocrine system (glands) and the lymphatic system (nodules).

It has been proven that it is not only the brain that learns but you can also train other parts of the body to learn something as the brain learns it because the systems are connected.

All sicknesses begin in the spirit as a spiritual substance and sends the information into the heart and the heart begins to cause the body to believe that you are sick. Your body is not wise enough to know whether you are sick or not. You have to convince it. “I think I am sick.”

From “I think I am sick” becomes “I think I have a headache.” You go to the doctor and he tells you that you have cancer. You tell your body that you have cancer. Your body then thinks that cancer means rebellion and tells the cells in your body to rebel. Cancer cells are rebellious cells—they rebel against the organ and seduce and convince other cells. It is the rebellion that comes and releases the wrong emotion. It produces bitterness.

The problem is not cancer; the problem is rebellion. Go in the spirit to deal with the rebellion, heal the heart and it then produces joy, forgiveness, mercy and love, the brain will command the glands to change and release that which connects with joy, and the body will begin to heal itself. After the rebellion is dealt with, in the soul there will be a desire to live. The desire to live causes you to become obedient and you learn to forgive. By forgiving, the body says, “Okay, that’s what you want now” and the brain releases the right substance and the body heals itself.

Jesus came to make you whole. (Colossians 2:9-10)

Anything that is negative that comes to the heart produces negative emotions that begin to interfere with the chemistry of the body. The toxic chemicals interfere with the flow of energy in the body.

An organ is sick because it is not getting enough power.

That’s why when you pray and pray and pray and the organ gets the right charge, the germs or the disease or the bacteria has to leave because the charge in the organ does not accommodate it.

The organs inside can be so charged that the charge comes onto the skin that when you touch someone and the person feels the anointing.

You need to have the right emotion. Emotions are created when people see the right image. [Editor’s note: Taste and see that the LORD is good. (Psalm 34:8)]
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Stand on the Hill

Bro Dennis Ignatius
03-06-2018

Exodus 17:8-13 English Standard Version (ESV)
Israel Defeats Amalek
8 Then Amalek came and fought with Israel at Rephidim. 9 So Moses said to Joshua, “Choose for us men, and go out and fight with Amalek. Tomorrow I will stand on the top of the hill with the staff of God in my hand.” 10 So Joshua did as Moses told him, and fought with Amalek, while Moses, Aaron, and Hur went up to the top of the hill. 11 Whenever Moses held up his hand, Israel prevailed, and whenever he lowered his hand, Amalek prevailed. 12 But Moses' hands grew weary, so they took a stone and put it under him, and he sat on it, while Aaron and Hur held up his hands, one on one side, and the other on the other side. So his hands were steady until the going down of the sun. 13 And Joshua overwhelmed Amalek and his people with the sword.

For years we have mumbled and grumbled.

One man stands up and says, "I will take the staff of God and stands on the hill."

1) There is the man (Exodus 3:10)

God looks for a man or a woman and says, "I am sending you."

Moses asks, "Who am I?"

"Why should they believe me?"

"I'm not good enough."

"I don't speak with authority."

"I'm not the right person. Please send somebody else."

Elijah, Jeremiah, Isaiah, Ezekiel, Gideon all responded the same way. All of them felt inadequate and unready. 

In spite of that, He comes to us and says, "Will you partner with me?"

"I will be with you." (Exodus 3:12)

To Moses, He says: "I have made you like God to Pharaoh." (Exodus 7:1)

That's who you are in Christ. Because of who He is and what He has done in you.

God knows our weaknesses and failings. He wants to turn our weaknesses into strength, our fears into faith, our setbacks into comebacks.

He never looks for people who are strong. He is not looking for a great man for God. He is looking for a man who has faith in a great God.

2) There is the staff.

"What is that in your hand?" (Exodus 4:2)

Staff of Moses becomes the Staff of God--a symbol of His anointing and promises and everything that God wanted to do through Moses.

Every believer has a staff. God has given every believer a staff. 

It is the anointing of the Holy Spirit.

People can't see it but people can see the power.

He has anointed you. That is the staff that every believer carries.

"If you have faith... nothing shall be impossible to you." (Matthew 17:20)

"Signs shall follow them thst believe." (Mark 16:17)

"Authority over all the power of the enemy." (Luke 10:19)

"I have given them the glory that You gave me." (John 17:22)

"You shall receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you." (Acts 1:18)

"You are more than a conqueror." (Romans 8:17)

To each is given the manifestation of the Spirit..." (1 Corinthians 12:7)

"Every promise is yes and amen in Christ." (2 Corinthians 1:20)

What does it all mean to me? Is it wholly exaggeration?

We have not yet seen those greater things. How dare we become complacent?

To have faith in God is to have faith in what God has done in and through you.

There is no such thing as an ordinary Christian.

It is not easy to carry this staff.

God has to keep reminding Moses to take His staff.

Don't expect God to do what God is expecting you to do.

The Battle of Rephidim (Exodus 17:8-16): The signs follow those who believe.

The promise of the Holy Spirit is for you, for your children and for all who are a far off.

We can use that passion and fire.

Never ever forget that encounter.

We all have the bible. What's your excuse not to use it to teach? We have the word of God and we have never bothered to read it. Read it and listen to what God is saying.

If you don't preach, you won't see people saved.

If you don't lay hands on people and pray, you won't see people healed.

If we don't stand on that hill, we won't see the victory.

It is all about God.

Just be faithful.

3) There is the Hill. (Exodus 17:9)

From Hored to Rephidim.

We come to church to be equipped.

Our destination is not the pew to just sit in church.

What's your ministry? What does God call you to be?

See ourselves as priests and ministers unto God--ambassadors for God.

We have all been called to serve. Discover where He wants us to be. 

God sees each and every one of us as ministers.

Even now God sees the tears of His people. God hears their cry and He is asking, "Whom shall I send?"

God wants to send you out. You want God to send the revival to you in the church but God wants to send the revival out.

No ministry is more important than the other. God values each and every one of them.

He is just waiting for you to say "Yes." 

It is not easy to stand on the hill. It gets lonely up on the hill.

Hold on to that staff. Hold on to the promises of God.

Sometimes we bleed. Sometimes we feel the loss of a loved one.

That's the time we have to hold on to that staff and the promises of God and climb that hill.

Lift our hands to God. "I am done but God is not done yet."

You are the man/woman.

You have a staff. Don't be embarrassed of what God has done in and through you.

You belong on a hill. There is a place of ministry. Take your place and do what God has called you to do.

There is no greater privilege than serving God and praying for somebody.


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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.
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

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