FINALY, on this series, it is not only individuals that fall prey to satanic chains. Families, villages, cities, countries, even churches go into bondages. The primary aim of the kingdom of darkness is to keep people from the light of the gospel, deny them God's blessings and control them permanently.We have also said earlier that the devil does not want humans to have a close walk with God. He knows the benefit of this type of relationship because he had once enjoyed it. He is envious of the position of man in God's programme. He hates man and consequently, will do everything possible to keep him in perpetual bondage.On the family level, many live in terrible bondages. Some are in bondages of sickness, failure, and poverty. Others live in sinful habits. Some suffer because of attacks or evil arrows shot into their families by agents of the dark kingdom. Other families have brought satanic yokes upon themselves through worship and sacrifice to demonic spirits. Some even have altars to these false gods in their homes. Some parents dedicated or introduced their children into this worship of demons (occultism). All these attract chains and bondages into lives of members of such family. If your parents or forefathers served demons or practiced occultism, there is urgent need for you to undergo deliverance, to break satanic chains off your life. Through persistent midnight prayers, such satanic yokes and covenants in the family can be broken.Then, there are cities, villages, towns and countries that are also bound with satanic chains and are kept in the enemy's prisons. You know this by the way the people live or by things that happen in their environment. There are places you go and immediately you will detect in the spirit the demons that are in operation. Others worship different kinds of demonic territorial spirits and principalities. I know of a village in the Eastern part of Nigeria that serves a demon that lives in a lake. When it is time to sacrifice to the demon, the chief priest will take a live goat to the lake. The man will take the animal close to the bank, while holding the rope tied to the neck. He would make some incantations and immediately a fish-like creature would come out of the water and start moving towards the goat. The creature would swiftly chop off the head of the animal and swim back into the water. The worshippers would begin to rejoice that the deity has accepted their sacrifice. They would return home to feast with the headless body of the animal.Some of these spirits hinder development, progress and even the gospel from going into these places. The solution is engaging these demonic forces in midnight battles. Sometimes they will resist; even threaten the person's life. In some cases, it will take many nights. But if you stand your ground and persist, they would definitely be forced to leave.The bible said in Ephesians 6:10: 'Be strong with the Lord's mighty power, put on all of God's armour so that you will be able to stand firm against all strategies and tricks of the Devil. For we are not fighting against people made of flesh and blood, but against the evil rulers and authorities of the unseen world, against those mighty powers of darkness who rule this world and against wicked spirits in the heavenly realms.'I hope that message is very clear' The enemies we are battling with (the dark kingdom) are a formidable and highly organised force. So you must know your stand in God and the dynamics of the war before you go into it. We will treat this (How to prepare for these battles) later.Churches and ministries can also be in satanic chains. This might sound incredible to some people, but it is true. Demonic forces can hold down a church that is not moving in the fullness of the power and the spirit of God.It is very easy to detect such churches. The symptoms are; lack of holiness, lack of development (physical and spiritual), and rapid decrease in membership, stagnation, constant quarrelling and hatred among the members, and even among the ministers. We see all these happening in some of our churches today. All these are caused by powers of darkness to make sure that the affected churches do not fulfill God's programme for them. The devil knows very well that a united church is the avenue through which God wants to spread His will, display His power and ultimately humiliate him. So he will do everything to see that the church does not expand and is also kept in permanent confusion.I was once led to serve in a church in the oil-rich city of Port Harcourt in Nigeria. This church had existed for 13 years before we came. Up till the time we came, the-not-too large building was yet to be completed. There were no doors, no windows nor ceiling in the church. The membership was going down rapidly. Only a few friends from the same tribe kept coming to the place. The power of God was not there and very few people were making what looked like progress at the place. And not just that, the members and ministers lived in immorality and practiced witchcraft, even inside the church.You needed no prophet to tell you that this was a completely dead church; held down by the powers of the dark kingdom. When we came there, God led us to form a praying and deliverance team. (It is imperative for every church to have a standing and formidable praying and deliverance team). We started having prayer meetings every night in that church. Sometimes we would fast in the daytime, and then come to the church to pray through the night. I mean real intercessory prayers. We did that continuously for several months.What was the result' The power of God came mightily upon the church. The chains and yokes of Satan were broke. The powers of darkness were chased away, though not without fierce resistance. But God prevailed. Miracles, signs, wonders and powerful deliverances began to take place in the church. Consequently, the membership grew rapidly. The once dead church was revived. The building completed and the members began to prosper tremendously. The members also became more dedicated to God.This is what midnight prayers can do. In fact, we extended such programmes to other churches and also got the same results. The glory, power and blessings of God will come down when the church learns how to exploit the power of midnight prayers.
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