Written by Dr Daniel Olukoya
There are many human beings who are already dumped into the dustbin
of life and they are weeping and crying. Sometimes ago, something
happened in one city in the western part of Nigeria. It was noticed that
a man had a big farm and the farm was prospering. The produce from the
farm was very good. But the surprising thing was that no one had ever
seen any worker on that farm, yet it was the largest farm around and
belonged to one old man. The man’s son used to wonder about the farm. He
did not understand who was planting the crops because he knew that his
father was old and could not do much. As he began to cleverly study his
father, he discovered that anytime he arrived at the farm, he would wash
his face with some concoction. One day, the son used the concoction to
wash his face and he saw the people working on the farm. They were
people who had died in the village. Imagine his father’s wickedness.
Holding down people who were dead to serve him before they go to hell.
The devil had traded their souls to the old man. When they died the man
bought their souls to work in the farm. The boy screamed when he saw
them. Then his father knew that he had touched the concoction. He ran
after him but could not catch him because of his old age. The son
disappeared into town screaming. Until now no one had seen the old man
again. The farm is still there.
If you allow your soul to be sold, it is your own business. That is
why when you come to the house of God, you better face your business. Do
not waste time on joking with the enemy or on things that do not
concern you. If you do, your disorder will multiply. It will be a major
disaster if you finish reading this message without having a touch from
heaven.
God has a purpose for everything He does. The fact that someone is
walking about does not mean that the person is alive in the book of the
Almighty. He may be moving about, breathing or going to church, but by
God’s reckoning, he might have died 20 years ago. God has a purpose for
your life. Before you were born He has written certain things about your
life. The enemy can see those things, therefore he can cause destiny
disorder if he succeeds in grabbing your soul. So, the most precious
material on planet earth is the soul of a man. The devil is after it,
God too is after it. When Peter said to Jesus, “You cannot die like
that, how can you die?” He looked at Peter and said, “The Son of man
goeth as it is written of Him.” Something was written about you. Is that
thing in disorder now? If it is in disorder, then the soul sellers have
done their worst.
Sometimes ago, a woman gave birth and somebody visited her at the
maternity. She gave her baby to the visitor while she went to the
toilet. Shortly after, another visitor came in. As she came out of the
toilet, she overheard her two visitors arguing and wondered what was
happening to them. Immediately she got into the room, they became quiet.
She said, “If two of you do not tell me what you were discussing,
somebody must die here today.” Then one of them said, “When I got here,
my friend had already removed four and she wanted to remove the other
three. So, all I was saying is that she should leave the other three for
me.” They were referring to the stars on the head of the newly born
baby. This is the wickedness going on in the world.
There is no need to be alive if your life does not fulfill its divine
destiny. Once your soul has been sold off, unless it is bought back,
you may not be able to fulfill the destiny that the Lord has for you.
For several years I thought Biology in secondary school, and in an adult
education school where the youngest person in my class was 36 years
old. One day, I taught about amoeba for three hours. After the lecture, I
said, “Any question?” A bald headed man at the middle said he had a
question. He said, “During the wedding of Amoeba who collects the
dowry?” I was shocked because it means that he did not understand
anything out of everything I had said for three hours. The trouble with
that fellow was that he was doing the right thing at the wrong time. It
is destiny disorder. He might have been interested in going to school
but witches had eaten up the money of all those who would have financed
his education. He might have had the brain but was unable to go to
school. His destiny was in a mess.
Nahum 3:3 says, “The horsemen lifteth up both the bright sword and
glittering spear: and there is a multitude of slain, and a great number
of carcasses, and there is none end of their corpses, they stumble upon
their corpses.” What is responsible for these corpses? Verse 4 says,
“Because of the multitude of the whoredom of the well-favoured harlot,
the mistress of witchcrafts, that selleth nations through her whoredom
and families through her witchcrafts.”
SOUL TRADERS
1. Witchcraft Powers: The first major sellers of souls are witchcraft
powers. We can see where their activities have led the black man today.
Unfortunately, they have wangled their way into many churches. In fact,
in many places today, it is mostly the witches who say, “Thus says the
Lord.” And many people go to them for prayers out of ignorance. Most
times in their prayer, it is only names like Olodumare, Osanobua,
Chineke that would be mentioned. They do not mention the word Jesus.
When human fell in the Garden of Eden, the religion he turned to was
witchcraft because he fell in rebellion. Rebellion is as the sin of
witchcraft. I used to think that Taiye and Kehinde (twins) love
themselves until I saw a Kehinde who told me that she had put the life
of her Taiye on the shelve, that until she married and had three or four
children, her Taiye would not marry. Both of them came from the same
womb but look at what witchcraft has done. We need to be aggressive if
we do not want soul traders to sell us off. A lot of people have been
sold already so they do not understand what is going on. Perhaps you
have been sold already and do not know. During the slave trade, they
just went to a village, capture some people and sold them off like that.
It is often said that the people who look are very many but the
people who see are very few. The greatest enemy of man is not outside
him, it is inside. Unless the internal defeat is registered, external
defeat can never come. Unfortunately, many people who come to the house
of God do not possess this ability to see. There is a need to pray the
prayer of Elisha who said to his servant, “Brother, do not worry, those
who are with us are more than those who are with them.” And straight
away the servant could see two armies - the armies of the Lord and their
own army.
The foundation of spiritual failure that the modern man is
experiencing is due to spiritual blindness. A person has been sold but
he does not know. A person has been thrown into jail but he does not
know. A person is wearing a three-piece suit and is studying for Ph.D.
in the university but already he has been sold. Evil birds have eaten up
the good seed planted in many lives. For instance, do you know the real
life you are supposed to be living? Many people do not know. Have your
enemies converted you to a hewer of wood and drawer of water? Look at
yourself. Is your correct life dead or alive?
Have your dreams and visions, been extinguished? Are you a living
dead? Is there anything that makes you to accept an inferior or disabled
life as your life? Is there anything that keeps you permanently
depressed and unhappy? Are you deceiving yourself by having a form of
godliness but denying the power thereof? Are you the type of person who
will x-ray a man or woman in the laboratory of your heart?
Perhaps you are not who you should be now. The real life of many
people exist only in the dream. They count money in the dream but they
live in penury in real life. They own companies only in the dream but
are jobless here. They preach to thousands of people in the dream but
are powerless here. They live in houses in the dream but here they have
three quit notice letters.
There is something you must destroy today. You must refuse to be
caged or boxed in by the enemy. You must re[1]fuse to accept the satanic
substitute for your destiny. You must pray and get your unused things,
and your buried Lazarus must resurrect. You must renounce the curse of
powerless living. You must disallow the enemy from dulling the edge of
your sword. You must disallow the enemy from closing down the factory of
your life. You must refuse the call from the camp of the enemy that you
should drop your weapon.
2. The second means through which souls are sold is prophetic
manipulation: This is where many people make mistakes. That is why the
Mountain of Fire and Miracles Ministries is a do it yourself church. It
is not a place where “the man of God must pray for me” syndrome is
welcomed. No. It is a “do it yourself” place. When people surrender the
totality of themselves to the prophet, they are looking for destiny
disorder because when God does not give a message and you ask the
prophet, “What do you see?” He may give you an information that is not
from God. The work of a man of God is a work of high responsibility. Men
of God have to be very careful.
The devil knows that people believe their pastors and would do
whatever they ask them to do so he looks for his men and pushes them
into the position of fake men of God who give people demonically
inspired prophecies to confuse their lives. Sometimes, parents go to the
fake prophets behind their children to make their children do what they
want. For example, a parent could go to such a prophet and say,
“Prophet, there is one fine man coming to look for our daughter but we
don’t know what is wrong with the girl, she is chasing away the fine
man. What we want you to do is to call her and tell her that the man is
her husband.” The prophet would then call the girl and say to her: “Is
there anyone coming to visit you at home? That person is your husband.”
He says this without prayer or revelation. The sister too is not given
time to pray. That way, her destiny is put in disorder.
Several years ago, a pregnant sister going to the market met a white
garment prophet who said, “Thus says the Lord: Unless you bring this or
that you will die with this pregnancy.” She held on to his clothes and
said, “You must reverse what you have said if not, you will not leave
this place.” People started gathering and saying, “Sister, leave the man
of God alone.” She told them what he said and said they should ask him
to reverse it. The people now said, “Why did you deliver such a message
to the woman?. Reverse it quickly.” Then he said, “You will deliver
safely,” etc.
Several years ago, another sister came and said that a prophet in her
mother’s church told her that she would die, that I should pray for her
and cancel it. I said, “No. You go back and tell the prophet that your
pastor said, I should tell you that you will die.” She went and the
prophet did not last beyond the next seven days. The arrow of death went
back to its sender. The devil has a way of gluing one’s mind to evil
prophecies. If you know that evil prophecies have been uttered against
you by astrologers, unholy prophets, herbalists or that any ungodly
person has foretold your future, pray this prayer point aggressively:
Every satanic programme for my destiny, die, in the name of Jesus.
3. Joining yourself to a harlot: If you sleep with a man or woman
outside marriage, you introduce disorder into your life. The Bible tells
us that you become one with a sex partner. If you have gone with up to
30 to 40 men or women, it means that is your life has been fragmented
into many pieces. You need to pray. The destiny of Samson was reversed
because of this. The way he ended up was not God’s plan for his life. It
was a plan of the powers of wickedness. A man who sleeps with a married
or single woman outside marriage is digging his own grave. You may
think you are enjoying yourself. No. You are putting your life into
disorder.
4. Contamination from the womb: This is the reason pregnant women
have to be careful where they go. Drinking concoctions, attaching
strange things to your dresses, paying aimless and useless visits and
consumption of demonic food will cause destiny disorder.
5. Idol worship: God hates idol worship with perfect hatred. If you
check your name and find something idolatrous about it, that should tell
you that there is destiny disorder in place. You must cut off every
linkage with that kind of thing.
6. Anger: Anger can manifest itself in several ways. It may be in
shouting, slamming the door, abusive language, pounding on the tables or
the ground, throwing objects at people, or destroying objects. It may
be fighting, senseless argument or negative and critical comments. It
may be strange look, hissing, hatred, depression or murder. Anyone with
the spirit of anger already has a spirit that will put his destiny in
disorder. Anger will control that person if it is not controlled. It is a
powerful killer of spiritual lives. Angry people normally have retarded
spiritual growth and crippled spiritual lives. They quarrel often and
so they cannot pray. Angry people have bad testimony. It destroys their
ability to serve the Lord and puts their destiny in disorder.
7. Household wickedness: There are many examples of this in the
Bible. Jesus told us in Matthew 10:36 that the enemies of a man shall be
members of his own household. Eve was used by the devil against Adam.
Cain was used against Abel, Lot against Abraham and Jacob against Esau.
Joseph’s brethren dealt with him. Miriam, Moses’ sister who took Moses
out of the river was against him. Absalom overthrew his father. Judas
Iscariot one of Jesus’ 12 disciples was household wickedness to Jesus.
We need to pray, not the type of prayer the enemy will hear and
rejoice. The first thing we need to do is to repent before the Lord of
anything that has given the enemy the ground to sell our souls or tamper
with our lives. We need to ask God to forgive us so that we can start
moving forward. After asking for forgiveness, we will move on and
identify the disorder, and then call God into our situation. It will be a
tragedy after reading this message you do not receive the touch of God.
The Bible says, “The Son of man goeth as it is written.” Are you going
as God has written of you, or you are going as your enemy has written?
Or are you going according to verdict of witchcraft? You have the
opportunity to ask God to forgive you.
If you are reading this and you are yet to surrender to Jesus, you
better do so quickly before you move into the prayer section. Otherwise
you cannot introduce order into your life. If you want to surrender your
life to Jesus, pray this prayer: “Lord Jesus, I come before you and
confess my sins. Forgive me, O Lord, and cleanse me with your precious
blood. Come into my life now. Take control of my life, in Jesus' name.
Amen.”
PRAYER POINTS
- O Lord, let my prayer arrow bring results, in Jesus’ name.
- (Use your right hand to cover your two eyes as you pray this
prayer with faith): Oh Lord, reveal hidden things to me that will
move me forward, in the name of Jesus.
- Every power that has refused to allow my star to operate, die, in Jesus’ name.
- I recover my stolen stars by fire, in the name of Jesus.
- I recover my stolen stars by thunder, in the name of Jesus.
- I reject every evil prophecy, in the name of Jesus.
