the battle against the wasters

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THE BATTLE AGAINST THE WASTERSDr. D. K. Olukoya

The Bible says that no man can enter into the house of a strongman and spoil his goods

except he first binds the strongman. This book focuses on the activity of the evil powers that

has dealt a deadly blow on the black race in particular and has truncated its developmental

process. We are talking about the power of the wasters. These wasters must be dealt with for

they are responsible for destroying God’s plans for individuals. Therefore, I want you to pray

the following prayer points before we continue:

1. Every virtue of my life that the enemy is sitting upon, come to me by fire, in the name of

Jesus.

2. Anything planted into my life to disgrace me, come out now, in the name of Jesus.

A man of God went to preach in a particular place and as a mark of courtesy, he first of all

went to the palace of the chief of the town. He greeted the chief and preached the gospel of

our Lord Jesus Christ to him. The king challenged him by telling him to first assist them solve

a problem they had with their river and then they would listen to his message. So, the man of

God went to the river and prayed for seven hours. Then the demons in charge of the river

came out and protested that they be left alone to accomplish their mission of spoiling the lives

of the inhabitants of that place. A dialogue then ensued between the man of God and the

demons. The man of God asked them whether they were the ones that got to the location

before the river and they said that the river got there before them. So, the man of God said,

“Since it is the river that got here before you, then you are strangers and it is written that the

strangers shall fade away, and be afraid out of their close places.” (Psalms 18:45.) That was

how he succeeded in chasing them away and, of course, he need not preach much for the

villagers to accept Christ for they had seen the raw power of God.

Isaiah 54:16: “Behold I have created the smith that bloweth the coals in the fire, and that

bringeth forth an instrument for his work, and I have created the waster to destroy.”

Verse 17 goes further to say that, “No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper, and

every tongue that shall rise up against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This is the

heritage of the servants of the Lord and their righteousness is of me, saith the Lord.”

The spirit of the waster is the most terrible demon that has demoted the black man. It has

done and is still doing a lot of havoc. This evil spirit is at work in every African country.

WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO WASTE?

a. To waste is to use wrongly. For example, pouring diesel into a kerosene lantern.

b. Not using a thing maximally.

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c. Rendering a useful thing idle.

d. To render something worthless or to make it useless.

e. To damage something completely.

Before the spirit of the wasters can take over an environment, it must first of all have grabbed

the individuals who make up the inhabitants of the place. One thing that worries my spirit andbreaks my heart is the fact that there are so many people around who are not working

according to God’s time-table for their lives. You will understand what I am talking about better

by asking yourself the following questions:

i. Do I really know where my God’s-given prosperity lies? Some of us spend years and years

drawing water and hewing wood. Some of us spend years serving our oppressors. Do you

know where your God’s - given prosperity lies? As you are reading this message, do you

really know what you should do to prosper?

ii. What are the things that I am happy doing?

iii. What are those things in my life that I know can help others to attain their maximum when Ido them?

iv. What are those things that God has planted in my life that have capacity of demand?

v. What are those things that I can accomplish with minimum assistance?

If you don’t have clear answers to these questions, then the wasters are already in place in

your life. That is the truth.

If you don’t know how to pray in anger before, you have to learn to do so to really confront the

wasters. Once they are operating in one’s life, crying is not the answer. Blaming others won’t

get you anywhere. The only way out is to fight and defeat them.

A lot of men are being wasted everyday because they never find out what God wants them to

do. The devil finishes such people completely by making them to engage in activities that will

make his job easier, for example, womanizing, smoking, drinking and moving about in the

night, and little by little, their lives are wasting away. Such people forget the fact that nobody is

getting younger. Every day, everybody gets older and if by the time you are 40 and you have

not discovered the direction you should follow, then you are lost. Some people say that a fool

at 40 is a fool forever; but I believe that nowadays, a fool at 21 is a fool forever.

A lot of women’s lives have been wasted. Some women are in the mess they are now

because of accidental pregnancy. They may not have been meant for the men they are

married to but because the men have put them in the family way, they were compelled to

marry them, even though there is no love between them. Many women are collapsing under

this heavy burden now and the enemy is wasting their lives. The same thing goes for some

men. That is why I said earlier that if you don’t know how to pray in anger, better learn to do

so now.

The powers of the wasters are strong forces working against Africa as a whole. Even if youdon’t know the whole of Africa, Nigeria serves as a good specimen. This country is so fertile


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that any seed you put into the soil will grow. There is virtually nothing that can’t be grown in

Nigeria. God has blessed her with virtually everything. She has abundance of minerals. Her

pilots have been rated as some of the best in the world.

A lot of very good brains are found there. The question is, what is happening to her that has

prevented her from being great? The answer is not far-fetched. It is the spirit of the wasters.

And this cuts across all black nations. The problem is not leadership. You also get it wrongly

by saying it is bad administration or the inability to plan things properly. The problem is the

demon of wastage wasting things. But before this demon took over the nations, it had started

with individual citizens. This is really sad.

One of the strategies of the wasters is to blind people from recognizing opportunities. Even

when they are right under their nose, they would not see them. These spirits are deceptive innature. When opportunities are available to people under the manipulation of these powers,

they will never have the true picture of what the situation is. The opportunities they are

supposed to seize will look shapeless, impossible or sometimes they perceive them as set-

backs or failure. The situation will disguise as something else and make people waste their

lives by missing opportunities that can never be repeated.

Unfortunately, some of those who should go on three days dry fast and address the wasters

believe that their problems are as a result of bad luck. There is no such thing as luck. A

person is either blessed or cursed. What many people call bad luck is actually the activity of

the wasters.

These wasters are the powers that plant spiritual diseases in people’s lives, especially the

spirit of impatience. Impatience has made many people to lose great fortunes in life. It

operates everywhere - in the banks, post offices, highways, markets, homes and churches. It

is commonly said that the patient dog eats the fattest bone. So, if you are going to move

permanently from poverty to prosperity, from defeat to victory, from failure to success and

from nobody to somebody, you need to deal with the power of the wasters. The other time a

professor was jailed for a rather pathetic reason. He appropriated the rice meant for

distribution to people in his local government area to himself. When he was being taken to jail,he was protesting that it was a waste for the country to lock up a whole professor in the jail.

But his problem really was impatience. He wanted to get rich quickly with minimum effort.

Many think that money is the answer to their problems. How wrong they are. If you don’t deal

with the wasters and you are given millions and millions of money, it will vanish in no time

because this spirit will ensure that nothing good is done with it. It will waste it. It happened to

the prodigal son.

The powers of the wasters make people give up when they have temporary set-backs. And itcould be that they are just at the edge of success. They make people think aimlessly. Such


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people just move through life without a divine purpose. It is unfortunate. There are some

people who go through life expecting the worst to happen to them and if anything good comes

their way, they say, “Well it is too good to be true,” meaning that they expect failure all the

time. These people end up blaming others for their predicaments when they should have

faced the demon of the wasters responsible for their problems.It is unfortunate that many lives are being wasted. The Yorubas have an adage which says

that if a man spends 20 years planning to run mad, what time is he going to be released into

the market place. Close your eyes and pray this prayer point in boiling anger: “I reject every

manifestation of backwardness in my life, in the name of Jesus.”

It is this spirit of the wasters that does not allow people to understand that God has to expose

His people to painful training in order to turn them to champions. A champion is somebody

who has triumphed over great enemies. David was a champion. There is hardly someone who

can become a champion without fighting. But the power of the wasters will not allow people tounderstand this.

People are said to be great for God because they have won many battles. It is only the fellow

who passes examinations that is promoted. God may be testing you at this moment. The test

of God for your life is to make you a champion. When God tested Belshazzar, He found him

unfit. “Thou hast been weighed in balances, but have been found wanting.” That was the

conclusion of the Almighty concerning the life of Belshazzar. So, in a sense, God was telling

Belshazzar that he had wasted his life.

All the physical trials that Christians are passing through today are in reality, spiritualstrategies for promotion. An untested product from the factory is as unreliable as the weather.

But when an item is tested, it can be used and you can also have guarantee on it. Great

spiritual assignments are reserved for vessels that do not break under trial. So, any man or

woman who is looking at his or her problems from beneath will be boxed to a corner by those

problems. But the man who gauges his problems from God’s position, will see all his

problems as opportunities to record God’s testimony. Peter when he was looking at the storm

from the position of Christ, remained afloat, but when he looked at it from beneath, he sank.

There are many of us who are busy wasting our time throwing stones at Moses, complaining

over very little discomforts instead of forging ahead.

What do I mean by stoning Moses? By stoning Moses, I mean blaming others for our

problems. Some people are in the habit of heaping blames on their pastors or their former

churches instead of realizing that they still have battles to fight. Your destiny is in your hands.

Avoid looking for excuses for your present predicament. Rise up and challenge the spirit of

the wasters and you will become a champion.

When the powers of the wasters are working in people’s lives, carrying out God’s

assignments becomes difficult for them. They live aimless lives -a life of spiritualprocrastination. Time has no friend. A lot of people are wasting time. Many people who put a


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lot of money into very useless projects are wasting money. The man, who has money today,

becomes poor overnight because of the spirit of the wasters.

Somebody wrote me a letter which made me really sad. In the letter, she said she invested all

her money on something that somebody told her was hot cake in a particular country only forher to get there and find out that she had sunk all her money on what was not needed there at

all. She never prayed before embarking on the business. She ended up wasting all her

resources.

A lot of families are being wasted. It is the waster that circulates a woman from one husband

to the other and also circulates a man from one wife to another. Somebody came to me and

said that she wanted to marry. I asked her whether she had found God’s chosen one for her

and she said yes. The man she wanted to marry was 57 years old while she was 48. She

further told me that the man had married five times and all the wives were dead.Unfortunately, the sister could not see that the man had the spirit of the wasters working on

him.

The Israelites wasted all the opportunities to hear the Lord by themselves. Esau wasted all his

opportunities. If the powers of the wasters were to be working on blind Bartimaeus, he would

have missed his healing. But he refused to lose the opportunity.

Some are wasting their talents. They are using them to glorify the devil. Some are even

burying theirs. There are many things that could get a Christian to hell fire but one which isclear in the Bible, is the burying of one’s talent. The person will become like the unprofitable

steward who said, “You gave me one talent and since I did not see you and because I was

afraid, and know that you wanted to reap where you did not sow, I buried it.” The master had

no other option but to throw him into outer darkness where there is weeping and gnashing of

teeth.

Some people come to the house of God just to sit down, warm the benches and go away in

spite of the great talents that they have. God is recording these wasted talents against them

and they have to give an account of them.Satan can waste a person’s health by keeping the person on a job that wastes his or her

health, energy and abilities. A person’s blessing, properties and spiritual power can be wasted

too. Beloved, we really need to pray hard. The power of the wasters can make people work

like elephants but eat like rats.

Cain was a wasted man. Although Samson’s birth was prophesied by angels unfortunately, he

was a wasted man. Somebody like Goliath was a waste. In spite of his threats against the

Israelites for forty days, he only succeeded in promoting David.

You can waste anything but the most painful thing to waste is your life. You can put a halt tothe activities of the wasters now.


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Before you were born, God had designed a purpose for you. If you are not fulfilling that

purpose, your life is in danger. So, you really have to decide to use your life to fulfil divine

purpose. May be you are winning the race nobody asked you to run or you are effectively

doing the wrong thing, you better be careful. The fact that what you are doing is good doesnot mean that it is right. It is said that a good idea does not necessarily mean it is God's idea.

So when a person’s life is not fulfilling the divine purpose, the person is wasting his life.

We have a lot of wasted lives around. You have an opportunity now to fight back with all the

powers that you have. The Psalmist did not want his life to be wasted so he prayed radical

prayers. He prayed violent prayers. He prayed red hot prayers. He prayed calling the thunder

and lightening of God to strike his enemies. He prayed that the ground should open up and

swallow his enemies. He prayed that the teeth of the ungodly should be crushed. He got really

violent. You too have that power. You only need to exercise it in faith and pray against thewasters.

Now, look at yourself: are you walking in God’s plan for your life? He has designed specific

ways for us to follow. The fact that God has designed the way you should follow means that if

you do not walk therein, no other path can bring you blessing. This is the truth.

There are so many of God’s children roaming about the streets now. They cannot be blessed

until they run back to the Saviour. Once God has decided that this is what you should be and

in one way or the other, you depart from it, you have opened the door for the wasters.

A lot of pastors have been wasted. A lot of elders have been wasted. A lot of deacons and

deaconesses have been wasted and many more are still being wasted. When they should be

apostles to the nation, they are still busy distributing biscuits in one church or the other. Some

women whom God has promoted are still busy downgrading themselves by being the fifth or

the tenth wife of somebody somewhere. And God is lamenting about such lives for failing to

do what He has purposed for them.

Today is the day when you really have to break yourself loose from the wasters. So, take a

hard look at your life. What things of lasting value have you done so far for Jesus? He issaying, “I spent so many years for you, but how many minutes have you spent for me?” "I

suffered a lot for you, what have you done for me?” Think about it. If as you are getting older,

you look back and really cannot put your finger on something you can say that you have done

for the Lord, something that people can remember and glorify the Lord because of you, then

your life is being wasted. Maybe all you can point to is that you have become a chief not

knowing that by calling yourself a chief you are demoting yourself. How can the children of the

Most high God be calling themselves chiefs? It is a demotion.

Do you want your life to be like that of a certain sister who died and all that could be said ofher was that she married 7 husbands, had 15 children, 2 for each of them and nobody could


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tell the father of the last child. Some funny priest would say, “Thank God for her life. She has

gone to heaven.” She did not go to heaven, she was wasted.

A lot of pastors are wasting themselves like Gehazi. They are running after gifts and money.

They run after people who will give them things. They are operating with the anointing ofGehazi. This will not get anybody anywhere.

Beloved, you have one life to live and it is on a one-way traffic. There is no reverse journey. It

is like an arrow that has been fired from somewhere. It is going somewhere and it is not

coming back. By the time your life ends, what is going to be written in the Book of life about

you? Will it be said that you spent your life fruitfully or that you wasted it?

One man of God said that there are two ways people pass away: they either die or they are

killed. Those who dead are the ones who fulfill God’s purpose for their lives. Conversely,

those who are killed are those who did not fulfill God’s purpose for their lives.

We need to battle against the wasters. This is what is affecting Africans as a whole. When

there is a witch in the family of twenty and the witch wants to eat up eighteen people within

two years, she will first of all eat up all the bright ones. Anyone who wants to be bright gets

attacked by the witch. Any child that is intelligent would be attacked by the wasters. If you see

any child that is seriously sick in school, check, he must be a bright person. Such children

usually see strange things that other people around them cannot see. So, when the useful

ones are finished, who will help the others?

A lot of people who could benefit our country now are busy cleaning streets and washing

gutters in London and America. Medical doctors have been converted to security guards inAmerica. African dentists are washing plates. In Saudi-Arabia, top African professors are

working under people who are not qualified to be their students because they want money.

Where are we going? This is a waste which first of all started with individual lives.

People are running away from the farms. They want to work in the cities and when they get to

the city and discover that there are no jobs, they take to armed robbery. God forbid that

somebody will read this book and the wasters will still be working in his life. Review your life.

Is your life not being wasted as it is now? If it is, then you need to reverse the trend.

If God says you are to be a blessing to this nation and it has not been so, it is simply becauseyou have been doing the wrong thing, succumbing to the powers of the wasters. You must

refuse to be wasted because God did not create you to be wasted.

PRAYER POINTS

1. I refuse to be wasted, in the name of Jesus.

2. Every waster of my prosperity, fall down and die, in the name of Jesus.

3. Every aggression against my prosperity, be paralysed, in the name of Jesus.

4. My blessings shall not stagnate, in the name of Jesus.

5. I reject weak financial breakthrough. I claim big financial breakthrough, in Jesus’ name.6. Every hidden devourer, be bound, in the name of Jesus.


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7. I release myself from every evil family pattern of poverty, in the name of Jesus.

8. All my prosperity on every evil altar, I withdraw you now, in the name of Jesus.

9. Every spirit of leaking pockets, come out with all your roots by fire, in Jesus’ name.

10. Every prosperity paralysis from household wickedness, come out with all your roots by

fire, in Jesus’ name.11. Every clever devourer, come out with all your roots, in Jesus’ name.

12. Every spirit of fragmented life, come out with all your roots, in Jesus’ name.

13. Every spirit of debt, come out with all your roots, in Jesus’ name.

14. Every handshake of poverty, come out with all your roots, in Jesus’ name.

15. Every financial paralysis by witchcraft, come out with all your roots, in Jesus’ name.

16. Begin to tell the Lord the type of prosperity that you want and He will give it to you, in

Jesus' name.

17. Every satanic insect prepared against me, be dissolved by fire, in the name of Jesus.

WASTE THE WASTERS

Praise worship

Scripture Reading - Exodus 12

Confession - Isaiah 54:16-1

1. The law behind stubborn walls in my life, be broken, in the name of Jesus.2. Every law ordinance that is tormenting me, I command you to fail, in the name of

Jesus.3. Every law contrary to the word of od, I command you to break, in the name of

Jesus.!. "ou tormentor, be dismantled from my life, in the name of Jesus.

#. Every $enacherib against me, fall by your sword, in the name of Jesus.%. &et the fire of od answer the fire of the enemy and let the od that answers by

fire be od, in the name of Jesus.'. &et my enemies be electrocuted, in the name of Jesus.

(. ) &ord, let "our hunters deal with witchcraft in my foundation, in the name ofJesus.*. ) &ord, let "our wasters waste my enemies, in the name of Jesus.

1+. ) &ord, let "our wasters fight my devourers, in the name of Jesus.11. ) &ord, release "our fire to go before me and burn the challenger of my soul, in the

name of Jesus.12. I will become ods -romotion, in the name of Jesus.

13. &et every -rinci-le of heaven for my life take root, in the name of Jesus.

1!. ) &ord, -rotect my -ortions, in the name of Jesus.


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1#. I will -revail in the days of testing, in the name of Jesus.1%. ny evil con/ured against me, vanish, in the name of Jesus.

1'. ) &ord, let "our glory s-eak for me today, in the name of Jesus.1(. I o--ress the wicked by fire, in the name of Jesus.

1*. ) &ord, let my divine destiny a--ear0 let -erverted destiny disa--ear, in the nameof Jesus.

2+. I re/ect every satanic rearrangement of my destiny, in the name of Jesus.21. I refuse to live below my divine standard, in the name of Jesus.

22. &et the handwriting of household wickedness be rubbed off, in the name of Jesus.23. Every evil -ower with awareness of my destiny, be im-otent, in the name of Jesus.

2!. I -aralye every destiny -ollutant, in the name of Jesus.2#. ) &ord, send divine -lagues u-on my haraoh, in the name of Jesus.

2%. ) &ord, let not my name disa--ear from "our book of remembrance, in the nameof Jesus.

2'. Every -ower trying to remove my name from the mind of my hel-ers, fall downand die, in the name of Jesus.2(. I crush every satanic lion rising against my success, in the name of Jesus.

2*. ny -ower -lanning to rebuild my Jericho, fall down and die, in the name ofJesus.

3+. ) &ord, let "our mighty voice thunder against my enemies and throw them intoconfusion, in the name of Jesus.

31. &et every satanic ambush be frustrated, in the name of Jesus.32. ) thou that troubleth the Israel of 4ountain of 5ire and 4iracles 4inistries, the

od of Eli/ah shall trouble you today.33. Every enemy of the 4ountain of 5ire and 4iracles 4inistries, scatter, in the name

of Jesus.3!. ) od, arise and u-root anything "ou did not -lant inside the 4ountain of 5ire and

4iracles 4inistries, in Jesus name.3#. &et the fire of revival fall u-on 4ountain of 5ire and 4iracles 4inistries, in the

name of Jesus.

6ny -ower using my virtue to -ros-er die, in the name of Jesus.6

!hat are these powers doing"

They e7change your strength with weakness

They e7change your vision with frustration

They e7change your -rayerfulness with -rayerlessness

They can e7change your increase with decrease

They e7change -rogress with stagnancy

They e7change your confidence with inferiority8 9hen you dont have confidence0 what

will come u- is inferiority. Every o--ortunity you see is like you are not u- to the task.

They can e7change your life with death8 9hen I talk about death, it is not only -hysical

death0 but it can be financial death, martial death, academic death, health death, etc.

They e7change your light with darkness

They e7change your health with sickness

They can e7change someones financial life with financial death


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They can e7change your -ros-erity with -overty8 were you rich and all of a sudden, your

wealth begins to disa--ear:

They can e7change your vigilance with ignorance

They can e7change your wisdom with foolishness

They can e7change your hard work with lainess8 ;efore you were doing very well but

later on, you started slacking. They can e7change your fulfilment with frustration

They can e7change your focus with distraction.

Pra#er Points

1. ny -ower from my foundation, contesting over my destiny, die, in the name of Jesus.

2. Every destiny e7changer assigned to e7change my destiny catch fire, in the name of Jesus.

3. Thou destiny e7changer in my family line which has succeeded to e7change the destiny of my

family members, my destiny is not your candidate, catch fire, in the name of Jesus.

!. 9herever my destiny has been caged, wherever the destinies of my childrenamibians, to -ros-er, enough is enough, die inthe name of Jesus.


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*. I break myself loose from my national bondage, in the name of Jesus.

1+. Every destiny @uenchers sitting u-on my destiny, be cast in the fire in the name of Jesus.

11. Every destiny destroyer sitting u-on my destiny, be cast into the fire in the name of Jesus.

12. ny -ower sitting u-on my life, blocking me from rising, be cast into the fire in the name of

Jesus.

13. Every demonic attack, anywhere in this nation, erected to kee- my destiny in the valley, by thethunder fire of od, shatter to -ieces, in the name of Jesus.

1!. Thank "ou &ord, in the name of Jesus.

DESTINY IS THE PURPOSE OR END TO WHICH ANY PERSON OR

THING IS APPOINTED: UNAVOIDABLE FATE; NECESSITY.

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2.IDOLATRY

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!+,es333333#he !a"e (here Go$ a6++7es #he o#e*#+a!s of h+s eo!e

%o#h +*$+,+$)a!!& a*$ "o!!e"#+,e!&. A*$ +# affe"#s #he+r s+r+#s'

eo#+o*s' +*$s a*$ %o$+es333333#he+r arr+a2es' "h+!$re* a*$

rofess+o*s. Ca*aa* +s a !a"e of es#a%!+she*#' ea"e' roser+#&a*$ a6+) a""o!+she*#. Go$' +* #he O!$ Tes#ae*# $a&s

(a*#e$ #he Israe!+#es #o !+,e fore,er +* Ca*aa* af#er he has $e!+,ere$

#he fro %o*$a2e. The& (ere #o !+,e #here +*"fa+#h" so Go$ (o)!$

f)!/!! h+s ro+ses #o #he.

Go$ (a*#s #he sae for &o) a*$ I #o$a&. Ca*aa* +s rea!3333333 &o)r

$es#+*& +s rea! a*$ !a**e$ %& a REAL GOD.

Go$ (a*#s e* a*$ (oe* #o ha,e Ca*aa* !a*$ arr+a2es'

%)s+*esses' hea!#h& are*#a! re!a#+o*sh+s a*$ e$)"a#+o*s. Ye# e*

a*$ (oe* #o$a& are *o# a6++7e$ +* #he+r arr+a2es' %)s+*esses

a*$ re!a#+o*sh+s33333 eo!e (+#h )*f)!/!!e$ o#e*#+a!s. THAT

COULD BE YOU OR SO8EONE YOU 9NOW.

Now let u loo! "t e"#$ o%e o& t$e '(e )% o& I*"el )% t$e

w)l+e*%e.

LUST........ Th+s !)s# here +s *o# *e"essar+!& se6)a! !)s# o*!&. Th+s +s

#he 0+*$ of !)s# #ha# +s %ase$ o* sa#+sf&+*2 se!f a# #he e6e*se of Go$

a*$ o#her eo!e. I# +s arao)*# (ha# se!f (a*#s. Th+s +s #he

sa#+sfa"#+o* or 2ra#+/"a#+o* of #he esh. Lo,e +s of Go$' a*$ #r)e !o,e


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+s a!(a&s 2+,+*2. Go$'s !o,e $es+res #o sa#+sf& #he o%e"# of H+s !o,e.

?. Go$ +s !o,e a*$ !o,e 2+,es. Lo,e +s a#+e*# a*$ a!(a&s

(a+#s. B)# !)s# (a*#s #o 2e#. I# +s %as+"a!!& se!/sh. Lo,e 2+,es (hereas

!)s# o*!& 2e#s. L)s# +s +a#+e*# a*$ "a**o# (a+#. L)s# sees o*!& *o(.Lo,e sees afar. L)s# has *o )*$ers#a*$+*2 a*$ +s shor#s+2h#e$. B)#

!o,e +s !o*2s+2h#e$ a*$ has 2rea# +*s+2h# a*$ )*$ers#a*$+*2.

The Israe!+#es "ra,e$ (ha# #he& ha$ +* E2&#. The+r fee# (ere #a0+*2

#he #o Ca*aa* a*$ &e# #he+r hear#s 0e# 2o+*2 %a"0 #o E2&#. The&

(a*#e$ #o %e +* #he *e( !a*$ &e# #he& (o)!$ *o# !e# 2o "o!e#e!&

#he o!$ !a*$.


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FORNICATION..... For*+"a#+o* +s ha,+*2 a se6)a! affa+r (+#h a a* or

(oa* #ha# +s *o# !e2+#+a#e!& arr+e$ #o &o). For*+"a#+o* +s ,er&

o)!ar a*$ se6)a! ro+s")+#& +s a""e#a%!e e,er&(here #o$a&.E,e* +* #he Ch)r"h. 8a*& a e* #o$a& +*"!)$+*2 (oe* "a**o#

$e,e!o #he o#e*#+a!s for #he+r a*hoo$ a*$ (oa*hoo$ %e"a)se

of #he+r ree#+#+,e a*$ "hro*+" se6)a! s+*s. Bo#h s+*2!e a*$ arr+e$

e* a*$ (oe*...&o)*2 a*$ o!$ are s)%e"# #o #he $es+res'

ae#+#es' ass+o*s a*$ #e#a#+o*s #ha# #a0e #he+r #o!! a*$ roh+%+#

#he fro %e"o+*2 (ha# Go$ +*#e*$s for #he #o %e. 8e*'s

+*+s#r+es are )*$e,e!oe$ or !os# "o!e#e!&. 8e*'s "hara"#ers are)*$e,e!oe$' (ea0 or %a*0r)#e$ "o!e#e!&. A*$ so are (oe*.

I#'s o*!& o,er3 "oers #ha# (+!! re+2* (+#h Chr+s# #he Lor$. O,er3

"oers are Go$!& a"h+e,ers. The& a"h+e,e or (+* o*!& %& THE WYAS

AND 8ETHODS OF GOD. No# BY THE WAYS AND 8ETHODS OF

8EN OR THE WORLD. The Israe!+#es (ho "o+##e$ for*+"a#+o*

$+e$ +* #he (+!$er*ess' a*$ *e,er s#e+*2 o* #he so+!s of Ca*aa*.

8e* s#+!! $+e +* #he+r (+!$er*ess' %o22e$ $o(* +* a ora! orass'

+ss+*2 Go$'s %es# for #he+r !+,es. Go$ $+$ *o# !a* so for #he a*$He has *o# !a**e$ so for &o) a*$ e e+#her.

P*o(e*, 53/13 15/23.

TEMPTING CHRIST..... Te#+*2 Chr+s# +s $ea*$+*2 #ha# Go$ $oes

(ha# +s "o*#rar& #o H+s W+!! or +*"o*s+s#e*# (+#h H+s Chara"#er. We

are $o+*2 #he sae #h+*2 #o$a&. L&+*2 a*$ "hea#+*2 +* %)s+*ess' +*

a&+*2 o)r #+#hes a*$ offer+*2s' fa0+*2 o)r #a6 re#)r*s #o 2e# ore

o*e& a*$ &e# $ea*$+*2 #ha# Go$ %!esses a*$ rosers )s a*& (a&'

+s #e#+*2 Chr+s#. 8e* a*$ (oe* *o# !+,+*2 r+2h# #ho)2h #he&

0*o( +#'s (ro*2' "h+!$re* ree"#+*2 #he Go$!& "o)*se!s of are*#s

a*$ e!$ers' "o*2re2a#+o*s $ea*$+*2 #he Pas#or %)+!$s #he Ch)r"h

o* so"+a! ro2ras ra#her #ha* o* #he Wor$ of Go$' Pra&er a*$ #he

Ho!& S+r+#' or %e!+e,ers (a*#+*2 #o e*o& #he %e*e/#s of sa!,a#+o*a*$ !eas)res of s+* a# #he sae #+e are a!! #e#+*2 Chr+s#. I# 0e#


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Israe! fro Ca*aa* a*$ +* o)r $a&s' +#'s 0ee+*2 e* a*$ (oe*

fro #he+r Ca*aa*.

MURMURING..... S+!& ea*s *e2a#+,e "o*fess+o*.

Co!a+*+*2' "r+#+"+7+*2' fa)!#/*$+*2' r)or3 o*2er+*2' 2oss+' #a!e3

%ear+*2' "hara"#er3 assass+*a#+o*. These are a!! "!ass+/e$ as

)r)r+*2. Go$ ha#es eo!e !+0e #hese. Go$ ha#es s!a*$erers'

%!asheers' a*$ re,+!ers' $+sse*s+o* so(ers a*$ HE (a*#s )s #o

$ea! (+#h #he (+#h )##er ,ehee*"e a*$ $+s"+!+*e. Loo0 a# >

Cor+*#h+a*s 4:>>. -I s)22es# &o) rea$ fro #he A!+/e$Vers+o*1. "Ho( 2rea# a a##er a !+##!e /re 0+*$!e#h."


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2ra#+f&+*2 &o)rse!f (+#h se6)a! fa*#as+es or a*& o#her se6)a! s+* s)"h

as ora! or a*a! se6' I CO88AND YOU IN THE 8IGHTY NA8E OF


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?ave you been invaded by dream killers: =o you know who your dream killers are: =o you

know how to overcome them:

Jose-hs brothers, being /ealous of him and offended that he dared to believe a dream that he may

one day rule over them, sought to do the one thing that would ensure that the dream never

materialied8 kill him. ?ow would you like to be the victim of a -lot to take your life to ensure

that your dream never materialies: The truth is we all are a victim of dream killers. $atan workseach day to -lot and strategie how to kill you to ensure that your dream is never realied. That is

why the scri-tures say, A%e so&er' &e (igi)ant* &ecause #our ad(ersar# the de(i) wa)+s a&out

)i+e a roaring )ion' see+ing who, he ,a# de(ourG 1 eter #8(H Thank od that we have ?is

grace which abounds greater when we are being attacked by the enemy. nd of course when od

does allow us to go through attacks, as ?e did with Jose-h, ?e does it in order to work it together

for our good. AThe thief does not come e7ce-t to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I ha(e co,e

that the# ,a# ha(e )ife' and that the# ,a# ha(e it ,ore a&undant)#. GJohn 1+81+H

Though some of us will face -hysical attacks and betrayal like Jose-h, the real battle that we all

have to overcome is not -hysical but s-iritual and mental. It is the battle of the mind and s-irit or

s-iritual warfare. The enemy can bring you -hysical harm, but on)# #ou can a))ow the drea, to

&e +i))ed. The enemy uses various tactics that I call dream killers to ensure that our dreams are notrealied. 9e must learn how to identify them and not give -lace for them in our lives. These

dream killers are8

1 .ou&t F the devil wants us to lose confidence in ourselves and our dreams so that we may

sto- dreaming and -ursuing the dream. ;e willing to be wrong, but re/ect doubt at all

costs. =oubt is doublemindedness which creates an instability that guarantees your

dreams will not be realied. /a,es 1:2-0

2 ear F the devil wants us to be afraid of success and


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by the enemy to cause you to worshi- yourself rather than od. 9orking unto the &ord

almost guarantees that your dreams will come to -ass. Pro(er& 6:6-11

7 9ust F the devil wants you to crave the tra--ings of success as your dreams are realied

and abuse your body and mind. Dultivating an a--etite only for the things od allows you

to be moderate in all things so you can en/oy the fruits of your dreams without violating

your vows and obligations. I /ohn 2:15-118 Pride F the devil wants you to believe that you did it through your own ability, to think

more of yourself then you ought to think, 5orget how you got there, who brought you there

and focus more on your talents and smarts. emember that -ride comes before the fall. It

is a human smokescreen that allows us only to see what we want to see. This is a sure way

to destroy everything that od has blessed you with. Pro(er& 16:10-17

Jose-h did not allow the dream killers to get to him, and not only did his dream come true, but od

used him to save a nation and a -eo-le who became a catalyst for the coming of the 4essiah. )ur

dreams are never about us, they are always about those who od wants us to bless. !ho ,a# &e

,issing out on a &)essing &ecause #ou ha(e not rea)ied #our drea,s"

And Jose-h said to his brothers, Blease come near to me. $o they came near. Then he said8

AI am Jose-h your brother, whom you sold into Egy-t. ;ut now, do not therefore be grieved orangry with yourselves because you sold me here0 for od sent me before you to -reserve life. 5or

these two years the famine has been in the land, and there are still five years in which there will

be neither -lowing nor harvesting. nd od sent me before you to -reserve a -osterity for you in

the earth, and to save your lives by a great deliverance. $o nowit was not you who sent me here,

but od0 and ?e has made me a father to haraoh, and lord of all his house, and a ruler throughout

all the land of Egy-t. enesis !#8!(

4y -rayer for you today is that you will know how to recognie dream killers when you see them

and that od will give you the grace to shield yourself from them so that your dreams may be

realied for ?is glory.

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