Battles Of Life (2) By Dr D.K Olukoya

 

*MOUNTAIN OF FIRE AND MIRACLES MINISTRIES*

*INTERNATIONAL* *HEADQUARTERS*

*LAGOS NIGERIA*.

*WEDNESDAY MANNA WATER SERVICE*

*27TH, DECEMBER, 2023.*

*TOPIC: THE BATTLES OF LIFE 2.*

*TEXT: DEUTERONOMY 28:7, JEREMIAH 17:5.*

*MINISTERING: DR D.K OLUKOYA (G.O MFM WORLDWIDE)*

★Few weeks ago we started a series on the BATTLES OF LIFE and we read quite a few scriptures that day, including PSALMS 23:4, PSALMS 27:3, JEREMIAH 1:19, that they shall fight against you but they shall not prevail.

★Now we are going to read DEUTERONOMY 28:7; I want as many people as believe this scripture to shout it out, not reading, is a very powerful scripture, you need to shout it out because the shouting side is the winning side; where it is saying thine put mine put your name there.

★DEUTERONOMY 28:7 THE LORD SHALL CAUSE THINE ENEMIES THAT RISES UP AGAINST THEE TO BE SMITTEN BEFORE THY FACE: THEY SHALL COME OUT AGAINST THEE ONE WAY, AND FLEE BEFORE THEE SEVEN WAYS.

★Life is a battle, the bible says man that is born of a woman is of a few days and full of trouble. JOB 14:1

★Life is a battle from life to death.

★Some begin their war before they are born.

★Some begin their warfare when they are six months old in the womb.

★Some begin their battle as a toddler.

★Some begin their battle as a baby.

★There are some people here this evening, it took a miracle for you not to even be aborted.

★To some it took a miracle they didn’t come as still birth, because the enemy did not want them to come.

★To some it took a miracle that they are even born at all.

★To some we want a boy, and the child came out as a girl, from the beginning of her life the battle against rejection has started.

★The moment a baby is born, the baby begins to cry, because the baby knows that he/she has come inside a battle or born into a problematic world.

★So life is a battle, 

★SICKNESS is a battle, the bible calls sickness an affliction.

★Medical people or biologist will say you that, GOD himself knew that the body may have a battle to fight so GOD created something inside our bodies, they call them WHITE BLOOD CELLS, the white blood cells are responsible for fighting diseases, infections or enemies that want to invade the body, they are warriors in the body, they will fight if anything wants to go wrong in the body, if you have a wound they will rush there to form a cloth so that nothing will enter into the body.

★But when a situation comes, when that internal soldiers that GOD have put there cannot cope with the enemy they are facing, the person breaks down, SICKNESS too is a battle.

★Are you into business? Business is a battle, it is war, the enemy does not want some people to have money, and the enemy wants some people to die poor.

★There is a serious competition in business, that many business people are into occult practices to steal from another or to block another customers or the trade of another, the bible says that the rich rules over the poor and a lot of rich people don’t want the poor people to be rich, you are into business is a battle, war.

★life is a war and these we began to describe the last time by looking at thirty facts about the battles of life.

THIRTY FACTS ABOUT THE BATTLES OF LIFE:

1. IN THE BATTLE OF LIFE, BATTLES OF LIFE IS A UNIVERSAL PROBLEM.

2. IN THE BATTLE OF LIFE, BATTLES ARISES AGAINST YOU BECAUSE THERE IS SOMETHING, THE ENEMIES WANTS TO TAKE AWAY FROM YOU.

3. IN THE BATTLE OF LIFE, THE WORLD IS NOT A PLAY GROUND, IS A BATTLE FRONT.

4. IN THE BATTLE OF LIFE, YOU CANT BE NEUTRAL, IT IS LIFE OR DEATH, DARKNESS OR LIGHT.

5. IN THE BATTLES OF LIFE, YOU EITHER FIGHT OF PERISH.

★To hand over the battle of your life to a fellow human being, you are deceiving you self, the bible says woe is he that putted his trust in man. 

6. IN THE BATTLE OF LIFE, THE TWO MOST EFFECTIVE WEAPON OF THE ENEMY IS IGNORANCE AND DISCOURAGEMENT.

7. IN THE BATTLE OF LIFE, THE ENEMY IS AN OBTINASTE FIGHTER AND WILL ONLY YEILD WHAT IT MUST YEILD AND SO YOU MUST PURSUE EVERY GROUND THE ENEMY HAS TAKEN.

8. IN THE BATTLES OF LIFE, THE ONLY LANGUAGE THE ENEMY UNDERSTANDS IS VIOLENT AND TOTAL DEFEAT, not partial defeat, the enemy you shot in the legs, can still kill you because he still has hands to fight or even shot a gun, 

★The enemy does not understand PERCIFICATION.

★ The enemy does not understand MY BLOOD IS BITTER LEAVE ME ALONE.

The enemy does not understand that AM THE ONLY CHILD OF MY PARENTS.

★Violence, no wonder the Bible says as from the day of john the Baptist until now, the kingdom of heaven suffereth violent and the violent taketh it by force.

9. IN THE BATTLES OF LIFE, YOUR PROGRESS IS THE BATTLES YOU WIN MINUS THE BATTLES LOSE.

★If the battles you lose is more than the battles you win, you lose total, so you must win.

10. IN THE BATTLES OF LIFE, DAILY CASUALTIES, THEY ARE REGULAR OCCURRENCES.

★Many of the things you see happening around you, is the manifestation of a battle, they call it all kinds of names, but by the time you look at it behind the scenes SPIRITUALLY, you will find out that it is the manifestation of a battle, it looks normal in the face, but is actually a battle hiding to fight you.

11. IN THE BATTLES OF LIFE, THE MORE COLOURFUL YOUR DESTINY IS, THE HARDER YOUR BATTLE.

★Some complain that I don’t know why my own is like this, nobody will bring army tank and army machine gun to go and fight a small boy sleeping on a mat somewhere, no it is too much weapon for an enemy but once your destiny is colourful, the enemy will give you a hard battle.

★Unfortunately, those who have no glory, they are experts in fighting the ones who have the glory but once that destiny is colourful, the enemy will give you a hard fight.

★If your life is of no consequence, that nobody bothers whether you are dead or alive, the enemy leaves you alone.

★So are you finding battles hard, are you finding the enemy raging against you, it is a good sign that there is a colourful destiny waiting for you, there is something worth challenging in your life, so you should not give up but give a hard fight.

12. IN THE BATTLES OF LIFE, SOME PEOPLE DON’T UNDERSTAND THIS, THAT THE ENEMY OF OUR SOUL HEADED BY THE DEVIL HAVE NO MERCY.

★That’s we tell you that when you face an enemy that is ready to bite you without remnant, you must use your most potent weapon against the enemy.

★Sometimes we say pray without having any mercy, shout AMEN, mercilessly.

13. IN THE BATTLE OF LIFE, YOUR BATTLE BECOMES HARD WHEN YOU ARE CONTENDING WITH THE STRONG MAN ASSIGNED TO THAT BATTLE.

★So when a strong man is assigned against a battle, the strong man wants to be sure that, the battle does not stop, he will keep confronting the person.

★That’s why when some people pray, they see a particular forces battling them, strong men harassing their destiny, strong men saying you can’t go further, JESUS said when the strong man harmed keepeth his palace his goods are in peace but when a stronger man shall come upon him, he can take what the strongman has stolen.

★The bible says that no one can come into the house of a strongman without first binding that strong man.

★In many families, there are strongmen:

1. They are behind, UNTIMELY DEATH, 

2. They are behind MARITAL FAILURE.

3. They are behind, STAGNANCY

4. They are behind, LIMITATIONS

★They just stay there until, you bring them down, they specialize, just as doctors specializes in the hospital, doctor for the eyes, ears, legs, womb, the strongmen too specialize in that battle.

14. IN THE BATTLES OF LIFE, WE ARE AS BELIEVERS WE HAVE SUPERIOR WEAPONS, SUPERIORS EQUIPMENT, SUPERIOR POWER.

★We are not saying they don’t have weapon, they have.

★We are not saying they don’t have equipment, they have.

★We are not saying they don’t have power, they have.

★But we as Christians, we have superior weapon, superior equipment, superior power.

★Whether you are now able to access that our superior power is another story, that is why are stopping here today.

★God has given us an array of weapons to put the enemies to flight, you try one weapon is not working, you into another weapon.

★It is not a joke that when David was going to face Goliath he did not pick one stone but five smooth stones in his hand, the thing is that, if one stone fails, another will work, those are people who understood warfare.

★In normal battles, the weapon that you will use to fight in a forest is different from the one you will use to fight in the waters, the machine gun you carry, will be totally useless to you if your enemies are mosquito, you need the appropriate weapon to fight the enemy and God have given us plenty of that weapons.

★We are going to deploy the weapons here tonight, so that there will be no evil carry over.

 

PRAYER POINTS:

1. BATTLES ASSIGN TO KEEP ME ON THE SAME LEVEL, EXPIRE, IN THE NAME OF JESUS, AMEN. 

2. EVERY EVIL VOICE CRYING AT NIGHT TO WASTE MY BLESSINGS, DIE, IN THE NAME OF JESUS, AMEN. 

3. POWERS ASSIGNED TO SHUT DOWN MY LAUGHTER, YOU ARE A LIAR, DIE, IN THE NAME OF JESUS, AMEN. 

4. ARROWS OF WICKED ELDERS, BACK FIRE, IN THE NAME OF JESUS, AMEN. 

5. OH GOD, ARISE, CATAPULT ME ABOVE MINE MOCKERS, IN THE NAME OF JESUS, AMEN. 

6. THOU POWER OF GOD, DISGRACE EVERY INSULT IN MY LIFE, IN THE NAME OF JESUS, AMEN. 

7. SAY THESE WORDS TEN TIMES: IN MY LIFE, THERE SHALL BE NO EVIL CARRY OVER INTO 2024, BY THE POWER IN THE BLOOD OF JESUS, IN THE NAME OF JESUS, AMEN.

God bless you🙏