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SPIRITUAL WARFARE: SPIRITUAL CAGES

WHAT IS A CAGE?

According to the Webster’s dictionary, a cage is an enclosure. In most cases, it looks like a box made with metal wire or net. Cages are specifically made for the purpose of trapping and confining birds and animals.

Cages come in different sizes. The size is of the animal you want to trap or confine determines the size of the cage. The cage you put hummingbird in is going to be smaller than the cage you put an eagle in. A rat’s cage will be obviously smaller than a bear’s.

Factors determining the size and consistency of physical cages apply for spiritual cages. Spiritual cages are spiritual devices that are used to trap and hold people in confinement. These cages come with spiritual wires, nets and iron bars.

Human beings, as well as the things that belong to them, are kept in these unseen cages. That means a person’s finances can be caged. So can one’s general progress, health, marriage, and academic career.

In Jeremiah 5:25-26, we read a very troubling message from the Lord: “For among my people are found wicked men: they lay wait, as he that setteth snares; they set a trap, they catch men.”

Among people who were supposed to be Israelites, God found those that he described as wicked men. What did they do? The verse says “they lay wait as he that setteth snares, they set a trap,” but this time they didn’t catch birds or rats. They caught men.

Life in the cage. What sort of things does a person that is spiritually caged up experience? To understand this better, let’s go from the known to the unknown. What does a bird in a cage experience? What they experience in the physical is what a caged up person experiences in the spiritual.

1. THEY CAN MOVE BUT ONLY WITHIN A CERTAIN RADIUS.

The person that is in a spiritual cage has the ability to move but only within a certain radius. They make progress but with serious limitations. Have you ever seen an animal in a cage? It moves, doesn’t it? How far does it go? It can only go within the realms its captor has set for it.

The purpose of demonic cages is to say, “you can go this far but no farther.” That is why you see some men and women, no matter how hard they try, they can only achieve up to a point. All efforts after that point end in frustration.

I know of a man who went to medical school and graduated as a medical doctor. Unfortunately, his medical certificate was caged. He could not pass his board examination. Each time he sat for it, he failed by one point. He had to abandon the medical field to set up a cleaning business.

If you’ve ever been to the zoo you will notice that caged animals have the freedom to move around only within the confinement of the cage. They desire to be like other animals roaming around in the wild but they cannot because of the “gates of brass and bars of iron” that surround them.

When you see a person making little progress in life, it may very well be due to the presence of a spiritual cage.

This evil can affect a business. When a business is caged, it will only make limited progress. It may be a ministry. The ministry is making progress but alas! It is a very limited prepress. It may affect a person in his academics. He is making progress, but it is little progress. It may be a person on his job. Everybody else is being promoted and given a salary increase, but his own will never be commensurate with his qualifications. Why? There may be a spiritual cage over his life.

What the enemy does to a caged individual is to draw a spiritual circle around him. He is only allowed to operate within that circle. Every blessing outside that circle is kept out of his reach.

PRAYER POINT: Every demonic invisible line that has been drawn around my life; be erased by the blood of Jesus.

PRAYER POINT: Every demonic restriction placed upon my life; receive the fire of God.

2. THEY SEE FREEDOM BUT NEVER EXPERIENCE IT.

There is a second problem with spiritual cages. Animals inside them can see through them because they are not totally covered up. They see other animals roaming free but can never be like them. If they are birds, they are healthy enough to fly like other birds but cannot. If they are animals, they are healthy enough to run like other animals, but the cage will not allow them.

The same holds true for those who are spiritually caged. They see freedom but never taste it. They see other people doing what they could do, having what they could, going where they could go but some invisible power restrains them from breaking free to be like others. Their daily cry is, “if I can just break through these barriers, I can have the freedom to move on in life.” Unfortunately, all they do is see it but they can’t have it. They desire it but can’t possess it. Such people are the most frustrated on the face of the earth. They carry their frustration to their job, to their church, business, and homes. They snap at everybody, they get angry with everybody because they are frustrated.

I took my children to the zoo several years ago. We went around the zoo until finally, we got to the lion’s cage. The lion paced back and forth within the confines of the cage. It moved, but only within the radius his captors allowed him. It stared angrily at all the people outside its cage. Suddenly, he jumped up and charged towards where the people were hitting the walls of the cage where I was standing. I felt sorry for the poor animal. I told my children, “Not only is this animal angry, but it’s also hungry, too. Let’s go home.”

As we left the zoo I began to meditate about how spiritually caged people behave. If care is not taken, they become mean spirited, short-tempered and walking time bombs. It is a tough thing to see freedom and not be able to experience it. Unfortunately, that is a lot of those whose lives have been caged by the enemy. They have what it takes to fly but their wings have been clipped. They have what it takes to run but their legs have been amputated. They have what it takes to walk but they can only crawl. Their ability to fly, to run and to walk has been taken away from them by the power of the cage.

When a man’s life is caged, he will have a Ph.D. but will only be offered the job of someone that has an Associate’s degree. A man that has a B.S. will be offered the job of a high school diploma holder. Why? Because his B.S degree might have been caged. He has a legitimate degree in his hand but he can’t use it.

Degrees get caged, ideas get caged, intellect gets caged, and things that can help better your lot in life can be caged.

I heard the story of a dear Christian sister that perfectly illustrates my point. This lady is a very intelligent woman. She holds a Ph.D. degree. Not only was she endowed with a high level of intelligence, but she was also a very beautiful woman. From the top of her head to the soles of her feet, she had no blemish whatsoever.

What was mysterious about her though, was that no man wanted her as a wife. She had what most men are looking for in a woman, yet no one was interested in her. So, she began to ask God why her situation was such. She discussed her plight with her pastor who told her that he believed her ability to get married must have been caged by agents of the powers of darkness.

Dear reader, if in the natural, things are not working out well for you when they ordinarily should, then there is a spiritual problem somewhere. You might have been caged. If you should be doing well in school but you are not if you should be doing well in business but you are not, if nothing is medically wrong with you, yet you cannot get pregnant, it is very possible that you are bumping against “gates of brass and bars of iron.” In other words, you might be operating inside a cage.

If your situation is as described, you need to set time apart for serious fasting and praying to find out from God the cause of your problem.

That was exactly what the Christian sister did. She went to God with fasting and prayers to find out the what, where who and when of the cage.

She prayed, “Oh God, I am a beautiful girl, men should be lining up in front of me; why don’t I see anybody? Oh God, you have given me a good educational qualification, which should be a plus; on top of it all, I am your child and you have promised to give me whatever my heart desires. I have long desired to get married but no one is forthcoming. O Lord, show me what is going on, in Jesus name.”

Suddenly, God showed her the vision of a bottle. The more she prayed, the more the vision persisted. She began to wonder; “What does a bottle have to do with me not being married?” She went to her pastor and narrated the vision to him. Being an experienced deliverance minister, the pastor was able to easily make a connection between the bottle and her marriage. He told her; “Your marriage has been caged and a bottle was used as part of the ceremony to cage you. Go to your father and ask him if he knows anything about it.”

In obedience, she went to her dad saying; “Dad, I have been praying for some time now to get married but each time I pray, I see a bottle. Do you have any idea what that might signify?”

On hearing that, the father put his hands on his head and said, “Oh my! The bottle, yes, the bottle.” She asked, “What do you mean by that, dad?”

The father then said, “When you were born, you turned out to be the most beautiful girl that anybody in our family has ever seen. Your grandfather was concerned that with your kind of beauty, boys will not let you get out of elementary school before they impregnate you and ruin your academic career. So he suggested that we cage that area of your life. To do that, we put some charms together and demonically caged your ability to get married into a bottle. The bottle was kept under your grandfather’s bed and has been there for over thirty years now. The bottle was kept upside down and unless it is reversed, you will never be able to get anyone to marry you. Our plan was to reverse it after your Ph.D. But we completely forgot about it.”

Prayer point: Every area of my life that has been turned upside down, be turned right side up in the name of Jesus.

Prayer Point: Every demonic container housing my destiny, collide with the rock of ages in Jesus Name.

The lady went to her grandfather’s room where she found the bottle as her father said. She brought it to her pastor and after sessions of praying and fasting, it was broken and the contents were set on fire. By that simple spiritual exercise, the gates of brass were broken and the bars of iron were melted by the fire of God.

I am happy to let you know that the Christian sister is happily married now. Are there unanswered questions in your life? Are you asking, “why?” and cannot find an acceptable answer? Are you unable to have what you ordinarily should have? Are you unable to do what others like you are able to do? There may be a cage somewhere in your life that must be opened before you can have your desired victory.

3. THEY CANNOT EFFECTIVELY RESPOND TO WHATEVER IS DONE AGAINST THEM.

You can throw a stone at a bear in a cage and it will just look at you. As strong as a lion is, if a stone is thrown at it, it cannot fight back. Even if the animal wants to fight back, it is restricted from doing something. The bars of iron make him helpless.

There is a feeling of utter helplessness when a person is in a cage. Folks will do things to you that they ordinarily should not and you cannot defend yourself. People will take advantage of you, infringe on your fundamental human rights and you cannot do anything. Life in the cage is one of utter helplessness.

I have written extensively about the activities of spirit husbands and spirit wives in my book; A Woman’s Worst Nightmare. I highly recommend this book to those who have sexual encounters in their dreams.

There was a woman who was once caged by her spirit husband. She was not allowed to marry because of this demonic manipulation. She tried and tried to no avail. Finally, she got engaged to a man who she finally hoped to marry. Suddenly, she developed a male organ beside her female organ.

She became helpless and embarrassed. In desperation, she went to see a doctor who told her that the only way out was surgery. On the day of the surgery, she got into the operating room only to find out that the male organ she came to surgically remove had disappeared. The surgery was canceled, but on her way back home, the male organ reappeared again.

What can you do in a situation like that? In her helplessness, she ran to the Lord for deliverance and she was wonderfully delivered.

It is, therefore, true that those who are in cages are too helpless to effectively respond to things done against them.

4. THEY DEPEND ON OTHERS FOR SUSTENANCE.

Animals in the cage do not know what it means to be independent. They depend on people for their daily needs. A little peanut here for the captured squirrel; a little banana there for the captured monkey, a little carrot here for the caged rabbit. That is how life in the cage is. You have to depend on others for sustenance. Whatever is thrown at you, you have to take it. Like they say in Africa, “A beggar has no choice.”

Let me illustrate the point this way. Somebody comes from Africa or the Islands to the United States. He applies for the green card that will enable him to stay in the States legally. He is qualified for the adjustment of status. Under normal circumstances, within one hundred and twenty days he should hear something from government authorities.

If his green card is caged by the enemy, what others get easily becomes an uphill battle for him. Mysteriously, his application gets lost in the mail; hence there is no official record of his application. While he is waiting to hear from the authorities, he gets out of status, so becomes an illegal alien.

Instead of voluntarily returning to his country of origin he decides to stay in the States. Since he needs to eat, drink and clothe himself, he goes to look for a job. He finds it difficult to get a job because every employer is asking for a work permit. Finally, he finds an employer who asks him “Where is your work permit?” He replies, “I have none.” The employer then offers to pay him a dollar an hour instead of the minimum wage. He is asked, “Will you take the job?” He replies, “A beggar has no choice, after all, half bread is better than none. I gladly will take the job.” So the employer illegally offers him the job, paying him next to nothing.

That is how life in a cage is. You are hindered from having what you ought to have. You depend on others for sustenance. You are taken advantage of but can do nothing about it.

The guy in my illustration may be working in a gas station or a restaurant. His equals will be bringing their Porches and Lexus and Mercedes Benz to the gas station. He will be filling it up with gas for them. Unfortunately, he cannot hide from them because he is the only attendant on duty. He pumps the gas for his old schoolmates and they give him tips of one or two dollars and he says, “Thank you, sir.”

Spiritual cages will make you settle for half bread when you are actually destined to own a bakery. These cages will make you say “sir” to one who is supposed to be your equal.

When a man is caged he depends on others for food, he depends on friends for shelter sleeping on the couch in his friend’s living room. A caged life will always make you dependent instead of being independent.

I pray that God will do a new thing in your life that will lead to total independence for you, in Jesus name.

5. EVEN WHEN OCCUPANTS OF CAGES MOVE, THEY MOVE WITH THE CAGE STILL AROUND THEM.

The bad thing about cages also is that unless the door of the cage is opened, the movement only takes place if the cage is moved about. In other words, wherever you move, the cage is moved with you; so you are confined to that cage. Let’s say an animal is to be moved from town A to town B. It is not moved independently of the cage. Either it is moved in the same cage or it is transferred to another cage and then moved.

I have seen people move from one city to another looking for a better life. Unfortunately, the cage that blocked them in the former city moves with them to the new city too. Since the cage was not opened where they moved from, they will experience the same problems in this city as they experienced in the previous. I have seen this same problem affect people moving from one country to another, from one job to another and from one marriage to another.

6. AFTER YOU’VE BEEN IN A CAGE FOR A LONG TIME, YOU GET USED TO LIFE IN IT.

That is the truth. After some time, you adapt to life in the cage.

Prayer Point: Every life that I have adjusted myself to, that is not of God, I reject it in the name of Jesus.

Many who are poor have adjusted to a life of poverty. Many who are sick have adjusted to not being well. After being in a cage for a long time, you get so used to it that even when you are set free, the cage mentality is still in you. Hence, when you are set free, you still live as if you are in the cage.

Many times in Africa, you go to the market to buy a live chicken. Usually, the legs of these birds are tied to restrain them. Even when the ropes are removed, some chickens will not move because the ropes have been on them for so long they feel they are still tied.

That’s what I call cage mentality. Some reading this book may be free already but because of their cage mentality, they still walk around as if there are restraints on them.

I once heard about the story of a bear that was kept in a ten-foot cage. The poor animal paced back and forth inside the cage twenty-four hours of the day, seven days a week. One day, the authorities decided to release it back into the wild. It was transported by air and then by road to its natural habitat. All the while it was being transferred; it just paced ten feet this way and ten feet that way as usual.

When they got to where it was to be released, they opened the door of the cage hoping the bear will walk out. It did not. It just paced back and forth in the opened cage passing by the opened door several times.

Finally, they managed to lure it out. One would have thought the bear would rise up and run into its natural habitat, but it didn’t, it started going ten feet one way and turn around going ten feet the other way. You know why? It still had the cage mentality. Released but bound, set free but still in bondage.

Prayer Point: O Lord, deliver me from every cage mentality in me in Jesus name.

7. IT IS POSSIBLE TO LIVE AND DIE IN A CAGE.

This is a scary thought, nonetheless one that is absolutely true. Just as countless animals have died in captivity so have numerous human beings died in spiritual cages.

Many tombstones can rightly carry the inscription; “Died in the cage without being allowed to achieve his goals, dreams, and aspirations.”

Notice, I said, “without being allowed.” Not that these people did not want to, not that they did not try to but how much can you do when you are caged up?

This article has been extracted from Dr. Itiola’s book: Freedom from Spiritual Cages.

(Article Source: http://www.deliveranceplace.com/cages.html)

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SPIRITUAL WARFARE: SPIRIT WIFE AND SPIRIT HUSBAND

In this article, I am dealing with a subject that is so personal and so private that those who have it don’t like to talk about it. I’m talking about the issue of women, and many times men, who experience sexual relationships in their sleep.

There are three people affected by this. Those who have this relationship on a constant, ongoing basis; those that have this relationship on and off, and those who have this relationship but don’t know they do because immediately after, it is wiped off their memory by demonic manipulation.

In my own opinion, the third group is the worst group to belong. Since they cannot remember the dream, they will not be able to do something about it.

If you have the problem of sexual encounters in your dream, the first thing I have to say to you is, relax. Just relax, don’t be tensed up. Why? You are not alone. Statistics have shown that seven out of ten women experience this problem.

I read about a Pastor who has a church of over 30000 members. He decided to do an anonymous statistics on women and men that have this problem, and it turned out to be the same for the men as it was for the women - seven out of ten constantly or occasionally, have immoral relationships with men or women in their dreams.

FALSE FACES

These spirits have so mastered the art of deception that they will use the faces of people you are familiar with when they visit you at night.

There are women who have told us they see their dad coming to sleep with them in their dreams. We know that is the spirit husband using the face of the father. Your dad has nothing to do with this night encounter.

Sometimes they may even bring the face of your pastor, who fasts and prays for you. This is another manipulation in itself to make you look down on your pastor and distrust him. Trust me, it was not your pastor coming to sleep with you, he’s not as debased as to do that. It is none other the spirit husband.

At other times, they’ll bring the face of your husband. It’s not in dreams that you’re supposed to meet with your husband this way. Any experience like that is very questionable.

They can also come with the face of your brother, your boss and people around you. It’s no other one but the spirit husband masquerading himself in these false disguises.

DESCRIPTION

These night-time [sometimes day-time] experiences are called encounters with spirit husbands and spirit wives.

In West Africa they call these dream visitors, ‘night husbands and night wives.’

The Latin people of those days called it the ‘encounter with incubi and succubi.’

If you look in the Webster’s dictionary, Incubi is described as a spirit being that comes to have intimate relationships with women why they are asleep while Succubi is described as a spirit being that comes to have relationships with men in their sleep.

In Matthew 13:25, the Bible says; “But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way.”

The most dangerous part of your day is really not when you’re driving on the highway, operating a piece of machinery in a factory or doing construction work on a high rise building.

The most dangerous part of anybody’s day is when you lay down to sleep. That is when the enemy does the most damage to the majority of people.

I will be deceiving myself to tell you that I know everything that needs to be known about this subject, but the little, tiny experience I’ve had over the years in studying, coupled with counseling and praying for people, I can say without any shadow of doubt that the problem of incubi and succubi is a very common problem that you cannot just dismiss with a wave of the hand.

What is so troubling is that many Christians who are saved, sanctified and filled with the Holy Spirit, are also afflicted and affected by this problem. Out of ignorance and sometimes out of pride, these dear saints keep this problem to themselves rather than cry out for help.

Erica Joseph in a booklet titled “Sex with demons – Nightmares, Incubus and Succubus,” had the following to say:

“Sexual experiences with demonic spirits are very real even in this day and age. I have personally taken both men and women through deliverance, that have experienced this and some became bound by the spirits of Incubus and Succubus. I have personally taken both men and women through deliverance, where the witch or warlock has actually, through the use of astral travel, seduced them, having sexual relations with them as they slept, with them thinking it was only a dream. This having been done through the utilization of “Familiar” spirits.

In some instances, I have found that those spirits have entered in through masturbation and fantasy lust. If the individuals renounce the fantasy lust and stopped masturbating, they were delivered. I have taken several individuals through deliverance from those demons and I’ve found that people have been violated (raped) by spirits, not actually wanting to believe it or not understanding what happened to them until deliverance revealed it. But they know that they had experienced something painful and undesirable.

I have taken individuals through deliverance, that have felt the bed moving, felt their bodies responding uncontrollably, yet their rational, logical mind could not comprehend it. So they wrote it off as a dream. These demonic spirits that function in this sexually perverse way must be renounced and cast out, in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ.

Essentially, the incubus is a lewd demon which seeks sexual intercourse with women. It is also termed follet (French), alp (German), duende (Spanish) and folletto (Italian). The corresponding demon who appears to men is the succubus. When associated with one particular witch or sorcerer, both incubus and succubus are known as magistellus, or “familiar”. Inasmuch as the nightmare dream is sexual in latent content, incubus is often used interchangeably with The Mare Demon; in fact, the Latin word for nightmare is incubo (to lie upon). The incubus can assume either a male or a female shape. Sometimes he appears as a full-grown man. Sometimes as a satyr or in the form of a demon, and if it is a woman who has been received as a witch, the incubus generally assumes the form of an animal.

Succubus is a demon in female form, specialized in seducing men. Although feminine in meaning, in form this medieval Latis word, succubus, is masculine (because demons were supposedly sexless) the feminine form succuba (strumpet) is occasionally found.

If you have or are having dreams or nightmares of a sexual nature that you know are as real as life, dreams where you cannot exactly distinguish the real from the unreal, please seek deliverance. Don’t allow Satan and his demonic hosts to degrade your body which is the Temple of God.”

REAL LIFE EXPERIENCES

A Pentecostal monthly publication once discussed the subject of deliverance in an eye-opening article.

In the article, the writer wrote about a strange deliverance session he conducted. He talked about a lady who he simply called Angel. Angel had been involved for some time in the occult. She and her boyfriend met the Pastor in a restaurant, looking like they had been physically assaulted.

Right there in the restaurant, a deliverance session began then the unthinkable happened!

A solid black chicken walked into the place. Yes, you are not reading a misprint. A black chicken appeared and this happened in Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States of America. Gone were the days when stories like this were exclusive to Africa and Haiti. There is a lot going on in the Spirit realm all over the world. We are in the last days.

As the solid black chicken appeared, Angel’s face gazed and became fixed on it. The hen hopped into a vacant chair ten feet away from them. Suddenly, Angel said to the deliverance minister, ” I want an egg.” When the minister approached the chicken, it jumped off the chair and ran to the door. It left behind the largest egg you have ever seen. The minister picked up the egg and brought it back to the restaurant table where Angel was being prayed for.

The terror on Angel’s face was clearly evident when the egg was held out to her. She hid her eyes behind her hands. In response to the minister’s prodding, Angel told odd tales of her life. She said that she is a bride of Satan. She was a wife to Satan. Then she explained that in the egg were the ten children she had through spiritual sexual intercourse with Satan.

When Angel met with the deliverance team again that afternoon, she told of how she had come from a broken home, and that she had engaged in perverted premarital sex regularly.

When the deliverance session commenced, she was handed the egg, which she had refused to even look at previously. She held it in the palm of her hand as the demons were commanded to leave. She was told to break the egg but recoiled as if to protect the egg. She said, “I can’t break this egg!” but after authoritative commands to break the egg she turned down her hand upside down but amazingly the egg stuck to her hand as if it was glued to it. After more prayers were made, she let out a piercing scream and the egg shattered all over the floor. To their amazement, it was filled with blood- red fluid instead of yellow yolk. That’s how finally this lady was delivered.

The problem we are dealing with in this book is real, unfortunately, many ministers have no idea how many of their members are suffering in the hands of these wicked spirits.

I was in Africa a few years ago to attend a conference. After the conference, many workers who attended came to me expressing how night husbands and night wives are troubling them. “Unfortunately,” they lamented, “Our church does not believe in dealing with issues like this, yet we are suffering and need deliverance.”

If your church argues against the existence of this problem and voices opposition to deliverance, find a church where you can be helped. God will not hold it against you.

THE EVIL EFFECT

How does the presence of a spirit husband or wife affect a person? I know of at least three ways that I would like to discuss.

Difficulty getting married.

Difficulty staying married.

Difficulty having children.

Firstly, those who experience sexual encounters in their dreams will have difficulty getting married and if they make attempts to get married, all their attempts will be met with one frustration or another.

I have met with many men and women who in the natural should have no problems whatsoever in finding a spouse. Unfortunately, because of the presence of these spiritual spouses, they are blocked from being able to get engaged and stay engaged.

One night I was ministering in a revival service. The Lord gave me a word of knowledge about a lady who was being troubled every night by spirit husband. A lady raised her hand and she was prayed for. This sister has suffered a lot from the hand of this evil personality. She was engaged in the church to marry a brother but mysteriously, the engagement broke up. Little did we know that it was the work of the spirit husband.

That night, the spirit husband came back but could not do anything to her because the Lord had broken that yoke during the revival. The spirit left and could not come back to defile her again.

Not too long after that she was engaged and the marriage was held without any problem whatsoever.

If you know you ought to have been married by now but for whatever reason cannot find someone to marry or cannot stay engaged, you probably are being troubled by the problem under discussion. See a capable deliverance minister for the prayer of deliverance.

Secondly, those who experience sexual encounters in their dreams are likely to have difficulty in their marital lives.

The Spirit husband or wife is very jealous and anyone who is married to the one they claim better get ready for war.

Many unhappy and broken homes today are as such because of the evil manipulations of these jealous spirits.

A sister in our church was recently delivered from the power of night husband. She told me to make sure I include her testimony in my book so as to encourage those who may be suffering the same fate as she suffered.

Her story shows how the presence of a spirit husband or wife can have a negative effect on a marriage.

For as far back as she could remember she had a spirit husband, who will come and visit her every night and defile her. After she got saved, he was still coming every night. She told me that some nights, this man would have left before she would have any consciousness of the fact that he had been around.

During these encounters, she has very serious marital problems that defied solutions. Her marriage was at the brink of collapse.

One day, she just got up and told her husband, she was tired of the marriage. She took $1000 and moved out of the house. She went to the Penn station in New York City and boarded a bus not even knowing where the bus was headed.

She rode on the bus for about three hours till it got to Baltimore, Maryland. Then something told her to get off the bus and she did. This lady came out of the bus not knowing where to go since she had no contacts in Baltimore.

As she came out of the bus, a well-dressed man carrying a briefcase approached her, calling her by her first name. She was startled by the incidence since he is a total stranger to her.

“Who in the world are you?” she asked.

He replied, “Don’t tell me you don’t know me.”

“I am telling you that I don’t know you.” She replied.

“I am your husband.” The man replied.

“You are not my husband. My husband is in New York.” Was her reply.

“I’m the one who comes to you every night in your dreams. Let us go, for I have spiritually manipulated you from New York to this place so we can spend some time together in real life.” He further told her that after they are done in Baltimore he will let her return to New York but will henceforth call her out to meet with him at other locations all over the United States. He opened his briefcase and it was full of hard-core currency. He told her not to worry, she would be well taken care of.

When the lady got to this point of her story, I had to make sure I was in a counseling session and not in a dream. I then asked her if what she had said thus far happened in real life or she was just narrating a dream experience to me. Lo and behold, it was not a dream.

I then asked her what she did.

She said, “Pastor, my eyes opened and I pushed him aside, ran into the bus station to take the next bus to New York.” However, before she left, the man said to her, “Where are you running to? You can run, but you can’t hide. I don’t have to get on the bus to be with you in New York!”

She got on the bus the same night and arrived in New York in the early hours of the morning. When she got off the bus in New York, guess who was waiting for her?…the same “man” she left in Baltimore a few hours earlier.

With a grin on his face, he said to her, “I told you that you’re mine and I’m yours. No circumstances can change our decision, so you might as well stop running.”

She pushed him out of the way and took a taxi home where she quickly made up with her real husband.

It was this incidence that brought her to me for deliverance. The man never surfaced again after her deliverance.

Many who have spirit husbands and get married in the physical end up having problems in their marriages.

The fact of the matter is that the spirit husband is very jealous. He takes marriage to another person as a sign of unfaithfulness and will not give up without a fight. Sometimes not only is the marriage attacked, but the husband in the physical is also attacked in one way or the other by the spirit husband. There have been cases of men who have died mysterious and violent deaths as a direct result of attacks from the spirit husband.

At other times the spirit husband will separate the husband from the wife making it hard for them to live together under the same roof.

The final evil effect of the presence of spirit husband and spirit wife is the difficulty in having children.

We have had to deal with many cases of barren women who the doctors cannot understand the cause for their barrenness. They have been thoroughly examined and no medical reasons are found for their inability to reproduce.

In many of these cases, during deliverance sessions, the spirit husband manifests contesting our right to dislodge him from blocking the lady. The anointing that destroys yokes has set many women free during these sessions resulting in the birth of healthy babies sometimes after decades of childlessness.

At other times diseases of the reproductive system are introduced into the woman thereby making it difficult for her to conceive.

This article has been extracted from Dr. Itiola’s book: A Woman’s Worst Nightmare.

(Source: http://www.deliveranceplace.com/stronghold.html)

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CHIDUBEM OKWU

TESTIMONY OF A FORMER MARINE PASTOR

My name is Chidubem Okwu. I am a pastor, but I have disappointed God and I really don’t know where to begin to tell my story.

I must tell you the truth. I can’t really say if I have a call or not. I was a Sunday School teacher in my church for 9 years at Kaduna. In 1999 I was led to start a church, but from the experiences I have gathered now, I cannot say I was led by the Holy Spirit to start that church.

As of 2008, I was not making any progress both spiritually and materially. I saw many churches which began several years after mine and they were making waves and are still making progress. At a point, I did not know what to do again, and after discussing with my wife I decided to approach the general overseer of a church that began 7 years after I started my ministry and explained to him that personally, I was not making any headway and same with my ministry. My ministry would grow up to 200 people and after a short period it would shrink to 50 people and at times it would grow to 150 and shrink to 40 people. I approached him because the growth in his church was fast. He began the church in 2006 and by 2012 he was recording 11,000 people on a Sunday service and he was also making good money and riding in big cars, including the latest jeeps.

After listening to me, he promised to help me solve my problem. He said I needed to be empowered and that it is going to cost me some amount of money besides, I need to have a big and strong heart. Then he asked me if I have got a strong heart and I told him that I have, as long as it is not going to involve killing a fellow human being. He asked me thrice if I have got a strong heart and I consistently gave him the same answer. Again, he asked me if I want single empowerment or double empowerment and I asked him which one was better and he said double empowerment was better but it would cost me a lot of money, and that after the empowerment I was going to be told how to maintain and renew the power.

This time I became afraid and I asked him if the maintenance and renewal involved any ritual, he said no, that whatever the renewal and maintenance will involve are just normal things that I was already doing so I should not be afraid. He said I should go and raise three hundred and fifty thousand nairas (350,000) which I had to borrow from my wife. The next day I handed over the money to him and he asked me to go and get ready that we shall be going to Lagos and Port-Harcourt. I got ready and we took flight from Abuja to Lagos that same day.

In Lagos, we lodged at the guest house of a big ministry and at 11:30 pm we went out in a private car to the Bar-beach. At the Bar-beach we were at the bank when he spoke some unknown language and told me that a woman was going to come out of the water and that I should do whatever she says. As soon as he said that, there was rumbling on the surface of the water and a mermaid came out of it. The general overseer told me not to be afraid that the mermaid will not harm me, so I picked courage when I saw her.

When she came to the surface of the water, the lower part of her body was like that of a fish. My eyes were transfixed to that lower part, and as she was getting closer to me it became human. Then she came to me and asked me to have sex with her which I did in the presence of the general overseer. After having sex with her, she put her hand in her vagina and made a sign of the cross on my forehead and my palm and told me that she had empowered me and that I would see the difference. The mermaid left me, went to the General Overseer and brought out a golden cross and chain from her stomach and wore it on the neck of the general overseer who gave her some money. The mermaid thanked him and went back into the sea. All the time she spoke in the English language.

When we eventually got back to the ministry’s guest house, the general overseer told me that we have to go to the church of that ministry because they were having a night vigil. When we got there, I was given an opportunity to minister in the church and as I raised my hands from the altar the members began to fall on themselves, and some were tumbling on others. I must say, I was almost embarrassed because I never expected the manifestation of the mermaid power to be so soon. He told me that we should go to bed and get some sleep because we would be going to Port-Harcourt that evening.

That afternoon as I was sleeping, that same mermaid I had sex with at the Bar-beach came to me in my dream and told me that to maintain and also constantly renew the power I must be having sex with a virgin once every month, so this jolted me out of sleep. I went to the general overseer’s room to explain what I saw and heard in my dream and he said it was no problem. When I asked him how I was going to be getting the virgins he said he was going to assist me to get them, but I needed to pay for his service. Honestly, after this, I wanted to back out, but I had no courage to say or do so.

While at the Bar-beach I saw many pastors, who came there with other senior pastors. It is like a tradition! There must be a senior pastor bringing in younger pastors, and I believe each senior pastor had a particular mermaid they relate with because I saw up to ten mermaids attending to some other young pastors.

In the evening we were at the local airport in Lagos and took a flight to Port-Harcourt. At Port-Harcourt we lodged in the guest house of another ministry and at midnight we got out, eventually arriving in a very big compound of a woman called Eze-Nwanyi. Inside the compound were many houses.

We met many pastors there including first generation church pastors. When it was my turn, the general overseer paid some money and itemized what should be done for me. When I went into the room I was surprised it was a woman again and as I was thinking – woman again! I found myself on top of the woman on a bed in an adjacent room. Honestly, I have not been able to recall how I found myself on that bed. I had sex with her and also sucked her breasts. After the sexual session, she made some animal cry and administered some stuff into my eyes and I began immediately to see into the spirit world and also discussed with some spirit beings. After that, she gave me a bottle of olive oil which she called “do as I say”. She said with this the members of my church will do whatever I ask them to do.

She also gave me another bottle of olive oil which she called “all seeing oil”. She said with the oil I could see deep into people’s secrets, and a bottle of olive oil which she called “slaying oil” for slaying people (under “so-called” anointing) during prayer. She finally gave me two more bottles of olive oil. The first one is “crowd pulling oil” and the second one is “touch and follow” – which I will be using to hypnotize women especially virgins because I will be having sex with them and married women to renew the empowerment. She said I could have sex and immediately after that I could go straight into ministration without having my bath. She bound me with an oath of secrecy.

We left that same midnight and went back to the lodge, and the general overseer told me to rub the “touch and follow” oil then we went to the vigil of the church in which we were lodging in their guest house. I was allowed to minister and I burst into prophecy to my own astonishment.

In the morning two virgins were sent to the general overseer and he gave me one. So we took them to the guest house and had sex with them. What really surprised me was that the young girls never asked where we were taking them to and why we were taking them there, which is unusual for virgin girls.

When the girls left, the general overseer told me that from then onwards I had to concentrate my sermons around prosperity and stop preaching salvation and righteousness messages. He said I should be sending tithes to him and that he knew how part of the tithes would get to the woman at Port-Harcourt. Eventually, we left Port-Harcourt to Abuja and back to Kaduna.

When I began service after my return, things began to change. Money began to come, the crowd also began to come and within one week miracles, deliverance followed by prosperity began to happen in the church, the spirit of prophecy came in as I had never seen it in my life.

I have been having sex with virgin girls and married women and things have been working out fine for my family and the church for the past six years, but I have gotten to a stage in which I am no longer feeling comfortable with the whole thing. I have had dreams in which I saw myself burning in hell. I have had this dream of hell seven times and in one of the dreams, I awoke only for the same dream to continue when I went back to bed. I have been having sleepless nights, and many nights I get raped by that same mermaid. I have lost two of my children mysteriously but through the same pattern. For the past three months, I have not been able to get virgin girls and this has affected the power as it is going down.

I want to get out of this whole issue even if it means closing the church. I have gone to the general overseer and he said it was too late for me to get out. He threatened me with a mysterious death. He said it is not possible for me to turn against the mermaid and Eze-Nwanyi because they were already part of my life. I told him that I will do everything positively possible to get myself out of this.

Three days later two men approached me and told me that if I love my life I should vanish from Kaduna because they have been paid by the general overseer to eliminate me, so I had to close the church and left the town finally after two days.

As I am writing to you now I have nothing to hold on to but only God Almighty. The problem is that God seems to be very far from me no matter how much and fervently I have been calling on Him and asking for His mercies. I know I have offended Him, but I know He is a God of a second chance. I am really afraid of going to meet any other person (man of God) because those who are using devilish powers are more than those who use the power of God.

For some time now I have not been sleeping at night and I also at times hallucinate. Sir, I urgently need your help because I believe the time is running out for me as the attack from the marine kingdom increases. I know I have transferred many spirits into so many people and I want to know what I can do so that those people can be free from these wicked and evil spirits.

It is really unfortunate that the Church of our Lord Jesus Christ has been taken over by Mermaids. The number of pastors using marine spirits is alarming, and more of them are getting initiated daily into this wicked kingdom. So, these pastors are also initiating their spiritually illiterate members.

Before I messed up myself spiritually, I had always wondered why members of churches follow their pastors sheepishly, but now I know better. The marine kingdom is working day and night to overtake the church and unfortunately, the church is sleeping. In the last two months, I have had four car crashes and I know they want to eliminate me, but God has been my helper and my only hope.

They have killed my two children and now they want me dead. I am becoming afraid of staying alone because of some bizarre spiritual appearances I see, and things have started to move in my brain and body. Any time I start praying the movement would start and sometimes I feel the movement in my marrow.

The greatest need I have now is to be forgiven by God. If I can get His forgiveness I don’t mind dying after that because I really don’t want to go to hell. I have been misled by the general overseer just as so many young pastors have been misled by their general overseers and senior pastors. Sir, I know you are a very busy person. I will appreciate if you find time to pray over this my problems and seek the face of the Lord on how He will use you to help me out. I know that if I am forgiven, my deliverance will be easy. I regret selling my soul to marine spirits.

The Eze-Nwanyi is also a very strong agent of the mermaid. I look forward to hearing from you

Your co-servant in the Lord, Pastor Chidubem Okwu.

Author’s Response:

When I received this letter, I called the number over three times, but it was switched off. So, the next day I called and it went through. A woman took the call and when I asked to speak to pastor Chidubem, I was told that he had died in a car crash the previous day. I was dumbfounded. I just expressed my condolences to the woman who later told me that she was his wife that she had to amend her ways with the Lord and move ahead with her life. She expressed gratitude and thanked me.

After I cut off the discussion I was frozen to a spot for over five minutes until my son came and touched me asking what the matter was.

I must say that it is very unfortunate this pastor died. Those of us alive need to be extremely careful about what we do and where we place our hands. When we want success by worldly standards we can easily soil our hands. I know that if he had not started to get out of these evil powers they wouldn’t have killed him. Only God knows if he was forgiven by God before his sudden death. If not, no one needs to tell you his destination by now. We must make choices in life and whatever choices we make there are consequences and we should be ready to accept the consequences of the choices we have made. God is not going to hold the general overseer responsible for the sin of the young pastor. May God help us to be watchful, wise, and to wait for Him to fight on our behalf instead of seeking and succumbing to worldly and devilish measures for help!

Please share with the brethren so that you can save as much of Christ’s sheep.

COLOMBIAN SISTER

MESSAGE TO THE CHURCHES

November 2015.

“We would like to share with you the experience an 83-year-old Colombian sister recently had, a servant of ELOHIM who grew up in the Church & in the Word of ELOHIM. When she was praying for the Church and for the imminent return of MESSIAH, this sister had an unforgettable supernatural experience. While she was praying, seated on her bed, she was suddenly caught up to heaven, whereas her body was still there, immobilized on her bed. From heaven she looked down and saw thousands and thousands of demons on the earth, which she found painful to look at; it was awful. As she was caught up further up again, she saw a door which was completely open and once she’d entered through this door, she saw an uncountable army of angels on her right and an uncountable army of angels on her left. In the middle of them, she saw a radiant Being seated on a white horse. He had a crown on his head and on HIS thighs was written: “KING of kings, LORD of lords.” HIS face was so radiant that one could not see it; but she understood from the writings and the crown that it was really the KING of kings and the LORD of Lords, YESHUA. Above, she saw angels even more numerous who were rushing around and who were fussing around the tables in an immensely big place. But the sister did not manage to understand what was happening around her and then she was taken by YESHUA who told her: “These angels run because they have to hurry to prepare the wedding supper. Everything is ready. The order is already given by MY FATHER. Everything has been fixed from now on.”

“But what is the meaning of all these demons that I first saw on the earth?” YESHUA answered her: “In MY Word it is written that in the last days demons will be spread on earth like never before. And now they are already released on the earth; that is why the world is in such turmoil. These demons want to destroy MY people; they want to tear them away from MY presence, to torment them, to scatter them and to distract them so that they are not ready for MY return.” “But what will happen to YOUR people? These demons are horrible”, the woman exclaimed.

Then YAHUSHUA took her further up and said to her: “Look!”

And she saw a great army of angels, which one could not count. HE said: “Look at MY army! It is all-powerful! But it is there to set only MY people free! Only those who have accepted ME as their personal SAVIOUR and LORD of their life and who did this with all their heart.”

Then the sister asked HIM: “But, those people down there are they not all Yours?”

And YESHUA took her in a room full of mirrors and after giving her a white robe, HE pointed out to her how the robe seemed white and spotless, but up close, it was a robe full of very small and imperceptible spots. Then she became sad because spots represent sin and she began to cry because her robe was dirty. At that moment, YESHUA entered the room and told her:

“See my child? Despite the fact that you were born in the Church, that you grew up in the Gospel, that you are MY servant, that your knees are damaged by dint of praying, in spite of all these, there are still things that I do not like in you. You have to cleanse yourself.” Then HE says: “I am going to show you something stronger.” And HE took her to the local church which she currently attends in Colombia. It was during a day of service. The church was crowded, and HE told her: “Listen, MY daughter, I observe all the services and as you can see it yourself, there is no robe perfectly white and the dirtiest robes are those of the elders and the leaders. Look attentively.” She looked and saw that all of them had dirty garments, some garments were torn, some were full of spots and were dark, but she realized that those in the worst condition belonged to the elders and to the leaders. She was very shocked by the vision and began to cry because in her church, there was no white garment. But suddenly, when all raised their hands to adore and praise the FATHER their hands were bleeding. YESHUA said to her: “This blood which you see in their hands is the blood of sin which has just been committed; a fresh sin and not the blood of YESHUA which washes and cleanses sin.” And this prevented the worship from reaching the throne of HIS Grace. YESHUA touched people’s heads and suddenly their thoughts became audible. Their thoughts were far from being turned towards ELOHIM. They were just there, worshipping ELOHIM but their thoughts were on the things of daily life; the courtships, the sending of emails, etc. One was thinking about his house, another about his car, still another about his children until the end of the service. And YESHUA said: “You see the thoughts of people in the church are not turned to MY FATHER, but rather to the things of daily life, to the things of the world. That is why the worship of this church does not get to MY throne. They are neither concerned with MY reign, nor with MY return.”

And HE took her by the hand and went with her to different churches in the world and HE told her: “This one, I have never visited it, that one I have never ordered it to be opened, that other one is managed by satan … They visited many churches all over the world, she asked HIM: “But who then can be saved?” And YESHUA answered her: “All those who will wash and whiten their garments in MY blood.”

HE then took her to see a panoramic view of all the churches and suddenly she looked at HIM and she saw YESHUA was weeping bitterly. She was very moved to see YESHUA weeping that way: “But YESHUA, YOU cry more than I!”

And HE said: “Yes MY child, the worst is that they all think that they are saved.” And she said: “But, YESHUA , what is the purpose of this vision which you show me?”

HE answered her: “Listen!”

“Tick-tock, Tick-tock, Tick-tock….” And the noise increased more and more.

“Do you hear MY child?”

And she says: “Yes YESHUA, it is the noise of a clock!”

“Listen again!”

“Tick-tock-Tick” and the clock stopped. HE told her: “Do you hear?”

And she answered: “There is no more noise!”

And YESHUA said: “Go and tell the churches that time is over! Tell the churches that time is over!”