NIGERIAN
CHURCHES AND THE RISING INFLUENCE OF MARINE SPIRITS
Marine Spirits are
gradually penetrating and influencing the behavioral pattern of some
churches in Nigeria. Marine spirits are generally referred to as
spirits that have an operational base in the waters. They are spirits
thrown down from heaven (Rev 12 vs 12) and (13 vs 1) and made the
oceans, seas, rivers, streams, and lakes their abode. Those who are
experts in the school of deliverance know that marine spirits are
more difficult to detect than witchcraft spirits. The modus operandi
of regular witches especially in Africa is very crude, brutal, and
dastardly. Witches are naturally very impatient - they want to do away
with their victim quickly and return back to base.
Marine spirits are
patient, subtle and most instances appear very civilized, mannered, and cultured in operation. They control the fashion industry and
celebrity-related matters. A popular Nigerian musician Sir Victor
Uwaifo gave insight into his famous album ''if you see mammy water o,
make you no run away '' and the inspiration behind it. Narrating how
he met mammy water (female water spirit) on Lagos Bar- Beach, Uwaifo
said “I was then an adult working with the NTA Lagos after
graduating from Yaba College of Technology and I usually went to the
Bar Beach till late in the night. It was during one of my visits that
I had an encounter with the mermaid. That melody was really from the
mammy water and I was frightened to my bone marrows... very pretty
and shiny. In fact, all that frightened me. That's why I said: “If
you see Mammy water, never you run away...” Another popular singer,
Oliver De Coque in one of his Ogene Music albums said that ''egwum
sin a mmiri, osi na ikuku'' meaning that ''my song is from the
waters, from breeze...'' These popular musicians have revealed the
source of inspiration for their evergreen and ever-fresh music- from
the marine world. Therefore, Lucifer, being the former Chief Musician
in Heaven, took his musical skills and that of his singers to the
marine world to distribute to those who pay obeisance. Some other
musicians in Nigeria have narrated the source of their music and
their music is always very melodious - this is the core of marine
operations - appealing, enticing, harmless, irresistible, and
potentially harmful to the soul. However, praise and worship are still
central in the service of God.
Despite the
subtleties of the marine world, this kingdom is as wicked as the
witchcraft kingdom. However, marine spirits, unlike witches, can
patiently wait for a prey for years while enforcing a strategic plot
of enticement, seduction, entrapment, and merciless destruction. The
marine kingdom is very rich. Witches are initially more interested in
spreading misery than acquiring wealth and when they later realize
their state of material lack, they brutally select a victim for
destiny transfer. However, marine spirits present instant wealth,
influence, and affluence as part of their bait for membership.
The marine kingdom
are generally strategic in nature, because a lot of their members
have been converted due to constant prayers, holiness, deliverance,
discipline and word of God in many churches, they devised other means
of caging the church in Nigeria. Their purpose being to infiltrate
the churches, quench the spirit of righteousness, holiness,
contentment, prayer, love and care and replace it with the spirit of
mammon, greed, corruption, immorality, jealousy, strife and lack of
eternity consciousness. As far as I am concerned, they have captured
a lot of churches in Nigeria. They have consciously and unconsciously
packaged some men and women and sent them into churches to lead the
pastors, prayer leaders, worship leaders, elders, deacons and
deaconesses into sexual immorality. They use all sorts of spiritual
excuses to explain away the acts and as such have driven away the
Holy Spirit from many churches. Holiness, righteousness, purity,
love, care and diligent search of the scriptures have been replaced
by confess and possess, dance and possess, dream and possess and
claim and possess attitude which is corrupting the originality of the
commission of Jesus Christ.
A lot of Evangelical
and Pentecostal Christians have condemned the Roman Catholics of
worship of relics, religious images, and prayers to the Virgin Mary. The same
criticizing churches, filled with believing Christians, have given
room to different manifestations of marine spirits and quenched the
true fire of God the same manner it was quenched by the early church.
That is why Roman Catholics, Anglicans, Pentecostals, White Garment,
Evangelicals and their Muslim counterparts in Nigeria join hands to
loot the national treasury while still clinging to their religious
beliefs.
There are three
types of marine penetration in the churches; the first is where the
pastor, priest or bishop is not aware that marine spirits are in
operation. This is the most rampant case in Nigeria. Due to the
fact that discernment of spirit has been neglected in churches,
marine agents can hide under the cover of church and lead people into
immorality.
The second level of
penetration is where the pastor is aware and does not know how to get
out of the situation. Some pastors do not know that they and their
flock need periodic special deliverance service and therefore are
powerless in the face of marine penetration. A lot of pastors and
some bishops have confided in me that they know that such exists in
their churches but they are at a loss on how to tackle the menace.
The third
penetration level is where the pastor is actually an agent of the
marine kingdom. Such pastors brazenly indulge in acts of immorality
and they resist any attempt to initiate the true fire of God in the
system. They quote scriptures like ''judge not'', ''touch not my
anointed'' and ''there is no condemnation to them which are in Christ
Jesus,'' and present heresies of '' beware of being sin conscious''
to justify why they are condoning impurity in the system. They
directly initiate their ardent followers into such kingdoms through a
process that involves a gradual return to the vomit, accepting once
more what was once rejected. Nigeria Christians should earnestly ask
the Holy Spirit to deliver their soul from such contamination and
save their souls from damnation especially when it is perfectly
discerned that marine operations exists.
The rising influence
of marine spirits in the churches is noticeable in the city of Abuja,
Lagos and Port Harcourt. A lot of young pastors have had recourse to
escape from the church of a super-rich, well connected female pastor
because this woman whom close friends and workers claim has an affinity
with water spirits is always demanding sex from numerous young and
hungry pastors who throng her church for ministerial assistance and
is ready to handsomely reward any accomplice. When one of the pastors
refused to continue with the unending sexual demand and signaled an intention to quit, the woman of God cursed him and he died. The
pastor’s death, under mysterious circumstances, hours after the
final altercation with the super-rich woman raised a lot of dust
within ministerial circles in Abuja and was reported to the local chapter
of Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria, by friends of the deceased.
There is a general
consensus that the then leadership of Abuja PFN lacked the courage to
confront the woman because of the mouthwatering tithes and offerings
from her. This matter occurred in the peak of former president
Obasanjo’s campaign for Yaradua presidency. Shortly after that, in
2007, another music pastor, whose father is equally a pastor in his
South-South home state, had to flee to another church for deliverance
when this woman’s son warned the randy pastor of the diabolic
nature of the mum ( woman of God) whom he is constantly sleeping
with. This pastor also had dangerous marine tales about her sugar
mummy pastor and I encouraged him to repent and secure himself in God
before he becomes a spiritual rag.
These are few
instances where the pastor is equally an agent and with the enormous
marine sanctioning power, they can reign in any errant church member
who is not spiritually well fortified. The purpose of every marine
penetration is to lead people on the highway to hellfire and the way
the churches are going now, a lot of rich members whom God had
blessed are equally being prepared for eternal damnation in churches
where the marine powers have taken control. This control of the
churches by marine powers dated back to the apostolic age when in the
letter to the seven churches, Jesus Christ commended the church in
Thyatira for refusing the advances and the teachings of the
prostitute, (Revelation Chapter 2 vs 18-21) therefore, believers are
expected to resist its operation by rejecting its appearance in the
body of Christ.
In April 2012 a
notable Lagos based Bishop alarmingly told me of a pastor friend who
recently patronized the Queen of the Coast and escaped by the grace
of God. This Lagos based pastor whose church members have disappeared
due to financial hardship, went in search of ministerial help from
another senior mentor who has a church of about three thousand
members and lots of excess financial breakthrough. This senior mentor
took this young pastor to Lagos bar beach at the midnight for special
prayers. According to the narration of the traumatized pastor, he saw
some pastors he knew in clusters talking in whispers near the parking
lot, as they moved closer to the ocean.
The senior mentor
then revealed to the younger pastor that the condition for the power
he is to receive to transform his church include making love to a
soon to appear mermaid and afterward everything about his church
will change. Secondly, he will be constantly sleeping with church
members and using their star to maintain the power, he will donate a
soul annually, and finally he will be soft on messages of
righteousness. The senior pastor explained that all those he saw
somewhere near the parking lot have all done it and their churches
are moving well and that they still love Jesus except that ministry
must move on.
The young pastor was
still contemplating what to do when a mighty wave rose up in the sea
and a very beautiful girl, stark naked walked out of the deep sea and
made for the pastor. This pastor claimed that this lady whose hair
reaches the shoulder level was the most beautiful girl he has ever
seen and when his manhood was about to respond in admiration, he heard
a small voice warning him that once he makes love to this lady, his
soul is mortgaged forever. He started speaking in tongues and rebuked
the foul woman in the name of Jesus Christ; she screamed and
disappeared back to the water. This pastor had to narrate the
experience to close confidants including the identity of Men of God
he saw at the parking lot. This pastor’s story caused some stir
among ministerial circles in Lagos and the Bishop was the third
notable pastor in Lagos to inform me about it.
Therefore, the
evidence of pastors, priests, etc working for marine powers abound.
God had given every Christian the ability to discern good and evil
and it behooves a Christian who sincerely loves God to engage the Holy
Spirit in prayers and seek clarifications when strange things happen
in the congregation. Wishing away spiritual signals can cause a
faithful his soul, which is more precious than the wealth of the
entire world. Christians should be watchful and constantly pray
against marine operations anywhere they receive spiritual
nourishment. This season calls for extra carefulness and pastors
should constantly pray and shut the doors of marine penetrations in
their respective worship centers without necessarily antagonizing any
worshipper. These prayers will kick-start the process of reducing the
growing influence of marine powers in the churches.
Obinna Akukwe
Profetobinna2@yahoo.com
