DELIVERANCE FROM SPIRITUAL CAGES
Jer. 5:25, 26 “Your iniquities have turned away these things, and
your sins have withheld good from you. For among My people are found
wicked ones; they lie in wait, as one who sets snares; they set a
trap, they catch men.”
First, to define… what is a cage?
A cage is a structure of bars (or wires or nets) in which birds or
other animals are confined. Cages are meant to confine or restrict
movement.
Understand this: what you see in the physical also has a similar
representation in the spiritual. Think about the wide possibilities
[SMILE]. For example, there is a physical man, and there is a
spiritual man. In the physical world, cages are meant for trapping
birds and animals. They can also be used to confine them there. But
we see here in the Word of God that cages are being used to trap, not
animals, not birds, but MEN! Yes, all this is possible in the spirit
realm. One can be bound within a spiritual cage made of spiritual
wires, bars or nets, all meant to confine and to restrict the victim
from movement. This kind of bondage has hindered many lives from
progressing forward. As you are reading this, your life or part of
what belongs to your life could very well be caged!!!
The Lord opened my eyes a few months back and showed me a certain lady.
She was walking down a street in a town in Africa, during the night
season. And what I saw shocked me! She was trapping and picking the
souls of men like one picks choice fruit from a tree and casting
them in a dirty bag she carried on her back. She was so shameless in
her task as she snared those who did not know what was happening to
their souls. Those were lives that were going to end in continuous
bondage for the rest of their lives. The moment I saw her, I
identified her as a witch on her nightly rendezvous. And there are
many others who are sorcerers, wizards, diviners and the like who
carry the same kind of work as this woman I have just described. If
you do not know, then you need to know that in every city, village,
town and region of the world, there is a network of witches and
wizards on appointment to carry out the purposes of darkness. The
enemy has the whole world mapped down. Of course, some areas, as
Africa have a greater prevalence, but the truth is, no region has
been spared by the devil.
So, what in your life can be caged?
Your health can be caged; your finances can be caged; your blessings
can be caged; your academic career can be caged; your ministry can be
caged; your marriage can be caged; your marriage partner can be
caged; your business can be caged; your job (you know the one you are
supposed to have but do not have yet? Yes, that one!) and almost
anything else you can mention can be put in a cage by wicked
messengers of darkness. It (the caging) is done in the spirit world
but the devastating effects of it are seen in the physical.
But let us move on….
How can you know your life is caged?
1. When your progress is limited.
When you are this kind of person, you will seem like you are
advancing but the truth is, you are just going around the same circle.
The witches know how to draw circles around a person and to declare
them caged. These are among other ways they arrest and cage the lives
of men. When you are caged, there is nothing to speak for. Things
will look as if they are moving up only for them to hit a sudden
snag. There will be no growth manifested. Everyone will be moving up
except you. You will go to school, get a degree, but no job. You will
get a job, but no promotion. You will open a business or ministry,
but no advancement. When an animal is caged, it can move, but its
movements are limited; such is the life of a caged person: their
diameter of movement is set. These are the effects of being
spiritually caged. But in Jesus' name, every cage shall be dismantled!
2. When you always desire things but never possess them.
This leads to frustration in life. Because you can see other people
enjoy what you want, but you cannot have it. If you do get it, it
only comes in trickles, much like a caged animal. A caged bird will
receive grains to feed on, but not as much as it wants. A caged
monkey may eat bananas, but not as much as it could wish for. When
you are caged, you can see what you want but you cannot get it. You
can see what you want to do, but you cannot do it. It is as if your
hands are tied. It is as if your mind is tied. You know you can do
it, but to find to do it you cannot. You have everything in position,
yet nothing is happening for you. For ladies, you may be the most
beautiful, but no suitor to marry you. You have the education to get
the best kind of employment, but no job. You keep on asking yourself
‘Why is this happening to me?’ but you have no answers. Such are
the manifestations of a caged life. You need to pray seriously.
3. When you find yourself adjusting to negative situations in your
life.
After some time of being in a cage, an animal develops a ‘cage
mentality’. It has tried to be free so many times and has been
unsuccessful and so it adopts a mind that ‘I will never be free.’
This mindset now becomes the hindrance to total freedom for this
animal. Even if the animal is set free, it cannot move because in the
mind it has become overused to being bound. It is the same with human
beings. When you have been caged for so long, you begin to accept
your status quo as the reality of your life. Even if you were set
free, you still end up thinking of yourself as bound. You get used to
being sick; you get used to being sick and tired of being sick and
tired. You get used to getting by with less than enough. You get used
to being the doormat. You get used to a life of struggle. You get
used to being single, to being sad, to being mistreated and many
other things. Beloved, no matter how long you have been caged, I want
you to know there is freedom for you in Jesus Christ. Do not let the
period you have endured in the prison of the enemy keep you in the
cage mentality, no, determine to be free!
4. When you find you are helpless to defend yourself against attacks.
Things will be happening to you but you cannot control them. You will
have bad dreams but you cannot stop them from coming. People will
hurt and mistreat you but you cannot answer them back. You have
sicknesses that you cannot control; they just keep on coming and
diminishing your resources. You become like a caged animal, you want
to respond, but you can do nothing because of the bars that keep you
back. No matter the insults hurled at you, you are still there
immobile, unable to respond. No matter how hard you try, you are
defenseless. You can lose everything that belongs to you, yet you
still can do nothing. One of the causes of such a lifestyle is
spiritual cages and if this that I am speaking about is you, your
life is caged. When your health and your destiny go free, then you
will be able to stand up to anyone who comes at you. This is why God
sent His Son Jesus to the earth: to set the captives free.
5. When you find yourself living a life that is dependent on others.
This life of bondage so holds that you may go so low as to not be
able to buy your own food, other people will be the ones feeding you.
You get a job but it is paying you peanuts. You live a life of from
hand to mouth, much like a caged bird or animal. Things are doled out
to them one by one. There never is abundance. Such is the life of a
caged man or woman. Basic things will be denied to this life. Even
when you move to another city or town, the trend remains the same.
Reason: caged life/portions. When your life is caged, you will be the
chauffeur of those who are supposed to chauffeur you; you will be fed
by those you are supposed to feed; you will be employed by those you
are supposed to employ; you take any job as long as it can at least
feed you, never mind the great qualifications you have; you will be
reduced to a beggar unable to make any decisions for the good of your
life, you just follow as you are told because somebody else controls
the resources. These are manifestations of a caged life.
6. When you only shift locations but your reality does not change.
You get a new boyfriend or girlfriend but still meet the same
problem; you get married to another person but still fall into the
same old trap. Granted, not all things that manifest in these ways
listed here are as a result of being caged, but a good number of what
happens is as a result of this. One can move to a different city, but
the same problems follow them; go to a different school, a different
church, a different business environment, everything different but
the same things keep on happening. These are results of a caged life.
The enemy may decide to lock a particular area of your life. Young
ladies move to new places, yet still cannot find a suitor. The
marriage is caged. You move the church to another venue but still no
growth. The ministry is caged. No matter where the animal goes, as
long as it is caged, it cannot find fulfillment or express itself as
much as it desires, until the cage is broken. I thank God because
there is no cage He cannot deliver His people from. If this has been
you, then know that there is freedom for you in Jesus Christ.
7. When you lose the will to live.
An animal that has been caged for a long time, because of not finding
how to express all that it was created to be, soon gives up on life.
For example, homing birds are meant to fly, but if you cage one, then
later release it, it will simply hand around foolishly having
forgotten and given up on the system that is programmed into its DNA.
Such is the life of a human being who has lost his or her purpose.
Life now simply becomes a meaningless drudgery. When you find
yourself without any goal, without vision, and feeling lost in life,
these are usually signs of a caged existence. You tried to get
freedom but you eventually gave up. The Devil is a liar! There is
freedom to return to being you once again. I once prayed for a lady
whose life had been captured and imprisoned in the graveyard. She was
living, but there was no purpose to her life. Friends ran away from
her, acquaintances at work did not want anything to do with her;
nothing was working at all, from finances to relationships. It was as
if she never existed at all. But God set her free, delivered her
health and restored her to life. You will also be restored again in
Jesus name!
8. When the quality of your life reduces drastically.
This is the effect of these evil messengers who go hunting after the
souls of men. Understand that all this caging and imprisonment are
taking place in the realm of the spirit. One moment you are enjoying
the good life, the next you have nothing good to speak about. One
moment you could pay the bills of 5 of your family members, the next
you cannot even pay your own bills. You had good health, then all of
a sudden your health breaks down and you begin to move from sickness
to sickness. You were making all the right choices and all of a sudden
you begin to make very poor decisions. You had joy in life, and then
all of a sudden there is nothing to rejoice about. These are the
manifestations of such spiritual bondage. The enemy works to reduce
the quality of your life, much like a bird that could fly wherever
it could wish, and all of a sudden, its movements are restricted. It
cannot do anything but remember what it used to have; this is the
kind of life someone who is caged lives. Some time back, I prayed with
a believer who was so dissatisfied in life that he sought my help to
have him freed. While in prayer, God revealed that he had had his
heart exchanged for another. He could not have any joy until God
said, ‘Remove the evil heart and give him back his heart.’ His
heart had been stolen and imprisoned under the sea. After prayers and
total deliverance, he said for 15 years he had never felt like he was
himself, but now he was so joyous that he was free and back to his
person. And he has stayed free! I also have reason to believe he will
be reading this, though I name no names [smile]. You can see, you may
have a physical part of your body, but if the spiritual counterpart
is stolen, or caged, the physical is as good as nothing. Brains are
stolen, so are eyes, and ears and tongues, and hands and feet, even
the reproductive organs!!! Satan has no shame as to how far he will
go. I prayed with a certain girl who at some point during deliverance
began screaming. But, why? She claimed she could not see, nor had
hands and no feet too! If you looked at her physically, these things
were there, but spiritually, they had been stolen and caged by powers
of darkness. After serious prayers, the powers holding these parts of
her body released them and God quickened them back in position.
Beloved, if your hands, feet, brain, eyes, tongue and any other part
of your body are there, but they are not helping you, you need to
consider praying to know if they have been caged by powers of
darkness. This matter is real!
9. When you have tried all natural methods to get a solution to your
problem but still nothing changes.
Because this is a spiritual problem, it cannot be solved by natural
means. Some people think they have a natural solution to all their
problems. So they cannot turn to a man or woman of God. They do not
understand that problems are physical but also there is another
spiritual aspect to them. This has led to many never finding a
solution to their issues because they want to see counselors, they
want to go to the ‘wise’ pastor, but they do not want to undergo
deliverance. As such, their problem remains. Jesus said, as long as
you say ‘I have no sin, therefore, your sin remains.’ The first
step to solving a problem is first admitting there is a problem.
If one wants to break from an addiction, they must first acknowledge
they are addicted. Alcoholics are always made to say their name and
say they are alcoholics. When they identify the problem as present,
then you are ready to be free. When you have tried all you can but
there is no change, you must become like the woman who had an issue
of blood: GO LOOKING FOR JESUS. When you see physically nothing is
changing, then most likely what you need is a spiritual solution. You
are dealing with a spiritual problem. Many people would be shocked if
their eyes were opened to the true source of their woes. Pray like
this: LORD, OPEN MY EYES TO THE SECRET BEHIND MY PROBLEMS, IN JESUS
NAME, AMEN.
If what I have spoken concerning above is you, or someone you know,
then you need to aggressively pray these prayer points [Please repeat
each point as often as you are led to. Remember the King of Israel
was required to strike the ground several times with the arrow but he
got quickly tired and therefore got half the victory. Let that not be
you!]:
1. Fire of the Holy Spirit, arise and consume every cage mentality
within me to ashes in Jesus' name, AMEN.
2. Blood of Jesus, arise and erase every demonic invisible line drawn
around me to contain my progress in the name of Jesus Christ, AMEN.
3. I command every satanic embargo placed upon my life to catch fire
and burn to ashes NOW in the name of Jesus Christ, AMEN.
4. Angels of the living God with flaming swords of fire, I send you
now to locate every satanic and witchcraft cages holding my
blessings, my finances, my education, my job, my husband/wife, my
health, my promotion, my ministry, my opportunities, my divinely
given ideas, my house, my passport, my visa, my cars, my degree/PhD,
my anointing, my star [and anything else you can name] slice open
every cage and liberate that which is mine and bring it back to me,
NOW!!! in the name of Jesus Christ, AMEN.
5. I take hold of the divine hammer of God and I smash every demonic
container, bottle, or pot currently housing my destiny, in the name
of Jesus Christ, AMEN. I command my destiny to be properly quickened,
according to the divine order, in the name of Jesus Christ, AMEN.
6. I command every area of my life which the enemy turned upside down
to be turned right side up, NOW!!! in the name of Jesus Christ, AMEN.
7. I renounce every limitation I have placed on myself and every
limitation I have accepted to be put on me NOW!!! in the name of
Jesus Christ, AMEN. I decree I choose to live a life without limits,
in the name of Jesus Christ, AMEN.
8. By the divine hammer of God, I dismantle every satanic cage housing
my eyes, my ears, my mind, my heart, hands, my legs, my body, my soul
and my spirit, NOW!!! in the name of Jesus Christ, AMEN. I command my
eyes, my ears, my mind, my heart, hands, my legs, my body, my soul
and my spirit, jump out of witchcraft submission, NOW!!! in the name
of Jesus Christ, AMEN.
9. I command every agent of darkness holding my life and my star,
release them NOW!!! in the name of Jesus Christ, AMEN.
10. Fire of God, fall now, consume and burn to ashes every bars and
nets of every cage of darkness designed to imprison my life and my
benefits, in the name of Jesus Christ, AMEN.
11. My good and my destiny that was locked away from my life, I
unlock you with the key of David in the hands of Jesus Christ and
command you, come forth and locate me NOW!!! in the name of Jesus
Christ, AMEN.
12. I decree it: I will have what my enemies said I will not have, I
will go what they said I will not go, I will be what they said I will
not be, I will do what they said I will not do in the name of Jesus
Christ; Power of the Holy Ghost, fall upon me now and empower me to
live out my destiny, in the name of Jesus Christ, AMEN.
If you have indeed prayed these prayers, then as a servant of God I
declare your life unlocked from every satanic cage that was designed
to stop your life. You, beloved, are unstoppable! Go and live out your
destiny to the full, in the name of Jesus Christ, AMEN.
Now you know what I preached in church today [GRIN], the Lord also
confirming the word so wonderfully in our midst. You beloved, will
also have a confirmation!
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SHALOM.
Apostle Paul A Williams
Apostolic Revival Ministries International
Apostolic Revival Church
Mfangano Trade Center, Mfangano St, 3rd Flr.
Nairobi, Kenya
