Friday, 22nd November, 2024
Bible Reading: Exodus 20: 4-6
Memory Verse: And My people, who are called by My Name, humble themselves, and pray and seek (crave, require as a necessity) My face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear [them] from heaven, and forgive their sin and heal their land. 2 Chronicles 7:14 (AMP)
Shall we continue with this all-important topic by one of God’s Generals, Dr. D.K. Olukoya preached over 15 years ago: Our University of Timbuktu was wiped off. Zulu and other African kingdom vanished. Our backsliding from the gospel brought us into judgement and enslavement. From the sugarcane plantations and factories, there is still another form of African slavery today, in a greater plantation. African Professors of Medicine work under their students abroad, Doctors of Economics become dish washers, Masters in Sociology are security gatemen. Africa’s Chartered accountants become taxi cab drivers abroad.
In Isaiah 3:1-5, God chose a strange punishment and judgement for backsliding into idolatry: God removed the leaders making them slaves to babies in foreign lands. God made such nations leaderless. All the problems of Africa can be summarised under one word: LEADERSHIP!!! A leaderless people is an evidence of God’s anger. A quarter of the black-skinned race are Nigerians.
There is a divine controversy against Africa: IDOL WORSHIP! This is what led to about 75 spiritual problems that troubles Africa. An idol is anything you place before or beside God and which you cannot drop. Idolatry is one sin whose punishment is generational according to the Bible in Exodus 20:4-6: the sins of the fathers producing serious and devastating consequences for unborn children.
Black Africa Idolatry has enthroned over 75 mad spirits troubling Africa, among which are: spirit of slavery, dream and home manipulation, evil spiritual marriage, household wickedness, collective captivity, spirit of wastages and anti-maintenance spirits, incisions, sacrifice and pouring of libation, ear and nose piercing, familiar and polygamous spirits, territorial spirits and geographical strongmen, blood covenants, land covenants, curses, marine powers, destructive charms and incantations, poverty, evil altars, polluted thrones, buried virtues, spells, jinxes and enchantments, star hunters, star gazers, demonic cultural festivals, blood money, evil gates, polluted wealth, ground spirits, forest spirits, ancestral strongmen, eaters of flesh and drinkers of blood, evil praise name, cross-road spirits, palace spirits, transfer of virtues, crab spirits, satanic worship, cemetary of good things, starvation and famine, tribal and ethnic conflicts, civil wars, black versus black conflicts, abuse of women, preventive diseases, etc.
All of us must repent individually and collectively as well as repent of the idolatry sins of our ancestors. We need individual deliverance, collective deliverance and continental deliverance from the evil consequences of idolatry.
In 1977, Nigerian Government hosted what it called the World Festival of Black Arts and Culture (FESTAC 77). That was what triggered the new phase of terrible problems in Nigeria. One man called Chief Obafemi Awolowo warned them not to host that demonic jamboree. He said it was a show and parade of our crude primitivity. He advised that the Government should use the money meant for FESTAC 77 for education, but they refused to listen to him. We invited all deformed and active demonic altars of our ancestors and renewed covenant with them.
Quote: Repentance and Consecration unto God and His principles are the only sure way to the deliverance of Africa.
Prophetic Decree: May the mercies of God break the burden of idolatry, in Jesus name.
Prayer Focus
1. Thank You Father for being mindful over the continent of Africa.
2. We repent as individuals and collectively as a nation, in Jesus name.
3. Continental curses and ancient covenants that have held Africa bound, be broken by the power in the Blood of Jesus.
4. My Father, in your mercies, please give us African leaders after your own heart, in Jesus name.
5. Africa, enter into your place in destiny, in Jesus name.
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