Deliverance From Evil Altars
Summary:
In the Bible, altars are designed for sacrifices and not just for decoration
(Exodus 20: 24). The Bible also described the various methods of constructing
these altars. Some were made of sand or unhewn stones, that is, stones that
have not been chiseled w
We
are looking at a message entitled, “Deliverance from evil altars.” And as you
read this message, I advise that you pray the prayer points attached to it. I
also encourage you to pay attention to everything in it so that you can be
richly blessed after going through it. In the book of I Samuel 7: 7-11, it is
written, “And when the Philistines heard that the children of Israel were
gathered together to Mizpeh, the lords of the Philistines went up against
Israel. And when the children of Israel heard it, they were afraid of the
Philistines. And the children of Israel said to Samuel, Cease not to cry unto
the Lord our God for us, that he will save us out of the hand of the
Philistines. And Samuel took a sucking lamb, and offered it for a burnt offering
wholly unto the Lord: and Samuel cried unto the Lord for Israel; and the Lord
heard him. And as Samuel was offering up the burnt offering, the Philistines
drew near to battle against Israel: but the Lord thundered with a great thunder
on that day upon the Philistines, and discomfited them; and they were smitten
before Israel. And the men of Israel went out of Mizpeh, and pursued the
Philistines, and smote them, until they came under Beth-car.”
We
notice in the above story that the Lord thundered with a great thunder upon the
enemies of Israel after Samuel built an altar and offered a sacrifice to the
Lord.
WHAT
ARE ALTARS?
In
the Bible, altars are designed for sacrifices and not just for decoration
(Exodus 20: 24). The Bible also described the various methods of constructing
these altars. Some were made of sand or unhewn stones, that is, stones that
have not been chiseled with any tool, and some were made of bricks. In some
cases, a natural rock could automatically be turned into an altar. Altars were
either constructed for God or idols. Any altar constructed for the purpose of
idolatry incurred the wrath of God. In the Bible, we read the story of a king
who was sacrificing by an altar and God sent a prophet who prophesied to it.
This shows the role of altars in spiritual transactions. As a Bible student,
you would find that the great men of God in the Old Testament built altars.
This was because an altar served as a medium of communication and worship.
Abraham, Noah, Joshua, Isaac, Jacob, Moses, Gideon, Samuel and David built
altars. When Elijah challenged the Baal worshipers at Mount Carmel, he told
them to construct their own altar and when it got to his turn, what he did was
to repair the broken down altar of the Lord.
An
altar could also be described as a place where animals are slaughtered for
sacrifice, that is, a place where blood is shed and where blood cries. It is a
spiritual dinning table where spirits are offered food. It is a place of
spiritual bureau de change where blood is exchanged for something. It is a
place where contact is made with the spirit world, and it could be with good or
bad spirits. It is a place of spiritual fellowship with either clean or unclean
spirits. When Jacob built an altar in Bethel, it was the angels of God who were
ascending and descending on it. If he had built a demonic one, there would have
been the traffic of evil angels otherwise known as demons.
An
altar is a place where covenants are made with spiritual powers. It is also a
place of deliberation, decision and action whether negative or positive. From
the above description of an altar, we can see that there are positive altars as
well as negative ones. For example, the cross where Jesus died was an altar of
sacrifice of the Son of God. That cross therefore stood for a positive altar,
which is meant for good purposes. When somebody says your prayer altar is weak,
it means that your prayer life is nothing to write home about. If they say your
holiness is equally weak, they are telling you that your level of holiness is
not up to God’s standard. Conversely, negative altars are raised by the enemies
to steal, kill and to destroy. An altar can be raised to bless or destroy,
promote or pull down a person, an organization or a thing. Altars can also be
raised to enhance a course or to frustrate it. So, we see that altars were
raised to either save lives or to destroy the enemies in the Old Testament.
According to the passage, Samuel raised an altar in the name of God against the
Philistines, and as a result, God became angry with the Philistines and
thundered with a great thunder against them from heaven. The altar made things
easy for the Israelites. God fought for them and they did not have to do
anything by themselves.
The
devil has counterfeited most things God had instituted to bless His people. For
example, people offer sacrifices at crossroads and by so doing, they corrupt
the cross of Jesus and this is a counterfeit. No wonder the problems of many
black people can be directly linked to evil altars. The enemies go about to
construct altars of affliction for many people and these altars have priests of
wickedness ministering on them. The devil has taught his people the secret of
altars and they use it for destructive purposes. You may wonder where the devil
borrowed this idea.
Remember
the Bible says that he had been with God right from the beginning. He had seen
the order of heaven and understood the way things are done over there. So, he
duplicates things and goes about to teach his disciples how to use them for negative
purposes. That is why I often emphasize that prayer against evil altars is not
the gentle kind of prayers. An evil altar is a place of evil transactions where
many evil things like infirmities, demotion, failure, etc are accommodated. And
looking at the situation in our immediate environment, where some people do not
mind going to any length to make money or harm their fellow human beings, we
should understand that evil altars must be dealt with aggressively. At this
point, I would like you to pray the following prayer points:
1.
Every satanic altar erected against me and my family, be demolished by fire, in
the name of Jesus.
2.
I refuse to be a prisoner of any local altar, in the name of Jesus.
Sometimes,
sacrifices are made on evil altars in order to seal a contract with wicked
spirits. Sacrifices are food given to evil spirits to enlist their support and
this is why the Bible says that we should not eat things sacrificed to idols,
because eating them would amount to eating at the same table with idols. Any
food sacrificed to idols are given to demons and sharing food with demons means
being in agreement with them. That is why you discover that sometimes
sicknesses such as migraine, hypertension etc are not actually the problem. The
enemy uses them as camouflage. It is against this background that Christians
are advised to pray always when they are sick even when they seek medical
attention. We should not forget that believers should rely solely on the Holy
Spirit to fight their battles. When your name is submitted to altars, it is in
order to monitor and influence your life in a negative way. Many house helps,
nannies, in-laws and relations that are brought in without prayers are altar
agents who supply information to evil priests ministering at evil altars. They
value this information very much because it helps them to know which ammunition
to use on their victims. These altars are also used as remote control devices
to cause problems for people. Some of the weird things they do include rituals
at crossroads in order to limit their victims for life. A person under the
dominion of these evil altars normally loses his or her mind and can no longer
exercise discretion. Such a person will be living in fear and will be experiencing
nightmares and all sorts of afflictions. In the light of the foregoing, the
kind of prayers to undertake against evil altars is not “a gentleman” kind of
prayers, but rather, it is the aggressive prayer of command and prophecy.
Let us look at some of the local altars erected to
destroy the lives of people in our environment.
1. Crossroad altars: This is a perversion of the cross
of Jesus. The reason they use crossroads is to summon demons from the north,
south, east, and west together against a person. If for example, you find a pot
of sacrifice at your office, it is because they are summoning demons to cause
havoc in that place. Whoever is a victim of crossroad altars would be bombarded
with afflictions. Any born again believer who does not know his or her right
and lacks power, cannot counter the effects of evil altars. A policeman on the
road controlling the traffic may stop vehicles because of his authority that is
acknowledged by the drivers, but if he encounters armed robbers, his uniform of
authority not withstanding, he would be killed. What I am saying is that there
is a difference between power and authority. If you are born again and you have
not received the baptism in the Hoy Spirit, it means that you only possess
authority without power to back it up. Failure to get baptized in the Holy
Spirit would make a Christian powerless and sacrifices offered at evil altars
against such a person at crossroads would affect him or her. The person may not
die, he or she may even make heaven, but they will destroy many good things in
his or her life. It is amazing that crossroads sacrifices are seen even in
intellectual communities, like universities and other institutions of higher
learning. Whereas, people think that such practice is done only in slums and ghettoes.
This would serve to disabuse the minds of those who think that offering
sacrifices is only for the illiterates.
2. Tree altars: We know that some people put sacrifices
by some trees, for example, iroko tree, pawpaw tree, banana tree etc. Sacrifices
found at tree altars are usually wrapped with white cloths. That way, a report
is filed against a person and the case of such a person is handed over to the
demons living in the tree, including witches and wizards. Before a sister got
born again, she was a member of the demonic world. She became a demonic
prophetess, who laid hands on people while she prophesied upon their lives. She
told a story of how she attended a church to carry out her demonic assignment
as usual, but a woman sitting beside her challenged her claiming that she had a
greater power. So, she told her to shut up, and before the ‘prophetess’ could
say anything, the woman touched her leg and as a result, both of them were
lifted away from the church and landed in a cave within a rock. There, they saw
various kinds of modern gadgets like refrigerators, stereos, wall clocks,
electric cookers, etc and right there she started to cook for the woman. This
explains the fact that there are things
3. Photographic altars: Altars can be constructed with
wedding photographs, family and individual pictures and through that, a person
will begin to receive torments and afflictions or he may even get killed.
Marriages could be broken through this means. In fact, various kinds of evil
could be perpetrated on people using their pictures.
4. Image altars: Symbols are made to represent a person
or something in the spirit world and whatever they do to that symbol may happen
to that person in the spirit. For example, if they give the head a terrible
blow, the person may begin to have severe headache, and this explains why some
students suddenly take ill during their examinations. Also, a shop can be
constructed to represent the real shop of a person, and whatever they do to
that image would happen to the shop in real life.
5. Reporting altars: This is the kind of altar where
the name of a person is chanted at all times. Victims of reporting altars would
be hearing their names without knowing who is calling them. However, if they
answer, they immediately fall prey.
6. Clothing altars: This is a case where evil people
lay hands on the clothes of their victims for evil purposes. So, if you know
that somebody had cut away some portion from any of your clothes or your
underwear was once stolen or your clothes got missing mysteriously, you need to
embark on aggressive prayer.
7. River altars: These are altars meant to serve water
demons. They sit on people’s lives and keep them submerged.
8. Forest altars: Many people do not know that
destroyers do not sleep. They are always busy operating in the forest at night
doing evil with people’s names.
9. Body part altars: Things like placenta, hair, etc
are used to destroy lives.
10. Astral altars: There are people who utter evil
words against the stars of others in order to render their lives unfruitful.
11. Altars of evil transfer: Satanic priests and
spiritual robbers at the altars of evil transfer, transfer people’s virtues.
12. Family shrines: Any family with shrines has an
altar, and the whole family members are monitored through that. I once prayed
with a sister with a pathetic case. Her mother in-law brought an idol from
their village into their sitting room for three months before she went back
with it. While the thing was there, the woman created traffic of demons in her
home. Through this, the mother in-law now had some evil spirits that were
monitoring the sister’s home and giving them information for evil purposes. It
took a great deal of prayer of deliverance to destroy the effect of the idol.
When I asked her why her husband could not get rid of the thing, she said that
immediately her mother in-law brought it in, he turned to a spiritual daft and
it was as if he never went to church before.
13. Physical altars: This is the type of altar where
they sacrifice people that are kidnapped. I know a brother who fell a victim of
this terrible altar. When he woke up, he discovered that his son had thrown his
daily guide into the dustbin and that was how he left for the office without
doing his normal quiet time. On getting to the bus stop, somebody emerged from
nowhere, slapped his chest and as a result he began to follow him. He was taken
to a bush where there was a satanic priest with assorted human parts, which
littered the surrounding of the altar. As they were preparing for him, the Lord
told him to start praying in the spirit. As he began to speak in tongues, they
became confused. When he saw that, he intensified the praying in tongues and
before long they all took to their heels and he was able to escape. This is an
example of a physical altar.
14. Altar of curses: An example will serve to explain
this. Somewhere in Ondo State of Nigeria, a man boarded a bus and the fare was
fifteen naira. He took the old one-naira note, which has the colour of the
current ten-naira note and joined it with the normal five-naira note to settle
his fare. The conductor did not discover this trick immediately, until after a
long time during the trip. Eventually, the driver discovered it and demanded to
know the culprit, but all the commuters denied. The driver got annoyed, brought
out a horn with a viper’s tooth and issued some terrible curses with it. He
said the person who did it would bury his children, then he folded the old one
naira and threw it into the bush, and as he was throwing it, he also added that
as the note was being thrown away, the culprit would never prosper. Of a truth,
these curses began to happen to the fellow. He noticed that his brilliant son
suddenly became a dullard. He then started to search for the driver and when he
found him, the driver said he had thrown the thing into the forest and solution
could only come if he could find it. The man could not find it but he ran to
Jesus. What did that driver do? He simply erected an altar of curses against
the man.
Beloved, Christian life is a spiritual warfare. If
Jesus Christ, the purest man that ever lived had enemies, it is certain that we
would have enemies as well. But there are different strategies in Christian
warfare. You could lay ambush, mount a frontal attack, launch a night attack or
do constant bombardment from afar. However, nothing is as terrible as fighting
a war you do not understand. Sometime ago, somebody showed me a film of the
America/Vietnam war.
As I watched it, I almost started to cry because the
Americans brought sophisticated weapons to Vietnam but they could do little or
nothing with it because their enemies were hiding on trees and inside the water
with breathing apparatus, hence the Americans could not see them. So, the
Vietnamese succeeded in out-witting many of them. Eventually, the Americans
abandoned the war because they did not understand the strategy of their
enemies. In the same vein, if Christians do not understand the kind of battle
they are in, they would be rendered useless.
But our God has the capacity to
reduce our enemies to a state of helplessness within a second. The most
difficult situation you may face gives God the greatest opportunity to show
Himself as the Almighty God because He has a lot of unusual weapons that can make
us victorious. The usual trend is that things might start getting worse before
they begin to get better and the general reaction of people is to get
discouraged and worried instead of taking the bull by the horn. Difficult times
may be as a result of the penetration of a lot of enemies who must be expelled
before there could be relief. The fact is that, the more the enemy boasts
against a child of God, the greater his fall shall be.
HOW CAN WE DEAL WITH EVIL ALTARS?
1. Recognize their operations which I have already
explained above.
2. Repent of those things in your life that are giving
evil altars the platform to prosper in your life.
3. Renounce them. It does not matter whether you know
about them or not.
4. Resist them using the words of God.
5. Kill the priests of evil altars who are being used
against you. It is an acceptable biblical practice to slay either evil priests
or prophets through aggressive prayers.
6. Withdraw your benefits and virtues from the altars.
7. Destroy the evil altars.
8. Give praises to God.
Furthermore, to destroy evil altars, you can curse
them. You can call the fire of God, or the divine hurricane of the Holy Spirit
to blow them away. Every prayer against evil altars must be done aggressively
and with violent faith. Embark now on the following prayer points to disgrace
evil altars.
PRAYER POINTS
1. I render every aggressive altar impotent, in the
mighty name of Jesus.
2. Every evil altar erected against me, be disgraced,
in the name of Jesus.
3. Anything done against me under demonic anointing, be
nullified, in the name of Jesus.
4. I curse every local altar fashioned against me, in
the name of Jesus.
5. Let the hammer of the Almighty God smash every evil
altar erected against me, in the name of Jesus.
6. O Lord, send your fire to destroy every evil altar
fashioned against me, in the name of Jesus.
7. Every evil priest ministering against me at the evil
altar, receive the sword of God, in the name of Jesus.
8. Let the thunder of God smite all the evil priests
ministering against me at the evil altars and burn them to ashes, in the name
of Jesus.