WHEN BELIEVERS ARE ON THE DEVIL’S TEAM

Dear Folks,

I have always believed that the greatest Prophet over your life is yourself. It is more important what you say about your life, than what someone else says about your life. In fact, most prophecies over your life will only be fulfilled when you agree with them. The question this day is what are you saying?

I found it absurd how the devil has really taken over the lexicon of the believer. Many have joined the devil’s team – they are speaking exactly what the devil says, or would have said to them. I am sure you have heard people say, including believers, ‘I AM DEAD SERIOUS’ – What has seriousness got to do with being dead. Or ‘I AM FINISHED’ Wait a minute, wetin (what) happen? Even, Jesus on the cross didn’t say ‘I am finished’ but ‘IT IS FINISHED’. And then some say ‘I AM HUNGRY LIKE HELL’. Are you serious! I found no meeting point between hunger and hell. And some even think it’s cool. Time and space will fail me to tell of the very many negatives in our indigenous tongue, take for instance someone said, ‘temi ti baje’ – (Yoruba, meaning my own, my life have spoilt). When you say such words, you don’t need demons.

We need to understand that being believers’ means speaking the way God’s speak, or the best way, speaking what God has said. Are your words in tandem with God’s words or with the devil’s? I want to conclude by looking into two portions of the scripture.

1. Proverbs 18:20-21 says, ‘A MAN'S BELLY SHALL BE SATISFIED WITH THE FRUIT OF HIS MOUTH; AND WITH THE INCREASE OF HIS LIPS SHALL HE BE FILLED. DEATH AND LIFE ARE IN THE POWER OF THE TONGUE: AND THEY THAT LOVE IT SHALL EAT THE FRUIT THEREOF.’

Solomon said that your words are seeds, and like every seed, when sown, they must germinate, all things being equal. A farmer eats of the fruits of his seed – whether directly or by profiting. The words you release today are the seeds, the fruit of which you will feed on tomorrow. Many times in life, the things we see don’t just happen, they happen as a result of process. Your present state is a result of what started long ago.

What are you filled with today, what are you experiencing today? If your life is full of varying degrees of bitterness, failure, pain, disappointment etc, it may be because of the things you said long ago; you may be eating of the fruit of your mouth. A sure way to change your life is by starting to sow the right seeds. Heaven and earth respect your words – “SAY UNTO THEM, AS TRULY AS I LIVE, SAITH THE LORD, AS YE HAVE SPOKEN IN MINE EARS, SO WILL I DO TO YOU” Numbers 14:28. Life is more about the seed we sow than about the harvest, for your harvest is determined by the seed sown.

I love the message translation of Proverbs 18:21, “WORDS KILL, WORDS GIVE LIFE; THEY'RE EITHER POISON OR FRUIT--YOU CHOOSE”.

2. So in whose camp are you? Let’s consider the second scripture:

‘It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: THE WORDS THAT I SPEAK UNTO YOU, THEY ARE SPIRIT, AND THEY ARE LIFE.’ John 6:63

The literal translation says, ‘the word that I speak are spirit filled and life giving’. Many years ago, while meditating on this verse of the scripture God told me, He said ‘all words spoken by men have a spirit, either my spirit or the devil’s spirit, the devil’s therefore brings death while mine gives life’. Those words over the years rings through my spirit. All words are spirit – but some give life, some death. Remember Jesus didn’t say ‘some of the words that I speak…’ So no room for I was only joking or being cool. All your words must be Spirit filled and Life giving. Don’t sulk life out of your life. Speak like a God’s fan! Determine to never support the devil’s plan. Quit the devil’s team!

Therefore be careful whose team you are supporting. John 10:10, told us the devil’s team and game plan is always about stealing, murdering and death. While some people claim not to be for the devil, they, by their words energize him to act in their lives. 

My challenge to you today is that you will appreciate the creative power of the tongue and understand that the spirit world is controlled by the word of God. The spoken word of God is creative power, and there is great power in your tongue. Therefore learn to use it wisely, align your tongue with God, be a God’s fan with your words and keep speaking the word of life – for surely as you have spoken in His ears He will do.

Your Greatness is Assured!

FA

Fisayo Adeniyi

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THIS IS WHY MANY CAN’T RESIST THE DEVIL

Dear Folks,

It was late at night or very early in the morning, probably 1:0oam, I just discovered the truth about the believer in a new way. ‘RESIST THE DEVIL, AND HE WILL FLEE FROM YOU.’ James 4:7. Imagine my joy. Hulala! Suddenly I became a little taller, I felt like a giant – in fact like a bulldozer – ready to bulldoze the devil not only from my life, and ministry but if possible from the world.

So I began to exercise the word of God in prayer – ‘devil get out of my ministry, you have no permission in my spirit, soul and body…I began to blow tongues…common now’. After staying in prayer battling with God’s word for like an hour. I heard the spirit say to me, ‘READ THAT VERSE AGAIN’. Why? I mean by now I can quote it. When He kept pressing me, I read it, and then it was the same. ‘Resist the devil, and He will flee from you’.

By now I was familiar with that verse. But how many times have we missed out on God’s mind, treasure and revelation because we are used to that verse? So, He said, ‘the whole verse’. Then I saw it… ‘SUBMIT YOURSELVES THEREFORE TO GOD. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you’. James 4:7. THEN I SAW IT. FIRST, YOU MUST SUBMIT TO GOD! Immediately I stopped praying – I was on to something new – Rev!

Many times, believers are exercising so much energy resisting the devil, and you can see for yourself that instead of the devil fleeing, he is building strongholds and pavilions around you. We must learn to do the first thing first, which is to submit to God – then resisting the devil will be like a stroll in the park. But we must learn to do the first thing first – the first thing is not resisting the devil, it is submitting to God. God doesn’t help you to submit, it is you that submit – ‘submit yourselves’ – it’s a decision you must make. No need to be spiritual about that.

THEREFORE SUBMIT TO GOD! The reason the devil has given Christians so much hell, is because most Christians are not submitted to God.

The question I asked which you should ask is how do I submit to God? Especially a God I cannot see, and I cannot walk to His office to take order? THE WAY THAT YOU SUBMIT TO GOD IS BY BEING SUBMITTED TO HIS WORD, because God and His word are one. This means that if you submit yourselves to the Word, then and only then can you have the right to resist the devil. The Bible does not say fight him. It says resist him. And the Bible says, he will flee from you. So you are in a faith fight – but that fight is dependent on submission to God’s word.

The Greek word submit ishupotasso. The hupo means "under" and the tasso means "to arrange." This word and a root of it are also translated by the words subject and subjection. The word's full meaning is "to obey, put under, be subject to, submit oneself unto, put in subjection under or be under obedience or obedient to." The word was used as a military term meaning "to arrange troop divisions in a military fashion under the command of a leader." 

In order to resist the devil therefore you must put yourself under the Word of God. The word of God is the leader and you must obey it. You must be subjected fully to God’s word – in complete obedience! IF (note the word IF) you live such a word controlled and dominated life, then you will resist the devil and he will flee.

The devil is not as powerful as he seems, it is just that we have refused to live in subjection to God’s word. The Bible says concerning Jesus, ‘WITH BURNT OFFERINGS AND SIN OFFERINGS YOU WERE NOT PLEASED. THEN I SAID, ‘HERE I AM—IT IS WRITTEN ABOUT ME IN THE SCROLL. I HAVE COME TO DO YOUR WILL, MY GOD’. Hebrews 10:6-7. He was submitted to doing what was written concerning him in the scroll. We also must stand and be committed to that which is written in the eternal scroll of God – His word!

Again submit yourselves to God, resist the devil and he will be on the highway – fleeing! Be sure to keep the devil at bay – keep him fleeing by submitting to God’s word, THEN RESIST HIM. Amen!

Your Greatness is Assured!

FA

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THE DAY GOD TOLD ME, ‘STOP PRAYING IN TONGUES’

Dear Folks,

Like many Pentecostals, I was a tongue talking, chewing and praying Christian. That is a good thing. I have read and experienced the benefits of praying in tongues. I believe and still believe there is nothing as powerful and potent as praying in tongues. So let me clarify from start, THIS POST IS NOT AGAINST PRAYING IN TONGUES.

So imagine my amazement, when years ago I heard ‘stop praying in tongues’, I mustn’t be hearing well. No! I must be hearing crazy. Stop what? But then, the hearing lingers in my spirit. I knew it was God but then I didn’t understand it. How can God say, ‘stop praying in tongues’? I began to remember scriptures, I said common, how about Romans 8:26, Jude 1:20, Acts 2:4, Mark 16:17. But then I argued with the WORD HIMSELF. I wanted to begin to banish the devil, but I knew it wasn’t the devil.

Herein was the dilemma. It wasn’t a problem that He said. It was why he would say it. I was stunned at the oddity of it. Notice He wasn’t telling me PRAYING IN TONGUES WAS WRONG, He said to stop.

There and then he led me to these two verses 1Cor. 14:14-15 ‘FOR IF I PRAY IN AN UNKNOWN TONGUE, MY SPIRIT PRAYETH, BUT MY UNDERSTANDING IS UNFRUITFUL. WHAT IS IT THEN? I WILL PRAY WITH THE SPIRIT, AND I WILL PRAY WITH THE UNDERSTANDING ALSO: I WILL SING WITH THE SPIRIT, AND I WILL SING WITH THE UNDERSTANDING ALSO’. 

Now I saw, what God was saying, yes my spirit may have been growing, my understanding – my mind wasn’t; it was unfruitful – the Greek word for unfruitful is ‘akarpos’ – meaning barren, not bearing fruit, and unproductive. My soul had zero connection to God. I was not connecting with God in my soul (mind). Yes you worship God in Spirit – but understanding comes in your soul, my soul was barren and unproductive when it comes to prayer.

I didn’t get it but God wanted to have the whole of me. He wanted me to know Him – to be able to express my love to Him in words. To grow my understanding also. SPIRITUAL MEN ARE THOSE WHO HAVE A SPIRIT AND SOUL CONNECTION TO GOD.

Tracking back, let me inform you that prior to that, I did all my prayers in tongues. I didn’t even say a word in understanding. I had problem in stringing words together in understanding in public prayer. I was an executive in a campus fellowship, and I would be stammering words in understanding in prayer, because what I didn’t do in secret I couldn’t do in public. I bet, God got tired of me and He wanted to get me out of it.

Last week, I wrote about SPIRITUAL SNAG and a friend reached out to me – she could relate with it. I told her to pray more but in understanding because I deciphered the problem was with her soul - her soul wasn’t connecting with God, her spirit was saved. So I said stop praying in tongues for two weeks, she said she was going to die --- I laughed, the truth is IT GETS TO A TIME THAT YOUR SOUL FOR LACK OF UNDERSTANDING GETS TIRED AND DISCONNECTED – THAT IS WHY YOU NEED RENEWAL BY THE WORD, AND PRAYERS IN UNDERSTANDING. 

Paul said, ‘WHAT IS IT THEN? I WILL PRAY WITH THE SPIRIT, AND I WILL PRAY WITH THE UNDERSTANDING ALSO: I WILL SING WITH THE SPIRIT, AND I WILL SING WITH THE UNDERSTANDING ALSO’. 1 Cor 14:15. Like Paul of old, I want to encourage you to pray in tongues, but neglect not praying in understanding.

The Pauline prayers are in truth one of the most potent and powerful prayers for the believer, and yet they were not written in tongues, or do we think it was an interpretation of Paul’s tongues. It therefore shows that the Apostles prayed in understanding and we should to. 

Let’s get out of this mental belief that believers don’t have to pray in understanding. Yes I pray more in tongues than understanding, but dear folks I don’t ever neglect PRAYING IN UNDERSTANDING and you shouldn’t. Let your understanding be carried along in your spiritual journey. 

So back to my story, God didn’t let me pray in tongues for like a month. Then He allowed me, no more restraint, and this time I was trained and ready to do both. I had to stop the tongue converse, to get my soul and understanding going. Let me round off with Christ words in Mark 12:30, 33;

‘AND THOU SHALT LOVE THE LORD THY GOD WITH ALL THY HEART, AND WITH ALL THY SOUL, AND WITH ALL THY MIND, AND WITH ALL THY STRENGTH: THIS IS THE FIRST COMMANDMENT’. Mark 12:30

‘AND TO LOVE HIM WITH ALL THE HEART, AND WITH ALL THE UNDERSTANDING, AND WITH ALL THE SOUL, AND WITH ALL THE STRENGTH, AND TO LOVE HIS NEIGHBOUR AS HIMSELF, IS MORE THAN ALL WHOLE BURNT OFFERINGS AND SACRIFICES’. Mark 12:33

You see even your soul is important.

Your Greatness is Assured!

FA

Fisayo Adeniyi

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