02 - WHEN YOUR BACKGROUND WANTS TO PUT YOUR BACK ON THE GROUND

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(Continued teaching)

When Your Background Wants to Put Your Back on the Ground. 2

Is there a right and wrong way to carryout Family or Land Liberation?

Even though a section of Christian opinion holders try to deny it, the truth remains that our backgrounds or Family Trees have effect on our everyday living. Just as we have discovered in the volume 1 of this teaching, the Old and New Testament of the bible support this position.

In the fields of medical practice and criminology, this factor is referred to as predisposition. That is why a doctor would ask a patient, “Is there a history of mental illness in your family line?” or “Has anyone in your family died from heart-attack?” In criminology, when detectives are going after someone with criminal records, they study his kind of crime and they are able to tell the kind of places he is likely to go to. History has shown that it does not take experienced policemen much time to track the criminal.

In the spiritual space, we find these factors like driving forces moving their victims in the kind of choices they make and manipulate their environment to bring them to the predetermined end. The following scripture paints a perfect picture;

To Abiathar the priest the king said, "Go back to your fields in Anathoth. You deserve to die, but I will not put you to death now, because you carried the ark of the Sovereign Lord before my father David and shared all my father's hardships." So Solomon removed Abiathar from the priesthood of the Lord, fulfilling the word the Lord had spoken at Shiloh about the house of Eli. 1 Kings 2:26-27NIV

There was a political power play in the palace and Abiathar took sides with one group and his group lost out. That resulted in Abiathar losing his place as the chief priest of Israel and he lost spiritual and political relevance in the nation. Because of his previous faithfulness in the days he served David faithfully, he was spared from death. For an onlooker it would appear that all that was life but the bible quickly added that this was the result of some driving forces that exploited everyone and everything to achieve the fulfilment of the word of God spoken against the family line of Abiathar. (1 Sam. 2:30-36).

This is not always in the negative light. 

When evening came, many who were demon-possessed were brought to him, and he drove out the spirits with a word and healed all the sick. This was to fulfill what was spoken through the prophet Isaiah: "He took up our infirmities and carried our diseases." Matt 8:16-17NIV

The people of those days did not know that as they carried their sick ones to run in the direction of the Lord Jesus Christ, they were driven by a prophetic timeline.

The deliverance ministry is focused on fulfilling this call of the Lord Jesus Christ;

"Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light." Matt 11:28-30NIV

That is why we are preoccupied with the negative side of this pull.

It is always heartbreaking when a believer discovers that he is still struggling with invisible forces in life. In such cases, it is observed that it takes much effort to make any meaningful achievement. In some cases the believer observes that even though he has assurance of salvation, his father’s house or community is struggling with some curses that won’t let them advance.

There are those who teach that once we are saved, devil flees away. You won’t be able to find biblical backing for that view, both in the New and Old Testament

"When I shut up the heavens so that there is no rain, or command locusts to devour the land or send a plague among my people, if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land 2 Chron 7:13-14NIV

Yet, there are those who believe that there is still need for family or community liberation and have carried out several prayers in that direction, yet they don’t feel the impact. Hence the question, “Is there a right and wrong way to carry out family liberation?”

Many occasions I have been confronted with this question and I am always at a loss on what is the best way to answer the question. My concern is on two accounts; I don’t want to be seen as condemning other ministers on one hand but I don’t also want to give my audience false hope.

The perfect truth is that unless you break the covenants, the covenants and their effect remain. Family liberation is a covenant issue and unless they are handled that way, the process is wrong and the result cannot be same as when it is done the right way

1996 I headed the destruction of our traditional Ofor stool. Most people believed that I will not live long to tell the story. They felt that I was too young to attempt such. Older believers in my community fled the community because they did not want to witness the consequence of my “stupidity”. Well, three years after, the whole community came to invite me to destroy the community shrine. That was done on 31st December 1999. I wish to give God all the glory because there was no casualty on both occasions. I said this because we have heard of accounts where terrible things happened after family liberation like sudden death of the family or community head or the case where the ministers that went for the exercise died by daybreak

This kind of terrible report has spread fear such that some communities won’t want to attempt to destroy their shrines and idolatrous altars. Like I have mentioned in many of my writings, the oldest altar owns the land and controls the territory. That is why God will tell the Israelites to spare no shrine or altar in the land they were going to possess. When the Israelites disobeyed this instruction, the Lord was not happy because He was sure that the people will most likely lose their devotion to Him.

 In milder cases the people observed that there was no difference after they have destroyed the shrine and have done some prayers in spite of all the money that was spent to bring the deliverance team.

On the other hand, there are great results when it was carried out the proper way. There was the case when a mad man in the family suddenly regained sanity after the family liberation. We have instances when missing members of the family suddenly returned and fortunes of the family or community just turned for the better. In my community, the only upstairs building before the exercise was built with mud but after the liberation, we now have state of the art structures. In some cases people are liberated in to their marriages and God ordained destinies. There are instances when witches and wizards begin to confess and die.

By the above statements I intend to say that there are right and wrong ways to carry out family and land liberation. The text scripture supports my opinion. To understand this very well, you need to think of marriage covenant. Until a man follows due process to divorce his wife, she remains his wife and any other relationship is adultery. I mean this by legal terms and as a Christian bible view point. In the law court you can’t just tell the magistrate that the reason you want to send your wife away is because you want to marry another woman. 

The first thing is to pin point the reason for the liberation and that is what will determine whether you just need some prayer warriors to come and pray for your family or you need a professional team that understand the language of the land

The priests, the sons of Levi, shall step forward, for the Lord your God has chosen them to minister and to pronounce blessings in the name of the Lord and to decide all cases of dispute and assault. Deut 21:5NIV

Not every kind of court handles divorce matters but only the customary court. As in this case, there are ministers with the apostolic anointing to deal with matters and I have observed that the land and forces of nature hear them. It is sad to state hear that some see land liberation as money making venture and jump at it. Not a few of such people have complicated their lives in the process. There are also false prophets who just get involved to exploit people to make financial gains. These form greater number of those who have died as a result of entering into spiritual conflicts with demonic powers. Remember the sons of Sceva in Acts19:13-. 

It is also necessary to point out that there are people who want “fast-food” deliverance processes. The “money-man” of the family is coming in from Germany and will return the next day after the liberation, so everybody is obeying him because of his money. Nobody has fasted and no proper preparation has been made. When they consult people like me, we demand that they calm down and deal with issues but they are not interested. So they look for those that will give it to them fast. In some cases, the “money-man” dies after the exercise or some kind of bad news is heard. Then the family begins to blame God or the deliverance team

Humility: Family liberation calls for humility of heart; it should not be an effort to make things to start working well for the family but a process for the family to break free from ungodly ties with satan and terminate the powers of evil covenants that provoke curses and divine judgment on the people. The people should therefore not concern themselves only with the material gains that will follow but on the spiritual warfare ahead. We have instances where drug dealers and international prostitutes call for family liberation because they want things to get better in their sin businesses. Unfortunately they find fake deliverance ministers who are willing to offer it to them. I have met instances where family members don’t want to reconcile with their kinsmen and they want me to liberate their land from evil covenants and curses. When we insisted on the right thing, they turn away and go to those that are willing to give it their way. We have cases where a man threw away his legally wedded wife and when we insisted that he was wrong, he went to a “powerful prophet” who went to uproot fake charms from the land. There are cases when after they had destroyed those charms somebody runs mad.

There must be period of fasting and humble submission to God before family liberation.

There are proper ways to break curses and covenant especially if those curses are generational. Destroying the material shrines is not as important as the processes. There were definite terms that established the shrines or that brought in the negative situations, hence it is important to understand divinely established principles to destroy them.

I discussed these in detail in two of my books, CHALLENGES ASSOCIATED TO FAMILY TREE and COVENANTS: HOW THEY AFFECT PEOPLE

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WHEN YOUR BACKGROUND WANTS TO PUT YOUR BACK ON THE GROUND 1

Why believers may need Family or Land liberation

Be ashamed, O Sidon, and you, O fortress of the sea, for the sea has spoken: "I have neither been in labor nor given birth; I have neither reared sons nor brought up daughters." Isa 23:4NIV

In this scripture we are presented with the declaration of a particular geographic location, and it spoke shame and emptiness. My reader, this is the kind of voice speaking into the life of some people. These spiritual generational voices argue against their citizens when such citizens aspire to move beyond what they permit. Spirits from some of these backgrounds insist on backwardness and that is why members of these families or communities who venture in to exalted political office positions are suddenly disqualified. In some cases, they hate western civilization and so when their citizen venture going to Europe or the USA they are repeatedly denied visa. In some cases they want an aspiring medical doctor to serve them in a shrine by the waterside as a witchdoctor.

My prayer is that any of such voices pulling you back will be silenced in Jesus’ name.

It was 2003 on my way to Togo that a servant of God whom I met in Lagos State, Nigeria asked me to return to my home town and deal with my roots before crossing the border. At that time I used to make mockery of believers who believe that one’s family tree can hinder one’s development in life or ministry, but then circumstances around me compelled me to give it a try

Joy was suffering from a mysterious life threatening sickness that had defied all cures 

My second daughter had died only a year ago

My ministry was not finding direction

My marriage was as good as gone because my former church had convinced my wife that her sickness was the result of God punishing me because I left the church where my father had worked as a missionary. My father in the Lord was in agreement and asked me to abandon more than hundred members in Imo State to return to Onitsha, Anambra State.

Having been convinced, or rather confused, by them I returned to Owerri to pack up my things to head back to Onitsha, the Lord made me understand that He had not spoken to the prophets that advised us to go back to my mother church. He gave glaring proofs that He was with me. To be candid, that journey to Togo Republic was like running away from the crisis in my life and ministry, because Joy had taking sides with them as they told her that was the only way she could remain alive.

I obeyed the servant of God and more so because he offered me the bottle of oil free of charge. My mother who was gifted in vision was at Onitsha at the time. That night she told my sisters that I was in the village and was doing warfare prayers. She saw the demons and evil forces which I was dismantling.

This piece is not supposed to be a long write up, so I will leave the rest of the story for a bigger work.

Let me tell you some things about my background

My ancestors were warriors and warriors of those days resorted to many diabolic spiritual powers in their battles. To acquire those powers required making all manner of covenants with different spirits that gave them victory in wars. 

The good news is that I led my kinsman to destroy these ancient charms and shrines in 1996 and 1999 in a community liberation exercise. 

My father was among those who welcomed the gospel quite early and I saw at least two churches he planted. He was among early followers of Scripture Union Nigeria and he believed in the holiness doctrine. It is then surprising that he married four wives. The fact was that his first wife died mysterious after the birth of a son; the second wife was diabolic and for the sake of his life he sent her away but she also left a son behind; the third wife committed adultery and he had to send her away. My mother was the one that stayed with him till death.

My two stepbrothers who are late now were pushed into this kind of situation by the evil forces that affected our father. The first son married three wives in the same broken order as our father before he died leaving behind four underage children. My second stepbrother refused to send his wife away or adopt polygamy and he died leaving behind four underage children.

Joy’s sickness started after she had her first son. Even though by divine providence, unlike my father and stepbrothers, her first and second children were girls, the attack started when she had her first son.

This is to make you understand where the devil was pushing me to but I am a believer and a deliverance minister. I am the only one among my brothers who saw his grown up children and still living with my one and only wife. This is not because I am powerful but just by the grace of God.

I have another town’s man who rose to prominence in the gospel ministry but had a shameful fall. He fell into immorality, abandoned a flourishing ministry to go into politics. His ministry partners came from Canada and took him back by force. He returned after about five years and bounced back in the ministry. After a short time as a travel evangelist he went to be with the Lord. There was another one who was also heavily anointed and gifted in the knowledge of the word of God, but he too could not fly too high owing to these spiritual forces. I discovered that I was not the first to manifest the raw anointing power from my kinsmen but they often struggled and will end up woefully. Hence, I adopted some principles in my ministry to help me to prevail over such powers.

Let me stop thus far because more testimonies could hurt some people. Yet, I wish to let you know that unless you deal with your background it may force your back to the ground.

Our text speaks of the authoritative statement of THE VOICE OF THE SEA; this voice spoke shame and frustration on Tyre and Sidon and concluded to assert that 

"I have neither been in labor nor given birth; I have neither reared sons nor brought up daughters." Isa 23:4NIV

I want to believe that Sidon was daring to advance to a particular higher level and the authority from his background said something like,

“Sidon, are you crazy? How can you ever imagine that you can go thus far? Have you ever heard that any of your brothers or sisters or even your ancestors ever attempted that? Sidon, your lot in life is shame and bareness”

If I were you I will cry, “God forbid!”

Owing to the fact that we still live in this world and we wear the human flesh, there are some factors that are attached to your person even after you are born again. These factors both spiritual and physical like to assert themselves on you and whatever you do. I like to let you know that it will take a process to push out of these things. Here is what the Lord Jesus Christ said to some people – 

"Make a tree good and its fruit will be good, or make a tree bad and its fruit will be bad, for a tree is recognized by its fruit. You brood of vipers, how can you who are evil say anything good? For out of the overflow of the heart the mouth speaks. The good man brings good things out of the good stored up in him, and the evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in him. Matt 12:33-36NIV

For some people it is to move from poverty to prosperity; for some, it is to move from illiterates to elites; for some it is to move from slaves to kings. The Lord Jesus Christ said that there is a making process for the family tree to shift thus. 

It could also be the result of a ripened generational punishment. What I mean is that people from their background had done terrible things like bloodshed, idolatry, witchcraft, slave trade, ritual killings, etc. and the present generation happens to be the ones whose turn it is to face the cumulative punishment resulting from generations of sin and wickedness. Here is what the Lord Jesus Christ said to his audience,

Therefore this generation will be held responsible for the blood of all the prophets that has been shed since the beginning of the world, from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zechariah, who was killed between the altar and the sanctuary. Yes, I tell you, this generation will be held responsible for it all. Luke 11:50-51NIV

Take note of the way the Message Bible put specific clarity to it;

What it means is that every drop of righteous blood ever spilled from the time earth began until now,. from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zechariah, who was struck down between altar and sanctuary, is on your heads. Yes, it's on the bill of this generation and this generation will pay. Luke 11:50-51. The Message Bible

To break free or terminate this kind of situation is what we refer to as, Family or Community Liberation or Covenant Breaking.

I discussed this in a broader sense in my books, 

1. Challenges Associated to the Family Tree

2. Covenants: How They Affect People

3. Naboth: Not My Portion

I have written more than 30 different titles on the subject of deliverance and spiritual warfare. These books are available as soft copy PDF on Amazon Kindle Bookstore, PNUR Bookstore and Selar Bookstore, BOOKS BY PASTOR EMMA N.J NWOSU 

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