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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