Confront and Conquer Your Enemy (Book 1): Winning the Battle Within, Slaying Your Giants in the Place of Prayer

By Prayer M. Madueke

There is a great struggle that lies before everyone on earth because the world is a battleground, likened to warfare, wrestling and fighting place. A lot of people have failed and fallen in the day of battle because they underestimated the enemies, they used wrong weapon or fail to put on the whole armor of God. Others were busy fighting the wrong battle but this series “Confront and Conquer your Enemy” exposes the worst enemy of mankind from the start. All that you need to confront and conquer your enemies and achieve victory is in this book. There are people that are born, they lived and died under the captivity of their enemies. The enemy you do not confront can never be conquered, no matter how long you wait or wish for freedom. You will discover the right enemy and the right weapons to use in other to conquer them without much struggle or an atom of negotiation.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Prayer M. Madueke
• Release date: Dec 21, 2020
• ISBN: 9781005440541

Prayer M. Madueke

Prayer Madueke is a Spiritual Warrior in the Lord’s Vineyard. An accomplished author, speaker, and expert on spiritual warfare and deliverance, he has published well over 100 books on every area of successful Christian living.He is an acclaimed family and relationship counselor with several titles dealing with those critical areas in the lives of the children of God. He is blessed with a beautiful wife and 5 God-fearing children.He travels to several countries each year speaking and conducting deliverance, breaking the yokes of demonic oppression, and setting captives free. All his books can be found on Amazon.Prayer Madueke will be happy to partner with you on special programs as he describes the work of God as his sole duty and calling.***************You can contact Prayer Madueke on the following platforms below:Website: https://www.madueke.comEmail: [e-mail]: @prayermaduekeInstagram: @prayermaduekeTwitter: @prayermadueke

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Introduction

Confront and Conquer Your Enemy is a book that catalogues those sins that were injected into the human race through the subtlety of the serpent in the Garden of Eden.

"Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?" (Genesis 3:1).

The book lists some sins, which by their names reveal the nature and works of Satan. He is called Old Serpent (Revelation 12:9), Accuser (Revelation 10:12), Adversary (1 Peter 5:8), Father of lies (John 8:44), Lucifer (Isaiah 14:12), Abaddon or Appollon (Revelation 12:3), Beelzebub (Matthew 12:24), Dragon (Revelation 9:11), Liar (John 8:44), god of this world (2 Corinthians 4:4), Prince of this world (John 14:30), Sinner (John 3:8), Murderer (John 8:44), Prince of the devils, Prince of the power of the air (Matthew 12:24; Ephesians 2:2), Rulers of darkness" (Ephesians 6:12).

Evil spirits or demons assist this old serpent in his destructive work on the human body, as well as the spirit and soul. Once he is able to corrupt man with at least one sin, he can then possess him and introduce many problems like poverty and ignorance (Luke 16:20-22); prosperity without Christ (Luke 15:19-31); blindness (Matthew12:22); false prophecy (1 Samuel 18:8-10; Acts 16:16); grievous vexation and torments (Matthew 15:22); lunacy and mania (Matthew 4:24; 17:14-21; Mark 5:1-18; Luke 9:38-42); dumbness and deafness (Matthew 9:32-33; Mark 9: 25-27).

It is through sin that all manner of sickness and diseases possess people (Matthew 4:23-25). Leprosy, paralysis, fever, fear, lameness, uncleanness, plagues, defilement, issue of blood, barrenness, infirmities, madness, dropsy, impotence, sudden death, and other problems entered the human race through sin.

Once the problem of sin is settled, other human problems are minor. The serpent in the garden brought about the fall of man in the Garden of Eden. God is not the author of sin. Sin came into the world through the serpent in the Garden of Eden. Therefore, the origin of sin on earth is the first wrong choice of a free moral agent – man. When Adam and Eve fell (Genesis 3:1-6), all humankind fell and inherited the sinful nature (Romans 12:19; 3:9-10; Psalm 51:5; Romans 7:14-21). By this inheritance, all men became guilty before God (Romans 3:9; John 3:18, 36). We were all supposed to die and go to hellfire to suffer eternally. However, God sent His only begotten Son to save us.

"For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life" (John 3:16).

"Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you" (Luke 10:19).

"And saying, the time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the gospel" (Mark 1:15).

"For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast" (Ephesians 2:8-9).

However, Jesus will save only those who will acknowledge their sins and hopeless situations, repent, forsake them, and accept Jesus Christ as their personal Lord and Saviour. Therefore, if you have not repented and committed your life to the Lord Jesus Christ, do it now! Accept Christ into your life as your Lord and Saviour.

Besetting Sin

Besetting sin has destroyed many great people of God, and rendered their lives and ministry impotent. Presently, many professing believers and ministers have backslid because of besetting sin.

What is Besetting Sin?

The sin is set upon a person’s life, family, group of families, or a particular nation. It is a sin placed upon a person to destroy him or her. It is a sin that assails over a person, group of persons, an establishment, or a nation. It is the master of sins, a sin that hems in a person’s life. It is a force of sin that surrounds a person’s life. It is a sin that is constantly present to attack a believer.

A besetting sin follows and observes a person’s life to the end if they are not dealt with. It is a habitual sin, which attacks the heart at the slightest opportunity. A besetting sin is a sin fixed by satanic authority on a special appointment to destroy a person’s life. It is a force from satanic kingdom and it is always very resistant to change.

A besetting sin is a sin that is ready to challenge the prayers of its victim before God. It is an obstinate force from the pit of hell assigned to steal, kill, and destroy human souls, making them unfit for heaven. It is an inbuilt sinful power inside or outside man. It is a settled persistent evil force that is always in defiance to the righteousness of God. It is a sin that is always ready to oppose righteous living.

"For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.  For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I. If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto the law that it is good. Now then, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me. For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not.  For the good that I would I do not: but the evil, which I would not, that I do. Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.  I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me.  For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:  But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.  O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?" (Romans 7:14-24).

Besetting sin is a foundational bondage. It is one of the worst problems of humankind. It is the greatest and the most stubborn bewitchment against humankind. No deliverance is complete without deliverance from sin. The day Paul overcame his besetting sin, he really thanked God.

"I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin" (Romans 7:25).

Examples of Besetting Sins

Abraham –(Lies):In the days of Abraham, the besetting sin fought and defeated him when he went outside the will of God to live in Egypt (Genesis 12:10-16). The same sin later manifested in the life of his covenant son, Isaac (Genesis 26:7).

Simeon and Levi –(Anger): These young men laid the foundation of anger in their lives, and it followed them and their lineage (Genesis 34: 25-31; Exodus 32: 25-29; Deuteronomy 33:8-11; Numbers 25: 14; 16: 1-3, 15, 31-33).

Reuben –(Immorality):(Genesis 49: 1-4, Deuteronomy 33:6, 1 Chronicles 5: 25-26).

David –(Immorality):(2 Samuel 11:1-27, 12:1-12) Confession of sin is good; but it is better to avoid sin than to dabble into it, and begin to confess it later (2 Samuel 12: 13-23; 18:1-7, 29-33; 19:1-4; 1Kings 2: 5-11; 11: 1-43; 12: 1-33; Psalm 127).

Judah(immorality):– Gen. 38: 1-2. Check the people that came from the tribe of Judah, and you will notice the effect of immorality on them – David, Solomon etc.

Examples of those who Overcame Besetting Sins

The following are some of the people who overcame besetting sins in the scripture:

Jonathan(foundational bondage):He rejected his father’s foundational bondage; thus, jumping out of his father’s family curse (1 Samuel 15:22-23, 26-29; 34-35; 16:1-2; 18:5-30; 19:1,8-24; 18:1-4; 19:1-5; 20:1-4,11-17, 27-34, 42). He received his divine inheritance (2 Samuel 1: 13-37; 9:1-13; 19:24-30; 21:1-9).

Jabez(poverty):Jabez prayed himself out of family curse and poverty (1 Chronicle 4:9-10).

Ruth(idolatry, sudden death):Ruth overcame her evil foundation when she took a good decision for God (Ruth 1:14-19, 22).

Rehab(prostitution):She took a good decision to save God’s servants, and she jumped out from the evil foundation of prostitution.

Enoch(sinful foundation):

"And Jared lived an hundred sixty and two years, and he begat Enoch:  And Jared lived after he begat Enoch eight hundred years, and begat sons and daughters: And all the days of Jared were nine hundred sixty and two years: and he died. And Enoch lived sixty and five years, and begat Methuselah: And Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah three hundred years, and begat sons and daughters: And all the days of Enoch were three hundred sixty and five years: And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him." (Genesis 5:18-24).

He took a good decision and jumped out of a sinful life that was besetting him as he decided to walk with God. In addition, we all need to emulate him.

No matter how powerful a besetting sin may be the grace to overcome it is made available by the death of our Lord Jesus Christ.

"For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men, Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world; Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ; Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works" (Titus 2:11-14).

Chapter eleven of the book of Hebrews shows the crowd of witnesses who overcame, as well as their peculiar problems in their different generations. Therefore, if you are a sinner, you can overcome sin. If you are a backslider, you can also overcome the spirit of backsliding. God expects absolute holiness from us.

"That he would grant unto us, that we being delivered out of the hand of our enemies might serve him without fear, In holiness and righteousness before him, all the days of our life" (Luke. 1:74-75).

Living a holy life is not optional; it is rather mandatory. Holiness is required of every believer who wants to make heaven in these last days (Heb. 12:14; Lev. 11:44-45). Therefore, God demands absolute holiness from us, and He is not wicked as to demand what is not possible from us. Locate and overcome your besetting sins, which easily attack you, even as a believer. You can live above sin. It is possible, and it is the will of God for you. Have faith in the Lord and pray with determination. In this way, you will see the joy of Christianity as you overcome the sin that easily besets you.

The Lord promised to grant us that highest level of deliverance, so that we might serve Him without fear in holiness and in righteousness before Him, all the days of our lives here on earth. This is a promise, and the promises of God cannot fail. To obtain holiness, we must lay aside every weight of doubt and unbelief, every fear of Satan and sin. Forget all the past defeats you have suffered in the hand of Satan and sin. Lay aside whatever sin has reigned in your family, nation, and the entire world. Move forward this time in faith and patience; trusting God for your perfection, and full deliverance from sin.

As you pray this time, trust God and believe that He will do it. Stop looking at your pastor, or leaders in the church. They are not your standard. Look up to Jesus, and you will overcome every sin. If you compare yourself with men or the doctrines of men, you will not be holy. Do not consider the lives of the backslidden prophets, and sinners of our generation. Trust only in Jesus for your perfection, and you will not only experience perfection, but also holiness and righteousness. You will experience total freedom from sin and all unrighteousness. That is the level at which a Christian begins to enjoy his or her Christian life. Climb that ladder and you will see the fullness of joy in this present world.

Holiness is not absence of problems but absence of sin. However, with holiness you can endure afflictions with joy until you overcome them now or later (Hebrew12:1-3, 14; Acts 24:16; 2 Corinthians 7:1; 1 Thessalonians 4:7-8). To reject a holy life is to despise God. To reject a life of holiness is to disagree with God’s will. The Lord who said it is possible, and who also demands it will help as many as will faithfully pursue, pray, and fast (if necessary), with all determination to obtain this wonderful Christian experience. Let us pray in faith for He will answer us.

In this book, Confront and Conquer the Greatest Enemy of Man, Part Two talks about the Flesh, which is the characteristic words of Paul that runs through his epistles. The works of the flesh are essentially associated with sin, defilement, and evil. To live in the flesh, or produce works of the flesh is the precise opposite of being a Christian.

"Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, Envying’s, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God" (Galatians 5:19-21).

Believers should repent of all the works of the flesh, and pray against its repetition, because it is contradictory for a Christian to produce the works of the flesh. A work in the flesh is something that a person produces for himself, and it is opposite to a life in the spirit. A fruit is something that is produced by a power that a person does not possess.

"But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,  Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law" (Galatians 5:22-23).

The flesh represents the whole system of corrupt nature as it breaks forth into many forms of sin of disobedience. No army can invade a country from the sea, unless it can obtain a bridgehead in the land battles. If we live above the works of the flesh, temptation would be powerless to affect us. When there is sin within, the enemy will enter through an open door created by sin.

"Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers, Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, Without understanding, covenant breakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful: Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them" (Romans 1:29-32).

Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, and lasciviousness are sins against chastity of the believer, the entire body of Christian humanity. The lascivious persons have lost all sense of shame and decency; they openly, flagrantly, and blatantly commit sin, and defile their bodies. They are unmindful of the voice of reason insensitive to public moral opinion, and to the voice of the scriptures. A lesbian or homosexual person shall not inherit the kingdom of God. Idolatry and witchcraft are works of the flesh that manifests in illicit relationship with the unseen world. The later bother on spiritual intercourse while the former bothers on natural intercourse.

"Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God" (Galatians 5:19-21).

In the Bible days, the works of the flesh have affected many. In their carless moments, they fell to the works of the flesh. Israel, who was redeemed by the Lord, heard the voice of the Lord directly at Sinai (Exodus. 20:20-22) backslid, and went into works of the flesh.

"But lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, and tempted God in the desert" (Psalm 106:14).

Peter, the disciple who left all and followed the Lord, denied Jesus three times. Solomon with all the gifts of wisdom and administration slumped into immorality, works of the flesh, and idolatry. Moses, the prophet with whom God spoke mouth to mouth, slumped into anger and strife with the people at the water of Meribah.

"This is the water of Meribah; because the children of Israel strove with the LORD, and he was sanctified in them. And Moses sent messengers from Kadesh unto the king of Edom, Thus saith thy brother Israel, Thou knowest all the travail that hath befallen us" (Numbers 20:13 -14).

Saul, the chosen and anointed king, started very well, but he ate his last meal in the house of a witch while seeking to know the future. Samson was a Nazarite who had a special ministry announced by an angel, but he also slumped into immorality along the line.

Adam and Eve lived in the flesh by eating the forbidden fruit. Cain lived in the flesh by killing his brother Abel. Lot lived in the flesh by walking by sight. He also continued the life of the flesh when he became drunk and lay together with his two daughters.

"And Lot went up out of Zoar, and dwelt in the mountain, and his two daughters with him; for he feared to dwell in Zoar: and he dwelt in a cave, he and his two daughters. And the firstborn said unto the younger, Our father is old, and there is not a man in the earth to come in unto us after the manner of all the earth: Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father. And they made their father drink wine that night: and the firstborn went in, and lay with her father; and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose. And it came to pass on the morrow, that the firstborn said unto the younger, Behold, I lay yester night with my father: let us make him drink wine this night also; and go thou in, and lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father. And they made their father drink wine that night also: and the younger arose, and lay with him; and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose. Thus were both the daughters of Lot with child by their father. And the firstborn bare a son, and called his name Moab: the same is the father of the Moabites unto this day.  And the younger, she also bare a son, and called his name Ben–ammi: the same is the father of the children of Ammon unto this day" (Genesis 19:30-38).

When an individual, or a whole congregation in some cases veers off the way of faith and holy living, they slump into the flesh, and this brings deplorable a state. Esau despised his birth right, and he missed the mark. Dinah, the daughter of Jacob lived in the flesh when she indulged in a careless or needless visitation to the people of opposite faith that brought about defilement and murders of the Schechemites.

When a church slumps into the flesh, and yet puts on an outward form of righteousness, that church is in a dangerous state. The consequences of living in the flesh are very many and grievous. It brings spiritual death of members and leaders. The fornicator, adulterer, lascivious person, whoremonger, and unclean folk, who sit in the pews of the church have the judgment of God dangling over their heads likewise any minister.

"Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge" (Hebrew 13:4).

Nadab and Abihu slumped into the works of the flesh and they paid with their lives. Living in the flesh leads to loss of the kingdom of God and all the privileges therein.

"Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God" (1 Corinthians 6:9-10).

The works of the flesh are altogether inconsistent with the character of the kingdom of God. Living in sin separates people from their creator because as soon as God’s spirit departs, spiritual dryness, wilderness experience, and leanness of soul sets in. When variance and strife invades a church, the leaders and members of that local church think more about personal petty issues than they do about exalting Jesus Christ.

When the works of the flesh prevailed over the people of Sodom and Gomorrah, God destroyed them by raining brimstone and fire out of heaven to overthrow them. Lot’s wife embraced the works of the flesh, and she was converted to a pillar of useless salt. When the children of Israel slumped into the works of the flesh, and began to murmur; lusting after the flesh and broking the Sabbath; they were plagued with great plague, discomfited, and smitten in war. The Lord released His wrath against them, buried some of them alive and consumed some by fire. We must do everything possible to destroy sin in our lives, midst and in the world by repenting, forsaking and praying against the root of sin.

Confront and Conquer the Great is a book that catalogues the effect of the devil’s visit to Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. We also said some things about the problems of sins, its consequences and origin. We took time to analyse besetting sins, its destructive nature, something about the examples of besetting sins, the victims and the victors. In this Part Two, we shall describe more on the doors of the serpent into human lives. If no one opens the door of his life, the serpent will not have any access. No matter how strong or subtle the serpent may be, he cannot enter into a well-closed door. The serpent cannot bite if the hedge is not broken. A broken hedge gives the serpent access to human lives.

"He that diggeth a pit shall fall into it; and whoso breaketh an hedge, a serpent shall bite him" (Ecclesiastes 10:8).

It is worse when you open your door, and the serpent is given a place or is allowed to relax in the office of your life. We have two types of serpents in the garden - the lawful serpent and the unlawful serpent; the welcome and the unwelcome serpent; the invited and the uninvited serpents. It is obvious that the serpent must visit everybody due to the door that our parents opened in the Garden of Eden. But we must not welcome any serpent, or intentionally invite them.

"Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour" (1 Peter 5:8).

If one ignorantly opens the door of his/her life, the serpent may enter. But if the door is closed, the serpent must not. If on the other hand the serpent enters, it must not be given a place to stay. Peradventure, it already has a place, destroy that place.

"Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me" (Psalm 51:5).

Believers should arise and confront any serpent in the garden of their lives, until they are free from all its bites. Even the lawful serpents and unlawful serpents that are inherited at birth, and the ones given invitations can be dealt with.

"Shall the prey be taken from the mighty, or the lawful captive delivered? But thus saith the LORD, Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken away, and the prey of the terrible shall be delivered: for I will contend with him that contendeth with thee, and I will save thy children. And I will feed them that oppress thee with their own flesh; and they shall be drunken with their own blood, as with sweet wine: and all flesh shall know that I the LORD am thy Saviour and thy Redeemer, the mighty One of Jacob" (Isaiah 49:24-26).

If the lawful serpents can be cast out or destroyed, then the unlawful ones are no problems. The purpose of this book is to deal ruthlessly with the serpent in the garden of our lives, and destroy their bites.

The effects of the serpent’s bites on human race are visible in all generations, past and present. When this serpent visited Adam and Eve, they ate the forbidden fruit, and were placed under a curse. When it visited Cain, the senior brother of Abel, he committed murder and became a fugitive and a vagabond for life. When it beat the sons of God in Gen. 6: 1-7, they began to marry anyhow, and God used water to destroy all of them. When it visited the sons of Noah, they started building and planning their lives outside God’s will, and their language was changed. God scattered them abroad, and the building stopped. When Abraham was visited, he went to Egypt without seeking God’s face, and his wife was taken by another man. If not that he repented, he would have been destroyed.

When it visited the people of Sodom and Gomorrah, they sinned grievously, and they were destroyed by brimstone from heaven. When it was the turn of Aaron, he made an idol or image for the whole people of God; the children of Israel and their names were blotted out of God’s book.

When it visited Nadab and Abihu, the priests of God, they offered strange fire before the Lord right inside the temple; and fire came down from heaven and devoured them. When it visited the children of Israel in the wilderness, they simply complained, and it displeased God. As a result, fire came down and consumed them.

"And when the people complained, it displeased the LORD: and the LORD heard it; and his anger was kindled; and the fire of the LORD burnt among them, and consumed them that were in the uttermost parts of the camp. And he called the name of the place Taberah: because the fire of the LORD burnt among them" (Numbers 11:1, 3).

When it visited Miriam and Aaron, they just opened their mouth and spoke against their younger brother, Moses; disregarding his anointing, and forgetting that God specifically choose him. Though what they said was right, Miriam became a leper for seven days. When it visited the whole congregation of Isreal, they just murmured in a low voice, and God heard it and killed fourteen thousand seven hundreds of them.

When it entered into the door of Balaam, he became a covetous man, and he died with sinners under the commandment of Moses. When it visited the sons of Eli, they were stealing offering and committing sin in the church, and God killed them in the battlefield. When it visited the first king of Israel, Saul, he entered into another man’s office and performed a sacrifice, and his kingdom was lost.

"Saul also sent messengers unto David's house, to watch him, and to slay him in the morning: and Michal David's wife told him, saying, If thou save not thy life tonight, tomorrow thou shalt be slain. So Michal let David down through a window: and he went, and fled, and escaped.  And Michal took an image, and laid it in the bed, and put a pillow of goats' hair for his bolster, and covered it with a cloth. And when Saul sent messengers to take David, she said, He is sick.  And Saul sent the messengers again to see David, saying, Bring him up to me in the bed, that I may slay him" (I Samuel 19:11-15).

When it visited Michal, she just despised an anointed man in the heart, and she became barren for life. When it visited Jehoshaphat, he simply compromised, and he nearly lost his life in the battlefield.

"Now Jehoshaphat had riches and honour in abundance, and joined affinity with Ahab. And after certain years he went down to Ahab to Samaria. And Ahab killed sheep and oxen for him in abundance, and for the people that he had with him, and persuaded him to go up with him to Ramoth–gilead. And Ahab king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat king of Judah, Wilt thou go with me to Ramoth–gilead? And he answered him, I am as thou art, and my people as thy people; and we will be with thee in the war" (2 Chronicles 18:1-3).

When it visited Zachariah, he doubted God, and he became dumb for some time. When it visited one of the malefactors, he railed at Christ, and he went to hellfire that very day.

When the serpent visits your garden, which is your body and the temple of the Holy Ghost, you are in trouble. If you do not fight the serpent in your garden and close the door against it, it will destroy that temple.

What are the doors of the serpent into our lives? Read the contents of this book and you will see some of them. These are sins, or anything that contradicts God’s word.

How can we close these doors? We can close the doors by repenting of every sin and forsaking them.

"He that covereth his sins shall not prosper: but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy" (Proverbs 28:13).

When you close these doors by repentance, confession, and forsaking of all your sins, you will then fight the consequences through fervent prayers; with enough-is-enough spirit, every problem in your life will die. If you refuse to destroy the foundation of sin through prayers, you may receive temporary deliverance from your entire problem, but the serpent will visit again, if sins are not completely dealt with.

"When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places, seeking rest, and findeth none. Then he saith, I will return into my house from whence I came out; and when he is come, he findeth it empty, swept, and garnished. Then goeth he, and taketh with himself seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter in and dwell there: and the last state of that man is worse than the first. Even so shall it be also unto this wicked generation" (Matthew 12:43-45).

Prayer is good, but we must repent of every evil act and forsake them. If you repent, but refuse to forsake sin, your deliverance and all answers to prayers are just temporary. The demon or problem will return.

"Hereafter I will not talk much with you: for the prince of this world cometh, and hath nothing in me" (John 14:30).

If you repent and forsake all your sins, the evil serpent will still come, but the door will be closed and there will be no entry. If he enters, he will not find anything in you and he will leave. Nevertheless, each time they find sin in you, your condition will be worse.

How to Use this Book

Repent (generally) of every sin.

Locate the particular sin or sins with which the enemy has hooked you. You cando this by looking at the table of contents.

Give enough time to each of the prayer points in order to break the yoke of sin peculiar to you and your ancestors.

If the Lord leads you to fast, fast for as many days as you can.

Handle most sins with vigils,or special programmes during the day.

Once you can sincerely acknowledge your sins, repent, confess and forsake them, the foundation of every other problem in your life will collapse immediately. And the consequences of sin, which are spirit husbands and spirit wives, satanic embargos, evil marks, evil loads, evil seeds, bondages, witchcraft, frustration, oppression, depression, insecurity, confusion, loss of memory, periodic sickness which defies medical diagnosis and cure, abnormal growths, failure, and other curses, will all clear away as you fervently and faithfully trust the Lord God Almighty, and remain obedient to His Word. Our God is ever faithful.

Chapter 1

Abomination

BIBLE STUDY

But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death (Revelation 21:8).

Meaning

To be abominable is to be of a very bad quality. It means to be extremely offensive or unacceptable. An abominable person commits horrible sins and makes people around him feel bad.

"And the LORD said, Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous; I will go down now, and see whether they have done altogether according to the cry of it, which is come unto me; and if not, I will know. And the men turned their faces from thence, and went toward Sodom: but Abraham stood yet before the LORD" (Genesis 18:20-22).

See also:

"But the children of Israel committed a trespass in