Chapter 4
THE WITCHES BOWED!
I got out of bed to sing praises and pray to the Lord that night. I always wake up at night between 2:00 and 5:00 A.M to pray and sing praises, and used to go to tennis court that was in the quarters. As I went out of my apartment that night of the masqueraders, I was hearing the cry of four distinct witch birds round about. Someone may say, " How did you distinguish their cry from that of other birds?" Well, they cry in the night when other natural birds are all asleep, they have a strange tone to their cry, a high tone like a strangled bird, and they cry as though their cry has a meaning.
I was hearing them on the four angles of the tennis court; I was not afraid of them because I know in whom I believe and the Lord Jesus Christ has overcome the World. I simply entered the tennis court and commanded the birds to stop making noise and to depart. They behaved as if they did not hear me, in total disobedience. I started singing praises to God, and the birds also kept on making their strange cries.
I can tell you the story of a man who was formerly in that evil cult and was converted. The cult is a worldwide ring of wickedness, and their end, which they themselves know, is the lake of fire with the devil.
The man told the story of how he was trapped into the cult and he thought it was all right to enjoy a supernatural power, too, until he followed his wicked boss to disturb a Gospel church in the spirit. Those brethren discerned the presence of wicked spirits and started pleading the blood of Jesus. When those witch spirits saw that they were spotted, they turned into birds or bats and roamed around the hall, looking for an escape. While the brethren were pleading the blood of Jesus upon the congregation, one of the birds fell flat to the ground outside the hall and turned to a man and the boss escaped!
The congregation gathered around the fallen man and started to mob him before he pleaded for mercy. He personally wrote a circular of his testimony, and it was distributed to many believers nationwide in Nigeria. The man confessed that while they had almost escaped, he did not know what carried him up and knocked him down to the ground. But we know that could only be Jesus! The Lord allowed such to occur so that Christians who hear of such testimony will appreciate the deliverance that Jesus had given to us in the world. Those birds would otherwise have escaped, though no harm was done against anyone in the congregation. Also, the Lord wanted to deliver the man from such wicked cult, because from his testimony of how he got involved in the cult, we know he was trapped. But this same Jesus is still available to deliver whoever is involved in such witchcraft. Come repentantly to Jesus, and ye shall be saved. "If the son shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed."
While I was singing to the Lord that night and those wicked birds were crying around the tennis court, the Lord reminded me of his promise in the Bible that "Behold I give unto you power to tread upon serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing shall by any means hurt you!" In fact, any wickedness of the witch spirits cannot hurt you, once you plead the blood of Jesus Christ upon your body and in your house. "No weapon that is formed against you shall prosper."
That morning when the Lord reminded me of the verse, I prayed to the Lord that "as I trample upon these birds by faith, let the birds feel pain in their heads and flee from the area." Then I pointed to the direction of one of the birds and spoke toward that direction, saying, that "You witch-bird that is crying over there, I have told you to stop making noise and to depart, but you refused, Jesus Christ has given me power to tread upon the serpents and scorpions, and over all power of the enemy, and nothing shall by any means hurt me. Therefore it is your head that I am going to stamp upon right now." Then I pictured the head of that witch-bird under my feet upon the floor, and I banged my foot upon it. When I banged my foot like that, on the floor, the witch-bird stopped crying!
That is faith! That is what we call faith! "Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen." (Heb.11:1). When you have the substance of faith in you, if you decree anything, it will be so.
I pointed to the second bird still crying at the other angle and said, "And you also, your head is under my feet,a nd I am going to crush it upon the floor right now because you refuse to obey me." I banged upon its head again, and that bird stopped crying, too.
Then I pointed to the third one also and said, "This is your head under my feet, and I am going to crush it right now." As I stamped upon the floor, the third bird also stopped crying. (Ah! Ah! Ah!) Before I turned to the fourth bird, that one quickly stopped crying, and they all fled away. Praise the Lord!
That is the word of our testimony! That is how to use the word of God, and that is what we call faith! Remember, the Bible said we overcome the dragon by the blood of the lamb, it is the blood of Jesus that will not allow any harm from those witches to hurt me, "and by the word of our testimony," that was the word that was spoken to them (with the action of faith) on that day. They do not need to hear your words physically, but they are hearing what you are saying in the spirit. But as I have told Jesus to let it be so to them, they kept quiet because the Lord knocked upon their heads at the voice of my faith! Amen!
There are many other Bible verses that are useful in times like that, but you must prayerfully search them out and build upon your substance of faith within you (by fasting). That will activate a virtue in the time you speak out the Word of God like that.
The witches go about at night to afflict innocent people with diseases, but only sinners can they at all be justified to strike, because , as the Bible says "the rod of the wicked shall not rest upon the lot of the righteous, lest the righteous put forth their hands unto iniquity." (Ps.125:3). When Christians, therefore, plead the blood of Jesus Christ, it is an everlasting ordinance that our sins are purged and we are therefore righteous in the eyes of God. This is the more reason you must become a Christian, if you are not, and keep yourself away from sin. Also, you must learn these truths if you never knew them before, for the scripture says: "Thou shalt know the truth and the truth shall make you free," and the Lord said of the ignorant Christian: "My people perish for lack of knowledge."
Gospel Distribution Ministry, USA