ST. PAUL’S CATHEDRAL DIOBU PHC WELCOME TO SPIRITUAL WARFARE SERIES BY VEN. JOHN C. ADUBASIM BIBLICAL TEXT • Eze 32: 2. Son of man, take up a lamentation for Pharaoh king of Egypt, and say to him, Thou art like a young lion of the nations, and thou art as a whale in the seas: and thou didst come forth with thy rivers, and disturb the waters with thy feet, and render their rivers foul. BIBLICAL TEXT • EZEKIEL 29:3 SPEAK AND SAY, SO SAYS THE LORD JEHOVAH: BEHOLD, I, EVEN I, AM AGAINST YOU, PHARAOH KING OF EGYPT, THE GREAT DRAGON WHO LIES IN THE MIDST OF HIS RIVERS, WHO HAS SAID, MY RIVER IS MINE, AND I HAVE MADE IT. DEALING WITH MARINE SPIRITS. • Before creation, the surface of the earth was covered with water. See Gen 1: 1-2 • 70% of world surface is water • 70% of human body is water DEALING WITH MARINE SPIRITS. • The whole earth is founded on waters Ps. 24: 1-2. • God established His throne upon the waters. Ps. 29: 3, 10, Rev 4: 6 • You can understand why Satan established his power base in the waters. Isa. 14: 12-17; Rev 13: 1-8 WHO ARE THE MARINE SPIRITS. • Marine spirits are generally referred to as spirits which have operational base in the waters. WHO ARE THE MARINE SPIRITS. They are spirits thrown down from heaven (Rev 12: 12) and (13: 1) and made the oceans, seas, rivers, streams and lakes their abode. WHO ARE THE MARINE SPIRITS. • Those who are experts in the school of deliverance know that marine spirits are more difficult to detect than witchcraft spirit. • The modus operandi of regular witches especially in Africa is very crude, brutal and dastardly WHO ARE THE MARINE SPIRITS. Witches are naturally very impatient-they want to do away with their victim quickly and return back to base. MARINE SPIRIT IN THE CHURCH Marine spirits are patient, subtle and most instances appear very civilized, mannered and cultured in operation. They control the fashion industry and celebrity related matters. WHO ARE THE MARINE SPIRITS. • A popular Nigerian musician Sir Victor Uwaifo gave insight into his famous album ''if you see mammy water o, make you no run away '' and the inspiration behind it. WHO ARE THE MARINE SPIRITS. Narrating how he met mammy water (female water spirit) on Lagos Bar- Beach, Uwaifo said “I was then an adult working with the NTA Lagos. I usually go to the Bar Beach till late in the night WHO ARE THE MARINE SPIRITS. • It was during one of my visits that I had an encounter with the mermaid. That melody was really from the mammy water and I was frightened to my bone marrows... WHO ARE THE MARINE SPIRITS. very pretty and shiny. In fact, all that frightened me. That's why I said: “If you see Mammy water, never you run away... WHO ARE THE MARINE SPIRITS. • ...” Another popular singer, Oliver De Coque in one of his Ogene Music albums said that ''egwum sina mmiri, osi na ikuku'' meaning that ''my song is from the waters, from breeze...'' WHO ARE THE MARINE SPIRITS. • These popular musicians have revealed the source of inspiration of their evergreen and ever fresh music- from the marine world WHO ARE THE MARINE SPIRITS. Therefore, Lucifer, being the former Chief Musician in Heaven, took his musical skills and that of his singers to the marine world to distribute to those who pays obeisance. WHO ARE THE MARINE SPIRITS. • There are two types of marine spirits; • The conscious and the unconscious agents. • The conscious marine agents are those that know they are possessed, WHO ARE THE MARINE SPIRITS. • While the unconscious marine agents don't know that they are possessed. • Marine spirits possesses females more than males, they do so to oppress men and scatter homes, • Their primary tool is sex. They are extremely fashion-crazy, they dress to attract on purpose, they walk to attract on purpose • WHO ARE THE MARINE SPIRITS. • They take delight in breaking the hearts of their victims so as to render them emotionally unstable, once a person is unstable emotionally he is sure to make wrong decisions about other things. WHO ARE THE MARINE SPIRITS. • They neutralise the will-power of their victims through sex. • They are very unstable in relationships, they cannot keep a relationship for too long, they pretend a lot and changes their voice to fit the mood they are in. WHO ARE THE MARINE SPIRITS. However, marine spirits, unlike witches, can patiently wait for a prey for years while enforcing a strategic plot of enticement, seduction, entrapment and merciless destruction. WHO ARE THE MARINE SPIRITS. • Marine spirits present instant wealth, influence and affluence as part of their bait for membership. • The marine kingdom are generally strategic in nature “SIGNS OF BONDAGE • At times, it is easy to know when someone has been polluted or initiated by powers from the marine kingdom. • Such a person would have a hard time living the Christian life “SIGNS OF BONDAGE 1. Prayer/Fasting would be difficult. 2. Dream manipulation. • Eating in the dream • Strange visitations • Sexual intercourse • Swimming in the dream etc “SIGNS OF BONDAGE 3. Getting angry without being provoked 4. Difficulty in finding a life partner 5. Unstable marriages. ( lost of desire for partner) 6. Uncontrollable sexual urge “SIGNS OF BONDAGE 7. Inexplicable hindrances to progress. ( Business Failures) 8. Strange sicknesses. • These are some of the symptoms which are evidences of involvement with marine spirits. “STRATEGY FOR VICTORY • What then is the divine strategy for defeating them? 1. Raise up a lamentation against them. • This is different from an ordinary prayer. “STRATEGY FOR VICTORY 2. Spread prayer nets to trap them. • What is a prayer net? It is an aggressive prayer in which you pray at regular intervals in such a way as to leave no breathing space for them to escape. “STRATEGY FOR VICTORY 3. Use the sword of the Spirit (the word of God) against them. 4. Bring Atonement by the blood of Jesus Christ. Rev. 5: 9-10. 5. Renounce the Covenant and tokens. “STRATEGY FOR VICTORY 6. Ensure that they don't have any investment (anything that cooperates with them) in your life. 7. Seek deliverance 8. Live a holy life. “STRATEGY FOR VICTORY • Declare a holy war against them. • The battle against Marine agents is a battle you must win. • Let us Pray LET US PRAY • Read PSALM 8:4-8, 1. Let every evil altar under water upon which evil are done against me catch fire, in the name of Jesus. 2. Every priest ministering at an evil altar against me inside any water, I frustrate you, in the name of Jesus LET US PRAY 3. Any power under any river or sea remotely-controlling my life, be destroyed by fire, and I shake myself loose from your hold, in the name of Jesus. 4. Let any evil monitoring mirror against me under any water, crash to irredeemable pieces, in the name of Jesus. LET US PRAY 6. Every marine spirit that has introduced spirit husband/wife or child in my dreams be destroyed by fire, in the name of Jesus. 7. Every agent of marine Kingdom physically attached to my marriage to frustrate it, I frustrate by fire, in Jesus name. LET US PRAY 8. Let the thunderbolts of God locate and destroy every marine kingdom altar where deliberations and decisions have ever been fashioned against me, in the name of Jesus. 9. Any power of marine kingdom holding any of my blessings in bondage, every of their chain binding my hands and feet from prospering receive the fire of God and release them in Jesus Name. LET US PRAY 10.I loose my mind and soul from the bondage of marine spirits, any evil material transferred into my body through contact with any marine kingdom agent be destroyed by fire in the name of Jesus. 11 Every sexual pollution of marine spirit husband/wife in my body, be flushed out by the blood of Jesus. Any evil name given to me under any water, I reject it and cancel it with the blood of Jesus. . 12. Every image constructed under any water to manipulate me, be destroyed by fire in the name of Jesus. LET US PRAY 13. I plead the blood of Jesus on my life, my household and everything belonging to me.