ACKNOWLEDGEMENT The works of the following authors were consulted and used in compiling of this book 40 days Beginning with Jesus aka Altar versus Altars. We are totally and eternally indebted to them for being wonderful inspirations to us. They are Bro. Timothy Godwin Ofoegbu whose destroy the seven evil altars of Balam was of tremendous help; Rev. Fr. Donald Chidolue, Bro. Ezenwaka Joseph and Rev. Fr. Emmanuel Obimma . We are also grateful to Bro. Onyebuchi Chike and Sis. Victoria Okonkwo for taking out their time from their busy schedule to proofread this work. We cannot forget every member of the Service Team of Fountain of Mercy Prayer Group for their support and prayers, may God bless you all. Note: A free copy of this www.fountainofmercyccn.org work ii can be found in our website: TABLE OF CONTENTS Day 1: Day 2: Day 3: Day 4: Day 5: Day 6: Day 7: Day 8: Day 9: Day 10: Day 11: Day 12: Day 13: Day 14: Day 15: Day 16: Day 17: Day 18: Day 19: Day 20: Day 21: Day 22: Day 23: Day 24: Day 25: Day 26: Day 27: Day 28: Day 29: Day 30: Day 31: Day 32: Day 33: Day 34: Day 35: Day 36: Day 37: Day 38: Day 39: Day 40: Submission, Repentance and Salvation for the New Year Prayer is the solution I will not die this year Resist the devil The dry bone shall rise again The word in my mouth Take over the land Working out your inheritance God the master planner Change the Rules to my favour Spiritual powers and authority Embargo on your blessing Repair The broken altar Evil altars of the land Evil altars in the water Altars at the grave yard Celestial altars Family altars Image altars Altars on human body Dealing with evil foundations Dealing with unbroken curses Fighting against enemies of my progress Balak must die and Balaam must give up Healing the family root Release me from ancestral handovers There is still hope No enchantment against me shall prosper You are more than conquerors Time to cross over Receiving power for a turn-around Oh! Lord locate me for a turn around Turning my stumbling blocks into a stepping stone Oh! Lord turn my water to wine Turn my grave to glory The period of swarming evil locust is over My morning of joy has come I belong to the family of God My year of the promised land Let my people go in abundance and serve me iii INTRODUCTION THE BENEFITS OF FASTING Fasting in the lives of a Christian serves several benefits. Some of which include: 1. Fasting helps one to attain power over demons accompanied by praying with faith using the Name of Jesus (Mark 16:17). 2. Fasting makes your faith to grow deeper; in that, you can command things to happen just by words, prayers. and they begin to happen (Matthew 17:1721). 3. Fasting weakens the flesh and crucifies unholy desires, thus, enabling the human spirit to be effective in the moment of prayer or fellowship in the presence of God (Matthew 4:1- 10). 4. Fasting turns you into an extraordinary believer (Isaiah 40:31). 5. Fasting makes you believe that with Jesus you can do all things (Philippians 4:13). 6. Fasting brings about spiritual breakthrough (Daniel 10:13). 7. Fasting promotes spiritual sight (Revelation 1:1-2). 8. Fasting causes your faith to attain to the level of doing the same works that Jesus did (John 14:12). 9. Fasting touches God to quickly forgive abominable sins (Jonah 3:5-10). 10. Fasting promotes a faster answered prayers (Mark 9:29) TYPES OF FASTING The Holy Scripture shows the different types of fasting one can indulge in: 1. 40 days fasting: Exodus 34:28, Matthew 4:2 2. 24 hours fasting: 2 Samuel 1:12, loe11:14 3. 21 days fasting: Daniel 10:2, 12-13 4. 14 days fasting: Act 27:33 5. 7 days fasting: 1 Samuel 12:16-18 6. 3 days fasting: Acts 9:9, Esther 4:16 iv A MOMENT WITH THE LORD Father, I believe that you are the Kings of Kings, the Lord of Lords and the Greater of the greatest. Thank You for sending Jesus Christ to give me forgiveness, to give me life and to give me a place in your family. Having received me as your beloved child, and sealed in the Holy Spirit of promise: 1. I stand according to Your infallible word of Galatians 4:6; to declare that I am a son/daughter of the living God, the joint heirs with Christ and Friend of the Holy spirit. Today, the Angels and the Saints are dancing around me for good health, miracle, and deliverance from the siege of the wicked ones in the Name of Jesus. 2. I declare favour upon my destiny, and under the anointing of the Holy Spirit, I command everything around me to begin to work for my good. I renew all the old things of my life, and I recover and receive all my lost possessions in the name of Jesus. For the Bible says in Joel 2:26 that I will restore to you the years that the swarming locust has eaten, the crawling locust, the consuming locust, and the chewing locust. 3. Now, I declare according to the Might of God that my enemies are bowing down to me. My wretchedness is turning to prosperity! My disappointment to appointment! My failure to success! My tears to joy, because Job 22:28 said, "Declare a word and it shall come to pass". 4. In the Name of Jesus, I declare that the hour of my destiny change has come. Nothing shall interfere with the work of the Holy Spirit being accomplished in my life. From now henceforth, no weapon fashioned against me shall prosper, and every tongue that rises against me Isaiah 54:17 says in judgment, I shall condemn because that is my heritage as a son /daughter of God and my righteousness is from Him. 5. I am walking in liberty because Christ came that I might be liberated from every force of the world. In the Name of Jesus, I am reaching my target. There is abundance of new life, hope, and anointing in my life. 6. I declare that my destiny is a Destiny of Jesus. I am filled with power according to the order of Moses. I am a candidate for signs, wonders and miracles. Everything I lay my hands upon shall prosper. For the Bible says in 2nd Corinthians 8:9, "for I know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though He was rich, yet for my sake He became poor, that I through His poverty might become rich". 7. In the Holy Name of Jesus, I put to stop every work of the enemy in my life. By fire, I uproot every evil planted in my life and destiny. My family and Business are highly covered by the awesome Blood of the Master Jesus. 8. I declare that no enchantment against me and my family shall prosper. I reject Satan and all his works. And in the name of Jesus, I destroy all spirits that stand out as the enemy of my salvation and triumphal life in Christ. I declare total freedom upon my lineage, and I pray that there is no more room for any ancestral bondage in my life and family in the Name of Jesus. 9. I confess and believe that this year is my year for celebration and not a year for mourning. I am walking from connection to connection, from blessing to blessing, from protection to protection, from power to power, from victory to victory in the Name of Jesus. v 10. In the Name of Jesus, I declare that I am highly destined and positioned to enjoy and to experience the blessed abundance, liberty of God's children, and I ask for supernatural identification and manner in such a way that You the Father, You the Son, You the Holy Spirit will delight and lead all the affairs of my life and that of my family according to Your riches in glory Amen. CONFESSION OF FAITH What a joy to know that I am a child of God. The Blood of Jesus has guaranteed my salvation and completely delivered me from bondage of sin. I believe and confess that my body is the temple of God, therefore I refuse to defile God's temple anymore. I rejoice because I now serve God who loves me and sent His Beloved Son to lay down His costly life on account of my sinful nature. Thereby clearing the record that held me captive by the peace of His cross, He qualified me to be a partaker of the inheritance of the saints in the light. I am born of God. And 1st John 5:4 declared that whoever is born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world - our faith. In the Name of Jesus, my faith in the death of Jesus and His resurrection from the dead has enabled me to overcome my world of sinful habit or nature. I declare my victory over the Devil and his works. I am now walking in the perfection of God's holiness. Henceforth, God's will has become my will therefore; I have no more power over it. He alone I shall sincerely serve all the days of my life in the name of Jesus. vi WHY YOU MUST DESTROY THE EVIL ALTARS The concept of altars was originally instituted ,by God for blessings, but counterfeited and perverted by Satan after his rebellion. God designed the altar to be: 1. A place of worship and holy convocations. 2. A place of communion and communication between spirits and man. 3. A place of cutting personal and generational covenants. 4. A place of making sacrifices. 5. A spiritual highway linking earth to heaven and vice versa. 6. A place for assessing power for the control of destinies. 7. A place for making prophetic proclamations. 8. A center for enacting spiritual legislation. 9. A place for making vows at critical moments. 10. A spiritual gateway 11. A place of defense and security. 12. A place to secure ownership. 13. A place to seek justice and judgment 14. A place of healing and deliverance 15. A place of blessings and curses 16. A place of divine encounter "When Elijah challenged the Baal worshipers at Mount Carmel, he told them to construct their own altar and when it got to his turn, what he did was to repair the broken down altar of the Lord. An altar could also be described as a place where animals are slaughtered for sacrifice, that is, a place where blood is shed and where blood cries. It is a spiritual dinning table where spirits are offered food. It is a place of spiritual bureau de change where blood is exchanged for something. It is a place where contact is made with the spirit world, and it could be with good or bad spirits. It is a place of spiritual fellowship with either clean or unclean spirits. When Jacob built an altar in Bethel, it was the angels of God who were ascending and descending on it. If he had built a demonic evil altar, there would have been the traffic of evil angels otherwise known as demons. An altar is a place where covenants are made with spiritual powers. It is also a place of deliberation, decision and action whether negative or positive. From the above description of an altar, we can see that there are positive altars as well as negative ones. For example, the cross where Jesus died was an altar of sacrifice of the Son of God. That cross therefore stood for a positive altar, which is meant for good purposes. Conversely, negative altars are raised by the enemies to steal, kill and to destroy. An altar can be raised to bless or destroy, promote or pull down a person, an organization or a thing. Altars can also be raised to enhance a course or to frustrate it. So, we see that altars were raised to either save lives or to destroy the enemies. The devil has counterfeited most things God had instituted to bless His people. For example, people offer sacrifices at crossroads and by so doing, they corrupt the cross of Jesus and this is a counterfeit. No wonder the problems of many black people can be directly linked to evil altars. The enemies go about to construct altars of affliction for many people and these altars have priests of wickedness ministering on them. The devil has taught his people the secret of altars and they use it for destructive purposes. You may wonder where the devil borrowed this idea. Remember the Bible says that he had been with God right from the beginning. He had seen the order of heaven and understood the way things are done over there. vii So, he duplicates things and goes about to teach his disciples how to use them for negative purposes. That is why I often emphasize that prayer against evil altars is not the gentle kind of prayers. An evil altar is a place of evil transactions where many evil things like infirmities, demotion, failure, poverty, debt, poverty, delays and disappointments are accommodated. And looking at the situation in our immediate environment, where some people do not mind going to any length to make money or harm their fellow human beings, we should understand that evil altars must be dealt with aggressively. Sometimes, sacrifices are made on evil altars in order to seal a contract with wicked spirits. Sacrifices at evil altars are food given to evil spirits to enlist their support and this is why the Bible says that we should not eat things sacrificed to idols, because eating them would amount to eating at the same table with idols. Any food sacrificed to idols are given to demons and sharing food with demons means being in agreement with them. That is why you discover that sometimes sicknesses such as migraine, hypertension, diabetes, typhoid, ulcer and cancer are not actually the problem. The enemy uses them as camouflage. It is against this background that Christians are advised to pray always when they are sick even when they seek medical attention. We should not forget that believers should rely solely on the Holy Spirit to fight their battles. When your name is submitted to priests at evil altars, it is in order to monitor and influence your life in a negative way. These evil altars are also used as remote control devices to cause problems for people. Some of the weird things they do include rituals at crossroads in order to limit their victims for life. A person under the dominion of these evil altars normally loses his or her mind and can no longer exercise discretion. Such a person will be living in fear and will be experiencing nightmares and all sorts of afflictions. In the light of the foregoing, the kind of prayers to undertake against evil altars is not "a gentleman" kind of prayers, but rather, it is the aggressive prayer of command and prophecy. EFFECTS OF SATANIC ALTARS Satanic altars oppose God and His favours in people's lives They result in endless sorrows, struggles and suffering. They cause stagnation, limitation and frustration in finance, marriage and destiny. They cause open doors for evil spirits and closed doors for God's children. They delay the program of God in people's lives with obstacles in times of miracles. They cause unsolvable mysteries like unusual delays, disappointments and deaths. They cause unending problems, prolonged afflictions, poverty, debts and lack of helpers. They cause a trend of divorce, poverty, backwardness, barrenness, untimely death, shame, disaster, etc viii WHAT IS THE WAY OUT? 1. GENUINE REPENTANCE. Unrepeated sin will allow the enemy to have a filled day. The only reason the altar of Balaam did not work was because there was no iniquity in Israel. Man's greatest problem is that of the flesh. Conquer the flesh. 2. SPIRITUAL WARFARE. You can dismiss the supervising priests behind the evil altars (satanic gatekeepers). Luke 10:19 says 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. Contend with them in battle. Bind the strongmen and render them impotent! 3. RAISE AND MAINTAIN A SUSTAINED ALTAR OF INTERCESSION UNTIL PERMANENT VICTORY IS WON. There are some evil altars that require more than seven days of fasting to conquer. Isaiah 62:6-7 says "I have set watchmen upon thy walls, a Jerusalem, which shall never hold their peace day nor night: ye that make mention of the LORD, keep not silence, And give him no rest, till he establish, and till he make Jerusalem a praise in the earth". 4. SERVICE YOUR ALTAR CONTINUALLY WITH THE BLOOD OF JESUS. The Bible says in Revelation 12: 11 'And they have defeated him (Satan) by the blood of the Lamb and by their testimony." There is a power that supercedes every other power. That power, transforms simple things into powerful weapons. The awesomeness and mystery of the power in the Blood of Jesus, is not being preached in the church today. Many present day Christians do not know many things about victory in the battles of life. Learning to claim the power in the Blood of Jesus, is very important. It is a prayer that brings deliverance and protection 5. SET THE SATANIC ALTARS ABLAZE BY THE FIRE OF THE HOLY GHOST. God is a consuming fire. God gave us a command in Deuteronomy 7:5 "This is what you are to do to them: Break down their altars, smash their sacred stones, cut down their Asherah poles and burn their idols in the fire". REPENT OF THOSE THINGS IN YOUR LIFE THAT ARE GIVING EVIL ALTARS THE PLATFORM TO PROSPER IN YOUR LIFE. RENOUNCE THEM. It does not matter whether you know about them or not. You must not be in Satan's camp and still want to wage war with him and his wicked demons. 6. 7. 8. WITHDRAW YOUR BENEFITS AND VIRTUES FROM THE EVIL ALTARS. Many blessings are buried and embalmed at many evil altars. Raise a battle cry to recover all your delayed and detained blessings. GIVE PRAISES TO GOD. Service the altar continually by sacrificial giving. Unfortunately this is the one area that the church of God is slacking in. We are told in the book of Ecclesiastes 11 "Cast thy BREAD upon the waters, after many days it shall come to you". Friends, there is a difference between seed and bread. Bread is something meant for you to eat. Something you wanted to use to treat yourself with. You can decide to sow your bread. Offering brings miracle. Everyday, give an offering. You can put an offering aside for God DAILY and then bring it to church on Sunday. ix Ecclesiastes 11:2 says Give ,a portion to seven, and also to eight; for thou knowest not what evil shall be upon the earth. A sacrifice is something that costs you. It is usually not convenient for you. The wise men brought gold, frankincense and myrrh to worship Jesus when he was born. BASIC RULES 1) 2) 3) 4) 5) 6) 7) 8) 9) 10) 11) 12) Be totally reconciled with God by going for sacramental confession, if you are a Catholic. Take out time in the night between the hours of 12.00 mid night to 3.00am to do a moment with the Lord even if it is 15 minutes. Page v - vi Write down seven prayer points for this project, be specific. Fast every day for 40 days. Fast from 6.00AM to 1.00PM. Fasting is like a fuel poured into a burning fire, it helps a lot. Concerning casting out the demons, Jesus said: "But this kind does not come out except by prayer and fasting." Matthew 17:21. Try and live above sins during and after these 40 days of tearing down of evil altars No food or drink from 6.00AM till your fasting closing time (only water can be taken in extreme cases during the fasting period). Make sure you are praying during fasting. Those who cannot fast because of pregnancy or severe sickness should only pray (ulcer etc). and visit Blessed Sacrament as often as possible. The daily meditation in the book before prayers will give you burdens for prayers, so read them meditatively. The prayers on the day must be read out loudly, boldly and with serious conviction in your heart. OPEN YOUR MOUTH AND PRAY! To break your fast, use light meals, fruits, vegetables, grains and plenty of water. Avoid heavy meals immediately after your fasting (e.g. eba, fufu) so as to maintain your health and be able to pray and receive instructions and direct revelation from God. You must humble yourself before God and pray seriously during this 40 days and repent and turn away from every sin or anything that may lead to sin. You are to believe God for some definite miracles in your life and situation during this project. Make special private requests (at least 7) and pray fervently the prayer with them after the points outlined in this booklet. You must read Isaiah 58 and apply it in your life as you are engaged in this project and continue to do so even after the project. You must realize that this period of fasting and prayer is a solemn moment. It is not a time to engage in foul tales, gossips, vulgar jokes and jesting. Realize that you are before a holy and uncompromising God. Finally, we pray that the Good Lord will strengthen you and have you loaded with his inward power and give you all graces to complete this project and reap the benefits thereof. Halleluyah! Amen. x