IDENTIFY DANGEROUS ENEMIES AND DECLARE WAR ON THEM -PART 2

IDENTIFY DANGEROUS ENEMIES AND DECLARE WAR ON THEM -PART 2

Scripture: Matthew 10:36

Topic: Identify Dangerous Enemies and Declare War on Them - Part 2

"And a man’s foes shall be they of his own household."

Matthew 10:36

To win a war, you must declare war.  To win a war you must become war.  

First of all, you must identify men who are dangerous enemies.  

Secondly, you must identify behaviour that signals aggression and danger. 

Thirdly, you must declare war on identified enemies.  

To win a war you must declare war and become war!  As long as you have not declared war, forces will not mobilize themselves.  The enemy is always happy that you have not declared war.  The enemy always hopes that you will not notice that he is an enemy.  

Enemies of Church Growth

There are also men who fight against the churches we are building.  Building a church is a great effort to win souls, to gather them to the house of God and to teach them all things Jesus has entrusted to us.  As we try to build the work of God, there are men who rise up as enemies of church growth.  I certainly believe that there are spirits that are assigned to fight churches and to prevent church growth. 

But there are also men who are spiritually empowered to cause stagnation and decline in church attendance.  Who are these men and how do they operate?  How do they spoil churches?  What are they like?  How come they are enemies of the church?  This is what you must endeavour to find out. 

When I first began to teach on these things people made fun of me.  They said I did not have revelation and I was only teaching childish things.  With time, however, many have realised that the enemies of the church were having a field day, as no one knew who they were.  Satan was not happy when I mentioned their names and asked people to beware of them.  Here is a shortlist of some of the top enemies of the church.  These people are enemies of pastors.  The works, manoeuvres and activities of these people are well laid out in some of my books.  I have written a book about each of them so that people will know who they are and be ware of them.  

Enemy No. 1:  Those who leave you.

Enemy No. 2:  Those who are disloyal. 

Enemy No. 3:  Those who accuse you .

Enemy No. 4:  Those who pretend.

Enemy No. 5:  Those who forget. 

Enemy No. 6:  Those who are dangerous sons. 

Enemy No. 7:  Those who are ignorant. 

You may ask why I wrote a book about each of them.  Because I do not want them to roam about freely in churches!  I want people to know that those who pretend, those who forget and those who accuse are dangerous people.  I do not want those who leave to be considered innocent, when in fact they are destroyers of entire ministries and churches.  I want people to beware of sons who are dangerous sons.  I do not want you to go around ordaining and anointing dangerous enemies.  If you anoint your enemy he will become an anointed enemy and will be even more effective in his campaign against you.  

The Mistake of Not Identifying Adolf Hitler as a Dangerous Person

Adolf Hitler caused the deaths of fifty million people.  Adolf Hitler was allowed to roam free and develop into the monster that he became.  Instead of stopping this dangerous person, several negotiations and meetings were held with Hitler to appease him and grant him his wishes.  

On the 29th of September 1938, Neville Chamberlain, Prime Minister of Britain, Edouard Daladier, Prime Minister of France, Benito Mussolini, Prime Minister of Italy and Adolf Hitler held a historic one-day conference in Munich.  This Munich Conference was to discuss Hitler’s aggression towards Czechoslovakia.  Hitler strongly desired to invade Czechoslovakia under the pretext that lots of Germans were living in sections of the country.  But the Munich Conference led to the Munich Agreement, which handed over a part of Czechoslovakia to Germany.  This Munich agreement was supposed to appease Hitler and calm him down.  

The Munich agreement seemed to be successful and Neville Chamberlain, the Prime Minister of Britain, was satisfied with the outcome and described it as “peace for our time”.  This particular phrase spoken by the British Prime Minister is primarily remembered for its irony because in less than a year, Europe was plunged into a world war.  Hitler, on the other hand, was actually disappointed that a diplomatic solution had been found for the Czechoslovakia crisis.  As a result of this Munich Conference and agreement, Adolf Hitler was selected to be Time Magazine’s man of the year in 1938. 

Instead of identifying and restricting a dangerous enemy, Adolf Hitler was being made Man of the Year!  Little did they know the kind of firestorm Hitler was about to unleash onto the world.  

This is what many Christians do.  Instead of restricting, limiting, dismissing, stopping, marking and identifying dangerous people, we admire them, ordain them, elevate them and present them as honourable people to the congregation.  When you ordain a devil he will be anointed to fight you.

It is time to declare war on all enemies whether they are spirits or men.

Excerpt from:

A Good General

Bishop Dag Heward-Mills