Thread by @GbengaWemimo

How much light is inside of you?
Knowledge is light
There are many who pray and pray and pray but they have no light in them
Prayer warriors full of fear, dread, and darkness
Believing that everything they need to do about prayer is casting and binding and cursing and wailing!

I know someone who had been born again for forty years, a very prayerful person who had headed the prayer and intercession team of many churches
We were having a conversation and she said "It is the enemy that we have to focus on and fight, that is what the bible called the good

fight of fight. This life is a warzone and we must continually wage war against the power of darkness that wants to destroy our testimony and rob us of our gains in life"
For some believers, she would make a lot of sense but not to me"
I patiently listened to her and asked her

very simple questions
I said "Ma'am, are you filled with the Holy Spirit with the evidence of praying in tongues?
She said no
I said "Why not"
She said "In our church, only a few people, the elders and the prophets do that"
I said "Really!"
She said Yes
I said "What about healing

the sick by the laying on of hands
She said "I don't do that so that Idon't become a partaker of any man's sins as instructed by Paul to Timothy"
I said "OK"
She said "I fast a lot and I do a lot of vigils to prevent the enemy from attacking me and my family"
I said "Okay"
Then I

brought out my Bible and opened to the book of Timothy
I said "The laying on of hand here and the one Jesus told us to do are different in their interpretation"
Jesus was talking about healing and Apostle Paul was talking about ordination
If you ordain someone who is not fit into

ministry and the person misbehaves, people will say "Didn't you pray or do any investigation before the ordination?"
That way you will be blamed for the person's misdeed but you cannot be blamed for healing the sick
She looked at me like "What!"
She had never seen it that way

Then i addressed the issue of enemies and demon conscious prayers
I said "Let us look at all the prayers prayed by the apostles in the New Testament
We started with the prayer of Jesus in the book fo John and then to the prayers of Apostle Paul, Peter and John
I said "Did you see

then mentioning demons, enemies, curses and sin?
She said "This is Africa, do you know what our forefathers were doing before the gospel came?"
I said okay, lets look at Moses then
He was born and raised in Pharaoh's court and there were many demons and idols in Egypt which as a

prince he would have been part of their worship when he was a child
Did you hear Moses binding and talking about them or their effect on him or his spiritual life ever?
She kept quiet
I said "Do you know that as a believer you are greater than Moses?"
She said "How?"
I said you

were born after Jesus had come and died for the sin of the whole world
Moses came before and therefore he operated in a very limited capacity! Imagine what Moses would have done with the name of Jesus.
She said "Wow, I never saw the scriptures this way before"
But I was not done,

I said "Do you know that from the day you gave your life to Jesus you became the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus?"
She said "What does that mean?
I said "Your sins have been forgiven and you have been set free from every curse of Adam!"
She said "You mean I am not bound by

the incisions and charms my father made us swallow as children?
I said "Ma'am, old things passed away, behold, all things became new for you in Christ"
She busted into tongues...
Just like that!
She cried and wailed and shook and screamed
I just watched her and prayed along

When she was done, her arthritis was gone
She said "I feel no pain, no heaviness, no stress at all
I feel light, Brother Gbenga, I feel so happy and free"
I kept quiet
I didn't expect the reaction she gave earlier and I was shocked too by the response of the Holy Spirit to our

simple discussion
She said "I have been so fearful, for many years, that my father's sin (Her father was an herbalist) would affect me and my children. This is why I have led a life of prayer
I always see the idols in my father's shrine and I bind them everyday so that they wont

harm me or my family
I laughed
I said "Do you know that idols are nothing?" I opened the Bible to 1 corinthians 8:4 and made her read it
She said "I have never seen that scripture before"
I nodded
Most of those who attend fear-mongering churches are not taught the gospel in its

simplicity
The prayers mention idols, evil altars, witchcraft covens etc, in fact their members know more about demons and the devils than Jesus, the Holy Spirit, the ministering spirits, the spirit of just men made perfect and so on.
She said "Why didn't anyone teach me this, I

converted to Christianity from another religion and nobody taught me anything like this.
I was taught that life is war and any minute I spend without being mindful of the devil can lead to an attack on me and my family"
I told her I understand
The gospel is light
Jesus is light

The Holy Spirit is light
God is the Father of light with whom there is no variableness or shadow of turning
We are the light of the world, a city set upon the hill that cannot be hid
We have no business with the fruitless deeds of darkness, we don't give the enemy any foothold by

staying immersed in the light of the Holy Spirit at all times
We were told to put on Christ
We were not told to memorize the name of all the demons and where they dwell...
I held hands with the lady and we prayed, she came to me with a walking stick and left without one!
How much

light is in you?
Peter told us to grow in grace and knowledge of our Lord and saviour Jesus Christ!
There is right knowledge and a wrong knowledge
Which one are you growing in?

-GSW-

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