MFM H/Q Sermons

February 21st, 2024.

Topic: FIGHTING LIKE THE PSALMIST (2)
Text: Psalms 69:22–27.
Minister: Dr. Daniel Olukoya (G.O. MFM Worldwide)

The last time, I introduced to you how the psalmist was a warrior and how he prayed red-hot prayers.

Fighting in the spirit realm is a topic many ministries and preachers run away from. But those who are running away from these kinds of prayers read our Lord’s prayer, which says:

Our Father, Who art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name.
Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread.
And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us.
And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.

You can see in that prayer that there is a prayer point there that says, “Deliver us from evil.” If there was no evil, Jesus would not be teaching His disciples to pray “deliver us from evil.” Jesus would not talk about somebody called “the evil one.” The evil one is the enemy. It was the evil one that was prowling about in the garden of Eden. It was the evil one who brought Adam and Eve out of the garden. He was the one who planned, strategised, and brought Samson down. He was the one who worked on Peter, and Peter made a mistake and wept bitterly.

No wonder Jesus said we should pray that we should be delivered from evil. Ignorance, really, is a disaster. The psalmist prayed against evil in a way that was strategic, in a way that even had to do with what Jesus said about violently taking it by force. We read one of the aggressive prayers of the psalmist in Psalm 69:22. These are red-hot prayers, and there are situations where you have to fight like the psalmist.

Psalms 69:22–27 (KJV) says, “Let their table become a snare before them: and that which should have been for their welfare, let it become a trap.
Let their eyes be darkened, that they see not; and make their loins continually to shake. Pour out thine indignation upon them, and let thy wrathful anger take hold of them. Let their habitation be desolate; and let none dwell in their tents. For they persecute him whom thou hast smitten; and they talk to the grief of those whom thou hast wounded. Add iniquity unto their iniquity: and let them not come into thy righteousness.”

So, like I told you last time, David was a man who understood warfare. He dealt with Goliath. He dealt with the Philistines. He subjected all his enemies to shame. He never lost battles. It is therefore beneficial to pick up lessons from his prayers. A time comes in a person’s life when he has no option but to turn to the prayer of the psalmist.

WHEN SHOULD YOU PRAY THE PRAYER OF THE PSALMIST?

• When everyone is mocking you.
• When people are saying you should forsake holiness and practice unrighteousness because of a problem,.
• When people are asking you if you think you will succeed.
• When you got married happily and now people are asking you, “Who asked you to marry this person?”
• When they are mocking your Christianity and saying to you, “Did we not say that you are too serious about this thing?”
• When those who want to mock you are larger in number than those who want to help you.
• When people are already concluding that you are finished.
• When you can see joy on the faces of the enemies. They are already rejoicing that you are defeated.
• When the enemy has issued a death sentence against you.
• When you are surrounded by a satanic audience waiting for your fall.
• When like Paul, a viper has attached itself to your hand to kill you openly.
• When there are agents of darkness muttering incantations against you.

Raise your right hand to the heavenlies and shout this prayer of the psalmist loud and clear. Do not say ‘it does not concern me’:

O God arise, smite my enemies on the cheekbones, in the name of Jesus.

When do you pray the prayer of the psalmist?

• When smiling has become a difficult job.
• When the funds are low and debts are very high.
• When you know that you either have a breakthrough or you are finished. You have to get out of your present situation, or everything ends.
• When the prediction of the experts is that you cannot make it.
• When your hands are too short to box with your enemies.
• When you have come to your wits’ end.
• When friends forsake you and you are all alone.
• When unbelievers are asking you to show them the God you serve.
• When no one wants to help you.
• When those who want to help you fail.
• When you notice that you are in a total mess.
• When you are totally down and you need help.
• When confusion and frustration are reigning supreme and you begin to notice that, one way or the other, you are just at a standstill in life,.
• When you notice that you are in a situation where nothing has been able to help you.
• When the knowledge of man has come to an end.
• When all helpers flee and you are on your own.
• When everything you seem to do has failed.
• When friends have become your enemies.
• When all incomes have dried up.
• When business has refused to move forward.
• When human wisdom and intelligence have been terminated.
• When your thinking about a way out has been exhausted.
• When you have done everything you can, but the situation remains and there are plenty of mockers gathered against you,.

This is when you need to pray the prayer of the psalmist. That is why in that book called “Prayer Rain,” there is a section there called “Aggressive Prayer of the Psalmist”. It has given a lot of people multiple breakthroughs.

• When the enemies have sucked you dry.
• When the Lazarus of your destiny has been killed, embalmed, and buried.
• When yokes are just multiplying. As one problem is going, another problem is coming.
• When the evil assembly is saying, “Well, you have tried your prayers, Come and join us.”.
• When shedding tears has become a regular affair.
• When the road you are travelling is becoming rougher and rougher.
• When your nose is bleeding and your eyes are red inside the boxing ring of life.
• When you are trying to smile but crying is coming out.
• When you are operating below your optimum standard.
• When you notice that the treasure in you has been stolen.
• When you notice that you are like a treasure in a dunghil.
• When you are a beauty buried in a coffin of slavery and suffering.
• When you are a greatness incarcerated into the prison with iron bars of injustice and blackmail.
• When you are lost in the sea of despair, hopelessness, and frustration.
• When you are in a permanent chain of fear.
• When the enemy wants to put a full stop on your moving forward.

And therefore, if you have gone through the book of Psalms before, you will find plenty of weapons in it. Just like David in those days picked five stones to fight Goliath, he had calculated that by the time he used five stones, he would use at least one of those stones to bring Goliath down.

There are 40 major weapons in the book of Psalms:

1. Blindness.
   May your enemies be blind, in the name of Jesus.
2. Darkness.
3. Desolation: for something to be rendered desolate. It is in the book of Psalms that we find “Let his habitation be rendered desolate.”
4. Troubles.
5. Nets.
6. Snare.
7. Trap.
8. Fear.
9. Brimstone.
10. Terror.
11. Arrows.
12. Wilderness.
13. Wind.
14. Destruction. These are all the weapons you find in prayer being used in the book of Psalms.
15. Sudden destruction.
16. Pit.
17. Coals of fire.
18. Sudden shame.
19. Fiery oven.
20. Confusion.
    May your enemies be confused, in the name of Jesus.
21. Angel of the Lord.
22. Division.
23. Tempest.
24. Storm.
25. Burning.
26. Scattering. It is in the book of Psalms that you find “Let God arise, and let all His enemies be scattered.”.
27. Burning coal.
28. Lightning.
29. Chains.
30. Fetters of iron.

Let me stop there. If it is only these, you know, there are still more. There is:

• horrible tempest.
• destroying storm.
• thunder.
• Earthquake, etc.

If you now want to engage in Davidic spiritual warfare, there are keys:

1. You must become a friend of God like David.
2. You must repent from every known sin, because if you are saying, “Let God arise, and let all His enemies be scattered,” and you are God’s enemy, you will be the first person to scatter.
3. You must separate yourself from worldliness.
4. You must have perfect hatred for your spiritual enemies. The psalmist says, “I hate them that hate the Lord; I hate them with perfect hatred.”
5. Persistence.

In this Manna Water Service, we are going to pray some aggressive prayers of the psalmist, and you will be able to experience how effective they are.

PRAYER POINTS.

1. Bewitched powers assigned against my life, die in the name of Jesus.
2. Arrows of bewitchment, fired against my life, in the name of Jesus.
3. Demonic factories, producing battles in my life, catch fire in the name of Jesus.
4. Powers assigned to turn my happiness to dust, die in the name of Jesus.
5. Powers feeding my battles, your time is up; die, in the name of Jesus.
6. Acid of God, baptise my stubborn enemies, in the name of Jesus.
7. Powers covering my glory, catch fire, in the name of Jesus.
8. Pharaoh of stagnation, release me and let me go, in the name of Jesus.
9. O God arise, catapult me from where I am to where you want me to be, in the name of Jesus.

[After Message]

1. O God arise, and let my enemies be scattered, in the name of Jesus.
2. Any material from my body, in the house of my enemies, come out by fire, in the name of Jesus.
3. Strange problems, assigned to swallow my money, die in the name of Jesus.
4. Anywhere my portion is tied down, be released by fire, in the name of Jesus.
5. Wherever my promotion is tied down, Holy Ghost Fire, release it now, in the name of Jesus.
6. Helpers of my life, wherever you are, appear in the name of Jesus.
7. (Lay your right hand upon your head.) Generational sickness in my blood, dry up, in the name of Jesus.
8. O God arise; fight against those who fight against me; contend with those that contend against me, in the name of Jesus.
9. My enemies shall fall into the pit that they dug for me, in the name of Jesus.
10. Where is the Lord God of Elijah? Arise, laugh my enemies to scorn, in the name of Jesus.

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