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Glorious Sunday Worship Service.
July 6th, 2025

Theme: THE MINISTRY OF PERSONAL DELIVERANCE (17)
Topic: THE PROBLEM OF UNFRIENDLY FRIENDS
Text: Proverbs 18:24, 27:6, and Psalms 41:9
Minister: Dr. Daniel Olukoya (G.O. MFM Worldwide)

It is not every deliverance that requires prayer; some forms of deliverance can be received by keeping your mouth shut, by sitting in your house instead of going to a particular place, or by some spiritual actions that you take. It is not everything that answers to prayer; there are some times that you need to abstain from certain things. All you need is just action.

● May God open our eyes, in the name of Jesus.

Proverbs 18:24 (KJV) says, “A man that hath friends must shew himself friendly: and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.”

That friend is the Lord Jesus Christ.

Proverbs 27:6 (KJV) says, “Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.”

Psalms 41:9 (KJV) says, “Yea, mine own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, which did eat of my bread, hath lifted up his heel against me.”

The Bible makes it categorically clear that he who has too many friends does so to his own hurt. Listen, beloveth: these are realities of life.

In life, there will be people who, for no reason at all, will simply not like you. They will not tell you so, but as far as they are concerned, if you fall down and die, they will not care. There will be people who, out of envy, do not like you at all.

They look at you, leave you, and talk bad about you behind your back. They smile at you and greet you, sometimes prostrating, but when they leave, they talk another story about you.

Unto every life, a little bit of rain of trouble will fall. When those rainy seasons come, better believe that there are those rejoicing as you are in trouble and shedding tears.

We often become entangled in unfavourable situations that are spiritually and emotionally damaging because we do not vet our friendships. We must allow our Father, God, to vet the traffic of people that come and go into our lives.

Now the danger is this: the more traffic that you have coming in and out, the more you open yourself to warfare that God never intended for you to experience.

One man said something very deep. He said, “Some people did not die when the arrow of the enemy was in their chest. They died when they saw who shot the arrow.” That is why the Bible says, ‘A man that hath friends must shew himself friendly: and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother,’ and that friend is Jesus.

That is why we sing:
There’s not a friend like the lowly Jesus,
No, not one! No, not one!
None else could heal all our soul’s disease,
No, not one! No, not one!

CHORUS:
Jesus knows all about our struggles,
He will guide till the day is done;
There’s not a friend like the lowly Jesus,
No, not one! No, not one!

When we got born again, they used to teach us:
Jesus never fails, Jesus never fails,
The men of the world may let you down,
But Jesus never fails.
Your friend may let you down, your husband may let you down,
The men of the world may let you down,
But Jesus never fails.

There are some types of people you cannot be friends with.

Listen carefully:

1. The fox: Mr. and Mrs. Fox. That is, they are always telling lies. You know that this your friend is a constant liar; he is an enemy of the truth. And the Bible says, “Ye are of your father the devil, for he is a liar and the father of it.” Do you have somebody close to you always telling lies? Just avoid them.
2. The serpents: These are those who betray you when it suits them. We call them the serpents.
3. The horses: These ones are super jealous. They hate your success.
4. The spiders: The gossips. They spread your secrets like wildfire
   ● I am praying for somebody here: Any spider in the camp of your life, spreading the cobwebs of evil against you, with your sevenfold amen, let them receive fire, in the name of Jesus.
5. The crocodile: They are dramatic people. They like chaos. They enjoy when you are in trouble. When you are running helter-skelter. They will be the ones who will tell them to sell the wrong drugs to you.
6. The mosquitoes: These ones only hover around you when they need something. They only remember your existence when they are in need, meaning they do not really care about you, just what you can give. That is why you find mosquitoes all over because they need to drink your blood. Mosquitoes do not come to you to play.
7. The bats: These are fake supporters. They smile in your face and show another picture when they leave you.
8. The chameleons: You cannot really place them. Sometimes they look friendly, and sometimes they do not.
   They only care about themselves. It is personal deliverance to avoid these kinds of people.
9. The bulls: They always come to drain your energy with constant grumbling and complaining. If you eat, they will say you did not give them. If you give them, they will say it is too small.
10. The chimpanzees: A manipulator who twists everything to control you. He will come to you and say your greatest friend is a witch or that your greatest helper is bad, just to remove those people from you in order to control you.

● Any power assigned to chase good people away from you shall be buried alive, in the name of Jesus. (a sevenfold amen).

11. The monkeys: They are hypocrites. They preach one thing and do another. They show you the face of a holy person, but behind it they do what unholy people will do. How will your friend give your number to a native doctor who says you should do this and that? And you did not know it was your friend who did that.
12. The wolf: These are the disrespectful people who have no regard for your feelings. It is just what they want that they want. It is personal deliverance to avoid these kinds of people.
13. The gorilla: They look like they can support or fight for you, but they cannot be trusted to stick around. They can attack you from the back. When you fight a gorilla, it is a terrible war indeed.
14. The sloth: They are the lazy ones. They expect you to do everything for them. A strange world indeed. Somebody gives you fifty thousand naira, and you are complaining that it is small when you have no job or even ten thousand naira in your account. You say, “See what this man has given me.” Yet you did not return the money. That money you say is small; if they employ you on a farm or in a construction company, you cannot make it in a day. Those sort of people expect someone to work and feed them.
15. The dog: They do not take responsibility. They blame others.
16. The parrot: Always talking and talking about what is correct and what is not. Any small thing, they make themselves the victim.
17. The lion: The reckless, dangerous ones. You get into your flat, find your friend kissing your small daughter, and you still continue to keep that person as a friend. You are keeping a serpent in your pocket then. This is a very serious matter.
18. The pigeon: The boundary breaker. They do not respect your limit. These are the kinds of friends you should never have. They are known as unfriendly friends.

An unfriendly friend:

• digs a pit for you to fall inside.
• spreads gossip, lies, and accusations against you when they know it is all lies.
• Encourages others to dislike you.
• is envious of you.
• does not really wish you well but pretends otherwise.
• Will be shedding crocodile tears and sympathising with you in public but behind your back is happy.
• is one who circulates your name around for evil. I still cannot get over a man giving his friend’s number to a native doctor to call him and tell him that that car he has just bought will be his coffin if he does not sell it and take the money to the witch doctor for rituals, having arranged with him to share the money.
• will plot against you in the night and laugh with you in the morning.
• Acts nice to you and plots evil against you.
• will appear when they need you and disappear when you need them. They are very selfish and self-centred.

For an unfriendly friend, your success threatens them.

• gets upset when something good happens to you.
• is highly covetous. They are not consistent; you cannot depend or rely on them. They are not trustworthy.
• Rejoices when something bad happens to you. Your pain gives them joy. That is why we pray this strong prayer: “Every power that hates my laughter should fall down and die.”

● Powers that hate my laughter, what are you waiting for? Die, in the name of Jesus.

Beloveth, sometimes your problem is not really the problem; the actual problem is the person you tell your problem to. You had no serious problem until you started to share it.

Unfriendly friends are pathological ingrates. No matter what sacrifices you have offered in the past, it is all gone. They are disloyal and are traitors. They prefer to be ahead of you always. They are satanic broadcasters that expose your weaknesses and failures.

These unfriendly friends are faultfinders. They always hurt you and are perfectly at peace. It is personal deliverance to avoid such people. They work hand in hand with you to locate your secrets and strategies, then expose and deliver them to the enemy. This is a serious matter. They secretly curse you and are smiling with you outwardly. In your absence, they will not defend you. They wait for your mistake and broadcast it.

● I am praying for anyone gathered or listening to us here; people who laugh with you but mock you in private shall be exposed and disgraced, in the name of Jesus.

These unfriendly friends:

• are those who eat at your table, receive your money, gifts, clothing, and promotion, and raise their heel against you.
• they fight you through the privileges they got from you.
• observe you, know your support and assistance, and attack and pollute the minds of those supporting you. It is personal deliverance when you strategically avoid such people. The Bible says that if you have too many friends, it is to your own hurt.
• come to people due to satanic attacks. Their presence may be a satanic attack against you.
• come because of competition spirit. They attack you because of envy and jealousy. Sometimes, they attack you because they are insecure or have an inferiority complex, and they become bitter against you. If you do not avoid such people, you will be exposed to danger. Your secret will be revealed.
• open up spiritual portals for monitoring against you.
• try to embarrass you.
• compete with you to outshine you, they expose you to spiritual theft.
• secretly sabotage your prayer and fasting.
• presents you wrongly to potential helpers.
• start planting seeds of bitterness between you and others.
• become hijackers of your favour in places of opportunities. Tragically, they drag so many people into unnecessary battles.
• exchange blessings in the spiritual realm.
• Delay your seasons of harvest. If you do not, they allow you to miss your divine timing.

● I am praying for somebody here today: every arrow of close enemies and every arrow of unfriendly friends fired against your destiny—with a tenfold amen, send them back to the senders, in the name of Jesus.

How to navigate through this and dissolve the problem of unfriendly friends.

Listen to me very carefully:

1. Pray for the spirit of discernment. Tell the Lord you no longer want to be seeing people just after the flesh; you want to see them for who they are. The spirit of discernment gives you the ability to discern between wrong and right to know who is who.
2. Pay attention to red flags. Once you find that somebody is showing red flags and is not straight, you begin to see unrighteousness in the person, telling of lies—those are red flags.
3. Limit personal sharing of your secrets. The more you share your secrets, the more danger you put yourself in. Many of us are struggling now, not because we did anything seriously wrong, but because we spoke to the wrong people who took their cases to where they should not go. And now, the cases that have escaped the telescope of the enemy have now been brought back into focus.

● Beginning from this morning, any power reporting you to any coven, whether the coven is in the heavenlies, on the earth, or underneath the earth, let those powers fall down and die, in the name of Jesus. (shout a tenfold amen).

4. Examine the kind of friendship you have. Test friendships over time.
5. Observe reactions to your success. You call somebody in excitement and say, “Praise God! I have just been promoted!” and their response is “Really? Ehn ehn. Okay o.” Observe.
6. Avoid people who gossip about others because if they are gossiping to you about others, they will gossip to others about you. There will be situations when things happen. And people will say, “Report to G.O.” Others will say, “Do not go to G.O. He will just call the person and ask you to repeat what you have said.”

Generally, when people are not telling the truth, that is the reason. Their mantra to everybody is “Do let them know I told you.” They tell everybody the same thing. Gossipers should not be your friend. Your friends should not be satanic broadcasting stations. This is a very serious matter.

I sent a pastor to somewhere, and he called me and said, “Sir, what am I to do here? Every day they are talking about everybody; I do not even know who to use as a worker.” I replied, “Very simple. The next person to gossip about anybody, tell the person to sit down, and also call the subject of the gossip and confront the person.” By the time he did it once or twice, nobody came to gossip again.

7. Do not force relationships. If somebody does not want to be your friend, it is not compulsory to have the person as your friend.
8. Set clear boundaries. Let them know your principles and what you will not allow or do. When I was in the civil service, every time they wanted to send us to a conference, and it was a place where they would serve alcohol and do parties, others would not want to go with me. They would say, “If you are going to send Dr. Olukoya on this trip, I am not going o. He will not allow us to do what we want to do.” They should know your boundaries.
9. Evaluate their loyalty during tough times. Good friends stick, no matter what you are going through.
10. Trust actions, not just words. A lot of people are very good talkers, but when it is time for action, you do not see them.
11. Watch out for those who laugh at your pain.
12. Release and let go of all friendships that drain you. Let them go. Some people are like sinks. No matter what you put there, it is gone and they forget it.
13. Ask God to reveal your hidden enemies to you.
14. Surround yourself with purpose-driven people. Those kinds of people with plans and visions are positively minded.
15. Be very prayerful. The prayer warrior is a person not to be messed with. If a person is on fire with prayers and you decide to be an unfriendly friend, every day his angels will be fighting you. And if angels from heaven decide to join in that fight, the unfriendly friend is in trouble.

PRAYER POINTS.

1. Power to laugh last over my enemies, fall upon me now, in the name of Jesus.
2. Powers discussing my life in the covens, you are liars, die in the name of Jesus.
3. Strange hands pushing my testimony away, catch fire in the name of Jesus.
4. (Shout the blood of Jesus seven times.) Wipe out my name from the book of darkness, in the name of Jesus.
5. (Pray this three hot times) Thou power of unfriendly friends, die, in the name of Jesus.
6. By the power of the Lion of Judah, let my stubborn pursuers die, in the name of Jesus.
7. Angels of the living God, go to where my celebration is hiding, and recover them, in the name of Jesus.
8. Powers smiling at me in the day and fighting me at night, die, in the name of Jesus.

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