MFM H/Q Sermons

Power Must Change Hands programme
January 3rd, 2026.
Theme: STRATEGIC DELIVERANCE (4)

Topic:
Text: Genesis 28:16-17, Matthew 16:18, 6:22-23
Minister: Dr. Daniel Olukoya (G.O. MFM Worldwide)

Listen to me very carefully so you will have an understanding before we start praying. The Bible makes us understand that there are gates.

Genesis 28:16-17 (KJV) says: “And Jacob awaked out of his sleep, and he said, Surely the LORD is in this place; and I knew it not. And he was afraid, and said, How dreadful is this place! this is none other but the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven.”

Matthew 16:18 (KJV) says: “And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.”

Gates have to do with places of control, places of exit, and places of entrance.

Gates has four meanings in the Bible:

• Points of entrance.
• Points of exit.
• Points of control.
• Points of authority, power and dominion.

Our lives too have gates. The worst thing that can happen to you is for the enemy to be in control of vital gates of your life. If the enemy is in control of vital gates of your life, he will open the gate when evil is coming and shut the gate when good things are coming. Gates in ancient times were focal points of power. Business was conducted at the city gates, military strategies were planned at the gates, judgements and punishments were delivered at the gates, the husband of a virtuous woman was known at the gates, you will find that Lot sat at the gates of Sodom as an elder, and the safety of a city was determined by the strength of the gates.

So if the enemies storm the gates and succeed, then the horses, chariots and weapons will be able to enter into the town. Most of the time when the gates came down, the city too was conquered. So this is a very serious matter when we bring it down to our level. We have gates in our body:

1. The first gate through which things can enter our lives is the gate of the head. The psalmist says, “Thou anointest my head with oil, and my cup runneth over.” When they pray for people, they lay hands on their heads; when they want to crown a king, they put a crown on his head. This means there is an access route through which things can enter the head. When they lay hands on the head and anoint the head, it means there is an access route too, and it can transfer throughout the body. Negative or positive anointing can flow through your head to the rest of your body.

Your head is the symbol of your destiny. When you begin to shave your hair for no other reason than as a symbol of death, it is a serious problem. That head is a storehouse of your brain. It can also be manipulated. This is why deliverance of the head is a serious matter, and you need to be careful of what you do with your head and hair. That hair represents your glory. So it is not just anybody that should put hands on your hair and do anything to it.

Many women are in trouble today because witchcraft hands have plaited their hair in evil salons, and they put all sorts of evil things on their heads. The head is a gate.

Lay your right hand on your head and shout:

• My head, be cleansed by the blood of Jesus, in the name of Jesus (shout this three times).
• My head, vomit every bewitchment, in the name of Jesus. (Shout it three times).

1. The eye gate: Matthew 6:22-23 (KJV) says, ‘The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light.’

But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If, therefore, the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness!

The eye is a very important organ in the body. It gives light to the entire body. The eye is the window of your thought life. With our eyes, we can fill our lives with darkness or light. The eye is like the lens of a camera, taking pictures and transferring the image to the spirit man.

So the eye is a major spiritual gate, receiving both positive and negative messages into the human spirit. Messages of the eye enjoy very quick transfer into the brains and lives of people. Eyes of lust, covetousness, fornication, adultery, robbery, and gossiping are gates into your life.

If you are watching pornography or something really bad, you are really harming yourself a lot because you are transferring those images into your spirit man, and so the gates of your eyes are open to the enemy.

Can you lay your hands on your eyes and shout loud and clear:

• Blood of Jesus, sanitise my eyes, in the name of Jesus.

1. The third gate is the ear gate: hearing comes through this gate, and what you hear affects your life. Even the Bible says, “Faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the word of God.” Vice versa can also be true. Doubt can come by hearing.

The tragedy is that the spiritual ear of somebody may be blocked, and so you cannot receive anything from heaven. The ears can be programmed to receive satanic messages and to be hearing the wrong things. That ear is a gate into your life and must be well guarded.

4. The Mouth Gate: We live on words and die on words. We grow on words and disintegrate in words. The mouth gate does a massive daily destruction. A lot of people will prosper in life if somebody gets a good padlock and shuts up that mouth. They talk their way out of their miracles, talk their way out of their breakthroughs, talk where they should not talk, and offend people they should not offend by too much talking.

The mouth gate does a daily destruction. This mouth contains a large fish called the tongue. Your mouth gate can kill or make alive. It is this mouth gate that put our forefathers in trouble in the garden of Eden. Adam and Eve fell through the mouth gate. A lot of people are struggling now with the problems the mouth gate has brought.

5. The hand gate: This is your symbol of labour. That is why the Bible talks about teaching your hands to war and your fingers to fight. That is why it is not a good dream if you see cobwebs on your hand physically and spiritually. Evil can come through the hand.
6. The Heart Gate: The heart gate is the control room of power. It is the bank or storehouse of good or bad things. Once Satan gains entrance into your heart, evil thoughts are generated from it. The heart gate has destroyed many.
7. The Navel Gate: the navel gate is where you have a connection to your mother for supply in the womb. This is the gate where evil blood, evil spirit, and evil inheritance pass into the child. Many people suffer today because of evil inherited problems. Many people even had their own placenta manipulated.

Many need to lay their hands and conduct personal deliverance on their navels. When we say, “Put your hand on your belly button,” you are about to pray generational deliverance prayers.

8. The Sex Gate: Beloveth, the sex gate is the most successful of all human gates. There is practically no manipulation and destiny destruction the enemy cannot achieve with sex. Demons and demonic materials can be programmed into sex organs. This is a very serious matter. If you turn to one thing that has turned the world upside down, it is sex. The Bible says, “All sins are committed outside the body, except the sin of fornication, which is done within the body.”

The Bible is very clear: if you sleep with a witch, you become a witch. If you sleep with a wizard, you become a wizard. Two of you become one. So there is no ordinary sex. Sex is a spiritual matter whether you take it seriously or not. It is a spiritual transaction. There are many men looking at me on the pulpit now. The reason you are where you are is because of some careless sex you had a while ago, and now it has made you remain where you are.

• I am praying for somebody here today: if the enemy has caged you using the sex gate, receive your deliverance in the name of Jesus.

1. The Leg Gate: The legs are a symbol of walking. That is why you must be careful of where your legs take you. Are you here today and you have done satanic foot washing, practised barefooted religions, put beads on your legs, or put chains on your legs, I feel sorry for you. Those legs need deliverance.

If God wanted you to chain those legs, He would have chained them for you. You are looking for trouble if you chain yourself when Heaven did not chain them.

Many have cursed feet. Wherever they go, things go wrong. Some step on charms, and it is now affecting them. Some put incisions on their feet. Your feet should establish your dominion in the garden of your destiny.

• I am praying for you if you can shout a volcanic amen: you shall wear the shoes of iron to tread down the serpents and scorpions, in the name of Jesus.

1. The soles of your feet gate: Wherever you are, wherever you step those feet, you take dominion for you. The soles of your feet are a gate.
2. The Nose Gate: what you inhale can affect you spiritually. I want to believe that no one here is sniffing snuff, weed or any other thing. Those things have the capacity to affect the totality of your being.
3. The twelfth gate is your place of nativity: we will stop here this morning before we start praying. Those who want to have access to your life can go to your place of nativity. Your place of birth, or your place of nativity, is very significant to evil people. They can go there to do all kinds of evil against people.

Things done against someone in their land of nativity are more potent than in other places. This has devastating effects. That is why sometimes you hear us praying, “Angels of God, walk to my place of birth and fight my battles there.”

This morning, we have prayers to pray. They are basically to pray that anything God has not ordained that has entered through any gates into our lives should just go out. It is a simple but aggressive prayer. It is a commanding prayer to “Go out now.”

The problem of heaven sometimes is not unanswered prayers but unprayed prayers. Prayers have to be specific. Prepare yourself now. It could be only one prayer. But we need to pray to a point where we know that deliverance has taken place.

PRAYER POINTS

[Before Message]

1. Every evil hand, blocking my blessings, dry up, die in the name of Jesus.
2. Finger of God, arise: disgrace every witch doctor working against me, in the name of Jesus.
3. Let the wickedness of the wicked against my life, die in the name of Jesus.

[After Message]

1. Owners of evil load, hear the Word of the Lord: carry your load in the name of Jesus.
2. Strangers in my life, your time is up: die, in the name of Jesus.
3. (Lift your two hands to the heavens.) My hands, hear the Word of the Lord: prosper by fire, in the name of Jesus.

(A sevenfold amen)

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