40 days prayer Campaign Day 10 👉 The stoning Of Stephen

INTRODUCTION

 

Praise be the living God, Word of Life. I welcome you today to the morning altar of prayer. 

 

Jesus is Lord this morning. Let us be ready to receive the word of God in the name of the Lord. Wake up wherever you can be and let us be ready to listen to the word of God today in the mighty name of Jesus Christ, the son of the living God. 

 

I believe you have been well from your end from our end we are supernaturally blessed of the lord he renews our strength on daily basis and we can only but give him the praise and the glory praise be the living god I believe you are well. 

 

Let's lift our voices this morning and declare the goodness of the Lord in our midst in the name of Jesus. 

 

Tell God, Lord, I'm coming before you today and I pray that you minister to me. Lord, I pray that your word will change my life, will transform me inside out. 

 

I pray that today will be that day, the day you have made for me to rejoice and be glad in you. Thank you Lord almighty for your love, your care in my life, in the life of my family.

 

In the name of Jesus, we thank you, we bless your name and we worship you oh God in the name of Jesus Christ the Son of the living God we have prayed and we all say amen. 

Today, we are talking about the stoning of Stephen.

  

FAITH, THE GREATEST ASSET OF THE CHRISTIAN

 

Before I go to the message of today, I just want to let you know that the Bible says in 1 John 5:4, “the victory that triumphs of the world is our faith”.

 

So, there is no way we can win the battle in the Spirit without faith.

 

Paul says in Ephesians 6:11, “Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil”. 

 

Paul says in Ephesians 6:16, ”Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked”.

 

Friends, never forget we are in warfare. And when we reach the end time, and that is where we are now, we are in the end time. 

 

The devil will multiply his schemes. And Jesus says in Luke 18:8 , “I tell you that he will avenge them speedily. Nevertheless when the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth?”

 

To let you know, in Matthew 24:12, Jesus says, “And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.”

 

I just want to bring to your attention the season, the time we are in. 

 

You know, Paul says in Ephesians 6:11, “Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil”. 

 

In Ephesians 5:16, he adds, “Redeeming the time, because the days are evil”. 

 

And I always tell you that things will not go better in this world. Things will go worse. That is why in this end time, if there is something we need, we need stubborn faith. 

 

Because the devil will try all kinds of schemes all over. To discourage the believers. To discourage the faith. To cause you to give up. But I declare in a decree. All of you under the sound of my voice. Your faith will be strong in Jesus name. 

 

When you go to Luke 22:31-32, Jesus is warning Peter, “Simon, Simon, behold, Satan hath desired to have you, that he may sift you as wheat. But I have prayed for thee, that thy faith fail not: and when thou art converted, strengthen thy brethren”. 

 

What does it mean? Strengthen them in their faith. So to let you know that the devil is after your faith.

 

The devil is not after your car. He doesn't care about the car. He's not after your house. He doesn't care about your house. He doesn't care about your money. He doesn't need your money. He won't do anything with the money 

 

What the devil is after in your life he is after your faith because remember I told you that the victory that triumphs over the devil in first john chapter  it is your faith.

 

If the devil cannot defeat your faith, you can defeat the devil. If the devil succeeds to destroy your faith, obviously he will destroy your life. 

 

But I pray the devil will not destroy your faith. 

 

The last verse of Job chapter 1, after the devil destroyed everything of Job, the Bible says, “In all this Job sinned not, nor charged God foolishly”. (Job 1:22)

 

Even if the devil had taken everything, he said, no, I stay strong in my faith. 

 

May God help us understand in this prayer campaign season that the greatest asset that we have in the Kingdom of God is our faith. 

 

And I pray that in the Name of the Lord, your faith will be strong. 

 

I pray that in the Name of the Lord, your faith will not fail

 

I pray that in the Name of the Lord your faith will grow.

 

I pray that in the Name of the Lord the devil will not succeed to destroy your faith.

 

In the Name of Jesus, you will take the shield of faith that you will quench all the fiery darts of the devil as it is written in Ephesians chapter number six.

 

Praise be the living God forever and ever.

 

And I want to let you know friends that we are in a fierce battle. The battle is fierce That's why we need an army. 

 

I pray that as we teach about the shield of faith, that God will raise an army of men and of women who can resist the devil. 

 

The Bible says in James 4:7, “Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you”. 

 

Peter says in 1 Peter 5:8, “Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour: Whom resist stedfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world”.

 

I pray that someone receives the grace to resist the enemy no matter the matter of the matter. We will resist the enemy and we will be strong in the name of the Lord. 

 

I pray that our faith will be strong enough in this time. I pray our faith will be strong enough in this season. And I pray that we will defeat the devil and humiliate him in the name of Jesus Christ because of our faith.

 

And that is why it is amazing for you to know that the place where I see Jesus praying for the disciples, he says, “I have prayed for your faith” (Luke 22:32).

 

He doesn't pray for your money. He doesn't pray for you to have a marriage. He doesn't pray for your your academics. He doesn't pray for your children. I don't care. He prays for your faith.

 

He said, “I prayed for your faith”. To let you know that your faith is an asset against the enemy. 

 

UNDERSTANDING THE DEVIL AS A MURDERER, A LIAR, A THIEF, A DESTROYER AND A PROSECUTOR.

 

1- Please may we never forget that the enemy is a murderer. 

 

In John 8:44, Jesus says, “Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.” 

 

2- I want to let you know this morning that the devil is a liar. I said the devil is a liar. 

 

No matter what the devil is telling you this morning, he is a liar. It is a lie. It is a lie. It is a lie. I don't care what the devil has shown you at night before you wake up this morning. It is a lie. 

 

You see yourself in a coffin and you believe you will die. It is a lie. You hear a news that the report is telling you that things will go worse. It is a lie. The devil is a liar.

 

3- THE DEVIL IS A THIEF

 

And Jesus said also in John 10:10, “The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly”. 

 

So, the devil is a thief, he is a destroyer, he is a killer. 

 

But Jesus says very clearly that I have come to give you life. 

 

Peter says in 1 Peter 5:8, “Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour: Whom resist stedfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world”.

 

And I want you to know that the devil is seeking who to devour. 

 

I believe strongly in my spirit that those who operate from a place of stubborn faith cannot be devoured by the devil.

 

Praise be the living God.

 

4- THE DEVIL HAS A COURT

 

And there is something I want you to know today that the devil has also a court. There is a court of the devil which has many purposes : one of them is to accuse the brethren before the Lord.

 

I will just stay there to let you know that no matter the accusation of the evil one in the name of Jesus the Son of the Living God, the devil is a liar. I said the devil is a liar. I said the devil is a liar.

 

You yourself can see what is happening online. Somebody just wakes up one day and says, “this baby looks like the other one”. How?

 

The devil is a liar. It goes viral online and the reputation of somebody at some point is tarnished because of somebody who just decided to wake up in the morning because he wants to trend online and want to make himself a name or a fame by spoiling I mean by playing around the identity the character, the life, the personality of somebody else.

 

The devil is a liar. The devil is a liar. 

 

The devil has also a court. The devil has also his court, but I pray today in the Name of Jesus Christ, the court of the devil will not devour your life or my life.

 

4 THINGS TO KNOW ABOUT STEPHEN

 

We are still studying the book of the Acts of the Apostles and today we are looking at a man. The first one to be murdered in the church. This man was called Stephen, 

 

1- MAN FULL OF FAITH

 

In Acts 6:8, it is written, “And Stephen, full of faith and power, did great wonders and miracles among the people.” 

 

The Bible describes him as a man of faith, a man of power, a man of signs and wonders. 

 

I want you to understand that Stephen was a deacon. 

 

Signs and wonders follow those who believe. Signs and wonders don't follow pastors. Signs and wonders don't follow bishops. Signs and wonders follow those who believe. 

 

He was a man full of faith. He was not a pastor. He was a deacon. He did not have a title. He was just a servant of God. 

 

I pray that you also in the name of Jesus Christ. You will perform signs and wonders in Jesus name.

 

2- A MAN OF SUPERIOR SPIRIT AND UNBEATABLE WISDOM

 

When you read Act 6:9, “Then there arose certain of the synagogue, which is called the synagogue of the Libertines, and Cyrenians, and Alexandrians, and of them of Cilicia and of Asia, disputing with Stephen”. 

 

You never know when the attack of the enemy will come. You will never know. You will never know. 

 

I like what my bishop always says. Affliction does not have a calendar, a timetable. It will come any point in time. It will find you and I ready. 

 

That is why we are always ready. And you know even the army of the world, they always tell them to be ready because you don't know where the attack will come from.

 

And here we see an attack comes and it gives us the second characteristic of Stephen.

 

Act 6:10 “And they were not able to resist the wisdom and the spirit by which he spake”. 

 

To show to you that Stephen was a man of superior wisdom. He was a man whose spirit was superior of the spirit of the enemy.

 

i pray that in the name of Jesus, you will have such.

 

Now, listen to me. Receive this wisdom from above.

 

In John 3:31, we read, “He that cometh from above is above all: he that is of the earth is earthly, and speaketh of the earth: he that cometh from heaven is above all”.

 

Listen to me Word of Life.

 

This Church Word of life is from above. it is not from me. It is not from Pastor Kasuku. I did not come to start a Church for the sake of starting a Church.

 

The bible says, “Whoever is from above is above all”.

 

If your marriage is from above, it will be above all. If your ministry is from above, it will be above the critics and the the accusation, the opposition of the enemy. Whatever is from above is above all.

 

That is why the Bible says in Act 6:10  And they were not able to resist the wisdom and the spirit by which he spake.

 

Praise be the living God.

 

I pray you receive wisdom from above.Hallelujah! Receive this wisdom from above. Receive the wisdom from above. 

 

The Bible says, we are seated far above. 

 

In Ephesians 2:6, it is written, “And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus”

 

In Ephesians 1:21, Paul says, “Far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come” 

 

In Luke 21:15, Jesus says, “For I will give you a mouth and wisdom, which all your adversaries shall not be able to gainsay nor resist”. 

 

Receive the mouth and the wisdom from above in the name of Jesus Christ.

 

3- A MAN WITH A FACE SHINING LIKE AN ANGEL

 

Act 6:11 Then they suborned men, which said, We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses, and against God.

 

Act 6:12  And they stirred up the people, and the elders, and the scribes, and came upon him, and caught him, and brought him to the council,

 

Act 6:13  And set up false witnesses, which said, This man ceaseth not to speak blasphemous words against this holy place, and the law: 

 

Act 6:14  For we have heard him say, that this Jesus of Nazareth shall destroy this place, and shall change the customs which Moses delivered us. 

 

Act 6:15  And all that sat in the council, looking stedfastly on him, saw his face as it had been the face of an angel. 

 

Hallelujah. 

 

That is the third information about Stephen … His face was shining as it had been the face of an angel. 

 

Isn't it amazing? 

 

That is the sign of a man full of faith. No matter the circumstances, the face is still shining. 

 

Case 1 | Remember, Moses was on the mountain because he was talking to God face to face. His face started shining. 

 

Exodus 34:29, “And it came to pass, when Moses came down from mount Sinai with the two tables of testimony in Moses' hand, when he came down from the mount, that Moses wist not that the skin of his face shone while he talked with him”.

 

Exodus 34:30, “And when Aaron and all the children of Israel saw Moses, behold, the skin of his face shone; and they were afraid to come nigh him”. 

 

Case 2 | Remember the transfiguration. Jesus was on the mountain. His face was shining. 

 

Matthew 17:1  And after six days Jesus taketh Peter, James, and John his brother, and bringeth them up into an high mountain apart,

 

Matthew 17:2  And was transfigured before them: and his face did shine as the sun, and his raiment was white as the light.  

 

And I pray that in the Name of Jesus Christ, your face will shine. 

 

In the name of the Lord. Your face will shine. Where they were accusing him, his face was shining. 

 

To let you know that the accusation of the devil was a wrong one. They were lying. And because they were lying, it could not affect him. His face was shining. Hallelujah. 

 

I pray that your face will shine. I pray you will have that kind of faith, a kind of stubborn faith that in the midst of affliction, in the midst of opposition, in the midst of adversity, your face will still shine. 

 

You will still shine of the glory of the Lord in the Name of Jesus Christ.

 

4- A MAN STRONGLY ROOTED IN SCRIPTURES

 

And then we see number four that Stephen was a man grounded in Scriptures (act chapter …)

 

When you read from verse 1 to verse 53, Stephen was unveiling Scriptures. And at the end of the sermon in

 

Acts 7:54, “When they heard these things, they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed on him with their teeth.”

 

Act 7:55  But he, being full of the Holy Ghost, looked up stedfastly into heaven, and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing on the right hand of God, 

 

Act 7:56  And said, Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of man standing on the right hand of God. 

 

Act 7:57  Then they cried out with a loud voice, and stopped their ears, and ran upon him with one accord, 

 

Act 7:58  And cast him out of the city, and stoned him: and the witnesses laid down their clothes at a young man's feet, whose name was Saul. 

 

Act 7:59  And they stoned Stephen, calling upon God, and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit. 

 

Act 7:60  And he kneeled down, and cried with a loud voice, Lord, lay not this sin to their charge. And when he had said this, he fell asleep. 

That is how Stephen died. He did not die bitter. He died in prayer. He died praying.

 

I believe he did not die because he was stoned. He died because he prayed to die. He did not die because he was stoned. He died in prayer. He died in prayer. He did not die defeated.

 

He did not die complaining, “oh Lord you have left me”. No. He died in prayer. He died in prayer. He died in prayer. He died in prayer. He died praying and I believe he chose to die.

 

DEATH, AN APPOINTMENT, A CHOICE A PLOT.

 

I believe Stephen chose to die because he saw Jesus.

 

Act 7:55 But he, being full of the Holy Ghost, looked up stedfastly into heaven, and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing on the right hand of God,

 

Act 7:56 And said, Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of man standing on the right hand of God.

 

Because Jesus was standing, he could have prayed, “Jesus, deliver me”, but he said, “Jesus, take my spirit”. (Act 7:59)

 

So, I believe that he chose to die. He did not die because he was stoned. 

 

I know people might not agree with me on that matter. But I believe that he died because he chose to die. 

 

With his eyes, he saw Jesus. He could have called upon Jesus to deliver him straight away. Jesus could have delivered him. But he gave up his spirit to the Lord. 

 

Pastor, what are you talking about?

 

Let me demonstrate to you my stand with the following truths…

 

Truth 1 | I have come to understand that death is an appointment.

 

In Hebrews 9:27, we read, “And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment” 

 

Praise be the living God.

 

So, if death is an appointment, it means that you can cancel an appointment.

 

And it is very much clear in Isaiah 28:18, ”And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it”.

 

From the verse above, I’d like to let you know that it is very much possible to cancel the appointment with death. In another word, when your time is not yet there, you can cancel the appointment to death. 

 

Case 1 | Daniel

 

Daniel was going to be killed with all the other wise men in Babylon. But he canceled the King’s decree of death.

 

Daniel 2:24 Therefore Daniel went in unto Arioch, whom the king had ordained to destroy the wise men of Babylon: he went and said thus unto him; Destroy not the wise men of Babylon: bring me in before the king, and I will shew unto the king the interpretation.

And Daniel lived until Cyrus and reached 80 plus years. 

Case 2 | Jesus

 

Jesus himself. Many times you see Jesus. He was about to be killed before his time. And the Bible says, he was just passing them in the middle. 

 

Luke 4:28 And all they in the synagogue, when they heard these things, were filled with wrath, 

 

Luke 4:29 And rose up, and thrust him out of the city, and led him unto the brow of the hill whereon their city was built, that they might cast him down headlong. 

 

Luke 4:30 But he passing through the midst of them went his way, 

 

We see clearly Jesus passing in the middle. He could have died, but he refused to die. 

 

When he was a baby, the devil wanted to kill Jesus before the time. 

 

But God appeared to Joseph in a dream. He said, “Take the son and go to him to Egypt”. And after a while, the same same God appeared to Joseph and said, “Those who want to kill him are dead. You can return to Israel”

 

Mat 2:13  And when they were departed, behold, the angel of the Lord appeareth to Joseph in a dream, saying, Arise, and take the young child and his mother, and flee into Egypt, and be thou there until I bring thee word: for Herod will seek the young child to destroy him.

 

Mat 2:14  When he arose, he took the young child and his mother by night, and departed into Egypt:

 

Mat 2:19  But when Herod was dead, behold, an angel of the Lord appeareth in a dream to Joseph in Egypt, 

Mat 2:20  Saying, Arise, and take the young child and his mother, and go into the land of Israel: for they are dead which sought the young child's life.

 

Mat 2:21  And he arose, and took the young child and his mother, and came into the land of Israel. 

 

I just want to help you understand that not all deaths are from God. Some are not from God. They are just the arrangement of the kingdom of darkness to put the end to the life of somebody.

 

When Stephen saw Jesus standing, he had a choice. He could have said, “Jesus, deliver me from death”. But I believe that he chose not to.

 

Case 3 | Paul

 

I believe so because when you read Acts, the Bible says that Paul was stoned stoned to death. After being stoned, he woke up and the Bible says, “the people thought he was dead”

 

Act 14:19 And there came thither certain Jews from Antioch and Iconium, who persuaded the people, and, having stoned Paul, drew him out of the city, supposing he had been dead.

 

Act 14:20 Howbeit, as the disciples stood round about him, he rose up, and came into the city: and the next day he departed with Barnabas to Derbe. 

 

How can you be stoned and come back to life? 

 

As you can see, the Bible says, “They dragged him outside the city”. Exactly the way Stephen died. Yet, he came back to life. 

 

When you read for example 2^nd Corinthians chapter 11, Paul describes his attempts to die and how he escaped from them …

 

2 Corinthians 11:24 Of the Jews five times received I forty stripes save one.

 

2 Corinthians 11:25 Thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day I have been in the deep;

 

2 Corinthians 11:26 In journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren;

 

Surely, how can you survive after spending one day in the deep of the sea? How?

 

And the good news is this one. Let us read …

 

2 Timothy 4:7 I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith:

 

2 Timothy 4:8 Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing. 

 

Philemon 1:9 Yet for love's sake I rather beseech thee, being such an one as Paul the aged, and now also a prisoner of Jesus Christ. 

 

From the Scriptures above, it appears that all the attempts of the devil to kill Paul before his time failed.

 

He fought. He finished his course. He kept his faith. And now he appears as Paul the aged.

 

Hallelujah! 

 

Just to let you know that people tried to kill him before his time but he had a choice between giving up and die or keeping up and live.

 

There is a scripture I like where Paul says, …

 

Philippians 1:23  For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ; which is far better:

 

Philippians 1:24  Nevertheless to abide in the flesh is more needful for you. 

 

Philippians 1:25  And having this confidence, I know that I shall abide and continue with you all for your furtherance and joy of faith; 

 

Philippians 1:26  That your rejoicing may be more abundant in Jesus Christ for me by my coming to you again.  

 

This Scripture shows very clearly that Paul understood that death was an appointment. 

 

You can choose to die or you can choose to live Or you can choose to live. Or you can choose to die and dying only when your time has come like Jesus in John 19:30, “It is finished”.

 

Now how many times the devil tried to kill Jesus before his time? But he never died till he said, “it is finished”.  He died only when his time came, not because a certain devil decided to kill him.

 

Praise be a living God.

 

Remember Simeon. The Bible says about Simeon, he said, “Now God you can let your servant go in peace because my eyes have seen.

 

God said to Simeon, “You will not die until you see the savior”. And he was hanging on the promise of God until he saw the Savior.

 

Joshua talks about the man called Caleb. Caleb said to Joshua, “Remember what Moses the man of God said unto us when you are with you in Kadesh Barnea”.

 

He said, “The man of God promised that he will give me the land”. And he says something powerfully. I like that.

 

That man of God says, “I am now 85 years old and I am strong to go to battle”. And he said, “Give me this mountain”

 

Hallelujah!

 

You understand that death can be a choice and God is the covenant keeping God.

 

Remember Psalm David said, “I will not die but I will live to proclaim the goodness of the Lord” and the Bible says very clear that, “death and life are in the power of the tongue”

 

Hallelujah!

 

It means another word. God is so faithful that if he has promised you, he said you will not die until you see the savior. 

 

It means another word. No matter what the Kingdom of God will do, you will live to see the Savior. You will live to see the promise of God coming to pass. 

 

Praise be the living God.

 

Case 4 | Caleb

 

Joshua 14:6 Then the children of Judah came unto Joshua in Gilgal: and Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenezite said unto him, Thou knowest the thing that the LORD said unto Moses the man of God concerning me and thee in Kadeshbarnea.

 

Joshua 14:7 Forty years old was I when Moses the servant of the LORD sent me from Kadeshbarnea to espy out the land; and I brought him word again as it was in mine heart.

 

Joshua 14:8 Nevertheless my brethren that went up with me made the heart of the people melt: but I wholly followed the LORD my God.

 

Joshua 14:9 And Moses sware on that day, saying, Surely the land whereon thy feet have trodden shall be thine inheritance, and thy children's for ever, because thou hast wholly followed the LORD my God.

 

Joshua 14:10 And now, behold, the LORD hath kept me alive, as he said, these forty and five years, even since the LORD spake this word unto Moses, while the children of Israel wandered in the wilderness: and now, lo, I am this day fourscore and five years old. 

 

Joshua 14:11 As yet I am as strong this day as I was in the day that Moses sent me: as my strength was then, even so is my strength now, for war, both to go out, and to come in. 

 

Joshua 14:12 Now therefore give me this mountain, whereof the LORD spake in that day; for thou heardest in that day how the Anakims were there, and that the cities were great and fenced: if so be the LORD will be with me, then I shall be able to drive them out, as the LORD said.

 

Joshua 14:13 And Joshua blessed him, and gave unto Caleb the son of Jephunneh Hebron for an inheritance.  

 

Caleb said, “God has kept me. God has preserved me. I did not die in the desert”. Yet, people in the desert died one after another, but him was kept. 

 

You know what my friend? 

 

If you want to preserve your life, you need to stand in the promise of God. You need to stand in the promise of God. Stand in what God said to you and say, “I will not die. I will serve him in the name of Jesus Christ”.

 

So, if you don't have any promise of God in your life, I'm telling you the truth, you can die anyhow as the Bible says, “You will die like mere men” ( Psalm 82:7)

 

Those who don't have knowledge and understanding are those who will die like mere men.

 

Let me tell you this morning my friend. We are not called to die like mere men.

 

I will not die like a mere man, because I know I have the understanding, I have an assignment. 

 

Because Jesus never died before the fulfillment of his assignment, which simply means in another word that you can live long to fulfill your assignment and no devil in hell will stop you in the name of Jesus Christ from fulfilling your assignment on the earth.

 

Can somebody say hallelujah?

 

That is what the Word of God says concerning death. Are you hearing me? 

 

Case 5 | Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Job, David

 

Joshua 14:13  And Joshua blessed him, and gave unto Caleb the son of Jephunneh Hebron for an inheritance.

 

Genesis 15:15 As for you, you shall go to your fathers in peace; you shall be buried in a good old age.

 

Genesis 25:7 These are the days of the years of Abraham's life, 175 years.  

 

Genesis 25:8  Then Abraham gave up the ghost, and died in a good old age, an old man, and full of years; and was gathered to his people.

 

Genesis 35:28-29 Now the days of Isaac were 180 years. And Isaac breathed his last, and he died and was gathered to his people, old and full of days. And his sons Esau and Jacob buried him. 

 

Genesis 49:33 When Jacob finished commanding his sons, he drew up his feet into the bed and breathed his last and was gathered to his people.

 

Job 5:26 You shall come to your grave in ripe old age, like a sheaf gathered up in its season.

 

Job 42:17 And Job died, an old man, and full of days

 

1 Chronicles 29:28 Then he died at a good age, full of days, riches, and honor. And Solomon his son reigned in his place.

 

The Bible says that Abraham, Isaac and Jacob died in the full age. The Bible says concerning David that he died when he was tired of his life. He was full of riches and honor and glory and he went. 

 

Concerning Job, the Bible says that he died in years. But the devil wanted to destroy his life before his time. He failed. 

 

I am here to let somebody know that anything the devil will do against you, he will fail. Anything the devil will do to destroy our lives, he will fail. 

 

The devil is a murderer. The devil is a killer. But we serve a living God who is higher than the enemy, more powerful than the enemy, higher than the agent of darkness and witches and wizards. 

 

The God almighty. The God we serve is the real God.

 

CONCLUSION

 

Today I want us to pray. To counsel. Any kind of death. Programmed by the kingdom of darkness. Programmed by the devil and his agents. 

 

Because you should know. The devil can plan the death of somebody. But we are not permitted to die as per the plan of the enemy. We are not permitted to die as per the declaration of the decrees of the evil one. Only as the Lord allows it. Only when we fulfill our plans on the earth. Only when we fulfill our assignment on the earth. 

 

PRAYER SESSION TO CANCEL UNTIMELY DEATH

 

In the name of Jesus. The son of the living God. We lift our voice and pray this very morning in the name of Jesus Christ. 

The first thing we do, we pray against the accusation of the evil one. Let us pray. 

 

Revelation verse the Bible says, the accuser of our brethren is cast down. The accuser of our brethren is cast down which accused them before our God day and night.

 

We are standing on the Word of God in verse  the bible says, they overcame him by the blood of the lamb and by the Word of their testimony and they loved not their lives unto the death.

 

We declare by the power of the blood and by the power of the blood, by the power of the blood, by the power of the blood, the blood of the Lamb, the blood of the Lamb, the blood of the Lamb, any accusation of the evil one is overturned, is overturned, is overturned, is overturned, is overturned, is overturned, is overturned. 

 

The blood of the Lamb, we overcame by the blood, by the blood, by the blood. 

 

My friend, confess the blood in the name of Jesus. Even in this country where the devil is programming the death of people on the road, we declare the blood, the blood, the blood, the blood, the blood on the highways, the blood on the air, the blood

 

We overcame by the blood, the word of our testimony.

 

We declare in the name of Jesus Christ, the devil will not take away the life of the people, of the innocent for free in the name of Jesus

 

Anywhere altars are raised to destroy the lives of the people, we declare the blood, we sprinkle the blood, we sprinkle the blood in the name of Jesus Christ the Son of the Living God.

 

There was a woman who was accused by the enemy so that she can be stoned hard to death, but my Bible says that Jesus stoop on the ground and the Bible says that they continued asking him. But he was writing on the ground. And as he was writing, the enemies were running away

 

Jesus asked her a question, “where are your accusers? Nobody has destroyed you? nobody has condemned you?

 

She said, no one.

 

Declare, I cancel any decree this morning from my accusers,

 

In the name of Jesus Christ, no one will condemn me to death. 

 

In the name of the Lord, I will live long. I will live long. I will live long. I will live long. I will live long. I will live long. 

 

In the name of Jesus Christ, the Son of the living God. We stand on Zechariah chapter verse.

 

There was an accusation against Joshua. Oh, hallelujah. 

 

I'm standing today and I declare. The Lord said to Satan. The Lord rebuked him. 

 

Oh glory to God. Continue to declare before the Lord this morning. You don't know how many times the devil is accusing you before the Lord. For the things you have never done. And the Lord rebuked the devil. 

 

Rebuke the devil. Rebuke the devil. Rebuke the devil now in the name of Jesus. 

 

Gossipers are accusers. Those who are gossiping against your name, rebuke the gossiper in the name of Jesus. 

 

Satan is a gossiper. Joshua was clothed with filthy garments and he stood before the angels and the Bible says, God has taken away the cloth of accusation. 

Today, you are removing from you the cloth of accusation In the name of Jesus Christ. In the name of the Lord. In the name of the Lord. 

 

In the name of the Lord. You are free. You are free. You are free. You are free. 

 

Declare I am free from accusation. 

 

In the name of Jesus. I am putting on me a new cloth. The cloth of Jesus. The cloth of justification in the name of Jesus.

 

The bible talks about letters written to destroy the life of of of Naboth.

 

Lift your voice this morning and declare … Any letter from the kingdom of darkness, from the dungeon of hell written against me to destroy my life, in the name of Jesus, the letters written by Jezebel, I declare those letters torn into pieces in the Name of Jesus Christ the Son of the Living God, the Son of the Living God.

 

Declare the letters of condemnation, of destruction of my life, I declare them canceled, canceled, canceled, canceled,

 

In first Kings,Jezebel was waiting for a news that Naboth is dead.

 

Lord, I declare this morning the news of my death, they will wait for it for long. It will not come to pass.

 

Say, Jezebel, you are a liar. I curse Jezebel this morning. Curse Jezebel this morning. Curse his plot. Curse his conspiracy in the Name of Jesus. 

 

The conspiracy of Jezebel against the Church, against your life is canceled in the name of Jesus. 

 

Declare, whatever they are plotting against you at work, in your community or congregation wherever you can be, in the name of Jesus they will not hear me dead.

 

Oh yes! They will wait for that news that I have failed. It will never come to pass in the name of Jesus Christ

 

We declare and we decree how man wanted to destroy the Jews, but my bible says that things turned around. 

 

Mordecai was promoted. Morning turned into dancing. That land saw the glory of God. And they wanted to become Jews. 

 

Pray, pray, pray, pray, pray. And declare this morning. Any announcement of premature death planned and expected from the court of hell, against my will, by the blood of the covenant, by the blood of the covenant, I decree such will not happen in the name of Jesus. 

 

They were waiting, Jezebel was waiting to hear the news that Naboth is turned dead. 

 

Oh declare this morning that any decree, any announcement of premature death in the name of Jesus from the court of hell. I overrule. I overrule. I overrule in the name of Jesus

 

By the power of the blood, I declare I am forgiven. I am redeemed. I am loved. I am free from condemnation. 

 

Are people are condemning you? Accusing you? Do you know how many people are accusing you? Even in church as pastors, people go to accuse us. Speaking evil against us behind our back. 

 

I decree in the name of Jesus. Those letters are destroyed

 

In the name of Jesus, I declare as I'm serving the Lord. Any decree of terminal disease, terminal illness. 

I decree the number of my days will be fulfilled. 

Lift your hand where you are. If you are sick, God is changing the result. He's changing everything. He's releasing healing on your body. 

 

In the name of Jesus Christ, if they decree you will die with the sickness, I declare over your life, you will live long. You will serve the Lord. You will serve the Lord. You will be blessed. May God bless your water and your bread.

 

The sickness is taken away from you. In the name of Jesus, 

 

The Bible says clearly, the Lord said to Moses, “go, return unto Egypt those who seek your death are dead”. In Matthew, the Bible says, “they are dead which thought to take away the young child's life”

 

I want to announce to you those who seek your death will die before you. Those who seek your death will die before you. Those who seek your death will die before you.

 

We overrule the decrees of the wicked seeking your death, seeking the death of the children,

 

We overrule, in the name of Jesus Christ, evil decrees of premature death of Christians, of believers all over the world. 

 

In the name of Jesus Christ, Jesus died so that we can live. 

 

Lift your hand where you are. And in the name of Jesus Christ, declare I will live long. 

 

Declare I will live long. 

 

Declare how you will live long. 

 

I say declare how you will live long. In the name of Jesus Christ. The son of the living God. We have prayed. And we all say amen. 

 

I declare over you. Any altar raised to destroy your life is canceled and overturned. 

 

In the land where we are. We are destroying the altars of death raised in this country in the name of Jesus Christ. 

 

We declare the preservation, the protection of all our facilities, airports, supermarkets, roads, highways, byways, all the buildings, wherever we can be. 

 

We pray that the angels of God will be spread all over to protect the land. In the name of Jesus Christ, the son of the living God. Amen. And amen.

 

CLOSING WORDS 

 

Glory to God. We thank you in the name of the Lord for his doing. 

 

And I believe you are safe. I say you are safe. I will say you are safe. 

 

You did not hear me. I say you are safe in Jesus name. Go and believe you are safe. No one will take away your life before your time. Because Jesus died for you. For you to live. In Jesus name. 

 

Now I wish you a very great, great, great, great day in the name of Jesus. 

 

Go ahead where you are. Go and prosper. Go and succeed. May your family be blessed in Jesus' name. 

 

You will serve the Lord. He will bless your bread. He will bless your water. Wherever you go today, favor will locate you. Favor will be your portion. 

 

You will enter where you never entered before. Jesus is Lord today in your life in Jesus' name. 

 

I speak the blessing from above in your life. In the name of Jesus Christ. The son of the living God. Go in peace. 

 

Come back on Sunday with your testimony. Of the doings of the Lord. In Jesus precious and glorious name. You are blessed. And your blessing is irreversible. In Jesus name. Amen and amen. Have a glorious day. See you. Amen.  

BACKING SCRIPTURES

Joh 8:44  Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it. 

Joh 10:10  The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly. 

Act 6:8  And Stephen, full of faith and power, did great wonders and miracles among the people. 

Act 6:9  Then there arose certain of the synagogue, which is called the synagogue of the Libertines, and Cyrenians, and Alexandrians, and of them of Cilicia and of Asia, disputing with Stephen.

Act 6:10  And they were not able to resist the wisdom and the spirit by which he spake. 

Joh 3:31  He that cometh from above is above all: he that is of the earth is earthly, and speaketh of the earth: he that cometh from heaven is above all. 

Ephesians 2:6 And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus: 

Ephesians 1:21  Far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come: 

Luke 21:15  For I will give you a mouth and wisdom, which all your adversaries shall not be able to gainsay nor resist. 

Act 6:11  Then they suborned men, which said, We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses, and against God.

 

Act 6:12  And they stirred up the people, and the elders, and the scribes, and came upon him, and caught him, and brought him to the council,

 

Act 6:13  And set up false witnesses, which said, This man ceaseth not to speak blasphemous words against this holy place, and the law: 

Act 6:14  For we have heard him say, that this Jesus of Nazareth shall destroy this place, and shall change the customs which Moses delivered us. 

Act 6:15  And all that sat in the council, looking stedfastly on him, saw his face as it had been the face of an angel. 

Exo 34:29  And it came to pass, when Moses came down from mount Sinai with the two tables of testimony in Moses' hand, when he came down from the mount, that Moses wist not that the skin of his face shone while he talked with him.

 

Exo 34:30  And when Aaron and all the children of Israel saw Moses, behold, the skin of his face shone; and they were afraid to come nigh him.

Matthew 17:1  And after six days Jesus taketh Peter, James, and John his brother, and bringeth them up into an high mountain apart,

Matthew 17:2  And was transfigured before them: and his face did shine as the sun, and his raiment was white as the light.

Acts 7:54 When they heard these things, they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed on him with their teeth. 

Act 7:55  But he, being full of the Holy Ghost, looked up stedfastly into heaven, and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing on the right hand of God, 

Act 7:56  And said, Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of man standing on the right hand of God. 

Act 7:57  Then they cried out with a loud voice, and stopped their ears, and ran upon him with one accord, 

Act 7:58  And cast him out of the city, and stoned him: and the witnesses laid down their clothes at a young man's feet, whose name was Saul. 

Act 7:59  And they stoned Stephen, calling upon God, and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit. 

Act 7:60  And he kneeled down, and cried with a loud voice, Lord, lay not this sin to their charge. And when he had said this, he fell asleep.

Hebrews 9:27  And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment: 

Isa 28:18  And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it. 

Daniel 2:24 Therefore Daniel went in unto Arioch, whom the king had ordained to destroy the wise men of Babylon: he went and said thus unto him; Destroy not the wise men of Babylon: bring me in before the king, and I will shew unto the king the interpretation. 

Luke 4:28  And all they in the synagogue, when they heard these things, were filled with wrath, 

Luke 4:29  And rose up, and thrust him out of the city, and led him unto the brow of the hill whereon their city was built, that they might cast him down headlong. 

Luke 4:30  But he passing through the midst of them went his way, 

Act 14:19  And there came thither certain Jews from Antioch and Iconium, who persuaded the people, and, having stoned Paul, drew him out of the city, supposing he had been dead.

 

Act 14:20  Howbeit, as the disciples stood round about him, he rose up, and came into the city: and the next day he departed with Barnabas to Derbe.

2 Corinthians 11:24  Of the Jews five times received I forty stripes save one.

 

2 Corinthians 11:25  Thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day I have been in the deep;

 

2 Corinthians 11:26  In journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren; 

2 Timothy 4:7  I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith:

 

2 Timothy 4:8  Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing. 

Philemon 1:9  Yet for love's sake I rather beseech thee, being such an one as Paul the aged, and now also a prisoner of Jesus Christ.

Philippians 1:23  For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ; which is far better:

 

Philippians 1:24  Nevertheless to abide in the flesh is more needful for you. 

Philippians 1:25  And having this confidence, I know that I shall abide and continue with you all for your furtherance and joy of faith; 

Philippians 1:26  That your rejoicing may be more abundant in Jesus Christ for me by my coming to you again.

Joshua 14:6  Then the children of Judah came unto Joshua in Gilgal: and Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenezite said unto him, Thou knowest the thing that the LORD said unto Moses the man of God concerning me and thee in Kadeshbarnea.

 

Joshua 14:7  Forty years old was I when Moses the servant of the LORD sent me from Kadeshbarnea to espy out the land; and I brought him word again as it was in mine heart.

 

Joshua 14:8  Nevertheless my brethren that went up with me made the heart of the people melt: but I wholly followed the LORD my God.

 

Joshua 14:9  And Moses sware on that day, saying, Surely the land whereon thy feet have trodden shall be thine inheritance, and thy children's for ever, because thou hast wholly followed the LORD my God.

 

Joshua 14:10  And now, behold, the LORD hath kept me alive, as he said, these forty and five years, even since the LORD spake this word unto Moses, while the children of Israel wandered in the wilderness: and now, lo, I am this day fourscore and five years old. 

Joshua 14:11  As yet I am as strong this day as I was in the day that Moses sent me: as my strength was then, even so is my strength now, for war, both to go out, and to come in. 

Joshua 14:12  Now therefore give me this mountain, whereof the LORD spake in that day; for thou heardest in that day how the Anakims were there, and that the cities were great and fenced: if so be the LORD will be with me, then I shall be able to drive them out, as the LORD said.

 

Joshua 14:13  And Joshua blessed him, and gave unto Caleb the son of Jephunneh Hebron for an inheritance.

Genesis 15:15 As for you, you shall go to your fathers in peace; you shall be buried in a good old age.

Genesis 25:7 These are the days of the years of Abraham's life, 175 years.  

Genesis 25:8  Then Abraham gave up the ghost, and died in a good old age, an old man, and full of years; and was gathered to his people.

Genesis 35:28-29 Now the days of Isaac were 180 years. And Isaac breathed his last, and he died and was gathered to his people, old and full of days. And his sons Esau and Jacob buried him. 

Genesis 49:33 When Jacob finished commanding his sons, he drew up his feet into the bed and breathed his last and was gathered to his people.

Job 5:26 You shall come to your grave in ripe old age, like a sheaf gathered up in its season.

Job 42:17 And Job died, an old man, and full of days

1 Chronicles 29:28 Then he died at a good age, full of days, riches, and honor. And Solomon his son reigned in his place.

Pastor TD KASUKU