Friday, December 30, 2011

The Spirit of Sudan

I received this from a Nigerian Brother today via email. The attribution is at the bottom. It's worth reading. When I read it I shudder to think how close we are in the USA seeing this.

Early in September 2011, while fasting and praying for the national prayer retreat of The Preacher scheduled for later that month, the word of the Lord came to me, “Pray against the Spirit of Sudan.” South Sudan had become independent from the oppressive Islamic north only a few weeks earlier, on July 9. I understood the word to mean that the Satanic principality that had sponsored Sudan’s very oppressive anti-Christ Islamic regime, and sustained twenty cruel years of a most ravaging civil war between the Christian south and the Islamized north, having lost that territory, was seeking another abode, in Nigeria. I took it as a personal prayer point even though, later, I had to send out sms’s to a few friends. The message as I understood it seemed well explained by Luke 11:24-26, especially the first half of verse 24:
24 When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man[a territory, Sudan], he walketh through dry places, seeking rest ; and finding none, he saith, I will return unto my house whence I came out.
25 And when he cometh, he findeth it swept and garnished.
26 Then goeth he, and taketh to him seven other spirits more wicked than himself; and they enter in, and dwell there: and the last state of that man is worse than the first.
This reminds me so much of the Kenyan experience decades ago, when a group of intercessors in a teacher training school suddenly had a vision of furious red horses galloping towards their country. Intercepted by timey prayers, however, the horses diverted from the border of Kenya into Somalia next door. Somalia has not been a normal country ever since, with little rest from wave after wave of Islamic insurgencies.

In September 9-11, 2011, there was the retreat of The Preacher in the Middle Belt city of Jos, Nigeria. In the process of the prayer vigil on the second night of that retreat, a sister with remarkable prophetic gifts raised a prayer concern about Nigeria. She used the same words to describe her burden as she called us all to pray against “the spirit of Sudan.” I was frightened. It was no mere coincidence. I realized at once that God had confirmed His word in the mouth of a second witness. Anyone who has gone through the horrors of one civil war will never wish to experience another. Ask them in Liberia, Sierra Leon, Libya, and ask the elders in eastern Nigeria who suffered the Biafran war.

Four days before Christmas, we posted the online message, “When Feasting is Unpardonable Sin ,” warning that in this season of Christmas festivity and the threats of Islamic jihads in Nigeria, it might not be permitted for everyone to enjoy a feast when the land mourns. Yesterday was Christmas, but it was not to be for everybody. I had been fasting for many days, and could not but go on fasting. St. Theresa Catholic Church at Madalla, on the outskirts of Abuja the capital city of Nigeria, was suicide bombed at the close of Christmas service as worshippers were queuing to leave. Over 40 deaths have been reported, besides several injured and inestimable property damaged. What jolted me was the Yahoo News on the tragedy: “Boko Haram is trying to ignite a sectarian civil war in a country split evenly between Christians and Muslims” http://news.yahoo.com/islamists-kill-dozens-nigeria-christmas-bombs-081417359.html It sounded so much to me like the word of the Lord about the agenda of the Spirit of Sudan. Could that be a third witness from the mouth of a prophetic internet donkey?
What further bothered me in that news were the remarks attributed to Muhammadu Buhari, who had also contested at the last presidential polls. In the opinion of that retired army general and former head of state, these assaults are a pointer to the failure of the present government of Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, a man who has been under the severe assaults of high level sorcery and political snares; such manipulations and sorceries that it takes more than a Sunday school T-shirt to bullet proof.

As we relish, on one hand, the lofty condemnations of the premeditated brutalities of Boko Haram, we, on the other hand, share the worry of Jesus in Luke 11:17, about the paradox of a house divided against itself. Oh, that Prophet Daniel could come down and read us these glittering handwritings on the wall!

About a year ago, a retired army General who, like Buhari, is a northern Muslim and former military ruler of the nation, threatened tacitly in the papers that there could be a civil war attributable to Dr. Jonathan if he did not ‘gentlemanly’ abdicate his presidential ambitions to the ‘north,’ all of whose prominent candidates were Muslims.

Some hundreds of years ago, Egypt was a very Christian territory, as also was Libya and the rest of northern Africa. Today, the story is pathetically different. Ephesus, where Paul once preached, which had the first of the seven churches to which Jesus sent special letters, it is said, does not have a church anymore. Its candle has gone out, as Jesus had warned in Revelation 2:5. Islam has taken over that city, and others like it.

May our children not rise up in the next fifty years to curse us fathers and mothers whose knees were too stiff to bend, whose lazy brains and fearful hands knew nothing to do while the spiritual topography changed against their tender future. As a Bishop recently feared and warned, may they not have to spit on our graves someday, that while we pursued our insatiable greed and stuffed our protruding bellies with stolen wine, we wasted our political privileges in the houses of parliament and the other corridors of economic and political power, shamefully unlike another woman centuries ago who in similar circumstances swore, “If I perish, I perish” (Esther 4:16).

Jos, a city whose name is said to have been derived from the acronym, “Jesus Our Saviour,” which used to be the paradise of many missionary agencies in Nigeria, is now like ancient Berlin with an invisible wall marking the risky boundary between the Muslim north and the Christian south of the city. The city has already conceded some precious grounds to the threatening advance of Islam. Port Harcourt and Lagos are not too south from the ‘northern’ threats. America is not as far away anymore; not farther away now than next door. South Africa and Kenya and Britain are already marked for their own seasons. Ghana and Zambia are stirring. France seems almost like a helpless captive. The list is long. Every place is under watch. It is a global threat, “while MEN slept” (Matthew 13:25). Feeble women and little children may sleep, but when adult men also sleep in some seasons, things go wrong.

There are notable parallels between the two nations of Nigeria and what used to be Sudan. Today, Nigeria is reckoned as the foremost evangelized and evangelistic nation in Africa, a missionaries-sending nation next only to USA in the world. In the 1950s and earlier, the Sudan Interior Mission (SIM) similarly sent missionaries, and especially evangelized the northern parts of Nigeria. Sudan had a dominantly Christian south and an Islamized north. So does Nigeria. Both territories boast a large land mass. Sudan had and still has a species of Islam that is fundamentally fanatical and very intolerant of any other faith, like the Boko Haramians of northern Nigeria. Sudan used the means of politics, governance, and violence (in fact, wars) to pursue its agenda of enforcing sharia over the entire country. The tools have been no different with those who have been invoking the spirit of Sudan into Nigeria. The sounds of ‘Boko Haram’ are the sounds of that spirit already knocking at our door.

‘Boko Haram’ is a political mask. May God expose the masqueraders behind the mask. Boko Haram is a unilateral declaration of war awaiting escalation whenever ‘the other’ should have been provoked enough to reply. When a cock struts out to challenge the sleeping neighbour next door to an early morning fight, check properly; its owner is behind it, waiting with a machete. The coordination, professionalism and sophistication of Boko Haram are not those of some ragtag terrorists or ‘militants.’ They have the intelligence and other backings of certain foreign governments, of notable foreign and local agencies, royal fathers, as well as serving and retired politicians. Until recently, when God exposed one of their moles among the members of parliament, who could have believed that those dissidents had such ‘noble’ membership and patronage? The general public will be shocked the day it learns about the size and skill of their army and the sophistication of their weaponry; but our prayer is that God may do again in Nigeria what He did to Pharaoh and his armies when He overthrew both horses and their riders in the sea (Exodus 15:1). Amen.

Last night, during my midnight prayers, the date “January 12” came to me as having been marked for a surprise attack in an unsuspecting location. I wish I can right away tell where, but it could be somewhere in one of the ‘safer’ southern cities. Watch and pray; pray with eyes open in this season.

Often, one hears the understandable remarks of aggrieved southern Nigerians, that the country should split, and “let them go their own way.” It is not so easy, for many reasons that this is not the place to explain. Besides, by such expressions, unawares, these make prayers in support of the very Spirit of Sudan.

Someday, soon, the mystery of the fifth seal shall speak from under the altar in Heaven, and there shall come “the great day” of the wrath of the lamb that sits on the throne. In that day, there shall be no hiding place in the dens and rocks and mountains “from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb” (Revelation 6:14-17). May that day come soon, in Jesus name. Amen.

May the world join us now to contend against the Spirit of Sudan. We would rather have those prayers now than relief materials later for a war-torn people, should that wandering spirit somehow find abode here, aided by the bloody invocations of its armed priests that have already offered more than sufficient provocations.

If this stirs you, please, pass it on. If it does not, delete it. One will chase a thousand, but two can put ten thousand to flight (Deuteronomy 32:30). Amen.


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45 comments:

PaulBThomas said...

The Lord bless you my brother. You share form the heart.Its time to awake. Those asleep are those whose voice is silent. The nations are the Lord's, and "blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord" (Jesus). Preaching Jesus the One true God stirs up the complacent and awakens the ignorant.

May 2012 see the real prophets stand up.
Paul.

Anonymous said...

The Clarion Call is loud!
May we receive power to arise!
We are going to win with prayers as our LORD will answer with His light just like in Acts 9!
We rebuke the Spirit of Sudan in the Matchless Name of JESUS!
This is the time to be strong!
This is the time to pray very deliberate, Word-inspired prayers!
The truth is unfolding!
DavidA, Lagos, Nigeria.
Dear LORD, we thank You because it's not going to be by power or might but by Your Spirit. HALLELUYAH!"

Anonymous said...

This message is an eye opener, caution and an ignition to our spirit man that danger is looming and that the christian should not rest now and that we are in the midst of danger. We should arise, wake from our slumber. God bless u my brother

jckias said...

How I praise the name of the Most High God for you brother 'PREACHER' or brother Gene. Grieved by the situation in our country, Nigeria, I posted some tweets at twitter@jckias yesterday as well as on facebook.com/jckias. What amazes me in your December 30 2011 post which I was privileged to access only today 9th January 2012 is that some of the images the Holy Spirit painted in my heart and some of the very words and scripture references that burned in my heart were all used in your post. May we heed the words of the Ship Master in Jonah 1:6 that says: 'What meanest thou, o sleeper? Arise and call upon thy God...' I shall forhtwith send your link to all my contacts. May the good Lord uphold you and increase His grace upon your life. Please see my comments on the said facebook page and twitter.com/jckias.
God's blessings.

Anita said...

Your message again confirms the discussions I have had with other believers recently. Indeed, the message in church from the pulpit to the pew yesterday (08/01/2012)was, 'Watchmen, Awake'. What a privilege to partake in what God is doing as His plans for our nations are further revealed. Yes, it is time for sleeping believers to awaken -just as Ephesians 5:14 urges.

Anonymous said...

I qoute "About a year ago, a retired army General who, like Buhari, is a northern Muslim and former military ruler of the nation, threatened tacitly in the papers that there could be a civil war attributable to Dr. Jonathan if he did not ‘gentlemanly’ abdicate his presidential ambitions to the ‘north,’ all of whose prominent candidates were Muslims." Spurious!! It wasn't a retired General that made such comment. Get your fact right Mister. Because Nigerians are gullible to every nonsense criss-crossing their path doesn’t means this inflaming article will achieve it purpose. This is not the teaching of our lord Jesus Christ

Anonymous said...

The time has come for true worshipers in Nigerian to go on our knees and interceed on behalf of our great country...let's take advantage of the 21 days fasting and prayer going on in Living Faith Church Worldwide and I see the mighty hand of God prevailing on our behalf. Amen...GLORY! GLORY! GLORY!

Anonymous said...

I thank God for this message,I was one of the people sleeping while the house is on fire,this message has woken me up from sleep God bleSs u my brother the PREACHER.

Anonymous said...

Please, it was Atiku that made the comment not Buhari. We do seriously need to pray fervently. God bless

Anonymous said...

Very true. Very factual and spiritual...

Anonymous said...

Your message came at the right time because am waiting upon the lord one thing I no for such is that the desire of the boko harm
group in our nation nigeria shall not stand neither shall it come to pass because I serve a God that disappointed the devices of the crafty so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise I will fast and pray concerning this issue I will pray against the sprite of sudan my God who divided the red sea and the children of Israel walked on dry land will never give the children of Ismael their desire thank you for this information I will surely spread it may God deliver nigeria in jesus name amen

Anonymous said...

Truely, the end is near.

maxxy said...

God save us....

maxxy said...

God save us....

Anonymous said...

My Lord and saviour! Please frustrate d evil one's machineries 2 truncate ur words in our country! Please empower us 2 stand fight! 2 nip ds looming virus in d bud! May ur name b praised 4eva more! Tanx so much brother.

Anonymous said...

Glory be to God. This prophecy came in 2011 is the signs are already here. I have been urging christians to pray and not to join in protests because we wretle not against flesh and blood. God bless you brother. May God save us from gross darkness. May His glory arise in Nigeria in Jesus name, Amen.

PERFECTJ said...

May the good LORD continue to protect us from the clutches of the enemy in Jesus Christ powerful Name,....AMEN!!!!!

theo said...

its well

Anonymous said...

May the Lord send another Elijah to pray down fire. Lord I need your touch of revival in my life.

Anonymous said...

Its our Month of vengeance and every word of the lord in psalms 94 shall be established. wole

Anonymous said...

God bless u very much.All u av sed is truly 4rm d spirit of God as it has also been sed in my prayer group as the lord constantly says pray for nigeria...it is well,God will take over.Amen

Anonymous said...

God bless Ў☺ΰ Sir! Am a Nigerian, Α̲̅πϑ I've got Ʈђi§ burden in my heart for a while now about how most churches here have gone from going on their knees τ̲̅☺ ranting on Α̲̅πϑ on about wealth, prosperity nd getting rich. Am inspired τ̲̅☺ pray Α̲̅πϑ fast for my country. Long live Nigeria!......Michael N.

Anonymous said...

All glory to God for the spirit of prophecy & interpretation He gave to me in recent time & a message came as prophecy on the 10th of January that: THE DECEPTIVE VOICE OF THE REPTILE IS COMING TO THE WORLD THAT GOD'S CHILDREN SHOULD DISCERN HIS VOICE "I WARN".
I feel we Christians should arise & prayerfully fight for the body of Christ to be revived because so much has been Lost.
And also this is the time to apply the rule of the 10 virgins in Matthew 25.

Anonymous said...

As God remembered Noah after d great fall will surly remember Us, God is with us like a mighty terrible one, he will arise n fight 4 us......

Anonymous said...

As God remembered Noah after d great fall will surly remember Us, God is with us like a mighty terrible one, he will arise n fight 4 us......

Ngozi Lucy Opara said...

Thanks alot my brother, may the good Lord use the prayers of the saints in Nigeria to avert the unforeseen. May the Lord give us the grace to pray without ceasing In Jesus Mighty Name - Amen!Lucy

Ngozi Lucy Opara said...

Thanks alot my brother, may the good Lord use the prayers of the saints in Nigeria to avert the unforeseen. May the Lord give us the grace to pray without ceasing In Jesus Mighty Name - Amen!Lucy

muyiwa said...

God help us and make our country safe. Together we can kneel and get answers to prayers.

Anonymous said...

When darkness loom the

appearance of light break its roaring, this is a call for revival and not festic christianity that is the other of the day.my Bible never tells me that violent will end the spreeding of the gospel rather it will ignight it.

Anonymous said...

When d deciple of jesus ask d MASTER wat was d sign of end. I frankly think we've an answer to it too base on the teaching of that scripture. God do wat u did in d land of egypt n prove that you are The living God.

Alfa said...

Thank you very much sir,I've bn stirred to pray more. While I was praying a few days ago about the situation in Nigeria,a word of prophecy dropped in my spirit; "...that the purpose of God according to election might stand,Nigeria will not divide..."Rom.9:11,Nigeria being a Missions sending nation has a key role in God's end-time plans for missions&all those clamouring for the nation to divide are only joking as they would only be battling with the Lord.We should interceed more for our land.God bless Nigeria.

Anonymous said...

Dear Lord,please have mercy on Nigeria.

Anonymous said...

Dear Lord,please have mercy on Nigeria.

Anonymous said...

Wen d Lord askd me 2 tel my group 2 intaced 4 Nigeria, I tot twas sentiment but I nu beta. Ppl say history & posterity wud judge us 4 wat we contribute bt more dan dat God almity wud ask us 2. Wateva country u blong pray 4 it. D enemy has no gud plan 4 any1. God bless y'al.

Anonymous said...

From Gideon Attah
Pls, it's quite unfortunate of how biblically uneducated Nigerian are, going by the above published article of mr. Gene as tagged “the spirit of sudan”. How can this fake prophet be as existed every. Why should u be afraid of war and the boko haram(mat 24:6) at this end times, when u are meant to be alerted just like pastor ayo oritsa jafor said and fight back and shed their bloods too, in reprisals. Else u shall be a victim of Jehovah's curse same as that declared in (mat 23:29)
Pls be noteful and do not be an antichrist as Jesus the prince of peace has declared in (mat 23:39) when ye shall never see me (peace)
again until ye say "barukka ba bishem adonai", which means blessed is he who comes in the name of the lord. At end times it shall be war all thru (mat 24:9-19)
So all the true prophets of Jehovah fought very well, so stand now, be ready and physically fight the uncircumsized. Do not cover up ur laziness with ur nonworking prayer and fasting. God bless u all

Anonymous said...

From Gideon Attah (editted)
13/1/12
Pls, it's quite unfortunate inferencing how biblically uneducated Nigerians are, going by the above published article of mr. Gene as tagged “the spirit of sudan”. How can this fake prophetik activity be as existed everywhere yet condoned?. Why should u propagate the notion inducing us to be afraid of war and the boko haram(mat 24:6) at this end times, when u are meant to be alerted? Why won't u even consider adopting the like proposition of the concept as presented by pastor ayo oritsa jafor, where he implied us to fight back when next and shed their bloods too same as ours were, all in reprisals? Else u shall be a victim of Jehovah's curse same as that declared in (mat 23:29)
Pls be noteful and do not be the antichrist - same as Jesus the 'prince of peace' admonished in the book of (mat 23:39) when said "ye shall never see me (peace)again until ye say 'barukka ba bishem adonai', which means blessed is he who comes in the name of the lord". At end times it shall be war all thru as indicated in (mat 24:9-19) where all the true prophets of Jehovah fought very well against the unbeliever community, so I instead urge u lazy bones to stand now, be readily fit and alerted to physically fight the uncircumsized disgruntles. Do not cover up ur laziness in pretence - thinkin the ur usual nonworking prayer and fasting woulld yield something. God bless u all

Anonymous said...

Thank you my brother, I see this as a wake up call to all christians in this nation. Enough is enough. Let's wake up from our sleep and pray hard, handing over this battle to God cos he said in his word the battle is not ours but his. He will not raise to fight like a man of war isah.42:13-16 when we are not handling the battle to him. Let's wake up and cry unto him and he will fight and save us like he did in 2cron.20

Anonymous said...

May GOD arise and let His enemies be scattered. Psalm 74, 86 and 89.

Anonymous said...

My brother may the good Lord bless you. Honestly, it is time for we christians to be alert. The spirit of sudan is really looking for where to dwell but by the mercies of our living God, it will not dwell in our nation in Jesus Name. Amen. Chrisrtians pls arise and pray that the anger of God will visit thses ishmaelites who hav refused to give his children rest.

Anonymous said...

The Body of Christ must be one. Are we one? As in zech 12:9-10, at this time when the Lord is ready to fight for us and destroy the one that wants to oppress us, we must ask for a spirit of grace and supplication, d kind he poured on David. David was a man of battle and still carried d spirit of prayer before battle. We must pray as one body.
David battled for the whole of Israel. Until he won the whole of Israel in battle, he didn't stop and d bible says he had d spirit of grace and supplication. Lers ask d Lord to stir up d spirit of intercession within us. Jesus will reign in Nigeria, the kingdoms of this world shall become the Kingdom of our God and His Christ. Shalom!

Anonymous said...

The Body of Christ must be one. Are we one? As in zech 12:9-10, at this time when the Lord is ready to fight for us and destroy the one that wants to oppress us, we must ask for a spirit of grace and supplication, d kind he poured on David. David was a man of battle and still carried d spirit of prayer before battle. We must pray as one body.
David battled for the whole of Israel. Until he won the whole of Israel in battle, he didn't stop and d bible says he had d spirit of grace and supplication. Lers ask d Lord to stir up d spirit of intercession within us. Jesus will reign in Nigeria, the kingdoms of this world shall become the Kingdom of our God and His Christ. Shalom!

Sanmi said...

IN TIMES PAST, IN THESE TIMES, IN THE TIMES TO COME; DARKNESS HAS NEVER, CAN NEVER AND WILL NEVER TRIUMPH OVER LIGHT SO LONG AS GOD IS ON THE THRONE... COURAGE MY BRETHREN, WE BATTLE ON WITH SPIRITUAL WEAPONS...

HO YE COMRADES,
SEE THE SIGNAL WAVING IN THE SKY, REINFORCEMENT NOW APPEARING VICTORY IS NIGH
HOLD THE FORTH FOR I AM COMING JESUS SIGNALS STILL
RAISE THE ANSWER BACK TO HEAVEN
BY THY GRACE WE WILL

Anonymous said...

He that has ear let him hear what the Spirit says to the church.

Anonymous said...

Mayowa Oyelola
May God frustrate the tokens of the wicked. May He twart their plans that their hands will not be able to perform their enterprise in NIGERIA. Arise O LORD and let Your enemies be scattered. Lift up your head O Nigeria that the King of glory will come in. The Lord strong and mighty, the Lord mighty in battle, the Lord of Host may com in.

Anonymous said...

@ Gideon Attah..pls speak as a Christian and not as a pagan. Ur talk is Old testament so I can guess ur denomination. Anyways, Peter in Matthew 26:50-53 made that mistake of physical defence and had to be corrected. U live by d sword, nd u die by it. D weapons of our warfare are not carnal 2 Corinthians 10:4-5. If you care to also look at Ephesians 6:12-18, u wld notice that d armour there is spiritual and d fighting is verse 18 "..praying with all supplication in the spirit.." U kill 10,000 Boko Haramists...d demons in them wld only look 4 another set of 100,000 to influence. You cast out d demon, then you preserve 10,000 men and lead them to Christ. Cheer up brethren, we are on the winning team. God bless Nigeria.