The man of God responded and said ‘well, I don’t know where I was, but one thing I know is this: in the beginning was the word, and the word was with God, and the word was God, all things were made by Him, without Him was nothing made that was made’. Immediately he made that pronouncement (the word of God), this thing tumbled back into the water, and there was blood all over the water. That was when the power of God could move in their midst.

This is why I want to pray one prayer now, it’s a very mysterious story, but is telling you something interesting; that a particular principality can be an umbrella over an area, even over a nation, and the rain of blessing will not fall on them. A particular individual, can be an umbrella to stop your blessing over your head. The Bible says ‘in the year that king Uzziah died, then I saw the Lord’. Meaning that, that Uzziah has been the one that is blocking the man from seeing God.

* I am praying for somebody here, any satanic umbrella, blocking you from your rain of blessing; with a 21 fold ‘Amen’, destroy them in the name of Jesus!

That was the story of the great apostle. Let me tell you something that happened in the first church that I pastored.

We were very few, so I was forcing them to memorize the Bible. I was even embarrassing some of them, whether you’re mama or baba (an elderly man or woman), you did not do your memory verse and scripture memorization, we will ask them to stand up. This was what saved the life of one sister. If I had not taught them to do that, only God knows what would have happened to that sister.

She was a maternity nurse. A girl was admitted to the hospital, that young girl got pregnant and she was admitted. During her night ward, moving about, she found that this lady who was brought in for delivery, the stomach was now flat. So the maternity nurse was shocked, and the lady was fast asleep. So the nurse shook her up, and said “what! You’re a pregnant woman, and you came here to deliver, where is the baby”?

The pregnant lady responded and said “mama, calm down, relax, the baby has gone for a meeting and she will be coming back in one hour. So, nurse, come back in one hour”. The maternity nurse was scared, and within one hour, the baby was back, the tummy was back again. The maternity nurse began to pray that “let this girl just give birth and leave my hospital, how many people will I tell this”. So, she began prayer, until this baby was delivered.

Then, she (the maternity nurse) was not sleeping, she was in her office. A giant creature came in, and confronted her, and said “you, you caused her to deliver the baby here, something we don’t want you to do, you’re in trouble”. And the demon started incantations. And she said, as the thing was talking and making incantation, she started getting weaker and weaker.

All of a sudden, she remembered one of memory verses that I made them to learn. It says ‘associate yourself oh ye people, and ye shall be scattered, take counsel together and it shall come to nought, speak the word and it shall not stand, for God is with me’. Immediately she mentioned the scriptures, this giant creature fell down, and disappeared.

Beloved, the word of God is quick and powerful. You’re not doing yourself any good at all, when you wake up and leave your house without reading the Bible. You’re not doing yourself any good at all, when you’ve been born again for one year, two years, and you cannot read 20 memory verses.

You see, when you memorize the Bible, you’re storing it in your spiritual bank. So, if war is waged against you, you have your own in quote, “incantation”, and there is no incantation, there is no magic, there is nothing anybody can say that can overcome the word of God.

Unfortunately, the church is filled with a lot of biblical illiterates. They are too lazy to read the Bible, too lazy to memorize, too lazy to meditate. They do not understand what Joshua 1:8 is saying.