THE MEANING OF THE WORD ENEMY

  • A person who is actively opposed to someone
  • A foe
  • An adversary
  • An opponent
  • A rival
  • An antagonist
  • A person who feels hatred for another
  • A person who fosters harmful designs against another
  • A person who engages in antagonistic activities against another
  • An unfriendly person
  • An attacker
  • A hater

 EXHORTATION

  1. WHEN DO THE ENEMIES RAGE AGAINST YOU
  • Psalm 2 v 1 – 9

v.1 “Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?”

v.2 “The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against his anointed, saying,”

v.3 “Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us.”      

v.4 “He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision.”

v.5 “Then shall he speak unto them in his wrath, and vex them in his sore displeasure.”

v.6 “Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion.”

v.7 “I will declare the decree: the LORD hath said unto me, Thou art my Son; this day have I begotten thee.”

v.8 “Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession.”

v.9 “Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter’s vessel.”

 The enemies rage against you:

  1. When you are about doing well in life.
  2. When your settlement is to be concluded
  3. When you are about moving to your next level.
  4. When your Testimonies are very sure.
  5. When you are moving from minimum to Maximum.
  6. When you are about being promoted.
  7. When your elevation is imminent.
  8. When your Help is so near.
  9. When you are at the edge of destiny changing breakthrough.
  10. When the prophetic agenda for your life is about manifesting.
  11. When that repeated yoke is about broken.
  12. When you are about escaping from the snare of the fowlers.
  13. When God is about turning again your captivity.
  14. When your international doors are about to open.
  15. When you are about securing your Visa or permanent residency.
  16. When your life is about making positive History.
  17. When you have a colourful destiny
  18. When you are dangerous to them in the dark kingdom.
  19. When you are about celebrating big time.
  20. When you are about having explosive testimonies.
  21. When you are ready to cross your red sea, your Jericho to the promised Land.
  22. When you are so determined to succeed in life.
  23. When you refuse to take “No for an answer”
  24. When the strongman behind your case is about to the disgraced by God.
  25. When the enemies defeat is imminent and near.
  26. When God announces that it is your time the manifest Glory globally. 
  1. CHARACTERISTICS OF THE ENEMIES
  • Psalm 41 v 5

“Mine enemies speak evil of me, When shall he die, and his name perish?”

  • 2 Sam. 22 v 4

“I will call on the LORD, who is worthy to be praised: so shall I be saved from mine enemies.”

  • Psalm 7 v 6

“Arise, O LORD, in thine anger, lift up thyself because of the rage of mine enemies: and awake for me to the judgment that thou hast commanded.”

  • Psalm 42 v 10

“As with a sword in my bones, mine enemies reproach me; while they say daily unto me, Where is thy God?”

  1. They are tools in the hand of Satan
  2. They are dark ambassadors
  3. They don’t forgive
  4. They fight restlessly
  5. They may be very close to you (Matthew 10 v 36)
  6. They plan evil ceaselessly
  7. They are very determined to do evil
  8. They do evil to gain promotion in the spirit realm
  9. They are very merciless and harmful
  10. They hide to perpetuate evil
  11. They always imagine evil, mischiefs
  12. They are very deadly and extremely wicked
  13. They don’t give up very easily
  14. They are under evil oath, evil authority, evil command
  15. They have been given targets
  16. They have been promised rewards and promotion
  17. They have been fortified by sorceries
  18. They rejoice in doing evil
  19. They are very daring and brutal
  20. They are spiritual archers and wasters
  21. They rejoice at people’s downfall/misfortunes
  22. They only bow to the name of Jesus. 2 v 9 – 10
  1. WHEN DO THE ENEMIES REJOICE?
  • Micah 7 v 8

“Rejoice not against me, O mine enemy: when I fall, I shall arise; when I sit in darkness, the LORD shall be a light unto me.”

  1. When you are not happy.
  2. When you cannot pray.
  3. When you lack good things.
  4. When you are not Fruitful.
  5. When you are experiencing any form of delay.
  6. When there are oppositions.
  7. When you are
  8. When you lack helps and helpers.
  9. When you are not passing examinations and not succeeding in interviews.
  10. When you do well in interviews but not selected.
  11. When your marriage is failing.
  12. When your life is unproductive.
  13. When you are stranded in the journey of life.
  14. When you have nothing to show for your existence.
  15. When you have overstayed on an affliction.
  16. When you are lonely.
  17. When you are frustrated.
  18. When you are disappointed.
  19. When you are depressed.
  20. When nothing works in your favour.
  21. When you fail at the edge of success.
  22. When to settle down maritally is futile.
  23. When your business is unproductive.
  24. When you are overstaying too long in an affliction
  25. When you cannot complete your projects
  26. When serial attacks take over your life.
  1. THE ENEMIES WILL NOT REJOICE OVER YOU
  • Micah 7 v 7 & 8

v.7“Therefore I will look unto the LORD; I will wait for the God of my salvation: my God will hear me.”

v.8 “Rejoice not against me, O mine enemy: when I fall, I shall arise; when I sit in darkness, the LORD shall be a light unto me.”

  • Psalm 30 v 1

“I will extol thee, O LORD; for thou hast lifted me up, and hast not made my foes to rejoice over me.”

  • Psalm 35 v 19 & 20

NLT

v.19“Don’t let my treacherous enemies rejoice over my defeat. Don’t let those who hate me without cause gloat over my sorrow.”

v.20  “They don’t talk of peace; they plot against innocent people who mind their own business.”

 MSG

v.19 “Don’t let these liars, my enemies, have a party at my expense, Those who hate me for no reason, winking and rolling their eyes.”

v.20 “No good is going to come from that crowd; They spend all their time cooking up gossip against those who mind their own business.”

  1. GOD WILL DELIVER YOU FROM THE HANDS OF YOUR ENEMIES
  • Psalm 31 v 15

“My times are in thy hand: deliver me from the hand of mine enemies, and from them that persecute me.”

  • Psalm 18 v 17 – 19

v.17 “He delivered me from my strong enemy, and from them which hated me: for they were too strong for me.”

v.18 “They prevented me in the day of my calamity: but the LORD was my stay.”

v.19 “He brought me forth also into a large place; he delivered me, because he delighted in me.”

  • Psalm 61 v 3

“For thou hast been a shelter for me, and a strong tower from the enemy.”

  1. GOD WILL CLOTH THE ENEMIES WITH SHAME
  • Psalm 35 v 25 – 26

v.25 “Let them not say in their hearts, Ah, so would we have it: let them not say, We have swallowed him up.”

v.26 “Let them be ashamed and brought to confusion together that rejoice at mine hurt: let them be clothed with shame and dishonour that magnify themselves against me.”

  • Jeremiah 20 v 11

“But the LORD is with me as a mighty terrible one: therefore my persecutors shall stumble, and they shall not prevail: they shall be greatly ashamed; for they shall not prosper: their everlasting confusion shall never be forgotten.”

  • Job 8 v 22

“They that hate thee shall be clothed with shame; and the dwelling place of the wicked shall come to nought.”

  • Psalm 109 v 29

“Let mine adversaries be clothed with shame, and let them cover themselves with their own confusion, as with a mantle.”

  1. GOD WILL DISAPPOINT THE ENEMIES’ DEVICES
  • Job 5 v 12

“He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise.”

  • Psalm 33 v 10

“The LORD bringeth the counsel of the heathen to nought: he maketh the devices of the people of none effect.”

  • Proverbs 1 v 31

“Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.”

  • Proverb 12 v 2

“A good man obtaineth favour of the LORD: but a man of wicked devices will he condemn.”

  1. GOD WILL SCATTER THE ENEMIES GATHERED AGAINST YOU
  • Psalm 68 v 1

“Let God arise, let his enemies be scattered: let them also that hate him flee before him.”

  • Psalm 92 v 9

“For, lo, thine enemies, O LORD, for, lo, thine enemies shall perish; all the workers of iniquity shall be scattered.”

  • Numbers 10 v 35

“And it came to pass, when the ark set forward, that Moses said, Rise up, LORD, and let thine enemies be scattered; and let them that hate thee flee before thee.”

  1. GOD WILL CUT SHORT THE TRIUMPHING OF THE WICKED OVER YOUR LIFE
  • Job 20 v 5

“That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment?”

  • Psalm 7 v 9

“Oh let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end; but establish the just: for the righteous God trieth the hearts and reins.”

  • Psalm 10 v 15

“Break thou the arm of the wicked and the evil man: seek out his wickedness till thou find none.”

  • Proverbs 11 v 5

“The righteousness of the perfect shall direct his way: but the wicked shall fall by his own wickedness.”

  • Proverbs 21 v 12

“The righteous man wisely considereth the house of the wicked: but God overthroweth the wicked for their wickedness.”

  1. GOD WILL BE AN ENEMY TO YOUR ENEMIES
  • Exodus 23 v 22

“But if thou shalt indeed obey his voice, and do all that I speak; then I will be an enemy unto thine enemies, and an adversary unto thine adversaries.”

  • Deut 28 v 7

“The LORD shall cause thine enemies that rise up against thee to be smitten before thy face: they shall come out against thee one way, and flee before thee seven ways.”

  • Luke 20 v 42 & 43

v.42 “And David himself saith in the book of Psalms, The LORD said unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand”

 v.43 “Till I make thine enemies thy footstool.”

  • Psalm 27 v 2

“When the wicked, even mine enemies and my foes, came upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell.”

  1. KNOW THAT GOD IS A MAN OF WAR
  • Exodus 15 v 3

“The LORD is a man of war: the LORD is his name.”

  • Psalm 32 v 7

“Thou art my hiding place; thou shalt preserve me from trouble; thou shalt compass me about with songs of deliverance.”

  • Psalm 10 v 15

“Break thou the arm of the wicked and the evil man: seek out his wickedness till thou find none.”

  • Proverbs 16 v 7

“When a man’s ways please the LORD, he maketh even his enemies to be at peace with him.”

12.BIBLICAL CASES

  1. SAMSON
  • Judges 16 v 30

“And Samson said, Let me die with the Philistines. And he bowed himself with all his might; and the house fell upon the lords, and upon all the people that were therein. So the dead which he slew at his death were more than they which he slew in his life.”

  • The enemies rejoiced over him because of his carelessness with Delilah, disobedience to the norms of God, prayerlessness and foolish jesting.
  • Eph 5 v 4

“Neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not convenient: but rather giving of thanks.”

  • May the enemies not rejoice over you in Jesus name.
  1. HANNAH
  • 1 Sam. 2 v 1

“And Hannah prayed, and said, My heart rejoiceth in the LORD, mine horn is exalted in the LORD: my mouth is enlarged over mine enemies; because I rejoice in thy salvation.”

  • The enemies did not rejoice over Hannah because she sought the face of God, prayed, trusted God, made a vow despite the mockery around her. She rejoiced over her enemies and mockers. You will rejoice over your mockers in Jesus name.
  • Psalms 118 v 15

“The voice of rejoicing and salvation is in the tabernacles of the righteous: the right hand of the LORD doeth valiantly.”

  1. BLIND BARTIMAEUS
  • Mark 10 v 46 – 55
  • He rejoiced at last over those opposing voices at the edge of his miracle/breakthrough.
  • Job 8 v 20 & 21

          v.20 “This gate of the LORD, into which the righteous shall enter.”

v.21 “I will praise thee: for thou hast heard me, and art become my salvation.”

  1. DANIEL
  • Daniel 6 v 16 – 23

v.16 “Then the king commanded, and they brought Daniel, and cast him into the den of lions. Now the king spake and said unto Daniel, Thy God whom thou servest continually, he will deliver thee.”

v.17 “And a stone was brought, and laid upon the mouth of the den; and the king sealed it with his own signet, and with the signet of his lords; that the purpose might not be changed concerning Daniel.”

v.18 “Then the king went to his palace, and passed the night fasting: neither were instruments of musick brought before him: and his sleep went from him.”

v.19 “Then the king arose very early in the morning, and went in haste unto the den of lions.”

v.20 “And when he came to the den, he cried with a lamentable voice unto Daniel: and the king spake and said to Daniel, O Daniel, servant of the living God, is thy God, whom thou servest continually, able to deliver thee from the lions?”

v.21 “Then said Daniel unto the king, O king, live for ever.”

v.22 “My God hath sent his angel, and hath shut the lions’ mouths, that they have not hurt me: forasmuch as before him innocency was found in me; and also before thee, O king, have I done no hurt.”

v.23 “Then was the king exceeding glad for him, and commanded that they should take Daniel up out of the den. So Daniel was taken up out of the den, and no manner of hurt was found upon him, because he believed in his God.”

  • God did not allow the enemies to rejoice over Daniel in the Lion’s den.

13.SATANIC LAWS THAT MUST BE NULLIFIED BY THE BLOOD OF JESUS

Below are some satanic laws motivating dark emissaries to execute evil globally.  Enemies of progress are mandatorily bound by these laws in order to execute assignments given.

  • John 10 v 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.”

  • No forgiveness, mercy, Kindness
  • Compulsorily steal, kill, destroy
  • All curses must be enforced
  • All assignments must be implemented
  • The maturity dates of all covenants must not be missed
  • Strike first at anything good and strike hard
  • Offer destructive assistance when required
  • If one weapon fails, try another
  • Prevent Salvation
  • Withdraw power of prayer and fasting.

 God’s words are to be engaged in obliterating them completely

  • Col 2 v 14 & 15

v.14 “Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross;”

v.15 “And having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it.”

  • Isaiah 10 v 1

“Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and that write grievousness which they have prescribed;”

  • 2 Cor. 10 v 3 – 6

v.3 “For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh:”

v.4 “For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds”

 v.5 “Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;

 v.6 “And having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled.

  • Isaiah 8 v 9 & 10

v.9 “Associate yourselves, O ye people, and ye shall be broken in pieces; and give ear, all ye of far countries: gird yourselves, and ye shall be broken in pieces; gird yourselves, and ye shall be broken in pieces.”

v.10 “Take counsel together, and it shall come to nought; speak the word, and it shall not stand: for God is with us.”

  1. HOW TO DEFEAT THE ENEMIES’ REJOICING
  2. Salvation –        John 3 v 3;  3 v 20
  3. Live a consecrated life –        Romans 6 v 1&2;  2 Cor. 7 v 1
  4. Meditate & Confess the word of God –        14 v 28;  Joshua 1 v 8
  5. Enforcing your Calvary rights –        2 Cor. 5 v 17
  6. Avoid Worldliness           –        James 4 v 4;  1 John 2 v 15&16
  7. Don’t keep satanic materials –        Joshua 7 v 13
  8. Be Prayerful –        Luke 18 v 1;  1 Thes. 5 v 17
  9. Obey the Principles of God –        28 v 1
  10. CASES
  11. Serial attacks on all sides.
  12. It seems as if the enemies are gaining upper hand.
  13. You have lost your peace of mind completely.
  14. You are now an object of mockery and shame
  15. There are lot of haters and mockers around you.
  16. Your God is being challenged.
  17. Your case is causing you a serious embarrassment.
  18. You want God to arise on your behalf.
  19. Your mind is generally troubled.
  20. You are now a shadow of yourself.

PRAYERS

Song: Let my God arise

Let my God arise, to come and help me

They are waiting for my reproach o

Let my God arise.

  • Ps. 68 v 1

“Let God arise, let his enemies be scattered: let them also that hate him flee before him.”

  • Ps. 92 v 9

“For, lo, thine enemies, O LORD, for, lo, thine enemies shall perish; all the workers of iniquity shall be scattered.”

  1. Thank God for the past victories in your life, home and endeavour.
  2. Plead the blood of Jesus over your life, home and endeavour.
  3. I command the rage of the enemies in my life, home and endeavour to be terminated in Jesus name.
  4. I command the root cause of this satanic rejoicing in my life to dry up in Jesus name.
  5. Adversaries blocking my progress, be paralysed in Jesus name.
  6. Challenges in my life, home and endeavour, receive divine intervention now in Jesus name.
  7. I command the joy of the enemies over my life, to be cut short in Jesus name.
  8. My life, reject satanic rejoicing in Jesus name.
  9. My Home, reject satanic rejoicing in Jesus name.
  10. My Health, reject satanic rejoicing in Jesus name.
  11. My Family, reject satanic rejoicing in Jesus name.
  12. My Work, reject satanic rejoicing in Jesus name.
  13. My Finances, reject satanic rejoicing in Jesus name.
  14. My Life, my home, my endeavour, reject mockery and evil laughter in Jesus name.
  15. I command the wickedness of the wicked to come to an end in my life, and domain in Jesus name.
  16. I command the plans of the enemies over my life/home/endeavour to be aborted in Jesus name.
  17. O! Lord my father, arise in your power, defend and deliver me in all areas in Jesus name.
  18. Jehovah, the man of war, fight my battles for me in Jesus name.
  19. Weapons of darkness formed against me shall not prosper in Jesus name.
  20. I will rejoice over the adversaries in Jesus name.
  21. I declare that Calvary Victory is my inheritance in the name of Jesus.
  22. I am unstoppable in Jesus name.

JESUS IS LORD

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