Breaking The Cloud Of Darkness
By
The Man Who Saw God Face To Face
Raphael Okechukwu Nweze
Who Are The Evil Spirits?
The evil spirits include demons mermaids,
ghosts, witches and black energies. All these are known as forces of darkness,
and as principalities and powers.
They Come In The Midst Of
Children Of God
Whenever
the children of God gather for prayers or worship, the evil spirits also come.
This happened to Job.
Now
there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the
LORD, and Satan also came among them. 7 And the LORD said to Satan,
"From where do you come?"
So
Satan answered the LORD and said, "From going to and fro on the earth, and
from walking back and forth on it." Job 1:6-7
What The Evil Spirits Do
When the evil spirits come, they cover
the entire venue environment or horizon with cloud of darkness. The darkness
prevents the prayers of the saints from ascending to the throne of God. Also,
the darkness makes those present weak in spirit, cause distractions and
distress, and create false messages - visions, trances, etc, that are not from
God.
Therefore, it is necessary for people to
pray hard and sing praises before ministering to the people. The prayer and
praises open the windows of Heaven for the Holy Spirit to flow down. Then,
Angels of God can descend and ascend to minister to the children of men. Again,
the Consuming Fire of the Holy Spirit burns the evil spirits, sends them flee
away from the venue.
Moses had a frequent encounter of the
forces of darkness and he knew how wicked and terrible they are. Fortunately,
he had a way of defeating them. All Moses usually did was to call on God to
scatter and defeat the enemies. Moses did this just by saying or chanting,
35 So
it was, whenever the ark set out, that Moses said:
"Rise up, O LORD!
Let Your enemies be scattered ,
And let those who hate You flee
before You."
36 And
when it rested, he said:
"Return, O LORD,
To the many thousands of
Numbers
10:35-11:1
In the wilderness, God did not leave the people
of Israel like orphans. The pillar of light and pillar of cloud were always
present to lead, to protect and to defend the Israelites against the forces of
darkness.
21 And
the LORD went before them by day in a pillar of cloud to lead the way, and by
night in a pillar of fire to give them light, so as to go by day and night. 22 He
did not take away the pillar of cloud by day or the pillar of fire by night
from before the people.
Exodus
13:21-22
The pillar of cloud or pillar of light
was an Angel of God leading the way for the Israelites in the wilderness. The
Israelites were seeing the Angel as the light or cloud because the Israelites
were not spiritually awake, enlightened and experienced. A spiritually
developed saint would have seen the Guardian Angel clearly in its real form,
even face to face.
How To Break The Cloud Of
Darkness
1. Do what Moses usually did, by
praying or singing,
"Rise up, O LORD!
Let Your enemies be scattered ,
And let those who hate You flee
before You."
2. Sound the trumpet to call down
God as the Lord of Hosts.
The trumpet signifies victory from God. Joshua and Israelites
soldiers pulled down the wall of Jericho, just by blowing trumpet, after
marching round Jericho.
20 So the people shouted
when the priests blew the trumpets. And it happened when the people heard the
sound of the trumpet , and the people shouted with a great shout, that the wall
fell down flat. Then the people went up into the city, every man straight
before him, and they took the city. 21 And they utterly destroyed all that was
in the city, both man and woman, young and old, ox and sheep and donkey, with
the edge of the sword.
Joshua 6:20-21
16 Then it came to pass on
the third day, in the morning, that there were thunderings and lightnings, and
a thick cloud on the mountain; and the sound of the trumpet was very loud, so
that all the people who were in the camp trembled. 17 And Moses brought
the people out of the camp to meet with God, and they stood at the foot of the
mountain. 18 Now
3.
Light seven candles, which signify the Pillar of
Fire and Pillar of Cloud.
The
seven-candle light means omnipotence, omniscience and omnipresence. It
activates the victorious powers of God for His children. The candle light
signifies the presence of God, who is omniscient and omnipresent.
"And you shall command
the children of Israel that they bring you pure oil of pressed olives for the
light, to cause the lamp to burn continually. 21 In the tabernacle of meeting,
outside the veil which is before the Testimony, Aaron and his sons shall tend it
from evening until morning before the LORD. It shall be a statute forever to
their generations on behalf of the children of Israel.
Exodus 27:20-21
4.
Ensure holiness by purification.
For
details, see Purification
Before Worship.
5.
Sing praises to God.
Jehoshaphat demonstrated the importance of
singing praises in the Israelites’
war against their enemies,
20 So
they rose early in the morning and went out into the Wilderness of Tekoa; and
as they went out, Jehoshaphat stood and said, "Hear me, O Judah and you inhabitants
of
"Praise
the LORD,
For His
mercy endures forever."
22 Now
when they began to sing and to praise, the LORD set ambushes against the people
of Ammon, Moab, and Mount Seir, who had come against Judah; and they were
defeated. 23 For the people of Ammon and Moab stood up against the inhabitants
of Mount Seir to utterly kill and destroy them. And when they had made an end
of the inhabitants of Seir, they helped to destroy one another.
24 So
when
6. Consult God and obey the
directives of the Holy Spirit.
David demonstrated the importance of consulting God, in
every aspect of human life.
7 Then David said to
Abiathar the priest, Ahimelech's son, "Please bring the ephod here to
me." And Abiathar brought the ephod to David. 8 So David inquired of the LORD,
saying, "Shall I pursue this troop? Shall I overtake them?"
And He answered him, "Pursue, for
you shall surely overtake them and without fail recover all." 1 Samuel 30:7-8
22 Then the Philistines went
up once again and deployed themselves in the Valley of Rephaim. 23 Therefore
David inquired of the LORD, and He said, "You shall not go up; circle
around behind them, and come upon them in front of the mulberry trees. 24 And
it shall be, when you hear the sound of marching in the tops of the mulberry
trees, then you shall advance quickly. For then the LORD will go out before you
to strike the camp of the Philistines." 25 And David did so, as the LORD
commanded him; and he drove back the Philistines from Geba as far as
2 Samuel 5:22-25
7. Use the Psalms of the Holy
Spirit
I will
love You, O LORD, my strength.
2 The LORD is my rock and my
fortress and my deliverer;
My God, my strength, in whom I
will trust;
My shield and the horn of my
salvation, my stronghold.
3 I will call upon the LORD,
who is worthy to be praised;
So shall I be saved from my
enemies.
Psalms
18:1-3
37 I
have pursued my enemies and overtaken them;
Neither
did I turn back again till they were destroyed.
38 I
have wounded them,
So that
they could not rise;
They
have fallen under my feet.
39 For You have armed me with strength
for the battle;
You have subdued under me those
who rose up against me.
40 You
have also given me the necks of my enemies,
So that
I destroyed those who hated me.
41 They
cried out, but there was none to save;
Even to
the LORD, but He did not answer them.
42 Then
I beat them as fine as the dust before the wind;
I cast
them out like dirt in the streets.
Psalms
18:37-42
8. Spraying Consuming Fire on the
environment.
The evil spirits cannot withstand the Consuming Fire of the
Holy Spirit. the Bible has examples for people to learn from.
24 Then the LORD rained brimstone and
fire on
The
book of Revelation gives an example:
7 Now when the thousand
years have expired, Satan will be released from his prison 8 and will go out to
deceive the nations which are in the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog,
to gather them together to battle, whose number is as the sand of the sea. 9
They went up on the breadth of the earth and surrounded the camp of the saints
and the beloved city. And fire came down from God out of heaven
and devoured them. 10 The devil, who deceived them, was cast into the
lake of fire and brimstone where the beast and the false prophet are. And they
will be tormented day and night forever and ever.
Revelation 20:7-10
