FIGHTING TERRORISM...THE ROLE OF THE CHURCH

How do we defeat a nebulous enemy who uses terror tactics against a nation?
Terrorists have a face; they are Boko Haram in Nigeria, they are Al Shabaab in Somalia, now targeting Kenya's populace, especially the Church gatherings, and Al Kaida....and all these three have a common source of inspiration...THE QURAN!

First we must begin at the beginning... when there is an outbreak of war against a nation, whereby the security of that nation was unable to foil the terror antics of the group, then the Church must seek for reasons from heaven!!

Remember Solomons case:

Solomon Kingdom was firmly established (1Kings 2:20)

But it is recorded:

As Solomon grew old, his wives turned his heart after other gods, and his heart was not fully devoted to the LORD his God, as the heart of David his father had been.
He followed Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, and Molech the detestable god of the Ammonites. So Solomon did evil in the eyes of the LORD; he did not follow the LORD completely, as David his father had done.
On a hill east a of Jerusalem, Solomon built a high place for Chemosh the detestable god of Moab, and for Molech the detestable god of the Ammonites.
He did the same for all his foreign wives, who burned incense and offered sacrifices to their gods.
The LORD became angry with Solomon because his heart had turned away from the LORD, the God of Israel, who had appeared to him twice.
Although he had forbidden Solomon to follow other gods, Solomon did not keep the LORD'S command.( 1 Kings 11:4-10)

When ever a nation is attacked by another, we must understand that there are underlying reasons and those reasons are not neccesarily from the perspective of human offence....

it is written in the scripures...

"Then the LORD raised up against Solomon an adversary, Hadad the Edomite, from the royal line of Edom." (1Kings 11:14)

" And GOD raised up against Solomon another adversary, Rezon son of Eliada, who had fled from his master, Hadadezer king of Zobah." ( 1 Kings 11:23)

"Also, Jeroboam son of Nebat rebelled against the king. He was one of Solomon’s officials, an Ephraimite from Zeredah, and his mother was a widow named Zeruah."(1Kings 11:26)

The LORD raised these adversaries against Solomon because of the idolatry in the land...

WHAT ARE THE GOD'S IN KENYA?

a) KAYA practices of the occcupants of our coastal region....
b) ISLAM that prevails and has been allowed to permeate even the very constitution of our land
c) ANCESTRAL WORSHIP that affects all the 42 tribes in the land
d) FREEMASONRY the worship of a convoluted god called jabulon...
e) WITCHCRAFT especially borrowed from some of our neigboring countries
f) CELEB IDOLATRY the odoration and veneration of celebrities, we stalk them , we idolize them we immitate them....
g) HINDUISM.the over 3 million gods that are worshipped
h) MARYOLOGY...the worship and veneration of Mary the mother of Jesus, a human being who has died.

and many many others. A nation that practices these implodes and begins to crack from within. because of the practice of Idolatry, Israel went into exile, the nations of Caanan, were almost annihilated by Israel at the command of God...


1. NINEVE TYPE REPENTANCE

In view of this what is GOD saying to the nation? before we can actually hear God, understand his will, and walk in it, the first thing we need is to set aside a national day of prayer AND REPENTANCE, which is the NINEVE TYPE!!

EVERYBODY, from the least to the greatest ought to be involved! in sackcloth and ashes...that day must involve fasting, for we have allowed the nation to be filled with idolatry from one end of the nation to the other...therefore THE LORD has removed our protection from all enemies foreign and domestic.

2. REMOVE THE ALTARS



After that stage when we have repented and renounced our sins as a nation we must look to the nation and REMOVE ALL THE IDOLS IN THE LAND. Just as in the days of Josiah KinG OF Judah who actually destroyed the two calfs erected by Jeroboam son of Nebat

It is written....

" this is what you are to do to them: break down their altars, smash their sacred stones, cut down their ashera poles and burn their idols in the fire..." (Deuteronomy 7:5)

there must be no idol in the land.

3. CRY OUT TO GOD

we need to cry out to God for his deliverance. In the book of Judges, we see an interesting pattern; whenever Israel sinned against GOD, he would hand them over to their enemies to be enslaved and oppressed. When Israel cried out to God he would send them a deliverer. it is almost like clockwork...observe...

The Israelites did evil in the eyes of the LORD; they forgot the LORD their God and served the Baals and the Asherahs.
The anger of the LORD burned against Israel so that he sold them into the hands of Cushan-Rishathaim king of Aram Naharaim, to whom the Israelites were subject for eight years.
Jdg 3:9 But when they cried out to the LORD, he raised up for them a deliverer, Othniel son of Kenaz, Caleb’s younger brother, who saved them.(Judges 3:7-9)


Once again the Israelites did evil in the eyes of the LORD, and because they did this evil the LORD gave Eglon king of Moab power over Israel.
Getting the Ammonites and Amalekites to join him, Eglon came and attacked Israel, and they took possession of the City of Palms.
The Israelites were subject to Eglon king of Moab for eighteen years.
Again the Israelites cried out to the LORD, and he gave them a deliverer —Ehud, a left-handed man, the son of Gera the Benjamite (Judges 3:12-15)


After Ehud died, the Israelites once again did evil in the eyes of the LORD.
So the LORD sold them into the hands of Jabin, a king of Canaan, who reigned in Hazor. The commander of his army was Sisera, who lived in Harosheth Haggoyim.
Because he had nine hundred iron chariots and had cruelly oppressed the Israelites for twenty years, they cried to the LORD for help.
Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lappidoth, was leading 18 Israel at that time (Judges 4:1-4)

they did evil
he handed them over to their evemies
the cried out to God
He raised for them a deliverer.

So we need to cry out to God, to seek his favor, to invoke his name, to repent, confess, turn away...

4. SEEK TO ENGAGE IN SPIRITUAL WARFARE

Ask God to raise up Elishas, those who God has given the gift of sight, to see what the enemies of the Country are doing...spiritual intelligence gathering; and I want now to introduce weapons of God...

The weapons of God are placed securely in His arsenal..did you know that God has an arsenal of weapons?
did you know that these weapons are available to us as we pray and seek to battle spiritually??

It is written....: " The Lord has opened his ARSENAL and brought out the WEAPONS of his wrath" (Jer 50:25a)

So what weapons of his arsenal are available to us??

1. TERROR...

It is written...." Then they set out, and the TERROR OF GOD fell upon the towns all around them so that no one pursued them." (Gen 35:5) NIV

It is also written..... “I will send MY TERROR ahead of you and throw into confusion every nation you encounter. I will make all your enemies turn their backs and run. (Ex 23:27) NIV

So terror is one of the weapons in God's arsenal so that when you are confronted by enemies too strong for you; pray this prayer with dilligence...

" Dear Lord ...send your TERROR against my enemies, that they may not pursue me in Jesus name AAAMEN.........!!!"

2. CONFUSION

It is written.... "But the LORD your God will deliver them over to you, throwing them into great CONFUSION until they are destroyed. j( Deut 7:23) NIV

It is also written....."The LORD threw them into CONFUSION before Israel, who defeated them in a great victory at Gibeon.Israel pursued them along the road going up to Beth Horon and cut them down all the way to Azekah and Makkedah.(JOSHUA 10:10) NIV

It is also written..." Then Saul and all his men assembled and went to the battle. They found the Philistines in TOTAL CONFUSION, striking each other with their swords (1SAM 14:20) NIV

In spiritual warfare we need to recognize that God can cause confusion to hit a whole army, so that they either destroy themselves, or run away. so that one of the weapons of warfare is confusion, and this is how to pray...

" Dear LORD...SEND MY ENEMIES, (AND YOUR ENEMIES) into total confusion, so that they may no longer be organised enough to wage war against your servant/s in Jesus name AAAMEN!!!!

3. AMBUSHES



It is written ....... "As they began to sing and praise, the LORD set AMBUSHES d against the men of Ammon and Moab and Mount Seir who were invading Judah, and they were defeated.The men of Ammon and Moab rose up against the men from Mount Seir to destroy and annihilate them. After they finished slaughtering the men from Seir, they helped to destroy one another. When the men of Judah came to the place that overlooks the desert and looked toward the vast army, they saw only dead bodies lying on the ground; no one had escaped." ( 2 CHRONICLES 20:22-24) NIV

This is how to pray sl that it happens

" Dear Lord set ambushes against my enemies so that none escapes in Jesus name AAAMEN.


THEN THERE ARE THE NATURAL WEAPONS THE WEATHER, THE ANIMALS.
There are the locusts,(Joel) the hornets(Josh 24:12), the lions,(2Kings 17:25) and other animals

The weather is also used by God....Hail(Ex 9:22) storms (Zech 9:14), fire (lev 10:2)(psalms 18:8) and so on....

then God also raises WARRIORS... them of David's calibre, those either who have technological skill in inventions, or fighting skill, such as Davids mighty men who are able to destroy 1000 men in a single rout (1 Chronicles 12:14) or most important SPIRITUAL WARRIORS.... those who know that the most important battles are won by prayer, praise , intecession....in the heavenly placs.


Therefore warriors, from all walks of life, the battle has come to Kenya, we are being bombarded by grenades, by Satanic forces of death, by terror, panic, in Nigeria, the battle has gone physical.....we must arise, we must pick up the war chest and begin to battle remembering these words.....

he gives victory to the upright and confounds the wicked


BE UPRIGHT

GADAR