Rev. Dr. A. A. Obe (JP)
February 11, 2024
AND THIS SHALL NOT BE MY PORTION
TEXT: Mark 5:1-43; John 8:36
Introduction:
Life issues and challenges happen to everyone. Your understanding on how to tackle them will determine your successes and exploits. You have to reject what you don’t want.
What shall not be your portion:
1. Untimely death
2. Dying before your day of joy
3. Losing family members less than five years of parents passing on. (Death)
4. Wife or husband dying untimely few years or immediately after marriage.
5. Contracting incurable sickness or sickness after marriage leading to waste spending.
6. Inherited setback or bad-luck from family blood line.
7. Inherited limitations from family blood line.
8. Inherited predicament from your family blood line (barrenness, poverty, divorce saga etc.)
9. Untimely death of people that could have helped you in life.
10. Lack of longevity.
11. Burying of your children with your hand.
Causes of the above mentioned issues:
1. Grandparents or parents covenanting with the devil in the past.
2. Altar supposedly raised with deity for family blood line protection.
3. Blood covenant with some unseen powers.
4. Grandparents or parents’ evil past. (Wickedness, law of Karma)
5. Curses from the past: parents, servants, slaves or any one offended by your family blood line.
6. Family enemy(s) curses that have now become hereditary.
7. Unknown curses (Egun aimodi)
Conclusion:
Prayers…