Prayer is communication with the supernatural and spiritual realms, depending on which positive or negative realms of God Almighty or Satan you occupy here in the natural physical world. Those who worship Satan and his fallen angels called gods and goddesses communicate with these fallen angels in the supernatural realm via prayers such as using candles, incenses, animal sacrifices, astrological gadgets etc all decried by the True Lord God Almighty thusy: “The multitude of your sacrifices- what are they to me?” says the LORD. “I have more than enough of burnt offerings, of rams and the fat of fattened animals; I have no pleasure in the blood of bulls and lambs and goats” (Isaiah 1:11). As King David noted in Psalm 40:6: “Sacrifice and offering You did not desire, but my ears You have opened. Burnt offerings and sin offerings You did not require.” Similarly, Solomon pointed out in Proverbs 15:08; “The sacrifice of the wicked is detestable to the LORD, but the prayer of the upright is His delight.” Consequently, all forms of man-made religions and spiritual activities that lay premium on any other power except the Blood of our Lord Jesus Christ shed on the Cross of Calvary for the forgiveness of the sins of humanity is of zero-utility and lead to worshipping Satan deliberately or ignorantly. Here is the verdict: “And they -referring to those of us who have taken Jesus Christ as our Lord, Master and Savior and have the in-dwelling of the Holy Spirit and thus called Born-Again Christians-overcame him -referring to Satan here-by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death” (Rev. 22:1).
Satan and his fiendish forces knew the potent and stratospheric power in the Blood of our Lord Jesus Christ and when a knowledgeable Born-Again Christian deploys that power and combine it with the authority in His Name, all forces of evil are defeated and completely routed. In order to checkmate this twin-power barrel of Jesus Name and His Blood, Satan has invented sorcery, which is the transfer of faith and trust in the Blood and His Word into man-made and tangible stuffs such as animal sacrifices, incenses, burning of candles, astrology, olive oil, bottled water, Ouija board, talisman, etc. How many times do we pray for a person in the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ and after the prayer, they ask, “Man of God, won’t you give me something to use so that the prayer can be answered?” I often wonder, what is more powerful than the Sovereign Name of my Lord, Master, and Savior Jesus Christ which I have just used? Can olive oil or bottled water be more reliable and powerful than the Name that “…God exalted him to the highest place and gave him the name that is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father” (Philippians 2:9-10). This is one of the fundamental reasons many prayers of believers to the True Lord God Almighty are unanswered. If your faith is tilted more to talisman, incenses, animal sacrifices, bottled water, olive oil, etc, and any human object that you can see, touch, feel and smell, such prayers are abominations to the Almighty God. Our faith is in the Word of God and His revealed will as handed down to us by the Holy Bible and our faith in His Sacrificial Death on the Cross for the forgiveness of our sins and His Resurrection three days later for our Justification, because “…without faith it is impossible to please God” (Hebrews 11:6). And if the Almighty God is not pleased with you in your communication with Him, He will not give you a feedback as answers to your requests or enquiries, needs, questions or communication.
The 3 ingredients of God-pleased and approved prayers
Every spirit, whether in the supernatural or spiritual realms wants to be worshipped. Satan and his fallen angels were kicked out of heaven, and they fell into the supernatural realm because they wanted to be worshipped. Even after their disgraceful fall from the spiritual to the supernatural dimension, they have not abandoned this utopian dream of being worshipped like their Maker. Lamentably, many human beings are worshipping these fallen angels today. The uses of incantations, festival celebrations, culture and traditions are some of the ways these fallen angels are being worshipped by many ignorant human beings on earth today. Our Lord Jesus Christ said as much in Mark 7: 6-8: “He replied, “Isaiah was right when he prophesied about you hypocrites as it is written: “‘These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me. They worship me in vain; their teachings are merely human rules. You have let go of the commands of God and are holding on to human traditions.” As I am putting this to bed journalese, a classic example of one of the traditions being celebrated as God’s command is Christmas. This insane and frenetic display of ostentation, gifts and bacchanal lifestyles have nothing, absolutely nothing to do with the Virgin Birth of our Lord, Master, and Savior Jesus Christ, but celebrations invented and taught by human rules in honor of the pagan demon-god known as Yule.
The True Lord God Almighty is a jealous God and has pronounced curses on any other spirit anywhere in any realm that wants to take His Honor, Power, and Glory for as He said openly in Isaiah 42:08: “I am the LORD; that is my name! I will not yield my glory to another or my praise to idols.” Apart from the primary needs of food, clothing, and shelter which the Almighty God promised us who have given our lives to Him as our Lord and Savior, Satan and the fallen angels have added three other things that struck at the Eyes of the Almighty God: power, honor and glory. These three things are what put many so-called men and women of God into trouble today in their ministries. I reiterate again, apart from our primary needs of food, clothing, and shelter which He guaranteed us in Matthew 6:25-34, we as His Own have no right to ask for any other things without forceful argument and justification on how that need will lead to the expansion of His Kingdom. Consequently, every prayer that is offered to the Lord God Almighty must first of all acknowledge Him as the Sovereign Lord Go Almighty. He said as much when He was here physically with us as our Lord Jesus Christ: “Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name” (Matthew 6:9b). Protocols abound everywhere there are hierarchies. The way I treat visitors in my house is different from the way you welcome them to your house, but every one of us desires and respects protocols. You don’t barge onto someone house without alerting the person of your coming. Chief executives and leaders in their respective establishments have protocols in place in welcoming visitors and political leaders are rarely seen and accessible to all and sundry. You may have easy access to them when they are soliciting your votes, but as soon as they are sworn in, all kinds of protocols are woven around them until they are out of those positions. A visit to the White House or Downing Street or Aso Rock will explain the powers of protocols. As I explained to a former governor who we wrote his biography. He wanted a particular traditional ruler to foreword the biography and I said I would not go to the palace of the traditional ruler to subject myself to all those unending protocols. Someone else took the original manuscript to the foremost traditional ruler who now wrote the foreword to the biography.
In the highest of heaven where the True Lord God Almighty has His Heavenly Throne, there are seven levers of protocols numbering billions and billions of spirits paying homage to the Lord of lords and King of kings namely: the 24 Elders, the 4 Living Creatures, the Cherubim, the Seraphim, the Powers, the Angels and the Company of Angels-myriad, legions and uncountable of them (Rev. 4:1-11). For your prayer to be received at the Throne of Heaven in the Third Heaven, you must anchor into one of these seven orders of protocols. The man who took our original manuscript to the palace of the traditional ruler told us he boycotted certain protocols on getting to the palace and went to the secretary to the king who expedited our request and the Foreword to the book arrived in three days. I was visiting a highly placed politician in Africa the other day and he gave me a special number that I can use to call him 24/7; “There are a handful of people that have access to this number, pastor. Call me anytime. I don’t want you to be bogged down by protocols” he said. In the heavens, you have direct access to the Throne of the Almighty God, not because of what we have done, or we are special before His Majesty; no, but because of our Lord Jesus Christ Who is the Way, the Truth, and the Life and no one can come to the Father, except through Him and so, “He came and preached peace to you who were far away and peace to those who were near. For through Him we both have access to the Father by one Spirit. Therefore, you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints and members of God’s household,” (Ephesians 2: 17-19). Hallelujah! There are 12 Angelic Beings recorded in the Holy Bible Who have direct and unimpeded access to the Throne Room and protocols are waived for them when they approach the Tabernacle of the Lord God Almighty. Any prayer from here on earth that is anchored onto any of these 12 Angels receive priority and instant answers as disclosed by the Holy Spirit.
The second ingredient any prayer that is offered to the True Lord God Almighty must contain before it receives maximum attention at the Throne of Heaven is bringing more souls to His future Kingdom. My Kingdom is not of this world, so the King of kings and Lord of lords announced to us His followers, believers, and worshippers. So, who is the one running the current kingdom on earth? Satan of course or as the Bible described him; “…the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them” (2 Corinthians 4:4). The Almighty God did not make Satan the god of this age or world, but Adam and Eve did when they disobeyed their Maker in the Garden of Eden. But thank God Almighty, I am not part of the subject of Satan, Hallelujah! Yes, Satan and his fallen angels are gods and goddesses to those stupid and foolish ignorant souls obeying and doing their biddings, but Satan and any of his demons do not control and master me. I belong to my Lord, Master and Savior Jesus Christ, period! You too can be free from Satan and his demons today, if you give your life to Jesus Christ, because “If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed” (John 8:36). Whatever you are asking from the True Lord God Almighty, if you cannot argue it out how that request will bring in more souls to the Kingdom of our Lord Jesus Christ, that request finds itself in a tray: Pending. Our Lord Jesus Christ has gone ahead of us to prepare a place for us known as His Kingdom. The moment you gave your life to Him, and you are enlisted as a soldier of the Lord Jesus Christ via the Holy Spirit and your epaulet is BAC-Born-Again Christian-you are to proceed to the battlefield to win souls, period! You are either gathering with Him or scatter and no one can stay in the middle. Consequently, as a soldier for Lord Jesus Christ, you can request for food for your co-soldiers at the battleground, money to purchase ammunition and the rest. You are not entitled to any other thing outside your food, clothing, and shelter as aforementioned.
Finally, and lastly, any prayer from here to be received and attended to on High at the Throne Room must contain the will of God and how it must be brought to pass on this earth. Remember, Satan and his rebels have been driven out of heaven and their names removed from the Book of Life. The names of Satan and his renegades are now in the Book of Death according to Revelation 20:11-15: “Then I saw a great white throne and him who was seated on it. The earth and the heavens fled from his presence, and there was no place for them. And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne, and books were opened. Another book was opened, which is the book of life. The dead were judged according to what they had done as recorded in the books. The sea gave up the dead that were in it, and death and Hades gave up the dead that were in them, and each person was judged according to what they had done. Then death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. The lake of fire is the second death. Anyone whose name was not found written in the book of life was thrown into the lake of fire.” Any human being who refuses to give his or her life to our Lord Jesus Christ as Lord, Master and Savior will follow Satan and the fallen angels to the same horrible and hellish place as eternal abode described above. Consequently, any prayer from here on earth that does not contain these eight wills of the True Lord God Almighty namely: put saving of human souls as priority, preaching of the Good News of the Savior, telling others of impending judgment for rebellion and disobedience, confession of sins and pleading with God for His mercies and compassion for our sins, telling others of the Second Coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Saving Grace of His Death and Resurrection and the Coming Damnation of the wicked as parts of the wills of the Almighty God will have no place in the Throne of Heaven.
