Session 1:Text: Pr. 15:18: #prayerFocus: Ridded of violence and aggression

Violence is behaviour involving physical force intended to hurt, damage, or kill someone or something.

Aggression is feelings of anger or antipathy resulting in hostile or violent behaviour; readiness to attack or confront. (source-Google search)

Bible talks about Jesus Christ having a meek and gentle spirit. The goal of the Christian life is to develop Christ likeness in worship, character and service.

We become Christ like through the in working of the Holy Spirit as we listen and follow His prompting. As well as through personal efforts.

Our world today is filled with stressors. And most stress coping skills are overstretched already.

Stress, parenting deficits, heredity, environmental forces and demonic influences cause people to go overboard in their reactions.

Aggression is learned behavior.

To a large extent, aggressiveness is determined by the extent to which environment reinforces aggression, provide aggressive models, frustrate or victimizes, thus instigating aggression.

For when you train up a child in the way he /she should go, when he grows up, he will not depart from it-See Pr. 22:6.

Abusive discipline will produce criminals, rebels, addicts etc., because it is provocation against their sensibilities – See Pr. 14 :11, Is. 14:20, Lam. 5:9.

Parental Role

Parents are admonished not to provoke their children to anger – See Col. 3:21.

The reason is that it will give access to demonic intruders such as grief, anger, bitterness, resentment etc.

Parents are to be the positive influencer who teaches their children Bible doctrines to give them the framework for their own personal life.

It’s rather sad that many of us failed in laying Godly foundations for our children and were abusive in our discipline.

However, all hope is not lost for parents whose children have become aggressive and violent adults.

Christ brings us out of trouble

Christ is the Redeemer of rebels, addicts, abusers and all who are demonized or oppressed of the devil.

In Christ, we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace-See Eph. 1:7.

The Greek word apolutrosis translated redemption in Eph. 1:7, is used also as a synonym to the word “riddance.”in Col 1:14.

The Greek word apolutrosis, means “to be brought out of trouble.”

Christ the Redeemer, who is our redemption, is also our deliverance and deliverer. He rescues /plucks us out of trouble.

Dearly beloved, it really does not matter whether through aversive stimulus, environmental influences, wrong choices or Demonization, you have become aggressive, violent, an addict, a criminal etc.

No matter how deep the trouble you are in. Christ will bring you out of trouble – See Pr. 12:13.

Christ is your riddance. He delivers, rescues, and perfects all that Concerns Humanity. He has accomplished all of these for Humanity by His death on the Cross.

Your part now is to call upon Him.

God’s Word says, “call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.” – See Ps. 50:15

Today, scripture shall be fulfilled in your life. You will sing a new song saying :

“He drew me up out of a horrible pit [a pit of tumult and of destruction], out of the miry clay (froth and slime), and set my feet upon a rock, steadying my steps and establishing my goings. And He has put a new song in my mouth, a song of praise to our God” – See Ps. 40:2-3 AMPC.

Draw strength, and encouragement from God’s Word. Confidently, let us confront the forces of evil and stop all their interferences in the lives of our loved ones and community.

Warfare Prayer

Repentance :a. Identify the sinful trends in your family. b. Confess it as sin c. Break the power of those sinful habits/trends by affirming the Finished work of the Cross.

Identify the Demons influencing negatives. They are easily identifiable by presenting problems, character and evil family trends. Command them to leave your bloodline. Below are a list that should be helpful –

Related evil spirits/manifestations: Intensity, severity, strength, force, great force, vehemence, power, powerfulness, potency, ferocity, forcefulness, wildness, frenziedness, fury, storminess, tempestuousness, turbulence; lack of control, lack of restraint, passionateness; : brutality, brute force, roughness, ferocity, fierceness, savagery, cruelty, sadism, barbarity, barbarousness, brutishness, murderousness, bloodthirstiness, ruthlessness, inhumanity, heartlessness, pitilessness, mercilessness; strong-arm tactics; hostility, aggressiveness, belligerence, bellicosity, antagonism, truculence;
pugnacity, pugnaciousness, combativeness, militancy, force, warmongering,warlikeness, hawkishness, violence; attack, assault, encroachment, offence, invasion, infringement, armed robbery, domestic violence, pedophilia, rape, kidnapping etc.

Command all the above and all other related evils to leave your bloodline and community and surrender at the feet of Jesus Christ.

Let us pray

ABBA Father, we are grateful for the excellent life we have in Christ Jesus.
Today, in unity of faith, we affirm that the power base of evil in our community is destroyed; the strongman of violence is brought under Divine subjection and captivity and rendered impotent to act in families, and communities.

Peace is released to our world, in this season, the activity of bacchus is restrained, drunk driving and all other evil that results from drug doing is hereby terminated.

Death toll will not rise this season.

The sun of righteousness will shine upon our lands. Order is restored to our lives, homes and communities. And so shall it be, in the matchless name of Jesus Christ. From #theWatchman
Hephzibah Christly