Take no part in the unfruitful works of darkness, but instead expose them. For it is shameful even to speak of the things that they do in secret. But when anything is exposed by the light, it becomes visible, for anything that becomes visible is light. Ephesians 5:11-14

Why is it expedient that I expose this technology driven by a wicked spirit? It is because this was one of the tools that was used to fight my prayer life when I began to pastor a church. And the people who ardently wanted to destroy me were churchgoers – dangerous churchmen and women. And the battle was so fierce that had it not been that God was stronger than man and Satan, I would have failed in my calling.

Before I began my pastoral ministry under the direction of the Holy Spirit, I was an established street evangelist with zero interest in pastoral ministry. In those earlier years, we used to live in a large compound occupied by Pastors and their families. It was in this compound that I was privy to the pounding sorcery.

It happened that the Holy Spirit trusted me with night vigil, and I was a faithful warrior. But then I started to take notice of a strange ‘kpo, kpo, kpo…’ sound that was emanating from various locations where people lived. It happened that the number of pounders were subsequently growing. I remember that someone in our compound was also involved in this act of witchery. Back then, almost every night, one could very much hear a pounding noise very close to our compound fence.

Now, this pounding was not just a night thing, it also happens in the afternoon or morning periods. I presume they do this when they are less busy. With all these strange happenings, I became interested to know what these guys were up to, and to understand the meaning of the pounding noise coming from houses where people lived. And because it was mostly done at night time when people slept, I easily knew that it was some form of witchcraft.

At this point, I want to let us know that one of the tools upon which the kingdom of darkness thrives on is secrecy. This is why Paul’s admonition was that we must have nothing to do with them, but rather we must expose them.

There was this night that the pounding was being done very close to our compound and I was trying to pray the operation to a stop, but my prayers did not seem to have any effect. This was not the first time I have vainly tried to use prayer to stop the activity. But as I prayed that night, I heard a voice which said, “I have increased you!’ And immediately after, the pounding seized. From that day till now, I gained power to stop the pounding through prayer.

With what happened that night, and having come to the knowledge that prayer can interfere with the activity of the pounders, it strengthened my belief that this pounding is of darkness and an act of witchcraft.

I remember my mother speaking of one of their former assistant pastor whose family was involved in this kind of thing in a church compound. My mom was privy to this because she was also a night watch. It is a true saying that many things will elude a sleeping Christian who does not know the way of the watchman.

Then he cried, “A lion, my Lord! I stand continually on the watchtower in the daytime; I have sat at my post every night. (Isaiah 21:8, NKJV)

At a time I began to ask God to reveal to me the meaning of this witchcraft. It didn’t take long before the Lord began to teach me what was truly happening. He said that it was an attack on people’s spirituality. The reply of the Lord got me to know that a serious work of Satan was going on.

Overall, I know about four families whose hands are in this witchcraft, three of them are homes of pastors. On the street where the church I pastored was located, at night you could hear at least four pounding noises coming from people’s houses. And many of these people attend churches. Yes, witchcraft has creeped into the church while we are still looking for financial growth. But I’m yet to tell you how this technology works.

Witches, occultists and other agents of darkness use this medium to steal people’s spiritual might and strengths. And when those things are stolen, one will begin to suffer loss in his or her spiritual abilities. But the theft is not limited to the spiritualities of believers. Typically this is a dark technology of Satanic thievery, killing and destruction.

The thief comes not, but to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. (John 10:10, NKJV)

When I first arrived at my new parish, I quickly introduced myself as a prayer warrior. Unknown to me, my prayer life was being envied and was a menace to the reign of darkness in that church. Forces of darkness leveraged on the depleted prayer infrastructure of the church. It did not take long before I began to experience drought in praying: I was stuttering whenever the Lord woke me up to pray. Something was off; actually, the correct statement is that something was switched off.

Something was messing up with my head and making it sleepy and less interested in prayer after God wakes me up. I usually was very willing due to the quickening Spirit, but it was not so anymore; my spirit was dull and unwilling. And this spiritual menace continued for about a week. In those days I went to God and asked him for revival and help which he did; Praise God!

But it did not take long before the downfall started again. In those early days, one morning I was praying and the Lord spoke to me and said, “You are blind, pray so that I would open your eyes”. He said this because I was completely oblivious to what I was battling. So I began to pray for God to open my eyes and it did not take long before I figured it out.

One afternoon, I heard a subtle but continuous ‘kpo, kpo’ sound and my mind was instantly rattled. I was not new to witchcraft pounding, I already faced it in my former compound, but not this close. ‘Was this what was being used to attack my prayer life?’ I must have asked myself. So I moved or shifted from my position and just then the source of the sound moved as well. I had to do a more conscious repositioning test to fully become aware that I was being attacked by the source of that sound. From that day I became so conscious of the pounding that was coming from that location. It occurred at daytime and at night time.

Many nights, when I woke up, I would hear the subtle pounding, then I would move and notice that the evil perpetrators moved as well. It would sound like something touching the floor was dragged and repositioned to my new location. I finally figured it out, they were using that mortar and pestle on me when I retired to sleep. So that when I rose to pray, I would experience sapped might and battered spirit like Samson who rose to fight but he was not the same anymore.

Consequently, those who used this sorcery around me were many. I was a threat, a plague to the reign of darkness and I had to be stopped.

Later, I got to associate this wicked sorcery with a particular dream I used to have, where I would be forcefully extorted, or some money taken from me by duress.

Before we move further let me briefly explain the sorcery of spiritual theft. If you have either had dreams where you were robbed, forcefully extorted, or placed in a situation in which you had to give some cash on duress, and then you notice that it comes sporadically or frequently, it is a sign that someone is using witchcraft to manipulate your finances. In my new parish, it happened a lot to me. Men and evil spirits were working against my finances.

I had already been trained by God on how to recover stolen finances. But how could I have known that the mortar and pestle weapon could also be used to project such destruction and theft? It wasn’t until one night when I was once again forced to give out money, as I woke up the Lord told me the person responsible for those kinds of dreams. It was the same people who tried to pound me to spiritual death, they were also trying to rob me of my finances and subsequently, to divert any favour that would come to me. Then it dawned on me that the sorcery of witchcraft pounding could steal more than one’s spirituality.

One day I was seriously praying and the same people started again. Then I saw an evil spirit walk up to me and demanding money from me. It talked about money I had in my account. I have been opportuned by the Spirit to see this finance-ripping spirit at work two or three times. They would pound and release the spirit to plunder and fight my finances. They wanted to frustrate my pastoral work.

I was once in a place sleeping one afternoon and someone from a neighbouring compound behind our church whose family was into this voodoo pounded against me. I did not notice quickly enough to get out of the reach of that pounding. That evening, as I went out to buy groceries, I lost my money and my debit card. I quickly knew that I was plundered while asleep.

Typically, when your finances are given away or robbed using this spiritual means, you would begin to lose money mysteriously or get into careless spending or squandering. Once, God showed me a spirit in my room looking for money.

But this sorcery goes beyond money and prayer theft, they once tried to steal my preaching ability. It was in the dream that I saw them trying to take away my microphone. I will not be surprised to know that it was the same act of witchery that was used.

Satan is not just out to steal anything stealable, he has well tutored his followers how to steal. And because the number of voodoo doers are increasing even as the world wraps up in darkness, believers must learn how to arise and pray at night, lest one day, the destinies of our children are stolen and interchanged overnight.

For while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat and went his way. (Matthew 13:25, NKJV)

Lastly, I also figured out by experience that this voodoo can also work to project lust. Actually how it works is by stealing, destroying and weakening the resistance and strength you have built against lust.

I truly think people are ignorant of the power of sorcery and witchcraft. Ignorance is another wing that the kingdom of darkness rides upon to conquer men. I have heard a supposed pastor preaching that Satan has no power, but it is all ignorance. Satan has power and many devices to hurt, kill, steal and destroy men. We may not be privy to all of them, but at the same time, we must never be ignorant of some of his devices. So the Apostle Paul says “Do not be ignorant of the devices of Satan. (2 Corinthians 2:11)” Why? In ignorance you are already one leg into his trap. So we must let the light of truth and revelation shine to minimize the ignorance of christians and those who are being saved for life.

Finally, I thank God that the battles that were once too cumbersome for me, that he has given me a covering and increased me beyond them because in the time of my great tribulation, I persevered and was steadfast in prayer. The only thing that can conquer witchcraft is the power of a praying Christian. God allowed me to pass through these trials so that knowledge can be brought into the body of Christ concerning the schemes of the enemy. For it is written:

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort those who are in any trouble, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God. For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our consolation also abounds through Christ. Now if we are afflicted, it is for your consolation and salvation, which is effective for enduring the same sufferings which we also suffer. Or if we are comforted, it is for your consolation and salvation. And our hope for you is steadfast, because we know that as you are partakers of the sufferings, so also you will partake of the consolation. (2 Corinthians 1:3-7)

In the next episode, I would write or teach (video) on the tips to conquer this device of the enemy and his people.