We are living in the last days, and all heavenly-minded believers must put away all forms of carelessness and laxity. Our chief enemy- Satan, knows that he does not have much time left to complete his task of bringing all men down with him into hell.
He is a desperate man and is willing to deploy all his arsenals to stop God’s people. As they say, ‘desperate times call for desperate measures’. Our only help against the whiles and powers of the enemy is the Spirit of God. And one of the ways the Spirit of God helps us is by availing us of the knowledge of the schemes of our enemies.
Like the Prophet Elisha who was privy to the move of the King of Syria and forwarded the knowledge he was privy to by the Spirit of God unto the King of Israel, that is also how the Holy Spirit will relate to us of the move and devices of the wicked one and his armies. By this, we shall have foreknowledge on the machinations and devices of the wicked. For where there is no vision the people are bound to perish. And the people will also perish if they lack Knowledge.
In this article, we shall bring to light one of the most effective tools which Satan has been using against the Christian. And we shall not remain ignorant.
Satan is an opportunist, he is a master in taking advantage of situations. You see what you like most, where you like to visit most, what you like to do most, that is often where Satan will wait to strike. Men generally like food and cannot do without food. Therefore Satan seeking a way to plant his seeds, invented what I would call spiritual food poisoning.
It is not that food is bad, but Satan knows we cannot do without it, so he devised how to use food to effect his long-lasting ambition to derail our souls and quench the light of believers.
Yes, food! Do not be surprised. Many of us in the Western world may not be privy to the food sorcery, but it is scarcely so in the black man’s land. It does not mean that witchcraft is wanting in the West, but in the West, people choose to turn a blind eye to signs they cannot understand or scientifically explain.
Unlike the West, here in Africa we are not ignorant and have chosen not to turn a blind eye to things we can see but cannot understand. We are fully aware that spiritual poisoning is real. And many have experienced it one way or the other.
This tool of Satan works in two ways. You can be served from the spirit world which you will usually notice in the dream. Or you could be given a physical food which has been spiritually spelled.
It happened that when I was working in Lagos, I came into a season in which I was experiencing this kind of spiritual attack. Night after night I was eating things in the dream. One night, the Lord opened my spiritual eyes to see a lady inside my apartment. That night she came with a plate of food. When I saw her, then I understood how the eating attack works. When the target goes to sleep, they prepare the meal and bring it close to his/her sleeping position. The meal is possibly placed close to the face of the target, and consequently one will begin to eat the food in the dream.
I have also had experiences where the Lord opened my eyes to meals placed at the place where I was to sleep. If I had not seen the trap and had slept where those things were, I would instantly begin to eat of them in the dream. This is one of the ways spiritual food poisoning works.
Now these are not ordinary spiritual meals. They are well-cooked and prepared in the occult kingdom by witches and forces of darkness. Whatever comes from Satan will amount to losses, death, and destruction. I want to say here that it does not matter how Hollywood or society paints white the dark things of Satan. An example is saying that there are white witches or good sorcerers. The question is, does it emanate from Satan? If Yes, it will only lead to death, theft and destruction.
The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy..(John 10:10)
Other times the food itself could be physical food but poisoned spiritually. In both cases, evil could result from the consumption of the spelled meal. And it is easier to harm a prayerless and powerless believer than a strong Christian.
Spiritual poisoning is more dangerous than physical food poisoning. Physical poisoning only affects the body and it can be diagnosed and treated by expert physicians. However, spiritual poisoning could affect both the body and spirit of men. It can affect their spirituality in ways we cannot effectively bring to light. Some things are better experienced than uttered.
One would ask, ‘with what are these foods poisoned?’ It is with charms, spells, enchantments, dark incantations, and demonic elements not visible to the human eyes.
Generally, there are three reasons why spiritual food poisoning is deployed.
1. To cause harm to the physical well-being of the target. This harm may include death or prolonged undiagnosable sickness. Only prayer can help the poisoned individual.
My Mom and Dad had visited a woman whose husband had passed away. This was a pastor’s family. During this condolence visit, some vegetables (garden eggs) were brought before my parents. As my mother shut her eyes to pray for the vegetables they were served, an angel of the Lord appeared to her in a short vision. She was told that there are hair(s) inside the vegetables. Of course, it was not physical human hair, but a spiritually invoked hair element meant to harm my parents.
When my mom opened her eyes, she knew that it was the angel of the Lord that had saved them from the device of the wicked. As they were about to leave, she put the vegetables in her handbag and discarded them on their way home.
Yes! It is true when we say that only strong Christians can survive and overcome the onslaught of Satan. It is also true that some of the strange conditions many people find themselves in result from what they have consumed in error. And I can tell you for sure that if the food is meant to harm after having been poisoned, the casual prayer we make when we want to eat, or the sacred sign of the cross will not stop the evil plot. I have enough experience with spiritual food poisoning to share; please believe me on this.
Another truth on this matter is that the stronger you are ‘in truth‘, the greater probability you have to nullify their works. I said ‘in truth‘ because mainstream Christianity is full of mouth-wise strong Christians. They are full of rhetorical statements about how strong they are, but Satan does not know them. Their prayer and worship do Satan no harm. Their Christianity (if real at all) is of no effect on the plans and schemes of Satan. So that Satan and his demons can make a mockery of them saying, ‘Paul I know, Jesus I know, who are you?’
It is not enough to say ‘I am a carrier of fire!’ Where, and when has it been tested? Some say I am too hot for the devil to handle. Occult people are in our churches menacing the sheepfold of God. They are there when we pray, they are there during worship, and even when we sing, they sing and dance with us. All our prayers and worship have not made them uncomfortable, but we think that we are too hot for Satan who gives power to his agents.
I call it mouthy strength, and it profits nothing on the day that real darkness arises. Religious rhetorics of ‘I carry fire’, ‘I am too hot’, and ‘I am walking in power’ will not help on an evil day. And do not claim that you are strong until you have seen signs of strength and fire in your Christianity. For where there is fire, kites gather; when there is strong fire, people rush to quench it.
For instance, before now I could comfortably sit and pray at night; I could also lie down and pray for hours. But as I write, I dare not sit even for 5 minutes after I have ascended. It is a luxury these days to lie or sit these days because in just a few minutes I would be blown away by the powers of darkness. Now this is a sign of strength and potency and prayer, just the one I would share.
So that when hell is visibly desperate to stop you from calling on Jesus, is a sign that you are menacing the kingdom of darkness; it is a sign of strength when Satan knows your house address.
I have not seen strong people whom Satan does not fight and oppose viciously. So if Satan is not fighting believers tooth and nail, it is not because they are too hot to handle, he simply does not know them.
At a time in my journey as a Christian, I understood that the name of Jesus is stronger in the mouth of some persons. It is the same powerful name we all call, and we all believe in Jesus. But the effect of this name is very much relative. To some, the name of Jesus produces raw power against darkness. To others, the power is minimal and can hardly menace little demons.
I have been in a situation where all my callings and prophetic gifts could not deliver me from mere witches until a woman of prayer intervened. It took her very few minutes of prayer to discomfit the forces that almost had me beaten. That is what I call being strong; tested and trusted. These kinds of people can destroy the installments of Satan in the food they eat because their strength is not by mouth, but by action.
After that experience with witches, I decided what I wanted to be like. I wanted to be a strong man of God, not a powerless one with big useless titles.
Finally, it is good that Christians take time to pray before they eat or drink, especially outside the comfort of their homes and for foods they did not prepare for themselves. It is even better if we will exercise self-control knowing that we are living in the last days.
