STRATEGIES FOR POSSESSING THE GATE OF A THOUSAND YEARS.
THE 11, 11, 11 by John Osa
There is palpable
tension in the heavens, thereis a shift in the making; the heavens and the
earth are set for an amazing battle between the kingdom of darkness and the
kingdom of light. There are last minute set ups and set-backs being planned by
each kingdom through their captains in strategic locations across nations, in
the high seas, rivers, lakes, the heavenly bodies and in the depths of the
earth. No matter what you do, don’t walk into the 11th day of the 11
month in the year 2011 unprepared. You are either a target or you will hit a
target, there are no yellow lines in this firing line.
Dr Steve
Ogan in his book POSSESSING THE GATES OF THE 11TH DAY OF THE 11TH
MONTH IN 2011 wrote the following“the 11th day of the 11th
month in 2011 is a strategic and special day. It is the penultimate millennial
day of the 21st century. There will be only one more millennial day
after it on the 12th day of the 12th month 2012. A
millennial day is a day that comes once in a thousand years. It is a time to
lay spiritual infrastructure for possessing other gates of time. It is a time
to be sensitive, to execute God’s mandate for persons and places. It is a day
of holy convocation and prophetic prayers. It is a day to undertake specific
prophetic actions by the direction of the Holy Spirit”. End of quote
For those
who think numbers are just figures please read psalm 90:12;“help us to number
our days that we may apply our hearts onto wisdom”. Great wisdom can be
exercised when,by the numbers and prophetic significance of these numbers, we
know what time it is.
1. PREPARING
FOR THIS MILLENNIAL DAY.
As we
prepare for this special day, there are few things I sense in my spirit that will
help us prepare more accurately.
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This millennial dayaffords us the opportunity to seek
God to bring us, our cities, institutions and nations into the covenant of a
thousand generations Deuteronomy 7:9.
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This day also affords us the opportunity to deal with
strong satanic covenants that were established uponthe altar of a thousand
years in our families, cities, institutions and nations. This type of covenant
is usually given to very faithful and strategic men and women who were used bySatan
as point men in key territories and nations to lay the foundations of future
assignments.
There is
nothing God does without getting someone to lay the foundation and Satan also
copies the same approach. The level, duration and sphere or scope of the
covenant God gave to Abraham is different to what He ever gave to any man
before or after Abraham after the fall of Adam. The level and duration of the
covenant God gave Saul the first king of Israel and David with regards to
governance is not the same.
As we pull
our swords(for those who still have one), the level of the success we will walk
in will be determined by the level of obedience we have fully and consistently walked
in during the last few years with the Lord. While there might be many and
thousands who serve God in a city but it is always a mission for the Lord to sometimes
find five faithful servants who are willing to obey him truly in all things. I
say that to say this, “let repentance be our key word as we prepare for this
day”. Repentance will be the key in
our personal lives because until our obedience is complete, there are certain
judgments that we may find difficult to have swung in our favour. However, if
we stand on the platform of mercy there is a lot we can gain for the full
impact of the millennial day.
2. A
DAY TO SEAL AND ACTIVATE STRONG COVENANTS
This is the
time when men who have walked with God faithfully and allowed Himto exclusively
call the shots in all aspects of their lives - the locations they lived and
served, the jobs they took, the Isaacs
they laid down, the mandates/burdensthey carried for families,cities,
institutions and nations– will stand in this millennial day to seek the mercy
needed to enter a thousand-year covenant on behalf of the families, cities,
nations and institutions they represent before the throne of the father. These
are men who are no longer defined by their fathers’ houses, races,tribes or nationalities
but by a kingdom identity.
3. WE
NEED SPECIFIC TARGETS FOR THIS MILLENUIM DAY
Even the
united nations have specific goals called the millennium developmental goals
for nations of the world. Let me state that two of the key success factors of
the 21stcentury ecclesia will be her pro-activeness as well as cohesiveness.
We need to
know what the Lord wants to put in place with this gate of time in our lives.
We might start by asking the Lord what He wants to do in our cities, nations,
families and institutions. Even if you are a student at any level, high school
or university, you can enter into covenant with other sons of God to dedicate
your school to the Lord as His domain of expression. Use this scripture in
psalm 24:6 -the generation that seeks His face. Make a statement on that strong
day of 11,11,11 and ask the Lord to raise a generation that seeks His face from
your school or institution.Cry out deeply from your hearts as you congregate in
that school or institution. The angels will record and bring those prayers and
the thoughts of your heart offered to the Father who wants to hear what His
children were asking for on such an auspicious occasion. .
There are
strategic locations in our cities we should visit to pray and anoint on this
day. Eg court houses ,hospitals, government houses, rivers, lakes, parliaments,
roads and junctions, political party headquarters, police stations, air ports,
parks, train stations etc. We must write
new decrees for the places we visit. We should go in twos at a minimum.
4. DEATH
COVENANTS IN THE FAMILY
Take time
to repent of the covenant with death and the grave in your family. While ministering
to someone few years ago, the Lord led me to ask questions that revealed that
in their family when an uncle died, the grand children in the family were made
to cut part of their hair and bury it with casket of the dead uncle. That is an abomination and
the attempt to sell the glory and destiny at the altar of the grave of the next
generation. This is why, in spite of the intelligence of many people insome
families, they end up with the song “goingnowhere slowly and that’s alright”.Please
it is not alright! Strange things happen because of strange covenants made by
previous generations. The covenant of
the grave and death working in these families entered at the grave yard
ceremonies must be renounced! Some families are just not moving forward like
the one of this sister! We had to repent,
renounce and break the covenant over this person to release her from the grave
covenant through which the elders of her family (who go to church) enslaved her
in the name of tradition and culture.
Do you have
graves in your family house in your village? It is an abomination to bury the
dead where the living dwell. That is why
Abraham the father of our faith in Genesis 23: 4 asked for a place to bury his
wife - far from where he lived. Do you bring the dead home over night in your
family house before they are buried or do lying in state in the church? These
are all signs of the covenant of death and the grave in your life and ministry
that you should repent of and reject. Why did the angels rebuke the women who
went to the grave to anoint Jesus’ body after His death? It was not polite when
the angels said, why do you seek the living amongst the dead? Luke 24; 5. Do
you take flowers to the graves of loved ones at anniversaries? Why do you contribute to tomb stone unveilings
and attend such events that renew covenants of the grave and death, covenants
that God is against (Isaiah 28:18). It
is high time that we call our families together and begin to agree on certain
things going forward -how to bury the
dead in our families and rules for marriages.
This will help us to not take one step forward when we pray in our homes and ministry base and take three
steps backwards during burials, marriage and child naming ceremonies where
certain cultural practices that are contrary to scripture are revived.
People like events and not the processes that
invariably follow. The event of the 11th day of the 11 month in 2011
is great but let’s use it to break grounds and build on it by going further to
change certain laws that govern our families. I am privileged to know some of
the strategies in the heart of God to take the nations and I can tell you that
people who are not willing to go beyond events toevolve with processes will not
rule and reign with Him in the nations. Use this millennial day to lay certain
spiritual infrastructure for the future development of your family.But take it
further, when you get home for Christmas,go on a mission to gather the
Christians amongst you to review certain practices in your family and clan.
Don’t pass through this family or city not leaving a legacy of change before
flying to heaven. Let the change you desire in your nation begin with you ,
your family and community where you have direct say. Tomorrow you will do well
in parliament or in the market place where you are called to facilitate change.
5. THE
STRONG HOLD OF TRADITION AND INCEST IN THE FAMILY
The Lord
has been laying it my heart to tell His people to repent for incest in
families. When Judah slept with his daughter in-law,Tamar, as recorded in
Genesis 38, the destiny of Judah as king giver was suspended for ten
generations. That tribe almost lost their prophetic destiny because God had to
go and raise a king from the tribe of Benjamin withSaul. All because of the
incest between Judah and Tamar, the fateful one night stand. The penalty of
incest as recorded in Deuteronomy 23; 2 was a ten generation curse to prevent
the bastard from coming into the congregation, that is the assembly, the
ecclesia of God’s people.That is a serious one.
Today, the
level of incest in our families is appalling. There is also spiritual incest
when brothers and sisters in the same local assembly are sleeping with one
another and sometimes the spiritual father of the house is also being serviced.That
local assembly will die in the wilderness, it will be a toothless house of
prayer except there is repentance and forsaking of the sin of incest.
Traditions,
gates and elders go hand in hand.11, 11, 11 is a gate of time and there are
elders who are gearing up to maintain the status quo of ungodly traditionsin
our families and the nation! The Lord said,“ your traditions have made the word
of God of no effect.” Mathew 15;6. We
need to repent of specific traditions we know in our families, cities,
institutions and nations that hinder God’s word. Some of these traditions deal
badly with widows who are stripped of their farm land and other properties
after the death of their husbands. Ungodly festivals and ceremonies are some
traditions we need to stand against at this gate of time. Ask the Holy Spirit
to open your heart to know what traditions He wants you and your group to pray
against at this gate of time.
Raise up a
new altar for your family, institution, city and nation on the 11th
of November 2011 after you have dealt sufficiently with the wicked ones. That
was God’s word to Jeremiah - to uproot before building,Jeremiah 1;10.
6. THE
GRAVE YARD
The grave
yard is one place where lots of witchcraft activities that hold back our cities
and communities are held. Infact so many cities and communities are an extension
of grave yards themselves. Recently while we were dealing with certain strongholds
in a city, the Lord began to give us insight on how to cut off the spirit of
certain men who still control the community from their grave beds. The same way
the bones of Elisha in the grave still had power to impact the living - 2 kings
13;21. We were asked to begin to cut off the familiar spirits who use the graves
of strong men who though are dead but still control the people with their ideologies,
covenants and ways. The covenants that these men entered have records and these
familiar spirits enforce them over the living.
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If you know where such men or women where buried,
visit those places and cut off their voices and decree that the community, city
and nation will no more drink of their wine.
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Declare that the living has no place with the dead.
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Also, cut off those who draw power from the grave yard
by anointing those burial grounds and declaring that hence forth a curse is
placed on any one or group who come to sleep, dig out bones, seek power from
the burial ground in this city,
o may they be
put to shame,
o may their
tokens be frustrated and their counsel fail. Repent on behalf of those who brought
the city into a covenant with death and the grave.
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Ask the fire of God to fall on all the strong men and
altars that renew and strengthen the covenants of death and the grave in your
community and city and institution.
7. THE
FAMILY GATE
The family
gate is the most strategic gate in this battle. The mysteries of nations are
first revealed at family altars. The stronger your family altar is, the more useful
you can be in the ecclesia and the nations with God. Many who are traveling the
nations today and others who are shouting in the market place don’t even have a
family altar that connects with heaven properly. Their children and spouse live
one life style, they live another.
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Pray andwork for the reconciliation of all conflicts
in your family to come to an end at this millennialgate.
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Also pray and confess the sins of the generations
before you in the broader family,
o call the
names of your grandparents and renounce every covenant of service they entered
at ancestral altars,Isaiah 28 speaks of God breaking the covenant of death and
the grave, repent of every covenant of death and the grave entered by anyone
living on dead on your behalf over your life, family, ministry, city,
institution and nation.
o Renounce
every special request they might have made to Satan to transfer certain gifts
they operated in to their descendants.Cut off all strange gifts of Satan
working in your family. Some of the people we call prophetic today in this
house of God are using divination power from the kingdom of darkness due to
unclosed spiritual doors.
8. DEAL
WITH LAWS CONCERNING MARRIAGE IN YOUR FAMILY
This is the
season to look at laws concerning marriage in your family, clan, tribe, race
that are contrary to the word of God. Repent
for the damages they have done over the years to those they brought into
bondage because they married them under these wicked laws set by wicked elders
who lived long ago. Abolish them and
write new laws for marriages in your family. If you come from a family where the
bride price is high as a deterrent to would be suitors and a delay tactic
against marriages in your family, consider it your assignment to pray and
change that law in your own family in your life time. Many Christians are still marrying under
unchristian laws in families where there are christains who are not acting as
faithful gate keepers to change ungodly traditions yet we march on the streets
against laws of parliament that are ungodly but have not started erasing
ungodly laws from our families first and fore most!
9. DOUBLE
TROUBLE FOR THE DEVIL
The day preceding
the millennial day is a full moon and that makes it even worse for the kingdom
of darkness in the places where there are strategic watchmen who know the
importance of keeping the ordinances of prophetic prayers and blowing the
shofar at the full and new moon. The fact that it is a full moon a day before
the 11, 11, 11,which signifies the fullness of time, means the fullness of time
has come to changes the satanic laws that have locked families, ministries,
nations and institutions out of their prophetic destiny.
10.
THE BLOOD OF SPRINKLING HEBREWS 12; 24
It is a
season of fasting and night prayers with prophetic actions which include not
only partaking of the Holy Communion but also sprinkling it as a token of the bloodof
Jesus. Note that Hebrew 12; 24 speaks of the blood of Jesus as the blood of
sprinkling. As you pray in strategic places take communion and sprinkle the
blood of Jesus over the land and proclaim reconciliation and a new covenant of
redemption over the territory. Do this in your own houses, cars, office,
schools, parks etc. Erase evil laws with the blood as the scripture says in Colossians
2:14, “having wiped out the hand writing of requirements that was against us, which
was contrary to us, He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the
cross. Enforce this scripture by declaration and if you can by prophetic action
of the blood sprinkling. Dothe prophetic action now and God will raise up a new
company tomorrow to fulfil what you prayed and laws you passed spiritually
through His blood. Flush out prostitution, drug lordsetc. by sprinkling the
blood of Jesus in the places where they operate. Call forth development and the
prophetic destiny of places also by His blood as you pray and legislate.
11.
CONVOCATION
This millennial
day gate is a day of family, city and institutional convocation. Gather the
people to seek the mercy of God at your place of work and ask God for mercy and
change of unfavourable working conditions while praying also for godly leaders
to be given where there are none.
Preparations
determine performance. How are you preparing for the day of a thousand years?
You can give a special offering, fast, do charity work, etc. What are your expectations?
God commands
His covenant to a thousand generations. Deuteronomy 7;9 knowing the Lord your God is God ;He is a faithful God keeping His covenant of love to a
thousand generations to those who love Him
and keep His commandments. May this millennial gate be to us, our cities,
institutions and nations, the day of the activation and sealing of the covenant
of a thousand generations because God is the same yesterday, today and forever.
12.
SPECIAL PRAYER REQUEST FOR EGYPT.
There will
be a prayer meeting of about fifty to seventy thousand people gathering in the
desert of Egypt to mark the 11,11,11 day.
Let’s pray for an out pouring of the Spirit over the meeting and the
nation of Egypt. It may just be the
activation of the prophecy of Isaiah 19:19 as some have alluded, “in that day,
there will be an altar to the Lord in the midst of Egypt and a pillar to the
Lord at its boarders and it will be for a sign and a witness to the Lord in the
land of Egypt; for they will cry unto the Lord because of the oppressors and
the He will send them a saviour”.
John Osa
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