Overcoming the Negative Forces in your Environment Part 1

Most times when you see young men and women gather together, they are talking about marriage but that is not our primary focus in this write up. I just want to give you some steps that will help you, but the steps are not going to be useful to you if you don’t decide to do something about them as you must make a deliberate decision to work upon yourself.

One of the things that I had explained in the past is that there are four planks to building a great nation and you need to know them so that you can respond to them or understand what you need to be redeemed from.

Many times, we complained about Nigeria and we think that the government is going to come out of the blues and solve the problem of Nigeria. No, it’s not the work of one man. Let us now look at the four planks.

(1) PARENTS

What parents are, the children will become. Parents are not just to teach their children, they are responsible for bringing spiritual flows that would determine the events and cycles of their lives. That’s why you find some people repeat ancestral problems. If you get married, most likely your spouse will be like his/her father/mother by the time they are fifty. If you look at the mother of the person you want to marry, if no changes occur in the lifestyle of that lady, she will be like the mother at that same age. So, if you don’t like what she is at that age, then you start working some changes. The same goes for the man.

That’s what parents bring to our lives. It’s not their fault and it’s not your fault but knowing about that will enable you to correct some things. For example, if you come from a family that people in your family are obese, they struggle with some disease associated with obesity; you are likely to have inherited such a trait on yourself. If you know early enough, you could begin to prevent yourself from having those diseases by developing different eating habits and things like that. Doctors will understand that sometimes when people have some diseases, they ask them “Do you have anybody in your family that has this kind of a problem?”. This is because some things are passed down family lines.

There are positive things that go down the lines too, like if your parents are singers, you are likely to have inherited something like that from them. If your parents are scientists, there is likely to be some things from them that have come down on you. So, parents are the beginning of the building of a great nation. A nation cannot be greater than the parents that produced the people that populate the nation. So, the devil starts working from there. We have parents that have introduced their children to negative forces, negative spirit, so we are grabbling with that. That’s why you can find somebody that is brilliant in his mind but there is a bad spirit that is using him because he inherited it from his father. Some of the great minds in our country for example, even human right activists and things like that; most of them came from backgrounds that their parents are polygamist. So even though the man is a professor, he is married, he’s about 60/70years, he still keeps two or three concubines. So, nobody talks about what is wrong because everybody has got something wrong in their lives somewhere. And then, the cycle continues but then at a point, God steps in with the gospel of Jesus Christ to give you a different future, a different experience so that you can become another kind of parent because very soon you are going to become parents and it is either you are going to continue the way your natural parents dealt with you or continue with the way God wants you to go on. So, parents are the first and they determine to a large extent what happens in the society.