BREAKING BARRIERS: PASTOR(DR) MENSA OTABIL – SPECIAL SUNDAY SERVICE, 9TH JULY, 2023.
SPECIAL SUNDAY SERVICE WITH PASTOR (DR) MENSA OTABIL (GENERAL OVERSEER, INTERNATIONAL CENTRAL GOSPEL CHURCH (ICGC) CHRIST TEMPLE, ACCRA GHANA)
TOPIC: BREAKING BARRIERS
DATE: 9TH JULY 2023
BIBLE TEXT: 2 KINGS 13:14-19
Let us rise up together as we make our “DECLARATION OF GATHERING” in this “YEAR OF GATHERING”.
Are you ready? Say with me:
I Proclaim Jesus Christ as my Lord and Saviour. The Lord is the Shepherd of my Soul, my Shelter by Day, my Light by Night.
In His Name, we Plough our fields, by His Spirit we gather the Harvest, in His Light we seek and find.
In this Year of Gathering, the Lord of the Harvest has commanded: Launch Out into the Deep. At His Words, we cast our Nets, we gather in Souls and Substance for God’s Kingdom.
The Lord is our Reward; in this Season I received God’s Portion set aside for me: Full Measure, Pressed down, Shaking together and running over.
Nothing is Lost and Nothing is wasted in Jesus Name – Amen!
Today I will be Teaching on: “BREAKING BARRIERS”.
2 Kings 13:14-19 (NKJV):
14 Elisha had become sick with the illness of which he would die. Then Joash the king of Israel came down to him, and wept over his face, and said, “O my father, my father, the chariots of Israel and their horsemen!”
15 And Elisha said to him, “Take a bow and some arrows.” So he took himself a bow and some arrows.
16 Then he said to the king of Israel, “Put your hand on the bow.” So he put his hand on it, and Elisha put his hands on the king’s hands.
17 And he said, “Open the east window”; and he opened it. Then Elisha said, “Shoot”; and he shot. And he said, “The arrow of the Lord’s Deliverance and the arrow of Deliverance from Syria; for you must strike the Syrians at Aphek till you have destroyed them.”
18 Then he said, “Take the arrows”; so he took them. And he said to the king of Israel, “Strike the ground”; so he struck three times, and stopped.
19 And the man of God was angry with him, and said, “You should have struck five or six times; then you would have struck Syria till you had destroyed it! But now you will strike Syria only three times.”
Elisha, if you remembered was the Person who got the Double Portion of the Anointing on the Life of his Master, Elijah.
He accompanied Elijah for many years and at the end of the Life of Elijah, Elisha made a Request that God would Bless his Ministry with Double of what Elijah had – And of course, eventually he received it.
Now the Story we are reading is, this Elisha who received the Double Portion, is at the end of his Life.
He is at the same Place Elijah was when he (Elisha) received the Double Portion – He is also getting to the end of his Life.
And at this time, what God has blessed Elisha with (The Double Portion); Nobody has received it from him – Nobody like he had received from Elijah has received from Elisha.
So, he is about to die without transferring the Anointing that is upon him.
The Person who was supposed to have received that Double Portion was Elisha’s Servant – His name was Gehazi.
But Gehazi was a greedy young man, and so he missed the Blessing of God.
And now a Second opportunity for somebody to catch the Anointing just before Elisha’s transition – And that is King Joash of Israel.
So King Joash comes to Elisha; and the reason he comes to Elisha is because the Perennial enemies of Israel (the Syrians) have attacked Israel, and Joash who is King is very traumatized – He is in trouble.
And he comes to Elisha and cries to Elisha. And he says, Oh my father, my father; the Chariots of Israel and their horsemen!”
And if you are familiar with the Scriptures, you will realised that, that is exactly the same thing that Joash said!
And so he says to him, “… The Chariots of Israel and their horsemen!”
What does that Phrase mean?
It simply means that you are the Defender of Israel – It is through your Ministry that Israel has had Victories.
In other words, Elisha, you are like the horseman and the Chariots that go to battle – Without you, we cannot go to battle. And if you die now, how are we going to face the Syrians? How am I going to face the Syrians? – Because you are the one who defends the Nation.
So Elisha says to the King Joash, take some arrows – Two (2) Prophetic Actions that we are going to use in Praying today:
- He says to Joash, “Take a bow” – So he takes a bow. And he says, “Pick some arrows” – he picks some arrows. Then he says, “put your hand on the bow.” So he holds the bow – Probably with his right hand (if he is right-handed).
So he picks the bow and Elisha says to him, “open the Window!
Now in those days they didn’t have Windows like we have Windows and so on. Windows were normally covered by curtains.
So he says, “open the windows” – That means, draw the curtains to the right. And then he says, “open it to the East.” So he points the arrow to the East.
Now why did he say, “Point the arrow to the East?’
It’s because at the time Elisha is speaking, the Syrian army is in Aphek. And Aphek is on the Eastern side of where they are located. And he is Pointing the arrow to where the Syrian Army is.
And he (Elisha) said to him (King Joash) “shoot!” So he strikes the arrow, shoots it through the Window, towards the Syrian Army – not to go and hit them.
But it is a Prophetic act to say that: Something is going to go against the Syrian Army.
And the moment he shot, Elisha made a Declaration.
He said, what you just did is the Deliverance of the Lord; and His Deliverance from the Syrians. And then he said something extra. He said, but you must strike the Syrians; strike them until they are destroyed.
So you shoot one arrow, it means God had given you Victory over the Syrians. But you must strike them until they are destroyed.
… So the first one, God had given you Victory over the Syrians.
- Then he says, okay now, take the arrows. So he picks the rest of the arrows that he has. And he says, “Strike the ground”
Now the “strike the ground” doesn’t necessarily mean, hit the ground with the arrows – That will not make enough sense.
It means that, shoot the arrows, but this time shoot it on the ground. So shoot through the Window again but on the ground.
*That means the first arrow had gone in the air; the second arrow is going to the ground; towards the East, towards the Syrian Army but towards the ground.
And King Joash shot the arrow three (3) times!
Now remember, Elisha had said, “for you must strike them until they are destroyed.”
So he strikes the arrow one, two, three and he stops!
And Elisha was very upset with him – He said, why did you stop? “You should have struck the arrow at least five (5) or six (6) times; and if you had done that, you would have totally defeated the Syrians”.
Now what’s the Significance of all of these?
- The first arrow was shot in the air, towards the Syrians.
And that is to denote that in the realm of the Spirit, God had given Victory to Israel – So they have won a Spiritual Battle.
They shot it into the air – They have a Spiritual Victory.
But God’s says, that Spiritual Victory is Good, but it’s not Good enough.
You have to now have the same Victory on Earth – So shut the arrow on the Earth.
As it is in Heaven (in the realm of the Spirit) so shall it be on Earth (in the Natural world – The Spiritual Victory must be manifested in the Natural world.
There are Victories God gives us Spiritually; but those Victory must become real – They must become actual, they must become Physical. We must have those things on Earth as they are in Heaven.
And Joash failed that Test because, although he had a Spiritual Victory, the corresponding Action for the Physical manifestation of that Victory on Earth, he limited the extent.
He shot it only three (3) times.
And if you read the Story of Israel, he defeated the Syrians three (3) times and no more! And the Syrians conquered them again after that – Because he limited the Physical reality of the Spiritual Victory God has given to him.
Interestingly if you read the Bible, right after this Verse, in the next two (2) Verses (2 Kings 13:20-21) is a very interesting Story – That afterwards Elisha died and was buried.
Later on as they were going to bury someone else, Elisha’s body has now decomposed and was only bones in the Grave; and some thieves were coming against the Burial Party.
So they took the dead man and dropped him at the tomb of Elisha. And this dead man hit Elisha’s bones and instantly resurrected.
To say that, although Elisha was able to receive the Double Portion of Elijah’s Anointing; Nobody – not Joash, not Gehazi was able to receive what was in him.
He took to the Grave what was in him, because Joash did not fully obey the instructions of striking.
So today, we are going to Pray – And we are going to Pray about Victory in the Spirit, Victory on the Earth; and we are going to strike until we have Full Deliverance and we have Full Victory, in the Name of Jesus – Amen!
It’s going to be Intensive Power Prayer in the next few Minutes.
You are going to Pray with your Heart, with your Intestines (if you can muster that); you are going to Pray with your Lungs, with your Liver and your Kidneys.
Every Part of you is going to thrive, because God is about to give you Victory. And you are going to have that Victory not only in the realm of the Spirit, you are going to have it also on Earth.
Are you ready to Pray this Morning? – Okay!
Let’s rise up together as we get ready to Pray.
I am going to give you five (5) Prayer Points – You say “Pastor, why did you choose five (5)?” It’s because Elisha said give (5).
Isn’t that what he said to King Joash?
He said he should have shot five (5) or six (6) times. So I am choosing five (5) Prayer Points.
Now each Prayer Point given, I want you to consider it as an Arrow of Prayer.
And so each Prayer Point we will declare it seven (7) times – It’s like shooting the Prayer Point seven (7) times.
You say, Pastor why seven (7)? Because Elisha said six (6). And I am saying, Prophet Elisha thank you for saying six (6). Seven (7) is better than six (6). So we are going one more beyond you.
PRAYER POINTS:
- The Lord is my Strength in time of battle; in His Name; I always have Victory in the Spirit.
- In the Name of Jesus I receive the Physical Manifestation of what the Lord has done for me in the Spirit Realm.
- In the Name of Jesus, I will Subdue and destroy every attacks of the Enemies against me and what is mine.
- By the Help of the Holy Spirit, I will Press on in Faith until the Lord has triumphed Gloriously through me.
- In the Name of Jesus; I receive God’s Continuous Victory Trans-Generationally for all of those in my Bloodline.
CLOSING DECREES:
We declare that in the realm of the Spirit we have won the Victory.
Every Spiritual Enemies is vanquished.
We declare that what we have in the Spirit is manifesting in the flesh.
The Earth shall respond to our Spiritual Victory.
We declare that God has not given us Partial Victory; but He has given us Total Victory. The Enemy is vanquished Totally.
We declare that we are not going by our own Strength; but by the Strength of the Lord – We will triumph Gloriously.
And we declare that the Blessing of the Lord is not only for us, it’s for our Generations; it’s for our Bloodline.
Our Bloodline is Blessed!
In the Name of Jesus – Amen and Amen!
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