Matthew 7 v 24 - 27
24 Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock:

25 And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock.

26 And every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand:

27 And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it.

Matthew 3 v 10
And now also the axe is laid unto the root of the trees: therefore every tree which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.

Matthew 15 v 13
But he answered and said, Every plant, which my heavenly Father hath not planted, shall be rooted up.

The root of a thing or the foundation is very important. The way you get born again is very, very important. There is a difference between a man who got born again and the first message that confronted him was the message of brokenness and holiness and a man that got born again and the first message that confronted him was dancing, there is a difference. When they start to grow in their christian life you can see the difference because there is something somebody with a holiness background cannot just do. It is showing, we have many of them on the streets. The white man who said, God first, knows what he was talking about. Once God is the foundation, even if you go and put something which is bad on top of God, it cannot stay, it will fall off. This is why some of us are very restless anytime we are doing something bad and if care is not taken they catch you.

The root is a very important part of a plant, it anchors that plant to the ground. It supplies food from the ground to that plant. If the root now has a problem, it would seem to be seen on the whole of the plant. That is, the root will determine the destiny of the plant. When there is a sick root, there would be a sick life.

When there is a polluted root, there would be a polluted life. When there is a cursed root there would be a cursed life. Gehazi was in the school of the prophets and he thought he was going to be very smart there, he wanted to outsmart the Almighty. He tried to deceive the man of God but that day was the end of his destiny. And that made Gehazi and the whole of his lineage to be a lineage of lepers.

If somebody from the family of Gehazi comes for prayers and he begins to pray fire prayer on the leprosy, it will not work until somebody goes back to the curse of that prophet. What I am saying is that something done by our grand, grand parents can determine our destiny. If then you do not know how to send your axe back to the root, the person would just suffer for nothing, not really know what is going on. Most of these problems have been in families for five thousand years., so you need desperation to uproot them out of your life.

For example, in the black man's country, when you get married, you must marry everybody then problem starts. I know a family, in that family all men marry witches and it is because that is what is there. The kind of women they would find attractive are witches. The ones that are not witches they would find one fault or the other. Either they would say the legs are crooked or they would say the girl is slim, because of that they would throw them out. But when they meet the witches, they'll say she is a wonderful woman and they go and marry them. Therefore if you have strong roots aligned to God your growth would be stable. As it is for plants, so it is for human beings. It is the root that would strengthen and support us when the evil winds of life begin to blow. It blows on everyone, no exception and ninety percent of people do not survive it.

As far as these storms are blowing, if you do not have adequate response, there would be trouble. The fact that you are a child of God, you are born again, coming to a Bible believing Church is good. But it does not purge the root, it has given you a door to go and purge it, but it is not the purging itself. Been born again gives a door for solution. When terrible winds begin to attack us without warning, it was our network of solid roots that would hold us firm and keep us straight. All the beautiful branches, nice leaves, no matter how attractive they are, they cannot fortify us when the attack by the mad winds of life start. It takes deep and powerful roots to keep us standing.

The reason many fall so easily is because those roots are weak, so that is why they cannot stand. it is time for iron to enter into our roots, it is time for holy stubbornness to come into our roots. It is time for our roots to become stubborn against satanic adversity. These are very, very serious matters especially if you are a black person.

Prayer point:- Let holy stubbornness come into my roots, in the name of Jesus

There are many people in our world been harassed by satanic rays of sun but when they have the strongholds they can stand. So there is a powerful relationship between the root of our lives and destiny.

What is your Root?
The root includes the foundation of your life. It is that on which the totality of your life is built. The root is the platform prepared for you to sit upon by your ancestors. Gehazi prepared the platform for his children and they sat on it. So the root has an important role to play in the life of anything because it holds the whole structure. It is just like somebody building a house, you cannot build a good house on a wrong foundation, the foundation of the house is the building. If the foundation of the house is bad, no matter which building you're building on it, it will soon collapse. Therefore it is time for us to thoroughly examine our foundation and pray violently concerning it.

Ninety percent of spiritual and physical problems are due to this sick root. A lot of people right from the time they were born have placed the ladder of their lives on the wrong wall and that has been the problem. They want to build a holy structure on it. Many are trying to build on contaminated and polluted foundation. Many have already placed their building on that kind of foundation. It is true that our past is gone but it is not quite dead. Unless you have been washed in the Blood of the Lamb, in the Word of God and in the fire of the Holy Spirit, your past would be busy reporting you to the present. Until your are completely washed by that Blood of the Lamb, soaked with the Blood of God, baptized with Fire, the past will condition the tomorrow of the person.

So the faulty root or the sick root is a universal gossip trying to tell the future what punishment we are entitled to from our past mistakes or our so called forgotten mistakes.

Jesus said to the Israelite's in John 5:45, Do not think that i am the one going to accuse you, that Moses that died that you believe in, and you are reading his law, is the reporter. Little did they know that the Moses of their past accused them.

What is happening to many lives started very early in their lives. Some of these things that were introduced to the root of many lives are still in place. In some cases the wicked who introduced these things are dead. It is only the power of the Holy Spirit that can go back to those dead people and do something on your behalf. So you and I have the authority to demand what belongs to us and Jesus would hearken to it. There are many blessings that we have not acquired which we must fight for and receive. Many of us have been fighting battles all our lives, in fact if not for that fight some would not come to Mountain of Fire.

Some fought with the wrong weapons, they eventually discovered that their weapons cannot really match their enemies. The root has to be dealt with to attain what God wants you to achieve. There are some people who do not want their children to be female so they took some actions to make them male, but now the child is still female, that child is in trouble. They would generally become tomboys, iron ladies, no control, no marriage, going all over the place behaving like men. Beating up the husbands, it is the root that is the cause of it.

The foundation of the sex life of a person is very important too. The first contact of a woman to sex is very important to your marriage and the totality of your life thereafter. If it is corrupt you have to send the Fire of God to your foundation. If it is a business, the root too is very important. Most of the black man's roots have been contaminated by curses, covenants, spiritual deposits, satanic seeds and satanic weight. A lot of people who are above fifty years in this country were probably born in the herbalists home.

Some people's parents open the door and they just enter, maybe when they were trying to protect them. Because of that all kinds of things begin to happen to them. This is why you find a lot of people inflicting injuries on themselves, continuous business failures, abnormal sex life, all kinds of terrible things. The area where you grow up may have effect on you. You need to pray about environmental root. That is why some find themselves in the village in the dream. A whole family could be under a curse and you, trying to escape the strong man would gather this arsenal together to harass the person.

There were two men who lived in the same period, one is Jonathan Edwards. For those of you who study church history, you would know that Jonathan Edwards was the first person to take what we now call altar call. He was a priest of a formal church and he was looking at the congregation and they made him cry every day. People are just coming to church, no change in their lives, no fire, they had turned the church to a ceremonious place. The man read the Acts of the apostles, by the time he compared it with what he was seeing in the church, he found that it was a far cry from what it was supposed to be in the book. Then he went to tell the congregation that if they are not doing what is in the law there is no light in them. One day he arrived on Sunday and changed his message, he preached this message. Sinners in the Hand of an Angry God. He told them that as they were sitting down on their pews, hell fire is just below and it would not take a second to enter inside. For the first time some of them who came to church were genuinely born again. That was the beginning of the American revival of the 18th century.

There was another man that lived at that time called Max Juxes, he was a terrible person, a drunk, very wicked. Then years after their deaths an analysis was carried out on these two men to see what their offspring would be like. For Max Juxes, they counted 767 offspring and about 100 were alcoholics, 7 were murderers, 310 were beggars, 200 were prostitutes, 150 were criminals. For Jonathan Edwards, they analyzed 339 people. One of them was vice president of America, 13 were judges, 60 were medical doctors, 65 were university professors, 100 were lawyers, 100 were pastors and missionaries. Now you can see the root has decided their destinies.

If you grow up in a polygamous home where there is open hatred; if as a young person you stay with a herbalist and he was teaching you charms and incantations, it would affect your destiny. If as a young lady you cannot count more than three boyfriends that you have slept with before you now settle down with another man, you need to pray. If you know that your mother was possessed with evil spirits and she died confessing as a witch, you need to pray. If you a re given a bad name, like darkness or dog, you need to pray. If you notice that as a young person, you see strange things others cannot see, you need to pray. If you're participating in oral sex, or kissing sex organs, putting male organs in your mouth, you need to pray because it is a perversion of divine order, and God places the person under a curse. Maybe you have something from India, you read the seven books of Moses, you need to pray. Maybe you have been kidnapped before or fortified with charms, you need to pray.

Perhaps you were abandoned as a child and you know it, you need to pray. The reason i want you to know all these things if for you to see the relationship between the root of a persons life and the eventual destiny of that person. It does not matter who you are, if you do not address it, things would begin to happen that you do not like. Likewise, no matter how a meeting is, if somebody has a terrible root you may come there and go home untouched. A plant with a bad root would have bad growth, such people may not experience spiritual growth.

How to Know a Sick Root

  • When miracles are passing you by without locating your life.

  • When your spiritual growth is minimal or non-existent no matter how hard you try.

  • When anything you lay your hands on are not prospering.

  • When your health is very poor.

  • Unfruitful spiritual life. Having confused and frustrated life.

  • When your life is full of worries and anxiety.

  • When a life is filled with bad habits and addiction.

  • Unable to resist evil temptations.

Way out to Purge your Root

  • Search your spirit and see that you do not harbor any malice or unforgiveness against anybody.

  • Ask the Lord to show you where things went wrong.

  • Repent from all known sins.

  • Eject the strangers at the root.

Prayer Points

  • Every foundational evil seed, die in the name of Jesus.

  • Every satanic cage holding my blessing, release it and die, in the name of Jesus.

  • Every evil seed planted by dead relatives, catch fire in the name of Jesus.

  • Every evil seed planted by witchcraft in my destiny, catch fire in the name of Jesus.

Culled from Sound the Battle Cry

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