Break Off The Chains -By Gabriel Agbo

“They were severely beaten, and they were thrown into prison.  The jailer was ordered to make sure they didn’t escape.  So he took no chances but put them into the inner dungeon and clamped their feet in the stocks.  Around midnight, Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the other prisoners were listening.  Suddenly, there was a great earthquake, and the prison was shaken to its foundations.  All the doors flew open and the chains of every prisoner fall off!”   Acts 16: 23 – 26

   You know the above story.  At Philippi, Paul and Silas conducted a deliverance ministration that landed them in trouble.  They were beaten, bound with chains and put into the inner dungeon of the prison. Dungeon is an underground prison cell.  This is what was mostly used in those days. The Jailer also particularly instructed is staff to make sure that these men of God did not escape.  This is exactly what Satan and his agents do to people in their captivity. They mess their victims up and also keep them as hostages.  Yes, a lot of people, millions are bound with satanic chains today.  These people move around like normal human beings, but when you see them in the spirit they are bound with fetters.  This is usually done through witchcraft and other demonic manipulations.  The victims of this kind of satanic influence will live all their life without any meaningful success, unless those fetters are broken.  Some, their destinies would be locked up by these enemies.  They will have nice dreams, work hard, but will never achieve them.

    For others, their businesses, their wombs or marriages would be held.  We have also seen cases where projects (like buildings) were stopped through this kind of manipulations. They will simply cripple the person’s source of income or inflict them with incurable sicknesses and that will be the end of the project.  There are others that have been used for satanic, money rituals, sacrifices, etc. Though they are alive, but they will live as imbeciles all the days of their life.  Others are also manipulated into sinful habits like drinking, stealing, prostitution, gambling, drugs, etc, and will be ultimately destroyed.  We also see people who are held in bondages by demonic spirits e.g., marine spirits, ancestral spirit, territorial spirits, violent spirits, sex demons, etc.

    Some of these things may sound strange, but they are very true!  There is no limit to the operations and wickedness of the kingdom of darkness.  And every environment has its own peculiar situations. We have seen a case where a lady in Africa, at her late 30s was married to a very powerful demonic entity that visits her all the way from India. I ministered to this lady personally. This demonic personality comes with an invisible aircraft that only the lady will be seeing and dodging. Immediately the aircraft lands, a white man would alight from it and come to stay with her. After which he goes back to where it came from. It made it impossible for this very pretty and tall lady to get married in the physical or even go to school. Imagine, at that age she could not learn basic arithmetic or grammar. She would always have loss of memory. This was her situation until that yoke was broken.  We see this type of cases regularly in deliverance sessions. The operations of the kingdom of darkness are so vast and terrible that you would sometimes meet cases that you will find very difficult to comprehend.  Some have been chained by Satan and demons assigned to watch over them like the Jailer was instructed to watch over Paul and Silas. Any demonic entity assigned to watch over you will be blinded from today, in Jesus’ name!

   that captives will be released and the prisoners will be freed.   He also said in the same Isaiah 49:24,  “Who can snatch the plunder of war from the hands of a warrior?  Who can demand that a tyrant [Satan] let his captives go? But the LORD says, ‘The captives of warriors will be released, and the plunder of tyrants will be retrieved.”

   Praise God! If those conditions describe your situation, then, this is the time for you to wake up and fight for your destiny. It is sure a very serious business. You must go it violently. And you must not stop until the chains of the enemy are broken and all your blessings retrieved.  Do it now! Paul and Silas got up in the midnight prayed and sang unto God and what was the result? There was an earthquake in the place and the chains on their hands and legs were shattered. They all fell off! I have not seen any greater power than that of praise and prayer in the midnight. No chain of the enemy can withstand them. This is true. The prison doors were forced open. You can try it. Praise God for hours every midnight and see what your life will turn into. You will become a supernatural being instantly.

    It is not only individuals that can be in satanic chains. Families, villages, cities, countries, even churches go into bondages.  The primary aim of the dark kingdom doing this is to keep the people from the light of the gospel, to deny them God’s blessings and to permanently have control over them.   On the family level, there are many that live in terrible bondage.  Some are in bondage of sickness, failure, and poverty.  Others live in sinful habits. Some are suffering because of the attacks or evil arrows shot into their families by agents of the dark kingdom. I know a family that has three insane people. What is the pattern in your family?? Then other families by their own practices have brought satanic yokes upon themselves through worship and sacrifice to demonic spirits.  Some even have altars for these false gods right there in their homes. Some parents also dedicated or introduced their children into this worship of demons.  All these attract the chains and bondage. Today, I pray that every satanic chain in your life be broken in the mighty name of Jesus! Share this message.