Experiencing

DIVINE
ASSISTANCE
Insights into Secrets of
Breakthrough and Victory in Life

JONATHAN T. OLAKUNLE
 Experiencing
DIVINE ASSISTANCE

“The Lord hears thee in the day of trouble; the

name of the God of Jacob defends thee; Send
help from the sanctuary, and strengthen thee out
of Zion;
Remember all thy offerings, and accept thy
burnt sacrifices;
Grant thee according to thine own heart, and
fulfill all thy counsel.
We will rejoice in thy salvation, and in the name
of our God we will set up our banners: the Lord
fulfill all thy petitions.
Now know I that the Lord saves his anointed; he
will hear him from his holy heaven with the
saving strength of his right hand. Some trust in
chariots, and some in horses: but we will
remember the name of the Lord our God. They
are brought down and fallen: but we are risen,
and stand upright. Save Lord: let the king hear
us when we call”
-Psalm 20

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Experiencing
DIVINE
ASSISTANCE
Insights into Secrets of
Breakthrough and
Victory in Life

Jonathan T. Olakunle

Entheos Mission Networks

New York

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 © 2010 by
Jonathan T. Olakunle

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Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgement
Dedication

Chapter 1
Divine Assistance: The Secret of Breakthrough

Chapter 2
Hindrances to Divine Assistance

Chapter 3
Vehicles for Divine Assistance

Chapter 4
Divine Assistance from Jesus Christ

Chapter 5
Divine Assistance from the Holy Spirit

Chapter 6
Divine Assistance in Troublous Times

Appendix
Bible Study—Simple Guide to Divine
Solutions

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 Preface
If you are not assisted divinely, you may find it
very difficult to break through in life. Problems of life
could weigh you down and bring all manners of
pathological and psychological troubles that could lead
to premature ageing and death without fulfilling the
purpose for your coming to this earth. Man, with all his
so called wisdom, scientific discoveries, technological
advancement and economic empowerment, has
limitations. There comes a time when all else in life
fails-except God. When all things fail, God cannot. And
it is only reasonable and wise to seek (for) succor in the
God who is infinite, unlimited and all-wise, all-
powerful.
This work reveals how to obtain and enjoy
heavenly assistance in life—practically in all areas of
life. You need God’s help constantly or on daily basis.
To ignore God is to court problems now or later and ruin
your life. I am glad to let you know that God wants to
assist you… if you let Him.

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 Acknowledgement

Thanks be to God for giving me divine assistance

needed to make this work a reality.

Thanks to all men and women who have contributed

in kind and cash to the realization of this dream.

Thanks to Oluwatoyin Aremu who helped to typeset the

manuscripts, God bless you abundantly.

Thank you for reading this book in order to discover

what you need for a breakthrough in life—that is
nothing but divine assistance.

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 Dedication

To the people in my life: we have been receiving divine

assistance together through life’s journey and
experiences. These people are precious to me; they are
rare gems. These are my lovely wife, Alice Adenike
and gracious children, [the 4 Js]
Jonathan, Josephine, Joannah and Joshua

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 Chapter 1

DIVINE ASSISTANCE:
THE SECRET OF
BREAKTHROUGH

Divine assistance is possible-even now, I mean

in our day. It is never a historic issue. God is ever in the
business of assisting His people—you and I. God can
help you divinely. Divine assistance is very much
available. It has been paid and provided for by our Lord
Jesus Christ. Jesus came to assist us to do what you and

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I cannot do with our arm of flesh or that no other person
can do for us. Not only is divine assistance possible,
available and paid for, it is obtainable. It is not far from
us. It is very close to our door steps. It is interesting to
know also that divine assistance is unlimited,
immeasurable, great and glorious. It is divinely given by
God Himself to His people. It is my prayer that you will
experience divine assistance as you read this book.
You need divine assistant because without it, you
cannot have a breakthrough in life. If you have a
breakthrough without God’s divine support, your
breakthrough can be a “broken blessing”, an
unenjoyable blessing. Without divine assistance, an
apparent blessing can turn out to be a curse. It takes God
to receive good gifts in life and it takes God to enjoy the
gifts and blessing from God. Without God’s help in your
life, successes and achievements can turn sour, bitter,
hurtful and harmful, Friends, you constantly need divine
assistance. I hope you will seriously seek for it!
Amongst other things, the Bible is a book on
divine assistance. The Bible shows us how a helpless
man gets (and can get) help, support, assistance from

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God, the Almighty, our Creator. Man, since his fall in
the Garden of Eden, has been helpless, hopeless and
failing. But God, in His grace, has been helping man
ever since Adam and Even fell in the Garden. Without
divine assistance for man, there is no success, victory,
glory, breakthrough and meaningful living. You and I
have been the products of divine assistance and we shall
continue to be recipient of it to live a meaningful life.

THE DESIRE AND SEARCH FOR

BREAKTHROUGH

Man apparently cannot live without a power

higher than him; somebody higher, better, more
resourceful in terms of wisdom, faith, power, purity,
intelligence, etc. It should be known again and again that
God created man to depend on Him—the highest and
supreme Personality in terms of wisdom, grace, mercy,
justice, faith, purity, etc. However, when man lost
contact with God, he tended to seek another form or
source of dependence. Even though God created man in
His own image and with all that man will need for a

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good living, man still has his free-will and power of
choice: he could choose something he wants and desires
and, unfortunately most of the time, outside God. The
freedom, will power and the power of choice in man
make man a free moral being. It is sad to know that from
the beginning, man has not been choosing rightly. Man
has been misusing the freedom and grace bestowed upon
him by His Creator. Alas! This has been to his detriment
and destruction.
Being a free-moral agent suggests to man that he
has responsibility to his actions and choices. You can
desire, choose and obtain whatever you want in life, but
you will be held responsible and accountable for your
actions. You will damn the consequences after all.
Can you imagine that despite all that God
planted and placed in the Garden of Eden for the benefit
of man, man used his free will and power of choice
against himself (Gen 3). Ever since then, man has been a
struggler, sweating and striving to be what God wants
him to be. Experience of life shows that until someone
receives and accepts God’s help that is found only in
Jesus his Son by faith and lives in obedience, he/she

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remains a struggler, sweating things out daily! When
Adam and Eve used their free-will power to disobey
God, they brought themselves down from high grace to
grass level; they came down from surplus to scarcity…
from prosperity to high poverty… saintliness to
sinfulness…. from arena of breakthrough to arena of
bondage, lack of freedom, from open space to strait and
difficult place. Since then man has come to live without
peace, without sound health, without prosperity, without
purpose, without focus, in a nutshell, without
breakthrough.
When Adam and Even sinned, they edged
themselves and the entire human race out of true life of
breakthrough; they brought themselves into a cage, a
thick fence, a barrier, an obstacle or a hindrance to true
life/living. In fact, one can say that God drove them out
of the Garden of breakthrough into a desert of adversity
and with curses. The curses were not only on them but
on all creation. What a pity! What a tragedy! What a life
of hopelessness. Can we say Eve desired and sought
after breakthrough better than that provided by God?
Agreed that she was deceived by the serpent (Satan) but

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she brought her husband into the mess and
unfortunately, all of us went in with them. So,
immediately they were judged divinely, something came
on them. I want to say that “their eyes were opened”
again to the fact that they needed what they had thrown
away. They discovered that they needed God, who will
bring back the things they had lost. They discovered
they needed divine assistance. This assistance will bring
clothes, food, and fellowship with God, peace,
breakthrough, etc. Just as Adam and Eve needed divine
assistance to enjoy their lives from the time they were
created to the time they fell, and from time they fell to
later period of their lives, so all of us need divine
assistance. Without divine assistance, our lives remain a
struggle and we live in curses and crises. Without divine
assistance, we do not have the right to clothes, shelter,
food and other provisions. Without divine assistance, we
have no protection and security, no job, wife, children,
victory and blessing for daily living. Think about this.
We can confidently say then that when there is no divine
assistance, there is no breakthrough for anyone on this
earth.

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 Invariably, it means the search and desire for
breakthrough is of no purpose if we cannot go to our
God. So we all ought to be earnest about our desire for
divine assistance, seek for divine assistance, ask for
divine assistance, knock at God’s door for His
assistance. When we have divine assistance, our
struggles in life ends, our breakthrough breaks forth and
we are established one hundred percent.

WHAT DIVINE ASSISTANCE IS NOT

We want to establish here that there are so many

things people in history and in our days call or look at as
divine assistance and yet they are not and can never be.
Many things we call help from God are far from it.
When God wants to help you, He will do it in such a
way that no one will share or take the glory. Whatever
will contend with the glory of God from or in your life is
never assistance from God. Lets us consider some
examples of what divine assistance are not.

DIVINE ASSISTANCE IS NOT TRUST OR TOTAL

DEPENDENCE ON MAN OR ARM OF FLESH

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“I, the lord, have put a curse on those who turn from me
and trust in human strength. They will dry up like a
bush in a salty desert soil, where nothing can grow”
(Jer. 17:56 CEV)
As human beings, even Christians, we tend to
trust, put hope or total dependence, on man; husband,
wife, uncle, one rich man, monthly salary, and promise
from friends. Most times, we neglect or leave God out
rightly. The Lord says such a person is under his curse.
When you make man your strength, hope, helper,
support, without consent from God, you are not enjoying
and will not experience divine assistance.

DIVINE ASSISTANCE IS NOT HELP FROM IDOLS OR

ANYTHING AKIN TO IDOLS

“Worshippers of idols comfort each other, saying

“Don’t worry!” Woodcarvers, goldsmith and other
workers encourage one another and say “we’ve done a
great job… None of these idols are able to give advice
or answer questions. They are nothing. There are less
than passing breezes” (Isa. 41:6-7 & 28-29 CEV)

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 In African society and in many parts of the world
we see people who are prone and exposed to idol
worshipping. We hardly see clans, communities or
counties without their own idols. There are ancestral
gods, traditional beliefs, and animism and ritual
sacrifices. When some people claim to believe in Jesus,
but their faith in Jesus Christ is not rooted deep enough
in the Word of God, we often see such people falling
back to help from traditional sources: ancestral spirit,
dead relatives. If you are such a Christian, be reminded
again that “none of these idols are able to give advice or
answer questions. They are nothing –they are less than a
passing breeze.”
For those who have no serious commitment to
Jesus Christ, who are far from being genuine Christians,
who are not born by the Spirit of God, let me tell you
without mincing words that whichever way/means you
seek to obtain help, “none of these idols are able to give
advice or answer questions. They are nothing –they are
less than a passing breeze.” In a nutshell, divine
assistance that leads to life’s breakthrough cannot be

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received from idols and idol worshipping. Satan does
not offer true assistance. Demons and their agents are
not permitted to do the work of God. They only
counterfeit God to destroy lives. Beware!

DIVINE ASSISTANCE IS NOT ART OF SPIRITISM

“Someone may say to you “Go to the fortune teller who

makes soft chirping sounds or as the spirits of the dead.
After all, a nation ought to be able to ask its gods what
it should do. None those who talk like that will live to
see the light of day! They will go around in great pain
and will become so hungry that they will angrily curse
their king and their gods. And when they try to find help
in heaven and on earth, they will find only trouble and
darkness, terrible and deepest darkness.” Isa 8:19-22

Simply put, spiritism is the practice whereby

spiritual help is sought from the spirit world; seeking
help outside the Spirit of God, known in the Bible. From
our passage, spiritism involves consulting fortunetellers,
palm readers, seers, familiar spirits, wizards,
necromancy or talking to the spirit of the dead;

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consulting oracles, visiting false prophets or false
teachers, secret society (occultism), black or white
magic (Acts 19: 18-19). Hence, divine assistance is not
help from witchcraft or Wicca, ritual sacrifices,
clairvoyants, Indian talisman, ring, and amulets. It is not
seeking help from astrology, horoscopy, Ouija board,
African “black technology”, Extra-Sensory Perception
(ESP), art of voodoo, yoga, transcendental meditation,
astral traveling, hypnosis or psychics. It is not making
blood covenants and other fraternal brotherhood, eating
special spiritual foods/meals. It neither money-making
covenants nor satanically sought wealth. It could not
have been ungodly power and protection or security.
Practicing Satanism, ventriloquism (voice, magic, belly
speaking) and divination are not biblically
recommended divine help.
In the search for divine assistance, people “go to
the fortunetellers who make “soft chirping sounds” or
“peepings”, they “asked from the spirit of the dead”,
they “ask its own god what is should do”, they make
children “pass through fire”, they make covenants with
blood, they look for witches, wizards; they read

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horoscopes, request from Ouija board, go into all forms
of practices that are cultic, ungodly and unbiblical. The
word of God says unequivocally “none of those who
talk like that will live to see the light of day… They will
go around in great pain and become hungry…They will
even begin to curse their king (leader) who encourages
the practices and even the so called god”. As such
people seek for help from heaven and earths apart from
God they will find only trouble, darkness, terrible things
and deepest darkness. No wonder such people are more
hopeless. The only hope is in God. The only true source
of divine assistance is through Jesus Christ—the Mighty
God, the greatest Counselor and Supreme Helper.

DIVINE ASSISTANCE IS NOT HELP FROM FALSE

RELIGIOUS TEACHERS AND PROPHETS

Let us treat this as separate issue because some people

do not actually link themselves directly with satanic
activities or spiritism as enumerated above. They believe
they are called by the name of Jesus and yet they
indirectly use satanic power to render so called “divine
assistance” in the Prayer Mountains, valleys, churches

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and centers. We better describe this as the Scriptures
describe them. The Bible calls them false teachers; false
prophets angels of light; miracle workers; divine healers;
sign and wonder doers; anti-Christ; belly worshippers;
false apostles false brethren. [Mt 24:24; Mk 13:22; 2
Cor 11: 26]
In the words of Jesus, these people who try to
render divine assistance to others will tell then “Lo, here
is Christ”. They shall show great signs and wonders in
so much that if it were possible, they shall deceive
many. Paul reveals vividly that this “divine help
providers” will be “deceitful workers transforming
themselves into the apostles of Christ” 2 Cor 11:14.
These people will depart from faith, giving heed to
seducing spirits and the doctrines of devils. They shall
be speaking lies in hypocrisy. Their consciences would
have been seared with a hot iron. They will teach people
to neglect marriage, abstain from legitimate meats that
God ordained and sanctified. They shall have a form of
godliness but denying the power thereof. Often, they are
seen creeping into houses and leading captive innocent
but silly women who are sin-laden. The divine

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assistance providers often hold many women captive in
the prayer houses, mountains and valleys. Some are very
legalistic, ritualistic, syncretical and traditional. They
often neglect the New Testament truths.
In Africa, some people mix African Traditional
Religion with some Old Testament ritualistic practices.
Alas! They never help their clients. Instead they
compound their problems. Some women become the
prophets’ wives; some become caught up in the euphoria
of the ecstatic religion activities at the detriment of their
life, family and social development. False prophets,
false teachers, unscriptural miracle workers, divine
healers that are not born-again children of God, false
prophets, etc are “the enemies of the cross of Christ:
Their end is destruction from God. They have made
their belly their God and their glory is in their shame.
We have them in different versions ad categories in
many parts of the world.
Divine assistance this book advocates is not from
false prophets, false Christs and apostles. Jesus is the
bonafide Source of divine assistance. Any help outside
of Jesus Christ and biblical truth that sets free, is never

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divine assistance.

BIBLICAL DESCRIPTION OF DIVINE

ASSISTANCE

The Holy Bible has many profound ways of

describing how God help his own people. Being a book
of catalogue of how God helps people, the Bible is the
best source of revelation and steps to divine help. We
need to ourselves with the truth in the Word of God if
we would ever experience divine assistance. Divine
assistance is biblically described as:

Being Made in Heaven

“I look to the hills. Where will I find help? It will come
from the Lord who created the heavens and the earth.”
Psalm 121: 1-2
God makes the help you need in His dwelling
place—in heaven. Help is not from the hills, mountains,
man, salary, good homes, affluent family etc. Help is
from the Lord of heaven and earth. That help I can
assure you confidently is over all helps. It is better than

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any other form of help under the heaven. It is real help.

Being Sent from above

“……a man can receive nothing except it be given him
from heaven” John 3:27.
Not only is the help, support, or assistance made in
heaven, it is allowed to come to those who need it on
earth; “no one can do anything unless God in heaven
allows it.” So the help is “heavenly made” and
“heavenly sent” or “allowed” to come to us on earth.

Perfect and peaceful gifts

“Every good and perfect gift comes from the Father
who created all the lights in the heavens” James 1:17.
“But the wisdom that comes from above leads us to be
pure, friendly, gentle, sensible, kind, helpful and
genuine and sincere.” James 3:17.
God’s divine assistance is good, perfect, pure, gentle,
kind, genuine gifts of our Father God to anyone who
trust God enough to receive it.

There is no sorrow with/in it

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“When the Lord blesses you with riches, you have
nothing to regret” Prov. 10:22.
Another version of the Bible says that the blessings of
the Lord make us rich without adding sorrow to it. So
we can say the help of and from God has no sorrow with
since it unlike human help, satanic assistance or societal
provision. If you desire an assistance that will not bring
eventual sorrow to you, you can count on divine
assistance from God. If you desire blessing that would
give you peace of mind, look up to God and no where
else.

It is good, great and lasting

“But I will bless those who trust me. They will be like
trees growing beside a stream-tree with roots that reach
down to the water, and with leaves that are always
green. They bear fruits every year and are never
worried by a lack of rain.” Jer 17:7-8.
Can you imagine God making your life like that of a tree
planted by the side of a river? In which case, from your
dried, fruitless, ugly life, God makes you fresh, fruitful
and flourishing. That is a good, great and lasting help. It

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EXAMPLES OF PEOPLE WHO RECEIVED

DIVINE ASSISTANCE IN THE BIBLE

Adam and Eve were assisted by God in the Book

of Genesis. They disobeyed God, yet God helped them
by clothing them properly and promised them victory
over the serpent. God prefigured redemption from these
helpless folks right after their fall.
Noah was helped by God to build the ark that
saved him and his children. Despite all the atrocities in
the days of Noah, Noah found favor and divine help
from God. God helped him to build an ark that rescued
his family and consequently human race.
Abraham and Sarah were assisted by God to
have Isaac in their old age. No one could have imagined
a man and a woman of their age to bear children.
However, in the biology of God there is no old age. God
could use any age to achieve his divine purpose.
Isaac was helped by God to make it during the
period of drought. Only God knew what he did for Isaac

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that when there was a famine and drought Isaac was
sowing and reaping hundred folds. When the land was
dry because of lack of rain Isaac was busy digging well
that were filled with water. I do not think others around
him had it so easy; God was helping Isaac.
Jacob was helped by God to overcome the
trouble from his uncle and to subdue Esau in prayer. I
am still trying to fathom the philosophy, psychology,
and biology behind the techniques Jacob used to make
animals produce the kind of species he wanted without
the science of genetics, or cloning, or artificial
insemination. Yet, Jacob became rich by some spiritual
revelations that many theologians and Bible students are
still struggling to comprehend. It was God’s help at
work.
Joseph got divine assistance in a way we cannot
naturally explain. A careful survey of Joseph’s life
would show us that if it were not God helping him all
his dreams would have be fantasy, mirage, and imagery.
God helped Joseph to bring the dreams he gave to him
come to pass. He could help you too.
Moses was not left out; God assisted Moses to do

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all that he did. Israelites got out of Egypt with a high
hand of God: Divine help. It was not Moses ability or
wisdom. It was not his strength—he had none physically
so to say at eighty years and above. All that Moses did
to lead the people of God through the wilderness and
desert was nothing short of divine help.
Joshua had the backing of heaven in his
ministry. The siege of the wall of Jericho, making the
sun to stand still, conquering and allocating the
promised land to various clans of Israelites, and all the
feats of Joshua were nothing but divine help.
Elizabeth could not have had a child; But God
helped her. Note that when the child eventually came it
was not just an ordinary child. The child was the
forerunner of Jesus. The child was nobody but John the
Baptist. Jesus described John as the greatest person born
form a woman. John’s mother received divine help.
What can we say of Hannah, the mothers of
Samuel? She sought for and received divine help. God
helped her to bear children.
Other people include David, who received divine
help on a regular basis. David enjoyed God’s assistance.

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Elijah, Elisha, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Daniel, Ezekiel, etc. all
are products of divine assistance. Paul and the early
Christians experienced the help and succor of God in
their time. Jesus was practically assisted by the Father
from heaven. All those who put their trust and faith in
God, in history, the Bible and contemporary life are
products of divine help. I strongly believe that if God
helped these ones to receive and enjoy divine assistance,
he could help you and he would help you. God is highly
and always ready to help mortal man because he loves
us.

SIMPLE CONDITIONS FOR DIVINE

ASSISTANCE

Over the time, those who experienced divine help have

these conditions fulfilled.

Faith in God
There is a need for total trust, dependence and reliance
on God. No short cut to this. Dynamic faith in God is
one of the keys to divine help. You can hardly receive

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help from someone you do not trust, believe in, depend
on, or have faith in. receivers of divine help are
believers in God who helps those who trust in him and
nothing else.

Prayer
They often engage in prayer that is earnest, fervent,
sincere and heartfelt. They bare their hearts to God in
prayer. They made known unto God their needs and
desires. They were communicators with God.

Obedience to God
By obeying the Word God sent to them, they obtained
the blessing package with the Word. If you and I want
breakthrough in life, we need divine assistance.
Receiving divine assistance is possible. God has made it
available for those who can trust, obey and pray to Him.
Let us launch into the divine provision by faith now.

PRAYER:
Father, I know I cannot help myself. I have no power of my own.
Help me divinely. I believe I received the needed assistance I need
spiritually, physically, financially, socially by faith. I trust you and

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will keep on obeying you according to your word. I confess I am
divinely assisted from now on. Thank you Father, in Jesus’ name.

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 Chapter 2

HINDRANCES TO
DIVINE ASSISTANCE

God is very delighted to assist us. God is

concerned about all areas of our life because He is our
Father. He has the power, resources and wisdom. He is
the Omnipotent, the Omniscient and the Omnipresent
God. Divine assistance from God is all embracing. It
covers all things. Divine assistance can be deliverance;
divine guidance; courage; increased faith; long life;

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break through in life; healing and good health;
protection and security; provision; favor; and victory.
But oftentimes, we discover we do not receive
and enjoy special or uncommon help from God—apart
from mere existential help, meeting simple needs of life
and brief enjoyment. One can ask unequivocally then
that what the problem to receiving blessing from heaven
is. Why does the heaven on our heads seem to be shut
permanently or open occasionally? What tends to hinder
or prevent the flow of God’s grace, mercy, love, life,
provision, etc. into our lives? In simple words, all the
factors, forces, circumstances, situation, spirit or man,
that tend to apparently block God’s help can be called
hindrances to divine assistance to divine assistance.
You may be someone who is claiming to possess
eternal life: I mean you are a born-again Christian. You
may be having your three square meals regularly.
However, hindrances to divine assistance will not allow
you to have and enjoy abundant life. As you read this
revelation, I pray all the hindrances to your divine
assistance be removed in Jesus’ name.
On the positive note, when you are under the

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umbrella of divine assistance, you will graciously enjoy
the following; victory in life battles, progress in life
endeavor, spiritual insights, fruitfulness in life, and
abundant life, indeed. You would be confident in life
because you see God working on your behalf. God
would be glad with you because you are living in
obedience and by faith. Life would be meaningful.

WHAT IS THE MEANING OF HINDRANCE?

A hindrance means obstacles that prevent you

from moving forward. Hindrances can also be described
as bars, barriers, deterrents, stumbling block,
restrictions, limitations, pits that are unjumpable,
difficulties, drawbacks, impediments, something curbing
one’s progress, disability, checks, restraints,
obstructions, something choking the passage of
progress, etc. Hindrances to divine assistance can be of
spiritual origin, social influences, satanic forces,
demonic attacks or assaults, physical factors,
psychological matters, emotional factors or some
unknown or unseen forces. One can categorically

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classify them as follows.

SIN AS HINDERANCE TO DIVINE ASSISTANCE

“The Lord hasn’t lost His powerful strength; He can

still hear and answer prayers. Your sins are the ROAD
BLOCK between you and your God. That’s why He
doesn’t answer your prayers…” Isa 59:1-2 CEV.
From the above Scripture, the hindrances to
divine assistance is acting or operating as a road block
between you and the source of divine assistance: God.
That roadblock is categorically described as sins. It
means inasmuch as God wants to send divine help to
man, sins will always come as road block that will not
allow the blessings to reach the expected person—it may
be you.

WHAT IS SIN? WHAT DOES BIBLE CALL SIN?

Sin is rebellion against God, His will, His word, His
way. It is an act of provoking God. [Det. 9:7; Jos. 1:18]
Sin is every thought of foolishness; thinking like a fool,
reasoning out of God’s revelations. [Prov. 24:9] Sin is
doubting God; whatever is not of faith. [Rom 14:123]

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Sin knows God’s will but refusing to do it. [James 4:17]
Sin is transgression against God’s laws. [1 John 3:4]
Sin is all unrighteousness. [1 John 5:17]
Can you see why many people are deterred from
divine assistance? Can you see why you have been
unable to breakthrough in life? When there are rebellion,
provocation of the Almighty God by our acts and deeds,
thinking foolishly, doubting God’s words, living in
unbelief, knowing God’s will and absconding from
them, direct or indirect transgression of God’s law,
living with all forms of unrighteousness, there can not
be divine assistance. Oh! We need the mercy of God to
break free from sins that hinder our divine blessing.
The Yoruba people mythically believe that sin is
a spirit-a spiritual person/being. He is like Satan and
other demons. There is an adage in Yoruba oracle that
“Sin should be feared more than death.” And if that
should be examined in the light of the Bible, we see “the
wages of sin is death.” It means that sin comes to act and
display before death comes. Sin is like a person who
tries to get hold of somebody’s will, mind and
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say that the wages sin pays to any one that “works” for
him or yields to him is to kill or destroy that person
eventually. We must shun sin at all times. Give no place
for sin in our heart, mind and body.

DANGERS OF/FROM SIN

The Bible portrays the danger from sins as clear as
possible. Sin brings reproaches. Prov 14:34. Sin makes
one a wicked person. Prov 15:9. Sin makes one a poor
person—physically and spiritually. Prov 28:13. Sin is
sting that is painful and deadly, in fact causing death [1
Cor. 15:16]. Sin actually kills [Rom 6:25] In real fact,
sin should be feared and not death itself! [James 1:17]

MANIFESTATION OF SIN
In Galatians 5:19-21, we have a description of
manifestation of the works of flesh. When sin enters into
a flesh (or life), what that flesh shows forth often are
adultery, fornication (all immoral acts between men and
men, women and women, men and women, man and
animal), uncleanness (filthy thoughts), lasciviousness
(shameful deeds), idolatry, practice of witchcraft,
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emulations, wrath, heresies, envy, reveling (getting
drunk, carrying out wild parties)
In the Book of Romans 1:2, we have another
similar catalogue of the manifestation of works of the
flesh (that shows that sin is dwelling in that life). These
are; not retaining God in their knowledge, not glorifying
God as God, ingratitude, vain imaginations, foolishness
of heart, darkened heart, changing the glory of God to
corruptible man, birds and four-footed beasts and
creeping things; uncleanness, lustful hearts, dishonoring
of their own bodies between themselves, changing the
truth of God to a lie, worshipping and serving created
beings more that the Creator, same sex burning in their
lust one toward another, reprobate minds, doing things
that are not convenient, filled with all unrighteousness,
fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness,
deceit, malignity, whispering, backbiting, pride,
despiteful, boasters, inventor of evil things, disobedient
to parents, people without understanding, covenant
breakers, without natural affection, implacable,
unmerciful, having pleasure in wrong deeds, words and
arts.

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 In Timothy 4:1, we see again how sin works
through the flesh. When sin is at work, we shall be
seeing people departing from the faith, giving heed to
seducing spirits, accepting the doctrines of devil/Satan,
encouraging the doctrines of devils, speaking lies in
hypocrisy, seared conscience, forbidding marrying,
teaching people to abstain from meats which God has
created.
When we see traces or full manifestation of the
above, be sure sin is at work; sin is not a physical being,
so you cannot see it but you can see its works through
the fleshy, carnal acts and deeds, deeds that are opposite
to divine will, way and word. This is how sin blocks
divine assistance.

HOW TO OVERCOME SIN

Here are some scriptural steps to take to
overcome sin and its power.

Confess sin and its manifestation and deeds in your life.

By confessing your sins to God, and asking for
forgiveness ad pardon, you are exposing and weakening
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Repent from following the way of sin.

Make a U-turn from your sins; stop having a
relationship with sin and turn to the Lord Jesus.

Forsake sin completely.

Abandon sin and sinful deeds. Give up sin completely,
do not have anything to do with it again; if you do not
abandon sin, it will abandon you after it brings shame!

Create a fervent hatred for sin.

Do not make any friendship with sin any more. Since is
like a plague or cancer cells; it spreads with devastating
destruction. This is the reason to avoid sins perfectly.
Jesus came to destroy sin and its power. Faith in Jesus
launches you to the real of victory over sins. When you
come to Jesus you could have a passionate hatred for sin
because Jesus would give you by his Spirit over sin.

Fight against it deliberately, consciously.

Strife with sin vehemently. Mortify all the deeds of sin,

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the work of flesh—as described and revealed in the
scriptures.
Let us reiterate clearly that none of the above
can be done with ordinary arm of flesh. No one can
confess, repent, forsake, create a hatred for sin, fight
against sin, mortify the deeds of sin and flesh without
supernatural power of God. The only power that can
conquer and overcome sin is the power of Jesus, the
power in the name of Jesus, the power in the Blood of
Jesus, the power of the Holy Spirit. Jesus is the only
Person who has the power over Satan and sin. So, to
overcome and win the battle over sin, one must turn to
Jesus. One must allow Jesus to be his/her personal Lord,
Savior and Redeemer. He shed His blood to redeem us
from the bondage of sin. The Blood of Jesus only is the
way out of the grip and grasp of sin upon any life. Come
today to Jesus, confess His, and accept Him as your
Lord and Master. Hide your life in Him and let His
redemptive power-in His Blood-avail for you. With
Jesus, you can overcome Satan and sin, and live a
victorious life. You can receive divine assistance on this
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you from sin, Satan and their evil works. Let God assist
you. When you allow Him, you will get this assistance
for other areas of your life.

SELF AS A HINDERANCE TO DIVINE ASSISTANCE

The Advanced Learner’s Dictionary of English
describes self as, a person’s inner being, including the
mind and spirit; A person’s nature or personality, the
qualities that make one individual; One’s own interest,
advantage, health, pleasure; Yourself, myself, himself,
herself.
From the testimonies of the Scripture and life’s
experience, you are yourself. You are a unique being.
No one is like you. Your inner being-mind, spirit is
unique. Your personal nature, individuality, your
interest, pleasure are outstandingly different from others.
No one is like you. So your habit, health, advantage,
pleasure are peculiar to you. You are created by God
with great potentials, but you are a free-moral being.
You can choose desire, decide, do and determine
whatever you love-but you will be responsible for your
decision. We discover that majority of people have been
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flow of divine assistance into their lives. How? Here are
some simple observations.

RELATIONSHIP OF SELF WITH GOD

Self describes the inner being of a person as the
mind and spirit. To be able to receive divine assistance
from God, the inner being, the spirit, the mind, must be
aligned with God. The inner mind must be in a positive
relationship with God. Without this relationship with
God, the divine assistance available will be little or non-
existent. Every person from within him/herself must
have a living relationship with God through Jesus
Christ. He must be born again, born of the Spirit of God,
become a new creature in Christ. Such a person will
enjoy divine assistance. The matter is both personal and
divine. As much as God draws someone to Himself, that
person must surrender to the call and divine pulling of
God. God works on him by His Spirit, but the person
that self, must yield his/her will to God consciously.
When a self decides and says no to that divine call and
invitation, he/she may not be saved by the grace and
thus he/she hinders him/herself from divine assistance.
Have your surrendered yourself to God?

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 DANGER OF SELF MANAGEMENT
Self has the tendency to manage himself especially
if he is not in positive relation with God. Any person
who is not born of the spirit of God has that tendency to
live alone, lonely and self-manage himself. Even some
so-call Christians practice this foolish act of self-
management. As long as any self endeavors to manage
himself, he shows his independence from God. When
you live outside God, your Creator, you will either
depend on a smaller god or force or “self”. The
dependence on self is the ultimate pride of life ever
manifested by man. With such people, there may not be
divine assistance until God is acknowledged. Self can
hinder himself from divine help by acting or living with
his depraved, carnal fleshing lifestyle.

SELF, WRONG ACTIONS, AND THOUGHTS

“As a man thinks, so his is.” That is the operation of
self. Self will like to think about and act alone. The
thought of self without God with can be destructive,
evil, uncreative and unconstructive. Whatever self thinks
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controlled by the word and spirit of God, it could be
devastating indeed. Self can think loftily, personally,
proudly, selfishly, godlessly, carnally, desperately-
especially when Christ is not ruling and reigning within.
To think and acts rightly the will, the
prompting, the desire, the premonition of self must be
born-again. Any self thinking and acting outside the
word and influence of the spirit of God will constantly
neglect divine assistance. Self must seek the thoughts of
God, act the way of God and seek divine assistance if it
will be what God wants it to be.

SELF, HABITS, FASHIONS AND LIFESTYLE

All the habits of self outside Christ are godless,
graceless and often selfish or self-satisfying. Self
without God often has habits of fashion, food, friendship
and fads of this world that quickly show that the
thoughts, desire, spiritual world view are quite different
from that of the Bible-believing people. These habits,
fashions and lifestyle often block them off divine
assistance.
He who does the will of the Lord is often helped by
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accepted type—habit that are refreshing, godly, edifying
and creative. Cultivate habit of prayer, going to church,
bible study, giving, loving habits etc. Such will open the
door of divine assistance. Let your lifestyle be patterned
after the biblical description of holiness, faith, love,
honesty, caring, etc. Let your fashion of dressing be that
accepted by God of the Bible. Life lived around the orbit
of godliness is of great help to receive divine assistance.

SELF, PURSUITS, AND DESIRE

As earlier said, self has a desire unique to him. Self
often will pursue such desire. The pursuit of selfish
desire is inimical to divine assistance. Stop pursuing
your selfish interest; it could be detrimental to your
receiving divine help. Heaven helps those who seek the
face of God of Heaven for help, not those who selfishly
and foolishly help themselves. No one can really help
him/herself. No one has the power and capability to help
him/herself. Help comes from above; from God, the
ultimate helper of mankind and all creation. Let your
desire and pursuit be in line with God’s will and you
will see God sending help at the right time you really
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observe (or pursue) lying vanity forsake their own
mercy” [Jonah 2:8]. If you really need divine mercy,
stop pursuing or observing lying vanity.

SELF AND THE USE OF TIME

Self uses time uselessly. Self uses time as if he is
the owner. Self uses time as if it can be recalled. Self
uses time for everything except for God. Your time is
your life. To waste time is to waste life. To waste time is
to insult God the owner of time, period and season. In
fact, our time is in the hands of God. We muse,
therefore, seek God to know how to use our time wisely.
Stop wasting God’s golden gift-time, you will account
for it. Let me say that your time is essentially used for
work, leisure/rest and worship.
Majority of people use their time for work and all
manner of legitimate and illegitimate leisure. Little time
is often being used for God. God expects us to strike a
balance: work, rest and worship God. That is the
legitimate, heavenly acceptable use of time. You must
have an acceptable use of time. You must have (or
divide) your time wisely. Plan your time, plan your life,
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when needed.

WHERE SELF LOVES TO GO

Over the time, developed through daily habits, self
loves certain places to go. Some “selves”, under divine
control are now going to godly places. Other “selves”
are still going to places that God will never approve of.
Can you imagine where you go that you do not want
anyone to see you? Can you desire to take Jesus to
where you often go? Will Jesus be happy seeing you
where you are presently? Self is so foolish to think that
other cannot see him; meanwhile, self is naked before
God.
For anyone to receive help from above, he/she
must go to where God wants him/her to go-always. God
wants Jonah to go to Nineveh, he went to Tarshish; he
suffered temporarily for it. There are people today who
go to where God will never ordain—either for leisure of
work. Those who go to where God wants to go at the
particular time will receive God’s help.

RELATIONSHIP OF SELF WITH OTHERS

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 A natural man is a selfish being. He is full of
himself. In his relationship with others, he seeks his own
satisfaction; whatever will not yield any gain or
dividend in his affairs with other, will not be seriously
handled. Self has ulterior motif in every relationship he
establishes. Self loves conditionally.
Self operates with “rub my back, I will rub your
back too” motto. This is often seen in business and
marital relationship. God does not ordain that our
relationship with each other should be conditional. God
loves us unconditionally and anyone who will receive
divine help must operate above the level of selfishness,
he must be selfless before he/she cab receive divine
help. Relationships that hurt, harms, hides the truth,
hinders progress, that is hypocritical and halts spiritual
growth are not good relationships. Our love must be
without dissimilation. We must love our neighbor as
ourselves, if we will receive divine assistance from God.

HOW SELF PERCEIVES LIFE GENERALLY

How you see or view life will determine your attitude
to life and divine things generally. If you see life as a
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harm, you will enjoy your life. However, of you view
life as unfriendly, harmful, hurtful, dangerous,
unhelping; full of fear, suspicious, etc, you may not
enjoy life. If you hide under your little selfish canopy
and neglect all other people, if you have all things for
yourself without sharing you life, wisdom, love, gifts,
money, grief and sorrow with others, you may end up
not receiving any divine help.
If you see life as void of God’s presence, mercy,
love and kindness, if you view life as absence of some
people who care, love and ready to assist other, your
view may hinder a proper, broader view of life in the
light of Bible and theology. Life must be perceived and
understood as a gift from God—the Sustainer and
Helper of His own. Such a view will enhance divine
assistance. Such a view will help us to have an attitude
that is positive and hopeful. Such a view will help us to
see that our help always comes from God- above and
that such help will surely or definitely come at the right
divine tine. Let your view and attitude to life be that that
is biblically patterned-other will or may not help you so
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 SELF AND PAST EXPERIENCES IN LIFE
Anyone not alive in his spirit will be alive in the
flesh and live the selfish, carnal, depraved and natural
life. Living a natural, carnal and selfish life controlled
by the past experience may end up not receiving divine
assistance. One of the characteristics of self is self-pity;
seeking sympathy because of one problem that happened
in the past. Experiences are normal life’s phenomena.
They are bound to come. Some are positive, others are
negative. But a person who will receive divine
assistance must have a relationship with God constantly
and this relationship will inform him that all things with
past, present or future work together for good for those
who love the Lord. You are not supposed to ruin your
present and future with the thought of the past. Friend, if
you will learn how to receive divine assistance, forget
the past, handle the present with God’s help and hope
for a better future.
Dwelling on your past experience may become
sinful and sickening to you. Watch out! Divine
assistance comes to those who come to accept quickly
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Problems of yesterday must lead you to seek for divine
assistance while you try to avoid the same mistake that
brought the problems. Our God is a God of now and
tomorrow when it comes to divine assistance. Let Him
help you now and in the future. Stop living in the past.
Self will want you to dwell on the past failures, seek
human sympathy and not divine help.

WHAT SELF LOVES TO DO

Self craves for greatness. Self want to be
somebody-even without God. So the work majority are
doing today will not enhance their reception of divine
assistance because many jobs are never supported by
God. If God is your Creator and Father, you must seek
to know His will even in the work you want to do. What
you do matters now and in eternity and will tell whether
you will constantly receive divine help or not. When you
pick up a job because of the monetary gain and selfish
attainment, not seeking the face and will of God, that job
may be a burden, a snare and source of untimely death.
You may have all the money and yet feel unhappy and
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seek for a job, career that will glorify God and not
necessarily for financial gain. God is the Creator of
work and as His child, who needs divine assistance at
work you need His guidance before you pick up a job.

THE CONFESSION OF YOUR MOUTH

You are created with a mouth. The mouth is a part
of the body for so many good works. Eating is essential
for living, drinking of water/fluid is sin qua non. Much
more, the mouth has the tongue which harbors the taste
buds and is connected to the vocal chords. The mouth is
essentially the “speaking machine” of the body. It is also
meant to pray, praise and profess words that will help
us. Without the mouth, communication of man may
never be complete or full. Nevertheless, we use the
mouth to communicate “in” certain good or bad things.
Profession is possession. They say your mouth, when
controlled by self, can be a destructive organ. Speaking
evil into existence. It can destroy lives, systems,
relationships, etc. Our hearts and head and mouth are
friends intrinsically; they are connected.
So when the heart (the spirit, the real self) is
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work otherwise. A sanctified heart and head will lead to
a sanctified mouth. A sanctified mouth and tongue will
speak and give out life, peace, wisdom, courage, faith,
compassion, etc. An unsanctified tongue speaks out the
destructive fire and vices of hell, scattering
relationships, cursing God, abusing man, setting systems
ablaze, splitting homes, destroying societies, in short,
and hindering divine assistance. Apostle James says a
fountain cannot bring forth bitter and sweet water at the
same time. Our mouth and tongue cannot be used to
curse men and bless God. It must be used in a form that
will enhance divine assistance. Many sin with their
tongues and mouth more that their eyes and ears. Many
sin with their mouth more than the heart. The tongue no
one seems to tame. It may be quite unruly especially
where self is at work. Ask God to cleanse your heart,
your head and your mouth and tongue so that they will
not jointly work together to block your divine assistance
that ought to come to you. Use your mouth and tongue
to bring forth life, peace, grace, blessing, breakthrough,
divine assistance from today. Consecrate your life, even
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 WHAT TO DO WITH SELF
There are just two things to do with your “self”.
Very simple indeed! Either leave “self” as it is. Let it do
whatever he likes—but never expect any divine
assistance. Self will eventually drive himself to
destruction and perdition. Or take self to God, His
creator. Let the power of God take over. Destroy self
and his will, prompting, character and depraved
attributes. Let god recreate self. Let self receive new life
in Jesus Christ. By so doing, you are bringing self under
subjection of the greatest power of heaven that can
handle self. How do you do that?
i. Come to conscious spiritual relationship with
God through repentance of sin and accepting
Jesus as Master over self.
ii. Work in the fear of God by studying obeying
God’s words-the Bible;
iii. Change your thoughts, attitude, life-style by the
power of the word and transforming power of the
Holy Spirit;
iv. Consecrate yourself to God and His service.
Seek to do God’s will; follow His ways;
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can. God can help you;
vi. Let your life be patterned by the word of God, by
the example of Jesus.
Your receiving divine assistance depends on whether
or not you could be assisted based on the above
revelations, views and factors. If you do not allow self to
control your life, God will be happily and ready to assist
you divinely. It is better to yield to God in righteous
living and be helped from above. When we surrender to
God fully, he assists us unreservedly.

SATAN AS HINDERANCE TO DIVINE ASSISTANCE

Satan—the Bible calls him the following names:
Accuser of brethren; Devil—the evil one/doer; Tempter;
Belial; Beelzebub; Murderer; Father of lies/liar; Prince
of this world; Leader of kingdom of evil; Ancient
serpent and so many other related names.
Satan was not originally evil. He was in fact, an
angelic being full of heavenly glory and power.
However, being a free moral agent, he became proud
because of his beauty, power and position and would
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disposition which were against the sovereign God. His
original name was Lucifer, which means “brightness”,
“the morning star”. Ever since Lucifer fell, he had been
out to make other creatures, especially man fall.
Because God will not help Lucifer to have divine
assistance, he does not want anyone to have it. How
does he achieve this? Let’s view this together.

HOW SATAN WORKS TO HINDER DIVINE ASSISTANCE

Upon Satan’s fall, he was “dethroned” and cast to the
earth.
“…woe to the inhabiter of the earth and of the sea! For
the devil is come down unto you having great wrath…”
Rev 12:12.
Lucifer was “thrown to the earth and the sea” and
ever since, he has been operating from there—not as a
visible being but as often invisible being causing havoc
and destruction to lives, properties and existence of man
and creations. Basically, here is how Satan works.
1. He tries to control this present world
2. He afflicts people with illnesses, diseases,
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4. He makes unbelievers (in Jesus) to live in
perpetual sin
5. He keeps people away from worshiping the true
God
6. He deceives the world by transforming into angel
of light
7. He devices schemes to kill, steal and destroy;
8. He causes untimely death
9. Most evils in the world are originated, designed
and brought forth by Satan
10. He has agents that are both spiritual (in form of
demons) and physical—man and animals that he
possesses or influences, or teaches and controls
to invent and do his evil works.
Satan is very persistent, persevering and pressing.
He often does not give up easily. Thanks to God
Almighty that anyone who is in Christ Jesus is
victorious over Satan, demons and his agents. Victory
over Satan is already obtained, secured, established and
possible for anyone who believes in Christ Jesus. By the
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Calvary, we can safely conclude unequivocally that
• God has the power over Satan and his agents
• Satan does not have any right to hinder your
blessing if you are in Christ.
• Satan has fallen and defeated and he remains in
the position-even now and till eternity.
• Believer overcomes Satan by the Blood of Jesus
• Satan is under our feet forever as long as we are
in Christ Jesus.
• Satan cannot be killed being a spirit being.

HOW BELIEVERS DO HANDLE SATAN?

Jesus teaches us how to handle Satan
appropriately so that he cannot hinder our divine
blessings and assistance. We are ambassadors or
representatives of Christ here on earth and are anointed
to destroy the works of Satan just as Jesus did. Here are
seven scriptural ways to handle Satan and keep him off
and away from your God-given blessings and
assistances.

Rebuke Satan and his Cohorts

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Jesus often rebukes the signs and symptoms of any
satanic or demonic manifestation. So we must do the
same. (Luke 4:39). He rebuked Satan in Simeon’s wife’s
mother. He rebuked Satan’s operations in Peter when
Peter was used by Satan to attempt to dissuade Jesus
from going to the cross. In Zechariah 3:2, we read, “The
Lord rebukes thee, O Satan: even the Lord that hath
chosen Jerusalem…” Satan must (and can) be rebuked
and he will cease his operations. Try this by faith in the
name of Jesus. Rebuke Satan in prayer of authority.
Believers in Christ have the divine authority over Satan.
We need to be aware and awake to this spiritual reality.
Resist Satan and his Cohorts
One of Satan’s modus operandi is to resist believers; he
stands against believers.
“Satan standing at his right hand to resist”. Zech 3:1.
So if you find Satan resisting your blessing you too
stand up to resist him in the name of the Lord Jesus.
“Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil
and he will flee from you.” James 4:7.
Nothing but practical truth! Even before Satan could
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him first. The best fight is the offensive fight. Be
offensive with Satan.

Bind the devil

Jesus teaches us to bind the devil.
“Or else, how can one enter into a strong man’s house
and spoil his goods, except he first bind the strong man?
And then he will spoil his house.” Matt 12:29.
Satan is referred to here as a “strong man” that needs to
be bound with strong power—the power of God, in the
name of Jesus. The physical illustration here it that we
can make Satan to be in bonds; in a knitted form, in a
tied condition or in a wound position, fastened with a
rope. By so doing, we make Satan powerless,
incapacitated, and unable to do his evil deeds; this we do
in Jesus’ name. Will you not bind the devil hindering
your divine assistance now?

Cast out the Devil

The idea of casting out something/somebody is to send
it/him in a particular direction, to throw
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gives us a better view of the application of the “casting
out” concept. Jesus cast out devils on many occasions.
In Luke 11:20, He categorically says,
“But if I with the finger of God cast out devils, no doubt
the kingdom of God is come upon you.”
Anyone who is truly in the kingdom of God and who
lives according to kingdom principles can use this
kingdom strategy of handling the devil. Jesus cast out
devils/demons and Satan and He instructed, taught us
and expected us to cast out Satan and demons.
“These signs shall follow them that believe, in my
Name shall they cast out devils….” Mk 16:17.
You and I can send out, throw out deliberately with
force, the devil into a particular direction. We must
therefore designate the direction and destination of
where we want the devil to go by this method. Ask the
devil to go into the wood, to wherever you desire. Be
specific about that as God leads you. Do not be satisfied
with “I cast you out devil”—be specific of the
destination, or where the Spirit of God lead you to send
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Curse the Devil and his Cohorts
A curse is a rude, offensive word or phrase used to
express violent anger. Phrases or group of words spoken
with the aim of pursuing, injuring or destroying
somebody or something. Unpleasant words against
somebody could be a curse. The cultic and magical
people use diabolical material, spells, charms with the
words with which they curse. However, we as children
of God use the word of God to speak against the devil.
We are permitted to abuse, use offensive words, speak
rudely, and express annoyance or anger, uttering
punitive, injurious and destructive words coupled with
the scripture against the devil and his agents. In the book
of Acts 13:6-11, Paul, the Apostle came across a
sorcerer named Elymas who tend to withstand them and
seeking to turn away people from faith. In verse 9-11,
Apostle Paul handled that child of devil
appropriately-“then Saul, filled with the Holy Ghost, set
his eyes on him, and said O full of all subtlety and all
mischief, thou child of the devil, thou enemy of all
righteousness, wilt thou not cease to pervert the right
ways of the Lord? And now, behold, the hand of the

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Lord is upon thee, and thou shalt be blind not seeing the
sun for a season. And immediately there fell on him a
mist and a darkness, and he went about seeking some to
lead him by the hand.” That is what it practical means to
curse the devil. It has to be with the power of the Holy
Spirit coupled with proper living.

Command The Devil to do your biding

“Then saith Jesus unto him, Get thee hence, Satan, for
it is written ….” Mat 4:10.
From life and spiritual experience, Satan is never a
gentleman. So, he does not listen to gentle words. That
is the reason force is often the way to handle him. Satan
and his cohorts need to be rebuked, resisted, bound, cast
out, cursed and commanded. All these are forceful
concepts. Satan is not psychedelic, gentle and earth
worm personality. He is militant, offensive, aggressive,
violent and prevailing. So, that is the language he
understands, the language of force. He needs to be
commanded to get thee behind us. He needs to be
commanded to put off his influences on our blessings.
He needs to be commanded to hands off from our
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Lose Satan’s Hold or Grip

“I break the jaws of the wicked and plucked the spoil
out of his teeth.” Job 29:17.
Jesus at the grave of Lazarus after He had called Lazarus
life again says, “Loose him, and let him go.” John
11:44.
There are situations when devil and his agents get
hold of our blessings. They seem to clinch them amidst
their jaws or teeth or grasp them tightly. If the jaws of
the wicked one are not broken, and the blessing in their
teeth not loose, we cannot pluck them out easily.
Presently, your blessing from heaven, which God has
sent to help you, may be held tightly, gripped strongly
and grasped tenaciously. The devil is saying they will
not let go. He holds them closely to himself. But by the
power of God, in the name pf Jesus, you can loose the
blessing from Satan’s grip or Satan from your blessing.
All these are possible with prayer or earnest prayers,
fervent prayers. All the activities of Satan are described
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wicked.” And we must quench his flames by prayer of
faith. We must remove the hand pf Satan from our
divinely ordained blessing. With the blood of Jesus, the
Word of God, the power of the Holy Ghost and prayer
of faith, we can overcome Satan and receive divine
assistance.

SOCIETY/WORLD AS HINDERANCE TO
DIVINE ASSISTANCE
“Wherein in time past ye walked according to the
course of this world, according to the prince of the
power of air, the spirit that now worketh in the children
of disobedience. Among whom also we all had our
conversation on times past in the lust of our flesh,
fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and
were by nature the children of wrath even as other.”
Eph 2:2-3.
From the above scripture, we can deduce the followings.
There a course of this world/society. There is prince and
power. There is a spirit-called spirit of disobedience to
God’s will, way and word. There are children of
disobedience/wrath. Anyone who is not in Christ is
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of the world. Anyone outside Christ lives according to
lusts of the flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and
mind. Anyone outside Christ is a child of wrath from
God. Anyone outside Christ will surely have his
conversation according to the course of the world, the
lust of flesh, the desires of flesh and mind. Anyone who
follows the above will not receive divine assistance but
divine wrath-eventually.
To an average English learner, the meaning of the
word “world” is insufficient. The world on broader
sense means, the way different people behave or live;
human affairs and activities; possession and physical
pleasures: people conventional attitudes; the cosmic
force/power; the orderly arrangement, decorations,
adorning of things in the universe; principles and
practices in the world; the beliefs, ideologies,
philosophies of people in the universe, and so on.
The inhabitants of the globe called earth, man
specifically, has a way of doing his things different from
God’s. Man is often aided by Satan to achieve many
things that God projects and programs. Such affairs,
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philosophies, ideologies, operations, concepts,
phenomena, etc that are different and antagonistic to
Bible and God are what we simply describe as
worldliness. The society of people often opposes God.
Human beings tend o tell God, “You shall not rule over
us.” Such acts or stance can never enhance divine
assistance. Man often uses his natural, physical life to
oppose and attack spiritual life and things.
We have man-made or world-made prophets
around us. We have so many religious groups,
traditional worshippers of idols, Islamic
fundamentalists, pseudo-religious sects all working
against God. If anyone gets himself entangled with
them, divine assistance will be difficult. In our world
and society, people are often and always deceived into
hidden covenants in order to be prosperous, powerful,
and popular and protected. They enter into satanic
groups, cultic sects and many other things God forbids
at the detriment of their souls. Such can not help to
secure godly assistance.
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evil societies, cultic materials and satanic covenants. All
spells, curses, charms that are at hand must be
destroyed. The mark of the beast, anti-Christ and the
world are all around—these must be overcome! Worldly
music, fashion that gives no glory to God, lifestyle that
is not biblically acceptable, love of money, lust of the
eyes, pride of life, lust of the flesh-all must be dealt with
out rightly. All worldly background that tends to limit,
prevent or hinder divine assistance must be renounced.
There is a new description of this phenomenon;
it is “the world is the church, and the church is now in
the world.” What a pity! This is never a Christian
description or outlook. Although, the Church is in the
world, it is never of the world. Christians are in the
world but they are never of the world. Anything
different from this Jesus’ standard, will hinder divine
assistance to any Christian or any Christian group or
church.
Can God look on you and help you or assist you
because you are following His divine standard? Can
God look at your heart and not find the world reigning
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world and society? No wonder you are not receiving
divine assistance again.
If any Christian will receive and continue to receive
divine assistance, he must remember the followings.
• We are strangers in the world
• We cannot accept worldly standard and godly
standard at the same time
• We must not love the world
• We must overcome the world
• We should be crucified to the world-dead
indeed!
• We must proclaim and live the gospel even in the
perverse world
• We need to “separate” our lives from that of the
world
• We are to shine as light in this dark and hopeless
world
• We must preserve and season the world around
us as salt
• Finally, we must overcome the beast, its image,
its mark and its name presently-in this world.
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divine assistance. Sin, Satan, self and society/world can
hinder divine assistance. How we need to examine our
lives constantly so that we are not limited by those four
enemies of our divine help.

PRAYER
Lord God, I know I need your help. I need assistance
from the throne of grace. I realize Satan can hinder and
has been hindering my blessings. The society can be a
barrier to my breakthrough in life. And on many
occasion, I have been the person blocking the flow of
your grace and blessing into my life. In addition, I know
full well that sin is great hindrance to divine blessing. I
ask that you help me to overcome all these obstacles
and barriers by your power. I confess my sins and ask
for you forgiveness, cleansing, and pardon. I rebuke
Satan and his influences on my life and blessing. I come
against the operation of the society and self hindering
your abundant life in me. I receive your grace, mercy,
and assistance from today. Help me to always look up to
You for help.
Thank you Father for answers, in Jesus name.

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 Chapter 3

VEHICLES FOR
DIVINE ASSISTANCE

From the beginning of this book, we have been

seeing the possibility, availability and obtain ability of
divine assistance. God is constantly helping His people,
the Bible reveals this clearly. We equally see that there
could be hindrances to receiving divine help.
In this chapter, we shall see how the Lord
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into His people’s lives. God works in a mysterious way.
His ways past finding. God is not limited by any means,
methods or ways. Here are some ways God uses to bring
divine assistance to us, His people.

GOD CHANNELS DIVINE ASSISTANCE

THROUGH PROVIDENCE
“Who can measure the wealth and wisdom and
knowledge of God? Who can understand His decisions,
or explain what He dies? Has anyone known the
thoughts of the Lord or given Him advice?” Rom 11:
33-34. “The Lord says, my thoughts and ways are not
like yours. Just as the heavens are higher that the earth,
my thoughts and my ways are higher than yours: Isa
55:8-9.
God is All-wise, All-knowing, All-powerful; He
does what pleases Him. His decisions man cannot
fathom. His thoughts are so lofty. His ways past
searching out. So, God gives us divine assistance
through means we cannot think about, beyond our
prayers, above our plans, exceeding our power,
incomparable to our resources, outside our so-called
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sovereignty. These two attributes operate and go beyond
our theologies.
“He is able to do exceeding, abundantly above
all that we ask or think, according to the power that
works in us.” Eph 3:20.
Consider these three acts of providential
provision to His people and expect yours.

Provision of Manna in the wilderness Ex 16:10-18:

The account in Exodus 16 was the first experience of
provision of manna. The Bible describes it as angelic
food. They never needed to cook it, nor buy it with
money. They just wake up and pick as much as needed
per day. Manna was described as “the bread which the
Lord hath given you to eat.” Ex 16:15. Remember they
ate it for forty years! May I say that God still provides
for His people their daily bread and beyond daily bread!
We must work and pray. We must be diligent. But there
are times that God provides above your income, prayer,
faith, expectation, miraculously from heaven, from
unspecified source. I used to tell people when this truth
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you do not need to have money or go to the market to
buy something. You do not even need to know the price.
God can provide for His children providentially, without
them struggling, sweating, and striving for it. Thus
could be anything, anyway! And it can be as long as
God decides, for the Israelites, manna was for forty
years. Can you imagine God providing something
constantly everyday, every month, every year for forty
years? That is really great! I want you to begin
patterning your mind to receive divine provisions that
you will have nothing to do about it at all, than just to
receive and enjoy them. God does this to show that
indeed, he is God, the Almighty.

Crossing the Red Sea

The account of crossing the Red Sea is providentially
arranged.
“And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and the
Lord caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind in
all that night and made the sea dry land, and the water
was divided.” Ex 14:21.
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not the rod of Moses. It was God who wanted His
people for escape from the hand of their enemy. So, God
caused a strong east wind all night that caused the water
of the sea to recede as a wall. God made the water to
divide into two, left and right. God caused dry land to
appear and His people to pass through. When the
Egyptians did the same, after God’s people had escaped,
the Bible says, “…the water come again upon the
Egyptians, upon their chariots, and upon their
horsemen. Moses stretched forth his hand over the sea,
and the returned to its strength when the morning
appeared, and the Egyptians fled against, and the Lord
overthrew the Egyptians in the midst of the sea…” Ex
14: 26-27.
The Israelites had no premonition about how they can
escape from the Egyptians. All they could do was to cry.
God intervened and gave them what they could not do, a
miracle of deliverance. While God saved His people, He
destroyed the enemy of His people. God does such great
things when all hope is lost, and man has come to his
human end. When you are in such condition, expect a
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Elijah was fed miraculously
It was a judgmental prophetic utterance that Elijah
made: God wanted to punish the inhabitants of the land
of Assyria for their wickedness, especially that of King
Ahab and his wife, Jezebel. And God inspired His
prophet to declare,
“As the Lord God of Israel liveth before whom I stand,
there shall not be dew nor rain these years, according
to my word”.
Meanwhile, Elijah had no special or specific means
of feeding. No doubt he trusted in God to divinely assist
him. According to God’s will and his faith in God,
God’s word came to Elijah saying,
“Get thee hence, and turn thee and hide thyself by the
brook Cherith that is before Jordan. And it shall be that
thou shalt drink of the brook and I have commanded the
ravens to feed thee there... so… he dwelt by the brook
Cherith… and the raven brought him bread and flesh in
the morning, and bread and flesh in the evening, and he
drank of the brook.” 1 Kings 17:3-7.
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providence. Elijah was cared-for for a couple of months
and as the brook dried because of lack of rain, God
opened another door. God commanded a widow of
Zarephath to sustain Elijah. The water from the brook,
the bread and flesh from the ravens, the care from the
widow were providentially arranged by God. They were
all divine assistances. As God assisted Elijah with food
and water, so can He assist us with other necessities of
life in the physical spiritual, emotional realms. God still
provides divine assistance providentially. He can do
your today!

GOD CHANNELS DIVINE ASSISTANCE

THROUGH HIS WORDS
“For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from
heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the
earth, and maketh it bring forth bud, that it may give
seed to the sower, and bread to the eater, so shall my
word be that goeth forth out of my mouth, it shall not
return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I
please, and it shall proper in the thing whereto I sent
it.” Isa 55:10.

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“He sent His word, and healed them, and delivered the,
from their destruction.” Ps 107:20.

The Word of God—the Bible, contains so many

things, great promises, power and potential through
which we can receive divine assistance. In the Word of
God, there is power to heal, to save, to deliver, to
protect, to purify, to preserve and accomplish great,
godly purposes. The Word of God is God’s wisdom
revealed to us. It is the knowledge of the Most High. It
gives understanding of what to do to receive divine
assistance. There is saving power in the word.
God’s Word is God’s purpose for you, God’s
Word reveals God’s plans for you; God’s Word is God’s
promises to you; God’s Word is God’s life and spirit;
God’s Word is God’s thoughts towards you. The Word
of God is fire; it can burn strange and unwanted things
off our life. It is hammer; it can break into pieces every
hard and stubborn situation and condition. The Word of
God is water; it cleanses our souls, conscience and our
lives. The Word of God is operative as flood; mighty in
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divine assistance. Equally, the Word of God is sword of
the Spirit; two-edged sword for that matter. God’s Word
is God! It represents God, His mind, thoughts,
intentions, will and way. To enjoy the blessings God has
packaged for you from and in His Word,
“Seek ye out of the book of the Lord, and read:
no one of these shall fail, none shall want her mate, for
my mouth it hath commanded and his spirit it hath
gathered them” Isa 34:16.
From the above, we need to search the Word
diligently daily. Locate the Word you need for your
life’s situation and apply the word accordingly. Believe
the Word with your heart. Confess it regularly with your
mouth. Use the Word as promise and word in/or prayer.
Let the Word dwell in you richly. You need the Word of
God as spiritual food, water, nutrient, vitamins, etc.

How to Receive Divine Assistance through The Word of God

To receive divine assistance from the Word of God,
you will need to embark on spiritual adventure, an
adventure to search and to discover great things. The
Word of God is like a gold mine you need to dig deep
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with:
i. Principles for living
ii. Precepts for life conducts
iii. Practices you need for life
iv. Power for divine/ supernatural life
v. Purpose for existence
vi. Patterns to follow in life
vii. Problems to learn from
viii. Purifying power of the word
ix. Prosperity that is godly
x. Promises to claim, and so many powerful and
profound things
When you are receiving all these from the Word of
God, it means receiving divine assistances. The Word of
God refreshes our souls and lives. The Word of God is
given by God to profit us by teaching us the right
doctrine, reproofing, correcting, and giving instruction
in righteousness. By this means, we are made perfect,
thoroughly furnished into all good works, we are
divinely assisted. Get closer to your Bible. God has
something good for you right inside it! The closer you
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GOD CHANNELS DIVINE ASSISTANCE

THROUGH HUMAN AGENTS
“And the word was made flesh and dwelt among us (and
we behold His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of
the Father… No man has seen God at anytime, the only
begotten Son, which is in the bosoms of the Father, He
hath declared Him” John 1:14, 18.
To channel His divine assistance to us in a way
we can comprehend clearly, God became flesh, in form
of Jesus Christ. The Bible reveals,
“Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh
and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the
same, that through death he might destroy him that had
the power of death, that is the devil….. Verily, he took
not him the nature of angels, but took on him the seed of
Abraham… For in that he himself hath suffered being
tempted he is able to succor them that are tempted.”
Heb 2:14-18.
The first and the best human being that can assist
man—you and I—is Jesus. He took our nature. He was
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So He can mercifully help us divinely. He continues His
most high priesthood ministry.
Equally, God often designs people in a divine
way to help others. Here are examples of people that
God used to give divine assistance to other. These are
human agents used to channel divine assistance.

Nehemiah received divine assistance from a gentile

king.
Reading from Nehemiah 2:1-18, we see in the narration,
the burden of the broken walls and gates of Jerusalem
was placed upon the mind of Nehemiah. He desired that
the walls and gates be rebuilt. However, he had no
power personally, physically, financially. All he could
do was to carry the burden until it showed on his
countenance. It was so vivid and conspicuous on him
that king Artaxerxes saw it. Upon asking, Nehemiah
quickly told the king what he was feeling and his desire
to see the walls and gates of Jerusalem rebuilt. God was
actually in the whole process; the burden, the king’s
question, the request that Nehemiah made and the
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 Let us note that Nehemiah had faith in God and he
trusted God for divine help, assistance and a way out. In
verse 4, when the king asked him questions, what he did
was to pray: “So I prayed to the god of heaven,”….
before he answered the king’s questions. Because he
prayed to God before answering the king, God made the
king to grant his request. Firstly, the king permitted him
to go for the task of rebuilding the walls and gates of
Jerusalem. (vs. 6).
Secondly, the king granted him materials needed:
timber to make the beams for the gates and the walls of
the city and for the house that he will live. (vs. 8). We
can see that Nehemiah received divine assistance from
this king free of charge. It was the king that paid for all
the material he used. Nehemiah wrote,
“and the king granted me, according to the good hand
of my God upon me” (vs. 8)
When good hand of God is upon your life, you will
receive help from human beings, even from people from
whom help may seem difficult. It was divine assistance
that helped Nehemiah to start the building and finished
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help you too. He can use anybody to help you as he used
king Artaxerxes, the gentile king, to help Nehemiah to
do the work, even outside his domain. With God, no
human being is difficult to receive help from. You need
to trust and pray to God as Nehemiah did.

Ezra and the exiled Jews received divine assistance

from Cyrus, the king of Persia
The account shows that “the Lord stirred up the spirit
if Cyrus, King of Persia. “…. and he hath charged me
to build Him an house at Jerusalem, which is in Judah.”
Ezra 1:1-2.
Ordinarily, these Jews in exile could not have
ventured going back to Judah to build the house of the
Lord because of their status. They dared not even speak
up and make such a request. But when God stirred up
the king’s heart, he called Ezra and other Jews, declared
what God wanted him to do and even sponsored the
project. Not only did they build this house of God, the
sanctuary was well furnished at the expense and
command of the king. What Nebuchadnezzar destroyed
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Jerusalem to be consecrated to God again in the temple.
[Ezra 1:7-11].
As Ezra and his exiled friends built the
sanctuary, Nehemiah rebuilt the walls and gates of
Jerusalem. All these are the acts of God. God was using
human agents to accomplish His purpose. He used man
to channel His blessing to His own people. God never
changes. He does the same now and He will continue if
we can only trust His as men of old did.

David and Saul were given bands of men to assist them

“And Saul also went home to Gibeah, and there went

with him a band of men whose hearts God had
touched.” 1 Sam 10:26
It was this band of men that helped Saul to do
whatever he did successfully. Remember, these were
people prepared and touched by God in their hearts. It
was God who used these men to assist Saul. These men
were human agents that God gave to Saul to bring help
to him administratively, militarily, physically and
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men whose hearts the Lord has touched, who will be
rendering service, assistance, support, help morally,
spiritually, financially, etc for/to them.
This same story is told also of David.
“So David waxed greater and greater for the Lord of
Hosts was with him. These also are the chief of the
mighty men whom David had, who strengthened
themselves with him in his kingdom.” 1 Chron 11:10-11.
David was helped by God indeed. However, God
brought some men to David who assisted him in the
works of the kingdom. These were they who rendered
divine help to David before he could wax greater. Every
David needs these mighty men provided by God to be
channel of blessing to him. Really, no man is an island.
God gives men to His people as a way of divine
assistance. Perhaps, you need such people! Why not
pray to God to release them to you today?

Jesus Christ had Divine Assistance from Human Agents

“And it came to pass afterward, that he went

throughout every city and village, preaching and

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sharing the glad tidings of the kingdom of God: and the
twelve were with him and certain women, which had
been healed of evil spirits and infirmities, Mary called
Magdalene, out of whom went seven devils, and Joan,
the wife of Chuza, Herod’s steward and Susana, and
many other which ministered unto him of their
substance.” Luke 8:1-3.
Jesus could have been working alone.
Nevertheless, He needed people to “help” him in certain
areas. God gave him such people as a way of divine
assistance. Primarily, the twelve apostles were known.
They were helpers in the ministry as well as his
disciples. Mary Magdalene, Joanna, Susana, Mary,
Martha and Lazarus and “many other which ministered
unto him of their substance” were given to the Lord by
the Father.
Friends, if Jesus needed human agents (and not
only angels”) to minister of their substance, how dare
you feel that God cannot use others to help you? You
need Mary Magdalene, Joanna, Susana and many others,
touched and blessed by God to bless you. It is a way of
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to help you (though He can do that). Angels can help
you but men can and have been used by God to help
other men.

Paul enjoyed Divine Assistance through Men

Apostle Paul recalled in his epistle to the

Philippines that, “no church communicated with me
concerning giving and receiving but ye only.” Phil 4:16.
Paul also needed human agents, even the church of
Macedonia in this account to communicate divine
assistance to him; he called it giving and receiving. God
prepared the Macedonia Church to assist Paul the
Apostle. How I pray God will raise churches up today
that will genuinely support, help or assist their pastors
and other men of God working on the field…. that will
yield to God’s prompting as the people of Macedonia.
God is still at work and I believe He can do more than
we have read of, pray or think. God can use other people
to bless and use you to bless other people. Are we
prepared to be channel and agent of divine assistance to
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about this!

GOD CHANNELS DIVINE ASSISTANCE

THROUGH PRAISE
We never know the power of praise until we begin to
praise God. Experience in life has shown that those who
learn to praise God heartily always are raised highly by
heaven while those who so not praise God are brought
down or stay they are. There is power in praise. The
praiser experiences the Raiser’s power; God is the
divine Raiser. God channels His divine answers to our
problems when we praise Him. God channels divine
assistance through our songs and confessions of praise,
adoration and worship. To experience divine assistance,
learn to anchor your life in praise. Learn to sing to the
Lord. Learn to confess God’s greatness. Learn to
worship Him heartily. Let’s consider these examples

(a) “Let the people praise thee, o God, let all the people
praise the. O let the nations be glad and sing for joy: for
thou shall judge the people righteously and govern the
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God, let all the people praise thee. Then shall the earth
yield her increase and God, even our own God, shall
bless us. God shall bless us and all the ends of the earth
shall fear Him.” Ps 67: 3-7.

God expects His people to praise Him. God expects

the nations to praise Him. God expects all of us to be
glad and shout for joy. As we are all praising the Lord
sincerely, seriously, heartily, God promises to give us
divine assistance. This is in form of:
1 His justice and righteousness will prevail on
earth
2 His government will dominate on earth
3 The earth (our lives) will yield her increase. Our
lives will be productive and fruitful
4 God will give us blessings that will cause fear to
others!
Many of us re “askers”; always requesting,
demanding, and asking for things from God. We need to
change our lifestyles to that of “praisers”. We can never
over-praise God. In fact, the more praises, thanksgiving
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your praise the more open doors for divine assistance
you are opening. The opposite is true. Stop the childlike
attitude of always asking. Grow up in praise and
experience supernatural assistance from God.

(b) “And at midnight, Paul and Silas prayed, and sang

praises unto God and the prisoners heard them. And
suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the
foundations of the prison were shaken: and immediately
all the doors were opened and everyone’s bands were
loosed.” Acts 16: 25-26.
Praises open the doors of and for divine assistance.
The condition Paul and Silas were could not have
encouraged them to praise, sing, pray to God, but that
was what they did. They prayed, which is ok. Many of
us could have stopped praying. When prayers look
insufficient to open doors of mercy, they turned to
praises. As they praised, they touched heaven. God gave
them divine attention. Mind you, it was not a silent
prayer or praise. There was nothing like quite or silent
praise here. They prayed and praised that the prisoners
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and broke loose the chains and fetters on their legs and
hands. Through their ministrations, they received divine
help that led to their freedom and salvation of the
jailor’s family. Not only were they helped divinely by
their prayer and praises, others around them were helped
to see divine light and salvation. How much harm we
bring to ourselves and others when we do not worship,
praise, thank and adore the Living God. Indeed, He is
worthy of our praises. God comes down with divine
blessings when we praise Him enough, always.
We have similar cases in 1 Chronicles 20, where
Jehoshaphat, the king of Judah, fought battle with
praises to Lord. In this story, they prayed, professed,
prophesied and nothing seemed to be happening. They
changed the strategy; they recruited singers, trumpeters
and instrumentalists. As they began to sing, worship,
praise, thanking God for His mercy that endures foresee,
heaven opened, the enemies were discomfited and
victory was established. How simple to fight and win
battles with simple weapons of songs of worship and
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 1 Praise is a divine weapon of warfare
2 Praise is a divine instrument of victory
3 Praise is a divine power of breakthrough
4 Praise invites God into your life anew
5 Praise is powerful
6 God lives (inhabits) the praise of His people to
perform signs, wonders, miracles, deliverances.
In a nutshell, divine assistance comes inside your praise
and it is manifested in your life. As you try to praise
God today, may He raise you up and divinely assist you.
(Psalm 149:1-9)

GOD CHANNELS DIVINE ASSISTANCE

THROUGH ANGELS
Thank God for the ministry and ministration of
angels of God. God oftentimes brings divine helps to us
via His angels. Here are some truths about angels. It is
not necessary you see angels while they minister, though
God allows them to be seen with human eyes. Angels
are not to be worshipped or bowed down to. God forbids
it. In fact, God’s angels will not accept human worship.
Angels are ministers to Christians, the children of
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God wants us to give voice to His Word and the angels
will hearken to work with it according to God’s
instructions. Examples of angels named in the Bible are
Michael, Gabriel, and Uriel. God sends angels to His
people to bring blessings, render assistance, protect,
preserve and fight on our behalf. Angels are real and
spiritual beings.
Jesus and angelic ministrations
“Then the devil leaveth him, and behold, angels came
and ministered unto him.” Matt 4:11. “Thinketh thou
that I cannot now pray to my Father, and He shall
presently give me more than twelve legions of angels?”
Matt 26:53.
“And there appeared an angel unto him from heaven,
strengthening him.” Luke 22:43
Jesus received divine assistance from angels.
Angels were given to minister and strengthen Jesus
when he needed such help. If Jesus needed angelic
assistance, we can do no less.

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“To which of the angels said he at any time, sit on my
right hand until I make thine enemies they footstool?
Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to minister
for them who shall be heir of salvation?” Heb 1:13-14.
God gives His angels to help His saints. We
discover from the above that angels are real. They can
never sit in the position of redemptive sons as we are.
They are ministering spirits – helpers, giving assistance
to us who are heirs if salvation. Any Christian can enjoy
the ministration of God’s angels. Jesus says of little
children’s angels,
“Take heed that ye despise not one of these little
ones for I say unto you that in heave, their angels do
always behold the face of my father which is in heaven.”
Mat 18:10.
Even children have angels who are constantly
looking at God to receive help from the throne of grace
for them. So, saints, heirs of salvation, children of God,
all can and must enjoy angelic ministration. It is a form
of divine assistance.
Angels are divine reapers of death and at last
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Angels, in the time of Jesus, also were sent to help
people. (John 5:4). God uses angels to give us divine
assistance even now.
Peter experiences and enjoyed divine assistance
through an angel. (Acts12:5-10). The Israelites enjoyed
divine assistance of angels in their journey and
deliverance from Egypt. (Ex 14:19-20) Angels are in
heaven worshipping God and waiting upon God to
receive our needed help and convey or carry them to us.

How Angels work for Saints

Psalm 103:20-21 says
“Bless the Lord, ye His angels that exalt in strength
unto the commandments, hearkening unto the voice of
His word. Bless the Lord all His hosts, ye ministers of
His that do His pleasure.”
Jesus reveals to us that He shall pray to the
Father to give Him more than twelve legions of angels
to “work” for him.[ Mat 26:53] We can learn from here
that saints can ask God to release angels to help us when
we need them. You can ask God to send angels to you to
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 God sends angels according to His will to help
us. Angels were sent from heaven to strengthen Jesus
when He was weak physically. [ Mt 4:11; Lk 22:43].
God sent angels to provide food for Prophet Elijah
during his time of need. 1 Kings 19:5-6.
Angels go into operation when saints give voice
to God’s words. [Ps 10: 20-21] describes angels as being
excelling in strength, doing God’s commandments,
hearkening to the voice of His word and minister/hosts
doing God’s pleasures. What do all these mean?
Despite all the excelling strength, all angels
seldom operate on their own authority. They must take
instructions from God or His children. So, as God’s
commands them, they obey; they do God’s
commandments.
Furthermore, angels do God’s pleasures; they do
whatever pleases God that He asks them to do. They
work on instruction. And more importantly, we must
know that the saints, the heirs of salvation of God have
the Word of God, the commandment of God. One of the
ways God has designed for angels to do His
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God speaks, angels hear, hearken, obey and do God’s
Word. When God’s children are inspired to speak God’s
Word, or give voice to God’s Word, in preaching,
prayers, prophetic utterances, profession of our mouth,
in bold proclamation, the angels hear, hearken and go to
work, bringing the Word to pass. This is the more reason
for the miracle some Christians experience through bold
prophetic proclamation and prayers. We all need to give
a voice to the Word of God so that God will hear, angels
will hear and go to act on them. When we keep the
Word only in our hearts and we seal our lips, exercise
quite prayer or meditation, we may not be giving angels
works to do. But as we give the written Word voice,
using our tongue, mouth, plus inspiration of the Holy
Spirit, angels are around us to take hold of the Word and
make it do what God wants the Word to do for us. It
takes knowledge of the Word, faith, boldness, courage
and fervent heartfelt prayer to effect this. You begin to
give voice to God’s Word from today and see the
accomplishment of this divine truth. It is a means to
divine assistance. Declare the Word of God, the promise
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GOD CHANNELS DIVINE ASSISTANCE

THROUGH PRAYER OF FAITH
If you cannot pray, friends, you cannot be helped
by God. A praying Christian is a helpable Christian.
God channels divine help through your prayers. This
means that you must learn to pray and practice praying
regularly, always. The issue of prayer cannot be over-
flogged. As the world [in some parts of the globe] turns
more technological and education and knowledge on the
increase, as people get educated and secure good jobs
and live a fairly comfortable life, they seem to sacrifice
their prayer lives at the altar of comfort. Many things we
say are enjoyment are outright barriers to prayers. So
many things in our day are taking the place of prayers or
rendering us to be more prayerless or to handle prayer
with lefty. We are apparently a generation that does little
or nothing with God. Prayer is now for emergency
negative situations. Prayer is turned to when there are
life’s storms and perils. Prayer is not a form of worship,
devotion, drawing closer to god again. The less we pray,
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help ourselves, when comfort fails, when money fails,
when good jobs are removes, when great sickness
strikes, that is when people of this generation remember
God, sometimes, forced to compulsory prayer.
Prayer is part and parcel of living. Prayer must
be a living art for Christians. If you are a prayerless
Christian, you can be described as “Christless”
Christian: a paradox. If you need to be helped always
without strains and stress, you must be prayer addict;
ardently learning to lean on the everlasting arm always.
Whether you have a need or not physically, never in a
time will you not need to pray. Indeed, you need prayers
when you feel you need nothing!
The word of Jesus on prayer is very sublime:
“Man always ought to pray and not to faint.” He says
“Ask…. Seek…. And knock.”
When you stop asking from God, when you
seeking God, and knocking at the door of grace, you are
turning to be an atheist. A believer in God will always
keep the relationship with God active and alive through
prayer. When that is done, as the case calls for divine
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by God in heaven. Stranger in the Kingdom of God
finds it strange and difficult to receive help from the
Kingdom. Divine assistance comes to those who are
looking up to God for help always. You can be helped
divinely through prayer of faith. The fact that many so-
called Christian keep rushing to prayer valleys and
mountains today for a prophet to pray for them shows
that many Christian do not know how to pray effectively
yet. There are pastoral ministry and prayer, but God
wants all His children to come to Him personally for
their need with only Jesus as the intermediary. Does
God not say in Jeremiah 33:3,
“Call unto me (yourself first) and I will answer
thee (personally first) and show the (not any prophets)
great and mighty things (about yourself, your life, your
future, your problems) which thou knowest not.”
God wants to channel His help through personal
prayer of faith. God wants you to talk to Him first… He
longs to listen to you alone first. No doubt, there are
prayers of agreements, church, family, etc. but learn to
cast your burden to Jesus first and alone, by faith. God
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to relate to Him in prayer of faith daily.
Did not Elijah, a man of like passion like us,
pray earnestly that there should be no rain? Elijah did
not have the name and authority of Jesus. Alas! Where
are New Testament Elijahs? Elijah prayed again and
heaven gave rain. [James 5:13-18]. If you never prayed
in your own little way, you can never experience
whatever God wants to give to you to help you. Wake
up! You can pray, even alone. Every serious Christian
knows that God brings divine assistance through prayer,
real, earnest, fervent prayer of faith. If Abraham prayed
and he was helped, you too can pray and be helped. If
Daniel prayed and subdued the power of darkness and
received the help he needed, you too can pray and
prevail over the power of darkness. If Jesus prayed and
prospered, you too can pray and prosper in this life. If
Paul prayed and had breakthroughs, you can pray and
experience breakthroughs in life. If Jabez prayed and
God hearkened and made him honorable, what makes
you feel or think you cannot change your negative life to
a positive and honorable one like Jabez?
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through prayers. “Effectual fervent prayer of a
righteous man availeth much.” Quit sinning, drop
unbelief and act in faith. Lift up your voice to God. God
wants to bless your life, give you divine assistance if
only you can pray to Him. Pray and live!

GOD CHANNELS DIVINE ASSISTANCE

THROUGH YOUR OBEDIENCE
In this chapter, we have discussed how God
channels divine blessing or assistance to His people.
Any sincere seeker of divine help can receive it through
divine providence, the Word of God, human agents,
praising God, angelic ministration, prayer of faith and
lastly, through obedience.
The ultimate condition to receive divine assistance
is obedience. The general testimony of the Scriptures
and life is that an obedient person often receives help
from God and people. Whatever you have discovered,
learn from this work cannot benefit you unless you are
obedient. God demands complete obedience from you
always. Let’s consider some Scriptures on obedience to
buttress our discussion.
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diligently unto the voice of the Lord thy God, to observe
and to do all His commandments which I command thee
this day, that the Lord thy God will set tee high above
all nations of the earth. And all these blessing shall
come on thee and overtake thee, if thou shall hearken
unto the voice of the Lord thy God.” Det 28:1-2.
God requires that you hearken diligently unto His
voice and observe and do all His commandments.
Do not ask me which of the commandments, the Bible
has all the commandments of the Lord. Study them,
meditate on them, put them to use, obey them, and then
divine assistance will not be far from you. Do not forget
that “to obey is better than sacrifice and hearken than
the fat of rams” 1 Sam 15:22.
Those who refuse to obey God often seek for one
sacrifice to make to appease and substitute for their
disobedience. God wants you to obey Him implicitly in
all areas of life as revealed in the Bible. Whatever you
learn, or you are taught, or that God speaks to you by
His Spirit or from His word, just obey. The songwriter
says,
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To be happy in Jesus
but to trust and obey.”

God wants us to be “obedient in all things.” 2 Cor 2:9.

Abraham obeyed God; his obedience led to his
reception of divine assistance. Obedience brings
unspeakable blessing. How obedient are you to God’s
words on salvation, holiness, prayer, tithes, offering,
love, family, church leaders and authority, constitutional
authority, your parents and the nation? Perhaps your
disobedience to a revealed will of God has been
hindering your divine assistance. Will you not surrender
your will today and obey the Lord? It pays to obey; it
opens doors to divine assistance and blessed life.

PRAYER
Sovereign Lord, you have many channels through which
you bring help to your people. I know you determine
whichever vehicle you love to use to bring help to your
people. I need your help. I do pray that you choose the
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to receive your help. I need you. I need your mercy and
grace. I need all that you have designed for my
victorious life. Help me to wait on you. Help me to
appreciate whatever channel you use to help me. Help
me to receive the best of help you have and shall send to
me. In Jesus name.

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 Chapter 4

DIVINE ASSISTANCE
FROM CHRIST JESUS

“At evening, when the sun had set, they brought to Hi

all who were sick and those who were demon-possessed.
And the whole cit was gathered together at the door.
Then he healed any who were sick with various
diseases, and cast out many demons…” [Mark 1:32-34]
From the above passage, we can see how Jesus
divinely assisted people. He healed the sick, delivered
the oppressed,. In some other narrations he opened the
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He met many physical, personal and spiritual needs.
It is interesting to know that God came down to
this sinful earth to help helpless and hopeless man when
He saw angels or any other means could not help man.
When God wanted to see man, feel with man, agonize
with man and give man an immediate on the spot
assistance, He came down by Himself. God loves us so
much that He gave Himself for us to assist us. Going
through the New Testament, one will be surprised to see
that God in Jesus came down to help and give assistance
to humanity in all areas of life.
Evangelist and Apostle John declares,
“And the Word was made flesh and dwelt among
us, (and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only
begotten of the Father) full of grace and truth… And of
His fullness have all we received and grace for grace.”
John 1:14-16.
In this section of this work, we shall see how Jesus
helped and shall help those who presently need divine
assistance.

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 Jesus helped many people by healing them
miraculously and free of charge. The gospellers
recorded so many healing miracles of Jesus Christ. We
cab be rest assured by the testimonies of the Scriptures,
witness, and the present day acts the Spirit that we also
can be helped divinely when we are sick or ill. Even
though the healing ministry in our days embraces the
orthodox medicine, traditional usage of herbs by some
people and medical sciences generally, God is still in the
business of healing through miracles and faith of His
people. God has the power to heal any disease or
sickness without medical science. Nothing stops the
manifestation of the power of God to heal and keep us
healthy whenever we fulfill the conditions or when God
through His Son determines to do so. The Bible reveals
many healing events: during the healing ministry of
Jesus there was no disease that He didn’t heal. I wish to
classify the type of disease Jesus healed miraculously as
follows.

Pathological disease
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of blood) Mt 9:20-22, leprosy-skin disease-Mt 8:1-4;
fever, which could be typhoid fever, yellow fever,
malaria fever-Mt 8:14-17. All diseases are not difficult
for the Lord to heal. Whatever disease is competing with
your body today, Jesus can help you divinely; look up to
Him.

Neurological diseases
These are diseases that bring about body paralysis,
withering, deafness, dumbness, lameness, crippling,
blindness, etc. Remember Bartimeus and many other
people who the Lord healed miraculously. Our Lord is
still in the business of healing even now. He is the same
yesterday, today and forever. He specializes in rendering
divine assistance in form of healing, any type of disease.

Psychological illness
Jesus gave healing of mind to people. This He did
with gracious word, miraculous word, word of
command, inspirational teaching, caring and loving
disposition. He says in Matthew 11:28-30 “Come to me
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you rest……” Do your mind and life need rest? Jesus
heals all troubled minds and gives peace of mind, if we
come to Him. When you study and meditate in His
word, there is healing power that will be released into
our minds and give us peace, courage, boost of faith,
inner strength and healing. No matter how confuse you
may be, Jesus can give you rest and hope. No matter
how hopeless your condition is, Jesus is the answer. He
gives divine assistance by healing our trouble minds and
lives.

Spiritual Diseases
There are many religious people today who are sick
spiritually like Nicodemus. John 3. No one else can heal
their spiritual condition but Jesus. Nicodemus got the
answer to his spiritual illness when Jesus told him
straightly, “You must be born again.” That is all he
needed then and he got is from Jesus. May by you are
sick spiritually. You are lost in futile religious activities;
you are searching for God to the point that you are sick,
stop your search. Jesus is near you. He is the answer, the
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spiritual disease if you come to him sincerely.
May be you are another Cornelius, full of fasting,
almsgiving, prayer, yet you feel empty, unsatisfied and
confused, you are sick spiritually. The answer you need
is a divine assistance from Jesus. Until Cornelius
discovered Jesus, he remained helpless despite his alms,
fasting and regular prayer. Will you not seek Jesus
earnestly? He wants to help you out of your religious
rituals and give you true and dynamic worship dynamics
that will be pleasing to God. Come to Jesus and receive
your divine help before it is too late.
Those men who later became Jesus’ disciples were
in similar condition of spiritual disease until they found
Jesus. Jesus is the only healer of any type of spiritual
illness. He can heal you of any spiritual disease you
have right now. It gladdens my heart to discover that
diseases that are humanly incurable are simply curable
by the power of Jesus. Illnesses that make one an
outcast, abandoned by the society, are what Jesus tackles
easily. Infirmities, weaknesses of the body and all forms
of sufferings of man have answers when you invite Jesus
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us divinely if we can trust Him, ask Him in prayer and
exercise faith to receive His divine blessing. Jesus, the
greatest physician. He can be looked up to for our
healing- physically, psychologically and spiritually.

JESUS HELPS BY SALVAGING FEARFUL

AND EMBARRASSING SITUATIONS

Jesus saves us (like He did in the past) from fearful and

embarrassing conditions of life. When all hope is lost,
when there are darkness and discouragement and Jesus
is invited, darkness turns to light; hope replaces
hopelessness; life substitutes for death. Consider these
few examples.

During Storms of life

“Now when He got into a boat, His disciples followed
Him. And suddenly, a great tempest arose on the sea, to
that the boat was covered with the waves….”
Storms of life are common to all. On some occasions,
storms of life often sweep some people off and bury
them out of sight. Some are destroyed by storms of life.
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what to do to weather storms of life for His own people.
Why not become one of His own today? In the above-
quoted scripture, while the storm was on, Jesus was
sleeping. When He was woken up, all He needed to do
was to rebuke the wind and the sea and there was a great
calm. He can calm the storm of your life. This is another
way Jesus renders to us divine assistance when we trust
and depend on Him. Storms can be fearful and
embarrassing but Jesus knows how to salvage them all.

When the sweet wine of life gets finished

Jesus was invited to a wedding feast/ceremony.
Unexpectedly, the wine got finished. What brings
merriment, pleasantness, sweetness, gladness, etc., was
exhausted. Do you know that life can be so sometimes?
What makes your life sweet can suddenly be exhausted.
Money can finish. Food can finish in the home. Job can
be terminated. Hope can be lost. Situation can become
embarrassing. What we see is that Jesus can give divine
help at such an expected situation. At that wedding
ceremony, Jesus was consulted and He responded
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into wine. There is tasteless water, life, situation that
Jesus can turn sweet when we invite or call Him to help
us. Let us make it a habit of always inviting Jesus to all
that we do. Let us expect divine help from Jesus always.
He can turn water to sweet and better wine. He can turn
hopelessness to hopefulness. He can turn sourness into
sweetness. He can miraculously make your life pleasant
again and again.

Turning fruitless business effort to a fruitful one

Business efforts without fruits can be fearful and
embarrassing. When all legitimate efforts are yielding
little or no fruit or profit, one can be psychologically,
emotionally and physically embarrassed. This often calls
for attention or any other form of action. Peter and his
group were in this condition. The story id found in Luke
5:1-11. They toiled all night without catching a single
fish despite their effort, experience, exposure, expertise
and good tools. The fish seemed to run away from the
sea of a force seemed to be working against them. But
when Jesus came around, their situation turned around
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the universe. All that Jesus needed to do was give and
instruction, a guide, a word of command- “launch out
into the deep for a catch.” But I think they have been to
that deep before but caught nothing. This new launching
is divinely directed. The fish that seemed to have run
away were now divinely drawn back. The forces
working against Peter and his company were now
destroyed. The fruitless effort was now turning to a
fruitful one: divine assistance has come.
To some people, this divine assistance must be
sought for them to breakthrough in business, academic,
marriage, etc. All you need to do is to invite Jesus and
obey His instruction and command. At His command,
all else bow and victory is established. Jesus gives us the
needed divine help we need for our fruitless efforts in
life. Let us try Him today. Consider a situation when
Jesus needed to pay tax ad there was no money in the
purse. Or when they needed to feed five thousand people
and there was food to go round or a situation when one
is sinking into the sea of life like peter. All these
situations are fearful and embarrassing, but not to Jesus.
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bring the money and as the disciples caught the fish and
opened it, the money needed was there. To feed the five
thousand people, all He needed to do was to bless the
little bread and fish and there was a divine
multiplication. To rescue a sinking Peter, Jesus only
needed to stretch forth His hand to hold Peter up and out
of the sea. No doubt, there is someone who needs to pat
a debt (tax), need more resources to take care of his
household or company, co come up out of the sea. With
divine assistance from Jesus, all is easy. He is ready to
help you even now.

JESUS HELPS BY RESCUING PEOPLE FROM DEATH

One of the wonderful divine help Jesus gives to people
is rescuing them from death, untimely, premature,
unnecessary, punitive death from demonic power of
other ungodly source. In the Gospel, we see cases where
Jesus did this. Do you know that He does that presently?
I have witnessed occasions when the Lord rescued
people from death. Jesus often snatches people from the
cold hand of death especially those who trust in Him for
divine assistance.
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death; she had truly died. In fact, people had started
mourning her, playing flutes and making a wailing
noise. When Jesus got there, He described the situation
as mere sleep. Death to Jesus is mere sleep and as such a
sleeping person can be wakened up. By His divine
power, He woke that girl up from sleep of death and
returned joy to that family. This is divine assistance that
Jesus wants to give to you. Do you have spiritually
sleeping or dead children? Then invite Jesus to their
lives, pray for them in the name of Jesus. Ask Jesus to
wake them up. As He wakes them up, your tears will dry
up and joy will be restored to you.
The story of a widow in the Luke 7:11-17 is
another account of the dead being brought back to life.
In fact, in this case, we have a pathetic description as
this: the woman was a widow. The son was the only
child of the widow and now he was dead and put inside
a coffin ready to be buried. However, she met with Jesus
near the gate and her story was changed because she
obtained divine help from Jesus. Jesus told her “weep
not” or “do not weep.” Indeed, her weeping came to an
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touched the coffin. Jesus told the young man “young
man, I say to you, arise.” The account says “So he who
was dead sat up and began to speak.” Help has come,
joy has come. Hope is revived and life continues with
that young man. Jesus does that constantly. Do you have
a dead son or daughter, husband or wife, business or job
or a dead situation? Why not invite Jesus to help you
divinely? He can help you to bring any dead situation
back to life.
Lazarus had a similar experience. I can imagine
how Mary and Martha would feel when Lazarus was
brought back to life. I begin to imagine your ecstasy
when your dead situation is divinely brought back to
life. I begin to rejoice with you even without seeing you
because I know Jesus is the only person who can help
you to quicken anything that’s dead in your life, family,
business, academics, church, ministry, etc. The power of
life, to give life is only with Jesus. Jesus is the only
antidote to death and dead situations. He has the divine
power.
Do you know He gives us, His followers, the
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They healed the sick, raised the dead back to life and
performed wonderful miracles by the power of Jesus. Do
you know you can do the same by faith in Jesus? God
can channel divine power through you to render divine
help to people who need it. Jesus renders divine
assistance in the face of death to anyone who trusts in
Him.

JESUS HELPS BY DELIVERING

FROM SATANIC OPPRESSION
The works of Satan and his agents are destruction,
killings, stealing, oppression, possession, obsessions,
torments, etc. Let me say Satan gives spiritual and
physical destruction, but Jesus gives divine help,
deliverance to people who are created in God’s image.
Can you imagine a person been inhabited by legion
(many) demons at the same time? Mark 5:1-20 describes
such a man. The a man was possessed by demons and
his situation is described as living in the tombs
(graveyard); no one could bind him, not even with
chains; no one could tame him; always crying day and
night and cutting himself with stones.
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possession of demands and this man was said to be
“sitting and clothed and in his right mind.” Demon
possession is as good as death. Demon possession often
makes people lose their mind; they are of the out of their
minds. It takes only divine help to deliver such people.
Do you experience demonic activities in your life,
children, your business or home? Evoke the power of
Jesus in prayed, organize a deliverance prayer and see
how Jesus will help you. Your case is not too complex
for Jesus to handle. No situation is hope less with Jesus.
Epilepsy can be cured by Jesus; deafness and dumbness
induced by demons can be removed by the power of
Jesus. The mute can speak as Jesus’ power cast out the
deaf and mute spirits. In the name of Jesus, there is
divine deliverance and help. Jesus is the deliverer and
redeemer. Jesus is the key to divine assistance.
The helpless, hopeless, powerless, sick, invalid,
unwise men/women/young ones, demon-possessed; all
can be divinely helped by Jesus. Jesus helps the
educated and the illiterate, the jobless and the gainfully
employed, the widow/widower and orphans. Jesus can

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help the singles and the married. The weak, the outcast,
the Samaritans, Gentiles, Jews, all colors, shape, sex and
language are those that the Lord constantly helps
divinely. I can see from the Bible and life experience,
the lames, cripples, blinds, deaf, dumb, mutes, epileptic,
paralytic, people with all manners of diseases/conditions
are helpable in the hand of Jesus. Jesus helped people
like Zacchaeus, Matthew, Nicodemus, the rich and poor,
noble and common, sinful and saints, living and dead.
Anyone can receive divine assistance from Jesus. He is
the same yesterday, today and forever. Jesus is here with
us. His power is alive. His anointing for divine
assistance is ever-fresh. He will assist you. Jesus often
assists us by His word-have faith in His word. He often
touches us. Allow Him to touch you. He prays for us as
our Most High Priest; allow His prayer to come to pass
in your. His anointing breaks yokes. I simply enjoin you
to come to Jesus. Come to Jesus with faith. Pray in His
name, touch Him by faith and confess positively that He
is divinely assisting you, even now.

PRAYER

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Lord Jesus, I believe you are my Lord, Savior, and
Redeemer. I know you can help me. I know you have the
power to help. I need your assistance. I come to you
today. Please help me. Have mercy on me. Release you
power into my life. Set me free from oppression of
Satan. Grant me victory over personal sins. Help to
follow you all my life. Strengthen me to your will and to
serve you well. Thanks for answering my prayer. In
Jesus name.

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DIVINE ASSISTANCE
FROM
THE HOLY SPIRIT

The Holy Spirit divinely helps people of God and

the world at large. He helps the people of the world by
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righteousness. He helps believers in so many diverse
ways. His divine assistance are wonderful and we shall
see some of them right here now.
The Holy Spirit is the third person of the Trinity. He
is not a physical thing neither is He a force. He is a
person with complete attribute of a person. The Holy
Spirit can be vexed, quenched, grieved, provoked, etc.
He can speak and be spoken to. He hears and He is
being heard. We can relate with Him more intimately.
We can fellowship with him. The Holy Spirit is God. He
is eternal, omniscient and omnipotent. He is the creator
and sustainer. He was working with other members of
God at creation. John 33:4; Gen 2:7. And if He created
you, He knows how to assist you divinely. The Holy
Spirit is the Spirit if glory, the source of miraculous
power to assist you.

EMBLEMS OF THE HOLY SPIRIT

The Scriptures gives us some inspiring and hopeful
symbols and emblems of the Holy Spirit. Understanding
these emblems helps us to appreciate how He can help
us divinely because each emblem has deep spiritual
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Water: Symbolized as water, He fertilizes refreshes,
cleanses, gives abundant life and freely gives to us.
Fire: Symbolized as fire, He illuminated, purifies and
heals us. He searches us beyond our imagination.
Wind: Symbolized as wind, the Holy Spirit is powerful,
reviving, sensible, in effect and refreshing.
Oil: Symbolized as oil, He consecrates comforts, heals
and illuminates.
Dove: Symbolized as Dove shows how gentle the Holy
Spirit is; good gracious and meek. He is harmless but
very powerful.
Voice: Symbolized as a voice, He speaks to guide, warn,
instruct or teach.
Seal: Designated as a seal, He authenticates and secures
us for God. He puts divine mark of acceptance on us.
Cloven tongue of fire: He comes to empower us to be
witness of divine grave and word.
There are many other symbols and emblems of the Holy
Spirit but they are all meaningful and inspiring.

HOW THE HOLY SPIRIT ASSISTS US DIVINELY

One can clearly see the acts of the Holy Spirit in both
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Testament saints only enjoyed Him to a certain extent.
He often came upon them, influence them, and prompt
them to do divine assignments. He never dwelled in
them. But in the New Testament, He has been given to
live with us, in us. We are His abode, habitat, dwelling
place. He is our daily companion, friend and partner in
divine task. Here are some of the ways by which the
Holy Spirit divinely assists believers.

The Holy Spirit Assists Us at New Birth

He comes to give us new life, new hope, new purpose,
eternal life. He gives us new nature. He makes us
children of God, candidate of heaven. He convicts and
convinces of sins and leads us to repentance,
regeneration and reconciliation to God. As you read this
book, if the Holy Spirit convicts you of your condition
of sin, you better repent and accept Jesus as your Lord
and Savior and experience the new life of God.

The Holy Spirit Gives Us Wisdom of God

The Holy Spirit gives believers in Christ wisdom from
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prosperity in life. The Holy Spirit is the spirit of
wisdom; it comes to you via the Holy Spirit, the spirit of
wisdom.

The Holy Spirit Guides His people

This involves revelations (John 16:13), illuminations,
ideas, insights, divine leading. We do not need to be
confused when we have the Holy Spirit to instruct,
teach, guide and lead us. We wee thus with the people of
God (Acts 16L 6, 6, 10; 8: 29 and Roman 8:14).

The Holy Spirit Comforts Believers

He is our comforter. John 16:17. He abides with us. He
dwells in the saints of God. He is known by the saints,
John 14: 14-17. He has a wind with healings. He
comforts us in our uncomfortable life. He gives us peace
of God.

The Holy Spirit is our Divine Teacher

The Holy Spirit is the Spirit of knowledge, wisdom and
understanding. (Isa 11:2; 40:13-14) He teaches us the
word of God (Isa 34:16). He reveals things to come to

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us. He reveals things of God. He knows all things. He is
omniscient. His teachings are great and better than that
of any earthly human teacher. We need his assistance.

The Holy Spirit is our Healer and Deliverer

He delivers from oppression and heals us from sickness,
diseases and illnesses. By His anointing, yokes of
oppression are broken, shackles of sicknesses are
shattered; He has the healing powers. (Luke 10:30,
James 5:14, Isa 10:24-27)

The Holy Spirit Fights for Believers

In Isa 59:19 “…. when the enemy comes in like a flood,
the Spirit of the Lord will lift up a standard against
him.” You can be sure that when He fights for you, your
victory is 100% sure. He fights to ensure and establish
divine victory for us. Mat 3:11.

The Holy Spirit Revives and Quickens us

There are times when our lives look dry spiritually. We
are empty and weak. At such times, the Holy Spirit often
revives and quickens us as we invite Him (Ezek 37:9-14;

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Ps 68:9; Rom 8:8-17) He uses the word to quicken us.
He inspires us and revives us when we need such a
revival. He is the spirit of revival. The Holy Spirit
PRAYS for us. We often try to pray but we are short of
words and strength. However, when we submit
ourselves to the spirit of supplication, He prays for us
with groaning that cannot be uttered by ordinary human
voice and He prays according to the will of God. (Rom
8:26-28; 1 Cor 12:3; 14: 1-2, 4, 14 & 15). When we pray
according to the spirit leading, we pray in our most holy
forth (Jude 20). Such prayer pleases God, secures
heavens’ attention and delivers definite answers. The
Holy Spirit therefore divinely assists us to obtain the
will of God.

The Holy Spirit Empowers and Strengthens Believers

We are weak and incapacitated spiritually and even
physically in some occasions without the empowerment
and strength of the Holy Spirit. Acts 1:8 tells us that we
shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon
our lives. With His power, we can effectively witness to
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and be dynamic Christians. His empowerment and
strengthening is divine help for our lives. We need Him
always. We can only be full of power by the extent the
spirit fills us (Micah 4:8). We need to allow Him to fill
us, empower us and give us strength.

The Holy Spirit Purifies and Cleanses Believers

How filthy our lives can be without the purifying power
of the Holy Spirit. The only righteousness God accepts
is that of His son, Jesus Christ and that can only be
imparted unto us by His spirit of righteousness. The only
sanctification God authenticates is the sanctification of
the spirit of holiness. He washes, cleanses, purifies is
daily as we yield to Him (Ezek 16:9; Heb 10:22; Isa 4:4;
Mal 3:2-3). He uses the water of the word, the Blood of
Jesus and His purifying power to cleanse, consecrate and
purify is so that we will be acceptable to God. We need
His divine assistance to be cleansed and purified
spiritually. To renew our mind, we need the spirit’s
assistance. He is ever ready to cleanse us and makes us
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eventually lead to heaven?

The Holy Spirit Anoints Believers

“…You anoint my head with oil, my cup runs over.” Ps
23:5. “I have been anointed with fresh oil …” Ps 92:10
“….the anointing which you have received from Him
abides in you, and you do not need that anyone teach
you; but as the same anointing teaches you concerning
all things, and is true and is not a lie, and just as it has
taught you, you will abide in Him.” John 2:27.

We need the anointing of the spirit for so many

things, and He readily anoints us daily, freshly, even to
overflow as we trust and prays to God. When we give
our life to Jesus, we have the anointing of the spirit and
we continue to have that anointing so that our life can be
fresh, beautiful, powerful, filled with the understanding
of spiritual things, experience divine protection, enjoy
the truth of God’s word, etc. The Holy Spirit anoints us
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His anointing is a divine assistance for us. We need to
seek it.

The Holy Spirit gives us Spiritual Gifts and Fruits

All Christians have the Holy Spirit in their lives. He
comes into our lives when we are converted to Jesus. He
comes to do all that we have been enumerating in this
section. More importantly, the Holy Spirit gives is His
GIFTS and FRUITS. Do you have both, or one at the
detriment of other? There are some Christians who
emphasize gifts above the fruits, and there are those who
advocate fruits above the gifts. But, I stand in between
the two groups. I desire both the gifts and the fruits. As
a matter of facts, when Jesus comes into us by His spirit,
we ought to bear fruits of the spirit primarily as
Christians. Gal 5:22-23 describes the fruits as love, joy,
peace, longsuffering, kindness, faithfulness, gentleness
and self-control. These are sine-qua-non to all Christians
and they are prima facie; you do not need any undue
investigations for these as they are real and true. If a
Christian claims t be a follower of Christ and bears no
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confession. The fruits of the spirit come first from the
spirit and we must allow Him to bear these through us.
When we wee the fruits, then we can look for the gifts.
Gifts of the spirit without the fruits of the spirit can be
dangerous. We need love to operate in the gifts of Holy
Spirit. We need patience to enjoy the gifts of the spirit.
We need joy, gentleness, etc. to be effective user of the
gift of the spirit. The Holy Spirit divinely assists us to
receive Jesus as our Lord and savior. He gives us the
gifts Himself. He will not give us His gifts and keep the
fruits. More than anything else, we must expect His
fruits and at the same time, not ignore the gifts. He is the
giver of both, but we must never struggle for one above
the other. We need the fruits to enjoy the gifts. We need
the gifts to demonstrate that God’s power is with us.
Having both the gifts and fruits are all divine work of
the spirit. The spirit of God always assists us to have
both for a gracious Christian life.

PRAYER
Holy Spirit, you are my Comforter. Fill me. Empower
me to do God’s will. I know You can help me, because

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You have the power. I need you. Fill my thirsty soul.
Feed me with bread of heaven. Give me wisdom and
insights to what I need to do to have victory and
breakthrough in life. Help me to listen to you and obey
your instruction daily. Thank you Blessed Holy Spirit. In
Jesus name.

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DIVINE ASSISTANCE
IN TROUBLOUS
TIME

Life is full of trouble and problems. Troublous

times do come into our lives and it takes the right
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people fail in this area and the troubles bury them under.
Howbeit, when we are in Christ Jesus, there are
scriptural principles and strategies to win victory in
life’s battles, wars and troubles.
There is hardly any human being who can escape
this life’s troublous times. Even Jesus has His own
portion of the troublous time. The Israelites had
troublous time in Egypt. The early Disciples and early
Church experienced their own troublous periods. So
many individuals had a divine record of troubles time
and the divinely given victory. Remember Jabez, Jacob,
Joseph, Jonathan, Jehoshaphat, etc. We shall consider
the case of Jehoshaphat in this work and learn some
biblical principles in such a troublous time.
There are three types of help and assistances
possible of being received: we have self help; help from
other people and help from God. The help from self is
personal help; assisting yourself in troublous time. I do
not know how many people have been able to help
themselves when they have problems, effectively. Man
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 The help from other is the help from outside-
from other people such as friends, parents, leaders, etc.
But how many people can help others without really
claiming the glory? “Vain is the help of man” says the
Bible. The other help is the divine help; the assistance
from above. Unlike the other tow forms of earthly help
or assistance that is vanity, with upbraiding, corrupting,
full of sorrow, that could be disappointing, the help from
above is above all, excellent, enduring, not upbraiding,
not with sorrow or sweat, timely and come as a result of
Jesus. (Rom 8:31-32; James 1:17; Ps 48:1, 2 & 7)

CONDITION FOR RECEIVING DIVINE ASSISTANCE

There are four conditions for receiving divine help from

above.
You must be helpable.
This means that you must have a need, be humble
enough to seek the help from God. You must learn how
to be in a place to seek and receive help, always.

You must be helping other.

No matter your condition in life, you must be able to
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mercy. Blessed are the helping hands, they shall receive
helps. Are you helping other in your own little way?

You must be ready to receive help.

You must be help-ready. Be open-handed. Be open-
minded. Be spiritually sensitive to know when help
comes from God and people.

You must learn how to seek for help.

Pride, ignorance, foolishness will not allow a man to
seek for help when they need one. Help comes from God
and we must learn to seek help from Him. There are
times God will use others to help you but if you do not
look for them, you may not get them.
In summary, to receive held from God, you must
learn how to do the following things. Learn to use ASK
formula: Ask, seek, and knock. Exercise faith. Be
patient. Be obedient. Live a holy/pure life. Be humble.
Be definite and specific. Be alert to see when the help
comes. Learn how to praise God before, during and after
the help has come.

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In 2 Chronicles 20, we have these principles portrayed.
Jehoshaphat was besieged by the armies of Moab,
Ammon and Mount Seir, about three armies in alliance
to fight one army, the army of Judah. We have cases like
this in life, where are conglomerations of trouble,
problems and perils coming up against one person,
family, community, nation, etc. The trouble of
Jehoshaphat and his army gave them fear, panic and
discomfort. They lost hope and are in desperate need for
divine assistance. Let us see how Jehoshaphat and his
group overcome this troublous time.

Jehoshaphat sought the face of the God in prayer.

To receive divine help from God, we must seek Him in
troublous time and even in times of comfort. This step is
golden and worthy of emulation. We must learn to seek
God at all times if we want to overcome our troublous
times.

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He used the principle of synergy. He did not act alone,
but he gathered the people to inform them of the issue at
hand. (2 Chronicles 20:3-4).

Jehoshaphat proclaimed a fast.

There are situations that need more than just prayers,
more than synergistic activities of others. They needed
to fast to help them in the spiritual exercise. Have you
thought of this: May be you need some days of fasting
with your prayer and your divine help will come.

Jehoshaphat was patient and sensitive in the spirit

enough to perceive the voice of the Lord.
The voice of the Lord really told him what to do and as
he obeyed, the divine help manifested. Most of the time,
our problems are not the problem. It is our disposition
and spiritual level and sensitivity, even after we have
prayed and fated. Jehoshaphat prayed/fasted and listened
to the Lord until he heard the divine voice on what to do.
Don’t we need this to receive divine assistance?

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Jehoshaphat did not despise the prophets and
prophesies.
As they fasted, prayed, the Lord used the prophets
amidst them to reveal His mind. Jehoshaphat, as the
leader, accepted the voice of the Lord from the prophet
and se he was established and blessed. Do you know
how many time you have ignored, despised the word of
prophecies from pastors, priests and prophets of God,
and you are still in your troubles? Think about this!

Jehoshaphat loudly acknowledged God’s sovereignty

acts and deeds openly.
He recounted the past testimonies of God. He
worshipped God even on troublous time. This may seem
difficult to do but it helps to draw divine assistance. I
think we must leave our request mentality to worship
and appreciation of God’s glory even in troublous times.
God loves that attitude of worship even in troublous
times. I believe this moved God to act promptly and
powerfully, fighting for them and giving them he needed
help. Our worship of God in troublous time challenges
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Jehoshaphat recruited praise singers to praise God,
even in troublous time.
These singers praised the beauty of God’s holiness and
as they were facing the army of the opponent, they were
saying “Praise the Lord, for His mercy endures forever.”
And as they began to sing and to praise God, the Lord
sets ambushes against the opponent and they were
defeated. The opponents turned against one another until
they were totally destroyed. We need to cultivate this
Old Testament spiritual principle of worshipping and
praising God as a congregation, family and individual
even in troublous time, for therein is the victory to our
troubles.
We can also see that Jehoshaphat, apart from raising
choirs, also lead the people to worship God. As
Jehoshaphat bowed his head with his face to the ground,
all of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem bowed
before the Lord worshipping the Lord. God saw their
worshipful hearts and He came to dwell in their praise
and won the battle for them. We need to learn this act

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and art for therein lays our victory and divine help in
troublous times.
After God had fought the battle for them, they all
returned to Jerusalem with Jehoshaphat in front of them,
with joy, stringed instruments, harps and trumpet,
praising God, worshipping the Lord. The siege is over.
Help has come. Praise must be raised much higher.
These are the Jehoshaphat principles of receiving
divine assistance in troublous times. This is biblical,
divine steps and sure way. Prayerfully out them into
practice and see your troubles being handled by God.
Divine assistance is possible by using Jehoshaphat
principles and other biblical principles you have learnt
from this book or other inspirational books.
May you receive divine help in Jesus’ name. May the
Lord make your life victorious from now on. May
trouble of life never overcome you. You are a winner.

PRAYER
My God, trouble surrounds me. Problems overwhelm
my soul. I need your help. You help Jehoshaphat in time
of trouble; I need your help Lord. Send help from above.

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Fight my battles for me and give me victories. You never
loose a battle: I trust in you. I seek your assistance. My
faith looks up to you. I know I will never be put to
shame because you are helping me. Thank you Jesus.
Amen.

Appendix
[BIBLE STUDY]
GUIDE TO DIVINE
SOLUTIONS
2 CHRONICLES 20:1-30

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Introduction
Problems of life are inevitable; we cannot shy
away from them. As long as we live in this corrupt
world, we will have problems, troubles. These problems
or troubles are not only peculiar to Christians; everyone
has his/her share of them. To Christians, problems or
negative conditions are challenges to faith and beliefs.
Problems, no matter how tough are not meant to crush
or crash us, but when handled biblically, are meant to be
stepping stones to greater heights, better living, glorious
victories and breakthroughs.
The goodness to all these is that all problems in
life have DIVINE SOLUTIONS, DIVINE ANSWERS,
A DIVINE WAY OUT of them. God specializes in
divine solutions.

ORIGIN/SOURCES OF PROBLEMS OF LIFE

Life’s problems come basically from three simple
origins.
Satan:
Satan is our arch enemy, using his demons/devils and
human agents. In Ephesians 5:12; and 2 Chronicles
10:1-2. we see the array of our enemies: demons,

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principalities, powers, the rulers of the darkness of this
world, spiritual wickedness in high places, people of
Moab, people of Ammon, others, the
Egyptians/Pharaoh, the Herods, Samballats/Tobiahs.
Haman, witches or Wicca and wizards.
Satan’s work is just three folds, a) to steal; b) to kill c) to
destroy. And so do his agents/demons. They are trouble
makers, problem creators. Even when you are not ready
for a fight, they challenge you! Thank God we have
answers to their problems in Jesus’ name.

Self:
Man creates problems and troubles for himself through
DISOBEDIENCE [to God’s laws, government laws,
societal law, traffic law, health/hygiene rules, social
norms, etc…] Many times, you create problems for
yourself. Even our self-created problems, as long as one
will not encourage them, have divine solutions. God can
chastise, correct us and lovingly brings us back unto
Himself, when we are ready and willing and obedient.

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Cultural setting, social environment/norms, traditional
beliefs, activities, food, dressed, etc in the society can
directly or indirectly bring about troubles/problems to
our lives. As long as we live in this world, we are bound
to share in the societal problems, to which there is also
DIVINE SOLUTION, if we can call upon God.
Satan, self and society can agree to come
together to create real complicated problems. It could
manifest as natural disaster, physical afflictions, diseases
or illnesses, financial crises, political problems,
economic instability, social vices, etc. It can manifest as
spiritual problems, as demonic attack, oppressions,
obsessions, possession, psychiatric problems, delay,
denial, spiritual death, blindness, deafness, lameness (2
Chron 20:3). Whether natural or supernatural, whether
physical or spiritual, whether visible or invisible, God
has DIVINE SOLUTION to all of them. All we need is
nothing but DIVINE HELP, SOLUTION, and
ASSISTANCE.

BIBLICAL GUIDE TO DIVINE SOLUTION

How can we receive divine solution to any or all of
our life’s problems or troubles or challenges? How did

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Jehoshaphat receive divine solution and assistance? This
can guide us to our own divine solution. Let us consider
how King Jehoshaphat sought for divine solution to the
problem he encountered.
Jehoshaphat and his team embarked Prayer of faith.
2Chron. 20: 3-4; Mark 11:24:
Jehoshaphat and the people of Judah sought the face or
help from the Lord, even at the face of the battle coming
against them. When you see, hear, perceive, sense,
discover the Moab, the Ammon and other, Goliaths,
coming to battle against you this year and any time in
your life, simply trust God enough. Seek His face, ask
for help from Him. Do it alone with faith. Do it as a
group, family, and church.

Jehoshaphat and his team proclaimed a Fast

2 Chron 20:3; Mark 9:29:
Desperate situation needs desperate action and attention.
When your case becomes critical, desperate, declare a
fast! Declare a fast at home, at work, in church. Let the
elders, leaders, pastors, deacons come together and seek
God’s face with FASTING. There are some situations

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that need our spiritual discipline and sensitivity and
power, these come only through fasting. Fasting does
three things: Makes one penitent (It reinforces
penitence), makes one remember one’s weakness, makes
one depend on God for strength, make us sensitive in the
spirit to hear/know what God is saying; allows the Holy
Spirit to minister effectively in our lives. When you fast,
you hasten divine solution.

Jehoshaphat and his team used and received prophetic

Messages. 2 Chron. 20: 14-17; 20:
In any assembly, group of Christians or homes, there
would be prophets or people with prophetic gifts.
Jehoshaphat people yielded to the Spirit’s prompting
and leading. The prophecy came at the right time, for the
right purpose, from the right person to the right people.
The prophecy edified them, encouraged them, comforted
them and challenged then to faith. We need prophetic
utterances on some occasions to receive DIVINE
SOLUTION. Let people of God use their gifts of/from
God to build, comfort, encourage God’s people.

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Jehoshaphat and his team praised and worshipped
God. 2 Chron. 20: 18, 22
We need to appreciate their attitude of worship. Bowing
head with face to the ground before the Lord, standing
up to praise the Lord and worshipping, singing and
praising the Lord with a loud voice. The Levites
(Choristers), the Koralite all sang praises (vs. 19, 21 &
22). When we praise the Lord, He raises us up. When
we worship God, He arises on our behalf to fight.
Worship, praise are weapons of warfare, source of
divine help. (2 Chron 20: 22-24).
Do you know that you can receive DIVINE
SOLUTION by singing spiritual songs, hymns &
anthems? Remember Paul and Silas. Remember
Jehoshaphat and his team.

Jehoshaphat and his team were passionate in their

service/work to the Lord. 2 Chron. 20:20
Note this; “So they rose early in the morning…” vs. 20.
“… They went out into ….” “.. He consulted people and
appointed singer/praisers.” See the singers—“as they
went before the army, and were singing”; “Now they (all

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of them) began to sing and praise the Lord.”
“Jehoshaphat and his people came to take away their
spoil”; “they stripped off for themselves more that they
would carry”; “they were three days gathering the
spoil”; “On the fourth day, they assembled to bless the
Lord” These people are passionate, serious, diligent and
hardworking. They prayed, they proclaimed fast, they
prophesied, they praised and worshipped: they were
passionate in their service and work. They worked and
prayed! [James 2:14, 17, 18, 20 & 26].
Beloved, to receive full and free DIVINE
SOLUTION, when we need to work physically,
mentally, let us work. When we need to pray, then pray.
Pray as if you will not work and work as if you will not
pray. Balance faith in God with diligent work. God
blesses what we do and we take to Him in prayer. To be
lazy physically, spiritually is not good.
God has designed DIVINE SOLUTION for all of us.
But you will get the best by following these divine
guidelines:
1. Pray with faith;
2. Proclaim fast when necessary;

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 3. Prophesy your solution;
4. Praise and worship God;
5. Be passionate in your work (job and service
to God).
If you are here today and you have not received Jesus as
your Lord and Savior, you can key into this DIVINE
SOLUTION by praying for your salvation. Pray and
repent of your sins. Ask Jesus to come and be your Lord
and Savior. And continue to follow Him all your life.
Jesus is the AUTHOR OF DIVINE SOLUTION for
you!!! Now and forever.

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