DEUTERONOMY 1:1-2
- These are the words which Moses spoke to all Israel on this side of the Jordan in the wilderness, in the plain opposite Suph, between Paran, Tophel, Laban, Hazeroth and Dizahab.
- It is eleven days’ journey from Horeb by way of Mount Seir to Kadesh Barnea.
SPIRITUAL LESSONS ON A PLACE CALLED KADESH BARNEA
Geographically, from Horeb, the mount of God, to Kadesh Barnea was ELEVEN DAYS JOURNET (II-DAYS).
Also, from Kadesh Barnea to Canaan itself was only TWO DAYS JOURNET (2-DAYS)
At Kadesh Barnea, during the Journey of the Israelites, the powers of failure at the edge of success attached the children of Israel, forcing them to fall back to where they started after they were very close to their land of possession.
Today, God is teaching the church a spiritual lesson on a place called Kadesh Barnea.
Kadesh Barnea was a transit point in the Pilgrimage of the children of Israel from Egypt to Canaan. It was a point where the Israelites sited to go forward but returned back to where they started just two days away from their possessions.
It is a negative turning point.
UGLY EXPERIENCES OF ISRAELITES PRECEDING KADESH BARNEA
DEUTERONOMY 1:19-22
- “So we departed from Horeb, and went through that entire great and terrible wilderness which you saw on the way to the mountains of the Amorites, as the LORD our God had commanded us. Then we came to Kadesh Barnea.
- And I said to you, ‘You have come to the mountains of the Amorites, which the Lord our God is giving us.
- Look the Lord your God has set the land before you; go up and possess it, as the Lord God of your fathers has spoken to you; do not fear or be discouraged.
- And every one of you came near to me and said, let us send men before us, and let them search out the land for us, and bring back word to us of the way by which we should go up, and of the cities into which we shall come.
The children of God went through all manners of troubles in the wilderness before arriving at Kadesh Barnea.
They suffered snake bites, hunger, lack of water to drink. They went through great and terrible wilderness and finally arrived at Kadesh Barnea. Moses encouraged them to fear not and never to be discouraged. Instead, they suddenly became reluctant to continue their journey. Discouragement set in as a concrete block in their hearts. They despised what they have labored for and became discouraged to make further progress. Instead of completing what they have started, they informed Moses that they will remain at Kadesh Barnea and send spires to the Promised Land, who will bring them reports whether they should continue the journey or not. God wants us to learn a strong spiritual lesson from this ugly experience of the Israelites.
It is tragedy, after you have gone for on a project, you have gone far in your University career, even to graduation level, you have done everything for your wedding to take place, you have attended all the interviews and probably, you were told you will be the one to be employed, you have pursued a contract to the last point of your life, just to obtain a desired blessing, something strange just happened and brought everything to zero. That is tantamount to a strong attack called the spirit of Kadesh Barnea.
STRONG AND STRANGE PRAYER TO PRAYER TODAY
You must cry to God with all agony of your heart to God today: I MUST NOT PERISH UNDER YOUR UMBRELLA.
EXODUS 13:21-22
- And the Lord went before them by day in a pillar of a cloud, to lead them the way; and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light; to go by day and night.
- He took not away the pillar of the cloud by day, nor the pillar of fire by night, from before the people.
Despite the fact that they were been lead by the PILLAR OF A CLOUD by day and PILLAR OF FIRE by night. Yet, they did not follow the pillar of cloud and the pillar of fire. They were attacked by the spirit of WASTERS. The spirit of DESTINY DIVERTER entered them. Despite the powerful message from Moses, they refused to listen to him. They perished. A lot of them died in the wilderness. It is possible to be wasted right under the umbrella of God. It is possible to fail right under the canopy of God when you refuse to yield to spiritual instructions.
KADESH BARNEA
- The place where the Israelites stopped their journey from making progress.
- The place that their journey remains two days to their possessions.
- The negative turning point.
- The satanic bus-stop of the children of God.
- The place where the people chose to rather believe the evil reports of the spies than that of Joshua and Caleb
- The place where Miriam, the sister of Moses died and was buried.
- It was the place where all the Israelites rebelled against God.
- It was the place where Moses anger rose and struck the rock instead of speaking to the rock to bring water.
- It was the place where God said to Moses, you will see the land but you will not enter.
- The place where the children of God on their pilgrimage received attack that hindered them from furthering their journey to possession.
- It was the place where the Israelites reversed at the edge of Canaan (2-days) away.
- It was the place where three million people wandered around for thirty-eight years (38yrs).
CORELATING THE KADESH BARNEA TO YOUR OWN LIFE
Look back very critically and look at your own life too.
Check your age and take time to look at what happened to your life in the past. You will see the traces of the spirit of Kadesh Barnea.
- What you ought to have completed in one month has taken you five years.
- Several times, you were discouraged on a matter to the point you retreated.
- You have abandoned projects.
- You were unable to complete several things you have started
- You have wasted a lot of resources in life.
- You are wrongly positioned in your office.
- Several times in the past, instead of making progress, you went back to your beginning.
- Strange things had happened to you just at the edge of success and everything became zero.
- Several jobs were canceled.
- You have gone through all manners of sufferings and all to no avail.
- You quitted what you supposed to complete.
- What you began, you couldn’t complete.
- You have great opportunities but you couldn’t enter.
- You took a job that supposed not be taken.
- You were marking time in a job in the past or even now.
- You have encountered repeated failures.
- You were rich before but now you are very poor.
- You are back to your formal life.
- You lost many things or everything that have reduced you to what you used to be.
- Regular disappointments.
WHAT IS THE SPIRIT OF KADESH BARNEA
- It is when you return to the beginning of your journey.
- It is when you are roaming around your breakthroughs.
- When you are chasing the shadow instead of the real thing.
- Roaming about in the market square of life without buying anything.
- It is likened to sitting on barbing saloon chair and turning round at the same spot.
- It is when you are merry-go-rounding.
- When you cannot point to anything tangible you have achieved in life.
- It is when everybody sees you moving but you yourself, you know that you are not making progress.
- When you are at satanic bus stop and you don’t know what to do.
- When an inch becomes a mile.
- When a yard becomes ten kilometers.
- When you are taking too much time on a thing without making progress.
- When you are building a house for five years and above.
- It is when you start come little and later grows big and suddenly something went wrong and come back to little as you started.
- It is when you were poor before, later became rich and suddenly, things went wrong and you became poor again.
- It is when you were married before and somewhere along the line, you lsot the husband and came back to spinster’s life.
- Looking the same way you were for many years.
- When you lose what you have.
- When you are back to your basic life.
OPERATIONS OF THE SPIRIT OF KADESH BARNEA
When you begin to dream:
- Seeing dead relations.
- Going back to your old school or classroom
- Going back to your old house once lived years ago.
- When you are wearing rags.
- When you see yourself wearing old clothes you had several years ago.
- When you see yourself in your village.
- When you playing with your very old friend when you were a teenager.
- When you see yourself climbing a mountain and could not get to the top.
- When you see yourself looking for road in a forest.
- When you are lost in the bush looking for roads.
- When you are in a vehicle without a driver or steering or tyres.
- When you are seeing yourself in a particular building you really don’t know in the physical world.
- You always have a particular dream whenever you are expecting something good.
- When you are pressed while sleeping.
- When you are writing examinations you have already passed in the physical.
HOW TO KNOW IF YOU ARE UNDER THE ATTACK OF KADESH BARNEA’S SPIRIT
- If you dream any of the dreams above.
- If you are facing constant disappointments.
- If you are always ignored and by-passed.
- When things get to you turn and it ends in disappointments.
- When your helpers are facing tragedies.
- When your helpers are cooperating with you.
- When your hopes become shattered.
- When you are absent in the day of favour.
- When you are facing terrible problems where you supposed to be happy.
- When your mates are far ahead of you.
- When your juniors are far ahead of you.
- Despite your certificates, you are jobless.
- When you are suffering seriously and nobody to help you.
- Despite you are under the umbrella of God, you are in the church and you are still wasting away.
- When you are not making progress at all.
- Stagnancy is noticed in your life.
- When you lost what could have moved you forward in life.
HOW TO BE DELIVERED
- Deal with sin in your life.
- Deal with rebellion spirit.
- Deal with unbelief attacks.
- Deal with witchcraft in your life.
- Deal with placement problems.
PRAYERS TO UPROOT THE SPIRIT OF KADESH BARNEA
- Lion of Judah arise; destroy every power prolonging problems in my life.
- Lion of Judah arise; destroy every power prolonging stagnation in my life
- Spirit of stagnation, I am not your candidate, die in the name of Jesus.
- Every power assigned to waste my destiny, be wasted in the name of Jesus (…Pray this No. 4 prayer 3x).
- Every yoke of Kadesh-Barnea in my life, break by fire, scatter by thunder in the name of Jesus. (…Pray this No. 5 prayer 3x).
- Every arrow of back to square one, back fire by fire in the name of Jesus. (…..Pray this No.6 prayer 3x)
- Arrows of repeated failures, repeated disappointments, repeated afflictions, die. (….Pray this No. 7 prayer 3x)
- Arrows of delay in my life die (… Pray this No.8 prayer 3x).
- Every stronghold, binding me to Kadesh Barnea, die in the name of Jesus.
- You spirit of backwardness, I bury you today in the name of Jesus.
- I shall not be wasted in the market square of life from today in the name of Jesus.
- Every bondage of pendulum spirit, every bondage of barbing saloon chair spirit, every bondage of circular spirit die.
- You spirit of born-for-nothing in my life, die in the name of Jesus.
- Agent of darkness responsible for the spirit of Kadesh Barnea, die in the name of Jesus.
- Every power, prolonging my stay in the wilderness, die in the name of Jesus.
- My father, I shall get to my destinations this 2013 in the name of Jesus.
- Any power responsible for failures at the age of success in my life die (….Pray this prayer 3x)
- Any power that makes things to go wrong whenever I am about to celebrate, I bury you today.
- Any dream criminal responsible for back to square one in my life die…(Pray this prayer 3x).
- Any dream of failure, dream of disappointment, dream of poverty die in the name Jesus.
- I wage war over witchcraft attack over my life this year in the name of Jesus.
- Every witchcraft agenda, dream criminal agenda for me to fail in 2013, die.
- Cover your life with the blood of Jesus and pray no power will steal your miracles.
- Miracles that nobody ever expected that I will share let me receive it before the end of this year.