Christian Literature

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ARROW
OF THE
ALMIGHTY
Dr. D. K. Olukoya

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Isaiah 49:1-3: “Listen, O isles, unto
me; and hearken ye people, from far;
The Lord hath called me from the
womb; from the bowels of my
mother hath he made mention of my
name. And he hath made my mouth
like a sharp sword; in the shadow of
his hand hath he hid me, and made
me a polished shaft, in his quiver
hath he hid me. And said unto me,
Thou art my servant, O Israel, in
whom I will be glorified.”
God made Jesus His arrow and wants
us who are Christians, to be His
arrows. Jesus was an arrow fired
from heaven for our salvation. God
wants us to be like Him. He is
described as the first fruit of them
that slept (1 Corinthians 15: 20). We
are supposed to be an arrow in the

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hand of the Lord. Do you want to be
an arrow in the hand of the living
God?
An arrow has to be made. As
Christians and disciples of the Lord
Jesus Christ, we did not make
ourselves. We did not automatically
become the arrows of the Almighty
God. For us to become His arrows and
for Him to make use of us, we have to
be totally cut off from the vanities of
life and the world of our forefathers,
then we will have a new identity. We
had the old identity when we were in
the world and it must go. When we
have new common identity we
individually become arrow.
Peter said to Jesus, “We have laid
everything aside and followed you.”

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This means that they had become
arrows. Carnality and worldliness
would prevent us from being
effective arrows. It is easy to play, as
the false Christian or church goer but
it is another thing to become an
arrow of God. When you stop playing
as a false Christian, and you make up
your mind to desist from being a
bench warmer in the house of God,
then you will become an arrow in the
hands of the Almighty. When you do
not want to be a spiritual mediocre
but you are determined to move up
to the mountain top, then you will
become an arrow.
A man cried unto God when he
noticed that he was never worried
when he sees sinners sinning. He
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bothered whether they died or lived.
The day he realized that he was not
supposed to be like that, he got angry
and prayed that God should give him
compassion for sinners that
something within him should make
him to feel sorry for them. He prayed
that same prayer point for seven
days. On the seventh day, he heard
the voice of the Lord saying, “My son,
you are broken now. You can go.” He
started preaching in his city and
within a week, all the joints where
people were taking alcoholic drinks
were closed down and people
stopped going to film houses.
Everybody became interested in God
and rushed to the church to hear the
word of God. Drunkards abandoned
their drunkenness because one man

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cried to God and became broken. The
question is how many people are
willing to be broken? It is very easy
to say that you want to be broken but
when the process starts, will you not
grumble or complain?
A sister who used to be very
fashionable got born again and
received the baptism of the Holy
Spirit. She started speaking in
tongues and prophesying and
became a new person. When one of
her old friends visited her, she
straight away said to her, “You must
give your life to Christ.” Her friend
asked if she was not coming to their
party. She said, “No, I am not.” Her
friend told her that she had run mad.
She said, “I am not mad; you should
give your life to Jesus.” As the

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children of the devil who do not
easily give up, the friend asked for a
drink and the sister said, “There is no
beer. I broke all the bottles of beer
last night. Do you want a soft drink?”
Her friend said, “You know that I
don’t drink that one,” and walked
out.
The sister had become an arrow in
the hand of the Almighty God. On the
direction of the Holy Spirit, she
threw away all her make-ups and
now looked as natural as God made
her. She eventually turned her city
upside-down for Jesus. So, when you
say, “I want to be broken,” you are
making a very serious statement,
which in order to carry out, you have
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completely uncomfortable to your
system.
Once the material for an arrow is
obtained it has to be shaped. If you
want to become an arrow of the
Almighty, you must be prepared for
certain things to be cut off from your
life - those things, which can destroy
the arrow. For example, all your
worldly old friends must go, since
they would have found your lifestyle
uncomfortable to associate with. If
you say that you are born again and
have the fire of God and you are still
associating with your worldly
friends, I summit to you that you are
not serious yet. The day you become
serious, those friends will begin to
avoid you or change to your style. It
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“communicant” and you have wives
and concubines all over the place or
you have a demonic timetable for
fornication, you are a communicant
for hell fire. If you abandon your first
wife claiming that she is now too old
and not fashionable, and you keep a
young lady in an apartment
somewhere, you are going to hell fire
together with that young lady.
As a certain sister was praying one
morning using our book entitled
“Pray Your Way to Breakthrough,”
suddenly, God opened her eyes and
she saw her husband pulling a girl to
an uncompleted building. She started
to wonder what the vision could
mean. Suddenly, she remembered
that they were building a house
somewhere, which was not yet

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completed. The Spirit of God said she
should go there and she did, and to
her amazement, her husband, who
was a Sunday school teacher, had a
girl in the uncompleted house. When
she saw the girl, she thought of
smashing her nose but as she was
about to do that she remembered
that she was supposed to be a broken
Christian. She asked the girl what she
was doing there and she said, “Mr. So
So kept me here.” Then she ordered
her out. Although the man was a
Sunday school teacher, he was
heading to hell fire with the girl.
Such a person cannot be an effective
arrow in the hand of God. It is also
dangerous for such kind of people to
be praying MFM prayer points. When
you say "every enemy of my

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breakthrough, fall down and die” and
you are the enemy of your life, it
means that you want to die. Keeping
boyfriends, girlfriends, sugar daddies
and sugar mummies and thinking
that you are enjoying because of the
money and other things you receive
from them will only lead you to hell
fire with the money and all the
’fringe benefits’. Neither can you be
an effective arrow in the hand of the
living God. All the jobs that will make
one to commit sin are dangerous and
should be avoided. In some jobs,
lying is the order of the day; if you do
not tell lies there you will not
succeed! But in such jobs you are
eating the wages of sin and very soon
ulcer or another health problem may
set in, because you are not eating the

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right food. This can affect your
children and they may become
dullards because the money you use
to train them is demonic.
The way to life is narrow and if God
wants to use you, you have to co-
operate with Him. That co-operation
means that it is you who should
change. God cannot change, it is you
that must change. There are two
kinds of ministers in the streets now:
The first kind are disposable
ministers, people who are making
noise now, but very soon will
disappear. In the second group are
people whom God intends to use in
future. The training for such people
is tough. A ‘Yoruba’ adage interprets,
“The bottom of the pot that cooks
pepper must be hot.” Apostle Paul

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says, “No man who wars entangles
himself with the affairs of this life.”
If you want to be an arrow of the
living God, all your activities must
come under examination. For
example, you must ask yourself
certain questions: “What am I doing
with my time? Does the way I am
behaving now make me sharper for
God or blunt? What are those things
in my life that I must eliminate for
me to make heaven? An arrow must
be sharp, ready and available like the
five wise virgins.
An arrow needs to be pointed. Its
pointed end helps it to penetrate, the
needle-sharp point for our lives is
the Holy Spirit. So, if you are in MFM
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anointing of the Holy Spirit, you are
still a bench warmer. You need to
receive the baptism of the Holy
Spirit. Then you will have a sharp
point. The Holy Spirit will sharpen
you because you are open to Him. His
anointing gives us the sharp point to
walk in this terrible generation. It is
that power and the anointing of the
Holy Spirit that empower us to
devastate the kingdom of darkness.
An arrow has a quiver also.
Sometimes, some people run ahead
of God. God told Moses to come up to
Him on the mountain. From days one
to six, God did not say anything to
Moses again but Moses did not
complain. He did not say, “Where is
God that said I should come? I have
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down.” No, but on the seventh day,
God spoke to him again. Many of us
are still in the same situation. God is
keeping us in His quiver. You should
just wait, listen, gather instructions
and knowledge and then move on.
Joseph was the man in God’s quiver
for a long time before God pushed
him forward. By the time God pushed
him out he was another Joseph, it
was not the Joseph his brothers
threw into the pit.
Those are the characteristics of the
arrow. Now ask yourself. “Do I
qualify as a divine arrow?" There are
two things in the Scripture that we
call arrow killers. When God is
shaping somebody to become an
arrow, two things that can kill that
arrow completely are:

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SIN
Sin is poisonous. It poisons the soul,
the spirit and the body, it is a
spiritual leprosy. It is a spreading
cancer. If you are a careful reader of
the Bible, anytime the Lord Jesus
talked about sin, He used the
harshest expression possible.
Therefore, we also are to use the
most dangerous sharpest weapon to
fight against this great enemy. We
are to destroy it no matter what it
costs. We are to hate it with perfect
hatred. It came from Satan and when
a person is living in any known sin, it
brings him to the region of death.
This is why prayer for the sake of our
individual sin or sins, can be nothing
but a real battle. Satan knows that
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life, that person belongs to him. So
when you fight against sin, it is a
matter of fighting the greatest
enemy, that is Satan himself.
God called a man of God and said, “I
want to show you something.” The
man said, “What, Lord?” The Lord
took him straight to hell fire where
he saw men and women screaming
and rolling on the floor. When he
saw this, he put his two fingers in his
ears and said, “Oh Lord, take me out
of this place. I don’t want to listen to
the screaming any longer." The Lord
said, “Go and warn my people that
they should not come here.” So, any
one who goes there is trespassing.
Close your eyes and pray like this:
“Oh Lord, remove anything that will

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take me to hell fire from my life
now.”
Why is it that fighting against sin is a
great battle? It is because the devil
presides over sin. He does not want
the bondage of sin to be broken. One
of his wicked strategies is to make
man and woman spiritually blind so
that they cannot see even their own
sin. He tries to make sin look
harmless, like a little lie here and
there, a little stealing,
unrighteousness here and there, and
when people say, “This is bad,” you
may respond that it is nothing. But
that thing you say is nothing is a big
thing. The devil records it and tries
to make us not recognize it. That is
why it is necessary to pray these
prayer points: “Lord, give me the

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spirit of truth.” “O Lord, place me in
the light so that I can recognize my
sin.” “Let the spirit of repentance fall
upon me.” When the spirit of
repentance falls upon us there will be
true revival both individually and
collectively. If we are willing to
humble ourselves, be sold out
completely to God, fall down on our
knees and pray for repentance, we
will experience astonishing things.
You may think that what you are
hearing now is testimony; no, you
have not heard any, until men and
women fall on their knees and cry to
God for repentance and turn from
their wicked ways. But as there are
still people who bear grudges and
malice, or husband and wife who
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says, “Go and sit where you like,” or
the husband says to his wife, “I am
taking my own car, you bring yours,”
then revival is still very far.
When you recognize yourself as a
spiritual sinner, when you hate sin,
even to think of it and you start
struggling to get out of it, then
revival will come into your life.
When you come to that point where
you take a decision to fight against
the power that is stealing in your life,
no matter what it may cost, then you
will experience revival.
Sin is an evil weed that overruns the
garden. It stains people and is the
leader of all spirits of sickness. There
are conditions which must be in a
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him a visit. A lot of people have been
praying for God’s visitation, saying,
“I wish the Lord speaks to me as He
did to Samuel, how I wish He opens
unto me the windows of heaven, how
I wish I also can have divine
revelation." In spite of these prayers,
spirit wives or husbands are still
pressing them on their beds. Sin is
the thing responsible. Once the issue
of sin is settled, the devil loses his
power. It is sad but true, it is
unfortunate but it is happening, that
sometimes we try to minister
deliverance to people who are not
willing to repent. That is why their
deliverance takes a longer time. We
ask them to pray like this: “Oh Lord,
deliver me, I break every covenant,
inherited or not inherited, in the

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mighty name of Jesus." We ask them
to pray like this: “Oh Lord, deliver
my brain from the hand of the devil.”
Or “O Lord, I fire back every arrow of
the enemy.” But the person firing
back the arrow is not ready and
willing to repent and so the
deliverance takes a long time. Some
say, “I have been asked to repeat the
deliverance, I have done it seven
times.” Examine yourself. The result
of ministering deliverance to people
who have not repented is that they
sometimes receive temporary relief
and as they fall back into their sins,
each demon that left, comes back
with seven more to make eight.
So, the key to a successful
deliverance is that the person must
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sins. When genuine repentance
starts, deliverance begins. When
there is no repentance, the devil will
say that you are wasting your time.
You shout and cry but he waits for
you at home.
A man came to me the other time
and said, “Sir, there is fire on the
mountain.” He wanted to pray for a
demon-possessed person. He said, “In
the name of Jesus, I command you
demon to go out of this person.” The
demon replied, “In the name of Jesus,
I command you to shut up.” He
repeated his command and the
demon said, “I will wound you.” He
was very clever; he quickly took his
Bible and ran out and came to me
and said, “So demons can call the
name of Jesus.” I said, “That was not

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a big deal." He said, “But the demon
replied that I should shut up, in
Jesus’ name? Then I told him the
blunt truth. I said, “Brother,
something is wrong with you. That
demon saw it." The Bible’s position is
clear: no repentance, no deliverance.
Whenever there are prayers and
repentance, revival happens, so we
should better think now. Those who
are still tied down with church
positions will soon realize that
church positions are empty labels.
When one has repented and is in
distress, it becomes a distress for
God, his sorrow becomes God’s
sorrow, and the Lord will comfort
him. God is looking for a life of
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temporary things but for things that
will last forever. Don’t look for a
shortcut because there is no shortcut
to power. In my book, Spiritual
Check-Up, we have the story of a
man of God whose ministry had no
power, so he prayed three days
without food or drink. The third day
Jesus came to him and asked, “Do you
want power?” He said, “Yes.” Jesus
said, “Now take your biro and begin
to write” and gave him 13 things that
were wrong with his life and said,
“The day you correct them power
will flow in your life and ministry.”
By the time he looked at the 13
points he saw that the last two points
were so bad that if his wife saw them
she would say, “Eh, so, you, a pastor,
have this kind of things is in your

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life." So he memorized the two and
brought back 11. He then adjusted
himself and power came. Now, talk to
God like this: Every power failure in
my life, fall down and die, in the
name of Jesus.
DESTINY CHANGER
The second powerful thing that kills
the arrow of God is called destiny
changers. What does that mean? God
does not engage in any useless
exercise. If He puts a drop of water
somewhere He has a purpose. There
is a purpose for the stars, the moon,
and the sun. Every man has a divine
destiny, God will not create you
without having a vacancy in His
programme for you. So, God’s plan
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Bible even says that the hairs on our
head are numbered.
God has a vision about everyone’s life
but if one is not careful the destiny
changers will change the vision and
when they do, it becomes too bad.
The way Samson died was not the
way God ordained for him. The
punishment Jonah received was not
God’s design for him. If the call of
God is upon your life and you are
playing with it you are courting a
serious trouble. When God organized
trouble for Jonah, no prayer or
charm could help him. I know a man,
who prayed for prosperity. He
prayed for many months that the
Lord should baptize him with money.
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handed a Bible to him and he found
foreign money inside it. What that
meant was that the man’s prosperity
was within God’s word. He did not
understand this, so he bought a
commercial bus and gave it to a
driver who put the money he made
in his pocket and told him that the
vehicle broke down. The man tried
other kinds of businesses and did
some contracts but ended up owing
N120,000. He sold all his property but
his problems continued until he ran
back to God. I pray that such should
not be your lot, in Jesus’ name.
One man did not understand what
was happening to him and he prayed,
“O Lord don’t look at me like this, I
want a change.” God opened his eyes
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to the throne of God. The first
arrived and they asked him, “What is
your name?” He said, “I am
Babatunde Fabiyi." Fabiyi means ‘Ifa
(an idol) gave birth to this one.’ They
told him, “What a pity!” You were
meant to be a winner but you are a
failure. Why did you allow the world
to change your destiny? He said, “I
thought I knew what was good. All
my decisions were sound and
logical.” They told him that the fact
that his decisions were sound and
logical did not make right his
decision of running a race that
nobody asked him to run, that his
purpose of coming to the world was
to raise prophets and prophetesses
for God like Phillip the evangelist
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that was his divine destiny, but he
threw away the children to free
women and prostitutes. He asked,
“How did I do all these?" They said,
“Your problem started with your
name. Your name should have been
John Olusegun but you call yourself
Fabiyi." They showed him hell fire
and he was shivering while watching
the vision. Soon a woman stood up
and they said, “What is your name?
She said, “I am Doris Douglas,” and
they said to her, “Madam, you
started so well, what happened to
you?” She said, “At a stage I could
not understand myself and I got
confused,” that was what she had to
say at the judgment seat. That is why
we pray against over-sophistication.

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They told this woman that she made
four mistakes:
1. You always revealed your secret to
your enemies.
2. You picked your husband without
asking the Lord.
3. You kept sealed lips, you should
have been telling your secrets to
God’s ministers.
4. You were an alcoholic.
Then the angel explained to her how
a single mistake could change God’s
purpose, programme and plan of God
for a person’s life. The story is told of
how what we recognized today as
football rules started. In those days,
people were playing the game the
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grabbed the ball, ran and threw it
into the goal post and right from that
day the game changed and its rules
changed. In the same way you too
can break a spiritual rule and change
your destiny forever. We have to
pray against this destiny changer
that has hidden in so many areas of
so many lives. For many a person, the
memory is so short and the vision is
so clouded that they cannot see
beyond their noses.
You are not reading this message by
chance. God has a purpose for it. He
wants to save you, that is why He has
brought the message your way. But if
you neglect it, it means that you have
not understood the purpose for
which God brought it your way. You
must change and align yourself to His

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will. If you are a woman reading this
message and you still wear trousers,
transparent dresses or still leave
your hair uncovered when you pray,
and you are just seeking for miracles,
that is dangerous. God is looking for
people who are seeking the greatest
of miracles, that is, making
themselves presentable at the
marriage feast of the Lamb. If one
loses that miracle it is better that one
was not born. It does not matter how
rich or intelligent you are, if you miss
it, that will be just too bad.
We should be very serious with our
spiritual lives. Whatever you are or
whatever you call yourself does not
really matter. What matters is what
God calls you. Therefore pray the

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following prayer points with holy
violence.
PRAYER POINTS
1. I want to become what God wants
me to be, in the name of Jesus.
2. O Lord, whenever I am stubborn,
make me to surrender, in the name
of Jesus.
3. I release myself from the hands of
destiny paralyzers in Jesus name.
4. Are you an arrow of God? You have
a wonderful opportunity to sort
yourself out.

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