From Abraham Olaleye
Deliverance From Enemy Syndrome
Across much of Africa and its diaspora, an old belief still grips the Church: that someone, somewhere, is behind every setback. Abraham Olaleye names this preoccupation for what it is — a syndrome — and shows from Scripture that flesh and blood was never our real battle. People may become tools in Satan's hands, but Jesus called us to love and pray for them, not fight them. Along the way, the book confronts the misguided prayer, unguided fasting, and demon-focused preaching this syndrome breeds, offering in their place five practical steps to resist the enemy's schemes and a return to the gos
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Across much of Africa — and among the diaspora who carry the mindset abroad — an old philosophy still holds the Church in a tight grip: the belief that some person, somewhere, is behind every setback. A relative. A colleague. Someone in the pew beside you. In this book, Abraham Olaleye names that preoccupation for what it is: a syndrome. Drawing a careful distinction between "an enemy" and "the enemy," he shows from Scripture that flesh and blood was never the target of our warfare — people may become tools in Satan's hands, but they are not the adversary. Jesus settled the matter when He told us to love, bless, and pray for those who hate us. Along the way, the book confronts the practices this syndrome breeds: prayer shaped more by ancestral vindictiveness than by the New Covenant, unguided fasting that damages health and treats God as a hand to be twisted, the frustration that follows, and the pulpits now built on the doctrines of demons rather than the finished work of the Cross. In their place, Olaleye offers five practical steps for refusing recruitment by the enemy, a call to grow from milk to solid food, and a return to the gospel that actually delivers. The invitation is simple and freeing: stop studying the darkness. Keep your eyes on Christ, who disarmed principalities and powers and made a public spectacle of them — and let the Lord fight your battles. For every believer tired of the endless cycle.