A voodoo practitioner has built this occult alter across the street from a church.
A voodoo practitioner has built this occult alter across the street from a church.
Nov. 21, 2024 | Benin

Voodooist Threatens Church

[139] prayers in [11] nations have been posted for the church in Benin.

A voodoo practitioner in Benin built an altar directly across the street from a church. He regularly kills animals and places occult items he believes are infused with mystical powers on the altar, often on Sunday mornings. He also puts voodoo powder on the church’s steps, hoping to scare church members away, and plays music at a high volume on Sunday mornings to disrupt church services. In response, the church bought a sound system to drown out the music. Now the man is threatening to buy all the land around the church and surround it with voodoo altars. A front-line worker said church members have requested prayer that God will either change the man’s heart or move him out of the area.

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  • Dear Lord, Your power is so much greater than that of Satan! Please, by Your Holy Spirit, do Your perfect work in this man's heart. Please open his eyes to his own blindness. If, on the other hand, he continues to resist You, I pray that he will leave the area. I ask, however, that You would convict him with Your truth. In Jesus' name, amen.
    Lynne W - USA
  • In the powerful name of Jesus, our heavenly Father, Omnipotent, as brothers and sisters in Christ, we praise You for faith that overcomes fear for church in Benin. We ask for a hedge of protection, angels directly from heaven to encamp around and minister to them. Amen
    Gary F - USA
  • Father God, I pray that you will mightily protect these believers from harm and attacks. You are greater than any demonic power. I pray that they will witness your love and protection. I pray that this man will desire to know you and hear about the gospel. I pray that you will draw him to yourself and to faith in Jesus Christ. I pray for Benin. Amen.
    Julia F - USA
  • Abba I pray You would give this man a Damascus road experience in that He would not only hear Your voice but see Your glory and thus repent of all wickedness and sin and surrender his heart over to You. May he come to know Yahusha as HaMashiach and accept the gift of salvation through the Son of Elohyim I pray in Yahusha's name. All Glory to You, Amein
    Yahleah M - USA
  • Father,
    Give your church wisdom and love to overcome the dark forces that are at work against them. May the man who is being used against the church be broken by your love and would become an appostle Paul, one who once persecuted but who becomes part of your work. Thank you for using us who once were your enemies as your beloved servants.
    Ross J - USA
  • Heavenly Father God I come before you and I thank you for these Christians in Benin. I pray the blood of Jesus Christ over this voodoo man. May he find in his heart and opens his eyes to the love of Jesus Christ, may his salvation turn the tide for many and that the Christians stand up without fear.
    Pam W - USA
  • Heavenly Father God I come before you and I thank you for these Christians in Benin. I pray the blood of Jesus Christ over this voodoo man. May he find in his heart and opens his eyes to the love of Jesus Christ, may his salvation turn the tide for many and that the Christians stand up without fear.
    Pam W - USA
  • Father, I rebuke the evil attempts by this voodooist to scare your people. Let them hold fast to the truth that You have already defeated darkness and Your light will prevail! Please speak to the man who is persecuting You and bring him to his knees. In the name of your Son, Jesus - amen!
    Jessica M - USA
  • LORD: You are God & there is no other. The battle belongs to the LORD: Take care of all the brothers & sisters in Benin. Bring to nothing all works of darkness against Your church & Your work there. Take away any fear from Your people. Let their faith & love toward our Savior prevail. Protect & keep them in Your peace day and night. In Jesus' name.
    P F - USA
  • I pray for the church in benin. Let them remember that the Lord God is greater than all evil. I pray for the heart of the voodoo man, that the light would shine and he would see it and turn to you., amen.
    Robert C - USA
  • Lord God, I pray that this man would have his heart transformed by Your Spirit and that he would become just as zealous in proclaiming the gospel. Please give Your people wisdom and courage and supernatural love as they interact with him; may they be faithful to proclaim Your gospel and trust You with the results of their faithfulness.
    Danielle H - USA
  • Father there is no one greater than you. No evil has come against the church that you cannot vanquish. I pray that you would change this man's heart and bring him singing and dancing into your loving arms. Hep your children welcome him with open arms! Let there be laughter where there is now mourning.
    You are a good, good God!
    Scott S - USA
  • OLORD, heal & enlighten this voodoo practitioners heart. Open his eye & convict him of the evil he practices. Make his evil worthless & bring him shame. Give him no confidence in it anymore. May he see the light of YOUR presence in the surrounding church. May he hunger & thirst for you alone. In Jesus Name I pray, Amen.
    Shelly D - USA
  • Father, I join with church members who have requested prayer that God will change the heart of evil in this voodoo practitioner or that he will be removed from the area of their worship.
    Betty D - USA
  • In the saving name of Jesus, our heavenly Father, Jehovah, God Who saves from sins, as brothers and sisters in Christ, we praise You for saving Benin Christians from sins. We ask for hedge of protection, heavenly angels to encamp around and minister to them. Amen.
    Gary F - USA
  • Psalm 109; Do not keep silent, O God of our praise, when the wicked and deceiving mouths surround your people with words of hatred. Please deliver this believing congregation from their accusers and provide great opportunities for them to praise the Lord among the multitude
    Julie C - USA
  • Savior Jesus, you know this man. You know all the ins and outs of his thoughts. Please change his heart to accept what the Christians have to say to him. Please give the believers your heart of tenderness and love. If that will not work, please move the man from this area. You are able to work change in this area. Please do.
    Emily G - USA
  • Dear Heavenly Father I amen these previous prayers. I would ask You would send him a dream to show him what is happening in the spirit world when he tries to do these things. May he realize the impotence of his faith. I pray Lord Jesus that You will show Yourself to him. May he repent & be saved. I lift up my prayers for Benin. In Jesus' Mighty NA.
    Johnathan K - USA
  • Father God, I pray for the church in Benin as they face persecution from this man. I pray that the church remains strong together and continues to meet and worship Christ. I pray that this man will open his eyes and that You may melt his heart so that he will have a change of heart. I pray that this man will follow Christ and repent. Amen.
    Spencer B - USA
  • Dear Heavenly Father, we ask You to soften the heart of this man and help him to allow Your Word into his heart. Help the Christians not run away from him but to him as he needs You! Help him to come to see You and feel Your presence and renounce all voodoo and place his hope and heart with You and accept You as Lord and Savior. We thank You Lord!!!
    Donna H - USA
  • Dear Lord, may you visit the voodoo practitioner with your presence in a way that causes him to heed your message and change his heart. Amen.
    Tom H - USA
  • Avi Ad! I thank You that You are leading this disrupter of Your church onto the path of salvation. That Your truth (Christ Jesus) will shatter the foundation he has built his life to whereby he will seek Your salvation in Christ Jesus. May the church encourage each other during this situation. In Yeshua's name
    Randal A - USA
  • Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ at Church in Benin,

    I know the Lord is more powerful than anything voodoo has to throw at your church. The Lord will bless your church with His Holy Spirit that never fails. Your church will grow and multiply no matter what!!

    I am praying for your strength of spirit and your guiding light of Jesus to shine on you
    Constance B - USA
  • ABBA FATHER, I pray for my brothers and sisters in CHRIST in Benin, that YOU will use them to witness to this voodoo practitioner until he comes to know YOU or leaves the area. For greater is HE that is in YOU, than HE that is in the world! For I ask these things in the Name of YOUR powerful and loving SON, JESUS CHRIST! Amen!
    Michael V - USA
  • No weapon formed against you will prosper You say in Your word and I ask that this man will be overtaken by Your Spirit and set free to know and serve You. Lord give this church understanding in using the armor that You have given them and help them to know that this battle is not against flesh and blood but to pray that Your will be done
    Teresa S - USA
  • Lord God I thank you that this man of Voodoo is where he is across from the church that there is an opportunity for your people to be a witness for the gospel to him n to love their enemy. I pray you deliver this man from Satans hold on him and Prevent his plans from succeeding against your people Give your church there wisdom In Jesus name I pray
    Dean B - USA
  • Lord, in truth, the false gods that this man worships and serves pale in comparison to You. I would pray that You would deal with him as you did with Simon the sorcerer in Acts 8, and that he would be overwhelmed by Your power. I pray that You would lower his defenses so that the Gospel might have its powerful effect on him.
    Mike D - USA
  • Lord, in truth, the false gods that this man worships and serves pale in comparison to You. I would pray that You would deal with him as you did with Simon the sorcerer in Acts 8, and that he would be overwhelmed by Your power. I pray that You would lower his defenses so that the Gospel might have its powerful effect on him.
    Mike D - USA
  • Isaiah 54:17 no weapon that is fashioned against you shall succeed,
    and you shall refute every tongue that rises against you in judgment.
    This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord
    and their vindicationa from me, declares the Lord. Father protect your faithful servants as they follow what you have for them. Let Your light shine to all
    Cathy B - USA
  • God, evil does have power, but it cannot breathe without Your permission. You promised that we are from God, and have overcome the evil spirits. Protect each one of Your children, letting them overcome any evil. Let the confounding of his power turn this man away from evil and to the light. Let his zeal for You be greater than his evil now. Save him.
    Kesse R - USA
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