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Breaking Evil Covenant || Pastor Dr Austyn Igbinosa

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This video is a church sermon focused on “breaking evil covenants”—binding spiritual agreements that, according to the speaker, align people either with God or with darkness (satanic powers). The pastor argues that evil covenants can affect individuals across generations unless they are recognized, renounced, and broken through Christ-centered authority and warfare prayer.

Core Biblical Claims and Theological Framing

  • Covenants are binding spiritual agreements that align a person either with God or with darkness.

  • Evil covenants can be dishonored by Jesus’ redemptive work. The sermon cites:

    • Isaiah 28:18 — covenant with death dishonored
    • Galatians 3:13 — Christ redeems believers from the curse
    • Colossians 2:14 — God cancels the “handwriting of ordinances” nailed to the cross
    • Breaking covenants is presented as spiritual warfare grounded in the finished work of the cross and the authority of the blood of Jesus—not merely negotiation or requesting.

Types and Sources of Evil Covenants to Break

The pastor outlines several ways people may enter evil covenants:

1) Ancestral Agreements

  • Based on Exodus 20:5, iniquity of the fathers can affect children up to the “fourth generation.”
  • Families connected to:
    • idol worship
    • witchcraft oppression
    • secret societies
    • and similar practices are described as potentially passing down covenants that require deliverance.

2) Personal Sin and Occult/Participation Practices

The sermon claims covenants can be formed through participation in:

  • courts/clubs/societies (described as secret associations that bind members through oaths and “secrecy” requirements)
  • witchcraft
  • divination
  • sorcery
  • native doctors/shrines
  • initiations (including an example where someone is told to remove or manipulate shoes as an act that “gives a print,” symbolizing covenant establishment)

Testimony example (as presented in the sermon):

  • A young man seeks help to make money through a native doctor.
  • He receives an item described as “bait.”
  • He then experiences disruption (e.g., insomnia, feeling followed, voices).
  • After 7 days of consecration/deliverance/restoration prayer, the speaker claims he was freed and the covenant was broken.

3) True Words, Vows, and Careless Speech

  • The pastor emphasizes that words spoken in anger or emotional vows can create binding spiritual outcomes, referencing the power in the tongue.
  • A detailed anecdote is used to argue that covenant-like statements made carelessly can become hard to undo—escalating from an angry vow about a job outcome to trouble and later legal/police involvement.

4) Dream Initiations and Spirit/Spiritual Spouses

  • Some people are taught to be initiated through dreams (including alleged sexual initiation in dreams).
  • The sermon claims this then results in immoral patterns and spiritual bondage.
  • It argues that encountering “spouses” or sexual partners in dreams can represent covenant activity against destiny, requiring prayer and warfare.

Signs That an Evil Covenant Is at Work

The speaker lists indicators such as:

  • Recurring setbacks and failures (rises, then “crash land,” repeated cycles)
  • Stagnation (stuck for long periods; “an altar needs to go down”)
  • Untimely death (people or “things,” repeated losses in families)
  • Unexplainable illness
  • Marital problems, including barrenness/fruitlessness
  • Constant fear or depression
  • Ongoing spiritual attacks, where prayer appears to intensify oppression—presented as evidence of covenant warfare rather than ordinary issues

How the Pastor Says Believers Should Break Evil Covenants

The sermon presents a process:

  1. Acknowledge and identify the covenant

    • Examine family history and look for “what is not normal” to locate the source.

  2. Repent

    • Confess sins (citing 1 John 1:9) and renounce involvement that empowers evil covenants.

  3. Verbally renounce the covenant

    • Break it through pronouncement, with Isaiah 28 used as a model for declaring a covenant null/void.
    • Invoke the blood of Jesus as the foundation for breaking covenants (with a reference to “blood of sprinkling” in Hebrews).

  4. Destroy evil altars

    • The pastor claims altars are locations where covenants activate (e.g., Gideon destroying his father’s altar in Judges).
    • The sermon also includes breaking “altars” associated with poverty/smallness, then replacing them with godly, covenant-aligned decisions.

  5. Replace the evil covenant with a godly covenant

    • Encourage covenant-aligned commitments such as:
      • tithing
      • faithfulness
      • sexual purity vows
      • kingdom involvement
    • These are described as covenant decisions that “conquer covenant.”

Final Exhortation on Prayer and Spiritual Warfare

  • The speaker says covenants are not broken by “negotiating prayers”, but by warfare prayers where believers actively resist the enemy rather than bargain.
  • “No fight, no flight” is emphasized—believers must be ready to contend spiritually.
  • The sermon ends with an invitation to pray and declare “a shout of victory.”

Presenters / Contributors

  • Pastor Dr. Austyn Igbinosa (speaker)

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