ARE YOU BEING CHASED BY EATERS OF FLESH & DRINKERS OF BLOOD?

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By Akin Ojumu

Leke Sanusi was a guest minister at Jesus House Baltimore recently. While there, he led the gathered crowd in a series of prayers. Several of the prayer points Mr. Sanusi asked the people to pray were, to say the least, very troubling. But I found one of them to be particularly disturbing.

Burning with zeal and blowing hot with fury, Leke Sanusi commanded the people take a partner and pray the following:

“Say, my friend. My friend. Eaters of flesh. Drinkers of blood. That have been chasing you. Searching everywhere for you. We return to sender. Without success. In the Name of Jesus. I pray for you, my brother. In the Name of Jesus Christ. Any eater of flesh. Any drinker of blood. That has been chasing you. Searching everywhere for you or for anyone in your family. Tonight, they will return to sender. God will feed them with their own flesh. The Lord will get them drunk with their own blood like sweet wine. That’s the Word of the Lord in Isaiah 49. I pray for you tonight. Eaters of flesh. Drinkers of blood. Chasing you. Searching everywhere for you or anyone in your family. They will return to sender. Leukemia will return to sender….gibberish…gibberish…gibberish…Tragedy. Calamity. Accident. Arrows of the wicked. Will return to the sender. Gibberish…gibberish…gibberish. In Jesus Name we pray!!!!”

Boy!!! You’d think the Devil would be shaking at the knees by now. With those “powerful” decrees, one would expect the demons to have taken a fast hike with tails tucked between their legs. All these years they’ve been praying this same prayer, you’d think by now the eaters of flesh and drinkers of blood should have stopped chasing and pursuing them. But no. In just a few months from now, the same people will be gathered again to pray the very same empty prayers.

Nowhere in the Bible is this nonsense taught. You won’t find a single Bible verse that supports the idea that a child of God, someone who has genuinely given their life to Christ and is filled with the Holy Spirit, could possibly be pursued helter-skelter by “eaters of flesh and drinkers of blood.” 

Even the Isaiah 49 that Leke Sanusi cited is not about praying against eaters of flesh and drinkers of blood chasing spirit-filled believers. The passage is a prophetic vision of the coming Messiah and the redemption of sinners that He was going to bring.

Isaiah 49 tells us about the Messiah/Servant and His prophetic and priestly functions. The chapter talks about His equipment for His task, His sufferings and humiliation, and His final exaltation. The word “servant” occurs about twenty times in Isaiah 49, which is the exaltation and glorification of the Lord Jesus Christ as the Lamb of God who would be slain to redeem His chosen elect.

Leke Sanusi’s prayer against flesh-eating and blood-drinking minions is an outpouring of his pagan mindset. It is a practice carried over from the native traditional pagan background and imported into Christianity in Nigeria. It is classic syncretism on full display. 

Sadly, this unbiblical concept is rampant in Nigerian Christian churches today. Prayer against eaters of flesh and drinkers of blood is what they pray in all the Holy Ghost Conventions. And the various campgrounds and crusade grounds are packed with unregenerate souls hoping the prayer of the anointed man of God would ward off these goblins hot on their tail.

This sort of syncretic belief is the product of a Christless Christianity everywhere in Nigeria. It is the inevitable outcome of a people who have abandoned the truth of the Gospel and have, instead, embraced myths.

2 Timothy 4:1-5
“I charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead, and by his appearing and his kingdom: PREACH THE WORD; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with complete patience and teaching. For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths. As for you, always be sober-minded, endure suffering, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry.”

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