“Keep us free from evil powers…” is part of Jamaica’s national anthem. This can be achieved when we intensify prayers, even against hurricanes.

My family came to Jamaica in the early 90s and we heard complaints about Hurricane Gilbert (1988) and Jamaica not having totally recovered from it. We experienced a hurricane for the first time when Ivan came in 2004 while living in Plantation Heights, St Andrew. It was very devastating and I pleaded with God not to allow such a thing again as I went through excruciating body pains for almost one month due to having to deal with the continuous stream of water that kept coming into the house during the hurricane. After bailing water with buckets all day during the stormy days, the rest of my family was too tired at night and they resorted to sleeping. I was alone left running up and down the stairs for hours preventing water from coming in.

Since then, every hurricane that has come to our shores I lead intercessors and take it upon myself to cry out to God in the midnight hours against the hurricanes. God heard the cry. Some of these hurricanes, such as Felix, Dean, Charley, Dennis, Sandy, etc, either contended in the atmosphere for a while as we prayerfully stabbed the eyes of the hurricanes and damaged or wounded them.

Another episode was in 2016, not haven’t heard on the news, God woke me up and told me that a storm was on the way. I thought it was personal and began to rebuke. But when I went outside the neighbours asked me if I had heard about the hurricane and had prepared myself. I said, “No, really, oh my God; that was what God was talking about”? I instantly rebuked the hurricane and begged God not to allow it, since He woke me up and told me Himself. Destroy it, Lord, break its power! That was the end of the Hurricane. Praise be to God!

Just to mention that they are ‘principalities’ – Matthew 8: 27. Evil spirits consult God to attack people, nations, etc – 1 Samuel 16: 14-23. They consulted God to attack nations because of evil in such nations. God permits them to punish or sensitise a nation, but if God’s people can humble themselves and pray, they can be diverted or reduced to nothing. But if we resolve to “whatever God wants to do, let Him do it” it will not help us. God answers prayers in the morning, day, or night; all year round. He does not sleep or slumber.

One of those nights after praying the Met Service was casting the report intensely about the hurricane that was coming towards Jamaica. I went to sleep and saw myself in a vision leading a group of people with weapons in our hands going in haste to destroy something. Abruptly in the middle of the road was a big house and we stopped to open the door. Someone came out and there was a big crocodile in the house and we brutalised it and turned back. Then I woke up hearing, “You have defeated the marine spirit.” Then the Met Service changed their story and reported that it was like the hurricane was contending with something in the atmosphere for about 24 hours, but then it turned away from fully impacting Jamaica. Hallelujah! We rejoiced that God did it and revealed the vision of the victory.

God gave us power as humans to dominate and control what He has created (Genesis 1: 26-28). Let us control the principalities and powers, etc, and subdue them. I put my hands and face towards the heavens last year against Beryl and said, “God, please send it to the sea.” The hymn that permeated my atmosphere even from my sleep was, “Peace be still…they all shall swiftly obey My will…”

We can scatter these forces of darkness altogether with serious prayers, not just by some, but by all; and by putting away works of darkness from this nation and cleaving to God. God will hear and deliver.