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THE JEZEBEL CONTROLLING SPIRIT

The spirit of Jezebel is one of the cominant evil authorities over our nation.

It is in the church and in your family.

Our society, the church, families, and individuals personally have been attacked, infiltrated, sabotaged, and robbed b y Jezebel.

She is no respecter of persons.

This spirit is genderless but seems to work very effectively through women and sensitive male personality types.

There are only two classes of people- Jezebels and thos who have been “Jezebelled.”

One of the last letter to the churches strongly addressed the subject of tolerating the jezebel spirit.

Revelation 2:20-23 gives a clear picture that it leads astray the best of servants into wrong theachings or sexual immorality.

Jesus, through John in the Book of Revelation, gives a strong warning of judgment on the Jezebel spirit.

Jezebel seeks to destroy true worship.

It misleads and corrupts the church and seeks to neutralize the life of prophets, pastors, and other male authority, by any means- sexual enticement, physical illness, financial misconduct, debilitating docouragement which we call burnout.

Jezebel is out to destory the family, morality, and God-ordeianed authority.

It is the spirit behind disorder in churches and families, feminism, sexually immoral lifestyles, and abortion on demand.

*TEN CHARACTERISTICS OF JEZEBEL*

1.         *JEZEBEL’S ULTIMATE GOAL IS ALWAYS CONTROL*.

The Jezebel spirit is always motivated by its own agenda and relentlessly pursuses it.

It is intent on getting what it wants.

There may be one in every ministgry of the church and every family, trying to dominate, arrange, and fix everybody.

*2.

**THE JEZEBEL SPIRIT ATTACKS, CONTROLS, DOMINATES, OR MANIPULATS* *MEN, EXPECIALLY MALE AUTHORITY (HUSBAND, PASTOR, BOSS**).*

Queen jezebel usurped political 9earthly) authority of the kingdom.

Jezebel in the church at Thyatira usurped spiritual authority.

The ultimate goal is to conquer or neutralize the prophet, because a discering pastor, propeht, or Christian leader is Jezebel’s greatest enemy.

Jezebels hate and~/or distrust men and always question male authoritites.

Jezebels cause them to doubt their decisions, capability, manhood, worth, etc. Jezebels will not submit to God’s delegated authority.

They control and scorn, sarcasm, sharp tongue, public humiliation, emotional outbursts, nagging, and endless demands (nothing is ever enough).

Jezebels are not always brash, overt, aggressive, or bossy.

They may be more subtle, otwardly gracious, but just as determined to have their own way.

Jezebels may resort to control by tears, fear, rejection, guilt, pouting, silence, sickness, or self-pity.

*3.     **JEZEBELS CAUSE FEAR, FLIGHT, AND DISCOURAGEMENT*

They often cause a spiritual leader to flee his appointed place, as Elijah did.

Jezebels are responsible for hundreds of resignations of pastors and spiritual leadefrs a year.

Some effects of being “jezebelled” are debiliting discouragement, confesion, depression, loss of vision, despair, disorientation, withdrawal, worthlessness, defeat, burnout, physical illness, financial insufficiency, and an infinite variety of other fiery darts, including death or at lest a deathwish.

The jezebel spirit cuts off the life of spiritual leadership.

His reputation or ministry may be taken by character assassination or enticement into sexual immorality.

*4.      **JEZEBELS ARE NATURAL LEADES, ALTHOUGH OFTEN COVERTLY.*

Jeezebels seek out people of influence to win their ear, gain credibility, and win endorsement.

They try to ally with them, influence them, or establish a bond with them.They seek out places of leadership, are self-promoting, and proclaim themselves to be prophets.

They provide inside information and gain a following, and thus lead people to take their eyes off the Lord.

That is always an overt or subtle threat to leave and take their loyal followers” with them.

This is the blackmailing spirit that operates with Jezebel.

The Blackmailing spirit also says, “You owe me.

You need me.

If you don’t do what I want I will…”

*5.

JEZEBELS ARE INSECURE AND WOUNDED WITH PRONOUNCED EGO NEEDS*

They are trying to fill a love deficit.

They seek continual affirmation and stroking of ego through position, being on the platform, occupying the spotlight, singing solos, holding key chairmanships, etc. Jezebels need to be popular, please people, be accepted and approved, be needed, be on the inside, or make other dependent on them.

They seek security in the good opinion of others of what they do.

They operate on performance-based acceptance.

They are striving to prove something to themselves and others-to prove their worth, to get their emotional needs met, to feel good based on what they do.

They are perfectionist and legalistic.

Jezebels always have deep, unhealed wounds from one or more sources:

*REJECTION *early in life, abandonment or emotional remoteness by father or mother, illness, premature death, neglect because of birth order, loneliness, isolation, or rejection by significant others (for example, because of physical appearance).

*RESISTANCE *to authority because of bad relationships or bad experience with authority figures in school government, church, or family-correction done in the wrong way or abuse.

*FEAR, INSECURITY, AND SELF-PRESERVATION.

*Fear is the principal entry for the Jezebel spirit to vulnerable, threatened people; Jezebels seek to control in order to feel secure.

*BITTERNESS *that gets into these wounds, especially against men because of abandonment or abuse.

The spirit of jezebel often takes up residence in a person after a wound from the past, usually rejection or insecurity in some form.

*6.

JEZEBELS ARE TREMENDOUJSLY SUBTLE AND DECEPTIVE.*

They intend to get what they want at all costs, but this intention can be cleverly disguised, Jezebels use flattery, saying what you want to hear, to win you over to their domination.

Jezebels are masters of manipulation by guilt, gifts, innuendo, insinuation, undermining influence, or discrediting.

They may exhibit false humility or submission, while they feed their own pride and seek to get their way.

They may dominate, control, and manipulate to gain their own agenda.

This mocks God’s ordained order, because it is not true heart submission, just pretense.

Jezebels use flirtation and womanly wiles.

They are extremely jealous of anyone they perceive to be a threat or who gets close enough to influence someone they want to control.

They can emit jealousy into a room, as they play one person against another.

They are divisive and send separation and strife into the strongest relationships.

*7.

JEZEBELS ARE PROUD, INDEPENDENT, AND REBELLIOUS.*

Rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft (I Sam 15:23), which is control or knowledge through any other means than the Holy Spirit.

Rebellion and independent spirit says, “I will not do it God’s way.

I will do it my way.

I will get what I want.”

Jezebels exalt their won will above God or their God given authority by emotional pressure or soul power.

Failure to submit to God’s control ends up in power not of the Holy Spirit to obtain their ends, which is witchcraft.

If their intercession is motivated by a controlling spirit, it is witchcraft.

Stubbornness, insubordination, or arrogance is like iniquity and idolatry (I Sam.

15:23).

When they feel from accountability, this is idolatry of self and pride.

“I will ascent and have influence.

I am more important than you are.

I am the center of attention and conversation.”

Pride also resists correction from anybody, because of its insecurity in identity.

The self is too fragile to receive correction even in love, so they put up walls of separation, which are inevitable walls of deception.

They use various devious means to avoid correction, like tears or discrediting the corrector.

Much male-female rivalry is rooted in the control issue of the Jezebel spirit.

Rather than believe God to give their husbands wisdom to lead the family in his God-given position, they take matters in their own hands by constant manipulation.

In trying to get around God’s order, they open their whole family up to satanic attack.

There is a maturation process in the Jezebel syndrome, because it is an addiction to power or control.

If confronted early on, there is more hope for repentance.

If it is fully matured and well entrenched, Jezebels typically refuse to see this about themselves, and without acknowledgement, there is no repentance.

Jezebels often lack true repentance, which is confession and willingness for God to change what is revealed.

In Thyatira, Jezebel was given time to repent, but she would not.

*8.

IT TAKES AN AHAB TO LET JEZEBELS BE EFFECTIVE AND OPERATE UNCHALLENGED.*

Jezebels do not operate without an Ahab to enable them.

Every Jezebel problem is an Ahab problem.

What did Ahab do wrong?

He should not have abdicated spiritual leadership nor his responsibility as head of his house and his nation, because his family and the nation were destroyed.

The leader who will stand against Jezebel must have keep discernment in identifying spirits, a strong commitment to rightly divide the word of God, and a strong sense of submission to his or her own accountability.

God removed Ahab and replaced him with Jesus, who dealt with jezebel.

Pray for Ahab’s to be healed and strong and released into the fullness of God’s purpose for their lives.