THE SPIRIT OF JEZEBEL || Freedom From The Grip Of Witchcraft By Dr. D.K. Olukoya
There is a powerful demon that is very rampant in our days. It is called the spirit of Jezebel. This is the spirit that causes females to reject authority. This Is the spirit that Influences men to behave like women. The character trait of this spirit includes domination, control and manipulation of people.
This spirit seeks to operate in the house of God through seduction, fornication
and adultery. It is very religious and it loves to operate in the church. This spirit has destroyed families. Jezebel is the grand mother of all those who paint their faces and use make-ups. The Immorality that is so common in the church of God now is brought about by the spirit of Jezebel. Whenever you correct Jezebel’s type of dress and make-up, people who are involved in them will query you. They may say, “Have I dressed or done what no one has done before?” this is so serious now that ministers of the gospel no longer go to the streets to search for the prostitutes to preach to. They are already in the church.
Let me share a striking illustration of witchcraft as an evil power with you. Many years ago, we were in a place, where we were involved in certain forms of prayers which were sources of trouble for the enemy. There was a woman who used to attend the prayer meetings we organised while her three daughters would remain at home. She tried hard to bring these children to the prayer meeting but they refused to follow her.
One day when she got home after the service, her three girls surrounded her and said, “Mummy, we have Information to pass to you. Do you know who witches are?”
She said, “Shut up! What do you kids know about witches? You are children of God.”
The children said, “No! Mummy, just answer us if you know who witches are.”
They refused to keep quiet and insisted that their mother should tell them what she knew about witches. When the mother could not prevail over them, she said, ‘Well, witches are evil people, but I do not what you to talk about those evil people again, let us talk about Jesus.”
The children then said, “Mummy, we have just decided to inform you that three of us are witches.”
The woman said, ‘What?”
The children declared, “Yes, we are witches.”
The mother was shocked, “In this house that belongs to a Sunday school teacher, how could that be?” she asked.
The children added, “We just want to inform you that for the next one week, you and Dad should not come to the living room after 12.00 midnight Our meeting for this week will take place in our siting room.”
This woman ran to us saying that the enemy had set her household aflame. It took time before she could succeed in bringing one of the daughters to us. When she was brought to us, she said, ”The prophet that would pray to bring back the wealth of our parents which we have stolen, will have to make prayer his full-time work. He will stay praying and fasting on the mountain for months with occasional visits to the outside world once a month.”
This shows the grip of these strange children’s witchcraft powers on their parents. It was a tough situation but the Lord prevailed.
There was another situation where a brother took his mother to a crusade. The brother had always felt that his mother was a witch, and he knew that God had been using the preacher in that crusade to pray against witches after he might have given them opportunity to come out to the altar.
That day, after a while the preacher said, “I command by the authority of Jesus Christ that all witches and wizards should start to come out now.”
They rose up and started going towards the altar, but to the amazement of the brother, his mother did not honour the altar call.
The ministration was about to end and the brother feeling dissatisfied, went to his mother, tapped her and said: “Mummy, the preacher is calling you.”
The woman answered, “No, they are yet to call us; it Is not yet our turn. Those ones are low cadre witches; we are the king makers and they cannot call king makers out like that.”
That is an example of a high level of witchcraft.
STEPS TO FREEDOM
The important question is “How do we secure freedom from the grip of witchcraft?” There are only three ways.
The first way to freeing ourselves from the grip of witchcraft is obedience.
Obedience is the first key. As long as there is absolute obedience, no witchcraft power can gain access into a person’s life.
The second key is general spiritual warfare. That is, living in the realm of general spiritual warfare.
The third key is personal spiritual warfare.
Let us examine the first key obedience.
What did the Lord command Abraham to do?
Genesis 12:1: Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Gel thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house, unto a land that I will shew thee:
What was God’s commandment to Abraham? To get out of his father’s house. How did he respond to this commandment? He obeyed. What are the fruits of his obedience?
Genesis 12:1: By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he should after receive for an inheritance, obeyed; and he went out, not knowing whither he went.
He had the fruits of faith in God. What other command did God give to him? God Instructed him to sacrifice his son and he did. To get rid of a withcraft problem is to be ready to repent from all known sins.
You must dedicate your household unto God because anything didecated to God would be taken care of by God. You must also be careful about what, where, and how you eat.
You must cleanse your house and your business premises spiritually, you need to pray warfare prayers against witchcraft opeartions, you would need to subject yourself to deliverance ministrations, and endeavour carry out litigation against them by pleading the blood of Jesus.
ANTI WITCHCRAFT PRAYERS
Let us look at 30 ways we can pray against witchcraft powers:
- You can pray against their foundations.
- You can pray against their food.
- You can pray against their seats.
- You can pray to make their habitations desolate.
- You can pray to dismantle their thrones
- You can pray to pull down their strongholds.
- You can pray to disgrace their refuge.
- You can pray to disintegrate their networks.
- You can pray to destroy their communication systems.
- You can pray to destroy their transport systems.
- You can pray to destroy their weapons.
- You can pray to empty their banks and store houses.
- You can pray to destroy their altars.
- You can pray to destroy their padlocks.
- You can pray against their traps.
- You can pray to overthrow their projections.
- You can pray to reverse their burial because there is something known as witchcraft burial.
- You can pray to destroy their bewitchment.
- You can pray to stop their evil summons.
- You can pray to destroy their Identification marks because they put marks on their prey.
- You can pray to frustrate their evil exchange.
- You can pray against their flying zones.
- You can pray to destroy their curses.
- You can pray to break their evil covenants.
- You can pray to recover your organs from their altars.
- You can pray to destroy their evil plantations.
- You can pray to cancel their initiations.
- You can pray to destroy their poisons.
- You can pray to frustrate their evil plans.
- You can pray to destroy their evil cage.
If you are under the attack of witchcraft powers. It will be advisable to take it up by fervent. ceaseless prayers. Note the. 30 areas and pray thoroughly against these evil operations.
A sister noticed that anytime she collected her salary. within a few days. the salary was gone. She would not be able to account for the money. Immediately after she collected her salary. she would go into debt; she would start borrowing from those who earned less and this got her worried. One day. she listened to a message by the G. O. entitled “Your battle and strategies.” and set out to war.
Immediately she received her next salary, she carried out a prophetic action; she put her salary on the floor, took up a cutlass and started to pray like this: “Every evil hand on my money, I cut you off, in the name of Jesus.”
As she dangled the cutlass round the money without knowing the implications of her actions. To her amazement, the next day, she was summoned and Informed that something mysteriously cut off the two hands of her grandmother. When she heard this, she did not bother to travel home because she the cause of the incident.
If you pray effectively against witchcraft forces, they will let you go. But know that when your obedience is not complete, these witchcraft spirits will launch counter-attacks against you as you come against them. Their counter-attacks could be very dangerous. I pray that God would evacuate the spirit of disobedience from your life, in the name of Jesus.
I want to make it categorically clear that it is just impossible for anyone to resist witchcraft spirit as long as such a-person is living in any iota of disobedience.
SPIRITUAL WARFARE
The second and third keys are personal spiritual warfare. There are various steps to deliverance. If you feel that you are under attack or feel that a particular aspect of your life is under evil control, the anti-witchcraft prayers above will provide a permanent barricade against the enemy.
What is the conclusion of the matter? Witchcraft is public enemy number one that must be dealt with decisively. It is very Important that you pray that the
witch in you must die, first because if disobedience and rebellion in your life are not removed, and you start to pray against external witchcraft, these spirits would be embitettered and will deal with you. They will come against you in a rage.
God has issued both physical and spiritual death sentences on all forms of witchcraft. Any believer living in disobedience and rebellion can die like a worthless housefly. A death sentence has been issued against all witches and wizards. Unfortunately many born again believers are practitioners of witchcraft in that they harbour the works of the flesh. These principles of spiritual warfare should be put into practice.
The first step to be taken Is to bow unto God in repentance and forgiveness in anyway you have entertained disobedince and rebellion in your heart. True repentance will grant total victory and your life will no longer remain the same. Tell God that He should remove the property of the devil in you which has turned you to an object of attack by the devil. Command that the witchcraft in you to die. God ahead and pray the prayer points below.
PRAYER POINTS
While laying your hands on your head, want you to pray the following prayers:
- Every pattern of witchcraft in my life, break, in the name of Jesus.
- Every ladder of witchcraft into my life, scatter, in the name of Jesus.
- Every consequence of witchcraft powers that touched me when I was a baby, die, in the name of Jesus.
- Every consequence of witchcraft hands laid on my head, die, in the name of Jesus.
- Every embargo of witchcraft against my moving forward, die, in the name of Jesus.
- Every agenda of witchcraft upon my destiny, die, in the name of Jesus.
- pillar of witchcraft of my father’s house, die, in the name of Jesus.
- Any witchcraft power that ever troubled my Israel, I have a controversy against you. Therefore, appear, in the name of Jesus.
- Every assembly of witchcraft that Is troubling my Israel, die, In the name of Jesus.