Francis Frangipane: The Jezebel Spirit

The Jezebel Spirit - Part 1
By Francis Frangipane

There is a war, a very ancient war, between the spirit of Elijah and the spirit of Jezebel. In this age-old battle, Elijah represents the voice of Heaven: the call to repentance and the return to God. Jezebel, on the other hand, embodies that unique principality whose purpose is to hinder and defeat the work of repentance. Its goal is to silence the prophetic

Spiritually Brainwashed (Slimed) (Peter Wagner)

I call it "being slimed" ...  I knew it was real, but Peter Wagner does a great job of giving an illustration.  I also believe it is affecting our worlds on all kinds of levels.  I just want us to be aware.  

Peter Wagner writes:

It was in the spring of 1986 that I first witnessed the influence of the spirit of religion seeking to resist the new God- directed times and seasons of the national Lutheran renewal movement. At a meeting of the national board, an article that raised the possibilities of new strategies was discussed at length. The prophetic were brought to the table for consideration. A proposal was made to host a strategic summit for all Lutheran charismatic leaders in North America to consider new strategies and seek God’s guidance concerning the coming ELCA merger. 

At that point, the national board’s chairman, whom I shall call Karl (not his real name), stunned me by recommending that no response at all be made to either the merger plans or the prophetic words. His rationale for this non- response was twofold. First, he felt it would confuse the Lutheran charismatic laypeople, who for 15 years had been told to remain in their Lutheran congregations and to bloom where they were planted, as the saying goes. He asserted that it would be better to remain consistent, despite the lack of fruit seen over the previous 15 years. Second, he argued that new strategies that might encourage some Lutherans to leave their congregations could offend traditional institutional church leaders. 

After a heated discussion, I was amazed to watch as all but two of the board members backed Karl’s recommendation that no response be made to the prophetic words. A vote on hosting a leaders’ summit to consider the implications of the ELCA merger was rejected almost unanimously.

 I walked away from that meeting feeling confused and disillusioned. I could not understand how a group of seasoned national leaders, who knew how to move with the Holy Spirit, would fail to gather and give leadership to their renewal- oriented constituents at such a historic moment. 

An AMAZING REVERSAL 

A few days after that meeting, the Lord told me to host a national leaders’ summit for Lutheran charismatics in my hometown in upstate New York. After some serious prayer, I accepted this challenge and began praying about whom to invite as main speakers. To my great consternation I felt strongly led by the Spirit to invite most of the leaders from the national renewal committee, who only weeks before had voted against meeting to consider the ELCA merger. 

I made the calls, and I was amazed as each leader whom I invited to speak accepted immediately. Most of them added comments to the effect that they believed this leaders’ summit was desperately needed at this time. Of course, I asked them why they had changed their minds. It seemed that each one, upon leaving the spiritual atmosphere of the national board meeting, had found his outlook completely changed. 

Why, without talking among themselves, would a dozen decisive leaders change their minds so completely? I believe the corporate spirit of religion had been able to create a fear of departing from the strategies of the past. 

Somehow Karl had submitted to the influence of this spirit, and his leadership of the national board had spread the spirit’s influence. This corporate spirit of religion had controlled these strong leaders by stirring in them an irrational loyalty to their denomination, which in turn had successfully blocked their ability to act on real data or on tested prophetic direction. 

Once I acted upon these prophetic words and decided to convene the new summit, it seemed that the power of the spirit of religion had been broken. The national summit was held in September 1987 with most of the national board leaders fully involved. That event turned out to be a milestone. It changed the strategy of the Lutheran charismatic movement in the United States, setting thousands of Spirit- filled Lutherans free to follow their Lord’s guidance into more fruitful involvement in the great harvest. It also helped birth three new submovements and it strengthened

several preexisting conservative Lutheran groups.

The Religious Spirit by 

Peter Wagner

Rick Renner: Bless Those That Curse You (Example)

...So rather than get upset with the unbeliever who wrote that ugly article, I felt instructed of the Lord to start speaking blessings into her life. I realized that this journalist wrote that kind of article because she was lost and needed the Lord. So what good would it do if I allowed myself to speak curses over her life? It was time for me to rise to the occasion by deciding to “…bless, and curse not”!

So I started blessing this woman, thanking God for her and believing God to do something truly remarkable to make her life better and more blessed. As it turned out, that horrible article would be the last article of its kind about us to ever appear in that national newspaper. I am convinced that our decision to “...bless, and curse not” caused God’s power to be released in the spirit realm, preventing any future negative press from being printed about us in that particular nation.

If someone has done something bad or injurious to you, I realize how tempting it is to retaliate by saying a lot of bad things about the offender. But in the end, this fleshly reaction won’t help anyone. You never have to fall into this trap that causes you to be bitter and that releases a lot of negative words and curses on those who wronged you. You can take a redemptive approach — choose to speak only good about those who have sought to do you harm.

If you’ll take the right approach to this hurtful situation, your actions can release enough supernatural power to keep this type of event from ever being replicated in the future. But if you respond wrongly, it probably won’t be too long until you’re facing the same situation again.


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Jonas Clark: Increasing In Discernment

INCREASING IN DISCERNMENT

Are you afraid to discern the presence of demon activities? Some are. Demons influence people and their activities must be discerned. You can’t stop them by ignoring then. Evil spirits, spirits of infirmity, seducing spirits, spirits of error, unclean spirits, anti-Christ spirits, Jezebel spirits and divination spirits have infiltrated the Church. They target the high places of authority and power. Sometimes these spirits work alone and at other times they network together.
Some have been victimized by evil spirits because they are afraid to judge demonic operations. Apostle John taught to try the spirits. He said, “Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world” (1 John 4:1). As already said spirits work through people. To “try the spirits” means to put them to the test. When you do this devils respond. Here are four things spirits use to stop your spiritual discernment:

1. Don’t judge least you be judged.
2. Let the one without sin throw the first stone.
3. The measure you use to judge someone else will be measured back to you.
4. Take the beam out of your own eye first.

The list goes on and on. Did you notice the devil will use the bible to stop bible believing people? Yes everyone should examine their own hearts “first” but spiritual discernment requires sound judgment. You must judge. To judge simply means to make a judgment. Making a judgment “is not” being judgmental. A judgmental person is a fault finder. That’s not what we are discussing. Christians should never be fault finders or false accusers. We are writing about spiritual discernment that affects lives. Remember, we wrestle not against flesh and blood, that’s people, but against demonic spirits...  Read More

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