HEARING GOD'S MESSAGES - TWICE AND IT'S ESTABLISHED

HEARING GOD’S MESSAGE – TWICE AND IT’S ESTABLISHED

We all want to hear from God. But how do we learn to recognize His voice? We practice “listening” to our spiritual five senses. God uses these to speak to our hearts, minds, and emotions. But He often puts in a bonus by giving us the DOUBLE. Genesis 41:32 tells us: “And for that the dream was doubled unto Pharaoh twice; it is because the thing is established by God, and God will shortly bring it to pass.”

 

Let me give you an example that happened to me. I heard a teaching about a certain type of demon that I didn’t know anything about—the teacher called it a water spirit. Since I’m very interested in removing demons from God’s people, I thought about looking further into these water spirits. A few days went by, and I thought about it, but I didn’t do anything. Then when I was looking for a picture to go with one of my posts, the photo with the ocean is what I found.

 

At first, when I looked at this picture, I was hesitant about using it. I thought the point of view, so close to the edge, and the waves coming up over the rocks was kind of scary looking. But immediately God reminded me of the scripture: “The heaven, even the heavens, are the Lord’s: but the earth hath he given to the children of men” (Ps. 115:16). God was letting me know that I needed to study this water thing further.

 

What I want you to see is that God doubled His instructions for me: First by HEARING (the teaching), then by SEEING the photo. I’m sure He’s done this for you too. When we see this kind of thing in the Bible, we can expect God to do it for us too. We need to keep our spiritual senses open to His revelations. When God doubles up on a revelation to us, it means we need to pay attention. God gave the same dream to Pharaoh twice to “establish” it. The word used for “establish” in Genesis 41:32 means “fixed, prepared, settled, made firm, set up.”

 

God may work through hearing, seeing, tasting, touching, smelling, or a general sense of just knowing. Let’s be sensitive to those spiritual senses, and the DOUBLE, and respond to what the Lord has for us.

 

Love, Carolyn

 

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SNIPPETS OF HEAVEN

SNIPPETS OF HEAVEN

I went out to my backyard and started watering by hand. I sprayed the water way up into my tree to make rainbows. It was around 6 pm, a pleasant 70 degrees, the clouds were turning pink as the sun was setting, and it was perfectly still. Neighbors across the street were having a small get-together, children quietly playing and adults sitting at the table chatting. One father was holding his little baby, and everyone seemed to be having a nice time. Everything in that hour was so wonderful it felt like I was experiencing a snippet of heaven.

 

I really cherish those times when everything is good. I believe God wants us to have more of those sweet times here on earth. I know that we have work to do, difficult things to take care of, and oh so many decisions to make, and so many serious problems to solve. But I also know God has given us sweet moments of pure delight so that we can carry on with hope. Last night was one of those moments, and I feel refreshed today.

 

When Jesus taught his disciples how to pray, he said:

 

“But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking. Be not ye therefore like unto them: for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him” (Matt. 6:7-8).

 

Note that Jesus didn’t say, “Don’t ask for things because God already knows what you need.” Instead, Jesus said God knows what you need to ask for. Then Jesus goes on to tell his disciples a few things God knows we need, and snippets from heaven are among them.

 

Jesus continues:

 

“After this manner therefore pray ye: ‘Our Father which is in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done in earth,’” [There it is!] “’as it is in heaven’” (v. 10).

 

Our God is in heaven. He knows how great heaven is, and God Himself wants us to experience His heaven, even if it’s only in snippets, here on earth! And not only that, but Jesus said that God says we need those experiences and those sweet times of heaven on earth. He knows we need it, and we are supposed to be asking Him for it. That’s what Jesus is trying to tell us about having a genuine relationship with the one true God, Who has chosen us to be His children.

 

We are to recognize our God as a loving Father who knows we need times of heaven on earth, and He’s got them to give us. So I’m praying for more times like last night for myself and beautiful gifts of times of heaven on earth for all of you, as you begin to ask Him in prayer for those experiences like Jesus instructed.

 

Love, Carolyn 

 

THE STORY OF GIDEON

THE STORY OF GIDEON

This morning Jane and I were talking about what each of us does to make the world we live in a better place. Jane puts out her intel report daily to interested people who want to know what’s going on in politics, vaccines, human trafficking, financial situations, etc., worldwide. What I do is put out weekly preach letters, and I pray a particular prayer every day to rid the world of the spiritual “rulers of the darkness of this world” (Eph.6:12). Being a 60s child, I sometimes get tempted to think maybe what I’m doing now is too small. Should I be out there protesting and going to rallies like I did in the 60s and 70s? But the Lord’s answer is always the same: “No, you are doing exactly what I want you to do, and you are changing the world from right where you are.” And I’m perfectly satisfied with His answer, even though I can’t tell you how often I have to ask to hear Him repeat it! I’m sure some of you are asking the same questions: Am I doing enough? What else can I do? Lord, what is it You want me to do?

 

There are just some things we’ll not be able to get fully answered until we go through them. We’ve heard the phrase: “There’s a reason for everything.” But the second half of that should be: “But we don’t get to know all the reasons ahead of time.” That’s where trust and pure obedience come in. The story of Gideon and his small band of Bible heroes teaches us about trusting God, doing what He says, and seeing the great results we never knew would be our destiny.

 

The story of the life of Gideon begins with God allowing the Israelites to be dominated, for seven years, by the Midianites. Why? Because “the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the Lord” (Judg. 6:1). The Midianites were a wandering band of nomads who, with help from the Amalekites and others, would make regular attacks on the Israelites. 

 

“They encamped against them, and destroyed the increase of the earth, till thou come unto Gaza, and left no sustenance for Israel, neither sheep, nor ox, nor ass. For they came up with their cattle and their tents, and they came as grasshoppers for multitude; for both they and their camels were without number: and they entered into the land to destroy it” (Judg. 6:4-5).

 

The Israelites were hiding in caves, and they were in poverty. So God sent an angel to a young man named Gideon, who was threshing wheat near a winepress to avoid detection at the time of the angel’s visit. The angel came to him and said: “The Lord is with thee, thou mighty man of valour” (Judg. 6:12). Gideon was only a young man, definitely not a man of valour. But God saw him differently from how he saw himself. And that’s an excellent lesson for us. We must see ourselves through the eyes of the Lord only.

 

Then Gideon questioned: “Oh my Lord, if the Lord be with us, why then is all this befallen us? And where be all his miracles which our fathers told us of, saying, ‘Did not the Lord bring us up from Egypt?’ but now the Lord hath forsaken us, and delivered us into the hands of the Midianites” (v.13).

 

But the angel didn’t bother to explain why it was happening. He just told Gideon what to do next and said: “Go in this thy might, and thou shalt save Israel from the hand of the Midianites: have not I sent thee?” (v.14)

 

“And he [Gideon] said unto him, ‘Oh my Lord, wherewith shall I save Israel? Behold, my family is poor in Manasseh, and I am the least in my father’s house.’ And the Lord said unto him, ‘Surely I will be with thee, and thou shalt smite the Midianites as one man’” (vv.15-16).

 

Judges 8:10 tells us that the enemy had 135,000 fighting men! (Judg. 8:10). Gideon only had 32,000.

“The Lord said unto Gideon, ‘The people that are with thee are too many for me to give the Midianites into their hands, lest Israel vaunt themselves against me, saying, ‘Mine own hand hath saved me.’

 

“Now, therefore, go to, proclaim in the ears of the people, saying, ‘Whosoever is fearful and afraid, let him return and depart early from mount Gilead’. And there returned of the people twenty and two thousand; and there remained ten thousand” (Judg. 7:2-3).

 

So, out of 32,000 men, 22,000 turned back! Now Gideon only had 10,000 to fight the 135,000 enemy soldiers. But God knew something more about those men who remained. Though they may have thought they were ready to fight, God knew better. So the Lord instructed Gideon to give the 10,000 men a simple test.

 

“And the Lord said unto Gideon, ‘The people are yet too many; bring them down unto the water, and I will try them for thee there: and it shall be, that of whom I say unto thee, This shall go with thee, the same shall go with thee; and of whomsoever I say unto thee, This shall not go with thee, the same shall not go.’

 

“So he brought down the people unto the water: and the Lord said unto Gideon, ‘Every one that lappeth of the water with his tongue, as a dog lappeth, him shalt thou set by himself; likewise every one that boweth down upon his knees to drink.”

 

“And the number of them that lapped, putting their hand to their mouth, were three hundred men: but all the rest of the people bowed down upon their knees to drink water.”

 

“And the Lord said unto Gideon, ‘By the three hundred men that lapped will I save you, and deliver the Midianites into thine hand: and let all the other people go every man unto his place” (vv.4-7). 

 

I never understood the big deal about two different ways of drinking water. But Chris, one of my work friends, explained it to me. If a person goes down to drink water and brings it up to his mouth, he can still be on guard with his eyes looking out for the enemy. But if a person gets down on his knees and slurps the water, his eyes would not look out but down! So out of the 10,000 men, only 300 were truly battle-ready!

 

Gideon may have been apprehensive, to say the least, about going against a multitude of blood-thirsty enemies with such a small number of men, but God knew what He was doing. So Gideon trusted and obeyed, and he saved the whole nation of Israel.

 

“Thus was Midian subdued before the children of Israel, so that they lifted up their heads no more. And the country was in quietness forty years in the days of Gideon” (Judg. 8:28).

 

With God, it’s never about the numbers; it’s about a person’s heart. So we have to get used to doing spiritual things without always having to know why. And if we sometimes feel we are less than able, remember this story of Gideon. It’s not about the big numbers; it’s about each of us doing our small part to stay alert, trust, and obey. That’s how the world becomes a better place. Because of that young man’s heart and willingness to trust and obey, the whole nation of Israel had true peace in the land for 40 years.

 

We’re looking forward to at least that many and more.  

Love, Carolyn

 

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INSPIRATION FOR ENDURANCE

INSPIRATION FOR ENDURANCE

I met John in a writers’ group, and we often came a little early and talked. He told me that he used to be a script writer for the television show Quantum Leap, but when the show stopped, he moved to Vegas. John shared that he grew up in a Christian family but didn’t believe in God anymore. I’m sure you’ve known people like this too. People start as Bible-believing children but come dangerously close to wanting to give up on the Bible later in life.

 

Traumatic events take place, and God gets blamed. We’re born again and think things should be going better for us. But sometimes, they don’t go well at all. The truth is faithfulness isn’t something for the weak-hearted. It takes some real inner strength to stay faithful, and our faithfulness gets tested over and over throughout our lives. Faithfulness isn’t that easy sometimes, but is it worth it? For sure!

 

Hebrews 11:6 tells us that God rewards faith: “He is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.”

 

In the big picture of things, our lives are short here on earth compared to our eternity. “As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth. For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; and the place thereof shall know it no more” (Ps. 103:15).

 

Though life may seem unbearable at times, God promises that “there hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it” (1 Cor. 10:13).

 

In Old Testament terms, “Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning” (Ps. 30:5). You say, “That’s the longest night ever!” But God does promise joy in the morning. The word “morning” doesn’t mean “the very next morning,” like we would tend to interpret it. Instead, it means “the breaking of light through the darkness.” It’s the “daybreak” when the sun brightens the morning sky. Metaphorically, the more light, the less night. And God “is not a man that he should lie” (Num. 23:19).

 

In New Testament terms, “For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory” (2 Cor. 4:17). I looked up the word “affliction” in the Greek. It is a thronging, crowding pressure. It’s narrow, burdened with anguish, persecution, and trouble. It comes from a root word meaning a rut or worn track. And isn’t that how the attacks come sometimes? We get in a rut of affliction, the same things over and over just beating us down.

 

When the Bible says “light affliction,” it doesn’t mean it’s no big deal. The word “light” has two meanings in Greek. The older meaning is just the opposite of what we think. We think light is mild, but in the older Greek meaning, it is the opposite. It means that the affliction is more like a hurricane! It means to be pushed like a torrential wind pushes, and we’ve all seen videos of the effects of a storm on the eastern shores of Florida and other states, where the palm trees bend nearly to the ground. This word also has the image of being like oars pushing in the water, cutting and forcing the water repeatedly, and not stopping in rhythm or force. The older meaning of this word also indicates how demonic powers push on us so hard we feel so weak we can hardly bear it.

 

This verse is telling us that the Lord understands our afflictions. Jesus was afflicted in the same ways we are today.

 

But the second meaning of the word “light” in this verse tells us that even though these afflictions are at times like hurricanes, we can survive if we apply God’s truths to our minds. The afflictions we bear now are minimal, compared to the honor, praise, glory, and joy we will have for eternity.

 

The following is how Second Corinthians 4:17 is translated In the Amplified Version: “For our light, momentary affliction (this slight distress of the passing hour) is ever more and more abundantly preparing and producing and achieving for us an everlasting weight of glory [beyond all measure, excessively surpassing all comparisons and all calculations, a vast and transcendent glory and blessedness never to cease!”

 

Go back and read that verse slowly and let it sink in!

 

God shows us how to endure the hard times in this life. Read the Bible and see the many examples of men, women, and children who confronted adversity and came out on the other side. A great place to start is with the ordinary heroes found in Hebrew 12.

 

“Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God” (Heb. 12: 1-2).

 

My friend John from the writers’ group ran into some problems with his air conditioning one summer, and in a Vegas summer when it’s up around 112 degrees in the daytime and maybe 80-something at night, no air conditioning is a horrible thing! At the same time, he ran into a problem with his taxes. When he told me these things, I told him we would pray for him. Before the next meeting, he called me to thank me for the prayers. Miracles had taken place to get both problems fixed easily and quickly. I told him God was real, and the Lord answered the prayers. At the next meeting, He confessed to me that he thought he just might be a believer. Unfortunately, he passed away soon after that, but I believe that he got back with the Lord before he died.

 

Don’t give up on the Lord. Instead, hang in there and try to help others hang in there too. Faith is a commitment; we will always have the Lord’s help if we ask.

 

We do always have Jesus’ help available! Let’s use it. “Help me. Help me. Help me!” He will. So let’s do our best to stay faithful and help others to do the same.

 

Love, Carolyn

 

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SELF-RESPECT

SELF-RESPECT

Thirty-three years ago, I decided to teach myself to paint. One of my ideas was to cut out photos from newspapers and magazines, then try to paint them. I chose black and white ones for my first attempt. Then, I learned that raw umber and ultramarine blue made a nice black, so I mixed up some and started. The first picture that inspired me was the face of a young Black American girl. She was financially poor. But in one way, she was wealthy, and it showed on her face. The photo captured my attention and my heart.

There was dignity in her expression and self-respect, and I wanted to portray her deep inner strength. She held her head high as her face expressed drive and courage. When I saw the photo, I thought, “No matter what her circumstances are, she believes in her worth, and that’s what I want to paint.”

I have the finished painting hanging in the living room, across from where I sit.  The emotional impact continues to inspire me. This girl may not have had money or things, but she had dignity and pride in who she was. In my teenage years, I’d lost that and let people treat me badly because I didn’t think I deserved to be treated well.  But when I started to study God’s Word, my self-worth was re-ignited.  

 

I think God sees us much like I see the painting of the girl’s face. He’s proud of us. He sees right past any of our outward frailties or inward shortcomings. He smiles when we believe in ourselves and hold our heads high. We are His kids. We have a right to dignity, and we have the courage to believe and walk out on His Word step by step into our futures. We learn a lot by just doing—finding out what works and what doesn’t work for us. Maybe not immediately, but eventually, we learn to recognize how He works in our lives, and we truly learn to trust Him and His Word.

Psalm 139:14 is a great verse to tell ourselves if we’re ever feeling bad about ourselves: “I will give thanks and praise to You [God], for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Wonderful are Your works, and my soul knows it very well.”

 

God says we’re fearfully (awesomely, respectfully) made. God took time thinking about us even before we were born: what we would look like (what color eyes, the color of our skin, would we have freckles or not, all that physical stuff.) He carefully planned where we’d be born, what kind of cultural environment we’d be in, what our voices would sound like, and what we would enjoy. He thought about all that in great detail and made each person unique. Then He said, “Wonderful!” We may not always agree with Him, but we need to!

 

Zechariah 2:8 tells us we are the apple of God’s eye and warns those who go up against us. “For thus says the Lord of hosts, ‘After glory, He has sent me against the nations which plunder you, for he who touches you, touches the apple of His eye.’”(NASB).

 

I like how The Living Bible translates this: “The Lord of Glory has sent me against the nations that oppressed you, for he who harms you sticks his finger in Jehovah’s eye!”

 

This verse specifically talks about nations who plunder God’s people, but Satan also uses demons to get people to plunder themselves by self-mutilation of one form or another. Even speaking badly about ourselves can be a form of mutilation of the mind, heart, and spirit.

 

Since God says we were awesomely, respectfully, and thoughtfully made, we need to respect ourselves for what God created! Let’s not stick a finger in His eye! Instead, the next time we look into the mirror let’s say to that person, “You, yes YOU, are wonderfully made by God, and you are the apple of His eye. Respect yourself!”

 

Love, Carolyn

 

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REPENTANCE IS FREEDOM

REPENTANCE IS FREEDOM

When I was 15 years old, my church youth group went to see the movie “Dr. Zhivago.” In it, a man professed to love his wife and mistress equally. After the film, a guest speaker agreed with that philosophy and told us that the man’s actions were perfectly okay with God. Despite what the Bible taught us, we listened to this man and believed him. Then came the free-love philosophy of the sixties. I was about 17 in the San Francisco Bay area, where it all started. One of our favorite songs was “Love the One you’re With,” and we feverishly carried out that doctrine, not even knowing the names of half the partners we had. That led to pregnancies, and that led to abortions.

 

In the generation before me, if a couple got pregnant, they usually just hurried to get married, but that wasn’t the case for most free-love children. What developed next was a barrage of very convincing doctrines as to why abortion would be the best answer. And so, it grew to be a norm in our culture.

 

Somehow we convinced ourselves as a society that abortion was really not a crime. But Biblically, it is murder and a sacrifice offered to the god of this world, Satan. (See my preach letter from May 15). So we chose not to believe it or figured something in the Bible was misconstrued. And many turned a blind eye, which, in actuality as concerning the Bible, is when a spirit of blindness or darkness comes on a person and sets their perception askew.

 

Ephesians 6:12 tells us that we wrestle against the “rulers of the darkness of this world.” This “turning of a blind eye” is when a person chooses to be mentally blinded to an idea. When a person turns a blind eye to spiritual truths, the person makes himself prey to “rulers of darkness.” The person chooses a tent of darkness instead of the clarity of spiritual light. And the devil spirits, who are the rulers of darkness are happy to oblige by sending spirits of blindness (also called spirits of darkness or deception) to sit on that person for as long as the person allows it.

 

That’s not okay.

 

Every person who supports abortion still needs to repent of wrong thinking, even if they thought it was right at the time. To repent is to say we were wrong. The Bible tells us that every person has been wrong a time or two. When our thoughts don’t agree with what God says, we’re the ones who are wrong—the simple truth. It’s not easy to admit we’re wrong, especially if we see that we’ve been wrong for a long time! Yikes!

 

But, in an instant, we can ask the Lord to forgive us, and He will. It’s very freeing to let go of wrong thinking. Wrong thinking will always be like a big rope pulling us down, down, down. Without ever admitting to God that we’ve been wrong, there will always be areas in our lives where we just can’t quite fly like that eagle over the storm or float peacefully as on wings of a dove. Something just keeps pulling us down. It’s sin. Job knew a lot about this and told us: “I have sinned. . . so that I am a burden to myself” (Job 7:20).

 

Jesus came to set the captives free. In John 4, Jesus meets the Samaritan womn at the well. He looked into her heart and got her to admit her sin. She was so set free and excited that she forgot totally about taking the water she came for but went running off to tell all the men in the city (who knew her well) that she met the Messiah who came to set them free. That was a great day.

 

Jesus understands us. In the next chapter, John 5, we are told that Jesus is called the Son of man. And in that capacity, he is the one who has the authority to judge us. God “hath given him authority to execute judgment also, because he is the Son of man” (John 5:27). Jesus, as we see in the previous chapter, could see into the woman’s heart; he knew her sin and could set her free. Jesus knows humans because he was one of us. He knows what temptations we fall under, how we feel, and why we do the things we do. He knows every individual in and out. We see many examples in the gospels where Jesus already knew what people were thinking.

 

Jesus not only delivered the woman in John 4, but he also stayed two extra days to deliver the men in the city. Since Jesus lived as a human being, he knows what things are hard for us, but he also knows what kind of internal fortitude we have and the strength we can muster when we need to change something about ourselves. The woman and the men in Samaria needed to admit their sins to Jesus, the Son of man, who would forgive and set them free. We need to do the same. If you haven’t repented of wrong thoughts about abortion and now see that your thoughts were not God’s, repent now, untie the rope of bondage, and be free.

 

Love, Carolyn

 

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AHAB AND JEZEBEL SPIRITS

AHAB AND JEZEBEL SPIRITS

The world is peppered with people who knowingly or unknowingly let themselves be infiltrated by Jezebel and Ahab spirits, then controlled by them. I’ll show you some of their characteristics from the Bible so that you can make your own conclusions from a Biblical standpoint. The names of these two evil spirits come from where we first see them. Jezebel was the manipulative wife of King Ahab. She coerced over ten million Hebrews to bow to Baal, practicing human sacrifice and killing God’s prophets. This one spirit was responsible for corrupting an entire nation. It is intensely ambitious and keeps secret alliances ready for use whenever it wants something. Jezebel is a master of enticement and blackmail. Their story is found in 1 Kings chapter 16 to 21 and 2 Kings chapter 9.

 

The Hebrew word for “Jezebel” means “unmarried, uncommitted, unrestricted.” A Jezebel spirit is always looking for control. The Ahab spirit is a willing client, Jezebel’s perfect companion. The Ahab spirit makes its host person weak and easily manipulated. Jezebels never commit to anyone but use people with Ahab spirits to carry out their plans. In psychology, the relationship between Ahab and Jezebel is called co-dependency. Jezebel needs a weak person, and Ahab, who hates confrontation, needs a strong one.

 

1 Kings 16:30 reads: “Ahab did evil in the sight of the Lord above all that were before him.” And 1 Kings 21:25: “But there was none like unto Ahab, which did sell himself to work wickedness in the sight of the Lord, whom Jezebel his wife stirred up.”

 

People with an Ahab spirit fear confrontation and will do just about anything to avoid it. They value peace more than honesty, making truces rather than righteous agreements. Ahabs like the position of authority but look for someone else to make the confrontational and difficult decisions. That’s where the Jezebel comes in. A Jezebel will instantly take over acting command.

 

Ahab, an Israelite, allowed Jezebel to practice and perpetuate her witchcraft and her sacrifices to Satan. He allowed her to gather other Satanic followers, and he sat by idly while Jezebel openly murdered the true prophets of God.

 

Jezebel is a charmer, sexy, funny, engaging, and even delightful, but once in control, severely vicious.

 

Proverbs 5:3 tells us: “The lips of a strange woman drop as a honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil.” And Proverbs 7:5: “Keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger which flattereth with her words.” In these two verses, the word “stranger” is a Hebrew word meaning “a stranger to the truth, an alien, an enemy.”

 

Deuteronomy 13:6 tells us about the Jezebel spirit: “If thy brother, or thy son or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or thy friend, which is as thine own soul, entice thee secretly, saying, ‘Let us go and serve other gods, which thou hast not known.” A Jezebel entices people to stray away from the true God.

 

Proverbs 23:27 tells us: “A strange woman is a narrow pit.” In other words, a tough one to get out of. First Corinthians puts it another way: “What? Know ye not that he which is joined to a harlot is one body? For two, saith he, shall be one flesh.” When Ahab got connected to Jezebel, he became an enabler with her. They became an odd but powerful team.

 

MORE ABOUT JEZEBEL AND AHAB SPIRITS

 

The person who embodies a Jezebel spirit is usually charming and very persuasive. Jezebel, in the Bible, turned a whole nation against God by persuading her husband, Ahab, the king, to do as she wished. The nature of the Jezebel spirit is to coerce others into joining it in performing illegal and immoral acts against good people. Remember, Jezebel is a spirit sent by Satan to ruin people’s lives and can dwell in men as well as women. When Jezebel gets someone to do something wrong, that same Jezebel has ammunition to use as blackmail at any time.  The Jezebel spirit loves to have power and control over people. That’s why one of the main things God says about a Jezebel spirit, is to stay far away from it!

 

“Let not thine heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths. For she hath cast down many wounded: yea, many strong men have been slain by her. Her house is the way to hell, going down to the chambers of death” (Prov. 7:25-27).

 

Proverbs 2:10-11 and 16 tell us: “When wisdom entereth into thine heart and knowledge is pleasant unto thy soul; discretion shall preserve thee, understanding shall keep thee, to deliver thee from the strange woman [or man], even from the stranger which flattereth with her [or his] words.” “Discretion” is translated from a Hebrew word that means “a plan, craftiness.” Jezebels are all around us. We need to beware and be smart and have a God-given plan of how to maneuver ourselves as far away from a Jezebel’s notice as possible.

 

Jesus tells us: “Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents and harmless as doves” (Matt. 10:16).

 

Proverbs 5:8 tells us: “Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house.”

 

Second Corinthians 6:17 corroborates what Proverbs says: “Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you.”

 

Second Corinthians says: “Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? And what communion hath light with darkness?” Just one hook-up with evil can take us down a long dark snake hole!

 

There’s another vital point God gives us about handling the Jezebel spirit. Deuteronomy 13:8 tells us: “Neither shall thine eye pity him.” This demon elicits pity from its prey. Because the person exhibiting the Jezebel spirit talks so nicely and seems like such a gentle and pleasant person, we are tempted to feel sorry for them and be nicer toward them, but God says don’t do it.

 

Another thing about both the Jezebel spirit and the Ahab spirit is that both are flighty—they effortlessly flit in and out, and both spirits can operate in the same person. Don’t let that confuse you.

 

God made a way for people infused with these spirits to get rid of them: exposure and embarrassment. I’ve seen this myself. I had to do a face-to-face with a woman who tried to pull a Jezebel on me. I had to tell her outright that I wouldn’t do it, and I told her to stop trying to involve anyone else in plans that weren’t right. She stopped, and I never saw the Jezebel in her again. The first step is exposure, and the Jezebel doesn’t like to be caught out; it likes to be hidden in most cases.

 

God can work with a person who still feels ashamed about sinful acts. God says that some will be so ashamed, they will turn back to Him, and of course, He will have mercy and compassion for the person or nation, and help them. Hosea, chapter 2, and Ezekiel chapters 16 and 32, give us records of this kind of thing.

 

But some Jezebel spirits grow so powerful, and some Ahab spirits make people so weak that the people who have them don’t want anything to do with getting rid of them. The end for these people is not pretty.

 

In the Bible, Ahab got killed in a freak accident (See 1 Kings 22). Jezebel’s death was much worse. Jezebel was powerful and prideful. God’s man, Jehu, came to where Jezebel was: “And when Jehu was come to Jezreel, Jezebel heard of it; and she painted her face, and tired her head, and looked out at a window” (v. 30). She probably thought she’d get all decked out and try to entice Jehu, but it was way too late. She’d murdered many of God’s prophets, and Jehu was here to take care of her for good.

 

“And he lifted up his face to the window, and said, ‘Who is on my side? who?’ And there looked out to him two or three eunuchs.  And he said, ‘Throw her down’. So they threw her down” (vv. 32-33). It was people in her own household, people close to her, who threw her down.

 

“And some of her blood was sprinkled on the wall, and on the horses: and he trode her under foot. And when he was come in, he did eat and drink, and said, ‘Go, see now this cursed woman, and bury her: for she is a king’s daughter.’ And they went to bury her: but they found no more of her than the skull, and the feet, and the palms of her hands.

 

“Wherefore they came again, and told him. And he said, ‘This is the word of the Lord, which he spake by his servant Elijah the Tishbite, saying, ‘In the portion of Jezreel shall dogs eat the flesh of Jezebel:  And the carcass of Jezebel shall be as dung upon the face of the field in the portion of Jezreel; so that they shall not say, This is Jezebel.”

 

Jezebel was thrown down, and her body was so destroyed that she was unrecognizable.

 

Our God is merciful. He has given us instructions on how we should avoid being around Jezebel spirits if at all possible. He has also given us a way to deliver those who want to get free – by exposing and even shaming them (Hosea 2 and Ezekiel 16 and 32). If they want to change, they can. But if a Jezebel has been allowed to take over and invited into a person, and that person likes who they’ve become, then God has His limits. You just can’t keep doing evil against God’s people and think God will not stand up and exert His Godly right to intervene. The results don’t always look pretty, but God will always protect and save those who turn to Him.

 

Love, Carolyn

 

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