Unmasking The Jezebel Spirit

CHAPTER ELEVEN – DISMANTLING JEZEBEL'S MANTLE:

Unmasking the Jezebel Spirit, Chapter Eleven, covers Dismantling Jezebel’s Mantle, any thorn will cause infection unless it is removed. A demonic thorn can prick the Church and cause infection, just as a splinter can inflame the skin and cause infection. The longer it is ignored, the greater the spread of infection. It neglected, the infection can spread and lead to amputation – or even worse death. To resolve the matter the Jezebel spirit, God requires His servants to remove the demonic thorn that infects His Body. Godly confrontation is necessary in order for conviction and true repentance to occur. Conviction and repentance occur with the help of the Holy Spirit. pastors or leaders cannot force repentance upon anyone because we are not the “convicter” of sin. The Holy Spirit has that responsibility. We can pray that the Holy Spirit will convict an individual who operates with a Jezebel spirit.

Responsibility for addressing a Jezebel spirit belongs to the pastor or leader. As an overseer of the flock, a pastor has the authority to confront and remove any troublesome person or problem in the church. A pastor or leader should not expect a prophet to address this issue. A prophet’s responsibility is only to reveal an individual who covertly operates in a Jezebel spirit. Elisha realized that only kings had the authority to remove Jezebel spirit. Thereby, God instructed Elisha to anoint Jehu to be king. There are two basic approaches to take when confronting a Jezebelite. The first is to announce your conclusion and then identify the reasons you drew that conclusion. The Jezebel spirit counterfeits the Holy Spirit, they will have to admit that they were operating in the wrong spirit. They will need to acknowledge that the spirit which gave them comfort, power, insight, authority, value, and self-esteem is demonic. The second and more apostolic approach is to identify and address core issues before announcing your conclusion.

When you attempt to deliver Christians who have the Jezebel spirit, they will be afraid of losing everything. What a leader or pastor sees as roots of the Jezebel spirit, they will see as necessary for their protection. They have mistakenly believed they are operating in the Holy Spirit. They will believe that all their perceptions, opinions, words of knowledge, and dreams have come from God. The pastor’s or leader’s task is to dismantle this lie so that individuals can recognize the deception in which they have walked. Such people will need to be assured that God is at work to help them effectively resist and overcome a Jezebel spirit. This process of discernment and not yielding to old habits will build godly character. God is faithful to complete the healing that He had begun in their lives. “Being confident of this very thing, that He who has begun a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ; just as it is right for me to think this of you all, because I have you in my heart, inasmuch as both in my chains and in the defense and confirmation of the gospel, you all are partakers with me of grace” (Philippians 1:6-7).

Since God requires two witnesses, you must have witnesses when confronting an individual with a Jezebel spirit. If the individual is unrepentant and unwilling to undergo deliverance, he or she must be removed from the church. Scripture describes a man who challenged pastoral or leadership authority and who was severely corrected and removed from fellowship. “In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when you are gathered together, along with my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ, deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus” (1 Corinthians 5:4-5). These severe correction require that leaders continue to demonstrate love, character, and value. It is time for godly pastors and leaders of kingly character, valor, and strength will arise. Men and women with courage, they will lay an axe at the root of this demonic spirit that seeks to destroy prophets, emasculate pastors and leaders, and pervert the Body of Christ. As God’s people, we need to shrink back and become afraid of addressing and correcting lawlessness and rebellion that defile the Body of Christ. Today, since lawlessness is a disease of our cultural, it is recommended that pastors and leaders take proactive approach. They may want to consider having on-going teaching in a church on the topics of spiritual authority and lawlessness.