We are positioned to win! But we must know what we’re fighting against. Ephesians 6 tells us it’s not against flesh and blood; our battle is in the spiritual realm. In this new message, Jentezen Franklin will teach you how to identify oppressing spirits and cancel the enemy’s plans over your life. You’ll learn how to arm yourself with the Word of God, cover yourself with the Blood of Christ, and fill your spirit with His praise!
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my dad continues to teach from his
brand-new book the spirit of Python he’s
teaching us today on defeating
tormenting spirits if you or someone you
know has been dealing with the spirit of
heaviness or listening to deceiving
spirits that want to tear us apart this
message is for you God has given us
every tool to defeat the plans of the
enemy I’ll be back in a moment to let
you know more about this message and
other resources but right now let’s join
my dad
pastor Franklin at free chapel in
Gainesville Georgia for today’s message
I think we need to understand that we’re
we’re fighting spiritual battles I’m not
a demon chaser I’m not somebody who is
one to overemphasize the power of Satan
and all of that but if we’re not careful
the Apostle Paul said in Ephesians 6 and
put on the whole armor of God that you
may be able to stand against the wiles
or the attacks of the devil for we do
not wrestle against flesh and blood but
against principalities against powers
against rulers of darkness of this age
against spiritual hosts of wickedness
and heavenly wickedness in heavenly
places notice he said we do not wrestle
against flesh and blood but I think most
Christians have taken the comma and
moved it from where it says flesh and
blood and they’ve moved it up to four we
do not wrestle and they put a period
because we don’t we don’t even hardly
acknowledge there is a devil in the
church anymore we don’t wrestle with the
enemy if you’re not praying you’re not
wrestling if you’re not taking the Word
of God you’re not wrestling if you’re
not praying in the spirit you’re not
wrestling if you’re not appraiser and a
worshipper you’re not wrestling with the
powers of darkness they do not fight
flesh with the flesh things our weapons
are not carnal they’re mighty through
God to the pulling down of strongholds
there are tormenting spirits vexing
spirits the Bible calls them this is a
biblical name they torment people’s
minds they torment through depression
through worry through excessive fear
just tormenting this is going to happen
yeah you succeeded but you’re gonna lose
everything you’re you’re gonna be
homeless you’re gonna be sick you’re
gonna die they torment people’s mind
vexing spirit the Bible talks about
there was a woman who was vexed with a
spirit the enemy whispers
suggestions just give up just just just
kill yourself just in your life vexing
spirits have to do with tormenting the
mind they attack through shame through
condemnation through worry through fear
through depression Isaiah 61 and 3 said
when you are faced with a vexing spirit
that’s trying to oppress your mind
trying to keep you down trying to keep
you grieving and discouraged and
hopeless and trying to keep you in that
in that negative dark place of of worry
and anxiety he said put on the garment
of praise for the spirit of heaviness
put on the garment of praise when a
vexing spirit tries to torment you he
said you are to put on the garment of
praise that that fights against thoughts
of despair thoughts of hopelessness
thoughts of fear resist them and as you
as you humble yourself and you begin to
put on praise what does that mean that
means that you you put on a CD and begin
to worship instead of listening to the
to the taunting voice of the serpent
that’s telling you you’re going to die
and nothing good and something is bad is
going to happen that is not the voice of
God God’s voice is never telling you be
dreadful be worried be fearful be
tormented never will the Holy Spirit
give you a thought that tells you to do
that and when you hear these thoughts
put on the garment of praise for the
spirit that’s trying to make life heavy
put it on I tell people in the book to
speak a praise phrase hallelujah thank
you Jesus praise God glory to God I love
you lord I know that you are for me
hallelujah praise your name
Jesus you’re good the favor of God is on
me god I praise you that no weapon
formed against me will prosper this is
how we win put on the garment of praise
for the spirit that tries to weigh you
down get a praise phrase that’s how you
defeat tormenting spirits of the mind
never speak words that make the enemy
think he’s winning one of the greatest
weapons God has given you is your mouth
the Bible said in Psalms 149 with with
the high praises of God in their mouths
and the sword in their hand they bind
kings and princes we bind principalities
and powers when we take the Word of God
in our hand like a sword and we take the
high praises of God in our mouths
deceiving spirits are another form of
the demonic world deceiving spirits
spirits that are deceiving people
there’s vexing spirits that torment the
mind heaviness comes on people
discouragement hopelessness down
depressed and the remedy for that is a
praise phrase speaking the pray read the
Book of Psalms put on the garment of
praise and then there’s deceiving
spirits the Bible said that in first
Timothy 4 and 1 the spirit expressively
says in the latter times many will
depart from the faith giving heed to
deceiving spirits and doctrines of
demons any time you open yourself up to
doctrines of demons and false teachings
you are you are playing with the powers
of Satan don’t care how many Hollywood
hotshots come out and say Scientology is
cool or Islam is cool or our kabbalah is
great and this religion in that religion
new age
and that leave it alone there are
deceiving spirits well it’s not all bad
you see you know you can pick up things
when you open the door to Satan’s plan
through horoscopes fortune tellers palm
readers psychics
you don’t need a psychic to tell you
what your future is gonna be the devil
can’t tell you what the future is gonna
be for your life all he can do is plant
his thoughts in your mind and your life
will begin to move in the direction have
you ever had somebody say to you you
feel ok you don’t look good all of a
sudden well the enemy is the great mind
manipulator he loves to suggest this is
gonna happen and that’s going to happen
I don’t need a Chinese fortune cookie to
tell me what my future holds I know what
my future holds whatever comes I’m in
his hands I’m safe I’m secure
everything’s gonna be all right
and even when I die I’m in his hands
deceiving spirits seances talking with
the dead communicating with the dead
King Saul
lost his kingdom because he went to the
Witch of Endor stay away from that stuff
stay away from the occult stay away from
that darkside stuff just stay away from
he oh it’s just games it’s just we we
went to a party first of all what are
you doing it that kind of party I I’m a
little disturbed because I keep hearing
people say I’m saved and I’m Holy Spirit
filled people even making comments like
I’m saved and spilled with the filled
with the spirit you know I I left my
wife and I’m living with a girl now but
I’m still saved and and God still loves
me and I’m filled with the spirit do you
want me tell you what kind of spirit you
feel with I can do that your spill your
feel with the spirit of adultery here’s
your filled with the spirit of
immorality you’re you’re filled with an
unclean spirit but you’re not filled
with the
holy spirit because you only get full of
what you yield you’re in you have to you
have to yield to the Holy Spirit for and
then he will influence you if you let
yield to lust then you know what’s going
to happen lust is gonna get greater but
if you yield to the Holy Spirit the Holy
Spirit is gonna get greater but you have
to choose but you can’t have the Holy
Spirit and live that kind of life he
will vacate the premises they’re
territorial spirits higher-level
territorial principalities Las Vegas
gambling Los Angeles entertained New
York finance Washington DC politics
power the remedy to these stronghold
principalities is the local church the
only thing that can defeat those kinds
of principalities is the community of
believers praying and fasting churches
like this and many others across the
nation that God raises up and the people
begin to pray and the people begin to
fast and the people begin to push on the
climate and push on the principalities
and push on the powers until finally
there comes a break food we got to get
back to pray and this is one thing I
really feel in my spirit prayer is the
opportunity incubator and if you’re not
getting any opportunities in life is
because you’re not praying enough
because if you will pray prayer is an
opportunity incubator the enemy doesn’t
want us to pray as a church he wants us
come to church do church and leave and
leave prayer out of our life leave the
Word of God out of our life he said in
Ephesians 3 that the manifold wisdom of
God would be taught to Prince and
palaces and powers listen to this verse
by the church
churches like this are territorial
churches and we are to pray and we are
too fast and we are to teach the Word of
God and we are to live the Word of God
and we are to bind and we are to lose
and we are to stand and we are to fight
for our communities we are to fight for
our schools we are to fight for our
families we are to fight for our
children and our marriages and as we
stand the more we get together one can
chase a thousand to ten that’s why hell
hates churches like this especially
churches that are teaching stuff like
I’m teaching right now because we’re not
just here when it’s not just one person
praising God but it’s thousands of
people praising God piercing the
darkness driving back the power of the
enemy if we really get a revelation of
who we are we teach the principalities
and powers the manifold wisdom of God
according to Ephesians three by the
church he said this would happen what do
you need to know about demon possession
oh my god you believe in demon
possession will Hollywood does I just
wish somebody in the church would
Hollywood’s making a lot of money off of
it yes I do believe in demon possession
I have 5 times 5 times I first of all
there should be extreme caution when
dealing with this subject because there
are people who are who are sensational
and do stupid things and it does not
bring glory to Jesus Christ but five
times in the time I’ve been called to
preach through the years I’ve dealt with
real demon possession and had to to
expel demon powers from people’s lives
five times but I thought about as I was
getting this book together what are the
signs that someone is potentially
demon-possessed how do you know one of
the first signs that a person is
demon-possessed is they the demons are
able to energize people
with incredible strength in the case of
mark chapter 5 the Bible said that they
could not restrain the man chains were
put on him and the chains could not hold
it
no one could subdue the man I’ve seen a
few people in the shape it’s not an
everyday occurrence but there are people
who become demon-possessed and they are
given supernatural strength from that
demonic power another sign that someone
is demon-possessed is uncontrolled
cursing almost every time that I have
encountered someone demon-possessed they
will blaspheme the name of God over and
over and over when you begin to pray for
them it’s not unusual for them to
explode in profanities about God and his
name and cursing God I’m not saying that
every person who curses that that’s not
a demon that’s your temper but but
certainly almost always an uncontrolled
compulsion to blaspheme God’s name when
someone is demon-possessed it’s not
unusual for contortions in the facial
features their countenance of their eyes
become glazed I’ve seen it and recognize
that it’s almost like you’re looking it
is it’s just like you’re looking into
the eyes of something else
other than that person I’ve seen
people’s faces and just contort and
change I can tell you stories that some
of you wouldn’t believe but it is what
it is and it’s very real they look
different account Ihnen Sauveur them
their eyes many times will become
darkened almost in the the voice will
many times go to a lower pitch or sound
changes come immediately
the personality of the person changes
you can see a total change in their
demeanor many times if someone is
demon-possessed listen carefully to what
I’m saying those demons will bring deep
depression despondency and even
suicidal tendencies it can be a sign of
a demonic attack these conditions can go
beyond spiritual torment to a person
trying desperately to harm themselves
and even kill themselves
the demonic of God area had a
self-destructive spirit he would take
stones and cut himself with those stones
and when I see young people young girls
who starve themselves with anorexia and
cut themselves as and hide those scars
all over their legs because something is
gnawing at them internally it is it is a
sign that there is an evil spirit at the
very least oppressing that person and it
needs to be dealt with spiritually get
them help if a doctor can help them but
I’m going to tell you there is there
there is no remedy if it is the power of
Satan other than the blood of Jesus
Christ and the name that is above all
names extreme caution should be used
when discerning whether someone is demon
possessed or not don’t don’t ever do
that if you if you suspect that then get
an elder get someone who is very mature
and experienced in spiritual things and
let and has the gift of discernment and
let them because sometimes we’ve all
seen well-meaning Christians just you
know grab a somebody and just listen I
don’t allow the devil to take over my
church services if somebody’s gonna
manifest they’re not gonna do it in here
we’ll drag them back there and cast them
out I’m not gonna give the devil prime
time he doesn’t deserve it you know I
love Jesus away or y’all get anything
out of this I’m just I love the way
Jesus Jesus didn’t think very much of
the devil you remember that time when
they brought that they brought the boy
that was possessed with the devil to
Jesus you know the sciples tried to cast
him out and they couldn’t and Jesus is
standing there and they brought the guy
that’s possessed with death was almost
funny and the Bible said the boy the boy
started foaming at
mouth and fell to the ground and begin
to Waller on the ground the word wallow
in Greek is Waller and flop can you see
him he’s dead and the Bible said he was
growling and foaming at the mouth and
wallowing on the ground because they
always resist they always resist and he
was foaming at the mouth and it’s almost
like I could almost see Jesus with a
knife and an apple and he’s he’s he said
how long has he been like this he really
didn’t respect the devil very months and
they said he’s been like this since
since a child
and Jesus said shut up don’t say
anything else to the demon and cast them
out instantly
that’s our Jesus my brother and I were
preaching a revival in North Carolina
many years ago and one Sunday morning
during that revival my brother and I got
up and started singing the hymn when he
reached down his hand for me he had to
weep reach way down for me and I’m
telling you it was like the presence of
God filled that church people began to
weep and cry the altars without us
asking while we were singing the
presence of God and there were there
were it was packed because the revival
had been going and people began to
scream to the altars teenagers young
people moms dads weeping crying just
beautiful powerful moving service and
while all that was going on a and the
service was kind of dying down the
pastor was back up my brother and I were
over to the side just praying with
people in the SERPs people were still
singing a man well-dressed man and a
nice-looking suit came up to me and my
brother
and said can I talk to you privately we
went to a little side place and when we
walked in there
his countenance began to change we felt
an eerie presence I’ll never forget it
this was the first time I ever
encountered what I’m preaching about as
soon as we walked into that place and
and looked at this man there was an
eerie presence of evil and what I had
only read about and heard about in
doctrine suddenly I was keenly aware
you’re facing someone that is
demon-possessed I laid my hand on the
man’s shoulder as my brother did and we
begin to pray for him and as soon as we
did everything I just mentioned his eyes
his countenance his voice I mean dressed
in a nice suit a leader in the community
he began this growling and moaning and
and I’ll never forget when we when we
laid our hands on and begin to pray and
I want to be honest somebody said you
know I’m sure pastor you you felt great
faith I felt terrified and the demon
began to say we will not leave growling
we will not leave he took the man’s
voice we will not leave we hate you and
then they said leave us alone we will
not leave I hate you leave us alone I
thought if you won’t leave I will
Ritchie
god bless you
now started to get out of there I’m just
telling you the truth I remember it like
it was yesterday
but something came up in me the Bible
said when the enemy comes in like a
flood the Spirit of the Lord will raise
up something in me said you know we hear
that scripture greater is He that is in
you than he but when in moments like
that there is a rush of the Holy Spirit
that comes that says don’t back down one
bit there is a name that is greater than
what you’re looking at and then
something beautiful happened when when
all of that was over this went on for
maybe 10 15 minutes whole thing in about
20 minutes
everything the guy suddenly his
countenance changed you could feel a
lightness and a freedom in the
atmosphere
he began weeping sobbing crying I said
pray this prayer and Richie and I led
him to Jesus he wept and confessed Jesus
as his Lord he won’t lay Terr went on to
tell us that he had been bound with
pornography and was in an adulterous
affair with one of the women in the
church I’m not saying every person who
looks at pornography and as in adultery
is demon-possessed but certainly there
are demonic powers that are working
behind those things and I’ll never
forget walking out of that room knowing
that man had changed knowing and seeing
firsthand there’s power in the name of
Jesus did you hear what I just said
I want to close with this I wrote
something down and I put it in the book
and I believe it to be the truth Satan
is the Prince the power of the air but
there’s something that can cancel the
devil’s assignment off of our lives more
than anything else and it is the
blood of Jesus Christ listen to this the
greatest fear of demons is the blood of
Jesus Christ the application of the shed
blood of Jesus Christ and the cross
provides protection and against the
power of Satan and defeat from demon
powers we overcome Revelation 12 by the
blood of the Lamb and the word of our
testimony the devil cannot cross the
bloodline the heart that has been
sprinkled with the blood of Jesus Christ
is holy ground and the devil dares not
try to enter it and I want us to begin
to understand that the enemy is very
real some of you been tormented in your
minds some of you been listening to
deceiving spirits some of you may know
someone who is so bound and so addicted
that there is the possibility of demon
possession or even demon oppression that
is very real did you know that you as a
believer have the power and the
authority especially after hearing a
message like this your faith goes up to
address that evil spirit and say you
will not have my friend my cousin my dad
my mom alcoholism drug addiction
immorality you will not have my family I
plead the blood of Jesus you using the
blood of the Lamb and the word of your
testimony and it defeats Satan through
the name of Jesus we just lift our hands
a moment and just worship God all over
this room because there’s power in his
name and in his blood come on just right
now I want you to be free I want
everybody in this room to be free I want
everybody in this room to be free from
demonic influence demonic oppression
secret habits and all kinds of stuff
that Satan is may not be possessing
people with but he is opressing many
lives
come on less worship in this room just a
moment let’s just believe that the power
of the blood of Jesus can cleanse and
set free I claim freedom you shall know
the truth John 8 you shall know the
truth and the truth shall make you free
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