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The Jezebel in My Family updated - see below

This is not a testimony about how I have overcome the Jezebel spirit. It is about how God is leading me to overcome the jezebel spirit. Jezebel can be found in the book of Kings. She was the wife of King Ahab. God also talks about that spirit in revelations, as well as other books. The jezebel spirit can be seen in both men and women. If you are wondering as to whether or not you have that spirit, let me tell you, you do. You do, until God has delivered you.

Jezebel likes to get her own way. That spirit sets itself up as queen. It’ll use the law, deceit, emotions, fear, threatening, whatever will work, to get her way. That spirit will lie when it is caught and try to convince you that it is trying to do the right thing. The jezebel desires to destroy anyone that will follow God. It will surely make every attempt to destroy a prophet, because it knows the authority that office has. It also will usurp authority over a man, every chance it gets. My dad before his death, put me in charge of our family. My mother and sister, yielding to the jezebel, have chosen to not abide by his will. It will try to mislead you, falsely represent the facts, lie, cry, scream, & pout. It will put you in bondage and then kill you. Many men are weak or die prematurely because of the jezebel. The jezebel accuses men. It’ll try to show men as weak, mentally and physically. The women’s movement is nothing but the jezebel. The catholic church, lifting up Mary is the jezebel. I once heard a nun, speaking on TV state that “..if You pray to Jesus and He doesn’t give you what you want, pray to Mary and she’ll convince Him to do it”. The Mexican patron saint, “Our Lady Of Guadalupe” is nothing but the jezebel. All of these exalt a women and fail to acknowledge that Jesus is the only Lord.

I was not made aware of the the jezebel until I came to Water of Life ministries. It takes the ministry of the Apostle/Prophet to overcome that spirit. I wasn’t even aware that we wrestle with spirits and not people. Look in Ephesians 6, The word states that we wrestle not with flesh and blood, but with spirits ... I could see the jezebel working actively in my family, but did not know what it was. I also did not know how to deal with it in the spirit. The men in my family, uncles and cousins, were sick, weak or dead. The men die, and the women live on. The women rule and make sure that everyone knows it. I have three older sisters. As I grew up, two of the three made every attempt to control me. One sister (Paula) was different. Today, she is the only one who acknowledges Jesus as lord. She has set her heart to overcome that spirit. The rest of my family continue to yield to the jezebel. They do not believe that they even have a devil, let alone desire to get rid of it.

A few years back, I received a call from my mother. She was calling me to tell me to call one of my uncles. He had a fight with his jezebel wife, and my mother wanted me to call him. It was her opinion that If I were to call him and speak to him, he (my uncle) would reconcile with his wife. She said he would listen to me. As I listened to her statement, I was surprised to hear myself speak. Without any forethought, I started speaking to my mother. I know now that it was the spirit of God in me that was talking. I asked her, “Do you know what Jesus told Mary, when she asked Him to make wine at the wedding”? It was as if I was watching what was happening. I knew what Jesus had said. I also knew how my mother would react. I still could not stop speaking. When she heard me mention Mary she got excited. She asked me what Jesus had said. I told her His words were, “Woman, what do I have to do with thee”? When I said this there was silence on the other end. I told my mother that Jesus did not do what Mary wanted Him to do. He only did the will of the Father. His Father in heaven, not Joseph on earth. She was highly offended. She then said, "Well, I wouldn’t want you to do anything that God would not want you to do”. She was not happy, but by the grace of God, she humbled herself. I told her I would obey God. I would only call if He told me to call. He never did.

My brother, like everyone else, has been directed by that spirit all the days of his life. At one point, after speaking with my mother, my brother called me and started to scream about how blood was thicker than religion. How I would end up in the gutter and my family would not help me. He made statements that were direct quotes from my conversation with my mother. She had spoken with him and the spirit in her, had stirred him to attack me. He has not called me in many years. All because of the jezebel spirit in my mother. The jezebel killed his first wife and has worked to destroy his children. He seldom speaks with any of his family. All because of the jezebel. Understand that I am not talking about people, flesh and blood. I am talking about a spirit that controls people. Recently, my mother was upset because my brother did not want to have anything to do with her. My brother has no knowledge of spirits or how to overcome them. For him, it is easier to simply avoid her. My mother has had no contact with his children because of that. In speaking with her, I told her that the situation with her son was a direct result of her yielding to the jezebel spirit and the result of that sin.

My parents raised me as best as they knew how. I thank God for my parents. They worked hard to give us food and clothing and a nice home to live in. They were unable to raise me in the Gospel, because they had never heard it. The catholic church is far from God and certainly never demonstrated the Gospel. The catholic jezebel has bound them from the first day, just as it had me bound. That spirit goes back many generations in my family. Just because I am aware of it, doesn’t mean I can just walk out from under it. God has to lead me. I am coming out because of the apostle's ministry and God's mercy.

God has shown me how that spirit operates in my family. A niece was recounting a story about how my father had stood up and declared that he was surrounded by bossy women. My mother, two of my sisters, and nieces then got together to discuss this. They were not concerned about correcting this. They instead were meeting to discuss how they ranked in bossiness. It would be more accurate to say that the ranking was in how much they yielded to the jezebel. They took great pride in how rebellious they were.

Since that time, my father has had numerous medical problems. he has had strokes, seizures, and falls resulting in broken bones. He spent much time in the hospital as a result of this spirit. He was being over-medicated and continually over-treated because of the jezebel spirit in those who had control of him. We made a trip home not too long ago to see him. While we were there, it became obvious how the jezebel wanted him dead. God put a prayer in my spirit. The prayer has been "to deliver him from the hands of the jezebel". If that meant taking him to heaven, so be it. On April 28th, 2003, my father went to be with the Lord. I thank God that He puts a prayer in your mouth and then answers it.

My mother, sisters and nieces seldom try to tell me what I should do. In fact, my sisters do not even call me. The spirit in them has been confronted enough times that it knows I will resist it. They accuse me of being in a cult, rude, religious etc., all with the intent of putting blame on me. They say that I don’t care about my family. I have called them on many occasions. As long as I do not speak anything about God, they can tolerate me. They accuse me of preaching to them. Jesus loved people by telling them the truth. I have demonstrated that same love. They choose not to follow God, because they are their own gods. Pride and rebellion does not obey God. They do not believe a person can have a devil, and most assuredly, them. They do not want Jesus as their Lord because they only want to do what they want.

I have set my heart to overcome the jezebel. I will pray, fast and obey God until I do. When I do, my wife and children will follow. As for the rest of my family, God is the only one who knows what they will do. I will continue to pray for them and speak the truth to them, but I will resist the jezebel.

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Recently at Water of Life during the Sunday morning service, God began to deliver me from the Jezebel. This is not the first time that God has dealt with that spirit in me, but this was the deepest and strongest delivery I have ever had. Doyle had prayed that he was laying the axe to the root of the Jezebel. He and Anthony were praying and shortly after that, God began to deliver me. It was very strong, and as God was delivering me, He was showing me about the Jezebel in my life. He began to show me various people that had been in my life that had yielded to that spirit. He showed me that I had received that spirit in my mother's womb. Doyle has said that God showed him that Plano was ruled by the Jezebel and that subsequently, the world is ruled by that spirit. While God was delivering me, He showed me that Italy was ruled by the jezebel. The Jezebel is the ruling spirit of the mafia. Yes it exists and their bondage and violence is a result of that spirit. The Jezebel will get you drunk. Have you ever heard of someone crying in their beer? The Jezebel is the ruling spirit of MAAD. It gets you drunk, and then it gets you arrested. If the mothers in MAAD obeyed God, they wouldn't have lost their children and husbands to drunk drivers. It's the jezebel in them that killed their families.

I worked for a company that was ruled by the jezebel. My entire time there, every time that I was to receive a bonus or reward for performance, the rules would change just before it was to happen. Managers throughout the company saw this and would ask me who I had upset to cause this to happen. My last two years of high school, I attended a vocational - technical school. My mother enrolled me into a food service class so that I could learn about the business and then after school, work with her in a cake decorating business. The jezebel spirit in her wanted me to be in subjection my entire life. I transferred out of the class within the first hour and went into Chemistry because I did not want to spend the rest of my life under my mother's rule. I love my mother, but what she wanted was not God's will in my life and it was surely not my will either.

What was interesting is that after my deliverance Sunday morning, my wife received a lot of ministry during the evening service. This was Super Bowl Sunday and what was really neat was that just before we left for church that evening, a prayer came up in my mouth. I thanked God that I could worship Him instead of watch the game. What was neat was that I didn't WANT to watch the game.

I thank God that through the Gospel, we overcome. Believing the power that was demonstrated during the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus, believing the Gospel will bring salvation to me and my household. The Gospel is being ministered to me by an Apostle. I thank God, that Doyle is not rebellious.