PREVENT MANIPULATION HOW TO KEEP FROM BEING MANIPULATED BY THE PEOPLE YOU MINISTER TO
CONTENTS
1. FOREWORD
2. WHAT IS WITCHCRAFT?
3. THE JEZEBEL SPIRIT
4. THE ROOT OF WITCHCRAFT
5. TWENTY-FIVE CHARACTERISTICS OF WITCHCRAFT
6. THE GOLDEN KEYS OF DELIVERANCE FROM THE WITCH'S BREW
7. VIPERS IN THE VINEYARD
8. ARE YOU A QUESTION OR A STATEMENT?
9. PRAYER FOR DELIVERANCE
10. REFERENCES
FOREWORD
1.This lesson is about how to keep from being manipulated by the people you minister to,
and how not to manipulate the people in the congregation. 2. It works both ways: pulpit to pew, and pew to pulpit.
WHAT IS WITCHCRAFT? 1. Is someone practicing witchcraft on you?
1. O foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you that you should not obey the truth? (Gal. 3:1).
2. Jezebel Introduced
1. She controlled her weak husband by the spirit of witchcraft, and by controlling King Ahab, she was able to exert immeasurable control over Israel.
2. See also Rev. 2:18-29 for God's reproof. 3. Witchcraft Defined
1.Witchcraft comes from the original word kashaph which means to whisper a spell, speak a curse, or practice magic.
2. Witchcraft can be separated into two divisions: white and black.
3. White witchcraft refers to the delusion some witches are under as they believe they are using Satan's power to affect mankind for good.
4. Black witches understand that their sorceries, spells and incantations are intended to bring evil on the objects of their bewitchments.
4. The Brew Principal
1. One thing leaders should understand is that you can have a witch's brew in the pew
without having the witch present. 5. Identifying the Brew
1. Excessive Control - This is obvious when an individual attempts to exercise too much authority over others, holding them back to an extreme degree and keeping them down beyond reason.
2. Manipulation - This occurs when one person changes the function of another for their own purpose or advantage by treating that person unfairly or dishonestly.
3. Threats - Witchcraft spirits issue statements of possible harm or evil.
4. Violations of Rules - This can best be summed up by the term law breaker.
5. Refusal to Submit to Authority - One of the characteristics of the Wilderness
Generation was rebellion.
6. How do you stack up? What manner of spirit are you (Luke 9:55)?
THE JEZEBEL SPIRIT 1. Witchcraft always challenges governmental authority.
2. The Jezebel Brew
1. What could change Elijah? A witch's brew, that's what!
3. The Brew and You: Let me ask you some more questions:
1. Are you going through great times of discouragement?
2. Are you bound by a terrible fear?
3. Are you seeing terrible things happen all around you?
4. Have you felt your confidence in God shaken to the core of your being? 5. If it affected Elijah, what will it do to you? (James 5:17)
6. You are not warring against flesh and blood (Eph. 6:12). THE ROOT OF WITCHCRAFT
1. The Brew of Rebellion
1. Witchcraft is the unlawful art of imposing one's will over another.
2. The Cain Brew
1. Witchcraft began to work through Cain because he became very jealous of his
brother Abel. He killed the one who was put in authority over him by God.
2. The witch's brew has spread these lies to the body of Christ for the purpose of breaking down the faith, trust and confidence in the hearts of God's people toward the
men and women of God.
3. For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work (James
3:16).
3. The root of witchcraft is rebellion against spiritual authority.
TWENTY-FIVE CHARACTERISTICS OF WITCHCRAFT
1. Witchcraft works through rebellion against authority and refuses to submit to God's designated authority over the earth. In Mark Chapter 1, we find an occasion where an unclean spirit operated through a man right in the middle of a worship service.
2. Witchcraft not only fosters disobedience to authority in others, but also seeks after gifts instead of the Giver.
3. Witchcraft finds fault in pastors, church leaders and church policies in order to cause some to take up offenses among the brethren. Proverbs 6:19 teaches us that one of the seven especially detestable sins in the Lord's eyes is: he that soweth discord among brethren.
4. Witchcraft agrees with disenchanted church members instead of defending church authority. We are obligated to take a stand for what we believe.
5. The witch's brew questions, undermines and, finally, judges authority. What do I mean by passing judgment? Here are some examples:
1. I am leaving the church because the pastors are just too busy.
2. I don't feel love in this church anymore.
3. I am going to go to some other church where people are heard. 4. I don't believe the pastor has the right to tell me what to do.
5. I don't like the pastor's new policy.
6. Witchcraft suggests misappropriation of church funds. For the love of money is the root of all evil (I Tim. 6:10).
7. Witchcraft can work through women, through wives' manipulation of husbands or through marital relations or social favors. The Bible says that a married person's body is not his or her own (1 Cor. 7:4).
8. Witchcraft rebels against the parental authority. God said, Honor thy father and thy mother (Exod. 20:12).
9. Witchcraft promotes a mixed spirit in the church. Jesus said for us to be either hot or cold because if we are lukewarm, He will spew us out of His mouth (Rev. 3:15).
10. Witchcraft defends family members above authority. A few children are such skillful manipulators that they can always make the parent believe it was somebody else's fault. 11. Witchcraft tries to use money to control what is preached from the pulpit. God is your source and supply (Phil. 4:19).
12. Witchcraft retaliates through punishment. A witch's brew will many times leave you where there is no answer.
13. Witchcraft gives ultimatums to authority. Do not let that witch's brew come on you! 14. Witchcraft tries to destroy the anointing through sex violations.
15. Witchcraft uses the supernatural to infiltrate spirits into the church. The Bible teaches that God will not let anything happen unless He first tells His prophets (Amos 3:7).
16. Witchcraft uses artifacts and plants them on property for purposes of having powerful spirits fight against specific goals.
17. Witchcraft gets properties and finances all tied up. Child of God, I am telling you, there could be a witch's brew being practiced on you.
18. Witchcraft violates balance with severe mood swings.
19.Witchcraft gives directional prophecy without submitting to the governmental authority of the local church. The Bible teaches us not to lay hands suddenly on any man (1 Tim. 5:22).
20. Witchcraft uses prophecy to control, manipulate or impose its will on other people. Your money perish with thee because thou hast thought that the gift of God may be purchased with money (Acts 8:20).
21. Witchcraft tries to make people more loyal to race, gender and causes than to the Word of God.
22. Witchcraft constantly looks for discrimination in the church to talk among the saints and cause division.
23. Witchcraft instigates action for someone else to go ahead and say things or do things on its behalf and then hides in the background as though totally innocent.
24. Witchcraft plants bad seeds through insinuations.
25. The witch's brew tries to suck the life out of the ministers of a church.
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