Be Wary Of Leviathan The Leviathan Spirit has many characteristics, but it mainly manifests itself as pride. The very word Leviathan means to twist. In Scripture this spirit is regarded as a sea monster or seen as a serpent of some type. We have come into an amazing time of challenge and change in the Body of Christ. The Lord is fundamentally tearing down many of the false constructs many of us have stood upon with great confidence for years. Whenever the Lord begins to do this type of deep inner healing and reconstructive work, there is a natural tendency to grasp for the familiar and protect what weve always known. We tend to scurry to the familiar. However, Leviathan seeks to take you steps beyond natural apprehension into demonic rebellion. Leviathan is deceptive because it preys upon very real hurts and wrongs that have happened to you. Your pain is not imagined; you were actually wronged, but Leviathan is seeking to make you fix your gaze solely on your problem so you never pull back from how you were wronged and pray the heroic prayer: Lord, heal ME! Leviathan shrouds itself in religious activity by allowing you to get overly involved in church work, ministering to others, and even praying religious prayers for the people who hurt you, but this spirit will attempt to not allow you to take a look in the mirror and ask God for His word about you. Leviathan is a prideful spirit that wont let you honestly confront your own faults and dysfunctions. This spirit causes you to embrace your old constructs and call right what God is clearly calling wrong. Leviathan is a twisting serpent and destroys its prey much like a boa constrictor in the natural. It wraps itself around you and covers you such that you cannot see, hear, or speak properly. Leviathan blinds you from seeing what God is doing in the reconstruction work of your life, he covers your ears so you cant hear what God is trying to tell your heart, and hell try to silence your voice so even though you maintain the ability to talk, nothing that youre saying makes any sense or is in alignment with what God is trying to do. Your words, if he is successful will actually become devoid of any power. Ultimately, Leviathan attempts to squeeze the life out of you until theres nothing left. This is a season of the great reconstruction. A time when God is building a new force of elite soldiers that will ascend their mountain of culture but also possess the character to stay on top and release Gods love and healing in a manner that brings glory to Him. He is purposefully poking you where it hurts and forcing you to deal with internal issues youve masqueraded and hid behind for too long. This is a time when judgment is beginning with the house of Israel, and it doesnt always feel good. However our relationship with the Father is not based on feeling, its based on faith, and this is a time to renew our trust in Him. The time to yield to Gods hand is now; Hes awaiting your surrender, and Hes made a promise to construct an upgraded thing thats so much better than you ever could have imagined for yourself or ever could have come into by following your old pathologies and patterns. Ironically, theres another word in the Old Testament for twisting, and its translated as wait in Isaiah 40:31. Here the Father instructs us to wait upon the Lord. He wants us to braid or twist ourselves around Him and, when we do, our strength is renewed, well mount up with wings as eagles, well run and not become weary, and well walk and not faint. In this time of great change dont allow Leviathan to twist himself around you; why dont you twist yourself around God? 4 Keys To Confronting Leviathan 1) Come In The Opposite Spirit. At the root of your vulnerability to Leviathan is authentic hurt and anger. The Bible says we are to be angry but not sin. Here it is critical that we acknowledge our anger but intentionally forgive and not give too much energy to thinking about how we were wronged. 2) Create A Healthy Environment. The old adage is true, misery loves company, but during these critical times we cant be surrounded by people who will co-sign and enable our dysfunction. We need friends that will hold us accountable and tell us the truth about ourselves even when it hurts. The Bible says the wounds of a friend are faithful. We dont need fans...we need friends. 3) Be Teachable. Leviathan is especially dangerous for leaders and leader-types, because they are so used to having the answers for everyones problems that they struggle with seeking answers for themselves. Leaders think they always have to be tough, that they have to appear strong, and those attributes work against them when they are the ones under Gods magnifying glass and in need of help themselves. 4) Fixate on His Promises. God is always good, and Scripture teaches us everything works together for the good of those that love God and are called according to His purpose. We must focus on Gods promises to come at the end of all this reconstruction. We cant get sidetracked by the pain or how badly we were wronged. (Photo by Jennifer Page Psalm 119 Hes working on us to bring us to a better, more sustainable place. Ultimately Hes taking us from glory to glory, and that must be our main focus. Troy Goode,
Posted on: Tue, 14 Oct 2014 13:28:55 +0000
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