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Something Was Twisted
00:04:34
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| I was looking at Leviathan, and there are characteristics given in Job 41. | |
| And so, number one, he's a covenant-breaking spirit. | |
| Job, this spirit, Job 41 says, Uh, will he uh three and four, will he speak softly to you? | |
| Will in verse four, will he make a covenant with you? | |
| And so, I want to say to you that what happens, I was saying this was happening with some friends of ours. | |
| We realized that Leviathan was getting between our communication. | |
| Like, so I was saying one thing and I knew what I said, but they swore they heard something different. | |
| They said, Oh, you did not say that to me. | |
| And so, Leviathan is a twisting spirit, so it twists communication. | |
| So, by the time you say something, it gets between you and the hearer. | |
| And so, they hear something totally opposite or completely different. | |
| Twist the tone. | |
| And so, it says, Will he make a covenant with you? | |
| So, even in marriages, this can happen. | |
| I know Mike and I were getting kind of testy with each other one day. | |
| I said, Mike, this is just that Leviathan spirit. | |
| Now, we need to recognize what's going on right here. | |
| And we stopped and we said, In the name of Jesus, we bind you, Leviathan. | |
| You're not going to affect our marriage. | |
| I totally understand it because, of course, this has happened between Jim and myself. | |
| But I will tell you a great story, and it's a real story. | |
| I wish Ricky was right here to say it's true, mom. | |
| It happened one time about a year or so, about a year, maybe two years ago. | |
| Ricky and I were up in the kitchen making dinner, and he just thought I said something to him that I didn't say, and it was twisted. | |
| And I said, Ricky, this is not what I said. | |
| I mean, you're taking something that I just said to you completely wrong and twisting it. | |
| And all of a sudden, Ricky, my son, this young man of God, all of a sudden he goes, He recognized the spirit. | |
| He goes, Wait a minute, mom, this is Leviathan. | |
| I said, In the name of Jesus, we take over. | |
| You are not allowed in this home, you twisted serpent. | |
| And I mean, and Ricky agreed, and we prayed, and boom, it was over. | |
| And then Ricky goes, I'm sorry, mom, please forgive me for taking it that way. | |
| But there it was between and I bet you there's a lot of Leviathan spirits trying to take over right now in marriages and in families because everybody's locked in together, and all of a sudden, you're like, Oh, you get a little testy with each other when it's just one or two of you at times, or maybe 10. | |
| But seriously, yeah, it happens in marriages, it happens in relationships. | |
| And so, well, that happened with that ministry. | |
| And so, I bound that spirit and I talked again to them, and it was like they forgot everything that happened before. | |
| It was like it was gone, you know, like here I'm limping still, you know. | |
| And but I knew better than to go back and try to go over it again at that point. | |
| You know, I was just glad everything was okay. | |
| But what you gave, you know, with you and Ricky that example is exactly why we're sharing with everybody today. | |
| This is so important to realize, and sometimes people, you know, we just walk in and out of our life. | |
| And if we don't deal with this twisting spirit, it'll play on hurts and you know, things where you haven't cleared things up. | |
| And then all of a sudden, boom, you're it's breaking covenant. | |
| You want a divorce, you know, you want to walk out and or something like that. | |
| It's a covenant-breaking spirit. | |
| Now we need to understand this. | |
| We need to understand what is really happening. | |
| And, you know, I think since Mike and I have come to realize, just like you and Ricky, stop a minute here. | |
| Okay, just stop a minute. | |
| What is really going on? | |
| We love each other. | |
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Pride and Humility Battle
00:02:54
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| You know, we don't want to break covenant. | |
| We have a covenant. | |
| But the wonderful thing, and I'm going to jump ahead because there's some more points I want to make on this. | |
| But what is behind this? | |
| It says Job 41:34. | |
| He beholds every high thing. | |
| He is the king over the children of pride. | |
| So, so pride raises its ugly head. | |
| And like, look what Ricky did. | |
| I mean, I'm so proud of Ricky and proud of you for teaching Ricky and you and Jim because he humbled himself. | |
| You understand that? | |
| He didn't try to defend himself. | |
| He didn't get mad at you. | |
| He just humbled himself and said, I'm sorry. | |
| And what happens? | |
| Whew, a soft answer turns away wrath. | |
| So what happens is somebody has to come in humility in the opposite spirit because Leviathan feeds on pride. | |
| Before we go any further, what I want to say to everybody and to Cindy, what she, the point she's making is this: is that how do you kill Leviathan? | |
| How do you destroy Leviathan? | |
| Go to Job 41 and read all of Leviathan and the whole thing that he deals with here in Job. | |
| And that the word deals within Job is God. | |
| But when you said he beholds all things, he is king over all the children of pride. | |
| So therefore, humility kills Leviathan. | |
| And if there was ever a time to be humble, it's now. | |
| I have all my little sayings. | |
| The kids know, and people around me know I have sayings everywhere. | |
| And because I just certain ones I like. | |
| And this one I found a little ceramic. | |
| And it says, on one side, work hard. | |
| And the other side, it says, stay humble. | |
| What else on Leviathan, Cindy? | |
| Well, I'm so glad you asked. | |
| There's things like I wrote down, he has the manifestations that bring despair, depression, and timidation. | |
| Look at verse 8 of Job 41. | |
| Lay your hand on him. | |
| Remember the battle. | |
| Never do it again. | |
| Okay, so what's happening is there's this intimidation, and the next verse amplifies it. | |
| Any hope of overcoming him is false. | |
| Shall one not be overwhelmed at the sight of him. | |
| So whatever battle you're in, when Leviathan's in it, it's like it's big. | |
| It feels maybe it is a big battle, but it feels so big you want to quit. | |
| It feels so big, you can't even see God sometimes for the answers. | |
| You just get overwhelmed. | |