“The Spirit of Python: How to Recognize You Are Under Spiritual Attack” with Jentezen Franklin
Please keep me in your prayers as I pray asking God to keep me strong for my husband he is very sick and we are told that he is near the end of life for 65years now I set along talking with God nothing is joy without Christ I am weak
Tag: best sermons, Christ Jesus, Christian, Christians, Christmas, Christmas message, Christmas sermon, Christmas story, Christmas teaching, cross, encouraging sermons, faith, family, forgiveness, God, gospel, heaven, hell, HolySpirit, hope, inspirational sermons, Jesus, love, marriage, messages, powerful sermon, prayer, preaching, reason for the season, relationships, sermons, teaching, Tony Evans, Tony Evans sermons, trusting, victory, youth
the following program is sponsored by
friends and partners of Kingdom
collection when it comes to winning
award you have to have a battle plan and
there’s no difference in the spiritual
realm the Bible says the enemy has plans
to kill steal and destroy and he has the
resources and the schemes to slowly
squeeze the life out of you
coming up on Kingdom connection discover
how to recognize the enemy’s tactics and
how to protect your life and the lives
of those that you love it’s all in
pastor Franklin’s new book the spirit of
Python you can pre-order yours right now
by calling the number on the screen are
going online and visiting our special
spirit of Python website right now let’s
join my dad pastor Franklin as he
continues his teaching on the spirit of
Python
today I want to talk about how to
recognize you’re in a spiritual or under
a spiritual attack how to recognize
you’re under a spiritual attack you feel
like you’re fighting a battle that’s
getting the best of you do you feel
limited hindered unproductive does it
feel like some invisible force is trying
to squeeze the life out of your dream
squeeze the life out of your marriage
choke the spiritual breath out of your
walk with God
well the Bible said we wrestle not
against flesh and blood but we’re in a
spiritual battle the battle was very
real the devil is very real he had much
rather us ignore him and pretend he
doesn’t exist and just talk about good
things but the truth is people are under
spiritual attack as never before
families are in crisis and you can’t win
a war and a battle if you can’t discern
and see your enemy and I feel like what
I’m going to preach today and what
you’re going to hear today because many
of you are in spiritual conflict is
going to give you the power to outlast
that spiritual battle who you’re in so I
want to I want to talk to you about the
warning signs just like in the natural
when somebody is having a heart attack
they have told us that you can recognize
the warning signs before the big one
hits before it gets out of hand before
you get in such bad shape that you have
to have a heart transplant you can you
can you can avoid a lot of pain and a
lot of suffering if you recognize a
heart attack the moment you feel the
symptoms in the warning signs and get
help immediately it can stop things from
getting worse and some of you as I go
through this real quick this morning
you’re going to recognize you’re under a
spiritual attack number one the first
point I want to say when you’re under
spiritual attack you begin to
have a loss of spiritual desire this is
a real sign when you when you lose
spiritual desire when you just want to
quit when you are doing what you’re
doing out of duty not out of desire the
Blessed man is he who delights in the
law of the Lord not just does the law of
the Lord but you delight in it it’s that
desire as the deer panteth for the water
Brooks so my soul loans listen to the
words of David as the deer panteth for
the water Brook
so my soul longs for you he had an
incredible desire desire Paul said the
sincere milk of the word but when you’re
under spiritual attack you have no
desire for the word you have no desire
you begin to lose the desire for
spiritual things the passion begins to
leave the fire the the desire for that
intimate relationship with God that’s
one of the sure signs now we all have
times when discipline has to kick in
it’s not always that you just desire to
read the bow discipline has to kick in
but there is also when the attack comes
we have no spiritual desire it’s a
warning sign if you can say I can miss
Church for the next two or three weeks
and it won’t bother me you are under a
spiritual attack that is very real for
your soul the second thing is kind of
different but it’s the truth the second
way to recognize you’re under spiritual
attack it’s not only you have a loss of
spiritual desire but physical and
emotional exhaustion you see it matters
the enemy loves to wear out the Saints
he said he would wear out the Saints of
the most time just wear you down
you just get frazzled your strength is
out you get weary in well-doing
Paul said if you won’t faint and get
weary in well-doing you reap but you
just get
heard physically fatigue first Kings 19
Elijah the prophet had just come from
his greatest victory 450 prophets of
bail had been defeated and fire had
fallen from heaven and your most
vulnerable when you have just had a
great victory or you’re about to enter
into a great promotion that’s when the
enemy will hit you the most when you’ve
come out of a great victory something
great has happened and now you’re kind
of on a low and a down from the high
watch your leisure time watch those
times after a great victory and and then
another that time that the enemy really
attacks is just before a great promotion
just like he did Jesus this is my
beloved Son in whom I’m well pleased and
the enemy came and tempted him
immediately the scripture said so
physically Elijah was exhausted and God
sends an angel and he fell asleep and
the angel woke him up and he said arise
and eat I prepared you a meal an angel
cooked him a meal this is amazing to me
apparently
Elijah was not eating right he was not
eating good and the angel said arise and
eat he didn’t say arise and go to a
conference he didn’t say arise and go to
church and get in a good prayer meeting
he said no I understand your physical
being and you may have a spirit that’s
eternal but you carry your spirit in a
physical body and if your body gets your
body is the vehicle through which your
spirit gets to its destination and if
the enemy can defeat and wear your body
down it your body will start affecting
your spirit and the angel said arise and
eat horizon eat I’ve cooked you a
nutritious good meal get up and eat it
and one way that the enemy defeats us is
you know we we just start eating crazy
and we act like that’s not spiritual
but when you eat I’m not talking about
eating you know here and there enjoying
some crazy meal but but in general when
you let your eating get out of control
and everything you’re eating is fatty
and everything you’re eating is greasy
and everything you’re eating and is full
of sugar and starch and you know I read
this the other day that a muffin was
designed so people would not feel guilty
for eating cake for breakfast we fill
our bodies with sugar we fill our bodies
with starch we fill our bodies and we
act like it this shouldn’t bother us but
the enemy knows if I can weary you
physically I can touch your spirit so we
have to rest he was so tired that the
angel cooked him a meal and fed him and
he went back to sleep can you imagine
going back to sleep after an angel
cooked you a meal what you do with your
body affects your spirit come on say man
somebody physically worn out lack of
spiritual desire the third thing is a
lack attack you’re under spiritual
attack when your resources start drying
up all of them at the same time that’s
your spiritual attack now I’m not
blaming everything on demons let me be
clear about that not everything is a
demonic attack come on holiday shoppers
say man on them
you can’t rebuke those bills you have to
pay them you’re not using your faith
when you write a check and believe that
God’s gonna supply it now that’s not
faith that’s a felony
but I’m talking about when you when you
when you get in a lackattack it’s like
everything starts breaking down at the
same time the car breaks down the
refrigerator breaks down the husband
breaks down every the air conditioner
breaks and everything breaks down and
the whole thing the enemy wants to do is
put your eyes on money and get them off
of trusting God so that you’ve become
opportunity opportunity oriented instead
of trusting God because not every
opportunity is from God the fourth sign
that you’re under spiritual attack is
when the enemy hits you with a prayer
attack Matthew 26 the enemy said to
Peter I’m going to sift you a sweet and
then Jesus invited him to a personal
prayer meeting and he said pray with me
and he fell asleep and the Bible said
Jesus said could you not tarry with me
and listen to these words he said pray
that watch and pray that you enter not
in to temptation please understand that
prayer is about helping you not enter
into the temptation prayer is not a gift
some of you think people certain people
have the gift of prayer and you didn’t
get it prayer is not a gift it’s a
discipline you just do it and when you
decide to pray venom is going to attack
that prayer I mean the phone will start
ringing and you turn the ringer off and
it’ll start buzzing and vibrating and
just about the time you go to pray and
you’re starting to go to your prayer
place you open the door and here comes
two Jehovah’s Witnesses on bicycles
right up your porch and about the time
you get in the car the the dog the cat
eats the fish and the dog eats the cat
it’s like this is crazy no that’s a
prayer attack the enemy knows that if
you won’t pray that you’re susceptible
to falling into temptation what was
Peters temptation his temptation was to
rely on the flesh that’s why when
somebody came to arrest Jesus he didn’t
pray remember he fell asleep if you had
to prayed he wouldn’t have pulled this
blade out and cut a guy’s ear off in
Jesus name but he entered into the flesh
and he any and he tried to handle the
problem in the flesh but if you pray
what happens is if you don’t pray you
start acting in the flesh start cussing
people out and telling people off and
giving them a piece of your mind and all
of that but when you pray you don’t
enter in you got a you got a watch on
your lips you prayed and there’s there’s
there’s a caution there’s a something
that pulls you back if you pray number
number five when you begin to feel
overwhelmed the word circumstance comes
from the two words circle and then stand
so to be in a circumstance is to be
standing and encircled by issues have
you ever felt like you were just
encircled by problems and you you just
don’t have any way out that’s what it
feels like to be under spiritual attack
to be overwhelmed to be surrounded it’s
almost like you feel like what’s the use
there’s no way out you feel overwhelmed
you feel paralyzed here’s a huge huge
sign you’re under spiritual attack old
iniquities begin to resurface stuff that
you got the victory over years ago but
when you’re under a spiritual attack you
you start having those old iniquities
resurface if it was if it was nicotine
if it was drinking if it was drugs if it
was pornography if it was something that
was in your old life one of the sure
signs you’re under a spiritual attack
it’s when the old iniquities start to
research
office and and you start wanting to go
back to them and explaining it in your
own mind be careful facing old sins
again Bible said when an unclean spirit
leaves it comes back with seven more
spirits to see if that house is clean
listen to this and the enemy will always
attack from the last place he was
successful so the old iniquities are
just a sign that the enemy thinks you’re
weak in that area and he’ll keep trying
to hit you and and you’re under
spiritual attack when you feel yourself
going back to those old iniquities
discouragement is a soul sin grows in
listen here’s another huge one number
seven I’ve just got maybe one or two
more pulling away from godly
relationships is a sign you’re under
spiritual attack pulling away from godly
relationships what what do you mean when
you try to stay away from save people in
church people and Christian friends and
you feel more in common with people in
the world who are lost than you do with
folks in the church not but we’re not to
have friends and we’re not to be a
friend to sinners but there’s something
wrong when you feel more comfortable
with them than you do people of covenant
you know before you got under spiritual
attack and you were on fire for God you
were crazy I I’ve seen I’ve seen some of
you in the supermarket glory to God from
our three pastor Franklin I’m
embarrassed I’m ashamed I don’t know
what to do now I see you and you’re
ducking behind the cereal trying to hide
from me
oh you know you’re not living right I
love to find those people I find them to
the Holy Ghost I’ll go in Kroger
sometimes just looking around where’s my
old ex-members lord use a start-over in
the wine section when you begin to find
enjoyment through carnal methods it’s a
sign you’re under spiritual attack
everybody ought to have a life and be
balanced and you should enjoy hobbies
and God didn’t save you to make you
peace of church furniture and all your
whole life is one-dimensional just
Church you ought to have hobbies you
ought to have entertainment you ought to
have fun you ought to have a fun time
with your family and all that but I’m
gonna tell you something that can get
out of hand where you’re looking for
life and enjoyment and stimulation from
carnal methods you got to run to another
sale run to another shop run to another
ballgame run to another entertainment
we’re going here this weekend we’re
going the beach we’re gonna mountains
we’re gonna nothing wrong with that you
ought to be balanced but when it’s every
weekend you’re doing it just to feel
something just to feel alive you used to
get that life from the Holy Spirit you
didn’t take a sail they didn’t take
buying this and doing this it you used
to get that light but but but carnal
things begin to replace your life source
because when you do it you feel
something when you go to the races you
feel something you used to feel that in
church but then you start breaking out
those old records because when you hear
those old songs shake shake shake
shake your booty you just feel something
that takes you back to when you were
young and
I’m preaching better than you letting on
this morning I’ll tell you that looking
back on that old lifestyle making
comments like at least when I was in the
world I had me some sinner friends
lord have mercy you were running with
fools you were also broke you couldn’t
even buy your own drugs y’all all had to
pitch pitch in to buy a bag of weed you
were also broke and those friends
wouldn’t come around when you lost
everything and they wouldn’t come to see
your grave if you oh did you have
selective memory Jesus found you and
saved you and redeemed you and called
you and you better quit looking back on
your own lifestyle like it was better
Jesus is the best thing that ever
happened to me
oh I want to praise in just a minute you
turn to somebody and tell them Jesus is
the best thing that ever happened to me
now shout about it just a minute shout
about it act like you believe that I’m
not God there’s nothing to go back to
didn’t he come and see about you didn’t
he come and bring you out so what do you
do how do you fix it when you’re under
spiritual attack this is huge number one
I want to tell you this and this is for
encouragement let it seep into your
spirit I may just get one or two of
these can I do two of them and then I’ll
quit then you have to buy the book to
get the rest
I’ll do to the Lord told me to tell
people when they’re under spiritual
attack to remember you’ve been made to
outlast the storm say I’ve been made to
outlast the storm what do you mean Jesus
Jesus said there were two builders a
wise builder a foolish builder the
foolish builder built his house with the
whole mindset that there would never
come a storm he built it on sand but the
wives builder built the house on a
foundation of stone and when the storm
came the weak house fell but one of the
houses was built to outlast the storm
and if your life and family are built on
the rock Jesus Christ he built you to
outlast rule I feel happy he built you
to outlast us on I don’t care what the
enemy’s bringing when the enemy comes in
like a flood you were built to outlast
the storm and when the storm is over and
the wind deceased and the rain has
stopped you will still be standing
because he built you to outlast the
storm I need somebody to shout about
that just a minute God built you with
the storm in mind he knew you weren’t
going to be going through the attack
you’re going through right now before
you ever got in it and he put a
foundation in you that will not break
and will not be moving moved and will
not be shaken don’t forsake when you get
in spiritual attack don’t forsake the
power of partnership the Bible said two
are better than one
for if one Falls he can’t help himself
get back up but if there are two if one
Falls the other can pick him up the
Bible said if any two of you shall agree
it shall be done the scripture said one
can chase a thousand of the enemy but to
ten thousand that means three a hundred
thousand and four can defeat a million
demons this is the power a partnership
I mentioned it forward that the redwood
trees in California are amazing they’re
the largest trees in the world and they
grow 300 feet up in the air but they
only have roots that go down three feet
how in the world most trees if they go
70 feet up in the air they have roots
that go down 70 feet in the ground
that’s how they stand through the storm
that’s why palm tree is so powerful they
have they have found palm trees that the
roots go a mile down into the ground
that’s why when you see the Hurricanes
they’ve been but they don’t break they
bounced back not because the outward is
strong it’s the roots that are strong
but here’s the point the redwood goes
300 feet up in there but its roots only
go three feet deep how in the world does
it suffer a storm and face the onslaught
of a storm and not topple over and the
answer is found in the root system
because what happens is they said the
roots of the redwood goes three feet
deep and then it spreads out and it
finds the roots of other redwoods and
they intertwine and link up with each
other and now instead of the wind
blowing against one isolated tree all by
itself fighting the fight it’s blowing
against the forest and I won’t let you
go and you don’t let me go and I know
you’re weak right now but I’m strong but
I’ll probably be strong tomorrow and
you’ll be stronger and I’ll hold on to
you if you hold on to me and you pray
for me and I’ll pray for you and you lay
hands on me and you you pray for my
family now I prayed for yours last week
and you pray for my marriage
now here’s what got me let’s let’s stand
down here here’s what got me the Ranger
who has given this report said I can
take you to trees in this forest that
have been dead for years
but they’re still standing and the only
reason they’re still standing is because
the other trees wouldn’t let them go
maybe there’s a little life and it’d be
ashamed to let them fall if there’s a
chance that it could come back to life
that’s the power of community and church
and being planted not being a tumbleweed
a tumbleweed is rootless and fruitless
you blow in and blow out on Sunday
morning but when you get rooted and
grounded and get in small groups and get
in youth ministry get in the choir get
in something get hooked up get get
intertwined with other believers of like
faith and when you go through stuff you
don’t face it alone but can I take a
moment I know it may seem a little corny
to you but I’m the pastor and I get to
do what I want
reach over and link-up with somebody
like we were just linked up grab them
grab them by the arm right there and
just say I’m not gonna let you go you
may be going through the biggest battle
you’ve ever been through your family may
be facing the greatest storm you’ve ever
faced you may be fighting demons and
Devils but we will not let you go we’re
gonna keep praying we’re gonna keep
bleeding the blood we’re gonna keep
holding on until the and you know what
you were built to outlast the storm if
you just won’t faint if you just won’t
quit
if you just won’t give up even when you
feel dead just stay connected sure come
on grab them right now say let’s pray
one for another Father in the name of
Jesus I send my prayers out for this
congregation I pray for every person who
is
under a spiritual attack those who are
weary in their minds those who are
physically exhausted those who have lost
spiritual desire those who are feeling
the resurfacing of old iniquities coming
back after them those old things that
they once conquered now they’re trying
to get a stronghold back in their life I
pray now that their faith would not fall
I pray for your strength I pray for your
help
I pray for your anointing I pray that
the power of Satan would back up I pray
and plead the blood of Jesus over every
marriage and over every home we bind
together come on let’s bind on earth we
bind the enemy and we loose the power of
God the encouragement of God let’s
worship now lift your hands high and
open your mouth and begin to worship God
begin to praise and begin to praise it
we hope today’s message has been a
blessing in your life it’s all for my
dad’s new release the spirit of Python
right now you can call or go online and
pre-order your copy and when you make a
donation to the ministry at $35 or more
we’ll send you the spirit of python gift
set including two inspirational messages
from the spirit of python as well as a
30 day devotional that you can use in
your small group or for your own
personal devotional time we also created
a special spirit of python resource
exclusively online so be sure to visit
Jensen Franklin org and download the
very first chapter of this new book
absolutely free you can also join the
conversation online via Facebook Twitter
Instagram and Pinterest thanks for
watching and we’ll see you next time
right here on Kingdom connection this
crap has been brought to you by the
friends and partners of Jensen franklin
media ministries for more information on
this broadcast or for additional
resources go online at Jensen Franklin
dot o-r-g
you
Great message, The Spirit of Python! Get this series, you don’t want to miss this WORD from the Lord. I have it and trust me you will get so much out of it, order the book. You will be blessed.