Kingdom Connection Hosted by Jentezen Franklin – Watch : “The Spirit of Python: Prayer and Praise” What is the Spirit of Python? In Acts chapter 16, Paul is confronted by a woman possessed with a “spirit of divination.” The Greek word for divination is “python.” The spirit world is very real; there are angels; there are demons, and these spirits never die. The Spirit of Python grabs hold and attempts to squeeze the breath out of you spiritually. The only way to break the grip is with a sacrifice of praise and the blood of Jesus Christ.
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do you ever feel like you’re fighting a
spiritual battle on the
and sometimes it’s getting the best of
you many times we get to a point where
we feel limited or unproductive not only
in our prayers are in our phrase but in
our walk with Christ it may not be a
coincidence it could be a sure sign that
you’re engaged in spiritual warfare this
week pastor Franklin exposes the simple
steps you can take to recognize and
defeat the plans at the enemy it’s all
from his new book the spirit of Python
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devotional right now let’s join my dad
pastor Franklin as he continues his
teaching on the spirit of Python
tonight I thought I would just kind of
share from my heart what the theme and
the message of the spirit of Python is
about what in the world are you talking
about when you say the spirit of Python
first of all I want to say that the
spirit world is very real that there are
angels there is the kingdom of heaven in
the unseen world and there is the
demonic world and demons and devils and
fallen angels are very real in Acts
chapter 16 I won’t take time to just
read all the scriptures I’m just going
to sum some things up and go where I
want to go tonight
but in Acts chapter 16 Paul is
confronted with a woman who is possessed
the scripture said with a spirit of
divination or the Greek word is Python
it’s the only time in the book of Acts
that the name of an evil spirit is given
the other times there were other
instances of demon possession but we’re
not given the name of the evil spirit
but in this one instance were given the
name of the evil spirit because it had
certain characteristics I believe that
God wanted to warn us about because
spirits never die spirits never die
angels never die
the same angel that comforted Jesus in
the Garden of Gethsemane is still alive
and he can stand by you the same angel
that stood by Paul in the middle of his
storm and Paul said this night an angel
from the Lord has stood by me there’s a
standby angel that can stand the same
one can stand by you and in the same way
demons never die they reinvent
themselves they get extreme makeovers
they show up in new generations in new
sounds and new music and new methods but
they’re the same evil spirits that have
been around because they were the Fallen
ones
Lucifer means Lucifer means shining one
in Isaiah 14
he was he was there the Sun of the
morning and he was leading in the
worship of heaven he was the he was the
worship angel he was chief and mighty
and beautiful and striking and the
Scriptures said that he was he had five
evil thoughts that came in his heart he
said I will ascend above the throne of
God
I’ll exalt myself I will be like the
Most High God I will set up my own
congregation in the sides of the north
and there was a rebellion a revolution
and one-third of the angels in heaven
followed Lucifer The Shining one he was
cast out of heaven and since that day
there has been a battle going on on
planet Earth
the spirit of Python is an interesting
spirit because a Python does not kill
its victims by its bite with its venom
what it does is it wraps itself around
its victim and it begins to squeeze the
breath breath in the Bible represents
the Holy Spirit and this is the message
that God has given me for this season to
the body of Christ I know it I sense it
just like a sense many years ago fasting
and and different things but this one
particularly that the enemy of our soul
is trying to squeeze the power of the
Holy Spirit out of the church he wants
us to become a bunch of professionals he
wants us to lose the anointing of God he
wants us to rely on might and power and
intellect and not believe in the
supernatural power of God anymore he
wants to squeeze the anointing out of
our worship squeeze the anointing out of
our preaching until we’re just
performers and we’re just entertainers
Paul said I did not come with enticing
words of man’s wisdom I came in a
demonstration of the power of the Holy
Spirit I’m going to tell you something
I’m going to tell you something we’re
we’re in days when you cannot reason a
devil out of people
you cannot counsel a demon out of a
marriage at some point I’m not a demon
chaser I don’t go around seeing demons I
bump into more accidentally than most
people I think sometimes but I don’t see
demons I don’t go around looking for
demons but we better get back to the
scriptures we wrestle not Ephesians 6 we
wrestle not against flesh and blood some
of you are in a spiritual battle like
you’ve never been in before because you
want to quit and give up and you’re
fighting and you’re tired and you’re
weary
and you need to hear what the Spirit is
saying that snake called python is one
that goes after the breath you remember
in John 20 Jesus breathed on them and
said receive the Holy Spirit
the mighty rushing wind filled the upper
room so Python wants to choke the wind
out of the believer he wants to choke
the anointing he wants to choke the
breath the Spirit of God and have big
churches that have no presence of the
Holy Spirit he wants to wrap himself
around us until we become so formal and
so and so ritualistic and so religious
that we can’t even get our arms up and
praise God and freedom and in where the
Spirit of the Lord is there is Liberty
where the Spirit of the Lord is there is
life where the Spirit of the Lord is
there is a freedom he wants to choke the
gifts of the Spirit out of the church
the gift of prophecy the gift of tongues
and interpretation the gift of healing
the working of miracles he wants us to
become so intellectual are smart in our
own eyes that we reason all of the stuff
away and he’s quite happy to do it under
the
radar Jesus walked into the synagogue
one day and he opened up the book and he
began to preach the Spirit of the Lord
notice his first sermon the Spirit of
the Lord is upon me for he has anointed
me to preach the gospel to set captives
free to set at liberty them that are
bound and in the middle of his sermon
the Bible said there was a man with an
unclean spirit who began to cry out
listen to these words leave us alone
leave us alone
do you understand the Pharisees teaching
never disturbed those that those devils
inside of that man he had set there on
the Sabbath day after day after day
after day and they never had been
disturbed all of the singing or all the
worship or whatever it was they were
doing it never disturbed that evil
spirit but when Jesus walked in under
the anointing of the Holy Spirit the
Bible said that those evil spirits begin
to cry out leave us alone
and the Bible said in mark 6 that Jesus
cast out many devils why did he cast
them out because they were there he cast
them out because they were there and
there there is an avoider saying just
leave us alone
even pastors and leaders are guilty I’m
afraid of we want to just preach a
gospel that has nothing to do with the
power of the Spirit it’s it’s all about
feel good and lift us up and all of that
we all need that I’m not against that
but hear me the devil is very happy if
we’ll just leave him alone and don’t
teach people how to put on the whole
armor of God use the name of Jesus and
pray in the Holy Ghost and lift up their
hands and praise in a battle and drive
the enemy back he’s very content to just
have us go to churches where we just
leave him alone we
become a bunch of people who are trying
to fight a spiritual battle with the
carnal mind and carnal ideas and no
anointing or breath on it and we’re
guilty you know because we don’t want to
be seen I just don’t want to talk about
the devil I don’t even want to mention
any of that because you know I don’t
want to be a demon chaser I don’t want
to be fanatic on well I’m going to tell
you something
the enemy is tearing families and homes
and lives to pieces whether you mention
him or not he’s not going to leave you
alone just because you leave him alone
call it whatever you want to call it but
addictions and okay this is the power of
Satan coming to kill steal and destroy
but God is raising up ministries in
these last days that will not leave him
alone we’re going to charge the gates of
hell and this hittin some hyped up
preaching I believe there’s power in the
name of Jesus I believe there is power
in the precious blood of Jesus I believe
every devil can be broken off of your
mind off of your heart off of your body
and off of your family and you can see
the goodness of the Lord the freedom of
the Lord
you can breathe again the Bible said in
acts 16 as they went to prayer a woman
possessed with the spirit of Python came
against them as they went to prayer
Python is a spirit that hates prayer the
greatest tragedy of prayerlessness is
the unemployment of angels when you
don’t pray your angel stands in the
unemployment line in heaven because you
have not because you ask not and if
there’s one area the enemy wants to
choke
to death it’s your prayer life I’ve
taught this for many years
and I want you to listen to me very
carefully when you read the Bible you
breathe in this is your spiritual breath
you breathe in spiritually when you pray
you exhale you bring breathe out father
I and your breathing out I ask you in
the name of Jesus but when you read the
Bible so imagine what condition many
believers are in who do not read the
Bible and who do not consistently pray
they have spiritual asthma python has
himself wrapped off and they come to
church on Sundays life like that just
keep me alive keep me alive in there
barely existing spiritually because he’s
after your breath he wants to choke this
book out of your agenda he wants to
choke prayer out of your life because if
he can choke the word and prayer out of
your life you’re not breathing in
spiritual life and you’re not breathing
out and you can breathe in but you can’t
hold it but so long and you need to
breathe out and prayer is the breathing
out reading the word is the breathing in
as they went to prayer it’s not just
natural things that keep you from prayer
sometimes the enemy himself will do
everything he can to choke prayer out of
your agenda as we went to prayer that’s
when python showed up we need to
remember that as a church that the enemy
wants us doing a lot of things but he
doesn’t want us to pray because when we
pray whatever we bind on earth is bound
in heaven I feel that old-fashioned
stuff stirring up in this play whatever
we loose on earth is loosed in heaven if
any two of you shall agree and touch in
my name it shall be done
as they went to prayer secondly I want
you to notice that Python not only
resists prayer and tries to choke it out
of your life and out of your agenda but
they were going on their first
missionary journey this was his first
time being in Asia and that’s when the
enemy showed up so the spirit of Python
wants to stop you from expanding he
wants to stop you from moving into new
territory
he wants to he’ll show up on a ministry
and call himself around a dream or a
vision just when it’s about to break
loose just when it’s about to step out
in birth just when it seems like it’s
about to go into some area you’ve never
it’s Python that shows up and says I’m
gonna hold you you’ve gone as far as
you’re gonna go you’re not expanding
you’re not growing you’re not enlarging
you’re not going any further he wants to
hold you back like you’re on a chain
keep you confined keep you limited keep
you where you are even in your walk with
God just keep you where you are and bind
you up so that you don’t just get saved
but God wants to baptize you in the Holy
Spirit and give you a prayer language
lets you pray everyday in an unknown
tongue but python wants you to stay
where you are
and not hunger for more not desire more
not believe for more and please don’t
seek for more because if you seek you’re
fine if you’re not it’ll be open if you
ask you will receive but python wants to
hold you but here’s the key to the story
the Bible said that they arrested Paul
and Silas they beat them severely they
threw them in prison and every once in a
while Satan makes a mistake you know
where he made his mistake he put them
both in the same cell
and at midnight midnight is prophetic
midnight is the end time midnight speaks
of the coming of the Lord the bridegroom
sins and for the bride at midnight maybe
the Lord is saying that one of the
predominant spirits that will try to
wrap itself around the church before the
trumpet sounds and Jesus comes again is
a spirit that tries to choke the
anointing of the Holy Spirit out to
where the church loses the spirit of
revival and it’s passion and it’s fire
and the young people grow up not knowing
what the power of God is but I want to
say that’s not going to happen here
we’re believing that in the last days
God will pour out his spirit on all
flesh our sons and our daughters will
prophesy they’ll have the breath of God
hallelujah and at midnight Paul and
Silas begin to sing praises unto God
there’s one thing that will break the
spirit of religion and break the spirit
of Python break what Evers choking the
life out of you and squeezing the life
out of you
what Evers wrapped itself around you and
said you’ll never be free and full of
life again Satan is a liar and in your
midnight you’ve got a you got to learn
how to praise God at midnight when it’s
darker than it’s ever been
how’d it Lou you when it’s darker than
it’s ever been you don’t quit when it’s
darker than it’s ever been you don’t
give up when it’s darker than it’s ever
been you don’t throw in the towel you
get your hands up and you say I’m
hurting but I praise you I don’t
understand this but I praise you I don’t
know why I’m going through this trial
but God I praise you come on let’s just
take a praise break those of you
watching right there in that room just
begin to praise Him
come on praise Him all over this room
Python is breaking at the praise of
God’s people Alleluia and when the
Saints get loose the prisoners start
getting loose when Paul and Silas got
loose all the jail cells got loose and
when the church takes back its Liberty
and when the church starts getting
filled with the life of God in the
praise of God and the anointing of God
that’s when the prisoners will get set
free those that are prisoners to
pornography prisoners to perversion
prisoners to addiction prisoners to
alcoholism prisoners to to drug
addiction prisoners to immorality and
and the lifestyle that Satan has sucked
you into you don’t have to be a prisoner
anymore you don’t have to be feel the
squeeze choking the life out of you you
see the way you break pythons hope is
there a few things that drives demons
crazy one is praise we must never allow
that word to get routine and mundane in
our ears when saul was was deeply buried
in depression and heavily oppressed by
controlling spirits he was possessed
with an evil spirit
he called for David and David began to
play his harp and the Bible said as
David would play his heart the
atmosphere of the very room would change
from oppression vexation possession
torment suicide because Saul wanted to
kill herself he was suicidal
time you see demons in the scripture
they’re always wanting to do hurt to
people they’re what one boy was
demon-possessed and he threw himself
into the fire he threw himself into the
water they always want you to
self-destruct they always went when you
read of the man in the end the gadarenes
who had thousands of demons he would cut
himself with sharp stones one of the
signs of demon activity is it’s when
people begin to want to hurt themselves
and kill themselves and drink themselves
to death or dope themselves to death or
cut themselves and harm themselves not
everything not every person who has an
addiction is demon-possessed not F not
everyone not if but certainly there are
demons who are behind it and when they
begin to praise the Lord when you praise
God it changes the atmosphere see Satan
is very much attracted to atmosphere but
so is the Holy Spirit when you praise
God when you fast it drives Devils crazy
when you when you praise especially when
you’re hurting
it drives Devils crazy when you when you
fast and pray this kind mark 9 comes out
but by fasting and prayer and I’ll tell
you one more thing and I’m going to
close you know what else drives the
devil crazy the blood of Jesus Christ
now I feel something on me right now
I can’t quite shake it but I feel a
heavy anointing there’s power in the
blood of Jesus Christ and you need to
learn Revelation 12 they overcame him by
the blood of the Lamb
speaking of Satan they overcame him by
the blood of the Lamb and the word of
their testimony and when hell’s breaking
loose and when the enemies fighting you
and your family draw a blood line they
drew a blood line on the day of Passover
on their house and the destroyer came
through and he thought he would get in
and destroy those homes but wherever the
blood line had been drawn on the
doorpost of the house he had to pass
over that house and find another house
that had no blood on it and I tell you
what drives Devils crazy it’s when you
begin to plead the blood of Jesus Christ
you begin to put on the whole armor of
God and you stand not in your
righteousness not in your holiness not
in your worthiness but in the
righteousness of the blood of the Lamb
and you stand and the righteous are as
bold as a lion you say Satan you are a
liar you will not have my children you
will not have my family you will not
have my faith you will not have my hope
for faith is the substance of things
hoped for the evidence of things not
seen
you will not defeat me with this demonic
attack I have power in the blood I have
power in my praise I have power in my
prayer in my fasting and greater is He
that is in me than he that is in the
world I want you to praise God with me
right now I feel like God is speaking to
people in this room
those of you listening by television
let’s just get up on our feet all over
the syringe
everybody say there’s power in the blood
of Jesus the precious blood you draw a
line the hell can’t cross
just reach over right now and put your
hand on somebody’s shoulder yep we’re
going there it’s that kind of church yep
put your hand on somebody’s shoulder say
these words I plead the blood of Jesus
Christ over your mind he will keep you
in perfect peace because your mind has
stayed on him I plead the blood of Jesus
Christ over your body he is the Lord
that heals you and I speak health long
life healing to your body in the name of
Jesus I plead the blood over your future
over your family the blood of Jesus is
over your faith Satan has desired to
sift you with the trials you’ve been
through but I have prayed for you that
your faith would fail not I plead the
blood your faith will not fail it was
staying and you will be blessed and
favored will be yours it will be seen
the goodness of God will be on display
in such a manner that people will see
God has rewarded you because you’re his
child his favor
his will is going to be done in your
life say this I plead the blood of Jesus
now say this no weapon formed against
you is gonna stop you in Jesus name
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