This spirit of Jezebel can work through people to release word curses. A word curse is a form of witchcraft that taps into the power of death that’s in your tongue-or someone else’s tongue. Jezebel’s witchcrafts include word curses. In my story, it seems Senior Pastor Saul sent Prophet Jezebel to a close friend with an intimidating message hoping to bring division or breed strife. The Bible talks about Jezebel and her witchcrafts in 2 Kings 9:22.

Saul leaders operate in intimidation, control and fear instead of lifting up the next generation of leaders-and sometimes Saul will send Jezebel and her witchcrafts to hinder you. Saul leaders oppose the emerging move of God. So where does Jezebel come in? In the case of the old church I mentioned, the senior pastor was operating in a jealous Saul spirit. JOIN JENNIFER ON FACEBOOK FOR SPIRITUAL COMMENTARY AND ENCOURAGEMENT. When David was rising to prominence in Israel, Saul grew jealous and tried to kill David at least 12 times in 1 Samuel 18-19. Samuel told Saul, “The Lord has torn the kingdom of Israel from you this day, and has given it to a neighbor of yours who is better than you” (1 Sam. 15:28). The Lord regretted making Saul king, and it was the beginning of the end. Fear of man is no excuse for disobeying God. In 1 Samuel 13, Saul made an unlawful sacrifice, he says, “Because I saw that the people were scattered from me, and that you did not come to the appointed assembly days” (1 Sam. 13:11). This wasn’t the first time Saul disobeyed. Saul went to battle but spared Agag, the best of the sheep, oxen, fatlings and lambs. Samuel prophesied to Saul with clear instructions to “strike Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and do not have compassion on them but put to death both man and woman, child and infant, ox and sheep, camel and donkey” (1 Sam. In case you are not familiar with the story, here’s the recap. These traits caused him to lose the kingdom. He was insecure, walked in the fear of man and was jealous. Listen to Jennifer’s podcast on this topic for more teaching. Though it was tempting to have her call and find out exactly what curses were being released against me, we decided not to open that Pandora’s false prophetic box. A prophet on staff wanted my friend to call her right away. One of my colleagues received a not-so-random note from a woman attending that church. I thought that was the end of it-and then it manifested.

I told the people closest to me, broke word curses, blessed the ones cursing me and moved on. Why in the world would I even be on their minds, much less in their mouths, after the better part of a decade had passed? So I asked Him, “Who’s releasing these word curses?” He showed me a particular church I went to many years ago. Given the demon-inspired comments on my articles and Facebook posts-and the hate mail that lands in my inbox every day from people who don’t believe in women preachers, 21st-century prophets or the authority of the Word of God-it seemed an obvious revelation. When the Holy Spirit showed me word curses were coming against me, I was sort of surprised.

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