Test The Spirits | Part 2: Exposing and Defeating a Jezebel Spirit

TEST THE SPIRITS

Part 2: Exposing and Defeating a Jezebel Spirit

July 13, 2025

 

1 Kings 21:25 (NIV) There was never anyone like Ahab, who sold himself to do evil in the eyes of the Lord, urged on by Jezebel his wife.

 

Revelation 2:20 (NIV) Nevertheless, I have this against you: You tolerate that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophet. By her teaching she misleads my servants into sexual immorality and the eating of food sacrificed to idols.

7 Things Jezebel Hates

1. .
2. .
3. .
4. .
5. .
6. .
7. .

6 Traits of the Jezebel Spirit

 

1. to gain control.

 

1 Kings 21:7-8 (NIV) Jezebel his wife said, “Is this how you act as king over Israel? Get up and eat! Cheer up. I’ll get you the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite.” So she wrote letters in Ahab’s name, placed his seal on them, and sent them to the elders and nobles who lived in Naboth’s city with him.

2. Emotional .

 

• Makes you feel guilty for setting boundaries.
• Convinces you that confronting sin is unloving.
• Pressures you to tolerate what God never condoned.
• Gaslights you into questioning your convictions.

3. from godly support.

 

1 Kings 18:4 (NIV) While Jezebel was killing off the Lord’s prophets, Obadiah had taken a hundred prophets…

4. for personal gain.

 

1 Kings 16:32-33 (NIV) He set up an altar for Baal in the temple of Baal that he built in Samaria. Ahab also made an Asherah pole and did more to arouse the anger of the Lord, the God of Israel, than did all the kings of Israel before him.

5. Controlling through .

 

1 Kings 19:1-3 (NIV) Now Ahab told Jezebel everything Elijah had done and how he had killed all the prophets with the sword. So Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah to say, “May the gods deal with me, be it ever so severely, if by this time tomorrow I do not make your life like that of one of them.” Elijah was afraid and ran for his life.

6. Attacking your .

 

1 Kings 18:17-18 (NIV) When he saw Elijah, he said to him, “Is that you, you troubler of Israel?” “I have not made trouble for Israel,” Elijah replied. “But you and your father’s family have. You have abandoned the Lord’s commands and have followed the Baals.

How to Defeat the Jezebel Spirit

• Recognize and .

 

Ephesians 5:11 (NIV) Have nothing to do with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather expose them

• Stand firm in .

 

John 10:4-5 (NIV) “His sheep follow him because they know his voice… they will never follow a stranger; in fact, they will run away from him because they do not recognize a stranger’s voice.”

 

John 8:31-32 (NIV) To the Jews who had believed him, Jesus said, “If you hold to my teaching, you are really my disciples. Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free

• Come .

 

1 Kings 19:9-11 (NIV) There he went into a cave and spent the night. And the word of the Lord came to him: ‘What are you doing here, Elijah?’ …The Lord said, ‘Go out and stand on the mountain in the presence of the Lord, for the Lord is about to pass by.’

• Stay .

 

1 Kings 19:15-16 (NIV) The Lord said to him, “Go back the way you came, and go to the Desert of Damascus. When you get there, anoint Hazael king over Aram. Also, anoint Jehu son of Nimshi king over Israel, and anoint Elisha son of Shaphat from Abel Meholah to succeed you as prophet.

• Call others to follow the Lord.

 

2 Kings 9:31-33 (NIV) As Jehu entered the gate, she asked, “Have you come in peace, you Zimri, you murderer of your master?” He looked up at the window and called out, “Who is on my side? Who?” Two or three eunuchs looked down at him. “Throw her down!” Jehu said. So they threw her down, and some of her blood spattered the wall and the horses as they trampled her underfoot.