Jill Austin: "The Jezebel Spirit and The Confrontation at Mount Carmel" 
Master Potter www.masterpotter.com 
In talking about the spirit of Elijah, many times we say, "We are going to come against a spirit of Jezebel, and we are going to bind it and render it powerless." But, how do you confront and deal with the Jezebel spirit?


The Clashing of Two Spirits 
What the Lord started to show me is that there is a clashing of two major spirits: the Kingdom of God and the kingdom of satan. These two kingdoms are coming together in hand-to-hand combat. So what we are coming against is a Jezebel spirit, which is a powerful spirit that comes to destroy the prophets and abort the newborn. If it cannot abort a "baby in the womb," then it will try to abort the baby's calling and destiny. A demonic spirit cloaks, chokes out, strangles, and destroys lives, destiny, calling, and birthright.

In talking about the Elijah anointing, we know that he was one who heard the voice of God. Are you able to legislate in the heavens? What comes against a Jezebel spirit is having a real relationship with Holy Spirit!!!


Heaven Kissing Earth with Power 
In Acts 2 , 120 people waited in the Upper Room. The wind, the fire, and the person Holy Spirit came, and they all began to speak in other tongues. But was it just something where they only got 5-10 words in tongues? No! The government of Heaven broke in, and it birthed the church. It was a miracle of languages. 


Peter's Power 
Then they ran out, and Peter moved with an authentic, apostolic anointing. When he preached the Word of God, the power of Heaven and the government of God was behind him, and a breaker anointing was released so that 3,000 people were saved! It broke through and brought radical salvations and healings. 


Elijah's Confrontation 
When Elijah cried out, he started to confront the demonic spirits through the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, asking for that covenant of the Lord Jesus to be there. The heavens literally opened up, and fire came down from Heaven.


What God Wants from Us 
The Lord wants to bring us to a place where we are not just locked into closed churches, but where we are able to go outside the walls of the church and be able to impact our society. He wants us to be able to move with a breaker anointing, as carriers of resurrection life, and have people get saved, healed, and delivered. Then we will have words of counsel and words of wisdom where we are able to legislate from the heavens.


Do You Really Know Holy Spirit? 
To be able to do that, we must have an intimate relationship with Holy Spirit. Holy Spirit is not just tongues; Holy Spirit is not just a phenomenon of a wind and fire. He is a person! When Jesus died and went to the right hand of the Father, it was so that Holy Spirit would come and bring the Kingdom and the fire of the Lord to earth.

Elijah lived a life that moved in Kingdom power. He was a man, but when he spoke, God backed him up. Let me ask you, "Does God back you up? Or do your words just dribble down your chin?"


Where Do You Stand? 
Do you see any signs and wonders? Do you see anybody healed? Are people hungry to get your wisdom and revelation because you hear from God? Do you have an intimacy with God, and do people come to you because you are a messenger of the Lord?

Is your church so cloistered, so social, and so seeker-friendly that you don't have any cutting-edge wisdom? When you are not moving in revelation and you are not able to move and shift things (not only over your families and neighbors, but over entire cities, then you move into a place of not being able to impact your society).


Who is Jezebel? 
In talking about the spirit of Jezebel, you must understand that Jezebel is an international principality that devastates nations and multitudes of sons and daughters. It is a demonic power. It is not female or male--it is a spirit.

It is not just that Jezebel confronted Elijah, but this principality, this Jezebel spirit, confronted the God of Elijah. You see, there is a war going on right now, and the war is for our passion. The same power that comes against the passion and heart of God today, also came against Elijah and the people of God. It is passion versus passion; it is fire versus fire. What is going to grab the passions of these hearts? 

The Confrontation at Mount Carmel 
If you want to have the spirit of Elijah, then let's talk about Mount Carmel. Where is your Mount Carmel? Where is the place where the altar is torn down in your family? 

You cry out that you want to be an Elijah, but how does it come down where it is real for where you are? It is not a place where you suddenly arrive one day; it is that place where we must daily wrestle it out and work through the ups and downs, 24/7, as you keep seeking the Lord with all of your heart. In the midst of our life, we have friends whose altars are torn down. They have been invaded with the Jezebel spirit; they have been invaded with demonic powers that have torn down the covenant relationship that God is intending for them. 

A Call to Holiness 
How do you rebuild the altar? Part of rebuilding is that you have to be a man or a woman that is clean before God. In other words, if you are going to confront people about their sexual perversion, pornography, eye gates that are constantly seeing violence, and areas where they are constantly being infiltrated by the dark things of our society, then you must be clean in those areas yourself. How can you confront that in other people's lives if it operates in your own life?

Do you have common ground with the enemy in any area of your life? You can have NO common ground with the enemy, you know! There needs to be a call to holiness. There needs to be something in you that presses into the face of Jesus, no. . . matter. . . what! 


God's Search Light is Needed 

There needs to be something in you that asks, "Lord, where there are areas of darkness in my life, where there is compromise in my life, where there are broken areas from unforgiveness and bitterness or cynical attitudes in my life, I want you to bring your fire upon the altar of my life. Where the altar of my spirit is broken down, I want you to heal me up." 

Many walk in defeat because there are places in their lives where the enemy has legal access because of known sin(s), compromise, idolatry, disobedience, disloyalty, or spiritual adultery. 


Two Things are Needed 
First of all, in being able to move with an Elijah anointing, you need to be able to say, "Ok Lord, here I am! There are areas that are broken down. Most of all, I need you as my Lord and Savior. Then I'm asking you to start to reveal areas of brokenness and areas of compromise in my life." 

Secondly, you might want to get healed up and restored. As you start to get healed up, then you will have more mercy for those who are broken because you see your own brokenness. 

There is something in you that says, "No, I know what it is like to be broken, but I know a God who can heal me in the midst of my pain! Since He can heal me, and He can heal the altars and the areas of my own brokenness, then I know that He can also heal others where they are hurting, where people have abused them and where they have been betrayed." 

You see, if you get healed from different forms of abuse -- emotional abuse, physical abuse, verbal abuse, and even religious abuse (where you shut your heart down from God), then you will start to get healed up in these areas of violation. You will also start to get living stones of God's promises, His destiny, and His calling rebuilt inside of your spirit. 

Then you can cry out and say, "God, send fresh fire! I want to be a burning man. I want to be a burning woman. I want to be full of holy passion. I do not want be one with a shriveled up heart. I want to be one who is fully alive, fully passionate and not compromising with any perversion -- but passionate with a clean heart, so I can fully love as You love!" 

What I believe the Lord is saying is, "Why not respond to this call right now as you read this article? Let's make this a Mount Carmel, but first, let's look at your own heart."
  


Jill Austin Master Potter www.masterpotter.com 

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