SERPENTINE MEANS Something:
• Crooked
• Curling
• Bending
• Twisting
• Winding
• Tortuous
• Curvy
EXHORTATION
1. THE SERPENT IS CURSED BY GOD
• Genesis 3 v 14 & 15
v.14 “So the Lord God said to the serpent: “Because you have done this,
You are cursed more than all cattle, And more than every beast of the field; On your belly you shall go, And you shall eat dust All the days of your life.”
v.15 “And I will put enmity Between you and the woman, And between your seed and her Seed; He shall bruise your head, And you shall bruise His heel.”
• Micah 7 v 17
“They shall lick the dust like a serpent; They shall crawl from their holes like snakes of the earth. They shall be afraid of the Lord our God,
And shall fear because of You.”
• The serpent is deceitful. He caused the fall of Ada and Eve.
• God cursed the serpent and put enmity between it and humanity.
2. CHARACTERISTICS OF THE SERPENT
• Revelation 12 v 9
“So the great dragon was cast out, that serpent of old, called the Devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world; he was cast to the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.”
1. The Serpent is called the devil and satan.
2. The Serpent is a deceiver.
3. The Serpent is subtle and dangerously clever.
4. The Serpent attacks deadly and veraciously.
5. The Serpent is poisonous.
6. The serpent has deadly venoms.
3. THE SERPENT ATTACKS RECKLESSLY
1. THE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL IN THE WILDERNESS
• Numbers 21 v 6
“So the Lord sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and many of the people of Israel died.”
2. THEY ENCOUNTERED SERPENTS IN THE WILDERNESS
• Duet. 8 v 15
“who led you through that great and terrible wilderness, in which were fiery serpents and scorpions and thirsty land where there was no water; who brought water for you out of the flinty rock;”
4. GOD HAS GIVEN US CALVARY POWER OVER THE SERPENTS
• Luke 10 v 19
“Behold, I give you the authority to trample on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing shall by any means hurt you.”
• Revelation 12 v 9
“So the great dragon was cast out, that serpent of old, called the Devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world; he was cast to the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.”
5. DARK PRACTITIONERS USING SERPENTINE POWER
1. Deut. 18 v 10 – 12 (KJV)
v.10 “There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch”
v.11 “Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer.”
v.12 “For all that do these things are an abomination unto the LORD: and because of these abominations the LORD thy God doth drive them out from before thee.”
• Diviners
• Observers of times
• Enchanters
• Witches
• Charmers
• Consulters with familiar Spirits
• Wizards
• Necromancers
2.Isaiah 47 v 10 – 15
v.10 “For you have trusted in your wickedness; You have said, ‘No one sees me’; Your wisdom and your knowledge have warped you; And you have said in your heart, ‘I am, and there is no one else besides me.”
v.11 “Therefore evil shall come upon you; You shall not know from where it arises. And trouble shall fall upon you; You will not be able to put it off.
And desolation shall come upon you suddenly, Which you shall not know.”
v.12 “Stand now with your enchantments And the multitude of your sorceries, In which you have labored from your youth— Perhaps you will be able to profit, Perhaps you will prevail.”
v.13 “You are wearied in the multitude of your counsels; Let now the astrologers, the stargazers, And the monthly prognosticators
Stand up and save you From what shall come upon you.”
v.14 “Behold, they shall be as stubble, The fire shall burn them; They shall not deliver themselves From the power of the flame; It shall not be a coal to be warmed by, Nor a fire to sit before!
v.15 “Thus shall they be to you With whom you have labored, Your merchants from your youth; They shall wander each one to his quarter. No one shall save you.”
• Enchanters
• Sorcerers
• Astrologers
• Stargazers
• Monthly Prognosticators
3. Ezekiel 21 v 21 – 22 (NLT)
v.21 “The king of Babylon now stands at the fork, uncertain whether to attack Jerusalem or Rabbah. He calls his magicians to look for omens. They cast lots by shaking arrows from the quiver. They inspect the livers of animal sacrifices”
v.22 “The omen in his right hand says, ‘Jerusalem!’ With battering rams his soldiers will go against the gates, shouting for the kill. They will put up siege towers and build ramps against the walls.”
• Diviners
• Consulters with images
• Magicians looking for Omens
4.Ezekiel 13 v 18
“And say, ‘Thus says the Lord God: “Woe to the women who sew magic charms [g]on their sleeves and make veils for the heads of people of every height to hunt souls! Will you hunt the souls of My people, and keep yourselves alive?
• Soul Hunters
• Magicians
• Charmers
5.Micah 3 v 1 – 4
v.1 “And I said: “Hear now, O heads of Jacob, And you rulers of the house of Israel: Is it not for you to know justice?”
v.2 “You who hate good and love evil; Who strip the skin from [a]My people, And the flesh from their bones;”
v.3 “Who also eat the flesh of My people, Flay their skin from them, Break their bones, And chop them in pieces Like meat for the pot, Like flesh in the caldron.”
v.4 “Then they will cry to the Lord, But He will not hear them;
He will even hide His face from them at that time, Because they have been evil in their deeds.
• Witchcraft Practitioners
6.Micah 5 v 12 – 15 (KJV)
v.12 “And I will cut off witchcrafts out of thine hand; and thou shalt have no more soothsayers:”
v.13 “Thy graven images also will I cut off, and thy standing images out of the midst of thee; and thou shalt no more worship the work of thine hands.”
v.14 “And I will pluck up thy groves out of the midst of thee: so will I destroy thy cities.”
v.15 “And I will execute vengeance in anger and fury upon the heathen, such as they have not heard.”
• Witchcraft
• Sooth sayers
• Idol worshippers
7.Nahum 3 v 4 (KJV)
“Because of the multitude of the whoredoms of the wellfavoured harlot, the mistress of witchcrafts, that selleth nations through her whoredoms, and families through her witchcrafts.”
• Mistress of witchcrafts
• Whoredom Practitioners
8.Ezekiel 11 v 1 – 4
v.1 “Then the Spirit lifted me up and brought me to the East Gate of the Lord’s house, which faces eastward; and there at the door of the gate were twenty-five men, among whom I saw Jaazaniah the son of Azzur, and Pelatiah the son of Benaiah, princes of the people.
v.2 “And He said to me: “Son of man, these are the men who devise iniquity and give wicked counsel in this city,”
v.3 “who say, ‘The time is not near to build houses; this city is the caldron, and we are the meat.”
v.4 “Therefore prophesy against them, prophesy, O son of man!”
• Wicked Elders at the Gate
• Those who devise mischiefs
• Wicked Counsellors
• Wicked city judges
6. DIVINE WEAPONS TO DEAL WITH SERPENTINE POWER
1. THE SWORD OF THE LORD
• Isaiah 27 v 1
“In that day the Lord with His severe sword, great and strong, Will punish Leviathan the fleeing serpent, Leviathan that twisted serpent;
And He will slay the reptile that is in the sea.”
• Ezekiel 29 v 8 & 9
v.8 “Therefore thus says the Lord God: “Surely I will bring a sword upon you and cut off from you man and beast.
v.9 “And the land of Egypt shall become desolate and waste; then they will know that I am the Lord, because he said, ‘The River is mine, and I have made it.”
2. THE HOOKS OF THE LORD
• Job 41 v 1 & 2
v.1“Can you draw out Leviathan[a] with a hook, Or snare his tongue with a line which you lower?”
v.2 “Can you put a reed through his nose, Or pierce his jaw with a hook?”
• Ezekiel 29 v 3 – 5
v.3 “Speak, and say, ‘Thus says the Lord God: “Behold, I am against you, O Pharaoh king of Egypt, O great monster who lies in the midst of his rivers, Who has said, ‘My River is my own; I have made it for myself.”
v.4 “But I will put hooks in your jaws, And cause the fish of your rivers to stick to your scales; I will bring you up out of the midst of your rivers,
And all the fish in your rivers will stick to your scales.”
v.5 “I will leave you in the wilderness, You and all the fish of your rivers;
You shall fall on the open field; You shall not be picked up or gathered.
I have given you as food To the beasts of the field And to the birds of the heavens.”
3. THE SERPENT OF GOD
• Amos 9 v 1 – 4
v.1 “I saw the Lord standing by the altar, and He said: Strike the doorposts, that the thresholds may shake, And break them on the heads of them all. I will slay the last of them with the sword. He who flees from them shall not get away, And he who escapes from them shall not be delivered.”
v.2 “Though they dig into hell, From there My hand shall take them;
Though they climb up to heaven, From there I will bring them down;”
v.3 “And though they hide themselves on top of Carmel,From there I will search and take them; Though they hide from My sight at the bottom of the sea, From there I will command the serpent, and it shall bite them”
v.4 “Though they go into captivity before their enemies From there I will command the sword, And it shall slay them. I will set My eyes on them for harm and not for good.”
4. THE POWER OF GOD
• Psalm 74 v 13 & 14
v.13 “You divided the sea by Your strength; You broke the heads of the sea serpents in the waters.”
v.14 “You broke the heads of Leviathan in pieces, And gave him as food to the people inhabiting the wilderness.”
5. THE ARM OF THE LORD
• Isaiah 51 v 9 & 10
v.9 “Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the Lord! Awake as in the ancient days, In the generations of old. Are You not the arm that cut Rahab apart, And wounded the serpent?”
v.10 “Are You not the One who dried up the sea, The waters of the great deep; That made the depths of the sea a road For the redeemed to cross over?”
6. EXERCISING SPIRITUAL AUTHORITY
• Luke 10 v 19
“Behold, I give you the authority to trample on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing shall by any means hurt you.”
• Mark 16 v 18
“they will take up serpents; and if they drink anything deadly, it will by no means hurt them; they will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover.”
• Numbers 21 v 8 – 9
v.8 “Then the Lord said to Moses, “Make a fiery serpent, and set it on a pole; and it shall be that everyone who is bitten, when he looks at it, shall live.”
v.9 “So Moses made a bronze serpent, and put it on a pole; and so it was, if a serpent had bitten anyone, when he looked at the bronze serpent, he lived.”
7. THE BLOOD OF JESUS
• Revelation 12 v 11
“And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, and they did not love their lives to the death.”
8. THE AUTHORITY IN THE NAME OF JESUS
• Phil 2 v 9 – 11
v.9 “Therefore God also has highly exalted Him and given Him the name which is above every name”
v.10 “that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those in heaven, and of those on earth, and of those under the earth”
v.11 “and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.”
9. HOLY GHOST FIRE
• Psalm 97 v 3
“A fire goes before Him, And burns up His enemies round about.”
10. WALL OF FIRE
• Zech. 2 v 9
“For surely I will shake My hand against them, and they shall become spoil for their servants. Then you will know that the Lord of hosts has sent Me.”
7.WHEN CAN THE SERPENT ATTACK
• Eccl. 10 v 8
“He who digs a pit will fall into it, And whoever breaks through a wall will be bitten by a serpent.”
• Job 1 v 9 – 12
v.9 “So Satan answered the Lord and said, “Does Job fear God for nothing?
v.10 “Have You not made a hedge around him, around his household, and around all that he has on every side? You have blessed the work of his hands, and his possessions have increased in the land.”
v.11 “But now, stretch out Your hand and touch all that he has, and he will surely curse You to Your face!”
v.12 “And the Lord said to Satan, “Behold, all that he has is in your [k]power; only do not lay a hand on his person. So Satan went out from the presence of the Lord.”
1. When your protective hedge is broken.
2. Whenever you disobey God.
3. Whenever you rebel against servants of God or any constituted authority
over your life.
4. Whenever you are involved in worldliness.
5. Whenever you commit sins.
6. Whenever you prospect help from the dark kingdom.
7. Whenever you let down your guard and you are not vigilant.
8. Whenever you are careless and carefree.
9. Friendship or Flirtation with ungodly people.
10. When your environment is spiritually polluted or desecrated.
8.SYMPTOMS NOTICED WHEN UNDER SEPENTINE ATTACKS
1. Serial Serpentine Dreams
2. Feeling serpentine presence
3. Snake attacks in your dreams and physically
4. Marriage or strange association with snakes in the spirit realm
5. Terrible diseases defying medication
6. Miserable lifestyle
7. Addiction to evil things
8. Demotion, Hatred, Avoidance
9. Investment ending in loses
10. Terrible mistakes & errors
11. Listening to wrong counsels
12. Fighting your helpers/benefactors
13. Inability to finish projects
14. Terrible failure at the edge of success.
15. Almost get there syndrome
16. Regular frustration and disappointment
17. Inordinate Sexual desires
18. Pride & Arrogance
19. Seductive Spirit
20. Crafty, cunning & deceptive
21. Rebellious
22. Destructive & Violence
23. Manipulative
24. Eaters of flesh & drinkers of blood
25. Communication with spirits
26. Aggression
27. Gossips & Keeps malice
9.WAYS OUT
1. Salvation
2. Consecrated life style
3. Be filled with the Holy Spirit
4. Go for deliverance
5. Watch and pray
PRAYERS
Songs:
1. All power, all power belongs to God.
2. Fire possess me, fire possess me, fire possess me, possess me.
Holy Ghost fire, possess me.
3. There is power mighty in the blood/2ce
There is power mighty in the blood of Jesus Christ
There is power mighty in the blood.
1. Luke 10 v 19 (KJV)
“Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you.”
By the authority in the name of Jesus, every serpentine power assigned against me, my family, my work, be destroyed by fire in Jesus name.
2. Serpentine altars disturbing my welfare, my family and my work, scatter by fire in Jesus name.
3. Serpentine arrows fired into my life to injure my destiny backfire in Jesus name.
4. Serpentine related dreams and visions that trigger oppression in my life, my home and my work, be nullified by the Blood of Jesus in Jesus name.
5. Serpentine mandates, renewing afflictions in my life, home & work, be cancelled in Jesus name.
6. Any unknown connection between my life and Serpentine power, break by fire in Jesus name.
7. Any unknown connection between my family and serpentine power, break by fire in Jesus name.
8. Any unknown connection between my work and Serpentine power, break by fire in Jesus name.
9. Any unknown connection between my environment and Serpentine power, break by fire in Jesus name.
10. Any unknown covenant between serpentine power and my welfare, blood of Jesus, cancel it in Jesus name.
11. Any Serpentine route into my life, home, family and work in the spirit realm, be closed by the blood of Jesus in Jesus name.
12. Serpent of poverty, delay, troubles, disappointment, frustration, repeated affliction assigned against my welfare, be roasted by fire in Jesus name.
13. ………………………………… stop by fire now in Jesus name.
a. Serpentine disturbances against me, my family and my progress.
b. Serpentine warfare against me, my family and my progress.
c. Serpentine dream afflictions in my life.
d. Serpentine attacks in the spirit realm against me, my family and my work.
e. Any Serpentine fire burning in my life, family and work.
f. Serpentine rage against me, my family and my progress.
g. Serpentine monitoring fashioned against me, my family and my progress.
14. I plead the blood of Jesus upon my life, my future, my family, my business and all that concerns me in Jesus name.
Thank the Lord for settled Calvary Victory over Serpentine power