My First Encounter

In the spring of 1996 I was absolutely on fire for the Lord. I was 25 years old, single and I had little else to do but work and seek the Lord. At that same time I was part of a home-group in Plano, TX. Those that attended our meetings were my roommate, my best friend and his wife, two other families from my previous church and occasionally others that knew people in our group. All in all we consistently had about 10 adults in the group.

We normally met on Saturday nights and on one particular Saturday my aforementioned best friend had flown to Albuquerque to see the man whom God was establishing in my life and his life as our pastor for that season (I would later move to Albuquerque, partly for this reason). Yet, at this meeting I found myself doing the teaching for the weekly meetings on an on-and-off basis.

Yet during this particular week, a few days before our nightly meeting, all of the men in the group met over at my house and we jointly decided that we would address "foundational matters." All of the men, on behalf of their families, agreed that this was what God wanted us to do. So here comes Saturday night and we think we have some direction. Everyone "seems" to be in agreement.

Saturday night rolls around and everyone shows up. We worship, pray and when we go to start the time of teaching I just began to briefly address the group, all of the man and their wives, about what the men believed we were supposed to be doing in the time of teaching. And all of the sudden the alpha female in the room stands up and starts pointing her finger at me and correcting me from across the room. She starts asking me who I think I am to be telling anyone that we need to address foundational matters. She took what I said completely out of context, judged my motives as being wicked and controlling, and started standing up and publicly rebuking me in front of a room full of people.

I was stunned. I didn't know what to say at first and so I looked at her husband and the other men in the room and all of them, minus my best friend whose in Albuquerque, just sat back in their chairs and didn't say a word. I looked at this lady's husband and he wouldn't even make eye contact with me. I was doing what all of the men agreed to do and suddenly I was being attacked.

Meanwhile, back at the ranch in Albuquerque, that same Saturday morning, roughly 12 hours before this quagmire started, my pastor woke up to go about his day. Saturday nights were also the nights when our pastor held meetings in his home. And that same Saturday morning, when he awoke, the Lord very clearly spoke to him and said, "I want you to teach on 1 Timothy 2:12."

That was all he heard. So roughly 12 hours later, while I am in Dallas losing weight, my pastor is conducting his group. And instead of teaching on 1 Timothy 2:12 as the Lord had shown him earlier in the day, he ends up going in a totally different direction. He later recounted to me that when he tried to teach on the previous verse it just wouldn't come out of his heart. As he prayed and talked to the Lord he got a totally different direction for his group. This left him a little unsettled thinking he hadn't heard the Lord earlier.

Well, as the story goes, my best friend's wife who was also at our meeting in Plano, TX that night called my best friend the next morning and said, "You better call Jay. He needs to talk with Ron." So I get a phone call the next morning from my friend and he puts our pastor on the phone, I tell him what happened and he said to me, "Ah, now I understand. Grab your Bible."

"I do not permit a woman to teach or to have authority over a man; she must be silent." 1 Tim 2:12

This was my first contact with this spirit in a woman. I had no idea what I was dealing with at the time. But since then the Lord has given me a broad education in dealing with this demon. In his book the Three Battlegrounds, Francis Frangipane states that, "...this spirit is without gender, yet prefers to work through women because of the uniqueness of the female psyche in its ability to manipulate without physical force."

I have also seen this spirit operate in men, not just women. But most of the time it operates through various women. The spirit I am referring to is the Jezebel spirit. Keep reading the next post below. I have more to share with you.................