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Warring Against the Python

Here at Take His Heart we try to be led by the Holy Spirit the best we can as we come against the Python in people's lives. Most of the time we start by giving Jesus praise, thanking Him, that He is the deliverer and healer, etc. We normally lift up the person before Him and wait for specific instruction, although I have personally taken authority over the Python in Jesus' name - dealing with it directly. In other words, I just got after the spirit  because it was manifesting and I had become disgusted with it.
I usually say something like this, speaking to the spirit itself. "In the name of Jesus Christ, Python, I break your power and all your cohort’s power (or I render you  powerless) in ----'s life. In Jesus name I charge you to come out, stay out. I spoil your fruit and destroy your goods, in Jesus' name, and I thank You, Jesus, for seeing to it the fruit (goods) of the Python is destroyed in ____'s mind and life. I call forth truth and declare that they see what they haven't been able to see and they hear what they haven't been able to hear. I call forth truth, I call it forth into their life and into the earth.”
As a group, we usually say most of the above in some way. There are three things that should be done.

(1) Break the power of the Python and it’s cohorts. 
(2) It must be called out.
(3) You ask the Lord to spoil its fruit (goods) and call forth truth into the person's life.

Interestingly, at a recent prayer meeting I knew we were to pray for a specific family whose husband/dad was controlled by a religious spirit (Python). The Holy Spirit had been dealing with me all day to say something I have never said when warring against the Python. These are not the exact words but you will get the message I was being given by the Holy Spirit. I have underlined it. "In the name of Jesus I break the power of the Python in ----'s life! I charge you to come out, you worker of unrighteousness! You are not to return into this man!"

God never does anything or says anything without a purpose. There was purpose in having me say, "You worker of unrighteousness," at that time. Was it that God wanted to bring something (a truth) to our attention? The religious spirit does appear righteous in religious circles but in fact works unrighteousness. From what I know about this particular man we were praying for, he certainly has been working unrighteousness in family matters, being deceived by what he thinks the Bible says. The point is that it is the Python manifesting this in him; it is not the man himself.

Jesus cast a deaf and dumb spirit out of a man who could not help himself. People who are controlled by the Python cannot help themselves either. It takes Jesus and His coworkers here on earth who have understanding to address the problem.

I have had Christians share with me that the Lord told them they have a "Python spirit" or "familiar spirit," either directly or through someone else. The Lord is doing this because He wants His people cleaned up so they can consistently walk beside Him and not be dragged off the Lord’s path when this spirit starts functioning in his or her life.

Jesus loves these people and wants them set free. The thing to do is to walk beside Jesus as He brings it about always following the Holy Spirit when it comes to waring in the Spirit to gain deliverance. What I have presented Here is nothing but a guideline and God may have you do something different to accomplish a deliverance of any kind. The secret to success is obedience to what God says to do in any deliverance. God wants you to become a thorn in Satan's side. He recently told this group that we are a thorn in Satan's side. He didn't do this to bring attention to us but to tell us we were being effective. We are grateful for the encouragement from the Lord and the encouragement from the good reports we have received.

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