Today’s Reading:
Proverbs 4
Proverbs 5
2 Kings 9
Isaiah 54
Listen to me, my son, for I know what I’m talking about. Listen carefully to my advice so that wisdom and discernment will enter your heart, and then the words you speak will express what you’ve learned. Remember this: The lips of a seductress seem sweet like honey, and her smooth words are like music in your ears. But I promise you this: In the end all you’ll be left with is a bitter conscience. For the sting of your sin will pierce your soul like a sword.
Proverbs 5:1-4 TPT
I heard the Spirit of the Living Holy God say,
I have direct knowledge and ongoing knowledge of the very private personal details behind the sickeningly sweet speech that churns up trouble and cuts like a sword to produce war. Her name is Jezebel. She is the prostitute warned against in My Word. Her overtures and invitations are a trap that will stir up war within you. If you are not quick to get loose from her grip, she will certainly even set you at war against Me. That’s a dangerous place to be.
She will ruin your life, drag you down to death, and lead you straight to hell. She has prevented many from considering the paths of life. Yes, she will take you with her where you don’t want to go, sliding down a slippery road and not even realizing where the two of you will end up!
Proverbs 5:45-6 TPT
I have full and ongoing knowledge of her strategies, her plans and her alluring mechanisms. She will always leave you wanting more. She will always leave you feeling hollow, dirty and unsatisfied.
Listen to me, young men, and don’t forget this one thing I’m telling you— run away from her as fast as you can! Don’t even go near the door of her house unless you want to fall into her seduction. In disgrace you will relinquish your honor to another, and all your remaining years will be squandered— given over to the cruel one. Why would you let strangers take away your strength while the labors of your house go to someone else?
Proverbs 5:7-10 TPT
Reject the whore who tempts many good men. Don’t even look in her direction. If you see her in your path, re-route and continue on with your business by another way. She lures you in to speak gossip against My people. You aren’t even aware that you are taking part in her witchcraft and evil incantations to harm your brothers, your sisters and yourself. She draws you into bad business deals with her greed. With her it is always a get rich quick scheme that steals from you and then vanishes into thin air. She comes to undercut relationships with your family. She undermines the voice of truth and your authority. She seeks to divide, and she echoes Satan’s ancient words, “did the Lord really say?”
No weapon that is formed against you will prosper; And every tongue that accuses you in judgment you will condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord, And their vindication is from Me,” declares the Lord.
Isaiah 54:17 NASB1995
She is a vile creature, a whore, a liar and a thief. Run away from her. Reject her. Do not engage her. And condemn her voice of allure and accusation. If she cannot tempt you with her sickeningly sweet overtures, she will attack, as a woman scorned is wont to do. Reject the whore. Condemn the voice of accusation, and go about your business by another way.
When Jehu came to Jezreel, Jezebel heard of it, and she painted her eyes and adorned her head and looked out the window. As Jehu entered the gate, she said, “Is it well, Zimri, your master’s murderer?” Then he lifted up his face to the window and said, “Who is on my side? Who?” And two or three officials looked down at him. He said, “Throw her down.” So they threw her down, and some of her blood was sprinkled on the wall and on the horses, and he trampled her under foot. When he came in, he ate and drank; and he said, “See now to this cursed woman and bury her, for she is a king’s daughter.” They went to bury her, but they found nothing more of her than the skull and the feet and the palms of her hands. Therefore they returned and told him. And he said, “This is the word of the Lord, which He spoke by His servant Elijah the Tishbite, saying, ‘In the property of Jezreel the dogs shall eat the flesh of Jezebel; and the corpse of Jezebel will be as dung on the face of the field in the property of Jezreel, so they cannot say, “This is Jezebel.” ’
2 Kings 9:30-37 NASB1995
I Am sending Jehu. Lord. I Am sending the eunuchs to remove her wicked presence from the scene. She will be food for dogs again in your day. Reject the whore. Condemn the liar and the accuser, and go about your business by another way.
How to Respond
- Ask the Lord for eyes to see and to discern the spiritual forces around you and in your path.
- Pray, Father help me. I don’t want to fall into Jezebel’s traps. I want to be busy about Your business and not entangled in schemes, gossip or sin of any kind. I have eyes for You only. Help me to keep my hands and lips clean and my heart pure. If I am approached by the Jezebel spirit, show me my escape and if needed — give me the words to shut down any overtures that would stir up war within me, in my relationships or with You.
- Declare, I will set my gaze on the path before me. With fixed purpose, looking straight ahead, I will ignore life’s distractions. I will watch where I’m going! I will stick to the path of truth, and the road will be safe and smooth before me. I won’t allow myself to be sidetracked for even a moment or take the detour that leads to darkness. — adapted from Proverbs 4:25-27 TPT
- Decree, This is a time to be on guard against the overtures of Jezebel. I will reject and avoid any temptation to gossip, make improper gains, believe lies or fall into sin of any kind. My family and I will recognize this spirit for what it is,and we will go about our business by another way. We will condemn the voice of accusation directly. The Lord is sending Jehu and the eunuchs to remove this lying prostituting spirit from the scene.
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