I have watched as a woman manipulated and seduced until it
was clearly not working, and then saw her turn into an angry,
sarcastic, scornful, and arrogant shell who spit out shame and
shredded any remaining ego in her husband. To add insult to
injury, she later told me, “It was for his own good.”
it. What will a statement like that look like in ten or twenty years?
And what effects will an attitude like that have on a marriage?
Satan is so subtle, and I really believe he has read the Bible because
of the tactics he uses. For example, in our culture it is almost
taboo to talk about headship order or women’s submission to
men. The first quote I always hear is, “In Christ there is neither
male nor female.” Praise God! I exult in that reality every single
day when I enter into His presence! But ladies, somewhere,
sometime, somehow we also have to reckon with the fact that the
same God who in the Spirit made us neither male nor female, did
create us by His own design to function best and be most fulfilled
when aligned with His order of authority. Now before you begin
throwing stones at me, take a deep breath and consider: if God
Himself says something, why am I reacting against it? What is
churning inside me, and where is it coming from? I assure you
that is not a merely human response.
B. ASSIGNED TO MANIPULATE AND
GAIN CONTROL BY WHATEVER MEANS
POSSIBLE
Through the years I have often thought that surely I have seen
all the “whatever means possible,” only to have even more come
along. This spirit loves to be seen but hates to be identified! It
will preen and flatter you, but if you dare to call it what it is, it
will quickly duck for cover. The matriarchal/Jezebel spirit uses
seduction, womanly wiles, or sexual means to control men. If
those don’t work, it uses shame and sarcasm, scorn and arrogance.
This spirit specifically targets the weak and the wounded, the
hurt, rebellious and rejected. It uses flattery, smooth words,
“prophecies” and tears to seduce these targets out from under
authority.
D. ASSIGNED TO DESTROY AND BLOCK
THE SOFT, NURTURING LOVE OF A
MOTHER IN ORDER TO:
1. Wound the children
2. Destroy the marriage
C. ASSIGNED TO DESTROY THE ORDER
GOD SET UP: GOD – CHRIST – MAN –
WOMAN
This is a huge problem in our world today. I was once speaking
about the matriarchal spirit at a ladies’ retreat when a woman
in the audience interrupted me and began refuting what I had
been saying. I was a little taken aback, but since we live in a
free country, she had the right to speak, so I simply prayed for
direction. I felt very clearly I was not to challenge her, so when
she finished I thanked her and continued on. In a very short time
she interrupted again, and this time I saw a very clear picture
in my spirit of this lady with a bucket of whitewash trying
desperately to paint white what I had just exposed as black. She
ended by asking me how