Leviathan Spirit – Charis Wellness Ministries

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Leviathan spirit

The Leviathan spirit can hinder a believer’s deliverance and healing in soul and body. This demon is able to do so because God resists the proud but gives grace to the humble (James 4:6, 1 Peter 5:5). Proverbs 16:18 warns that pride leads to destruction, and Lucifer’s downfall was due to spiritual pride. (Isaiah 14:12-14). If you are struggling with Leviathan and cannot see it, your inner healing and deliverance may be blocked by this powerful force. It is important to humble yourself before God to receive His grace and overcome the influence of Leviathan.

WHO IS THIS “LEVIATHAN”?
Leviathan is a powerful demon that God addresses in His Word in Job 41: 1 to 34.

From this piece of Scripture, where God Himself speaks to Job, we learn that Leviathan is a spiritual being or a demon who:

Is a water spirit (since it apparently lives in water or in the sea)
Is a fierce and formidable spiritual creature, with terrible teeth
Wants to remain hidden (undetected)
Has rows of scales that are shut tight as with a seal – no air can come in between
Blows fire and smoke from his mouth and nostrils (like a dragon)
Has a very strong and stiff neck
Is very strong, also in his heart (or very being) – i.e. stubborn
Approaches us softly and subtly when he initially makes his appeal to us
Intimidates and instils fear in everyone that come across
Cannot be fought against and overcome with human weapons
Creates boiling and unrest
Is totally fearless and defiant
Is the king of pride and of all the children of pride

CHARACTERISTICS OF LEVIATHAN
When you discern some or all of these to be present in a child of God, or any situation, you may be sure that Leviathan is one of the power demons at play:

Pride – me, myself, and I (the unholy trinity)
Arrogance, inflated ego, haughtiness, jealousy, vanity, seduction, superiority, fearlessness, stubbornness
Talking “down” to people and using people for their own selfish interest
Nobody can be trusted – I rely only on myself and my own reason (I am my own source of authority)
Spiritual pride – Spirit-filled Christians get so ‘chuffed’ with the piece of revelation or truth that they have received (or with their calling) that they become inflated with spiritual pride.
Spiritual jealousy – when believers become jealous upon each other’s spiritual gifts and starts to compete with each other
Deceit – keeps people in self-deception
It opposes the glory of God – he wants to confuse, distract, and destroy
It causes chaos and wants to disrupt Godly order and discipline
It blinds people – closes their spiritual eyes and ears to the truth – results in denial – they usually cannot see their own bondage and spiritual captivity (whilst often everybody around them can clearly see it)
Anger, irritability, impatience, intolerance, and resentment
Its approach is slow but sure (as a crocodile that approaches you under the water)
Targets relationships, wants to divide and separate and does not want us to be connected to each other (Strife – Proverbs 28:25, 1Tim. 6:4)
Will always try to twist the truth that is said – you say one thing but the person with Leviathan hears another thing (miscommunication)
Wants to block you spiritually, hide Godly revelation from you – people become “spiritually disabled” (shuts out completely the working of the Holy Spirit). Tries to stop your spiritual growth and the free flow of the Holy Spirit.
Does not want us to have real intimacy with Jesus.
It blocks or poisons your spiritual gifts: Prophetic word becomes polluted, and it may even give false tongues!
Injects poison of self-pity and wants the person to blame others and not to take his/her own responsibility
Self-righteousness – blames God and everybody else for what goes wrong in our lives
A ‘know-it-all’ mentality and unteachableness
Self-serving agenda – get your identity and validation out of what you do for God and not from who you are in Christ (therefore collaborates with the spirits of Legalism and Religion)
Wants to promote you ahead of God’s leading and timing
May cause (or attribute to) sleeplessness (insomnia), restlessness, irritability, and tiredness as well as overall fatigue and burn-out
Sometimes causes painful stiffness in the neck and shoulder region (especially when challenged).

Leviathan almost always works with Jezebel – controlling and possessive behaviour

May cause learning disabilities in children
Its chief job is to block deliverance and healing and therefore it also heavily opposes the deliverance ministry. It tells pastors and others in the churches that Christians cannot have demons
A cutting and critical tongue – gossips about people and easily judges people (especially those in the deliverance ministry). Also wants to stir others up in the same way
Always quarrelling, being contentious (Proverbs 13:10)
Argumentativeness – always arguing and wanting to always prove that they are right (must have the last word)
Rejects dependence upon and total submission to God
If it cannot keep you in pride, it takes you into self-pity, condemnation, and guilt
It causes a false humility
It creates a false peace – Often people who are in the grip of Leviathan will not be aware of anything that are wrong in their lives, since Leviathan creates a false peace, which is not of God
Intellectualism and rationalisation – People infected with Leviathan will always try to argue intellectually about everything and they are almost unable to spiritually discern and understand spiritual things – to them it has to be rationalised and if it cannot be rationalised, it simply cannot exist (similar than the Sadducees in Biblical times)
Unable to grasp that a woman may have a separate and distinct calling in Jesus Christ than that of her husband
Gives way to a spirit of heaviness and distress that ultimately leads to depression and despair

How do you get rid of this Leviathan?