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The HITTITE Spirit
“Spirits of Fear, Terror, and Discouragement”
Just as we said last week…it is very important to understand how
each of these 7 spirits operates in order to recognize if our hearts are
currently “infected” with any of them…and so that we can recognize
them in the hearts of other people too…
When you can understand how these spirits work in a person or in a
group of people…then we can start the process of resisting their
stranglehold on us and then conquer them like God told us to do!
We are learning how these spiritual forces operate and how to deal
with them….we’re not learning really how to “cast out a demon” but
more along the lines of understanding how these spirits behave so
we can discern more easily why and in whom, these forces are
operating…
The sad thing is…these spirits tend to operate within the Body of
Christ…yuck! We have to remember that we “do not battle against
the flesh, but against principalities, powers, rulers of the darkness of
this world.” Ephesians 6:12
These spirits are very real…and their effects on our lives can be
devastating…so it’s important to know how they operate
The word “HITTITE” literally means “sons of terror”….the Hittites
were descendants of Noah’s great-grandson Heth, whose name
means “terror”
TERROR refers to “an extreme manifestation of fear, and is always
related to the element of MYSTERY”
EX of TERROR: You may be afraid of a live wire because you
KNOW that enough electricity is running through it to hurt you if you
touch it…but this ISN’T terror…..TERROR is when you are walking all
alone at night and you DON’T KNOW if someone is going to jump out
and attack you…
TERROR is related to the UNKNOWN….
EX: a serial killer is loose in your neighborhood and you DON’T
KNOW if you are his next target…
Since terror is related to the unknown…it has to do with things YOUR
MIND CANNOT SEE….terror is more EMOTIONAL than
MENTAL….it’s based more on what your emotions “hear” than on
what your mind can see
TERROR is, of course, where we get the word TERRORIST
from…TERRORISM means: A manifestation of fear; a literal fear of
an unknown happening; a SECRECY planned and carried out with
the aim to create panic and confusion among the unsuspecting
Our minds prefer it when all is right with the world….when law and
order is around…when we can count on something….when we know
we can “trust” things to work for our well-being…
BUT…when FEAR comes along and attacks our minds…rationality
goes out of the window and PANIC sets in. When PANIC and FEAR
sets in…we start reacting to things IRRATIONALLY!.....this is exactly
the type of ground that the Hittite spirit loves!
When we start acting irrationally….we need to remember and
SPEAK OUT what the Word of God says to us about fear and
terror…
Psalm 27:1 “The Lord is my Light and my Salvation--whom shall I
fear or dread? The Lord is the Refuge and Stronghold of my life--of
whom shall I be afraid?”
Isaiah 35:5 “Say to those who are of a fearful and hasty heart, Be
strong, fear not! Behold, your God will come with vengeance; with the
recompense of God He will come and save you.”
Isaiah 41:10 “Fear not [there is nothing to fear], for I am with you; do
not look around you in terror and be dismayed, for I am your God. I
will strengthen and harden you to difficulties, yes, I will help you; yes,
I will hold you up and retain you with My [victorious] right hand of
rightness and justice.”
2 Timothy 1:7 “For God did not give us a spirit of timidity (of
cowardice, of craven and cringing and fawning fear), but [He has
given us a spirit] of power and of love and of calm and well-balanced
mind and discipline and self-control.”
Hebrews 13:6 “So we take comfort and are encouraged and
confidently and boldly say, The Lord is my Helper; I will not be seized
with alarm [I will not fear or dread or be terrified]. What can man do to
me?”
This evil spirit does NOT want you to remember these promises that
God has given us in His Word!!!!
The Hittite spirit….which is extreme fear of the unknown…works
perfectly with the Girgashite spirit….remember how they are
earthly…no spiritual vision… Once your eyes are off of God and His
purpose…then you tend to fall back to your sensual (soulish) mind
and begin to operate only out of what you can see and hear from the
news, media, and newspapers in your environment…the
consequence is that fear grips your heart, worries set in and you soon
forget that faith does not work by sight…
2 Corinthians 5:7 “we live by faith, NOT by SIGHT.”
Because HITTITES are spirits of terror…they attack your
emotions…they are the spirit behind NIGHTMARES and non-rational
PHOBIAS such as claustrophobia, exaggerated fear of DOGS, and
fear of being in the DARK…
If you have ever suffered from one of these things…then you know
that terror produces a sense of DEEP EMOTIONAL DESPAIR AND
TORMENT….it can actually cause a desire not to live anymore
Because it relies on craftiness, secrecy and stealth in order to
maximize its attack…it is very hard to detect except by revelation by
the Holy Spirit…
HITTITE spirits are behind suicides…because it causes such a
sense of dread, despair, and torment….which all play heavily on the
mind
There are groups of people that operate in this spirit…EX: Groups
like Al-Qaeda and Hamas
The HITTITE spirit attacks our emotions….our brain is set up with 2
hemispheres…the right and the left….
SHORT SCIENCE LESSON: The RIGHT side of the brain is
associated with (LOGICAL REASONING): truth, law, limitations,
established truths, death, structure, seen, public openness, and
seeing…
The LEFT side of the brain is associated with (CREATIVE AND
INTUITIVE PROCESSES): spirit, grace, freedom, life, New unknown
truths, intuitive randomness, unseen, secrecy, and hearing…
So…..the MIND is on the RIGHT side of the soul and our
EMOTIONS are on the LEFT side of our soul…
Emotional people tend to be more creative than those who are by
nature logical thinkers…that’s why most singers, composers,
painters, and poets are emotional people…
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Another aspect of the “suicide” part of this spirit…the Hittite spirit
attacks the LEFT side of the brain…which also deals with grace and
secrecy…….one definition of GRACE:….seemingly effortless beauty
or charm
Physical beauty is a God-given gift…it is actually to draw people to
God’s beauty…not to you…
There is only so much of your “grace” or “beauty” that you should
expose in public
EX: Just like in Exodus 3:5 God tells Moses not to draw any closer
to the burning bush….God was not going to expose any more of
Himself until Moses COMMITTED to God’s calling for his life….you
see…Moses was drawn to the bush to “behold this great sight”……in
the same way…there are certain dimensions of your physical beauty
that MUST NOT be exposed in public.
There is a certain deep enjoyment of another person’s grace that can
only be done in intimacy that is covered in COMMITMENT…a
COVENANT….
EX: you can’t truly enjoy another person’s friendship until that
friendship reaches a level of trust where you can tell each other
secrets and share your deep thoughts and fears….
Exposing yourself like that to a stranger who has not entered into a
true friendship covenant with you would be SUICIDE…they would
turn on you and rip you to shreads….
EX: Spouses can enjoy each other’s physical beauty in a deep way
because they have such intimacy…they have a COVENANT….to do
this outside of a covenant is an act of SUICIDE….
Matthew 7:6 says you can’t throw your “holy things” (your inner
treasure) to the dogs and do not throw your pearls before pigs,
because they will trample on them and then try to destroy them….
When you expose yourself this way and you don’t have a
COVENANT…then this beauty loses its truth foundation and
becomes false beauty….it becomes totally LEFT sided with no
RIGHT side…that opens the door to the Hittite spirits ….
This is why men and women who improperly expose themselves
physically to other people end up having constant bouts with
DEPRESSSION, DESPAIR, and sometimes even SUICIDE.
This is why propsitutes usually become drug addicts in their quest to
flee from the torment of the Hittite spirits that they have opened the
door to by their constant exposing of intimate beauty without
demanding a COVENANT in truth.
This is also why many congregations have lost their TRUE prophetic
anointing…because young “women” or “sisters” go around the
congregation wearing low-rise pants or low-cut shirts or short tight
skirts or other provocative clothes…exposing their physical grace in
public, and that in turns draws Hittite spirits that slowly suck up the
true prophetic anointing in their own lives and the lives of those in the
congregation!!!!!!!! WOW!!!! DO YOU GET THIS!!!!! How important
is it for you to DRESS DECENTLY!!!!
Do you see how the devil has even come in to our fashion culture to
zap out this generation when it comes to the prophetic!!!!!! He knows
what he is doing…..BUT do WE realize it!!!!!
Two studies I was reading said that if you have a strong
PROPHETIC CALLING on your life…you are likely to be attacked by
this spirit….by the spirit that causes despair or emotional and mental
attacks…on the outside the prophetic person may seem to have it
together…but often those in the prophetic will tell how they are often
under mental attacks by the enemy…but through Christ you can
stand strong and defeat this spirit! Your “standing strong” helps to
produce incredibly major victories in the spiritual realm that bless and
liberate many people!
Because of our fear of our “personal self” being hurt…we actually put
up barriers in our minds to protect ourselves from anyone or anything
that would inflict inward pain….some of these barriers are:
PROCRASTINATION OVER DECISION-MAKING…or a REFUSAL
TO CONFRONT ISSUES AND DEAL WITH THEM…or putting up a
wall of “coldness” that hopes to protect us from people who would
hurt us…
A person who suffers from deep emotional despair usually falls into
states of DEEP DEPRESSION AND SADNESS…if you ever look into
a person’s eyes and you can see a sense of deep sadness and
despair…you are looking into the eyes of a person under Hittite
attack
Since HITTITE spirits prey on people’s emotions…they like to stay in
the dark and remain unseen to the mind…they WHISPER
SPECULATIONS into the person’s emotions…this means that people
who have the nasty habit of spreading rumors and speculations are
people who hang on to the Hittite spirit in their hearts…YUCK!
The HITTITE-spirit prefers to HIDE itself….it often disguises itself as
a “FRIEND” rather than “FOE”…..which is exactly the mode that
terrorists operate in…..
Look at this example from the BIBLE….
2 Chronicles 18:28-29 “And the king of Israel went up, and
Jehoshaphat the king of Judah, to Ramoth-gilead. And the king of
Israel said to Jehoshaphat, I WILL DISGUISE MYSELF, and go into
battle; and you put on your robes. AND THE KING OF ISRAEL
DISGUISED HIMSELF. And they went into battle.”
When you read the whole entire thing in 2 Chronicles 18….we find
that: (READ IT!)
o Ahab (the king of Israel…bad guy) and Jehoshaphat (the king of
Judah…a righteous king who sometimes hung out with the wrong
crowd) go into battle against the revelation of God (v. 16)…but
God…knowing their hearts gives them what they have already
decided to do
o In an attempt to keep the outcome that the prophet Micaiah said
would happen Ahab chose to disguise himself
o (Ahab always hated Micaiah because this prophet always prophesied
the TRUTH…Ahab would rather listen to the other prophets that were
FALSE PROPHETS…they were more concerned with pleasing Ahab
than saying what God wanted them to say….they were “real
prophets”…they had a real prophetic calling on their lives…but they
did not abide in TRUTH..so everything they prophesied was lies)
o Notice in v. 23 Zedekiah slapped Micaiah and asked him, “When did
the Spirit of the Lord go from me to you?”…..this means that
Zedekiah…who had a legitimate prophetic calling…actually felt some
type of spiritual presence flowing through him as he prophesied…and
he thought that this presence was God…BUT Zedekiah’s heart
wasn’t right…it was not set on God’s TRUTH and God’s
JUDGMENT…he wanted to speak to please Ahab so it was a spirit of
DECEIT that God allowed him to be exposed to….when God sees
you placing your FAITH in your EMOTIONS and not on His
truth…Get ready…cause those EMOTIONS will deceive you….Don’t
idolize your emotions…Don’t put the “left” side before the ‘right” side
o Ahab even uses Jehoshaphat as bait by asking him to wear his royal
robes into the battle while he (Ahab) puts on a simple soldier’s outfit
o Against all odds (because the Lord is sovereign even in this
battle)…Jehoshaphat escapes death (v. 32) while Ahab, even though
disguised…cannot escape the Lord’s hand
o The end of the whole thing happens when a lone Syrian archer fires a
RANDOM SHOT which “just happens to kill Ahab”
o SIDENOTE: Just as Hittites can shoot arrows from the dark…God’s
prophetic people can shoot prophetic words into the atmosphere and
impact distant places…that is actually what we are called to do!
Check out how exactly Ahab ends his life…he wanted to be hidden in
battle…but he ends his life propped up in a chariot away from the
battlefield (v.33-34) His PROUD HITTITE spirit still wants to stand
up…even if he has to be propped up to do it…
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Can you see the Hittite spirit in Ahab…pride, hiddenness, secrecy,
disguising himself…
The HITTITE spirit might plan in the dark…but it will eventually come
out in the light of God and He WILL deal with it!
God’s Word and God’s Truth will find you out!....so those who use
secrecy, who practice deceit, who would try to shut up the prophetic,
and who misuse others for their own gain…are siding with the Hittite
spirit
God often works against His adversaries by coming “in the opposite
spirit”….so He deals with it by Prophetic Truth since Prophecy and
Truth are very opposite to FALSE SPEECH and DECEIT
This verse in Proverbs tells us that God provides the Church with
VISION through the PROPHETIC ANOINTING….
Proverbs 29:18 “Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he
that keeps the law, happy is he.”
But…when the Hittites enter a place…they try to pervert the
prophetic anointing because they have no regard for the RIGHT
side…the TRUTH side…..but this verse says that HAPPY is he that
KEEPS THE LAW….so the way to stop the Hittite vision-robbing spirit
is GOD’S LAW!!!!
That is why God has told us to keep the WORD before us and in our
hearts at all times…..as you stand on the Word of God…the
TRUTH…the Hittite spirit is driven away….it cannot survive in the
TRUTH of God’s WORD!
The Hittite spirit can be found in those who practice:
o Gossip and slander
o Those who abuse others by use of words and speech
o Inordinate desire to keep secrets
o Those who terrorize others in whatever form it may take
o Rumor-starters who delight to instill fear and distress others
o Leaders who quench the Holy Spirit’s voice
o Those who try to discourage instead of encourage
o Undue criticism bent on controlling others
It can be found in those who suffer from:
o Phobias of all kinds
o Fear and mental torments
o Those who are melancholy in nature (a feeling of thoughtful sadness)
o Ongoing suicidal tendencies
o Long-term depression
o Irresponsibility and un-accountability
o Co-dependence on others as a way of escape
GOING INTO THE PROMISED LAND
Let’s go back to the children of Israel…..Moses has died and Joshua
is ready to begin leading them into the Promised Land…look at the
ONLY nation that the Lord mentions….it’s the HITTITES
Now hang with me….and let me show you what is happening…then
and NOW
The HITTITE spirit attacks our emotions….remember what we talked
about a few minutes ago: our brain is set up with 2
hemispheres…the right and the left….
The RIGHT side of the brain is associated with (LOGICAL
REASONING): truth, law, limitations, established truths, death,
structure, seen, public openness, and seeing…
The LEFT side of the brain is associated with (CREATIVE AND
INTUITIVE PROCESSES): spirit, grace, freedom, life, New unknown
truths, intuitive randomness, unseen, secrecy, and hearing…
So…..the MIND is on the RIGHT side of the soul and our
EMOTIONS are on the LEFT side of our soul
Remember that the Hittite spirit attacks the EMOTIONS…trying to
go unseen by the mind….
NOW that we got that straightened out….check out this Scripture…
Joshua 1:3-4 “Every place that the sole of your foot shall tread
upon, that have I given to you, as said unto Moses. From the
wilderness and this Lebanon even unto the great river, the river
Euphrates, all the land of the HITTITES, and unto the great sea
toward the going down of the sun, shall be your coast.”
When the Lord is speaking to Joshua…God first refers to the
“eastern” side of the Promised Land…the wilderness and “this
Lebanon”…all the way east to the Euphrates…which is modern day
Iraq.
Then God refers to the “western” side of the Promised Land…the
land of the Hittites…all the way to the Great Sea (which is the
Mediterranean Sea).
The land of the HITTITES is to the west….or the LEFT…
At first this may not seem like anything important…but God never
“puts” anything in the Bible just to put it there…could He have been
trying to tell us something through this….
What does the HITTITE spirit attack….the EMOTIONS…the LEFT
side of the brain…
The Hittite spirit likes to try to bypass the mind and slip in unseen….
Remember that the Old Testament is a “type and shadow” to the
New Testament…still very relevant for us today….
Just as they were PHSYICALLY going in to the Promised
Land…today we are SPIRITUALLY going in to take the Promised
Land and THINK ABOUT WHAT SPIRIT has reared its head up over
the past few years…..a spirit of suicide through a group called Al
Qaeda…..the spirit of the Hittites….
Where is Al Qaeda based out of…? The modern day Iraq…which is
the land of the Hittites which was called “this Lebanon, all the way
east to the Euphrates” in Bible times…
The Hittite spirit…a spirit of TERROR…that tries to slip in unseen to
the mind…that plays on the emotional left side of the brain…a spirit
very connected with suicide….
Remember when God said to “destroy them totally” way back in
Deuteronomy 7…..or they would “turn their sons and daughters away
from following Him”……isn’t it interesting that this Hittite spirit is so
active today!?
There is something going on in the SPIRITUAL ATMOSPHERE! The
time is coming to take back the spiritual PROMISED LAND
Since Hittites thrive where the “right side” is ignored….they are
automatically driven away when the right side is restored.
Hittites are sprits of CHOAS and DISORDER…they hate the
establishment of LAW and JUSTICE….This is why the Al Qaeda are
making such a concerted effort to cause chaos in Iraq and to prevent
the establishment of a just government.
It was God’s PROPHETIC PURPOSE for Saddam Hussein to be
toppled in Iraq…Hussein’s fall acts as a prophetic seed that will
unleash the fall of countless other “fame-seekers” (which is the
Amorite spirit) in the years to come…
The fall of Iraq is a prophetic figure of the fall of Babylon…like is
prophesied in Revelation 17 and 18…
This war has stirred up so much emotion because of the spiritual
ramifications that are going on with it…
The men and women who are giving their selves to serve and to
liberate Iraq are unleashing powerful spiritual consequences on the
Hittite spirit that will bless millions and millions of people in the years
ahead!
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When God told the Israelites to totally and completely defeat these
tribes…He was giving us incredible WISDOM in order to make our
lives so much more peaceful
Have you ever heard someone say “You can’t make peace with an
enemy who is not defeated”….cause what you end up with is a
“cease fire”….which just let’s the enemy regroup and attack another
day…..
Kinda like when you’re sick and the doctor gives you antibiotics and
you only take them for a few days…cause then you feel better…when
the instructions CLEARLY say to take ALL of the
antibiotics….WHY???? Because if you don’t…the sickness comes
back to haunt you again and cause you to get sick again…..
TAKE ALL YOUR MEDICINE!!!!.....Get rid of all the Hittite spirit in
your life!!!
As Christians we have traded victory for a false sense of peace that
later bubbles right back into our lives to wage battles and war
In our own homes we want peace…but we just get so weary and
tired…so we live in COMPROMISE…..ever been there?
COMPROMISE is the place that the enemy of our soul gives us rest
because we have given up the attack on his
kingdom…..lukewarm….remember this!?....YUCK!
Hittites represent fear and terror….don’t we find it so much easier to
avoid things that we fear …even if it is something we know the Lord is
calling us to do….
Some people have an intense fear of the unknown….so they become
a creature of habit…they get comfortable living in the land of
compromise…
We gotta realize that peace ONLY comes from God and not our mind
and intellect’s ability to reason our way back to comfort…
Don’t let fear stop you from doing what the Holy Spirit wants to do
through you and in you!
Just like Donny preached yesterday….you have to come up out of
Egypt…..you can only do this through your faith in OBEDIENCE!!!!!
It’s easier said than done….but GET UP and go kick some Hittite
butt!
REALIZE THESE THINGS:
We will be in a battle with Satan and his evil forces until we die. He
never quits and we should never quit. Satan counts on us being
quitters…..we must PERSIST!
The battle becomes more fierce as we are used more by
God…..however…the victories become greater and greater!
Satan comes to steal, kill and destroy…he works hard at his job. He
will take everything from you that you will let him have.
Satan is a good devil and works 24 hours a day at his job of
destroying you. We need to be as good at being Christian as Satan
is good at being evil.
You must learn what your condition is: mentally, physically,
spiritually and materially. You must learn WHY you got into that
condition so that you will not repeat the same mistakes.
God realizes that the human race is lazy. We want what God has for
us without having to put out much effort…that is why God requires us
to work at being Christians
Christians will never conquer the world for God in their present
condition without deliverance….to take the Promised Land…we must
get rid of the evil inhabitants in our lives
