Mercy Culture Church

God is requiring the fruit of faithfulness!

Faithfulness is continual faith and trust in God.

aman = to confirm, support, believe, trust, be faithful.

The fruit of faithfulness is produced when we are trustworthy to the Lord!

How do you know what you are faithful to?

Practical Advice: Ask God, “Is this your will?”

God looks for faithfulness in you:

His Word
His House
His Spiritual Leaders
The Trinity; Father, Son and Holy Spirit

Question: What will keep you from bearing the fruit of faithfulness?
Answer: Satan and his demons!

puthón: Python, spirit of divination, witchcraft.

Because the spirit of divination is jealous of God. He is jealous of His platform, His following, His people, so he tries to put himself on the same platform as God’s voice to steal God’s followers.

Toxic empathy will become the open door for lies to plant in you heart and birth deception leading you into unity with the spirit of python!

So what did the people do that were once listening to the Gospel be preached by Paul? What does the crowd that was once following the truth, hearing the truth, now begin to do?!

Python usurped the platform in their hearts away from the message of Christ!

Characteristics of the Spirit of Python:

Constrict: Pythons wrap around their prey and squeeze. This spirit makes you feels like you are short of breath, makes it hard to breathe, feels like pressure on your chest with anxiety, extreme lack of energy/always exhausted. Literally like the life is being squeezed out of you.

Warning: This will become the excuse to not obey God, what He has told you to do, nor spend time with Him because; “You’re too tired, you don’t feel good, you’re always sick.” You are victim to a spirit, but instead of recognizing that to overcome it and take victory by the blood of Jesus, you can begin to walk into a victim mentality.

Confusion: comes on strong, you don’t know what is the truth and what is a lie. Lies start sounding like the truth. The lies you once knew were lies, now you begin to meditate on. This is divination and falsehood at work. It muddies the truth until you believe the lie. It twists, distorts and manipulates the Bible and prophecy to support the lies of divination. It will also accuse others of what they are/operate in. They have a ministry of: Fault Finding, this is demonic! It will hypocritically call out others’ sin or make it up or use past sin or even partial truths to paint a big lie, when itself is full of darkness. It will overlook some peoples’ sin as long as they will help exploit someone else they hate. This is the confusion it spins, to get you trusting the wrong the people and get broken trust in you for the right people you should trust. It will also brew confusion by making you feel guilty for doing what God called you to do. It will try to push its own agenda on you, how it wants you to operate like a pastor, how it feels like you should be a mom or a dad, and if you don’t, you’re a bad pastor, you’re a bad mom or dad! It brings guilt to bring your Godly confidence down to get you to be unfaithful to God and faithful to it!

Deception: It will demean/mock/enlighten you about other leaders in your life to get you to be unsubmitted to the them and your full loyalty to it! This demonic spirit slowly works you into following it through false humility and deceptive lies, slowly wraps itself around you to separate you from Christ, His house, His spiritual leaders, His word and Presence. You may feel “better” as you give into it, believing you are right and others that are trying to warn you are wrong. When you listen to its deception, who eat of its poisonous fruit and cannot see truth anymore, you only see through deception. (Eve!) The worst thing about deception, YOU DON’T SEE IT! You have already allowed words of divination through itching ears or empathy to sin and witchcraft in!

Rebellion: False confidence comes upon you as youbecome unsubmitted, unplanted, or turn from being a faithful one to an unfaithful one. You will begin to operate in self-righteousness, or what is right in your eyes instead of what is right in God’s eyes. With this rebellion will be false humility, “you really loved the best you could,”“tried the hardest you could to stay submitted/to stay faithful to that church,”or “to your spouse,” “to that call,” but unfortunately, they just wouldn’t listen to the “wisdom and discernment in you” so therefore “you have to leave to stay faithful to God.” It will make you feel comfortable and right in your rebellion! In fact, it will deceive you into believing your rebellion is righteous! It will make you stubborn in your stance, uncorrectable, unforgiving, and refusing to hear or see the true perspective. It will make you feel comfortable and right in your rebellion! In fact, it will deceive you into believing your rebellion is righteous! You will be driven to do what you think is best! REBELLION IS WITCHCRAFT!

Jealousy: IT WANTS TO BE ON THE SAME PLATFORM AS GOD! It wants to be the highest people in authorities’ equal. It desires position over presence. It wants more and more time because it desires attention with people instead of intimacy with God.Its jealous of others’ success, spiritual growth, the churches’ growth, anointing on other people or other ministries. It envies what’s happening in other places/peoples lives/ministries instead of celebrating it. It is filled with pride, it cannot humbly serve others, they must be positioned or honored in higher places or there will be manifestations. This spirit will attack faithful and those in pursuit of holiness and righteousness because its jealous of their faithfulness to the Lord!

Division: IT WILL MAKE YOU FEEL CONFIDENT IN UNFAITHFULNESS. The Spirit of Python or Divination, comes to divide you from Christ and what Christ loves! Both the spirit of Jezebel and python operate through witchcraft, sooth saying words, words of slander, gossip, dissention yet dressed with honey. It manipulates and twists the word of God. It comes to enlighten you, see a perspective you have never seen before to get your heart, mind and spirit to turn to it and away from God, His Spiritual Leaders, His word and His House! It comes to bringdivisions in the church because it wants you to leave the church, stop worshipping, stop serving, stop reading your word, stop doing anything that brings you LIFE. It comes to devour the Godly fruit in your life so that you produce fake fruit, through deception that you think God will accept!Not realizing you just fell into the trap of the python spirit, to isolate you, to squeeze the life out of you until you have fully fallen from intimacy with God and become intimate with that demon, thinking it’s the Lord!

Its goal is to separate you from Christ and win over your faithfulness so you will be unfaithful to God!

yiddeoni: Medium, spiritist, wizard.
Derived from the root יָדַע (yada), meaning "to know."

Deception produces fake fruit!

Open doors to Spirit of Python:
Desperation, Compromise, Offense, Empathy to sin or the culture of the world, Gossip and Slander, Pride, Unforgiveness, Bitterness, Sin (slavery to sin), New Age Practices/The Occult,Listening to false prophets/lies/falsehood who operate in this spirit!

When you listen to the words of witchcraft, they are seeds planted in you whether you know they were or not and they will produce rotten or fake fruit in your life at some point!

Unless repented of!

Jesus is saying: Those that stay faithful to Me, I will in turn stay faithful to them and give Myself (My presence, My power, My authority) to them!

True faithfulness does not usually produce the most beautiful and simple life on this earth!

Faithfulness usually produces pit and prison seasons, accusations and warfare, unpopularity and persecution that requires true faithfulness!

Many think faithfulness brings earthly rewards, but it is the opposite, faithfulness produces eternal rewards!

Many think faithfulness brings earthly rewards, but it is the opposite, faithfulness produces eternal rewards!

The faithful ones are not the perfect servants!
The faithful ones are those that stay servants!

The intimacy of Moses with God is what kept him faithful to God and God faithful to Moses!

God’s faithfulness surpasses our faithfulness!

This is the goal, that one day, I have pleased my King so much, it's His joy to invite me in and say, “Well done, my good and faithful servant!”

God is requiring the fruit of faithfulness!

How do we transition from bearing fake fruit to good fruit?

1. Abiding in the Lord

You abide in your daily encounters with the Lord!

2. Repentance