The Python Spirit Was Attacking Me…and I Had No Idea

0:01 Have you ever felt like something was slowly squeezing the life out of you, but you just couldn't figure out what it was? Hi, I'm Dr. Jamie Morgan. I've been in the ministry for over three decades. I mentor Holy Spiritfilled women to walk in God's call on their lives. And I need to tell you about the time that I was attacked by a python spirit. And I had absolutely no idea what was happening. And by the end of this video, you're going to know exactly how to recognize this python spirit when it tries to coil around your life and what to do to break free before it's too late. This video, by the way, is part of a video series that I'm doing on spiritual warfare. I'll leave the link to the playlist at the end of this video. So, here I was. I

0:48 was under severe spiritual attack unlike anything I had ever experienced before. It was coming at me from every direction, hitting me personally and hitting my ministry. But what made it so devastating was that it was specifically targeting my calling and my vision. I had just stepped out of one ministry assignment and into another, and the attack was absolutely relentless. Now, you need to know something about me. I'm not someone who sees a demon under every rock. Some struggles we face have roots that aren't demonic at all. But other times the root is absolutely demonic. So I did what I always do. I asked God to

1:35 show me the root cause of this particular attack. Oh, and he showed me. He answered me through two dreams. In the first dream, I was walking down a street and I saw this group of people standing around and I walked over and I asked, "What's going on?" And they said, "Oh, that's a boa constrictor." And I wasn't even as close to this snake as they were. But the moment that boa constrictor saw me, it reared up and struck me right above my right eye. Not on my eye, above my eye. Over my right eye. I was shocked. I thought, "What just happened to me?" I reached up and I felt my forehead. Before I could even

2:20 run, the snake struck me again. Same spot, right above my right eye. At this point, I ran to the people standing around and I was frantic. What's the antidote? I yelled. What's the antidote for a boa constrictor bite? Nobody knew. I started running down the street asking everyone I could find. I just got struck. What's the antidote? But no matter who I asked, either they didn't know or they just didn't see the urgency of the situation, they weren't alarmed at all. Then the dream ended. Shortly after that dream, I had another dream. I was in a ministry setting and off to the side, I saw a healthy shake

3:08 restaurant. You know, the kind that sells carrot and kale shakes that are supposed to be really good for you. I walked up to the counter and the woman behind the counter handed me a shake and then the dream ended. Now you have to understand that most dreams are symbolic. God speaks in pictures. That boa constrictor was a snake that constricts that squeezes the life out of its victims. This was the spirit of python the Lord was showing me that I was dealing with and it struck right above my eye. My eye represents vision. The attack was directly against the vision that God had given me for my ministry

3:55 and it happened twice in repetition. Then in the second dream, God showed me the answer. I walked up to that shake store and was handed a healthy shake. God was showing me the antidote. Shake it off in Jesus name. The boa constrictor is the strongman of the snake world. This is the python spirit I was dealing with. It attacked my eye, which means it was an attack on my vision and on my ability to see what God had called me to do. The python spirit will squeeze the life out of you. It will constrict your family, your

4:41 finances, your goals, your calling. It squeezes to get your vision to look somewhere else to distract you from what God has shown you. But here's what God also showed me. The attack had no power over me. That's why the people around me in the dream weren't overly concerned. The antidote was simple. Shake it off in the name of Jesus and keep moving forward. Let me explain how this python spirit actually works. Because once I understood it, everything about my attack made sense. Think about how a python hunts its prey. It's only after one thing, your breath.

5:27 It winds itself around you and starts squeezing bit by bit. The coils get tighter and tighter until you can't breathe anymore. Every bit of air gets forced out of your lungs. That's exactly what this spiritual python does. He's trying to squeeze out the breath of the Holy Spirit and his anointing from your life. In Acts 16, most Bibles say there was a woman possessed by a spirit of divination. But Young's literal translation gives us the Greek name, the python. The demon is called the python spirit. This is the one time in the entire book of Acts where an evil spirit gets called by a specific name. Why? I

6:14 believe God wanted us to understand that there is a python spirit that wants to wrap itself around every church around every believer slowly squeezing the spiritual life right out of us. By the way, would you hit the like button so that everyone who needs to watch this video will? The python is the world's largest snake and it attacks in a fourpart process that's different from other venomous snakes. The first two parts are the strike and the bite just like what happened to me in my dream. But the third and defining part is the constriction. The python employs a chokehold to crush

6:59 the victim slowly, leading to death by suffocation. And here's what's terrifying. He doesn't let up after the initial attack. He keeps pressing the victim until they they feel like they can't breathe, which is what I felt like. The python spirit attack is like a slow, suffocating process that doesn't let up. It squeezes every resource, every opportunity until the victim is completely crushed and consumed. That's exactly what was happening to me. The initial strike came against my vision, my ability to see what God was calling me to do in that particular season. But then the constriction started. Things began tightening in every area. My finances felt squeezed.

7:47 My time felt compressed. Opportunities seemed to disappear. Relationships became strained. Everything felt like it was closing in. Just like a python hates the breath keeping its victim alive and will do whatever it takes to stop it. Satan wants to choke the Holy Spirit's life out of your church and out of your personal walk with him. He's after that lifegiving breath that only comes through the Holy Spirit's presence and power. And without that, without power and anointing, we can't accomplish anything that will last for the Lord. Python's main strategy is constriction. Plain and simple. your bank account,

8:34 your schedule, your health, whether you feel qualified, your education level, your job title, your reputation, what's going on at home, your work situation, whether you have the right resources or enough resources or you know the right people. The python spirit has so many ways to squeeze and restrict you from stepping out into your calling. You can actually hear how people talk by listening to their words like squeezed, squashed, choked, pressured. I feel crushed. I feel tightened. I feel strangled, restricted, suffocated. I feel trapped. I feel stuck. When you hear language like that, either from

9:19 yourself or from others, that's a sign that it could be a python spirit operating. In my case, I felt almost all those things. I felt like every door was closing, like every breath of fresh air was being cut off, like the vision God had given me was getting smaller and smaller until I could barely see it anymore. And I am a person of big vision. And that's exactly what the python does. He attacks your vision first because if he can blind you to what God has called you to do, he doesn't have to worry about stopping you from doing it. You'll stop yourself. In Acts 16, Paul and Silas were walking to their place of prayer when this python spirit interrupted them. I believe the

10:04 enemy works works the same exact way today. He he interrupts you on your way to your destiny. He shows up when you're moving toward what God has called you to do. I see way too many believers letting that old serpent coil around their lives, choking out everything that belongs to them. while he just sits there enjoying his meal. I see Christians getting defeated instead of living in victory that the cross of Christ Jesus has promised us. And listen, if you're a Holy Spiritfilled woman who wants to answer God's call on your life, I'd love for you to check out my group mentoring ministry. You can find it at trailblazermentoring.com. I'll leave the link below. And I would

10:51 love for you to be part of my YouTube channel community. If that sounds good to you, hit the subscribe button. And would you share this video so that everyone that needs to watch it will and we'll get set free from this python spirit and will understand there is a spirit of python. So how do you break free from a python attack? God showed me clearly. Shake it off in the name of Jesus. The attack was intended to constrict, to squeeze the life out of me, and to impede my forward motion, but it had no real power over me. The only power it had was the power that I gave it by not recognizing what it was and not taking

11:39 authority over it. When I understood what was happening, when I recognized the python spirit for what it was, I took authority over it in the name of Jesus, I spoke to that spirit and commanded it to release its hold. I declared that my vision was from Almighty God and that no demonic spirit had the right to touch it. I shook off every form of constriction, financial, emotional relational ministerial and I kept moving forward. And you know what happened? The pressure lifted. The doors started opening again. The vision became clear. The breath came back. In Acts 16:18,

12:25 when Paul finally had enough of that python spirit operating through that fortuneelling girl, he turned and said to that spirit, "I command you in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her." And it came out that very hour. Paul didn't negotiate with it. He didn't try to understand it better. He didn't wonder if maybe it had a right to be there. He took authority over it in the name of Jesus and it had to go. That's your antidote, too. When you recognize Python's attack, when you feel that constriction, that squeezing, that suffocation, you shake it off in the name of Jesus, you take authority over every demonic assignment. You command that spirit to

13:12 release its hold on your vision, on your calling, your anointing, your family, your finances, your health, and your ministry. You are not pythons prey. You are a child of God with the authority that Christ Jesus has given us. That snake has to let go when you command it in the name of Jesus. Don't let the python spirit slowly squeeze the life out of you. Learn to recognize the signs. Constriction, pressure, suffocation, the feeling that everything is closing in. Listen, when you sense those things, don't accept them. It's well, this is just the way life is, the way my life is. Ask God to show you the root. And when he reveals that it's

13:57 python at work, shake it off in Jesus name and keep moving forward into everything that God has called you to do. I'll leave the link to this entire video series on spiritual warfare above, as well as the link to my group mentoring ministry, trailblazermentoring.com. I'm Dr. Jamie Morgan, and I'm honored to be your ministry mentor.