Leviathan – Haughty Spirit (pride) 

Prov. 16:18-19 Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.  Better to be of a humble spirit with the lowly than to divide the spoil with the proud.

           Prov. 18:12 Before destruction the heart of man is haughty, but humility goes before honor.

Obadiah 1:3 The pride of your heart had deceived you, you who dwell in the clefts of the rock, whose habitation is high; you who say in your heart, ‘who will bring me down to the ground?’…from there I will bring you down” says the Lord.

Luke 18:10-14… for everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.”

 

This spirit is very common. Aside from the obvious aspects of pride: self-centeredness, arrogance, and vanity, it is associated with idleness, strife, self-will, insecurity, stubbornness, false doctrine, rebellion, disobedience, disrespect for authority, lawlessness, laziness, complaining, unteachableness, extreme competitiveness, challenging, impatience, intolerance, extreme independence, ridicule of others, self-righteousness, rejection of others, prejudice, mocking others, gossiping, slander, superiority, bullying, criticism, blasphemy, greed, pride of life, love of money, worldliness, and materialism.

The Word of God repeatedly instructs us to be humble.  Salvation is not possible without humility.  Jesus is the example of humility, the opposite of pride, and hence the opposite of Satan.  Pride is the devil’s nature, evident in all of his workings.  Pride works in religion, doctrine, and self-righteousness as seen in the scribes and Pharisees of Jesus’ day.  Their religious pride kept them from seeing the Holy Spirit and the will of God right in front of them.  Adam fell to pride, and he already had so much!

Stubbornness goes with pride. It is to be obstinate, difficult to lead, refusing to yield.  It causes one to be stiff-necked, refusing to turn to a different path.  An ox that refused to be guided was called stiff-necked, and every farmer understood the frustration of having a useless animal who refused to be guided and could not perform the task it was designed to do. We must be soft in heart, willing to surrender, moldable in God’s hands. A humble heart is an easily leadable and changeable heart. Whatever we refuse to let go of will let pride and stubbornness leak in and defile us.  We must trust the leading of the Master.

This spirit is so strong only God can deal with it and pull it out of a life (Job 41:8-11). The Lord depicts this spirit as Leviathan.  It can take some time to get free of this thing.  Deliverance comes through daily submission to the Word of God and leading of the Holy Spirit, denying self and crucifying the passions and selfishness of the flesh.  One by one the scales fall off.  You must never try to gain victory over pride in your own strength, it is a useless battle.  You must rely on the power of the Holy Spirit and the grace of God.  Realizing you are only saved by God’s grace, only alive still because He decided so, and only given anything because of Him, keeps you in an attitude of humility. A holy fear of God is needed.

Pride is linked to blaming of others.  It was connected to Adam’s sin (“the woman You gave to me, she deceived me and I ate.”) Blaming takes the fault and responsibility off of oneself and puts it on another.  It refuses to own the offense or the failure.  It keeps one from confessing sin.  It holds onto, “I am right. Everyone else is wrong,…. It is not my fault.”  It will cause you to excuse your behavior and justify your choices.  It will not look at a whole situation, but rather is quick to judge, quick to act, and quick to defend.

Pride makes one unteachable.  It makes one think they know it all and do not need to learn anything from anyone else. It is easy for people of great knowledge, skill, wealth, and intellect to slip into pride.

Deliverance from pride involves taming the tongue.  This is because most of pride comes out in our words.  Read James 3:2-12. You must get control of the words you speak.  Boasting, bragging, exaggerating, exalting yourself must be abandoned.  You cannot lash out in anger or defensiveness.  You must develop patience, self-control, longsuffering, and love.  Change from your own ideas to the truth of the Word.  You cannot speak the wisdom of the world anymore, that is foolishness to God.  Wisdom is His Word, and that is what is to be spoken.  There is a reason God frequently chose people who were not mighty, wise, smart, or well liked in the eyes of the world to accomplish His will in the earth. He looks for the weak things to abase the proud. He can show Himself strong through a weak vessel yielded to Him. He wants us reliant on Him, not us.

James 3:2-12 For in many things we offend all.  If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man, and able also to bridle the whole body. Behold, we put bits in the horses’ mouths, that they may obey us; and we turn about their whole body.  Behold also the ships, which though they be so great, and are driven of fierce winds, yet are they turned about with a very small helm, wherever the governor wishes. Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasts great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindles!  And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell.  For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the sea, is tamed, and has been tamed of mankind: but the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.  With it we bless God, even the Father; and therewith we curse men, which are made after the similitude of God.  Out of the same mouth proceeds blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not be.  Does a fountain send forth at the same place sweet water and bitter?  Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear olive berries? Or a vine, figs? So can no fountain both yield salt water and fresh. 

James 3:13-18 Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? Let him show out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom.  But if you have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.  This wisdom descends not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish.  For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.  But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.  And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of those who make peace.

Obadiah 1:3 The pride of your heart had deceived you, you who dwell in the clefts of the rock, whose habitation is high; you who say in your heart, ‘who will bring me down to the ground?’…from there I will bring you down” says the Lord.

I Corinthians 1:20-30 Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the disputer of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of this world? ²¹ For since, in the wisdom of God, the world through wisdom did not know God, it pleased God through the foolishness of the message preached to save those who believe. ²² For Jews request a sign, and Greeks seek after wisdom; but we preach Christ crucified, to the Jews a stumbling block and to the ^[b]Greeks foolishness, ²⁴ but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God; because the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men.²⁶ For you see your calling, brethren, that not many wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called. ²⁷ But God has chosen the foolish things of the world to put to shame the wise, and God has chosen the weak things of the world to put to shame the things which are mighty; ²⁸ and the base things of the world and the things which are despised God has chosen, and the things which are not, to bring to nothing the things that are, ²⁹ that no flesh should glory in His presence. Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the disputer of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of this world? For since, in the wisdom of God, the world through wisdom did not know God, it pleased God through the foolishness of the message preached to save those who believe.

I Cor. 3:19-23 For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, “He catches the wise in their own craftiness” ²⁰ and again, “The Lord knows the thoughts of the wise, that they are futile.” ²¹ Therefore let no one boast in men. For all things are yours: ²² whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas, or the world or life or death, or things present or things to come—all are yours. ²³ And you are Christ’s, and Christ is God’s.

II Cor 1:12 For our boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience that we conducted ourselves in the world in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom but by the grace of God, and more abundantly toward you.

II Cor. 12 :9 And He said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for My strength is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore most gladly I will rather boast in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.

Jeremiah 9:23-24 Thus says the Lord: “Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom,
Let not the mighty man glory in his might, nor let the rich man glory in his riches;
²⁴ But let him who glories glory in this, that he understands and knows Me, that I am the Lord, exercising lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness in the earth. For in these I delight,” says the Lord.

The strength of this spirit is in its neck: rebellion, stubbornness, hard-heartedness, unwillingness to submit.  The person may manifest pain or pressure in the neck or spine.  It can cause a twisting in the spine.  Remember it is a serpent, so there may be serpentine like movements.  In praying for deliverance, as an act of faith lay your hands on your neck or the person you are praying for.  The Word says ‘He has given me the necks of my enemies.’ (II Sam. 22:41, Psalm 18:40, gen. 49:8). God spoke of Israel as a stiff-necked people because of their continual rebellion against Him.  This spirit thinks it is untouchable.  It cannot stand humility, servanthood, self-sacrifice for others, and obedience to the Word of God.  This spirit’s pride is in its scales, the ways of thinking set in the person that cover and protect it.

Job 41:22-24 Strength dwells in his neck, and sorrow dances before him.²³ The folds of his flesh are joined together; they are firm on him and cannot be moved. ²⁴ His heart is as hard as stone, even as hard as the lower millstone.

God tells Job about the creatures He has created, including Leviathan, which appears to be like a crocodile or sea serpent of some kind, to let him know about His sovereignty.  God compares Job’s weaknesses with these creatures, of whom He is master, to show Job He is certainly master over the forces behind Job’s problems.  Job must relinquish his complaint of God’s injustice and submit to His Lordship, no matter what his circumstance looks like.  He must set aside his belief that he has done nothing wrong deserving the attack on his life, feeling he is righteous and God is unjust.  

Leviathan is a serpent, and Satan chose the serpent to represent himself. He is still seen as a serpent in Revelation.  Serpents like this one in Job live in water, enemy water, not water of the Holy Spirit. Satan started in the garden upright, then he was cursed to the ground (cast to the earth), and then we see him in the sea. In Revelation we see the beast arise from the sea.

Genesis 3:1 Now the serpent was more cunning than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made….

Psalm 74:10-15 O God, how long will the adversary reproach? Will the enemy blaspheme Your name forever? ¹¹ Why do You withdraw Your hand, even Your right hand? Take it out of Your bosom and destroy them. ¹² For God is my King from of old, working salvation in the midst of the earth. ¹³ You divided the sea by Your strength; You broke the heads of the sea serpents in the waters. ¹⁴ You broke the heads of Leviathan in pieces, and gave him as food to the people inhabiting the wilderness. ¹⁵ You broke open the fountain and the flood; You dried up mighty rivers.

Psalm 104:25-27 This great and wide sea, in which are innumerable teeming things,
living things both small and great.²⁶ There the ships sail about; there is that Leviathan which You have made to play there. ²⁷ These all wait for You, that You may give them their food in due season.

Isaiah 27:1 In that day the Lord with His severe sword, great and strong, will punish Leviathan the fleeing serpent, Leviathan that twisted serpent; and He will slay the reptile that is in the sea.

Job 26:13 By His Spirit He has garnished the heavens; His hand has formed the crooked serpent.

Rev. 12:9 So the great dragon was cast out, that serpent of old, called the Devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world; he was cast to the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.

Rev. 13:1-2 Then I stood on the sand of the sea. And I saw a beast rising up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and on his horns ten crowns, and on his heads a blasphemous name. ² Now the beast which I saw was like a leopard, his feet were like the feet of a bear, and his mouth like the mouth of a lion. The dragon gave him his power, his throne, and great authority.

Read JOB 41.

Job 41   Can you draw out leviathan with a hook? Or his tongue with a cord which you let down? Can you put a hook into his nose? Or bore his jaw through with a thorn?  Will he make many supplications to you? Will he speak soft words to you?  Will he make a covenant with you? Will you take him for a servant forever?  Will you play with him as with a bird? Or will you bind him for your maidens? Shall the companions make a banquet of him? Shall they part him among the merchants? Can you fill his skin with barbed irons? Or his head with fish spears?  Lay your hand upon him, remember the battle, do no more!  Behold, the hope of him is in vain: shall not one be cast down even at the sight of him?  None is so fierce that dare stir him up: who then is able to stand before Me?  Who has prevented Me, that I should repay him? Whatever is under the whole heaven is Mine.  I will not conceal his parts, nor his power, nor his comely proportion.  Who can discover the face of his garment? Or who can come to him with his double bridle?  Who can open the doors of his face? His teeth are terrible round about.

(Pride is self-will over God’s will, rebellion against God and His sovereignty, His ways, and His Word. It is the original sin in Satan, and in man.  This is why no man can tackle it. Only Jesus overcame sin. You cannot coddle sin, play with it, listen to it, or give it a place of honor. It is terrible and deadly).

His scales are his pride, shut up together as with a close seal.  One is so near to another, that no air can come between them.  They are joined one to another, they stick together, that they cannot be sundered.  By his neesings (snorting,sneezing) a light does shine, and his eyes are like the eyelids of the morning. 

Out of his mouth go burning lamps, and sparks of fire leap out.  Out of his nostrils goes smoke, as out of a seething pot or caldron.  His breath kindles coals, and a flame goes out of his mouth. 

(Remember pride comes out of the mouth, but straight from the heart. Sounds like James chapter 3.  Luke 6:45 “The good person out of the good treasure of his heart produces good, and the evil person out of his evil treasure produces evil, for out of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaks.”)

In his neck remains strength, and sorrow is turned into joy before him.  The flakes of his flesh are joined together: they are firm in themselves; they cannot be moved.  His heart is as firm as a stone; yes, as hard as a piece of the lower millstone.  When he raises up himself, the mighty are afraid: by reason of his crashings they are beside themselves.  The sword of him that lays at him cannot hold: the spear, the dart, nor the javelin.  He esteems iron as straw, and brass as rotten wood.  The arrow cannot make him flee: slingstones are turned with him into stubble.  Darts are counted as stubble: he laughs at the shaking of a spear.  Sharp stones are under him: he spreads sharp pointed things upon the mire.  He makes the deep to boil like a pot: he makes the sea like a pot of ointment.  He makes a path to shine after him; one would think the deep had white hair.  Upon earth there is not his like, who is made without fear.  He beholds all high things: he is a king over all the children of pride.

 

This describes the arrogance of Satan.

Ezek. 28:11-19  “You were the seal of perfection, full of wisdom and perfect in beauty.
¹³ You were in Eden, the garden of God; every precious stone was your covering….“You were the anointed cherub who covers; I established you; you were on the holy mountain of God; you walked back and forth in the midst of fiery stones.¹⁵ You were perfect in your ways from the day you were created, till iniquity was found in you. “By the abundance of your trading you became filled with violence within, and you sinned; therefore I cast you as a profane thing out of the mountain of God; and I destroyed you, O covering cherub, from the midst of the fiery stones. ¹⁷ Your heart was lifted up because of your beauty; you corrupted your wisdom for the sake of your splendor; I cast you to the ground, I laid you before kings, that they might gaze at you. ¹⁸ You defiled your sanctuaries by the multitude of your iniquities, by the iniquity of your trading; therefore I brought fire from your midst; it devoured you, and I turned you to ashes upon the earth in the sight of all who saw you. All who knew you among the peoples are astonished at you; you have become a horror, and shall be no more forever.”

 

Isaiah 14:12-19 “How you are fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning!
How you are cut down to the ground, You who weakened the nations! ¹³ For you have said in your heart: ‘I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God…I will be like the Most High.’ ¹⁵ Yet you shall be brought down to Sheol, to the lowest depths of the Pit.  ¹⁶ “Those who see you will gaze at you, and consider you, saying: ‘Is this the man who made the earth tremble, wo shook kingdoms, ¹⁷ who made the world as a wilderness and destroyed its cities, who did not open the house of his prisoners?’ ¹⁸ “All the kings of the nations, all of them, sleep in glory, everyone in his own house; ¹⁹ but you are cast out of your grave like an abominable branch, like the garment of those who are slain…”

 

 

Children of Pride (lesser ruling spirits under Pride): If any of these are a pattern in your life, you must address a spirit of pride.

• Blasphemy
• Pride of body/appearance, intellect, worldly things, money, power, sexual power, abilities
• Idolatry, worship of self, worship of created things, worship of the works of one’s hands
• Covetous, jealous
• Haughty, arrogant, loftiness
• Vanity
• Impatience, intolerance
• Independent
• Selfishness, greed, pride of life, love of money, worldliness, materialism
• Drunkenness, foolishness, gluttony, indulgence of the flesh
• Friend of the world, impurity, perverseness, sexual immorality, lust of the eyes, lust of the flesh
• Corruption, lies, deception
• Hard-heartedness, stubborn, often rebuked, self-will, self-deception, self-seduction
• Criticism
• Rejecting God, no thought for God, belief there is only man and man is the greatest being
• Disobedience, disrespect for authority, lawlessness, rebellion
• Contesting, stir up strife, contention, debate, argument, boasting, challenging, bragging,
  • disputing, competition, questioning, confrontation
• Division, confusion, false doctrines or prophecy, error, religion
• Unteachableness
• Unforgiveness
• Scornful (expressing contempt and ridicule toward others)
• Laziness, slothfulness, let others do it, idleness, slumber, dead works, unfruitfulness

 

Pride is also a cover-up, the mask for rejection and fear, insecurity: 

Rejection (condemnation, shame, unworthiness, guilt, depression, suicide, unfairness, self-pity, bitterness, unforgiveness, resentment: leads to violence, anger, wrath, destruction, hatred, murder, intolerance, retaliation, control.  Rejection leads to perfection and driving, seeking man’s approval, and self-exaltation).

Fear (fear of rejection, fear of abandonment, fear of loneliness, fear of man, insecurity leads to lying, cheating, deceitfulness, cunning, and confusion.  You lie because of fear of rejection or judgment.)

 

Scriptures about pride:  (Underlined are the children of pride)

Prov. 16:18 Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.  (Be sure if you are in pride, a fall is coming).

Prov. 18:12 Before destruction the heart of man is haughty, but humility goes before honor.

II Tim. 3:1-5 This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.  For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent (without self-control), fierce, despisers of those who are good, traitors, heady, high-minded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.

Prov. 13:10 By pride comes nothing but strife, but with the well-advised is wisdom.

Prov. 28:25 He who is of a proud heart stirs up strife, but he who trusts in the Lord will be prospered.

Prov. 3:34 Surely He scorns the scornful, but gives grace to the humble.

Prov. 1:22 “How long you simple ones, will you love simplicity?  For scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge.

Prov. 21:24 A proud and a haughty man—“Scoffer” is his name; he acts with arrogant pride.

Prov. 24:9 The devising of foolishness is sin, and the scoffer is an abomination to men.

Prov. 29:1,8 He who if often rebuked, and hardens his neck, will suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy.  Scoffers set a city aflame, but wise men turn away wrath.

Is. 5:18 Woe to those who draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as if with a cart rope.

Daniel 5:20 But when his heart was lifted up, and his spirit was hardened in pride, he was deposed from his kingly throne, and they took his glory from him.  (King Nebuchadnezzar).

Ezek. 16:49-50 “Look, this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom:  She and her daughter had pride, fullness of food, and abundance of idleness; neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.  And they were haughty and committed abomination before Me; therefore I took them away as I saw fit.”

Romans 1:21-32 …because, although they knew God, they did not glorify Him as God, nor were thankful, but became futile in their thoughts, and their foolish hearts were darkened. ²² Professing to be wise, they became fools, ²³ and changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like corruptible man—and birds and four-footed animals and creeping things. ²⁴ Therefore God also gave them up to uncleanness, in the lusts of their hearts, to dishonor their bodies among themselves, ²⁵ who exchanged the truth of God for the lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen. ²⁶ For this reason God gave them up to vile passions. For even their women exchanged the natural use for what is against nature. ²⁷ Likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust for one another, men with men committing what is shameful, and receiving in themselves the penalty of their error which was due. ²⁸ And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a debased mind, to do those things which are not fitting; ²⁹ being filled with all unrighteousness, sexual immorality, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil-mindedness; they are whisperers, ³⁰ backbiters, haters of God, violent, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, ³¹ undiscerning, untrustworthy, unloving, unforgiving, unmerciful; ³² who, knowing the righteous judgment of God, that those who practice such things are deserving of death, not only do the same but also approve of those who practice them.

I Sam. 15:22-23 So Samuel said: “Has the Lord as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the Lord?  Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to heed than the fat of rams.  For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry.  Because you have rejected the Lord, He also has rejected you…” (Saul was prideful in thinking he could act as a priest and directly disobey God and still get His blessing)

Luke 18:10-14 Jesus said, “Two men went up to the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector.  The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, ‘God I thank you that I am not like other men—extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this tax collector.  I fast twice a week, I gives tithes of all I possess.’  And the tax collector, standing afar off, would not so much as raise his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me a sinner!’  I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other; for everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.”

Ps. 10:4 The wicked in his proud countenance does not seek God; God is in none of his thoughts.

Jer. 43:2 all the proud men spoke to Jeremiah saying, “You speak falsely!  The Lord our God has not sent you to say, ‘Do not go to Egypt to dwell there.’ (these were false prophets)

1 John 2:15-17 Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.  For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.  And the world passes away, and the lust thereof: but he who does the will of God abides forever.

 

To War with Pride:

Proverbs 8:13 The fear of the Lord is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward (disposed to be disobedient and in opposition) mouth, do I hate.

Jer. 49:16 “Your fierceness has deceived you, the pride of your heart, O you who dwell in the clefts of the rock, who hold the height of the hill!  Though you make your nest as the eagle, I will bring you down from there,” says the Lord.

Isaiah 2:11 The proud look of man will be abased, and the loftiness of man will be humbled, and the Lord alone will be exalted in that day.

Isaiah 10:33 Behold, the Lord, the God of hosts, will lop off the boughs with a terrible crash; those also who are tall in stature will be cut down (giants!), and those who are lofty will be abased.

Isaiah 24:4 The earth mourns and withers, the world fades and withers, the exalted of the people of the earth fade away.

Isaiah 5:15 So the common man will be humbled, and the man of importance abased, the eyes of the proud also will be abased.

Prov. 6:16-19 These six things the Lord hates, Yes, seven are an abomination to Him: A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, a heart that devises wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief, a false witness that speaks lies, and he who sows discord among brethren.

Zeph. 3:10-13 “From beyond the rivers of Ethiopia My suppliants, even the daughter of My dispersed, shall bring My offering.  In that day shall you not be ashamed for all your doings, wherein you have transgressed against Me: for then I will take away out of the midst of you those who rejoice in your pride, and you shall no more be haughty because of My holy mountain.  I will also leave in the midst of you an afflicted and poor (humble meek) people, and they shall trust in the name of the Lord.  The remnant of Israel shall not do iniquity, nor speak lies; neither shall a deceitful tongue be found in their mouth: for they shall feed and lie down, and none shall make them afraid.”

Ezekiel 29:3-4 Speak, and say, ‘Thus says the Lord God: “Behold, I am against you,
O Pharaoh king of Egypt, O great monster who lies in the midst of his rivers, who has said, ‘My River is my own; I have made it for myself.’ ⁴ But I will put hooks in your jaws,
and cause the fish of your rivers to stick to your scales; I will bring you up out of the midst of your rivers, and all the fish in your rivers will stick to your scales.”

Speak to the spirit of Leviathan, the spirit of pride:

“God will put hooks in your jaws and draw you out. All your fish will stick to your scales. All your demonic spirits under you will come out with you, and go to the dry places. God says ‘I will bring you up out of the midst of your rivers, and all the fish of your rivers will stick to your scales.’ God created you. You are not above Him. I call for the water of the Holy Spirit to put out your flames, to quiet your words. There will be no more covenant with your lies. I put you under my feet and stomp on your heads, your neck is under my foot in the name of Jesus.

 

II Samuel 22:41 You have also given me the necks of my enemies, so that I destroyed those who hated me.

 

Isaiah 27:1 In that day the Lord with His severe sword, great and strong, will punish Leviathan the fleeing serpent, Leviathan that twisted serpent; and He will slay the reptile that is in the sea.

 

God breaks the heads of the dragons in the waters. He breaks the heads of Leviathan in pieces. Lord I pray that You would dry up the enemy water that Leviathan lives in and moves through. You said in Jer. 51:36 Therefore thus says the Lord: “Behold, I will plead your case and take vengeance for you. I will dry up her sea and make her springs dry.”

Father God in the name of Jesus I come to the throne of grace to obtain mercy and help in time of need for deliverance from pride and the spirit of Leviathan. I am confessing my sin of pride, specifically in that _______.  (Whatever you may know you were prideful about). I realize I used pride to try to cover insecurity or fear. Forgive me for thinking I did not need you, or that I knew better for my life than You.  (Ask the Holy Spirit to show you where pride may have leaked in).

I repent of my involvement in any of the children of pride (list these).  I ask You Jesus to forgive me, and I humbly admit my selfishness.  Please forgive my family line of any pride. I apply the Blood of Jesus to me and my family, and declare the Lord became a curse for me, so the curse of pride is broken off of us.  I bind the spirit of pride and Leviathan and command them to leave me now in the name of Jesus Christ and never return. Whatever I bind on earth is bound in heaven.  Jesus I pray You put a hook in pride’s jaw and pull out Leviathan from me. I renounce Satan, Lucifer, and I renounce his lies.  Thank You Lord You said when we confess our sin You are faithful and just to forgive us and cleanse us of all iniquity. Thank You for separating my sins from me as far as the east is from the west. You said if we would humble ourselves, You would lift us up. I do not want to live in pride Lord, so please help me to walk in humility. Whom the Son sets free is free indeed. In the name of Jesus Amen.

 

Battle pride with humility:

Philip. 2:8 And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.

Luke 22:27 “For who is greater, the one who reclines at the table, or the one who serves? Is it not the one who reclines at the table? But I am among you as the one who serves.

Matthew 18:4 “Whoever then humbles himself as this child, he is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.”

Luke 14:11 “For everyone who exalts himself shall be humbled, and he who humbles himself shall be exalted.”

Luke 18:14 “I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other; for everyone who exalts himself shall be humbled, but he who humbles himself shall be exalted.”

John 13:14-17 “If I then, the Lord and the Teacher, washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet. “For I gave you an example that you also should do as I did to you.  “Truly, truly, I say to you, a slave is not greater than his master; neither is one who is sent greater than the one who sent him. “If you know these things, you are blessed if you do them.”

I Tim. 1:15-17 It is a trustworthy statement, deserving full acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, among whom I am foremost of all.  And yet for this reason I found mercy, in order that in me as the foremost, Jesus Christ might demonstrate His perfect patience,