THE AUTHORITY OF A BELIEVER
First part
It is very annoying anytime I think on how Christians of today are been cheated, jilted, ride-on and exploited both spiritually and physically despite the great power that dwells within us. The word ‘Believer’ is not just an ordinary word used for ordinary person, it is extraordinary which carry power (Jh.1:12). Believers has been given power to be called the son of God, the efficacy of the sons of God can never be overemphasized, when you believe, you become son of God because you now have the spirit of God in you which is God Himself (Jh.4:24), hence, if you have God (as spirit) within you and God rules over everything (both powerful and authoritative) that’s His sovereignty, it means you carry the same authority also in which power is subdued under it. That was why Paul said in Phl.4:13 ‘I can do all things through Christ that strengthens me’. It deduces that anything that comes our way is capable for us, authority has been vested on us to take charge always, and it is now in our different personal choices to utilize the power within us. Many keep praying for power and authority because they don’t know that they carry it within them (Eph.3:20). It is very obvious today that the devil rides us not because we don’t have the authority over him but because we are ignorant of the power within us (Hos.4:6), so he takes advantage of it to keep tormenting us and hence we keep acting as slaves to him even when we are God’s sons (Gal.4:6-7), we don’t take authority of what we don’t know about, ignorance is such a disease that degrade us to a low-level and reduce our worth as Christians and this what we will base on in the next paragraph, just follow with keen interest. The level of our spiritual accommodation determines the level of our physical manifestation. Knowledge is the basis of what Christians dwells on in manifesting. It all varies in different stages or levels in the spiritual realm. When you don’t know that you have authority to trample on snakes and scorpions without getting hurt (Lk.10:19), when you trample they hurt you because you are not aware of it, when you don’t know you can heal the sick, raise the dead, cast out demons (Mk.3:13-14) and perform greater miracle (Jh.14:12), when you don’t know these things, you are limited to perform the little ones, there is the level at which you pray for yourself against headache and it left, another level is when you pray for sick people and they all get healed, the level is determined by our respective knowledge of what we can do, our spiritual accommodation needs to grow into maturity, you’ve got to start accommodating more spiritual things to widen up your knowledge of the secrets of God. A believer should see extraordinary things as ordinary, a supernatural things as natural, abnormal things as normal, you need to drag spiritualty to reality or physicality because spiritual controls the physical, you should know that too.
(still to come: last part)
Courtesy: Kogi state NCCF Bible study unit.
It is very annoying anytime I think on how Christians of today are been cheated, jilted, ride-on and exploited both spiritually and physically despite the great power that dwells within us. The word ‘Believer’ is not just an ordinary word used for ordinary person, it is extraordinary which carry power (Jh.1:12). Believers has been given power to be called the son of God, the efficacy of the sons of God can never be overemphasized, when you believe, you become son of God because you now have the spirit of God in you which is God Himself (Jh.4:24), hence, if you have God (as spirit) within you and God rules over everything (both powerful and authoritative) that’s His sovereignty, it means you carry the same authority also in which power is subdued under it. That was why Paul said in Phl.4:13 ‘I can do all things through Christ that strengthens me’. It deduces that anything that comes our way is capable for us, authority has been vested on us to take charge always, and it is now in our different personal choices to utilize the power within us. Many keep praying for power and authority because they don’t know that they carry it within them (Eph.3:20). It is very obvious today that the devil rides us not because we don’t have the authority over him but because we are ignorant of the power within us (Hos.4:6), so he takes advantage of it to keep tormenting us and hence we keep acting as slaves to him even when we are God’s sons (Gal.4:6-7), we don’t take authority of what we don’t know about, ignorance is such a disease that degrade us to a low-level and reduce our worth as Christians and this what we will base on in the next paragraph, just follow with keen interest. The level of our spiritual accommodation determines the level of our physical manifestation. Knowledge is the basis of what Christians dwells on in manifesting. It all varies in different stages or levels in the spiritual realm. When you don’t know that you have authority to trample on snakes and scorpions without getting hurt (Lk.10:19), when you trample they hurt you because you are not aware of it, when you don’t know you can heal the sick, raise the dead, cast out demons (Mk.3:13-14) and perform greater miracle (Jh.14:12), when you don’t know these things, you are limited to perform the little ones, there is the level at which you pray for yourself against headache and it left, another level is when you pray for sick people and they all get healed, the level is determined by our respective knowledge of what we can do, our spiritual accommodation needs to grow into maturity, you’ve got to start accommodating more spiritual things to widen up your knowledge of the secrets of God. A believer should see extraordinary things as ordinary, a supernatural things as natural, abnormal things as normal, you need to drag spiritualty to reality or physicality because spiritual controls the physical, you should know that too.
(still to come: last part)
Courtesy: Kogi state NCCF Bible study unit.
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