"DESIGNATED AUTHORITY"
"For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh." We have been given authority by our Lord Jesus Christ to go forth by His Name, His Blood, and His Word, to accomplish His will in the earth. We have been "designated" as His authority to place evil under our feet! "And whatsoever ye do in word or deed, {do} all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by him." (Colossians 3:17)
All Christians are engaged in warfare! Barnes' notes states, "Our war is not governed by the principles of this world, but the warfare of the Christian relates to the following points:
*It is warfare with the corrupt desires and sensual propensities of the heart; with eternal corruption and depravity, with the remaining unsubdued propensities of a fallen nature.
*With the powers of darkness; the mighty spirits of evil that seek to destroy us. (Ephesians 6:11-17)
*With sin in all forms. (The Christian is a soldier enlisted under the banner of the Redeemer to oppose and resist all forms of evil. The people of this world seek for victory by arms and violence. The Christian looks for his conquests only by the force and power of the truth, and by the agency of the Spirit of God.)"
We are soldiers of the faith! We have authority through the Name, the Word, and the Blood of the Lord Jesus Christ over all manner of diseases, situations, finances, world conflicts, and Yes, even the weather! "What?" you say. Oh Yes, we can command the forces of weather!
We had a tornado heading for our Church many years ago; the congregation was on its knees praying and screaming for God to spare us, and we could hear the loud roar just outside the doors, where our ushers were holding them open, and standing guard. One of the ushers yelled and commanded in a loud voice, "I rebuke you in the name of Jesus!" The tornado suddenly jumped the fence and destroyed many planes, wrapping twisted parts of those planes around the fence up and down the road just across the street at the airport. But, the huge tornado was close enough that it ripped the bark from the tree just outside the front door of the Church. The weather is subject to the authority of the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ ... and to Us, when we move in that authority!
Clarke's commentary says it better than I can: "Although I am in the common condition of human nature, and must live as a human being, yet I do not war after the flesh - I do not act the coward or the poltroon, as they insinuate. I have a good cause, a good captain, strength at will, and courage at hand. I neither fear them nor their master."
Our world is on a catastrophe course in so many areas. Global wars are on the upsurge, global financial disaster, diseases and unknown antibiotic-resistant viruses, upheavel in State after State governments and riots within the U.S., unemployment, and the whole thing; we must all admit, is a sad picture. So, what can we do? The people of God need to exercise our authority in prayer, in command, in the laying on of hands, in standing in the stead of our Lord Jesus Christ, and rebuking the evils of earth that seek to destroy us in every way. The Lord God said, "Command ye me!" And, He also gave "us" the authority to command the elements in His name.
Almighty God is not as unseen as people think. It is time that God's hands in the heavens be manifested in His hands in earth, His "Designated Authority!"
By Sheryl Fowler
(Visit promiselandchurch.net and theexperience238.com.
PromiseLand Church, Austin, Texas, Pastor Kenneth Phillips)
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