Your Authority As A Beiever

Behold, I give you the authority to trample on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing shall by any means hurt you.

Luke 10:19

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 While reading in Matthew recently, there were accounts of a lot of signs nd wonders that Jesus made happen. The centurion's servant, He healed, Peter's mother-in-law, He healed.  He healed the leper, I particularly enjoy reading about.  The man told Jesus, "Lord, if You are willing, You can make me clean."  Jesus' compassionate response was, reaching over to touch him and saying, "I am willing, be cleaned."  I can almost hear Him say, "Of course I am." as he reached to touch the leper.

Jesus was going around helping people all the time.  He told us that if we've seen Him, we've seen the Father.  It wasn't a matter of showmanship, it was all a by product of His relationship with Father God.  Do we want to see and taste the miraculous?  What is our relationship with God like?  No or little relationship with Him, no supernatural.  Jesus was plugged into God, He was always stealing away from the crowd to be with Father.  Jesus was also known to say that He did not say or do anything that He did not hear or see Father do.  He was led by Holy Spirit.

There was also the account of when He and the boys were in the ship crossing over to the other side of the body of water.  He was down in the boat taking a nap, and the storm was overtaking the vessel. Now, these men, knew about the water, they made their living on it, and knew about the endurance of their ship, and they were not scared panty waist's when they went below to wake up Jesus to HELP them all.  They knew the craft was about to break up and then they'd be dead meat.

But He said to them, "Why are you fearful, O you of little faith?" Then He arose and rebuked the winds and the sea, and there was a great calm.

So the men marveled, saying, "Who can this be, that even the winds and the sea obey Him?"

Matthew 8:26, 27

It's interesting to me that He was sleeping during this storm, eh?

Well, when He woke up, He soundly reprimanded the guys for being fearful and not having faith.

Jesus went top side and spoke to the wind and the waves and a great calm came.  The elements  obeyed Him.  

I looked up that word obey - Strong's Concordance #5219:

To hear as a subordinate, listen attentively, obey as a subject, answer and respond, submit without reservation.  Hearing, responding, obeying.

I thought, well, that's right, it was Jesus' authority that the elements had to respond to.

Then the Lord reminded me of Genesis 1:26, 27, which says:

Then God said, "Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth." So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.

At Creation.......

They corporately gave man dominion over.all the earth and everything in it and over every creeping thing, and the same power with their words as They.  In Their Likeness

That was the authority Jesus was operating in as a human. Acting like God, because He was made in the likeness of God, and God created with His Words.

In Genesis Chapter 1, we see 8 times what God did to create everything in the Heavens and the Earth.

And God Said

And God Said

And God Said
And God Said........

Jesus knew about the Scripture in Genesis 1:25, when He and Father created everything and gave dominion to mankind.  He stepped out into that Word and did it, taking His authority as a man over the wind and waves.  Anything he ever did, He expected His disciples to do as well,  that's why he reprimanded them, and WE are one of His disciples also.

Right now, as Believers, we became ONE by:

,,,that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.  Romans 10:9

That's how we receive ANYTHING God's Word tells us, for ourselves:

-BY BELIEVING IN OUR HEARTS

-CONFESSING WITH OUR MOUTHS

Is there something in front of you that is a torment in your life right now?

I'd like you to bear in mind what God said in Genesis 1:27 and that you truly have dominion over it, right now, at this time.  

Jesus said:

"And I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven."

Matthew 16:19\\

Jesus was equipping us to live a victorious life while we are here on this Earth.

Everything He and Father provided for us, we need it all.

-The armor of God - in Ephesians 6.

-The Name of Jesus, that every name that is named must bow to.  Ephesians 1.

-The Blood of the Lamb of God. Revelation 12:11

-The Sword of the Spirit, that is the WORD OF GOD.  Ephesians 6.  It's the only offensive part of our spiritual armor.  The other 5 are defensive.  

-The Baptism of the Holy Spirit that the He sent for us to experience when Holy Spirit was sent to the Earth to live in and through us, with the evidence of speaking in other tongues, we're told that it is what delivers power that we need in this life. Acts 2

-The keys to the kingdom, the ability to bind and loose here on earth while taking authority that is needed while we live on this planet.  The authority of the Believer.  Matthew 16:19

And whatever else God's Word says are ours.  

I ask God to HELP us to renew our minds to what and Who we are IN CHRIST.  We need to be able to live OVERCOMING lives, and not be spending our lives in defeat, despair and always at the mercy of whatever satan can belch out of hell towards us.  IN JESUS' NAME.

Behold, I give you the authority to trample on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing shall by any means hurt you.

Luke 10:19