Chapter Nine The Authority of a Believer

Luke 10:19

Behold, I gave unto you power(Authority) to read on serpents and scripture, and over all the power of he enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you.

Mark 16:17

And these signs shall follow them that beheve; in my name (i.e. by my authority) shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues;

Ephesian 1:18,

18 the eyes of your understanding being enlightened that ye may know what is the hope of his calling; and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the

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19 and what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us ward who believe, according to the working of his mighty power,

"for above all principality, and power, and might and dominion and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come.

The price at the cross settled our debt that stripped us of the glory of dominion (Authority that was given to man (Adam) at the beginning, Genesis 1:28 "And God blessed them (MAN), and God said unto them ..... Have dominion over every living thing that moveth upon the earth"

The devil took advantage of Man's ignorance at the beginning and deceived him (Adam & eve ) to disobey God, in which by extension to take their authority (dominion) on earth before the fall of man the organogram of the unverse was; God man Devil but after the fall the organogram changed and it became, God Devil

Man. man lost his place to the devil by foolishly violating the spiritual Law of obedience, he transgressed and he died to God, which means he lost the divine nature he shared with God. (Gen 2:17)

From that day at the garden, man became spiritually alienated from God and become subjected to the devil because devil become the God of this world where man likes. Devil then ruled the world and man subjected to verity and lived under Satan ruled world.

Romans 8:20-24

20 For the creature was made subject to verity not unllingly but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope

21 because the created itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.

22 for the know that the whole creation growth and travaileth in pain together until now.

The whole human race became subjected to the ruler ship of the devil and they were fortuned except for the few like the Jesus that God made a covenant with to exchide them from the dominion of the devil. That was why dolatary filled the whole earth and evenJesus in whose days embraced it. Thank God for the coming and the sacrifice of Christ jesus, who delivered human race from the dominion of darkness. 21

John 3:16

For God loved the world, that he gave his only begotten son that whosoever beheveth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

God sent his behoving son into this world to restore us back to rightful position of our dominion status by going us back what lost in Adam, what is the glory of God or ever;asting life or divine nature. The creat work for everlasting is zoen which means hemal life, life without end that life is given to as many that believe in the name of Jesus i:e at salvation. That life called zoen that Adam lost when he disobeyed Jesus Christ redeemed us and restored the life back to us.

That life called zoen is not just to make it heaven but it activates a lot of God's provision his. It is like a meal ticket that gives you access all mammers of delicacies and you can order for commandment dishes of your choice. The eternal life ground to us activates our eternity with God dominion on earth Good health, good life, fitfully destroy etc.

Our authority on earth re-instated now Satan is no longer the god of this world but man. The whole scene is like this, Mr. A owns a piece of land and life gave the land to Mr. B2, carelessness and gambling life style, he used the land as a collateral to take loan from MR(and he gamble away the money and could not pay the money. And for long years MR (clamsowner ship of the land and with the tittle deed with him.

After a while, MR A out of pity and sympathy sent his son to pay for the loan owed by and to restore the land. However, in spite of the tittle deed of land and now Mr. B, Mr. C refused to leave the land, he still occupies the land as am illegitimate owner. Then the question is what should MR B do? It is so simple, Mr. B should go to court and tender his tittle deed, then ask the court to order the illegal occupant Mr. C out of hid land, and that ends the struggle.

God is Mr. A Jesus is Mr. A is son; you are Mr. B devil is Mr. C As a Christian does not those that go to church or born into Christian family or that has a Christian name but whoever has confessed Jesus as his personal Lord and savior, also that sleeks forgiveness of his sins by Christ Jesus genuinely). Your world of influence and impact is your land i: e your health, finance busmen

Family, destiny, house member (for a pastor) etc. The named Jesus has restored them back to you and you are authority over them. Therefore, devil is an illegal cupant either in your health or against your finance and is family. All you do is to take authority in the name of Jesus by faith and resist the devil out of your body, your finance, your family, your life etc. any where any time you come in contact with him, he has no right to stop you, kuk out of the way.

James 4:7

Submit yourselves therefore to God resist the devil, and he will flee from you

As long as you submit yourself to take authority you kick the devil Ass any day, any time. You can see that the sickness in your body is not the problem eg cancer, covid-19, malaria, tooth problem, severe headache etc they are all caused by the devil, when God created youhe created no sickness with you but the devil came and planted it there, it is not time for you to cry, but it is time for to act by faith.

Mathew 13:15

While men slept, his enemy came and sowed takes among the wheat, and went his way.

It doesn't matter the time, the devil planted the sickness what matters is your response to the attack against you health. Take your authority in the name of Jesus, it is a name that is above all names.

Philippians 2:9-10

Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him and given him a name which is above every name

That at the name of Jesus every knees should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth…

The name of Jesus is the Authority confused on the behevers. Believer's authority is in the name of Jesus

What is Authority?

It is the right to power; it is standing on someone else is right to power by permission. The lord Jesus gave us the permission to use His authority. So when we stand against the devil, we stand as though, Jesus is the one standing. The devil cannot dare to stop Jesus authority, so when we use it by knowledge, the devil flees. Just as the story of Smith Wigglesworth, he was in his bedroom one day and he heard certain force in his sitting room scattering things there, and he went out to check it out. He saw a faceless demon, and he told the demon "so it was you, arrange my house back and get out" and he went back to sleep, that ends the story.

From this story, you will learn about the demonstration of Authority. It begins from your understanding of your place of authority. Over the devil subsequently over every contrary thing against you. Adam lacked this understanding he lost his glory and that of this descendants; Esan lacked this understanding, he sold away his destroy of authority and that of his descendants; job lack this understanding, he brought death upon his children and businesses etc. you can see the gravity of the pain man suffers to lack of understanding of their place of Authority.

Hose 4:6 "my people are destroyed for lack of crow ledge"

A lot of Christians are suffering this catastrophic blow in there health or finance in family due to this ignorance, there is a word of God or from anointed books like this.

The second thing is behaving in the Authority that is vested moment the devil tries to challenge my authority, you cannot beheve in this same thing I am talking and ever be scared of the devil, sickness, any attack etc.

Mark 11:24 "therefore I say unto you, what things so ever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them"

When you exercise your authority in Christ Jesus, believe that, it surely gonna work. The same way you believe in doctors prescriptions or drugs given to you believe also in your authority in God. Through it is spiritual, like wise is the source of that sickness, it came from the devil, forget about the analysis of the diagnosis by the doctor, it is a sickness from the devil, so use your authority in Christ. Jesus. Thirdly, express your Authority in boldness you can show it in action, you can show by declaiming the name of Jesus, you can show it by speaking in tongues. Your boldness should be like a police man that stands at the highway stopping vehicles to check out their papers. They do it with so much confident because they know they are Authorize by the state or the federal Govt too carry out such an act. They can tell a long truck to stop and he has to stop, if he doesn't stop, he has offended the state and will be punished by the state. So is it for us, when we speak with authority against the devil and with utmost boldness, we speak not of our own power but by the authority given us the federal Govt of the kingdom of God, and he (devil) has to obey.

Fourthly don't abort the process. Most people, when they do it once or truce and they don't see a change they get discouraged and start complaining, looking out for alternatives. In your exercise of Authority at your office or working place, when you order your secretary to get you a cup of coffee, do get offended if she delays a bit because she has to shutdown the system or close files she is working on you have made and order and you wait for it to be might go immediately or take a while, but don't worry continue declaring he will surely go Also as you declare your authority celebrate God for the victory and demonstrate your healing you cant be exercising Authority for healing and you stay put in the sick position, you make effort to demonstrate your freedom and your healing. You should stand up and start moving around, celebrating God and also exercising your body in declaration of your total healing. Just as Hannah did in 1 Samuel 1:18 "and she said, let thine handmaid find grace in thy sight: so the womanwent her way, and did eat, and her countenance was no more sad" that is a principle of faith, when you exercise your Authority in the name of Jesus on your health you come out of bed and start demonstrating your healing and celebrating God, them the healing will be perfected. You can see Hannah after prayer, she went back