You have the Authority “so use it”
Exodus 14:15–16 NKJ
15. And the Lord said to Moses, “Why do you cry to Me? Tell the children of Israel to go forward.
16. But lift up your rod, and stretch out your hand over the sea and divide it...
The issue with Christians today is not that we are not praying.
Christians are praying all right, but it seems like people only pray when its necessary.
This stems from not relying on God 100% all the time, but instead only when we think that we can’t handle things on our own, it seems we pray.
We are praying, “God I need this, God I need that, God, please… God, do something about my situation by tommorrow, God I need you now, God can you hear me!
Or how about this one, God if you get me out of this jam I’ll promise to?
Isaiah 58:19
Then you shall call, and the LORD will answer; You shall cry, and He will say, ‘Here I am.’
No doubt, we have all been there and probably prayed more than one time like that before ourselves.
God hears us loud and clear the first time when we call on Him, in fact He loves it when we call on Him.
He’s ready, willing and able to help us, the moment we do.
The thing is though, we don’t have to pray pleading, desperate prayers all the time to get His attention.
He wants you to use the authority He has given you to pray powerful, expectant prayers,
To plainly speak to your mountain and expect it to step aside.
to boldly command and to “stretch out your hand and your faith” and see miracles happen.
When Moses stood at the Red Sea with Pharaoh’s army right on their heel’s,
the Bible tells us that he prayed desperately and cried out to God, just like we‘ve been talking about.
But what did God tell him, “Why do you cry to Me?” Why are you whining to me?
There is a time for you to cry out to God and there is a time for you to step out in faith and use your authority.
God told Moses, “Tell the children of Israel to go forward.
But lift up your rod, and stretch out your hand over the sea and divide it.
I wonder if God was thinking, Seems like I have to do everything around here.
In essence what He was saying was, you know what to do, just do it!!
While we don‘t possess a rod like Moses had, we possess and have access to something far greater than he ever had.
”The “rod” we have today is the name of Jesus.
As you take authority and command in Jesus’ name, your “sea” will open, your mountain will bow down and your problems have no choice but to flee from you.
A lot of believers don’t realize that Jesus didn’t say, “Go and pray for the sick”?
He said, “Go and heal the sick.”
He wanted us to be able to walk in confidence, He wanted us to focus on what we possess through our relationship that we have with Him.
That’s why He spoke the words, “Greater works shall you do, then I have done”
He wanted us to know and realize, see all I’ve done, pretty amazing huh?
But the greatest thing is, you are capable of this and a whole lot more!
Jesus is our power source and if we abide in Him and abides in us, then we can walk in confidence, knowing we have access to
what He has access to!
Matthew 10:8-10 MSG.
Go to the lost, confused people right here in the neighborhood. Tell them that the kingdom is here.
Bring health to the sick. Raise the dead. Touch the untouchables. Kick out the demons. You have been treated generously, so live generously.
9-10"Don't think you have to put on a fund-raising campaign before you start. You don't need a lot of equipment. You are the equipment!
Christians need to stop pleading when their asking all the time when they pray, and start using the authority that they already have in Christ.
The last thing Jesus told the church,
Mark 16:15-18 NIV.
15. He said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to all creation.
16. Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned.
17. And these signs will accompany those who believe: In my name they will drive out demons; they will speak in new tongues;
18. they will pick up snakes with their hands; and when they drink deadly poison, it will not hurt them at all; they will place their hands on sick people, and they will get well.”
Church, God wants you to go and use the authority that He has given you. And as you go, miracles will flow and follow you!
God is the God of possible, it doesn’t matter how you feel or whether you feel like you are worthy of what you are asking Him for. Its not about you!
Its not about what we can do on our own, its about what He already did,
which makes it possible for us to accomplish the impossible, if we will only have faith to believe that it is possible!
So don’t rely on yourself, rely on the one who can deliver every time, the one who has the strength and the means, the one who has already overcome every obstacle.
Romans 8:5-17 MSG
5-8.Those who think they can do it on their own end up obsessed with measuring their own moral muscle but never get around to exercising it in real life.
Those who trust God's action in them find that God's Spirit is in them—living and breathing God!
Obsession with self in these matters is a dead end; attention to God leads us out into the open, into a spacious, free life.
Focusing on the self is the opposite of focusing on God. Anyone completely absorbed in self ignores God, ends up thinking more about self than God.
That person ignores who God is and what he is doing. And God isn't pleased at being ignored.
9-11. But if God himself has taken up residence in your life, you can hardly be thinking more of yourself than of him.
Anyone, of course, who has not welcomed this invisible but clearly present God, the Spirit of Christ, won't know what we're talking about.
But for you who welcome him, in whom he dwells—even though you still experience all the limitations of sin—you yourself experience life on God's terms.
It stands to reason, doesn't it, that if the alive-and-present God who raised Jesus from the dead moves into your life,
he'll do the same thing in you that he did in Jesus, bringing you alive to himself?
When God lives and breathes in you (and he does, as surely as he did in Jesus), you are delivered from that dead life.
With his Spirit living in you, your body will be as alive as Christ's!
12-14. So don't you see that we don't owe this old do-it-yourself life one red cent. There's nothing in it for us, nothing at all.
The best thing to do is give it a decent burial and get on with your new life.
God's Spirit beckons. There are things to do and places to go!
15-17. This resurrection life you received from God is not a timid, grave-tending life.
It's adventurously expectant, greeting God with a childlike "What's next, Papa?"
God's Spirit touches our spirits and confirms who we really are.
We know who he is, and we know who we are: Father and children. And we know we are going to get what's coming to us—an unbelievable inheritance!
Wow!, and all we have to do to get what God is talking about here, is to step into it and just accept it.
That’s right, can’t earn it, can’t buy it, all we have to do is accept it, it’s a totally free gift.
Almost sounds to good to be true, but it is. God is fantastically, amazingly, way beyond good to all those who love Him!!!!
God wants us to step into the abundant life He has promised us, embrace it and live in it completely, every single day.
And He says, don’t keep it a secret, tell everyone you know, there’s plenty to go around for everyone who wants to partake,
He has made it available to us 24/7 all the time. Praise God, Hallelujah!!
If were not living the abundant life He has made available to us, Why not?
Hasn’t the devil stole enough and given us enough grief to last a lifetime, you know he has!
he knows the goodness of God, because he has experienced it first hand,
he also knows when a person starts to really experience the goodness of God, that he has forever lost the battle for their soul.
That’s why he tries so hard to keep you from the grace and goodness of God.
But know this, God is greater than anything he could ever throw at you, that’s why we have the Word of God to remind us and it’s a good thing we do.
Even Jesus used the word on the devil when he tempted Him.
Matt. 4:9-11 NKJ
9. And he said to Him, “All these things I will give You if You will fall down and worship me.”
10. Then Jesus said to him, “Away with you, Satan! For it is written, ‘You shall worship the LORD your God, and Him only you shall serve.’”
11. Then the devil left Him, and behold, angels came and ministered to Him.
Be confident and know just as Jesus was given authority, so have you been, by your relationship you have with Him.
You don’t have to plead with the Lord when you pray and have a need, He wants you to just speak confidently to it and consider as already being done.
Lets pray
