Delegated Authority
April 9, 2013 by 1 Comment
Dear Child,
My delegated authority is a gift, but I must know that I can trust you with that authority.
Your obedience to My authority proves your reliability as an ambassador of My kingdom.
Your life must portray the values and principals of My Kingdom.
Adam lost that authority by disobedience, My Son gained back that status for My church, but it will be void and powerless without obedience!
Without obedience, the enemy of your soul has a part in you and you will have sold out that authority once again to the enemy.
Be obedient and walk humbly before Me, that I may empower your calling and your life.
Then your calling and life will bring glory to My name.
Nobody entrusts authority to a child! So grow up! My church must grow up to see My power displayed within My Body.
Thus saith Papa to His children
Luke 10:19 Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy:
Mark 13:34 For the Son of man is as a man taking a far journey, who left his house, and gave authority to his servants, and to every man his work, and commanded the porter to watch.
Mat 8:9 For I am a man under authority, having soldiers under me: and I say to this man, Go, and he goeth; and to another, Come, and he cometh; and to my servant, Do this, and he doeth it. The centurion in this story realized that to have authority, one must be under authority.
If we are to carry the delegated authority of heaven, we must ourselves be subject to the authority of heaven. The power of authority all turns on the ambassador’s own obedience.
Challenge: Are you lacking spiritual authority because of disobedience in some area of your life?
Take Us Back to The Foot of The Cross
March 26, 2013 by Leave a Comment
This coming week between Palm Sunday and Easter morning is known as Holy Week.
The most somber and reflective week on the church calendar. Perhaps the only time, during the year, that as believers we actually reflect on the awesome cost of our redemption.
Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers; But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot: 1 Peter 1: 18-19 18
Surely we should all ask God, especially during this holy week, to take us back to the place where we first believed, to the foot of the cross. To the place where we can identify with His sufferings that we might be partakers of His resurrection.
Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you: But rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ’s sufferings; that, when his glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy. 1Peter 4:12-13
He was betrayed by a kiss, humiliated, spat upon, mocked, abandoned, not believed, wept in the Garden in prayer until he sweat blood, denied, lashed until He was almost dead, nailed to a cross which He had to carry, forsaken by His Father because He became sin for us, yet while hanging in excruciating pain between heaven and earth, He could cry out “Father, forgive them for they know not what they do!”
Are we willing to count and pay the cost to be His disciple? As we are admonished in Luke 14:27 “Whoever doth not bear his cross and come after Me, cannot be My disciple” We must be willing to take up our cross daily and die to self if resurrection power is to flow through our lives.
The level of our meditative reflection during this holy week, will determine and intensify the fullness of our joy come Sunday morning when the stone is rolled away to reveal an empty tomb. Joy unspeakable and full of glory!
He is risen! He is risen indeed!