He suffered, faced all the temptations that we would, but lived as an example of how we too can live – intimate with the Father but also walking with the freedom and security of His authority. But this verse actually says we have been raised up and seated with Christ – there's a present, active sense within the Greek words used – He's taken us together to be seated with Christ in heaven, far above everything happening on the earth. The same power that raised Jesus from the dead and seated Him in heaven, above all things, is also for those of 'us who believe'. (Ephesians 1:18-23). To enjoy our website, you'll need to enable JavaScript in your web browser. God gives us authority now as we are trying to look at discipleship, the discipleship of God not of man. I was a young teenager when Frank Peretti's books This Present Darkness and Piercing the Darkness came out. Prayer: Father, I thank you for opening the eyes of my understanding to the authority that I have as your child. posted on Jul. I can almost picture him agonizing and be saying: “Don’t you get it? Ephesians 1 also tells us that we have been 'blessed in the heavenly realms with every spiritual blessing' (v3) and Jesus Himself told us that He had been given all authority – and then He uses the 'therefore' word. Properly balancing the two gives us amazing results. For rulers are not a terror to good conduct, but to bad. The book of Job gives further insight into the limited nature of Satan’s power. God has given us power and authority. Pastor ABK resides in Brandywine, Maryland with his lovely wife Angela and their twin children, Sara and Sam. Help me to walk in that power and authority at all times. When He reprimands His disciple for cutting off a guard's ear, He also says, "Do you think I cannot call on my Father, and he will at once put at my disposal more than twelve legions of angels?" 2 Shares. Today’s Scripture: I pray that the eyes of your understanding may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which He has called you, the riches of His glorious inheritance in His holy people, and His incomparably great power to us who believe. The earth is cursed, separated from God, because humanity has authority over it, and humanity is separated from God by spiritual death. - Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy.The older authorities read here, "I have given." God-Given Authority (1:1) In Paul's day, Greek letters began with a formal salutation: the writer's name, the recipient's name and a greeting. So if we are now seated with Him in the heavenlies how are we meant to live with His authority on this earth? We just couldn’t seem to find the keys. Time and time again in later chapters of John He states that He only says and does what the Father tells Him to. And if two of us agree on anything that we ask of Him on this earth, it will be done for us in Heaven for where two or three are gathered together in His name, there He is with us.”. Believers should point to God’s authority. Satan tells him, and God asks if he knows about his servant, Job (1:8). They could not change a jot or tittle in the Gospel—only preach what God had revealed to them. Free yourself from the chains on your neck, daughter of Zion, now a captive.”. In Genesis 17:4,5,15 it says 4 As for me, behold, my covenant is with thee, and thou shalt be a father of many nations. And appointed Him head over everything for the Church. Break the chain of marital problems; break the chain of addiction; break the chain of poverty; break the chain of unbelief and disobedience to the word of God; break the chain of hindrances to your blessings; Break every chain! Like you were lacking authority? Since God gave legal authority over earth to humanity, God must honor His word. In his sovereignty, God considered it wise, as part of his curse on the world after the fall of Adam and Eve, to give Satan a huge power in this world. Please click here to learn how. Shake off your dust; rise up, sit enthroned, Jerusalem. Time and time again in later chapters of John He states that He only says and does what the Father tells Him to. (Gal. Matthew 11:27. “Awake, awake, Zion, clothe yourself with strength!