God is love and power
Both of these are actually the same concept. You can’t have one without
the other if you are to walk in fullness. When we truly discover this,
obedience is not a hard thing, it is a liberating thing because it seems it’s
the easiest path forward. (If I was to say nothing else I would say this).
2 John 1:6 "And this is love: that we walk in
obedience to his commands. As you have heard from the beginning, his
command is that you walk in love."
Ephesians 6:12 “For our struggle is not against flesh
and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers
of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly
realms.”
Taking authority
Taking authority is taking the knowledge you have and putting it into
practice. It is pretty silly if you have an army and weapons and war plans and
never get them out of the reserves into the frontline LOL. The worst general
would not do that. As a matter of fact, if we just have the knowledge without
action we are actually going the worg way. I.e. a general who does not go to
battle cannot be a general; actually he can be court-martialed and demoted.
James 1:22 "Do not merely listen to the word, and so
deceive yourselves. Do what it says."
Be a librarian of the Word
Being good librarians is key to effectively exercise authority. There is
law (with small “l”) and Law (with capital “L”). In the worldly “law” it is the
lawyer who is good at getting the best precedent cases found in law books and
presents them to the judge who, although above the lawyer, has no choice but to
follow what the lawyer dug up to show the judge. The same way, if we become
good librarians and get what we need in the Bible we can present it to God for
our walk and also to the Devil to put him in his place (which is nowhere around
us).
Psalm 119:11 "I have hidden your word in my heart
that I might not sin against you."
Knowledge over heart
Prioritizing knowledge over heart (feelings). We must stand on the Word
and in what we know regardless of how we feel. Otherwise it would not be called
faith.
Jeremiah 17:9 "The heart is deceitful above all
things and beyond cure."
Knowing our source of power
Knowing our source of power constantly is what activates our faith. We
don’t need a lot of faith but this is what makes it gigantic. If we know who is
in charge and that we are grafted in with Him then faith is ridiculously easy!
Matthew 17:20 “Because you have so little faith. Truly
I tell you, if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say
to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move. Nothing
will be impossible for you.”
Casting cares
Casting cares is a crucial and effective principle. It seems for every
good thing and spiritual move throughout any give day there are 10 cares that
come with it. We have to be trained (like past Jenny mentioned) to nip them in
the bud at a moment’s notice so they don’t interrupt our flow. To have cares
and worry is actually a sin. More importantly keep casting them away even when
they keep coming back.
2 Corinthians 10:5 "We demolish arguments and every
pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take
captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.”
Matthew 11:30 "For my yoke is easy and my burden is
light.”
Keep offence out
This is another set of multiple attacks to which we are prone. Offence
has been called the bait of Satan as many people live years with that weighting
them down. It seems that keeping offence and trying to move forward is like
trying to fly with a bunch of weights stuck on us. It can be done but this is
meant to be easy like God promises. Not hard. If we hold unforgiveness it will
block our prayers to receive.
Mark 11:25 "And when you stand praying, if you hold
anything against anyone, forgive them, so that your Father in heaven
may forgive you your sins.”
Romans 13:8 "Let no debt remain outstanding, except the
continuing debt to love one another, for whoever loves others has fulfilled
the law."
It’s easy
On the previous note, it is easy to live if we keep our priorities
straight. The Bible reveals that we’re not meant to have great difficulty and
struggle in attaining our goals and especially provision. Wow. This in itself
is great to cast our cares and worries before they even set in. We should care
of how God blesses us, that’s his business. Our business is to thank Him and to
live for Him.
Remembering were children and ambassadors
We have Christ’s full authority here. If we attack an ambassador in a
country that is considered to be an attack on that person’s nation and
therefore an act of war. How is if someone or even Satan attacks not only an
ambassador but one of God’s children on Earth? Satan has no authority and we
have to tell him so. Tell the Devil to shut up.
Obedience first
I mentioned that things started changing when I went to my friend’s
cabin and cried out for help but now I realized something happened before then.
I had almost forgotten that I had volunteered for a task at the church before
going on vacation. It seems my pattern was broken by stepping forward an
placing myself available. I had done this because the pastor said he needed
more people and as little as I felt like doing that or even saw the sense in
doing a job that others could easily do I still stepped forward in obedience. It
seems that action in itself does not necessarily accomplish much in the natural
but in the spiritual but it starts a process like pebbles down a hill
eventually moving rocks and boulders.
Obedience under authority
Obedience is good and authority is good but authority is pointless if
we're not obedient. Again it is like having the power and not activating it. I
have heard a few very powerful and successful preacher - Jesse Duplantis for
instance – say that the one thing they have always done from the start was to
obey God. We can see how the lives of the great figures in the Bible are deeply
bathed in authority: Abraham, Joseph, Moses, Joshua, David, Jesus. It seems all
of God’s plan hinges on it even during the warm fuzzy moments such as healing.
Matthew 8:9 "For I myself am a man under
authority, with soldiers under me. I tell this one, ‘Go,’ and he goes; and that
one, ‘Come,’ and he comes. I say to my servant, ‘Do this,’ and he does
it.”
Reconnaissance
In the history of war more battles have been lost due to lack of
information than anything else. Information is very important so once we have
these principles we need to know what God's plan is for us so that we know
where to put our efforts, where our anointing is, where threats may be.
Andy De Campos
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