This is still in sermon form… yet to be converted to a study!

Problem

• We live in a world tossed to and fro

• We don’t really know where we stand

• We don’t know what God wants

• We get confused there’s this… “Grey” area

• We pray be don’t get results coz we not sure if its ok to pray 4 it

• We step out and pray for something but we are not sure if God wants it done

• We command someone to be healed but we are not sure what God will do at his end

• We try…. But the out come is up to God isn’t it? (No)

• We don’t do, or force or make it happen, we are passive, confused, uncertain

• Coz we are not sure we have no confidence, because we have no confidence we have no conviction because we have no conviction we don’t see results.

• Coz we don’t see result the circle turns vicious and around we go again.

I wonder if there is an authority we don’t know about?

• That we haven’t discovered

• That we are not using

• We just stumble upon it now and again

We need to break free

• We need to show the answers

• Someone has to lead by example

When Jesus prayed the bible says… Immediately!!

• Why can we get to a place where it is reliable,

• We can know that if I lay hands,

• If I pray… it will happen

• No doubt, no doctrines, nothing to pollute, destroy faith

I want us to get to a place that

• We don’t need anything

  • Don’t need other persons faith

  • Don’t need a word or a revelation

  • Don’t need to bring people to a meeting

  • Don’t need to preach faith to them

  • Like God you just get them healed

• That immediately

  • If you prayed it would happen

  • Just the same as if Jesus prayed

  • Jesus didn’t say I’ll come and pray 4u, he said I’ll come and heal him

    • Why can’t you say that? Aye?

• The world is searching for real answers

  • If you can see someone healed

  • Then they want there kids off drugs

  • Want them free, not gripped or bound

• If Jesus prayed for them would they be set free?

  • They are searching for the real God,

    • Not the religious,  God of the all-talk, no action Christians

    • Weak, powerless God of the Christians

    • Not the aloof, distant God of the bible

    • They have real lives with real needs and real tears and our Christianity of words just doesn’t cut it,

    • But Jesus did, and he’s sent you to do it for them, in his place.

Answer

God wants you as his representative

• John 20:21, 17:18 go in Jesus place

Jesus said go in my name

• I want to look at 5 ways people go in someone else’s name

We need to understand what authority is?

• Delegated power

The bible says we are ambassadors (2cor 5:20)

1.      Ambassador

• Dictionary meaning is:

  • Diplomatic minister of the highest rank

  • Sent on special mission

  • With treaty signing powers

  • And authorised representative

  • An authorised messenger

2.      Policeman

• Police pulls you up u stop why,

• Not because of this strength, wrestling

• Not physical power

• People recognise authority

3.      Priest

• Rev 1.6 Made us king and priests

• Priest minister on behalf of God

• Story

  • God said you’re my priest

  • The anointing tripled

  • Priests are given authority to minister

4.      King

• Rom 5:17, Kings of life

• Rev 19:16 King of kings

• Rule & Reign with him

  • Story – King my word was final

5.      Power of attorney

• Authority to act on ones behalf

• Rocky movie

So if we go in his name what are we suppose to do?

• Matt 10:7-8 Preach heal and deliver

• John 14:12 will do great works than these

• Mark 16:15-18 Will lay hands on the sick

• Matt Keys to the kingdom of Heaven

• Matt 18:18 What so ever you bind on earth is bound in heaven

How ?

How do I walk like this?

• Jesus showed understanding authority and faith is one and the same

• Understand the chain of command

  • Matt 8… A centurion

So what is the chain of authority?

• Matt 28:18 All authority was given to Jesus

  • Eph 1:20 set him at his own right hand in heaven places

  • Col 1:15,16 All things were created by him

  • Rev 1:8,11,18 Alpha & Omega

Where are we in this chain of authority?

God wants you as his representative

• John 20:21, 17:18 go in Jesus place

• Eph 2:6 has raised us up together (Christ is the head and we are the body)

  • Eph 1:21 Far above all principality, and power, might and dominion

  • Luke 10:19 All the power of the enemy

  • Eph 1:22,23 All things under his feet, feet are not connected to the head but the body

  • Gates of hell will not prevail. Gates don’t attack the try to keep people out

  • Rom 5:17 Kings of life

Authority is like a chain,

• Every link plays its part

• Like the TV show the weak link

• Story, because I said so

Higher you’re seated

o       Sergeant vs. constable

o       We are all seated the same

o       Story. Seated in Christ on throne of power… speak to the mountain (fire)

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Like a policeman who doesn’t know his authority

• Study the who God is and the authority he has placed on you

• Contemplate who power you go in

Practice

Step out

• Don’t see, or feel but believe

Not your power but your authority

• Believe God

• Trust Him

Stand, fight

• Wigglesworth said if God doesn’t move I move God

• The kingdom of heaven suffers violence and the violent take it by force

• Eph… We wrestle against

Does TB Joshua have any more authority than u?

Does Reinhardt Bonkee

Know they just realise a little more than u