If anything is stealing killing or destroying in your life in your children's lives in your family's lives in your nation or in anything that affects you you have authority over it. You are the boss of the devil. Hello and welcome to Faith talks. I'm your host Emily Preston and in these podcasts, we will be discussing how to practically apply the principles found in the word or how to be a doer of the word. So that you can start seeing more of the manifestation of God's grace in every area of your life. Hello everybody and welcome back to Faith talks where we learn how to walk by faith through Grace today. I'm so excited about what I have to teach you. I've been spending a lot of time developing the notes and the outline for this teaching and every time I think I'm prepared to to go ahead and record it the holy spirit gives me more and more things to add to it. So I'm not going to rush through this topic. I'm going to take my time. I really want to spend as much time as I can teaching you everything that I've learned about this topic and not rushing through anything. And so there's going to be quite a few episodes to do with this topic. But I really believe that I've gotten everything that all of the important things that I need to out of this topic. Like to teach you and the Holy Spirit will fill in the blanks. And of course we can talk about the word forever. But what I'd like to teach you today is about your Authority so the authority of the believer and I've actually titled this podcast you're the boss over the devil because we have to change the way we see ourselves and when we see ourselves as being in charge as over the things that are trying to steal kill and destroy from us, it's all about recognizing and We're having a revelation of our position. And so what I'm going to teach you is where our Authority comes from when we got our Authority, who and what we have authority over how we become fully persuaded of our Authority and how we exercise our Authority. So hopefully each of these points covers all the main things that we need to know and this teaching actually ties in with my previous episodes time. Titled is God really in control and if you're interested in listening to those their episodes 29 to 31 where I teach about the sovereignty of God and is God really in control and you can't talk about the Believers Authority or God being in control separately from each other. They're very much tied in with each other God being in control and the authority of the believer. So a lot of the things I'm going to mention today May overlap, but there are so many new things. This is so many amazing awesome points that I'd like to bring out for you. And the reason that I really got enthusiastic about teaching this topic is because of a Facebook post. And normally I don't get into any discussions or debates on Facebook because you know revelation of the word has to come from the Holy Spirit. It doesn't come through debating and arguing over things it comes because the person has to have a revelation of of the word, you know, Flesh and Blood did not reveal these things to us. It's by the spirit. So normally as I said, I don't get into discussions and debates but I saw a Facebook post from a very well-known very prominent Minister and this person has an enormous following and the post that they put on their Facebook page said find a resting place in God in his sovereignty. We do not control anything and really that you know, it just really it was like I got punched in the stomach find a resting place in God and his son. T we do not control anything and I thought that couldn't be farther from the truth. And so I did answer I put a little comment on there which I probably shouldn't have but I thought this person is influencing so many people and there were so many replies to that post saying yes. Amen Ford's, you know tagging people in that and I just thought man, you know, no wonder people live downtrodden lives that are just full of misery because they think that God is in control of everything. They don't think that they have any say in what goes on in their life. They leave the outcome up to God. They want to remain in a passive position asking God to do things instead of realizing that God has given them full authority over the things that come to steal kill and destroy and so I put a very nicely I hope weathered comment up on that post and some people were supportive of it, but the majority of people were very Angry at what I had to say and I used scripture. I didn't just pull things out of the air actually, but back to everything I set up with scripture, but the it was borderline abuse. So I was called a heretic and all kinds of things. I suppose. I'm in good company because Jesus was called a heretic but I just thought this is such an important Revelation that people need to receive is that they are not just to leave everything that happens and just put up with things they have Have a say in what goes on in their lives. We have a saying God's given us everything that we need to operate and walk in the authority that he's given us. And so that really spurred me on to record this podcast and and discuss this topic. So I know that you're going to learn so much from it as I did when I was studying this out and you know, we really just have to pray that people have a change of heart have a revelation of the truth because if they don't they will continue believing that God can heal all but not knowing that he will heal or not knowing that they can speak healing into their bodies and you know other times people believe that it's God who is allowing things to come their way to teach them patience or prepare them for a bigger trial that's down the road and people including Christians accept terrible things happening in their lives because they don't know that they have authority over them and see people don't like to let the Bible get in the way of they believe so you can pull out scripture after scripture and they still won't believe you because it's a change of heart. It has to come through Revelation and revelation of the word only comes through the preaching of the Gospel. So that's why we have two people who believe we who believe in no our Authority we have to get this word out there because the word of God is the only thing that is the truth and it is the truth that makes people free says in John 10:10 that the thief comes not but to steal To kill and to destroy but Jesus said that he came that we might have life in abundance to the full until it overflows. That's black and white. The thief is the one behind anything that is stealing killing and destroying but Jesus came to destroy the works of the evil one. He came to destroy the stealing the killing and the destroying and people are blaming God for the things that are stealing killing and destroying when God tells us it's the thief and so the enemy is successfully getting away with things because of Believers lack of knowledge if people don't know if the enemy if they think that God's the one behind it, then they're going to just accept it because they have a lack of knowledge in that area and that's mentioned in Hosea 4:6. It says my people perish through lack of knowledge. My people my Christian's my Believers my children perish because they don't know who they are in Christ Jesus and they don't know what God has given them by his grace. And so that is why it is so important to renew our minds to the word because it's the word that tells us who we are and what we have through the finished works of Jesus and most importantly the word tells us about our Authority. See everything we receive from God has to come through us. It doesn't just fall on us like apples off a tree. It has to come through an act of receiving in second Peter 1 verse 3. It says his divine power has given us past tense has given us everything everything that pertains to life and godliness, but how does it come through the Knowledge of him through the knowledge of the word through the knowledge of God who has called us to glory and goodness everything that God's power has supplied to us comes through our knowledge of him through our knowledge of the word. So if we have an authority deficiency, we have a word deficiency. So the more word we put in the more we're going to walk in those things that are to do with life and godliness. I love what Creflo Dollar says. He says that God has supplied the power but we have to flip the switch if the lights aren't working in your house. You don't call the electric company to come and turn your lights on. They've already supplied the power to your house, but you have to go and turn the lights on you have to flip the switch. And so God has supplied the power to us. He has supplied the authority his supplied all of the tools and resources that we need to live and overcoming. Successful Victorious life but we have to flip this switch. We have to activate what he's given us. It's not just going to automatically come to pass. There's an act of receiving on our part. And so today I'm going to teach you that you are the boss over the devil. You do not have to put up with anything stealing killing or destroying in your life in your family's life in your nation in the lives of the people that you love ever again. And I'm going to teach you how to exercise your authority over all of the power of the enemy so that nothing by any means shall harm you so before we start I'd just like to pray for you Lord. I Thank you for these people these precious people that are listening today Lord. I Thank You Lord that you love them so much Lord and that you want them to be Victorious and Overcomers in every area of their life and that you have given them everything that they need to do that Lord and I thank you Lord that they have the spirit of wisdom and Revelation in the knowledge of God and that the eyes of their understanding are enlightened and they know the hope of their calling they know what other glorious Riches of your inheritance for them in the Saints and your incomparably great power toward them because they are believers in the name of Jesus. I thank you Lord that everyone within the sound of my voice today receives revelation of who they are in Christ Jesus. They have revelation of their Authority as Believers and they have revelation of your unconditional love and grace toward them in Jesus name. Amen. Okay. So let's go back to the very beginning of where our Salvation started you have been saved by grace through faith salvation is a finished work and that word salvation is the Greek word Sozo, which means Old delivered preserved nothing missing and nothing broken in the Hebrew. It's the word Shalom. So Shalom Sozo or so Terrier. These are all words for salvation. And so salvation isn't just going to heaven when we die. It includes that includes eternal life, but it also includes healing Deliverance preservation. Nothing missing and nothing broken. So Jesus didn't just it died for your Eternal Sava salvation. He died so that we can live a life of Heaven here on Earth until we move to the next life. That is what God's perfect plan is for all of us and Jesus brought back everything that Adam Lost In the Garden of Eden and He restored it to us Adam and Eve fell when they ate of the fruit and the Earth was plunged into under a curse, but Jesus has redeemed us from the curse that came on Adam. That came on the world. So although we live in a cursed world. We don't have to operate under the world system operate under the curse. We do not have to tolerate the curse in our life perfect health perfect. Peace Divine protection Divine prosperity and the blessing of the Lord now belongs to us as children of God. Once again these things belong to us. So why do bad things still happen? Why does Sickness still attack our bodies. Why do we still face trials? Why is there still tragedy because even though the devil has been defeated and he was defeated at the cross. He is still God the small G God of this Earth. He still on the loose in this earth and he will remain on the loose in this earth until Jesus comes back. But God has given us all of the tools all of the resources necessary. A to take authority over him and put him in his place when he tries to steal kill and destroy from us and I'll give you an example of this and I've used this example before but it's the best example I can think of and that is that in our country. So for example in this in my country of Australia, there are laws in place that are forbid people from stealing from killing from rape from murder from you know, Any kind of criminal acts there are laws in place. There are written laws that state that those things are illegal and that there is a penalty for people who break those laws. There are harsh punishments that are the consequence for people breaking the law, but does it stop people from breaking the law know, there are people there are criminals who are out there who are stealing who are killing who are raping who are murdering. Who are committing crimes because they don't have any regard for the law. And so the country of Australia the government of Australia has delegated Law Enforcement Officers the police they are the people who are designated with authority to enforce the law. So if someone is caught breaking the law they have the full backing of the government of Australia to enforce the law, too. Arrest that person to bring them in and put them in jail and to enforce a punishment that fits the crime and they are the law enforcement offices. They are the people who have the full backing of the government the full Authority the government doesn't come and enforce the law in every particular situation themselves. They have delegated people to enforce the law and maintain order and Discipline in this nation and it's the same with us. The enemy is still breaking the law even though there are laws in place that save that sickness has been defeated that he cannot steal kill and destroy in our lives. It doesn't stop him from trying. Okay. So that's why God has designated US law enforcement officers. He has delegated authority to us so that if we catch the thief trying to steal kill and destroy we can arrest him and we can come down on him with the full force of the law the word of God and we can forbid him from operating in our lives because we have the backing of the government. We have the backing of Heaven itself of God of Jesus that have given us his authority that have delegated us as law enforcement officers and we have their full backing to Force the law in our lives and to arrest anything that is trying to steal kill and destroy from us. So the thing is is only people who know their Authority who know that they have delegated authority from Heaven who will walk in that Authority and who will arrest the thief people who don't know their Authority will just let him get away with it. They won't arrest him. They won't stop him from doing it because they don't know that they can they don't know what their rights and their privileges are and that again is why it's so important to learn and to get a revelation of our Authority. And once we have a revelation of authority over these things, we will never again tolerate anything less than God's best in any area of our lives in Luke 10:19. It says behold. I have given you Power Authority to trample on snakes and scorpions and over all of Power of the enemy and nothing shall by any means harm you that's why God has to give us the authority over all of the power of the enemy because he doesn't want anything by any means to harm us, but he has to give us the authority so that we can stop it one of my friends Darren. He had been suffering with back pain for about 20 years as a result of a car accident, you know in most If people would just think oh, well, this is just something that I have to live with for the rest of my life, you know pain killers physio adjusting their life to accommodate this back pain, but Darren got a revelation of his authority and he spoke to that back pain and he said you get out you do not belong to me in the name of Jesus and he enforced his authority his god-given authority over that back pain and the back pain left and Darren's been. Free of that back pain ever since because he got a revelation of his authority and you can listen to his full testimony in episode 32 of this podcast. But again, God has given us Authority because he does not want us to have to tolerate things that are stealing killing and destroying from us. So let's talk about where our Authority comes from. Where did we get our Authority? Well, we were created to have a Authority that was God's plan from the very beginning he said in Genesis 1 verse 26, let us make man in our image after our likeness and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea over the fowl of the air over the cattle over all the Earth over every creeping thing that creeps upon the Earth. God said let us make man in our image after our likeness let Them have dominion. We were created to be just like God we have the same Dominion that God has in our jurisdiction. He's given us jurisdiction over this Earth. This is where we have dominion and Authority just like God does over the universe and that word dominion is the Hebrew word raw door which means to dominate to have rule over to rain over and to Shred down. So God gave Dominion Authority Rule and Reign Over everything in the earth to man. Now notice. He did not give man Authority and dominion over each other, but he gave us dominion and authority over everything in the earth everything that moves breathes creeps flies walks over the Earth swims. We have been given authority over it. Do you know that God fully intended for Adam to take dominion over that snake when that snake came to tempt Eve Adam was there with her he was standing by her and God had just finished giving him dominion and authority over everything in the Earth, but he didn't take his authority over that snake. He let the snake talk to Eve and talk her into eating the fruit and then he then ate the fruit when Eve offered it to him and then Happened Adam did what people have been doing for thousands of years. He blamed God he blamed God for the mess that they got into he blamed God for Eve eating the fruit and offering it to him and he said to God it was that woman you gave me it's your fault. It was the woman you gave me and when Adam and Eve ate the forbidden fruit and sinned against God they fell from their position of authority they fell from their position of having. Pleat dominion over all of the earth and they handed it over to Satan and Satan became the god small G of this world. And now he has Authority and dominion over the Earth and you may ask well, why didn't God just fix everything right there? And then why didn't he just, you know kill Adam and drown Eve and start all over again because God cannot go back on his word in. 89 verse 4. He says my Covenant I will not break not alter the thing that has gone out of my lips, you know, people say that God can do anything but he can't he cannot go back on his word. The whole universe is upheld by his word. If he was to lie, even once the whole of the universe would fall apart because he cannot lie. He cannot go back on his word. God has had created man in His image and his likeness. If he had given him dominion and authority over all of the earth, so in essence God's hands were tied. He couldn't just go and say well no, I didn't really mean that hang on a sec. You messed up. Give it back Satan. Give it back Adam. Let's start all over again. No, it was the plan the the process had already been set in motion, and he couldn't just hand The Authority back over to man. He had given the earth and its authority over to man and man was a free moral. He had a choice and he chose to sin against God and in doing so he handed his authority over to Satan and God could not violate his word. He couldn't just take man's authority of Satan and give it back to him. He had to restore it to him through the blood of Jesus and through the Plan of Redemption which took about four thousand years to come to pass. So man had lost his authority he has Had given it over to Satan and now Satan had Authority and Dominion in the Earth because man had given it to him. And so let's have a look at when our Authority was given back to us. When Jesus came to the Earth as a man as a sinless man. He took the sin of the whole world when he went to the Cross then he went to hell and he took back the keys of death and hell now. I'm not going to go into a broad. On this particular topic, I'm just summarizing. But basically I want to bring out that he triumphed over Satan and he made a show of him. Openly he conquered him and he took back the authority he had stolen from man and after he did that he was resurrected from the dead and he ascended into heaven now in Ephesians 2 verse 4. It says that God who is rich in Mercy because of his great. Great love with which he loved us. Even when we were dead in sin. He made us alive together with Christ. He made us alive together with Jesus because by Grace we have been saved and raised us up together and made us sit together in the Heavenly places in Christ Jesus. So we were raised up together with Jesus even though we were dead in sin. Even though we were dead in our trespasses he raised us up together with Jesus and made us sit together with Jesus in Heavenly places and Hebrews 8 verse 1 says that Jesus is our high priest and is seated at the right hand of the Throne of the Majesty in the heavens. So Jesus is now seated at the right hand of the Throne of God of the Majesty in the heavens. And we are seated together with him. Now. The right hand of the Throne of God is the center of all the power and authority in the universe and it was given to Jesus after he died went to hell and was resurrected. Jesus was placed in that position of authority and power and when God raised Jesus up he raised us up with him. We now sit together with Jesus. We now occupy. By the same position of authority that Jesus occupies, we share the throne at the right hand of the majesty and to share a throne is to share the position that it represents. We are Co sharers of the authority that Jesus holds isn't that awesome and see this is not a privilege of a Chosen Few. This is the birthright of every believer who is a born-again. Child of God and you know, don't let the enemy talk to you and say that's so arrogant. That's so proud. How dare you supposed to even think that you that you share the same Authority as Jesus? I didn't say it. You didn't say it. God said it God is the one that says where your position of authority is and it is at his right hand. You are a CO are a joint Heir with Jesus you are seated at the right hand. Hand of majesty and that is where your Authority is and see Authority is not arrogance. It's simply knowing our position and walking in it. It is it a is actually a sign of true humility because we are doing what God says to do. We are occupying the position that God has given us to occupy. We are being obedient to the word and not what we think should be right and so we're going to leave that right there and we'll take this up in Next episode so tune in again next time for the continuation of this message. I've got some awesome awesome Revelation to share with you until next time stay blessed and don't forget to be a doer of the word and not a hearer only. God bless you. Thank you so much for being part of today's episode of Faith talks. If you have any questions related to today's or any of my previous episodes if you have a testimony you would like to share or for a free copy of Sessions for life. Please email me at questions at Faith talks.com dot a you for episode announcements and regular encouragement. 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The devil has been defeated, but he's still on the loose. He still roams as a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour. He still comes to steal, kill, and destroy from people who don't know he's defeated and who don't know their authority. As believers, we have been given authority over ALL of the power and ability of the devil so that nothing, by any means, can harm us, but we have to renew our minds to who we are and what we have been given so that we can operate in the full extent of our authority. In this series, you will learn why you have been given authority, when you were given authority, how to exercise your authority, and who/what you have authority over. You will learn practical examples of how to exercise authority in your health, finances, emotions, relationships, and in your nation. Once you receive a revelation of your authority you will never tolerate anything from the enemy in your own life, the lives of those you care about, or the place you live, ever again! "A believer who is fully conscious of the divine power that is backing him up, and therefore of his own authority will face anything that is from the enemy without fear or hesitation." - John A. MacMillan (The Authority of the Believer) 