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Spiritual
Realms of Authority
The
Key to Understanding the Spiritual Realms of Authority
Kimberly Daniels
Understanding realms of
authority is a safeguard against getting outside of your spiritual coast.
Knowing your
limitations in the spirit is a must. Understanding realms of authority
will also enhance and accent your God-given gifts.
It brings correction to
our tendencies to rebel.
Understanding realms of
authority gives us a better foundation in understanding order.
It is true there is
no male or female in the spirit — but there is always order.
You do not have to worry
about proving what you can do when you are subject to God's order.
God's order always undergirds
true authority, and that which He sets in place cannot be moved.
The
authority of God will always be challenged. It is simple: The devil hates
believers!
Whether it is in the natural or
the spirit realm, demonic forces always fight against the constituted
authority of God's elect.
The words constituted
authority are very important and must be defined.
Constituted authority is that
which has been appointed, set up and established by God. What God
has appointed is anointed and cannot be denied.
Many
people try to operate in the spirit and do not understand spiritual
realms.
In order to understand
spiritual realms, we must understand realms of authority. Though there are
many kinds of authority, spiritual authority is the greatest.
If our authority in Christ
is by the Spirit, it cannot relate to whether or not a person is a male or
female, Jew or Gentile. There is no distinction between them in the
spirit.
Some
people would give everything they have for religious authority, political
authority or even the authority that comes with fame.
Athletes draw from physical
authority, while great minds lean on the authority of the intellectual
realm.
Rich people glean
from their financial authority, and the people of the world cannot
help but depend on their natural authority.
Although spiritual
authority is the greatest, it often takes the back burner in the minds of
men for the more obvious realms of authority.
Spiritual authority is the secret weapon of creation.
Many people in high
positions have tapped into this truth.
Witches and those from the
dark side crave authority in the spirit realm to the point of knowing that
authority, when harnessed and pushed in the right direction, can rule over
and affect every other realm that exists.
By
making this point, I must note that there are always opposing authorities
in the spirit realm — good vs. evil, dark vs. light, the kingdom of our God
vs. the kingdom of darkness.
There is a battle going on
in the spirit, and it is not a natural one. The real battle is not over
land, oil, political positions or the keys to the stock market.
The real battle is over
authority in the spirit. Every human being has the potential inside to
rule and have dominion in the earth.
In
the Garden of Eden, God gave dominion to all mankind, not just to
believers.
The problem comes into play
when believers do not use their access to the spirit realm that God has
given them to represent Jesus in the earth realm.
The devil has been
recruiting men to operate in the spirit realm (on the dark side) since the
fall of mankind.
The Holy Spirit is wooing us to
walk with God again as Adam did in the cool of the day.
To
be effective in the earth realm, we must do two things:
1. Walk with God in a personal relationship and have nothing before Him in
our hearts.
2. Walk
in the dominion that God has given us in the earth realm.
Doing
the things I have listed above will confuse darkness. It causes a level of
spiritual authority that overrides the authority of those on the dark
side.
I have an armor bearer who was
a crack addict for 10 years. He was on crack most of the time while he
was in my church.
He was also a part of a cult
that was involved in the Yorùbá religion form of witchcraft.
He was dedicated to the
devil and was involved in sacrifices to demons.
His wife was studying
to become a high priestess in the cult. She was at the church for
many years but eventually went back to operating on the dark side.
My armor bearer eventually
separated from her and was miraculously delivered and is serving the Lord.
He
had three children with his ex-wife. After he divorced her, she got into a
relationship with another warlock and had two more babies with him.
I thought this young man would
never be delivered, but today I witness him living for the Lord
wholeheartedly.
Recently
the warlock that his ex-wife is with flagged him down as he was driving
through the neighborhood.
My armor bearer was caught
off guard, because he knew that this young man was working witchcraft
against him.
The
warlock ran up to him and made amends. He said, "I have fasted
seven days for you to die. I have sent spiritual hurricanes and tornadoes
to your life, but none of it has affected you."
Glory to God! When we walk in
power as we walk with God, our spiritual authority overrides all
authorities of opposition.
At
an early age, I took an interest in mythology. At the time I did not know
the Lord and had no interest in reading anything.
For some strange reason I
became absolutely fascinated with reading stories on mythology. I took
classes on the subject in high school and college.
After giving my life to the
Lord and becoming a deliverance and warfare preacher, I noticed that there
was a connection between the spirit realm and mythology.
The
importance of what God revealed to me was rooted in the meaning of what a
myth actually is.
A myth is a legendary
narrative that has been verbally passed through generations but
cannot be verified.
God showed me that just because
things cannot be verified does not mean they do not exist.
This is why people do
not understand how to maneuver in the spirit. Believers are
supposed to walk by faith and not by sight.
Unfortunately, this is not
always the case. Second Corinthians teaches that what we see is
temporal, but what we cannot see is eternal (2 Corinthians 4:18).
I am sure most Christians
understand what this passage means when they use the word eternal,
but we need to investigate deeper into the meaning of temporal.
The Greek word for temporal is proskairos,
and it relates to that which is only for a season and temporarily exists.
The
things of the spirit realm are very real, but they cannot be socially,
scientifically or intellectually confirmed.
The things of the spirit
can only be spiritually discerned. Let's take a look at 1 Corinthians 2:
"But as it is written: 'Eye has not seen, nor ear heard,
nor have entered into the heart of man the things which God has
prepared for those who love Him.'
“But
God has revealed them to us through His Spirit. For the Spirit searches
all things, yes, the deep things of God.
“For
what man knows the things of a man except the spirit of the man which is
in him? Even so no one knows the things of God except the Spirit of
God.
“Now we
have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from
God, that we might know the things that have been freely given to us by
God.
“These things
we also speak, not in words which man's wisdom teaches but which the Holy
Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual.
“But
the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they
are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are
spiritually discerned.
”But he
who is spiritual judges all things, yet he himself is rightly judged by no
one" (1 Corinthians 2:9–15).
This
passage of Scripture is very clear and to the point. Spiritual things must
be spiritually discerned!
Intellect, science or
anything that we can relate to in the natural will only distort a clear
view of what is going on in the spirit realm.
We discern things spiritually by
knowing them through our spirit man and not through our natural man.
First Corinthians 2:14 says
that the natural man cannot relate to the things of the spirit.
Kimberly
Daniels pastors
Spoken Word Ministries in Jacksonville, Fla., and Fort Lauderdale, Fla., with
her husband, Ardell. She is a city councilwoman in Jacksonville as well as the
author of numerous books, including Spiritual Housekeeping (Charisma
House), from which this article is adapted.
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