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Your Spiritual Authority
How to Use Your
Spiritual Authority in Any Situation
Kenneth Copeland
Do you struggle with
knowing how to use your spiritual authority for your finances, family or body?
Learn how to use your authority in any situation.
There is a story of a farmer who found an eagle’s egg
and brought it home to his chicken coop. When the egg hatched, the young eagle
only saw chickens around him.
Without knowing what he truly was, he simply mimicked
what he saw around him. He scratched and pecked and flew short distances.
He believed he was a chicken; therefore, he acted like
a chicken.
Many believers are living the same way — trapped in a
chicken mentality. They have received salvation, but stop short of living life
abundantly, as God intended.
They want to live in prosperity,
health, protection and peace, but they stop short of achieving victory in those
areas for one reason — they don’t know how to use their authority.
Luke 10:19 says, “Look, I have given you authority
over all the power of the enemy.”
Jesus has given you the authority,
but you must take it and exercise it.
Are you ready to fly the coop and soar like an eagle?
Here is how you can use your spiritual authority
in any situation and claim VICTORY once and for all.
1. Use Your Authority for Physical Protection
“No
evil shall befall you, nor shall any plague come near your dwelling.” – Psalm 91:10 (NKJV)
Salvation includes more than just the guarantee of
going to heaven — that’s just the beginning.
Salvation is a big word. In the Greek language, it literally means
deliverance, safety, preservation, material and temporal deliverance from
danger, pardon, restoration, healing, wholeness and soundness.
Do you know what that means? It means you don’t have
to be afraid of anything harming you or your children physically.
Physical protection for you and your family is a
Covenant right. Peace, safety and covering from calamity, disaster or harm of
any kind belongs to you.
It is NOT God’s will that people go and shoot up our
children’s schools. It is NOT God’s will that we or our children are filled
with sickness and disease or suffer injuries.
It is NOT God’s will that we suffer under any part of
the curse.
But the devil has come to kill and destroy — he’s
looking for a loophole — a way in to break the circle of protection that encompasses
you.
It is God’s will that we stop the enemy, and rule and
reign over him.
We live in a dangerous world, so taking your authority
for protection should be done daily.
It doesn’t take long — speak a word of protection as
you drive, speak Psalm 91 over your family as you head to work or run errands,
plead the blood of Jesus first thing in the morning when you wake.
As you make it part of your daily routine, it will
become second nature to you.
Take authority by saying something similar to Billye
Brim’s daily declaration:
You listen to me, kingdom of
darkness: It is written that I am seated at the Father’s right hand far above
you (Ephesians 1:18-23) and that I overcome you by the blood of the Lamb and
the word of my testimony (Revelation 12:11).
So here is the word of my
testimony, and here is who you can’t go near today. I draw the blood around
(name your family members), and I plead the blood over myself, too.
You stay away from us! Satan, you
stay away from the good works I should walk in. You stay away from my ministry,
my church, my neighborhood, my home, and every vehicle and building we go into.
I draw a bloodline around them.
When you get into your car or fly on an airplane you
can say:
In the Name of Jesus, I plead the
blood of Jesus over my car. Bumper to bumper, side to side, top to bottom,
every part working and nonworking, no one and nothing will bump this car, and
we’ll bump no one or nothing. We’ll get to wherever we’re going without
incident.
You have the Name of Jesus and you have the authority
of Jesus, and you overcome Satan by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of
your testimony (Revelation
12:11, KJV).
2. Use Your Authority to Drive Out Sickness
“No
evil will conquer you; no plague will come near your home.” – Psalm 91:10
You have authority over sickness and disease — every
cold, flu, backache, cancer, heart disease — all of it. You have the authority
through Christ Jesus.
So, why do we sometimes face these challenges? Simple:
God is not going to override your authority. He gave Adam authority, and He didn’t override
Adam’s decision to relinquish it to Satan.
He has given you the same authority in the earth, and
He has given you the way to victory in EVERY situation in His Word.
But He won’t override your authority. He will let you
die sick if you choose to do so.
You would have to ignore every healing scripture in
the Bible and all that Jesus bought for you when He bore your sicknesses and
carried your diseases, but you have the authority to go ahead and die. God will
not stop you.
So, if you’re talking about your symptoms and
sickness, you’re relinquishing your authority to Satan as Adam did in the
Garden of Eden. That won’t get results!
Charles
Capps used to say, “Don’t call the dog if you want the
cat. If you want the dog, you don’t step out on the front porch and say,
‘Here, cat.’ You say, ‘Here, dog.’ When you do, you’re taking authority
over that dog and that old dog just comes running right up, wagging his tail.”
Don’t call the dog if you want the cat, and don’t call
for sickness and disease if you want to be healed. Use your authority and
command your body to be healed in the Name of Jesus.
When Kenneth Copeland was first starting out in
ministry, he was under the mentorship of Oral Roberts.
One night, in the healing room after the service, they
came to a woman who had cancer of the stomach. She was just the picture of
death.
As they approached her to lay
hands on her, in a loud, growling, authoritative voice, Oral Roberts said, “You
foul, unclean spirit, take your hands off God’s property in the Name of Jesus,
whose I am and whom I serve! Come out of her now!”
She instantly spit out that cancer on the floor. (It
was the size of a fist and had nasty-looking tentacles hanging off it.)
Then she jumped off her bed and
ran around the room shouting, “I’m healed! I’m healed! I’m healed!”
That same authority is on the inside of you right now.
You can use it to heal yourself; you can use it to heal others — and you
should.
When you take authority over your
body, say, “Body, I command you to get in line. I rebuke every symptom in my
body right now, in Jesus’ Name. Be healed and made whole from the top of my
head to the soles of my feet. I take my healing! I am healed.”
3. Use Your Authority to Cast Out Demons
“They
will cast out demons in my name.” – Mark 16:17
Demonic activity isn’t something you’ll hear preached
about on many Sunday mornings, but it exists, and there is a simple way to deal
with it — by taking your authority.
Certain countries see a greater level of demonic
activity, but it’s everywhere, and it isn’t to be tolerated—not even for a
minute.
In Mark 5:1-20, we see how
Jesus handled demons when He drove them out of the demon-possessed man and into
a herd of pigs.
He used His authority — the same authority that has
been given to us — to drive them out.
Billye Brim shared a story in her
book The Blood and the Glory, about something that happened to
her son Chip and his three friends when they were living in a mobile home while
attending college:
“The first day they arrived home
from school, they noticed strange things. The doors and windows were open.
Hairdryers and a toaster were on.
The television and stereos were blasting. They thought it was someone playing a
joke, but no one else had a key.
One night, Chip was in his
bedroom studying. Everyone else was in bed. He heard the front door slam and
the whole mobile home shook. He and his friends ran out of there as fast as
they could.”
Many other similar incidents took place that day. They
ran to a pay phone and called Billye. She instructed them to take scriptures
and cast out the demons with their authority.
Then, she told them to anoint the doors and windows
with oil and apply the blood of Jesus.
By using the authority given to them by the blood and
the Name of Jesus, they had no further trouble.
All believers can cast out devils in His name.
John Osteen used to
say that when demons would approach his house, they must have said, “Oh,
don’t go over there, those people will beat your brains out.”
That’s the way we ought to be when the devil tries to
think about coming to our house.
Use the Name of Jesus. Plead the blood of Jesus.
Drive demons and any demonic activity out of your
home, your body, your life, your neighborhood, buildings, cars and anything
else they try to occupy.
Never be afraid of them — YOU have the authority. And
they know it.
4. Use Your Authority to Subdue the Weather
“Then He arose
and rebuked the wind, and said to the sea, ‘Peace, be still!’ And the wind
ceased and there was a great calm.” – Mark 4:39 (NKJV)
With so many devastating storms
and disastrous tornadoes, floods and other happenings, many people have asked, “Is
God behind it?”
The answer is, ABSOLUTELY NOT!
Jesus said in John 10:10: “The
thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come
that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly” (NKJV).
Jesus is our example when it
comes to dealing with destructive storms. We know Jesus spoke to the wind and
said to the water, “Peace, be still!” and they obeyed Him.
We have the same place of authority through Jesus.
It’s not His place to enforce the laws of the Kingdom in the earth. It’s
ours.
Watch Chip Brim describe taking authority over a
tornado approaching his home:
So,
when the report of bad weather comes, don’t wait and see what’s going to
happen.
Start
speaking to it, NOW! Go outside, if you can. Shout! Don’t just talk
to God about it. Speak to the elements.
Say, “You don’t come to my house! I declare
THE BLESSING WALL up and around me, my family, my property and all that’s
mine!”
Forget
about what other people think. They already think we’re crazy.
Being
worried about what others think is a form of fear, and if the devil can get you
to back off, he’ll try to destroy what’s yours and blame it on God.
You
have authority over the weather. Don’t be afraid of any storm, tornado or
earthquake. Rebuke it just as Jesus did.
Watch
as Gloria Copeland takes authority over a tornado that was threatening a
Convention Center where she was teaching Healing School. (The weather starts at
about 1:04:55 in the video below.)
5. Use Your Authority for Finances
“He
disarmed the spiritual rulers and authorities. He shamed them publicly by
his victory over them on the cross.” – Colossians 2:15
If you’ve ever experienced the stress that comes from
financial pressure, you know how difficult it is when you’re
so strapped you don’t have enough money to pay your bills.
There are things that can block financial blessing
such as being in unforgiveness, failing to walk in love, failing to tithe and
sow, or operating without integrity.
Those areas should be checked first. But if everything
is in line with the Word of God, you may be facing an attack of the devil on
your finances.
He comes to STEAL, kill and destroy. He does not want
you blessed.
Here’s the good news: Jesus reduced
principalities and powers to nothing — He took away the devil’s power to
dominate us in any way — including in the realm of our finances.
Our job is to act on this truth. As long as we act
like the devil has power over our finances, he will.
But if you will believe in your heart and confess with
your mouth what God’s Word says about finances, you’ll be taking authority, and
you’ll get what you need.
So, when you’re facing an attack of the enemy on your
finances, take your place of authority.
Speak to the financial mountain.
Say, “SATAN, TAKE YOUR HANDS OFF MY MONEY AND OFF MY
PROPERTY. Ministering spirits (angels), GO! Cause all
that’s mine in the kingdom of God to come into my hands,
now! I declare THE BLESSING of the Lord, THE SHIELD OF GRACE up around all
that’s mine!”
In conclusion, when you learn how to use your
spiritual authority in any situation, nothing will be impossible for you!
You’ll be operating in the position of dominion God
intended from the beginning. God did not create you to be a victim — you were
made to WIN!
Kenneth Copeland Ministries is dedicated to building up believers’ faith and
deepening their walk with Christ, so they can live the victorious life God
promised.
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