One of the most important things we can say in our praying is “I take authority over…” We can take authority over our health, our finances, over all sickness and weakness, over sin and over emotional problems we might be experiencing. All Christians have authority over their problems here on earth, but most of them aren’t using their authority.
God gave Adam and Eve authority in the first chapter of Genesis.
Genesis 1:26 – “Then God said, let us make man in our image according to our likeness; let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth.”
Here God gave them dominion over all fish, all birds, over all cattle, over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth. (That would include all demons that creep upon the earth.)
Genesis 1:28 – “Then God blessed them and God said to them, Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it; have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air and over every living thing that moves upon the earth.”
Here God gave them dominion over all fish, all birds and over every living thing that moves upon the earth.
Adam lost his authority over the earth and everything in it when he and Eve sinned. Now in the Old Covenant only the Kings, priests and prophets had authority here on the earth.
Mankind’s authority was re-established when Jesus suffered, died, went into hell and then rose again from the dead.
Jesus gave authority to his twelve disciples and to all of us in the New Testament or New Covenant.
Luke 10:19 – Jesus says, “Behold, I give you power (Greek – exousia, meaning delegated authority) to tread on serpents and scorpions and over all the power of the enemy and nothing shall by any means hurt you.”
Jesus’s words, “to tread upon” serpents and scorpions means “to have complete mastery over.”
Matthew 10:1 says, “And when He had summoned his twelve disciples, he gave them power and authority over unclean spirits, to drive them out and to cure all kinds of disease and all kinds of weakness and infirmity.”
Matthew 16:19 – “Behold, I give you the keys (a symbol of authority) of the Kingdom of heaven: whatever you bind on earth shall be (having already been) bound in heaven; whatever you loose or release on earth shall be (having already been) loosed in heaven.” To bind up something means to tie it up, to render it helpless, to prohibit something, to stop something. To loose something means to undo it, to untie it, to release it.
When we bind up something, we forbid it, we tie it up so that it can’t hurt us any longer.
We have authority over everything that creeps upon the earth. So, we have authority over storm and can bind them up from coming to our property and destroying it. We can bind up sickness, weakness and diseases from our lives.
We can bind up poverty and lack from our lives.
We can bind up unforgiveness and strife from our relationships. God has already given us tremendous authority to bind and loose or release things here on earth.
Let’s use this authority that Jesus has already given us.
Mary
