Divine Authority

Friday 5 January
READ: John 5:19-23
MORE LESSON: Isaiah 30:21

Any man who walks in divine authority is one who will find out what God is doing and do the same or what He is saying and say the same. Any man who does or says what God is saying per time will have the whole of creation respond to him. God’s Word will not return to Him void as He declared in Isa. 55:11, So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.  Anytime we say what God is saying or do what He is doing, we are bound to return with answer. The reason we do not get answer to our prayer sometimes is because we tend to talk about our situations more than we talk to our situations about what God has said. In order to get unhindered answer to our prayer, we should say what God has said concerning a situation because His Word will always return with answer.

The Bible says, Verily I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever ye shall loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven: Matt 18:18.  This does not mean that every time we pray, something is loosened or bound in Heaven. Everything that needs to be bound or loosened in Heaven is already in that state. This is why the Bible says, For ever, O LORD, thy word is settled in heaven: Psa. 119:89. Therefore all we need to do when we pray is to check what is bound in Heaven and bind it on earth, and loosen that which Heaven has loosened. If we can effectively do this, then our prayer will become more effective and result-oriented.

Have you ever wondered why Jesus worked with so much authority and precision? Every prayer Jesus uttered was honoured by God. The disciples were amazed and at a point they exclaimed, ...What manner of man is this, that even the winds and the sea obey him: Matt 8:27. This is the secrete, ...Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do: for what things soever he doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise: Jn. 5:19. Jesus followed the voice of the Father to the letter. He did only what the Father did and said only what He heard the Father say, and the entire creation was subject to Him. This was the exact thing that Adam was supposed to enjoy and he did enjoy it until he rebelled. No wonder Jesus is called the second Adam. He came to restore man to the original estate. Choose to follow the voice of the Lord in everything because if you speak what God has said, you are perfectly sure that  the earth cannot resist the authority of the Word.                                            
                          
Prayer/Action
*AsK God to help you to do what He will want you to do.
*Ask God to reveal His perfect will to you for every matter of your life.
*Ask for the grace to walk in obedience to God and your leaders.

TODAY’S PROPHETIC PRAYER
My gracious Father, because of Jesus and His blood, let mercy speak for me in 2018, in Jesus' name.