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Praise God.

Let's turn over to Acts chapter one, and I'm going to start sharing in sequence this week.

I'm going to talk about the authority that God has given us as believers.

And let me just say that this is an area that I think there's a lot of confusion in.

Many of you may not relate to that title,

and you may think, oh, man, what does this have to do with me? There's certain things that are

God's responsibility, and there's certain things that are our responsibility that he gave us

authority over this, and God won't ever violate those lines. Like, for instance, in James chapter 4, when it says, submit, verse 7, submit yourselves,

therefore unto God, resist the devil and he will flee from you.

You know, those aren't just words that God put in here to take up space.

It says in Psalms chapter 89, verse 34, that my covenant will I not

break nor alter the thing that has gone forth out of my lips. When God says something, it's a

covenant. It's binding. He never changes. And so when God says you resist the devil and he will flee from you, then if you don't resist,

the word resist means to actively fight against. If you don't resist, God's not going to step in

and get the devil off your back for you. You have to resist the devil. You have to take your authority.

And brothers and sisters, most of us are missing it in this area.

This is my experience dealing with people, that people come and ask for prayer, and they're

asking God to do something that he told you to do.

For instance, the scripture says in Matthew chapter 10, Luke chapter 9, he gave us a command

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