Hello, thank you for joining me today for Give Him 15, the title of today's post,

Using Our God-Given Authority.

Yesterday, I shared some thoughts regarding spiritual warfare.

While we are not to become distracted or preoccupied with Satan or his demons,

they do exist and must be resisted at times.

The Bible tells us that, and I'm going to list several things here, and verses.

I'm not going to read the references.

You can look them up later for those of you that want a more in-depth study, but I'll list what it says.

The Bible tells us that we are in a very real spiritual war.

We are soldiers in this war.

We're to wrestle against all levels of the kingdom of darkness.

We are to resist the devil, which would in most cases, situations, be his demons. And the verse says, he will flee from us.

We are to tread on Satan and his demons, in other words, exercise authority over them. We're to cast out demons.

We have authority to bind and lose or forbid and permit when dealing with the agents of hell.

We have powerful weapons designed to overcome the kingdom of darkness.

Regarding binding and loosing, the book I mentioned yesterday by Jack Hayford,

Prayer is Invading the Impossible, gives an enlightening amplification of Matthew 16, 18 to 19, based on the technical aspects of the Greek wording.

Dr. Hayford's translation makes clear that we must go on the offense.

He says, quote, that the verses could be translated, quote,

whatever you may at any time encounter of hell's counsels, which I'm declaring my church will prevail

against, you will then face a decision as to whether you will or won't bind it.

What transpires will be conditional on your response.

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