SPEAKING IN THE
AUTHORITY
OF CHRIST
Brother James, OIC
2Co 5:20 Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ's stead, be ye reconciled to God.
We all who are coming of age in Christ have been the responsibility of taking authority in our surroundings. That is we are to deliver unto others Gods Promises in the physical and spiritual, it is our purpose. When we are still young in Christ we have the responsibility for ministering the ministry of reconciliation:
2Co 5:18-19 And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation; To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation.
When we have come to maturity in Christ, we then being dead but alive in Christ, and Christ is in us and God in Him and our lives are then hid with Christ in God:
Col 3:3 For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.
This is a great mystery of God Who wants to give us Power and Authority to affect change wherein His Glory and Love for His Creation can be seen in this lost and dying world. Jesus even prayed for us in His authority to reach this level of growth in Him:
Joh 17:20-26 Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word; That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me. And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one: I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me. Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am; that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me: for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world. O righteous Father, the world hath not known thee: but I have known thee, and these have known that thou hast sent me. And I have declared unto them thy name, and will declare it: that the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them.
When we grow to this maturity wherein it is no longer us who live but Christ lives in us then we have the Power of God within and our faith then works by Love to speak on behalf of God to others, not just words but Living Words that produce life, healing, provision, emotional stability, trust in Gods Promises not the Worlds and its god Satan’s False Solutions.
Col 1:25-28 Whereof I am made a minister, according to the dispensation of God which is given to me for you, to fulfil the word of God; Even the mystery which hath been hid from ages and from generations, but now is made manifest to his saints: To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory: Whom we preach, warning every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom; that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus:
1Co 1:23-29 But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumblingblock, and unto the Greeks foolishness; But unto them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God.
This Power in us makes us vessels of Gods Promises:
2Co 1:20-22 For all the promises of God in him are yea, and in him Amen, unto the glory of God by us. Now he which stablisheth us with you in Christ, and hath anointed us, is God; Who hath also sealed us, and given the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts.
What evidences this in us is what we speak. If we still speak like the world then there is no power in us and we have yet to be fully converted but if we speak in confidence the Word of God in Authority then we will continually see the manifestation of His Power and Glory around us:
Pro 18:21 Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.
Grow in the Grace of God in the Truth of His Word and do not hesitate when its your time to speak in the authority of its Power; Christ in you the hope of glory.
