CERTAINTY IN THE NAME OF JESUS CHRIST
When I first decided to buy a house in Las Vegas, the
Lord blessed me with the absolute best realtor, Cheryl Jones. She found the
perfect house, and she knew all the right people. Just mention her name, and
you got great service. Everybody connected to Real Estate and everything that
goes with it knew Cheryl. Her name alone had clout; this is a great example in
the physical realm of what the name of Jesus Christ is in the spiritual.
Philippians 2:9-11 tells us how powerful the name of
Jesus is: “Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and
given him a name which is above every name: that at the name of Jesus
every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in
earth, and things under the earth; and that every
tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God
the Father.”
Since God created everything in the first place, if He
says everything is in subjection to the power of the name of His Son Jesus,
then it’s true. And if anyone says differently, they’re lying. John 8:44 tells
us the devil “was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the
truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks out of his own
character, for he is a liar and the father of lies.”
Sometimes at night, when I used to have a bad dream, I'd wake
up and say the name of Jesus over and over, and then I'd go back to sleep
easily. Just saying and believing in the power of His name got the job done.
There is certainty in saying the name of Jesus Christ when you believe in its
tremendous power over everything!
Jesus told his disciples in John 14: 19-20: “Yet a little
while, and the world seeth me no more; but ye see me: because I live, ye shall
live also. At that day ye shall know that I am in
my Father, and ye in me, and I in you.” When we follow the Lord Jesus, we are
in Him, and He is in us too.
When I pray for someone or minister healing or
deliverance, I check with Jesus first, and then He often directs me to speak
straight to a demon or demonic forces and tell them they must bow and obey
whatever I say in Jesus’ name. I remind the devil spirit that it is not more
powerful than the Son of God. Then I believe for wisdom and revelation and do
whatever the Lord directs.
James 4:7 says: “Submit yourselves therefore to
God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.” We’ve been
given the powerful name of our Lord Jesus and the authority to use it in making
any demon spirit flee from around us. And we can also help others. Just like
I’ve told friends about Cheryl’s recommendations, and they’ve been blessed, we
can help others by sharing what happens when we use the name of Jesus Christ; they
can do likewise and get blessed too.
In the book of Acts, we have many examples of the
believers using the authority of the name of Jesus. In Acts 3, Peter and John
healed a man who was born lame, and the people were astonished. “And when Peter
saw it, he answered unto the people, ‘Ye men of Israel, why marvel ye at
this? or why look ye so earnestly on us, as though by our own power or
holiness we had made this man to walk? The God of Abraham, and of Isaac,
and of Jacob, the God of our fathers, hath glorified his Son
Jesus” (vv.12-13).
Peter goes on to say: “Be it known unto you all, and to
all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of
Nazareth, whom ye crucified, whom God raised from the dead, even by
him doth this man stand here before you whole” (Acts 4:10).
That’s a lot of power behind a name, the biggest power in
the universe, in fact! “And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, ‘All power
is given unto me in heaven and in earth.’”
“And the seventy returned again with joy, saying, ‘Lord, even
the devils are subject unto us through thy name’” (Luke 10: 17). Jesus gave the
disciples the authority to use his name to cast out devils. We have been given
that same authority as well: “in my name they shall cast out devils” (Mark 16:
17b).
Our God, the Only High God, our Creator, loves us so much
He’s given us the name of His Beloved Son Jesus to flash at any force that is
coming against us or the people we love. Let’s get more familiar with the power
of Jesus in His name—read the Gospels and the book of Acts too, and start to
walk in even more victory than ever before.
Love, Carolyn
NOTE: Remember there’s a Zoom class on Deliverance starting
this coming Thursday, August 20th, 6:30 pm PST. Text Apostle Philip
Peters at 1-702-767-2059 to get the link. It’s available worldwide, not just in
the USA. 😊
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