Who's Driving?

Authentication and Authorization!

We have to take authority over everything the devil comes against us with that is not of God - cancer, addictions, worry, depression, doubt, divorce, diabetes, fear, sexual impurity, suicide, and many more debilitating diseases and chronic conditions that destroy us physically and mentally. Fear is our biggest weapon Satan uses to get you focused on the danger and pain, more than focus on who took our pain and suffering thousands of years ago so we wouldn’t have to.

This is how we succumb to defeat!
"I GIVE UP"

“The seventy returned with joy, saying, Lord, even the demons are subject to us in Your name! And He said to them, I saw Satan falling like a lightning [flash] from heaven.Behold! I have given you authority and power to trample upon serpents and scorpions, and [physical and mental strength and ability] over all the power that the enemy [possesses]; and nothing shall in any way harm you. Nevertheless, do not rejoice at this, that the spirits are subject to you, but rejoice that your names are enrolled in heaven. (Luke 10:17-20 AMPC)

Jesus came for us to have and enjoy life, in abundance until it overflows, Satan came to steal, kill, and destroy our lives (John 10:10); and the human race accepts everything Satan gives us as if it is the way of life. It is not the way God wants us to live, nor is it a quality of life. Life was given to us thousands of years ago, and God’s intention was for us to freely have access to everything He has, with love, joy, and peace in this life and the life hereafter! 

Adam and Eve had a wonderful life to freely live and roam in a garden that was beautiful, peaceful, luscious , and abundant with everything they needed. They did not lack any good thing or know pain. But old Satan came in with his crafty ways and deceived Eve into eating the fruit from the Tree of Knowledge (The difference of good and evil, blessings and calamity) [Genesis 2:16-17], and she convinced Adam to eat the fruit from the Tree of Knowledge as well.

“I will bless the Lord at all times; His praise shall continually be in my mouth.My life makes its boast in the Lord; let the humble and afflicted hear and be glad. O magnify the Lord with me, and let us exalt His name together.I sought (inquired of) the Lord and required Him [of necessity and on the authority of His Word], and He heard me, and delivered me from all my fears.They looked to Him and were radiant; their faces shall never blush for shame or be confused. This poor man cried, and the Lord heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles. The Angel of the Lord encamps around those who fear Him [who revere and worship Him with awe] and each of them He delivers. O taste and see that the Lord [our God] is good! Blessed (happy, fortunate, to be envied) is the man who trusts and takes refuge in Him. O fear the Lord, you His saints [revere and worship Him]! For there is no want to those who truly revere and worship Him with godly fear. The young lions lack food and suffer hunger, but they who seek (inquire of and require) the Lord [by right of their need and on the authority of His Word], none of them shall lack any beneficial thing. (Psalm 34:1-10 AMPC)”

Satan’s craftiness worked then and is still working in us today. It causes us to second guess 🤔 God’s Word over what man says; therefore, causing us to stumble multiple times in a pit of despair and destruction. That’s why it is imperative and necessary to study and read the Bible. Satan knows the Bible also; however, the Bible is our weapon of warfare against him, because of its purity and Holiness, Satan can’t withstand. Good always overpowers evil!

So why don’t you read the Bible? If it is healing, has deliverance from sin, and gives us wisdom, joy and a sword to cast down Satan and his craftiness that destroys our spirit and soul, I’m going to ask that question again, why do many of us reject God? 

“My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge; because you [the priestly nation] have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you that you shall be no priest to Me; seeing you have forgotten the law of your God, I will also forget your children. (Hosea 4:6 AMPC)”

When we decide to suffer with a disease, or anger, or even obesity, these are strongholds Satan has on us and our thinking; that still cannot withstand God’s love and goodness. He only holds us captive to it, because we allow it. NOTHING is impossible for God, when we believe. If it seems impossible, then you don’t believe. That is Satan’s whole purpose is to deceive you in your thoughts that God is not able. Well, He IS able and willing. All you need to do is believe! That’s it!

“In the morning, when they were passing along, they noticed that the fig tree was withered [completely] away to its roots. And Peter remembered and said to Him, Master, look! The fig tree which You doomed has withered away!And Jesus, replying, said to them, Have faith in God [constantly]. Truly I tell you, whoever says to this mountain, Be lifted up and thrown into the sea! and does not doubt at all in his heart but believes that what he says will take place, it will be done for him. For this reason I am telling you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe (trust and be confident) that it is granted to you, and you will [get it]. And whenever you stand praying, if you have anything against anyone, forgive him and let it drop (leave it, let it go), in order that your Father Who is in heaven may also forgive you your [own] failings and shortcomings and let them drop.But if you do not forgive, neither will your Father in heaven forgive your failings and shortcomings. (Mark 11:20-26 AMPC)” 

Or perhaps, many have never heard of Jesus. If you haven’t, I pray there are many who will stumble upon this reading and be encouraged to want to know Jesus, and become a born again believer. Take that first step, then God will do the rest!

“But what does it say? The Word (God’s message in Christ) is near you, on your lips and in your heart; that is, the Word (the message, the basis and object) of faith which we preach, Because if you acknowledge and confess with your lips that Jesus is Lord and in your heart believe (adhere to, trust in, and rely on the truth) that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.For with the heart a person believes (adheres to, trusts in, and relies on Christ) and so is justified (declared righteous, acceptable to God), and with the mouth he confesses (declares openly and speaks out freely his faith) and confirms [his] salvation. The Scripture says, No man who believes in Him [who adheres to, relies on, and trusts in Him] will [ever] be put to shame or be disappointed. (Romans 10:8-11 AMPC)