Spiritual Authority

Welcome to today's episode of Reflective Hour. I'm Tammy Toney-Butler, Healing Evangelist and your host. Well, we all know who the host of this show is, and that's Christ by way of His Holy Spirit, the Spirit of Jesus, the Holy Spirit that lives inside of us, guides us, strengthens us, gives us clarity, shows us the way when we can't see. Strengthen us when we're weary from the journey. So let's see what today's episode is meant for you to glean. Holy Spirit, come have your way in this time that we have together. May they hear you and not me, see you and not me. May they have spiritual ears to hear and spiritual eyes to see what it is that you have for them. In this episode, bring them strength, God, where they're weary. Like it says in Isaiah forty thirty one, give them fresh oil in their lamps. As they've grown weary from the battle. Oh, strengthen us, guide us into all truth as we worship you in spirit and truth. In the mighty name of Jesus, we pray and declare all things. Amen. Spiritual authority. Do you have it as a believer? Kenneth Hagen wrote about it in his book, Believer's Authority. Do you believe you walk in it? Do you believe that you have the ability to speak to any storm in your life that you're facing? And through faith, conquer the enemy, even the unseen? Do you realize the victory that you have, that you already possess as a Christ follower? Victory is inside of you. Do you realize that? Do you identify with it? Do you draw from it? Do you use your sword in battle? Let's discuss that and more on today's episode of Reflective Hour. Remember to like, subscribe, and share. Follow us on YouTube. And comment below Interact with our program and share, share, share so others can glean from this field. I just want you to sit in his peace right now. I already feel the presence of the Lord. One moment in his presence changes everything. Peace I give to you. Just be still. Fresh oil. That's the first thing I do when I'm battle weary. Is I draw strength from the living well. And I say, Holy Spirit, fill me fresh and new. Give me fresh oil. Strengthen me. Guide me this day. as I war for you, for your children, as I strive to be a light in a dark world, as you do, when we step out in our authority as a believer and we command outcomes, others can look at us like we're too bold. Who do we think we are? Are we trying to play God? But didn't Jesus, when he died on the cross, rose again, was seated in heavenly places to the right of the Father? Didn't he give us the keys to the kingdom? Don't we have the power and authority to bind and loose? Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name, thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Aren't our voices needed at a time like this so that we can speak into existence, the reality of the kingdom of God, command those situations, those mountains, cast them into the sea. Do you realize the power that you possess as a follower of Yeshua? When you're walking in obedience, surrendered to the Lord's will, when you have a heart posture to where you understand the will of the Father, because it's embedded in your heart, Because you've asked for the heart and mind of Christ. And you've lived through so many things. So many trials. That you've overcome. By the blood of the lamb. The power of your testimony. You walk in his strength and not yours. Battle after battle he's brought you through. It's that experience. That lived experience. That gives you. the assurance that you'll make it to the other side of this battle, of this trial, because he's brought you through before. You've even gone back and brought others through. And when you do that, the spiritual warfare can be great because we don't wrestle against flesh. It's power, it's principalities, evil in high places. Remember Ephesians six. We have to understand that. That we are warriors, soldiers for Christ. We're born with a purpose into a kingdom. We're ambassadors for the kingdom of God. We're servants. You're either going to serve the kingdom of darkness or you're going to serve the kingdom of light. What are your actions day to day say about you? Do you serve God or do you serve man? Do people see you as different than the world or do you resemble the world? Are you a rebel rouser? Some would call me an activist because I speak out. I don't follow the group thinker, the consensus. I speak God's truth when he calls me to do so as a messenger of light. Are you a messenger of light? Are you a messenger of darkness? Are you someone that sows seeds that bring peace and clarity? Or do you bring confusion with your words? Do your words edify and build up, construct? Or do they destroy and demolish? We have the victory. We have the authority to bind, to loose, I remember the words from Bonhoeffer. It just keeps playing over and over and over and over again. We didn't pray enough. If we'd only prayed more, we needed to pray more. I take that to heart. Prayer is our greatest weapon. And even when you don't know what to pray, you pray in the spirit. You pray in your prayer language. That way you pray spirit to spirit. There's no corruption. There's only God's truth. And you're praying his will. When you pray and you're a purified vessel, you're not cooperating with sin. You're not corrupt. Yeah, you mess up. but you repent, you turn, you strive to live a good godly life. I mean, I'm repenting every day. It's hard sometimes to know if you've missed it. This is a world that just wants you to compromise. And sometimes you don't even know if you have missed it. I just go by the conviction of the Holy Spirit that's inside of me. And I tell the Holy Spirit, Really convict me. Don't let me mess up anything. Save me from me. But help me to walk in the holy boldness. To be a general of the faith. To call things into existence that aren't seen. To create the reality and the world that I want to see. How do I know what that should be? Because I'm in such a close relationship to Abba Father. Growing closer and closer to Him every day. Fully surrendered. Not striving. Just submitted. If He tells me to go right, I go right. Go left, I go left. Build this, I build it. Say this, I say it. I am a soldier under orders and I follow my commander in chief. I follow my father's will because I know his will is perfect. He'll never leave me nor forsake me. He will be with me in the fiery furnace. Some things we just have to go through so that we can bring others through it. We have to go in to situations so that we can blaze a trail, blaze a trail of victory wherever we go. We have to enter into rooms we never thought we would, and we don't do it in our own strength. We do it in God's strength. We truly rely on scripture to get us through, but we have to understand The key to victory is in our words. God spoke the world into existence. He is our breath of life. He's everything to us. And we have to speak words and command outcomes. When we're in line with Father's will, we know exactly how to pray. Because either he gives us such a download and shows us how to pray, or either we start praying in our prayer language and through groanings, we know we've accomplished something. Because we have that moment of release in our spirit or that moment of breakthrough. That burden lifts off of us that was once there. I encourage you to read Kenneth Hagin's book on Believer's Authority. I encourage you to understand spiritual warfare is real, but we have victory over it. All we have to say is Satan, the Lord Jesus rebukes you. I know the other day I was on the front porch just a couple of days ago and a bad storm blew through. And I took a look at the clouds and the horizon and I knew that was not good. I knew it. And a special statement came through on my phone at that time. And I was sitting with the cats outside looking out at the lake and immediately the wind shifted. The rain started to come and a violent wind came and I ran towards the house and screamed at the cats, get inside. And I literally sat there and I thought, I need to pray. I need to pray against this storm. And I remember Jesus in the boat saying, peace be still. Commanding the storm to be still. recognizing that that storm blew in to derail, tried to derail what he was about to do. But he knew the authority he had on earth. He's fully God, he's fully man, but fully surrendered to Father's will and the power of the Holy Spirit. And he knew he could speak to that storm and command it to be still, just like he spoke to many miracles into existence. Come out of him. Go. Pick up your mat and walk. Commands, orders, authorities. He knew the power he had. So I knew I could speak to that storm. And when I tell you it was a storm, there was things flying out of the barn. I saw things that were supposed to be in the barn ending up way over on our fence, close to going towards our neighbor's house. And I sat there just praying because I knew nothing would happen to us, that God has us protected. But I spoke to that storm and I was praying. And even at times praying in tongues, until the threat lifted off. And I know we were protected, just like we were protected through Hurricane Ian. And remember, I live in what people would consider a mobile home, a small call it a tiny house, but it's only five hundred and like twenty six square feet. And that includes the front porch. We sold everything to follow God, our house on the golf course, everything. And we live in a little tiny structure. We also have another tiny home on the property. It's not the size of the structure. It's not the concrete walls. It's not a foundation that man builds. It's that this ministry and that what I do is built upon the solid foundation of the rock of the cornerstone Christ. And I knew that I had the authority to speak to that storm. and it would not come nigh thy dwelling and it won't come nigh yours, but you have to believe it through faith. You have to speak it and you have to know it in your heart that you have victory. Victory is yours over sickness, over disease, illness, lack, famine, poverty, You have to speak it. You have to speak it into existence. So call it forth by faith. Walk in your victory that you already have, warrior, and step out as a warrior for Christ. And that's this episode of Reflective Hour. And I'm Tammy Toney-Butler, your host. God bless you. God keep you. And may His Light shine upon you. Glory be to Jesus. Glory be to Jesus. Glory be to Jesus.