We must keep contending for the highest in God. What we have now is good. The measure of faith we have, the anointing we have, we appreciate it, it’s good. But we need to keep contending for the fullness. People tend to be content with the level they have attained in the Lord, don’t settle for less than God’s best.
You know, there’s more to come. We mustn’t settle for where we are. As good as it is, we mustn’t settle. These are the most exciting days to live in what I call free nations, the ones who are not being persecuted and killed. The only persecution we get is from the religious spirits in religious people.
We are living in the time of the Presence of the Lord, the establishment of the Kingdom of God upon the earth, The church is going to do it!
The Kingdom is not near like Jesus said in his ministry on the earth, it is here! He ascended into the Holy of holies and put his blood on the altar, obtaining our redemption, and then received his coronation as king of kings.
Don’t be waiting for Jesus to come back and do it, He is waiting on us, seated at the right hand of the Father, until all his enemies are placed under our feet.
So, I am going to teach on levels of Authority which God entrusts to us vitally in our walk with God here on the earth.
We’re coming into a release like we’ve never seen before. These things are very, very real, and very, very important. It’s really important that you spend time, at least each day, with the Lord, long enough to feel His presence. Stay until at least you feel His presence. And spend some time in the manifest presence of the Lord. When I talk about the manifest presence, I’m talking about where you can actually feel his tangible presence. Because that renews you. It changes you. It invigorates you and it renews you just being in his manifest presence. And we need to be disciplined enough. Every day, whatever time is best for you. Spend some time, enough time, to wait, worship until you sense and feel His presence, and then wait and just bask in that presence. You need that daily, because of the pressures of life and all the contrary circumstances and the spiritual pressures that come against you, when you become a real threat to kingdom, the enemy established in the heavenly places over our cities, states and nations.
And if we do not practice every day, and we go for a week or a month with not being in His manifest presence “and just being in that presence changes us”, we begin to lose the edge.
Just being in His manifest presence changes us, it is the only thing that has worked in my life. It is simple, just worship and love him with all your heart, everything within you, and he will show up in the atmosphere in your room.
God is about to release a whole new level of authority to the church. I mean, we have authority now. We have Legal authority in being seated in the heavenly places in Christ.
But there’s another level which he wants to take us to, here on earth.
The first dominion will be restored to us. That is the dominion that Adam had. And we need to kind of prepare our hearts for that.
It’s not so much that God wants to give us authority. The question is Can He trust us with authority?
Because once he gives us the gifts for the purpose of His Kingdom, they stay, even if they’re misused for a while, you’ll still continue in them. Do you understand that we can do a lot of damage with authority?
And God wants to increase the level of authority to a place that Adam had in the beginning, and then beyond that.
In Psalm 115:15-16 it says, “ May you be blessed by the Lord, who made heaven and earth. The heaven, even the heavens, are the Lord’s; But the earth He has given to the children of men.
Think about that. You know, we say, well, God, why did you let this happen? We see disasters. We see all kinds of stuff on the earth. Why did you let that happen God?
God says, why did you let it happen? It’s yours. This earth is yours. It’s given into your hands, it’s your responsibility, not mine!
And we’ve got to take responsibility. You have dominion over it. He said to Adam, “This is yours”. You have dominion. I’ve given you dominion over this entire planet. It’s yours.
Take care of it, increase it, bring heaven to earth, extend my kingdom upon this earth. What an incredible responsibility.
And so daily he could walk with God. And he walked with God in the garden. We know the story. He had that relationship. We don’t know how long Adam was in the garden. There’s no way of calculating that. Our theologians have looked at that and there’s really no way of knowing. But he was probably there for quite some considerable time. And he had dominion.
The thing is, saved or unsaved, we were made in the image and likeness of God. And whether we’re saved or whether we’re not saved, we have creative abilities. The unsaved have it. The new age has tapped into that long before the church started to, and you might never have heard this type of teaching before.
We have creative abilities. That’s how we’re made. God’s given us certain faculties like speech, imagination, desire, focus, all those things, saved or unsaved, we have that. And they are creative abilities within us.
And God wants to increase our awareness of this, our understanding of it. We can only go as far as we can see, as far as we understand, as far as the revelation we have, that’s the limit to which we can go.
That’s why I’m trying to expand your understanding, your revelation of something, so that you can go that far.
You see, if it’s imparted to us, we have that revelation then we can pursue it with confidence that we’re going to get there.
And so, I’m trying to expand your understanding. And I just want to talk to you about authority just for a little while, because it’s so important that we understand it.
God said, 26 Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, OVER ALL THE EARTH and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”( Genesis 1:26)
And so he was saying to Adam, this planet is yours. The earth was given unto the sons of man. Okay, through sin, we’ve messed it up. Look at the planet today, right?
You can’t blame God. He said it was given to the sons of man. Now, the whole planet became Adam’s servant. THINK ABOUT THAT.
Every living thing was Adam’s servant. He had dominion over it. He controlled it. The earth obeyed him. Everything living on the earth obeyed him.
In Romans 6:16 it says, “Do you not know that to whom you present yourselves slaves to obey, you are that one’s slaves whom you obey, whether of sin leading to death, or of obedience leading to righteousness”?
When Adam yielded to the serpent, it wasn’t just, as you know, he made a mistake.
Whatever you yield to, you come under the authority of. It’s really important you understand this. Whatever you yield to.
He yielded to the enemy, and in doing so, everything that had been given to Adam came under Lucifer.
And Lucifer immediately said, “I’ve got the earth back”. As simple as that.
It was a disaster of immense proportions.
Now, what we need to understand is that Lucifer cannot create. So, now who does he need to create for him? Us.
And how does he use that? Through the words that come out of our mouth. You need to get a hold of this.
Adam had authority over every atom, every molecule, everything in this earth.
THINK ABOUT THIS. He could have looked at the dirt and told it to change into gold, and it would have. The molecules would have obeyed him, would have rearranged the atomic structure, and obeyed him, and became gold.
That’s what’s the kind of dominion he had over the animal creation, over everything living on the earth. I hope you understand now that everything is alive, right? The pulpit you preachers are preaching from is not solid. There’s more empty space in a pulpit, than there is any solid space, did you know that?
You say, well, it looks solid to me, but the atoms in there are moving so fast. Have you ever seen the propeller of a plane, right? It’s just a propeller, with two blades. But as that picks up speed, and it gets fast enough, it looks solid.
And you couldn’t push anything through it because it’s going so fast. It becomes solid, even if you cannot physically see it because of the speed. That’s what we’re talking about, it’s made up of atoms. Every atom obeyed Adam. THINK ABOUT THAT. Every atom. You know?
You get a Down’s syndrome child; they have extra genetic material. Down syndrome, or trisomy 21, occurs when a person has a full or partial third copy of chromosome 21 instead of the usual two, totaling 47 chromosomes instead of 46. This excess genetic material causes overexpressed genes.
God’s going to give us the authority to say, rearrange yourself. So, it was just as if that child had never been born with that. Instantly you’ll see a transformation take place. Just instantly. In God’s eye, everything is present. The past and the future is present.
We have dominion over the earth. But the problem is, can God, you trust you with that kind of dominion. You know God actually spoke to me a couple weeks ago and said I believe in you, the Holy Spirit is prophetic, but I think He was about teaching the Bible accurately.
If I was God, I wouldn’t trust me with that kind of dominion. I’m serious. I still say things that my spirit instantly convicts me of.
There needs to be a total transformation taking place within us. Everything we do must have one motivation, and everything we speak and do has to be from a motivation of love. Do you understand that? Otherwise, we will become destroyers.
Can He trust us? That’s why He’s got to do a deep work within us. We can’t do the work. I’m not going to put you under condemnation to strive to never utter one negative word. Honestly, you can’t do it. Believe me, you can’t do it.
You can want it, you can desire it, you can pray for it, but only He can do it. But you see he’s going to have a remnant of people who he can trust.
In Joshua 24:27 And Joshua said to all the people, “Behold, this stone shall be a witness to us, for it has heard all the words of the Lord which He spoke to us. It shall therefore be a witness to you, lest you deny your God.” THINK ABOUT THAT.
He said, look you guys, this stone here, you didn’t realize it, but it’s heard everything that’s just been said. Nothing is dead.
If you deny what’s been said here today, he said it will be a witness against you. In other words, God said, I’ll play it back from that stone because it was the witness. Isn’t that interesting?
You say, no, that can’t be. Look, a silicon chip, it is just a rock. Vibrations can be recorded in any form of material and played back. Think about that.
Everything is recorded until we confess it, then blood removes it, erased it.
There’s no sin in heaven, right? No bad thoughts in heaven. You know your memory will be totally erased from every bad incident in this life. And everything you know about another person that is bad or where they failed, you will have no memory of it. Isn’t that comforting? No memory at all.
They’ll only remember the good things. It’ll totally be erased. If you theoretically talked to people in heaven, do you remember this? They will say, no, we don’t have any memory of that.
When we confess our sin to the Lord, it’s just as if it never happened. I just immediately say sorry Lord from my heart. I don’t do all this introspection.
Now listen, when other people sin and they put it right, from your point of view, you must look at that person just as if it never happened.
When you forgive someone, you forget that it happened. That’s how it is in God’s book of record. When we stand before the judgement seat of Christ it is about our destiny scroll.
Let’s say you are dealing with a man who had committed adultery and he is so broken up about this whole thing he could never forgive himself.
You say to the Lord you have to deal with this person”
God forgives but people don’t. David commits adultery, and God forgives him. He should have been stoned, right? It is written for our admonition, but in heaven there is no record of it.
God forgives him he goes on to be a man of God someone else comes along touches the Ark of God and he falls dead. In God’s point of view, it is like our life has already been lived, he sees the beginning and the end.
Do you know what the greatest sin is? We think about immorality or murder or all these other sins.
The greatest sin of humans is pride.
And we deal with all these other sins harshly but tend to overlook pride, it is so subtle. God actually resists pride. If God be for us who can be against us. But if God is against us “pride” we got one serious problem.
Pride is the most destructive thing on the face of the earth; this is what caused the fall of Lucifer. See how from a human point of view, our natural mind is an enemy of God. I’m not condoning sin you know where I’m coming from, it’s the way we as humans deal with things. God forgives but we don’t, God doesn’t remember it anymore.
Theoretically this guy goes to heaven in a dream and he’s feeling so bad. And the Lord Jesus comes to him and says, what’s the matter? He said, oh, well, you know what I did and Lord I can’t get over it. And the Lord looked at him and said, hang on, we’ll have a look at your book. Opens the book of his life, goes through, he says, I can’t find it. There were many blank pages that had been erased. But he said, there’s no record here of that. Now go back and forget it. And get on with your life. That is what liberates us, my friend.
When something’s under the blood, it’s just not covered. It never existed. There’s no record of it anywhere in heaven.
It’s really important we understand this. Knowing the truth will set you free.
Deuteronomy 32:1- says, “GIVE EAR, O heavens, and I [Moses] will speak; and let the earth hear the words of my mouth. My message shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as the light rain upon the tender grass, and as the showers upon the herb.
In Luke 19: 40 it says But He answered and said to them, “I tell you that if these should keep silent, the stones would immediately cry out.” You’re getting married, and you give your wife a ring, and you say your vows, your ring recorded all your vows.
You see, the whole earth is under the curse of the spoken word. When you think there is an incredible power released just by what you think, it is a vibration, it is a sound, it is a color, it is powerful.
When you speak, that thing is multiplied a hundred times more in power when a Christian is born again and then filled with the Holy Spirit it’s amplified again hugely whether you speak curses or blessings.
Satan cannot create. When we speak, we produce material that the Holy Spirit can use to create. We produce vibrations, the power. We gather the DNA with what we say and what we speak. And that’s how, you know, it works. What comes forth from us.
The Bible says we are defiled from what comes out of the mouth. We define ourselves.
What we speak goes right through our physical being, touches others around us. That defilement comes in us from the words that we speak.
Lucifer does not have that creative power but only humans have that power, he waits for you to give him the material for which he can create with.
He cannot create that material himself and so when you get angry and when you begin to speak in anger you produce material in the spirit realm which these demons can use. Oh, good look at all this material we can take that and create.
Satan doesn’t have the power to create apart from what we humans give him the words of our mouth.
In our mouth there is life or death There’s no in-between. The words that we speak are life or they are death.
The whole of creation is under the curse of spoken words. When Adam spoke those words and gave things away, the whole of creation, because he was over creation, all of creation fell with him and is under the dominion of Lucifer. Jesus has disarmed the enemy, but we must enforce it.
Adam gave it all away. He didn’t realize what he was doing, but he gave it all away.
You see, Lucifer is not creative, man is. He cannot create outside of us what we give him. If you understand this, it can transform the way you act and the way you speak.
Genesis 11: 6 says and the Lord said “behold these people are one they have one language and this they begin to do and now nothing will be restrained from them which they have imagined to do”
Here is a group of people, anti-God. God looks at them; they’re all one language. They’re all seeing, imagining the same thing. God looked and said, nothing can be restrained for these people. They’re all saying the same thing. They’re all thinking the same thing. They’re all imagining the same thing. It’s going to happen.
So, what did he do? He confused their language so they couldn’t all say the same thing and so they all couldn’t understand each other.
He brought confusion there to stop them creating what they were purposing to create in their heart. They wanted to build, so that they could be God.
We have not tapped into the power of the imagination and the spoken word on a company level.
If we had a church all saying the same thing, all thinking the same thing, there would be no limit to what we could do. No limit.
But in a congregation like this, there’s not that level, oneness of spirit and faith hasn’t come yet upon the earth. It hasn’t come anywhere.
But we need to think about that, how we can use that in God to say the same thing, to speak the same thing, to imagine the same thing, when we know it is God’s will and purpose.
If you can get enough people together in your church to keep saying the same thing, imagining the same thing, great things will come to pass. Because it is the will of God.
Corporate imagination is so powerful. God saw that. He said, we’ve got to stop them. They’re going to take over everything.
I’ll confuse their language so they don’t understand each other, so they can’t get into unity together. They can’t all keep saying the same thing, and I’m going to scatter them across the earth.
We are going to have a body of believers, the man-child company thinking the same things saying the same things transforming this earth, taking it back to the glory to God.
The Bible says you are snared with the words of your mouth. God wants discipline here.
We create our own world. The New Age movement knows this and Christians do not.
The new age movement, move from another spirit, that’s a spirit of humanism.
But the principles were God-given right from the beginning. And they are still creative, whether it’s for the devil themselves or anyone else. The principles are the same. What you see, you connect with. What you focus upon, you will connect with the spirit behind that thing. And that’s how they do it. They have all these seminars of visualization and the rest of those spiritual principles. It works to build their own kingdom apart from God.
That’s what they were doing back at the tower of Bable. If all these people get together, say the same thing, imagine the same thing, it’s going to come to pass. We’re going to stop them, God said.
That’s what the New Age movement does today. Seminar after seminar after seminar. Where’s the church? They are not saying the same thing. But God gave us that authority.
The New Age movement worked the principles without God. And it leads to death.
And some of them get very rich by using these principles. And some of the little kingdoms the churches are building for themselves are doing the same thing to enrich themselves, instead of the kingdom of God but you see those riches will destroy them.
Seek first the kingdom of God, and God’s going to release finance for just one thing to do his will on the earth and build his kingdom not to build our kingdom, to build his kingdom so that we can do his will in the earth not our own will.
There’s a subtle thing of power that comes with money. People want money because it’s power. Money makes us independent of God.
That’s our last indication of self-dependence.
There were some people up in the mountains in Argentina where there was an earthquake and they were cut off from civilization altogether.
They had no food, they had no way to get food, and there’s a whole Christian church up there. And it was going to be about 10, 16 weeks before anybody got through to them. They had nothing to eat.
So, the pastor said, okay, everybody come to church? And he said, I want you to open your Bibles And he said, “I want you to eat”.
Open it to wherever you like, Read and eat. It is not just physical bread. It’s not just the word; it’s bread of life.
Just read for half an hour. So, everybody came up. They read for half an hour. They said, oh, we feel so full. Sixteen weeks they lived on the word it’s a true story.
Lucifer needs your words and he relishes the words of Christians, and he relishes the words more of Spirit filled Christians because they have more power. And when a spirit filled Christian speaking wrongly, in anger, or negatively, the enemy loves the substance that produces, because he can build his own world around you with them.
You are snared with the words of your mouth. You give them the material.
You create your own world around you with the words that you speak. This is fundamental in the universe, fundamental to us all.
So, YHVH is looking for discipline, discipline in our mouths.
Creation is desperately wanting to for a people who they can work with.
That’s why creation longs for the manifestation of these people who come forth these days.
Creation was created to serve us, to cooperate with us, to be our friend, to be subservient to us, and to obey us.
Creation does not want to be used for evil. But we have storms, we have everything going wrong it is because of words, words, words, words, words, that gives Satan the ability to empower creation around us.
Sons of God are going to change that.
You see, God’s laws are universal and they’re indiscriminate. Laws of sowing and reaping work for the unsaved, right?
You see, we’re Christians, we know all of that, we sow and we reap. It works for everybody. Whether you’re a Christian or not, it’s a universal principle.
You are where you are right now because of the words that have come out of your mouth. Does that not put some responsibility back on us?
You say, oh, things went wrong in my life this way. You have created your own circumstances. God gave us that dominion.
And if you’re getting offended by that, well, learn and change. Learn and change. You get into self-pity and you start gathering around you the most terrible colors, the most terrible sounds which demons get into.
When you pray for people who’ve fallen into self-pity. You know how hard it is to get them out of that because of what they’ve created around them?
What they are generating is starting to amplify it. It is like you must shake and say, stop it. Get a life and come out of it.
Then I give them a directive. You’re not to say anything about your past “but these words I give you this whole week. And think these thoughts”.
I can’t help you unless you do this, self-pity is a downward spiral.
We want to pray for people all the time but we must be holding them to some responsibility.
Everything that you bless, your blessing, is an impartation.
You say, oh, this car, it’s always breaking down. Little molecules in there, think. He wants it to break down.
Seems funny, but that’s literally how it works. They will obey you.
I’m going to have a great week next week. Everything you bless is an impartation to it. Everything, whether it be your car, your house, your little finger, pulpit, where everything you bless is blessed. We have that capacity. It’s an impartation when you bless.