SPIRITUAL AUTHORITY
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So He said to them, “This kind can come out by nothing but prayer and fasting.”
DO YOU HAVE SPIRITUAL AUTHORITY?
HOW MUCH?
DO YOU COMMAND THE RESPECT OF HEAVEN AND EARTH?
YOU ARE ENTITLED!
But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name:
JUST BECAUSE YOU’RE ENTITLED TO A PROMISE, DOES’NT MEAN YOU’RE PREPARED FOR IT
SPIRITUAL AUTHORITY - WEIGHTY PRESENCE OF GOD ON A BELIEVERS LIFE.
*HOW DO YOU GET MORE OF IT?
JESUS HAD IT.
When He had come to His own country, He taught them in their synagogue, so that they were astonished and said, “Where did this Man get this wisdom and these mighty works?
THE DISCIPLES EVENTUALLY GOT IT.
Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and perceived that they were uneducated and untrained men, they marveled. And they realized that they had been with Jesus.
YOUR PROMISE = YOUR POTENTIAL (WHO YOU MUST BECOME TO DELIVER YOUR PROMISE)
A. LUKE 12:48
But he who did not know, yet committed things deserving of stripes, shall be beaten with few. For everyone to whom much is given, from him much will be required; and to whom much has been committed, of him they will ask the more.
B. YOU MUST MAKE SPIRITUAL GAINS!!
C. THE PLATEAU - PROMISE IS THERE TO PLACE A DEMAND OF YOUR SPIRITUAL DEVELOPMENT
THE SPIRITUAL WEIGHT OF THOSE AROUND YOU, IS A DIRECT INDICATION OF THE SPIRITUAL WEIGHT WITHIN YOU.
A. LUKE 5:19
And when they could not find how they might bring him in, because of the crowd, they went up on the housetop and let him down with his bed through the tiling into the midst before Jesus.
B. THE FATHER WAS A REFLECTION OF THE CHURCH HE ATTENDED
C. *ON LIFE SUPPORT STORY - PJ SAID, DON’T DISCONNECT ME, BUT PRAY TO HEAL ME!
DANGER: TO LEAD WITHOUT THE WEIGHT OF GOD - RESULTS IN INJURY OF SELF AND OTHERS
2 IRREFUTABLE PRACTICES THAT PRODUCE SPIRITUAL WEIGHT IN THE BELIEVERS LIFE:
PRAYER - TO EXCHANGE DESIRES BY DIRECT INTERACTION WITH THE LORD
PRAYER IS ESSENTIAL TO CORRECTING DESIRES THAT ARE DESTRUCTIVE
PRAYER IS CONTAGIOUS AND INFECTIOUS. *THE MORE YOU PRAY, THE MORE YOU DESIRE TO PRAY.
PRAYER IS LISTENING AND OBEDIENCE
100 HOURS OF PRAYER TESTIMONY
FASTING - WITHDRAWAL, DENIAL, ABSTINENCE, & DETACHMENT FROM THE DEPENDENCE OF OR RELIANCE UPON THE TEMPORARY ELEMENTS OF THE WORLD.
THE POWER THAT PROVOKES THE PRESENCE OF JESUS
Then they said to Him, “Why do the disciples of John fast often and make prayers, and likewise those of the Pharisees, but Yours eat and drink?”
And He said to them, “Can you make the friends of the bridegroom fast while the bridegroom is with them?
But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them; then they will fast in those days.”
WHERE IN YOUR LIFE ARE YOU TRUSTING THE WORLD MORE THAN JESUS?
CLOSE:
DEVELOPING THE CHARACTER OF WEIGHT:
RATHER HAVE YOU RESPECT THEM THEN LIKE THEM
DISCIPLINE
AUTHENTIC FAITH - PRACTICE WHAT I PREACH
BIBLICAL KNOWLEDGE
PURITY 1 THES. 4:4
that each of you should know how to possess his own vessel in sanctification and honor,
PUNCTUALITY
MAKE DECISIONS FROM A PERSPECTIVE OF A FATHER