Exercising Authority Over Others !

EXERCISINIG AUTHORITY OVER OTHERS: Believers have authority over the devil demons and evil spirits. They can break the power of the devil if he raises his head anywhere in their own lives or the lives of their immediate family or loved ones. They have authority there. They'll be free from the enemy because they've got the right to exercise their authority over him or them. [Meaning demons or evil spirits]. That doesn't mean, however, that they'll go down the street casting the devil and of everyone they meet. It primarily means they will exercise authority over the devil in their own lives. You've got to realize that you've got authority over your own household that you don't have in my household or your neighbors household. Spiritual authority is much like natural authority. For example, you don't have authority over my money. You can't tell me what to do with my money unless I give you permission to. You don't have authority over my children. You can make the devil desist in some of his maneuvers in somebody else's life, but you can't always cast him out, because you don't have authority in that "household." That's one place we've missed it. And many people like what they are going through and doing. They don't think that they have a evil spirit or a demon attached to that lives. The next reference Jesus give him was (James 4:7) "Resist the devil, and he will flee from you" [the understood subject of this sentence is "you"]. The believer has two have authority over the devil, or the Bible won't tell him or her to do something about the devil. This scripture doesn't say that the devil will flee from Jesus; it says he'll flee from you ! Similarly, you don't praying that Jesus will lay hands on the sick; you do it. Notice, too, that the hands are not in the Head; the hands are in the Body: "They. . . Shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover." When you lay hands on the sick, you are exercising authority over the devil. That authority is yours whether you feel like you've got it or not. Authority has nothing to do with feelings. But you must exercise it. After that vision, and after Jesus gave him that verse from James, my spirit told me the word "feel" was significant. I looked it up in the dictionary and found one of the shades of meanings was "to run from as if in terror." The devil will run from you in terror ! Then I knew why the demon in his vision had begun to whimper and cry-- he was terrified. In 2016 I was staying in a particular house and my practice was always early rise to seek the Lord in prayer and through the word. For about a month I kept hearing something scratching on the wall in the bedroom. So I went to the Lord in prayer concerning these strange scratchings on the walls in the ceiling of the house. And one particular night in which you would call it a night vision I saw a demon in the corner of the room in the ceiling scratching looking and snarling at me. I gave the command for it to come down and leave this house and go back where you come from in the Name of Jesus. And the demon hit the floor like a sack of salt and ran out of the house into the dark. Since then I have seen other demons quake and quiver in fear as I exercise my God-given authority over them. They were not afraid of me, but of Jesus, whom I represent. In the first Jesus gave the preacher another scripture that tells us to do something about the devil. This third reference was from (1 Peter). Peter wrote, "Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a rowing line, won't get about, seeking whom he may devour" (1 Peter 5:8). Your adversary means your opponent.