Unseated by a Whisper - Kingdom Authority with P. Danni Clay

As you guys know, Apostle Earl this month has been ministering

on Kingdom Authority. And tonight I want to talk to

you guys about Unseated by a Whisper and talking about

Kingdom authority. We're going to continue and

finish this out for the month of May.

Unseated by a whisper. Now we're going to start in a

familiar scripture, OK, Genesis chapter one, verse 26, if you

guys will stand for the reading of the word.

And it says, then God said, let us make man in our image

according to our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of

the sea and over the birds of the sky and over the cattle and

all of the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on

the earth. Amen.

You guys may be seated. So in the beginning, guys, I

know we listen to the Scripture a lot, but just like Apostle

Earl encourages us and just like the Word of God encourages us,

just as Paul encouraged us, we can never get familiar with

Scripture. We can never think that we've

learned every single thing that there is to learn out of any

scripture. And as I was going through and

just studying on the subject of authority, this really popped

out to me that it was the very beginning, always God's intent

that man have authority. It's nothing's changed of what

God originally intended. And we know that God intended

that we would be part of his Kingdom, OK?

And we know that Adam and Eve lost part of that king.

They lost the Kingdom whenever they send and rebelled.

And we're going to go over that in just a minute.

But it was always God's intent that we have authority.

So in the very beginning when God gave man purpose, when he

said This is why I created you. It's to rule over the fish of

the sea, over the birds of the air, over every creeping thing

that creeps on the earth and over all of the earth.

That was God's intent, that we have authority over those

things. Now we know what happens and

we're actually going to turn over to Genesis chapter 3 and

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we're going to read 19 of the 20 verses.

OK, There's one thing I've learned about inequity church.

We are not afraid to just read the Bible.

OK, so we're going to read the Bible tonight and it says here

in Genesis chapter 3, starting in verse one, it says now the

Genesis 3 · chapter mention

serpent was more crafty than any beast of the field which the

Lord God had made. Now is a serpent something that

creeps on the earth? It is.

Is that something that God said I made man to have dominion and

rule and authority over? Yes, it is.

So now the serpent was more crafty than any beast of the

field which the Lord God had made.

And he said to the woman, indeed, has God said, you shall

not eat from any tree of the garden?

The woman said to the serpent, From the fruit of the trees of

the garden we may eat, but from the fruit of the tree which is

in the middle of the garden, God has said, you shall not eat from

it or touch it, or you will die. Then the serpent said to the

woman, You surely will not die, for God knows the day that you

eat from it, your eyes will be open and you will be like God,

knowing good and evil. When the woman saw that the tree

was good for food and that it was a delight to the eyes, and

the tree was desirable to make one wise, she took from it's

fruit and ate it. And she gave it also to her

husband who was with her, and he ate, he was with her.

He knew exactly what was going on too.

Then the eyes of both of them were opened and they knew that

they were naked, and they sewed fig leaves together and made

themselves loin coverings. They heard the sound of the Lord

walking, the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the

day. And the man and his wife hid

themselves from the presence of the Lord God among the trees of

the garden. And then the Lord God called to

the man and said to him, Where are you?

He said, Oh, I heard a sound of you in the garden, and I was

afraid because I was naked, so I hid myself.

And he said, Who told you you were naked?

Have you eaten from the tree of which I commanded you not to

eat? The man said, the woman who you

gave me to be with me, she gave me from the tree, and I ate.

Then the Lord said to the woman, What is it that you have done?

And the woman said, The serpent deceived me, and I ate.

The Lord God said to the serpent, because you have done

this cursed are you more than all the cattle and more than

every beast of the field. On your belly you will go, and

dust will you eat. All the days of your life I will

put enmity between you and the woman, in between your seed and

her seed. He shall bruise you on the head,

and you shall bruise him on the heel.

To the woman he said, I will greatly multiply your pain and

childbirth and pain. You will bring forth children,

yet your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over

you. Then to Adam he said, Because

you listen to the voice of your wife.

And I've eaten from the tree about which I commanded you,

saying, You shall not eat from it.

Curse is the ground because of you, and toil you will eat of it

all the days of your life, both thorns and thistles.

It shall grow for you, and you will eat the plants of the field

by the sweat of your face. You will eat bread till you

return to the ground, because from it you were taken.

For you are dust, and to dust you shall return.

Now why did we read all of that? Because I want you guys to note

what happened whenever Adam and Eve sinned and what authority

was taken from them. They lost the Kingdom.

And in losing the Kingdom they lost the authority that came

with being able to rule and reign on the earth.

Because God said I'm going to stay in where I'm supposed to

be, which is in heaven. I'm making you, you're going to

stay here and you're going to do what I do.

Which is exactly why Jesus gave us the Lord's Prayer.

Thy Father who are in heaven, hallowed be thy name, thy

Kingdom come, thy will be. And on earth as it is in heaven.

He always wanted what was happening in heaven to happen on

earth. And so whenever Adam and Eve

sinned originally in Genesis 126, he gave them the mandate.

He said, I want you to rule. I want you to operate in

authority on this earth over the birds, the fish, the creeping

things that over the earth. And whenever Adam and Eve

sinned, what was part of the curse?

They no longer had any control over the earth over what grew

over the animals anymore. They didn't have any control

over their own bodies which were created from dust.

And we've seen, you know, we've seen Apostle Earl show us that

we God, Jesus came to get that authority back to us.

So praise God, he made a way. And we know if we keep breeding,

whenever he says this prophecy, this, whenever God says I will

bring my seed, if we read it in Genesis chapter 3, I will bring

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my seed because he said I'm going to have to fix this

problem because authority needs to be on the earth and Satan

isn't going to have it forever. OK, but one thing we need to

know is Adam and Eve had dominion over the very thing

that was trying to speak to them right here.

They had authority over it. God had given them Kingdom

authority over the serpent, yet they chose to listen to that

voice instead of listening to what the king himself had told

them. This was something they already

had authority over, but yet they listen to that voice now.

It also says that she saw a hindrance to us using our

authority and operating on the earth is being led by our five

senses. Every time we start to limit

ourselves to be led by our five senses, it limits God being able

to operate in the spiritual realm.

We have to remember that the Bible says that the scene is

temporary and the unseen is more real than the scene.

Let's stop and think about that for a moment because it honestly

can be very hard for us as humans to really grasp and

understand that what I cannot see is more real than what I can

see. But the Word of God says that

what you cannot see is more real than what you can't see.

So when Eve, first of all, listened to something that she

had authority over, instead of listening to what the King said,

then saw, she saw with her eyes, she started being led by her

five senses. She was unable to continue to

operate in the authority that God had placed in her and told

her to do whenever she started being led by her five senses.

And it wasn't just her, it was also Adam who was with her and

who had the original mandate. OK, So when she saw that it was

desirable to make one wise, because here is what Satan wants

to do. He wants to get right here in

the mind. And here's something that you

have to know and you have to be confident of and take

responsibility. In responsibility.

Responsibility, God gave it to us, is that you have authority

of your mind. But the only person, the only

person who can exercise authority over your own mind is

you. God can't do it or else Adam and

Eve never would have sent. If he had control over them

listening and then acting on what the serpent said, then they

never would have done it. But God says no, I've given you

authority, now you go do what I said and then they had to decide

it right here. God doesn't change, He's

unchanging. His word is forever and whatever

he established in the beginning is His plan and purpose forever.

So when He established in the beginning authority and for you

to right here make a decision to always obey him, that was what

He wanted you to do forever. It didn't change.

So when Adam and Eve saw that it would make one wise and they

would know the difference between good and evil.

The lust for knowledge caused them to lose their authority.

The lust for knowledge that God said I didn't even want you to

know that I didn't need you to know what evil was.

I need you to know what goodness was, 'cause I am good, I am

truth. I am the way, I am the life.

And if you would just had followed me and submitted to me

and continue to disobey me, you never would have lost the

authorities that I gave you. But the moment that they

decided, I think I want to know when they decided to not submit

here, then the authority that they had was lost and they no

longer exercise authority over the earth.

It was hard. And if we look throughout

history about all the different seasons and all the different

famines and all the different things that have come, even

today, I mean, I think I just heard that maybe parts of

Georgia are no longer under a fire ban.

But why have we been underneath a fire ban?

Because we've had drought, Because there hasn't been enough

rain, Because the dust is all on our faces every time we drive

and go somewhere. And it's hot in Florida and it's

dusty and it's humid. And so it just sticks to you.

OK, So why? Because the earth was cursed.

Now Apostle Earl has showed us throughout the last several

weeks that not only did Jesus get that authority back because

he was a sinless vessel, because he trusted his father and he

passed every test. And that the ones that Adam

fail, Jesus passed whenever he was led by by Satan into the

wilderness. OK, Whenever Adam and Eve

succumbed to that thirst and lust for knowledge and and

wanting to do their own thing, Jesus overcame it whenever he

said, Oh well, look at all these kingdoms.

I'll give them to you where they've been handed over to me

by Adam and Eve. They've been handed over to me.

I'll give them to you. And he said no, no, no, no, no.

I will only serve and submit to the Lord God.

Jesus passed those tests and and he knew the authority that he

was walking in. We learned that it was delegated

power. OK, because it's God's.

God is all power. He is all authority and he can

give it to whom he chooses. And guess what he chose to do?

Give it to us as humans, as men and women, if we choose to

continue to walk in his word and apply it.

So we also saw that he gave Jesus power of attorney and then

in turn Jesus said to us, now I'm giving you the power of

attorney. And what I love about looking up

that word authority when Apostle Earl was talking about power of

attorney last week, is it also means your jurisdiction.

OK, I've heard this before. You know, I, I, I've seen where

they say, well, there's nothing we can do because it's out of

our jurisdiction. We'd have to wait for somebody

else to get approval. Even across country lines, often

times people will flee to other countries where they know the

United States has no jurisdiction so they can try to

get away with it. OK, They're not going to

extradite them back to the United States.

They're like, we're not getting involved.

But here's the thing, God has jurisdiction over the entire

earth. There's not one country, not one

place, not one government that He does not have jurisdiction

over. Amen.

Hallelujah. So I love that whenever Apostle

showed us that the power of attorney is ours because of the

jurisdiction that he has, and he created the whole earth, of

course it's his. And then he said, now you go

therefore diamond. So when authority was lost, the

earth, the animals, the plants started working against man

instead of for man. Whenever it was all created for

us to begin with. OK, but the place that God

always intended for us was to have authority and continue to

have it. Now, God did give us that

authority over our own minds. And I want to go back to that

thought where he failed to take authority over thoughts and gave

into temptation. Remember, Jesus came back and

emphasized repent. What did John the Baptist and

Jesus both talk about over and over and over again in public in

front of people? What was their main message?

Repent for the Kingdom of heaven is at hand.

Repent for the Kingdom of heaven is in your midst.

Repent for the Kingdom of heaven is at hand.

When we hear that word repent because we know it only in

English, honestly, and we don't always go back and look at what

words actually mean. And they're used even before

some of the writers of the Bible were using them.

These words existed before they used them.

They were using words that already existed in the Greek

language. OK.

But when we see that word repent, it means to change one's

thinking. It means, like Apostle Earl has

taught us before, to side with another party.

So it would literally be like you switching parties in the

United States, right? You used to think it like a

Democrat, and now you think like a Republican.

You used to think like a Republican, and now you think

like a Democrat. You've completely changed

parties. You've completely changed sides.

And that's what the word repent means.

And it already existed. It already existed and they use

it. And so Jesus came and he was

saying, and John the Baptist before him said, repent for the

Kingdom of God is at hand. Why did Jesus need to emphasize

repent? Let's look at Matthew chapter 3

Matthew 3:2

verse 2 because I want you to see this.

What John the Baptist said, John the Baptist came, he said,

repent for the Kingdom. Heaven is at hand and he was

coming to prepare the way for Jesus to come.

So he was emphasizing to the Jewish people, you got to change

your thinking. You can't keep siding with the

party you've been siding with, which is so interesting when we

realized that especially the Pharisees knew the word, they

knew the Scriptures, they knew the prophets, they knew, they

knew the the writings of Moses. They knew what he said.

So why would why would John the Baptist and then Jesus come and

say repent, change your thinking?

You cannot think the way that you do when the Kingdom comes.

You can't think that way, OK? That word repent again needs to

change one's mind, to change one's mind for better and to

hardly amend with abhorrence of 1's past sins or past way of

thinking. And I've seen this before.

I've seen people who have switched parties in the United

States of America, and whenever they switch parties, they abhor

what they used to believe in. Now we need to abhor what we

used to believe in. We can have no part of it.

We can't think of anything like it at all.

We have to abhor what we once believed in and we have to

completely side with God and His word and what He says.

OK, look over at Matthew chapter 4, verse 17.

Matthew 4:17

We're going to see that Jesus said himself.

From that time Jesus began to preach and say repent for the

Kingdom of heaven is at hand. What was Jesus repairing them

for? He was preparing them for

authority. He was preparing them for the

Kingdom to come back to the earth and for them to walk as

kings and Queens on this earth because previously they could

not walk that way. They could not walk as royalty.

Whenever you know that you have the right to do something,

you're not scared, you're not walking in scared.

I don't get in my car and go. I really hope that the police

officers know that I'm allowed to drive.

I don't think that I have a driver's license.

I make sure it's on me and I know that if I get pulled over,

unless I'm breaking the law. Hey here, here's my proof that I

have authority to drive in the state of Florida.

I don't need to be scared. I'm not afraid of anything

because whenever I get in my car, I know that I've done

everything I could do. I've passed every test.

I've studied and I know what to do in the United States and what

the driving laws are. And as long as I follow them,

I'm not scared to get in. When you have authority over

something, when you've been given permission to do

something, it doesn't scare you. You go in with confidence

knowing I'm supposed to be here. This is what I'm supposed to do,

OK? I don't arrive at my own house

and think, oh man, I really hope that the bank's not here since

you know, I do pay a mortgage. I don't hope the bank's not here

and they're not going to like, no, it's my house.

I know I signed paperwork. I know I pay my mortgage and I

have a right to be at my house. I'm not scared of that.

So whenever you have authority, you should not be intimidated

and you should not think, oh, I really hope this is going to

work. I really hope that, you know,

I'm supposed to be here. No, I have authority.

And that's why Jesus said you got to repent because you guys

have previously not walked like royalty.

You have not walked in authority, You have not walked

like Kingdom citizens, like kings and Queens on this earth.

So hey, the Kingdom of heaven is in your midst.

And it's time for you to repent so that you can start walking in

authority. Because if you don't repent,

you're never going to understand who you are.

You're never going to be able to really walk in authority if you

don't change it right here. And again, the only person who

can do that is you. That's it.

Jesus never took away personal responsibility when we got born

again, He never said, well, I gave you a brand new spirit and

that's all you need. I'll see you, see you when you

get here. That's not what he said, what he

intended. He said repent for the Kingdom

of heaven is in your midst. So Jesus is preparing us for

authority to walk in our role as royalty, as Kingdom citizens.

And he knew that they had to change their thinking.

Let's look at Matthew chapter 10 verse one.

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Now we see in we write in Matthew chapter 4, so we know

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that Jesus had already started preaching.

Repent for the Kingdom of heaven is the hand.

Repent for the Kingdom of heaven is in your midst.

Later on. This means that we know that

Jesus must have been giving the word to his disciples for some

time. OK so in Matthew chapter 10

Matthew 10 · chapter mention

verse one, it says Jesus summoned his 12 disciples and

gave them authority over unclean spirits to cast them out and to

heal every kind of disease and every kind of sickness.

Luke Chapter 9 verse one and two.

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Luke Chapter 9 verse one and two.

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And he called the 12 together and gave them power and

authority over all demons and to heal diseases.

And then he sent them out to proclaim the Kingdom of God and

to perform healing. I want you to notice something

in Luke that I like that he put is that authority and power

always accompany each other. Our God is not a powerless God.

He's not a God. That's like, well, I mean,

sometimes it's my will for it to happen for you.

Sometimes it's not. Sometimes my power show up,

sometimes it won't. No, no, no.

Whenever Jesus came, how did they know he had authority?

Because remember, the scribes and Pharisees knew the same

scriptures that Jesus knew. The scribes and Pharisees could

preach the same scriptures that Jesus preached.

What was different? What did Apostle Earl show us a

few weeks ago? Wow.

He's teaching as if someone who has authority.

Obviously, you could see in note the effects of authority.

The effects of His authority were that He brought power

everywhere He went. And we know that it says in the

Word that wherever the Word is preached, then signs, wonders,

and miracles will follow. The preaching of the Word.

Power accompanies authority. If you truly are walking and the

authority that God gave you, if you're really operating in the

jurisdiction of what God gave you, then you're going to have

power. Follow it.

You're not going to be a broke Christian, you're not going to

be like, I hope it works. You're going to know your

rights. You're going to know the power

that you can operate in because whenever Jesus operated in

authority and then not just Jesus, then he told us, 12 come

here, you go and perform healing, not just OK, go tell

them, tell them to repent too. And we hope that they do.

No, there was always a sign and action that followed the

authority that Jesus gave them. And he said, I give you

authority. Now you go, you go and do it.

And Jesus, God does not respect her persons.

Like the 12 disciples were not like special people who only got

to do special things with Jesus. Even Jesus himself said it's

better that I go because I'm going to send you the Holy

Spirit. So they were in his presence and

that's awesome. And I know all of us have

thought like if I could only see Jesus presence, if I could just

see Jesus and talk to him face to face when Jesus is like I

already told you it was better if I send you the Holy Spirit

than me to stay here and talk to you face to face.

So everything that the 12 disciples did and that Jesus

did, then he said, now you go and do OK, let's keep going.

Mark chapter 3 verse 14 and 15. This is another scripture in the

Mark 3:14

Gospel where it says, and he appointed 12 so that they would

be with him and so that he could send them out to preach and have

authority to cast out the demons.

In Matthew 3/8 it says, therefore bear fruit in keeping

with repentance. Now I want to go back to that

word repentance because it means to change your thinking.

When you bear fruit in keeping with repentance, that means

there must be an action that can be seen that you've repented.

Your thinking is not the same anymore.

Now there are fruits of the spirit and gifts of the Spirit.

OK, fruits of the Spirit is our character, and absolutely your

character better show out and prove that you are his.

And the fruit of the Spirit are we know in Galatians 522

Lovejoy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, gentleness,

faithfulness and self-control against such thing.

There's no law OK, but there's also the gifts of the Spirit and

the gifts of the Spirit are his power are how the Holy Spirit

comes and he shows his power through us on the earth.

And so understand that whenever he said repent and bear fruit in

keeping with repentance. We need to make sure that our

actions are showing that we've repented, that our mind is not

the same. Now again, we cannot.

You've got to stop thinking that repentance just means I've came

down to the altar, I've admitted all my sins, I was doing

something really wrong. I've been caught in a sin and I

got to tell somebody that's not what repentance means.

Only that is does apply. When you do those things, you

are repenting, but you need to remember that repenting means

we're making these adjustments in our mind.

We're changing our thinking. We're making sure that where I

previously was not exercising authority in an area of my life,

I've said no, I've got to change my thinking about that.

I've got to find out what does the Word say so that I can

repent and I can walk in my authority that God's given me in

this area. OK, so repentance, I'm bringing

the Scripture back up because we have to make sure that we're

keeping with repentance. In Acts chapter 26, verse 20,

Acts 26:20

Paul says it again, performed deeds in keeping with

repentance. God expects us to use our

authority and he expects it to see it manifest on the earth

through power. OK, because every time that

Jesus was exercising his authority, he always had

something that showed that he was exercising it.

Now what am I saying that every single time you speak the word,

then some miracle sign and wonder is going to happen?

I'm not saying that we're going to see these, you know, oh, the

every single time the blind person has to see, but the power

is the ability in you and you have to understand, just like

Pastoral says, sometimes we discount miracles everyday that

God's doing. Whenever God has has taken

someone who was in addiction and supernaturally delivered them

and they never ever went back to it, never had a desire for it,

never even had to go and think about it ever again.

That's a miracle. Whenever God saves someone, you

know, I've heard so many testimonies of women who were in

labor, even my own third child. She was breached her, she

turned, she was head down and then she turned.

And I did not want AC section. If I felt peace to do AC

section, I would have done it. But I felt to stand on what I

had believed and prayed for the whole time in my pregnancy and

whenever it's funny, I just told this story to Cassie the other

day, but I just felt, no, I'm going to stand and believe.

And I was 6 centimeters dilated in active labor.

I was having contractions like I'm in and apart.

Like there was the doctor's like, I'm sorry, just get over

it. You're having AC section.

It'll be all right. I do 6 sections everyday and I'm

like, I, I feel like I need to stand, you know, and I, and

again, that's what I felt on the inside.

I had peace stand. And so a midwife that I'd only

met one time who was on call that night, and she came in and

she was like, let's see what we can do.

And I was like, OK, let's see what you can do.

She's like, you know, you're hooked up to monitors.

You know, I felt peace about it. She felt peace about it.

And I believe she was being led by the Spirit because of my

husband and I's faith. And Indiana turned and I was

able to have a natural labor, and that's God.

That's a miracle that doesn't happen, especially not in the

United States of America in our healthcare system.

But that was a miracle because I believe God for that.

I prayed for that and I knew that God came through.

So we cannot just discount that I took authority over my body.

I took authority over my situation, and God came through

to perform with power and authority.

Amen. But again, I had to exercise my

authority and my power. So we can't think that these

little things are not power and authority.

Even I'm, I teach kindergarten at our private school at

Washington and I've encouraged some of our, our, my fellow Co

teachers before and we've encouraged each other with

stories where we are ministering to children every day.

OK, because it's not just teaching children, it's taking

care of them in so many ways. OK, We have to give them hugs,

they fall down, they get hurt, they feel sad, their feelings

are hurt. There's so many things we have

to minister them too, But we also have to be led by the

spirit because sometimes I can have a word of knowledge or a

word of wisdom for that child. Like, no, your heart wasn't

right there. I know it wasn't right.

You're saying this to my face, but your heart's wrong with your

friend. You need to repent.

And that is using authority and walking in it and seeing God's

power show up. So we can never discount these

little things as in any role that we have in life as a mom or

a dad, as in your job and your role that God's assigned you,

you cannot think that these are not you exercising authority

now. You have to consciously do it.

You have to have repented right here and say, I'm gonna, I'm

gonna operate in authority today.

Lord, use me. You know the gifts of the Spirit

as the Holy Spirit leads and desires.

But you should expect to be used in them.

You should expect for that power to show up on you.

You should expect that you can lay hands on that child and they

will recover. You should expect that they will

feel better because you pray for them.

And that's something that we have to do every day.

So we can't discount these little things.

We need to make sure that we're thanking the Lord in in being

conscious of places that he has LED us to use that authority.

And because we've repented in our own mind now something that

hinders our authority is ignorance.

Something that hinders us to being able to use authority is

ignorance. OK, In week 1 when Apostle Earl

was preaching about authority, he talked about wishful thinking

because he says unfortunately a lot of believers are not even in

biblical hope. OK, Biblical hope was a

confident expectation. I confidently expect that God's

going to do something. I don't know what it is yet, but

it's a confident expectation. And we know that Hebrews 11

chapter 1 Chapter 11 verse one says that our our hope fuels our

faith. OK, so it is something that

fuels our faith is hope. Now most Christians are not in

biblical hope. It's really just wishful

thinking. Like maybe if I rub the genie

and he gives me 3 wishes, God will give me 3 wishes and I'm

hoping he'll do what I ask him to do.

Or you know, like when I wish upon A star, that's what they're

in. They're not really in biblical

hope. OK, but that ignorance of not

knowing what hope is is going to keep us from able to operate in

authority. And Isaiah chapter 40, verse 31,

Isaiah 40:31

it says, but those who hope in the Lord will renew their

strength. They will soar on wings like

eagles. They will run and not grow

weary. They will walk and not be faint.

If we're truly hoping in the Lord and exercising our

authority, then even whenever we feel like we should be weary, we

won't. This scripture says even

whenever we feel like we should faint, we won't even whenever it

seems like we won't be strong, we will be strong.

And I love, I don't know if you guys were here, but a couple

Sundays, maybe about a month ago, Apostle Marcy got up, was

talking about the joy. And it says in the word that the

joy of the Lord is our strength. Maybe joy doesn't always look

like laughing and running around.

Not that you can't do those things, not that God can't lead

you to say, you know what, just laugh at that situation because

it's going to be OK. Maybe joy looks like strength.

OK, so but those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength,

which means you must have some joy.

Hosea 46 says My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.

Because you have rejected knowledge.

I also will reject you from being my priest.

Since you have forgotten the law of your God, I will also forget

your children. So again, whenever we are

ignorant of what the Word says, then we will not be able to

operate in the authority that God's given us.

In fact, whenever not just that, you're ignorant.

Maybe you've read that Scripture before, maybe you knew it at one

time. But Paul says it does not bother

me to stir you up by way of remembrance.

Let me tell you again what I said.

Jesus repeated the same message over and over and over and over

and over again in public. Repent for the Kingdom of heaven

is a hand. Repent for the Kingdom of heaven

is in your midst. Repent, for the Kingdom of

heaven is a hand. Apparently God has no problem

with saying the same thing over and over and over and over again

to us. Obviously we need it.

Obviously we need to be able to get it.

OK, so it's not a problem for him to repeat it, but are you

going to get it? Are you going to continue to

apply that repentance to your mind so that you can walk in

that authority? That ignorance will hinder you

from being able to walk in authority.

And sometimes it's that we've forgotten.

We as human beings forget too easily.

God knew that. That's why he's like, all right,

I'm going to write these on stone tablets.

And then I want you to take the my law and I want you to like

write it in your house. And whenever you're washing

dishes with your children in the morning and making the

breakfast, I want you to talk about my laws and precepts.

And whenever you're making the Nune meal, I want you to talk

about my laws and precepts. Whenever you're getting your

children ready for bed, I want you to talk about my laws and

precepts. And whenever you're doing things

in daily life and you're harvesting and you're going out

and you're buying things and you're going and doing errands,

whenever you're doing your groceries, I want you to talk

about my laws and precepts. Because He knew we forget way

too easily. We can easily go back to giving

to the flesh if we don't continue to abhor, abhor, abhor

with repentance our past life and our past sin.

We have to continue to apply the Word.

We have to continue to walk on our authority.

And first, Peter chapter one, verse 14 and 15, it says, as

obedient children, do not be conformed to the passions of

your former ignorance. Your lack of knowledge and moral

blindness is what that word ignorance means.

But as he who called you as holy, you also be holy in all of

your conduct. Now again, this contact does

mean your behavior. It does mean your character.

It does mean how you interact with people, but it also means

what you do and what you say. No, I know the authority I've

been given and I'm going to operate in it.

What comes out of our mouth the moment that you feel a little

symptom come on. What comes out of our mouth the

moment that we get a bill in the mail?

What comes out of our mouth the moment that we have conflict

with a friend or a Co worker or a boss?

What is the first thing you say your go to?

I'm going to tell him my own self.

Apostle Marcy got on to me very sternly one time.

I remember I used to be the director at the preschool and we

had changed DCF oversight people.

I don't the the the word is escaping me at the moment, but

we have, you know, the preschool is underneath DCF and so we have

to have surprise inspections. We have them once a quarter.

We know they're coming and we previously had a really good

rapport with one of the DCF inspectors.

He was born again, a retired pastor.

He was just doing this in his retirement.

He was loved what we were doing, spoke the word over us.

It was great. Well, he got, you know, assigned

to a different area and we got a new DCF inspector and she did

not love the things of the Lord or the word or any of those

things. She recognized what we were

doing. We're trying to do with

integrity and that we, you know, our, our endeavour was to do

everything right and to do everything the way we're

supposed to be. However, she was very, very

strict whenever it came to things.

There was no getting away with anything.

And I remember I was just really frustrated and I was like, I

mean, we, we try everything. You know, we read through this

handbook. We're doing everything that we

know we're supposed to do. And she just would kind of be

like, well, I hope you can get this type of Band-Aid in your

first aid kit. Hurry or else I'm going to cite

you, you know, I'm going to write you up.

I'm like, Oh my gosh, a Band-Aid, Literally, it was

something, it was a bar soap. Actually, it was a bar soap.

And the first aid kit, remember, Miss Mary was a bar soap.

So we had Pastor Chase running all over the building looking

for a bar soap somewhere so we can get in our first aid kit

because it had to be in there. And I was just like, oh, I was

so frustrated. And I called Pasta Marcie.

She was in her office and I called her from my office phone

to her office phone. I said, you know, this lady just

doesn't like us. She just, you know, obviously

she just, she just finds a problem with everything and she

walks into my office and she's like, what are you even talking

about? What are you speaking out of

your mouth? Why are you complaining about

this woman instead of praying for her?

Obviously she's lost. And I was like, yes, ma'am, I

knew better. I knew better.

But I was frustrated. And in my frustration, I spoke

out against this woman who was not even born again, who really

asking you to speak blessings over and be like, you know what?

Thank you for making us better. Thank you for making sure that

we have a bar of soap on our first aid kit.

I appreciate that. I know that I need to follow

every rule, every dot, every I and, and cross every T Thank you

for helping us. And, you know, whenever I, I

left and started teaching kindergarten at Washington, she

was still there. And I don't think she's there

anymore. But the last time I saw her, I

gave her a big hug and she's like, Oh, I hope you're doing

really well. She was chatting with me and

she's she was able to know and see what we've done.

But I had to change my own heart.

I had to repent and say, whoa, what am I saying?

Why am I allowing something other than authority to come out

of my mouth? Why am I allowing something

other than the word to come out of my mouth about this person?

Why am I choosing, grumbling, complaining in my heart instead

of choosing, oh, let me submit. Let me make sure that I'm

honoring and respecting and praying for this very lost

person who just needs the Lord. And, you know, we offered to

pray for her and she's like, I mean, you can pray for me, I

guess, you know, And so we were able to minister to her.

And I don't know, it's not like she got born again in our

presence, but I believe that we did plant something in her heart

and the Lord can call on that and she will be able, if

anything, stand before him and know that we ministered to her

and we loved on her. OK, So again, we have to make

sure that we arrest ourselves and say, what's my first

response? Am I speaking the word first in

every situation? Because sometimes we want to

limit these things to very specific categories, healing,

prosperity. But it should apply to

everything in our lives. My children, right before I came

here and was studying and trying to get ready to come, broke a

giant glass jar in their room and it was huge and there was

glass everywhere. And their room was not clean, so

there was glass on things. So I was just like, I can get

really frustrated. I was frustrated, but I can get

mad at them. I can yell at them, or I can

just clean it up and help them. What is going to come out of

your mouth? Because it indicates the

repentance that happens here and allows you to either operate and

speak authority, speak the Kingdom, or speak death.

I mean, the Bible's very clear life and death are and the power

of the tongue and those who love it will eat it's fruit.

And here God's telling us, hey, your fruit, you better have some

performance with it. You better have some evidence

that you know the authority you have and you're operating in it.

And that evidence and that fruit comes from us, every situation

that comes into our lives. And guys, all of us can do

better. All of us can continue to always

advance. All of us can continue to say, I

got to cut that off. I got to prune this off.

I got to stop saying that because I'm going to operate in

the authority that God's given me in Acts chapter 19.

Acts 19 · chapter mention

Let's turn over to Acts chapter 19.

Acts 19 · chapter mention

We'll start in verse 11 it says God was performing extraordinary

miracles by the hands of Paul so that handkerchiefs or aprons

were even carried from his body to the sick and the diseases

left them and the evil spirits went out.

But also some of the Jewish exorcists who went from place to

place attempted to name over those who had evil spirits the

name of the Lord Jesus saying, I endure you by Jesus whom Paul

preaches about seven sons of 1 Skiva, a Jewish chief priest

were doing this. And the evil spear answered and

said to them, I recognize Jesus and I know about Paul, but who

are you? And the man in whom the was the

evil spirit leaped on them and subdued all of them and

overpowered them so that they fled out of that house and naked

and wounded Ignorance hinders you from using authority.

These people were like, I've heard that it works for them,

but I don't really know. I'm ignorant of who he is.

I'm ignorant of a relationship with the king, but I've heard it

works and I kind of want to see if it works.

So I'm just going to say it. Ignorance will hinder you.

Now, that's pretty embarrassing to literally be naked, beating

seven of them against one and running out.

That's embarrassing. OK, But that's because they were

ignorant of the authority. They didn't really know him.

They didn't really know the authority that had been given

them. Ignorance will hinder your

authority. And so we have to make sure that

we're not choosing to be ignorant.

Because here's the thing, If you're ignorant, whose fault is

that? Ours guys, even today in this

time that we live in, we have the Bible in every single

version ever made in this tiny little computer pocket computer

that we can put right here. We have millions of printed

versions is it is the most printed book of all time.

It over double every other book that's ever been printed.

The word of God has been printed.

We have no excuse and no reason to be ignorant.

And God said, I'm giving you that responsibility to know my

word, to not be ignorant of it, to renew this mind so that you

can operate in authority. In Ephesians chapter 6, verse

Ephesians 6:16

16, actually, we're going to start in verse 10.

Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of His

might. Put on the full armor of God so

that you will be able to stand firm against the schemes of the

devil. For our struggle is not against

flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the powers,

against the world forces of this darkness, against the spiritual

forces of wickedness in heavenly places.

Therefore take up the full armor of God, so that you will be able

to resist in the evil day. And having done everything to

stand, stand firm. Stand firm, therefore, having

girded your loins with truth, having put on the breastplate of

righteousness, and having shod your feet with the preparation

of the gospel of peace. In addition to all taking up the

shield of faith with which you will be able to extinguish all

the flaming arrows of the evil 1 and take the helmet of salvation

and the sword of the spirit, which is the word of God.

Now Paul's telling us here to put on the armor of God.

I I know that those who've taken an FCU class for me know like

it's a pet peeve of mine whenever I see either a picture

a painting or a show where Jesus just like oh excuse me could you

please move? That's not who my Jesus was OK

he was polite, he was kind the kindness of God draws men to

repentance. He was good, but he also knew

his authority. He also went to a temple and

started turning over tables and took out a whip.

OK so the armor of God does not portray to me some weak not know

who I am authority. If someone in military, full

military uniform comes in here and has all the I'm really

ignorant of the ranks, but if they had all the patches and

things and they said ranks, I know, I know Mr. or Rain would

know what to do. I know he would know how to

honor that person who walked in the room and realize, hey, that

he has authority. I'm gonna honor that.

So when we put on the full armor of God, guys, it's not like God

is scared you're gonna get defeated.

He's like, no, no, no, you have authority.

So put on your armor. Come on, get up, go walk in what

I've told you. Now I kind of want to focus in

in here on verse 16 where it says in addition to all taking

up the shield of faith, which you will be able to extinguish

all the flaming errors of the evil one.

That phrase to be able is the word power.

The same word power that Jesus was using when he said now go,

I've given you all authority and power.

I'm going to say it wrong. Dunamis power, Dunamio.

I don't know. I'll look at my father-in-law

because he knows and I don't, but it's that word that means

dynamite power. OK, so he says you will be able,

you will have dynamite power to take up your shield of faith now

to be able to extinguish all the fiery darts of the evil 1.

Now those fiery darts are what thoughts that come right here.

And This is why it's so important that we take authority

right here that God's given us in our mind that we take

authority because whenever he shoots that fiery dart, if we

don't have our shield of faith up, and if we keep in Ephesians

Ephesians 5:26

chapter 5 verse 26, it says that he might sanctifies and cleanse

her with the washing of the water of the word.

Paul here is referring to he talks about husband and wives

and he says, now Jesus does this.

He does this because it's a type and shadow husband and wife

relationship is a type and shadow of Jesus relationship

with the church, with the church, not with an individual

with the church. OK, I just want to say that with

the church so that he might sanctify and cleanser with the

washing of the water of the word.

If you don't have the word, if you don't know your authority,

if you don't know what the word says, how are you going to

extinguish a fiery dart? This is why sometimes if we

don't have our Shields up and our Shields are down, something

happens, a thought comes and we kind of are bothered by it.

We get tempted to take up an offense, which is also a

hindrance to your authority. I won't go into that, but it is

a huge hindrance to your authority taking up an offense

are kind of bothered by it. It messes with your emotions.

You keep thinking about it and replaying it in your mind

because you haven't taken captive that thought, thrown it

down, compared it with the word of God and spoken out of your

mouth. Not thought, but spoken out of

your mouth what the word says. If we are not washing ourselves

with the Word constantly and we put our Shields down at all,

then those fiery darts are coming.

Now, I don't want you to imagine a red guy with horns and a tail

that's just over there going all the time, OK?

But there is a spiritual realm that is more real than this

realm that is very real. And there are forces that are in

the Kingdom of darkness that do roam around looking, just trying

to fire these little darts, seeing if something can catch.

Well, if you're saturated with the word and it's nice and your

grass is nice and wet, it doesn't matter.

You can try to throw a flame into my very, very saturated wet

grass and it's not going to catch on fire because the word

immediately extinguishes it. But if you're a little dry in

some areas, if you haven't been washing your mind with the word

of God, it's going to be really easy for that dart to take fire.

And then you're wondering, I don't know why I, I just been

feeling like this. I don't know why I just keep

thinking about that. I don't know why I, I just keep

replaying that in my mind. And then I'm going back to this

old habit or, or it's because you haven't been washing and you

haven't taken authority over that fiery dart whenever God,

Jesus says I've given you all authority to tread on all

serpents. Wait, you mean like the serpent

that was in the beginning who came in to see the Yes, like

that serpent who's trying to come in and be crafty and say,

oh, I think this might be a little dry over here, you know,

no, no, no, no, no. I'm gonna douse it with some

word. OK So in Luke chapter 4 verse 36

Luke 4:36

and amazement came upon them all, and they began talking with

one another saying, what is this message?

For with authority and power He commands the unclean spirits and

they come out. His authority always showed

power. It always had that washing of

the word. Now Jesus spoke the Word and

noticed His pattern. Always whenever He was

ministering, He would preach and teach them.

And then he would say, all right, bring to me the ones who

are sick. Bring to me the ones who need to

be healed from their diseases. He always gave them and taught

them the word. In fact, whenever they started

only wanting to see something, a sign, he said, no, no, no.

Obviously, I have to do some more teaching.

I gotta get you some more word. I've gotta get you some more

water because you're not ready for that.

If I try to just give you this, then it's gonna be real easy for

the enemy to come in and put those fiery darts.

That's why he looked at some people and he said healed them.

And I said, now go and sin no more because he knew you're

gonna have to take up that authority right here.

Always. OK, now all those pieces of

armor work together. OK, so we have this shield of

faith and then he says and wield the sword of the spirit, which

is the word of God. So if you're struggling right

here in your mind, you're like, I, I'm struggling.

I, I feel like I don't have authority over my mind.

I feel like I'm just constantly this battle.

Well, the Bible says, guess what?

The mind is the battlefield. But you have to know that Jesus

says, I've given you everything you need in my word for you to

overcome it. So it sounds to me like you need

to get into the word, not try to numb it with shows, not try to

binge a Netflix show, not try to scroll 'cause we all do it.

Sometimes I just want to numb my mind.

You can numb your mind and then you can also have it on fire.

So I would say don't do that. I would say go ahead and turn on

the sprinkler system 'cause you're going to need it.

I need to turn on my own sprinkler system at my house,

but I don't. It's why my grass is dry.

OK, but armor does not depict a weak, powerless Kingdom.

The armor says this is a strong Kingdom and we have authority.

And the Kingdom of God suffers violent, and the violent take it

by force. And we're not gonna just lay

around and let's say and just run all over our minds.

We're not gonna start thinking like we used to think.

We're gonna continue to operate and the authority he's given us

and choose to take mind here. Now, how can we do this

practically? How can I do that?

How can I take authority? Well, you're gonna have to find

out what the Word says. If you're struggling with

forgiveness, then you need to go look up scriptures or

forgiveness. And again, guys, never been

easier, never been easier. The concordance is right here.

You don't have to get out the giant concordance anymore and

bring it out as like 10 lbs. My parents had as a kid, the

strongest accordance. You don't have to do that.

You can look it up right here. It'll tell you every place that

forgiveness says in the Bible. And you can look at all those

scriptures, you can write them down.

You can copy, paste, print a Word document, paste it on your

mirror. It's super easy.

It's never been easier than today for us to know the word

and be able to operate in it. So we practically do that by

finding out what the word says. Now, another way you can

practically do that is to surround your people.

Surround yourself, people who are going to give you the word.

Don't go hang around the people who are like, I know I it's

really hard. I know.

I mean, it's just like one thing after another.

Is it one thing after another or is it like I get to wake up and

do my Kingdom purpose today? I get to wake up and be a mom

today. I get to wake up and go teach

children today. I get to wake up and be a wife

today. I'm so excited to do my role in

my assignment in the Kingdom because I'm going to use the

authority he's given me and I'm not going to think it's too

hard. It is a doctrine of demons to

just I love this anxiety thing that goes on.

It gives me the heebie jeebies and makes me very frustrated to

read all of these believers. They're like, well just I'm

really dealing hard with anxiety today.

I know that anxiety comes, but Jesus said be anxious for

nothing. So again, if you're dealing with

anxiety, it sounds to me like you need to get into the Word

and say, what does the Word say about anxiety?

How can I cast that care upon the Lord?

Because He cares for you. He does not want you to operate

that way. He says I've given you all

authority, go operate it and use it.

All right, let's look at Romans chapter 8 verse 5 through 8.

Romans 8:5–8

It says those who live according to the flesh have their mind set

on what the flesh desires, but those who live in accordance

with the Spirit have their mindset on what the Spirit

desires. The mind governed by the flesh

is death, but the mind governed by the Spirit is life and peace.

The mind governed by the flesh is hostile to God.

It does not submit to God's law, nor can it do so.

Those who are in the realm of the flesh cannot please God.

Now what does it tell us in Hebrews 11?

What pleases God? Faith.

Faith is the only thing that can please God.

So if you are setting your mind according to the flesh, then

obviously you're not operating in faith.

You cannot be put in your mind and continuing to side with your

flesh and be operating in faith at the same time.

Because right here it says those who are in the realm of the

flesh cannot please God, which means they cannot be in faith in

that area. Faith pleases God, and we have

to be able to know what His Word says to be able to operate in

that faith, to be able to exercise that authority that we

have. Submission and faith are

required for authority, just like Apostle Earl showed us with

the centurion, OK, He came to Jesus and he said, my servant is

at home, he's being tormented and he's dreadfully ill.

And he said, Jesus said, OK, I'll come, I'll come lay hands

on him. And they said to her, he said,

no, no, no, I'm not worthy for you to come underneath my roof,

but speak the word only, for I also am a man under authority.

I tell this one come and he comes.

I tell this one go and he goes, I tell this one to do this and

he does it because the centurion And then Jesus said I have not

found such great faith in all of Israel, in an entire nation with

millions of people. This Gentile man had more faith,

and it's because he understood authority.

He understood I had to submit in order to be an authority.

I've told my children, and I encourage my kindergarteners and

I encourage adults. You're gonna have to submit

forever. Get over it.

Don't allow the independence and rebellion of the United States

of America become your creed. Become who you are because

you're going to submit forever. The people who don't want to

submit and think they aren't submitting, one day they will

submit. It'd be better just to go ahead

and do it now. Just learn I have to submit.

And if you will submit, you get to walk in freedom.

If you submit, there's so much more available to you.

If you could submit, then you'll understand the authority that

God's given you. So whenever you submit to God,

then you can be able to walk in authority.

But if you're submitting to your flesh, then you're acting

hostile to God and you cannot please him.

Submission and faith are always required for us to be able to

walk onto authority. Romans chapter 12, verse 2, it

Romans 12:2

says, and do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed

by the renewing of your minds, that you may prove what the will

of God is, that which is good, acceptable and perfect.

We have to renew our minds. It says you renew your mind, not

God's going to do it for you. He did what you couldn't do,

which is give you a brand new spirit man.

He took out that old Stony heart.

He gave you a brand new heart. You couldn't do that.

You can never have been reconciled to him through your

own actions and words. But now he said, now you go

renew your mind and make sure it matches up with what I said.

So we have that responsibility. And the only way for us to

continue to operate in full authority is for us to continue

to renew our minds. I'm going to give us a couple

more scriptures here before we close on renewing our minds.

And 2nd Corinthians chapter 10 verse 3 through 5 and says, For

though we walk on the flesh, we do not war according to the

flesh, for the weapons of our war flare are not a flesh, but

divinely powerful for the destruction of fortresses.

We are destroying speculations and every lofty thing raised up

against the knowledge of God, and we are taking every thought

captive to the obedience of Christ.

Ephesians 417 through 24 says, So this I say and affirm

together with the Lord that you walk no longer, just as the

Gentiles also walk. Don't walk like the world.

Don't identify with them and their reels and their trends and

their Tik Toks. Stop identifying with them,

being darkened in their understanding and excluded from

the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them,

because of the hardness of their heart.

They've become callous, have given themselves over to

sensuality for the practice of every kind of impurity with

greediness. But you did not learn Christ in

this way, if indeed you have heard Him and have been taught

in Him. Just as truth is in Jesus, that

in reference to your former manner of life, you lay aside

the old self which is being corrupted in accordance with the

lust of deceit. And that you be renewed in the

spirit of your mind and put on the new self which is in the

likeness of God that has been created in righteousness and

holiness of the truth. Second Timothy 17 says For God

has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power, power and of

love, and of a sound mind. That means that we have His

power, his authority, his love, and the ability to have a

renewed and sound mind to walk in authority.

Colossians 32 says set your mind on things above and not on the

things of the earth. Guys, whenever we do that,

whenever we say I'm not going to be like Eve, I'm not going to be

like Adam, where I allow Satan to come in and to whisper to me

right here and to take my authority.

Because here's the thing, really he can't.

He has no authority to take your authority.

You give it, you give it away, just like Adam and Eve.

You choose not to operate in it. You choose not to walk in it,

but the only way for us to continue to make sure that we're

operating in it and knowing that Jesus came, He was the only one

who could give that authority back to us, that we could

operate as royalty in the Kingdom so that we could

continue to be kings and Queens on the earth, to rule and reign

over every circumstance over all of the earth.

You guys remember, as Apostle Earl told us, our bodies are

made out of the dust. We have authority over them.

I don't have to follow every single whim of my flesh.

I don't have to follow everything that it wants to do

because I have authority right here in my mind.

I have authority over every scheme that the devil tries to

bring against me. And the only way for us to die

is to for us to take authority over our mind.

Jesus did what we couldn't do. He came back and he died.

He gave us a brand new spirit. He took back the keys to death

town in the grave. And then he said, I give you the

keys of the Kingdom. Now go.

And we have to continue to operate in that authority if we

continue to renew our mind so that we can please Him, so we

can operate in faith, so we can do all the things that He's

called us to do here on the earth because He has purpose for

us here right now. It always was His will that we

operate in the earth and on the earth.

And he says, I want you to keep operating in the earth and on

the earth. Amen.