We are given the authority to intervene with intercession for any situation on earth.
2 Corinthians 10:4-6 (New International Version)
The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds. We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.
Do we, as those who belong to the Lord Jesus Christ view snakes as snakes and scorpions as scorpions or have we begun to see them as friends also?. Are we trying to 'tame' them so that we could accept them as 'friends'.We were not called to 'tame and play' with them but to trample them with all the authority we have in Christ by the power of the Holy Spirit.
Matthew 28:16-20 (New International Version)
Then the eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain where Jesus had told them to go. When they saw him, they worshiped him; but some doubted. Then Jesus came to them and said, "All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of
the age."
The words in bold says that Christ our Lord has been given all the authority by the Heavenly Father not only in heaven but on earth and even underneath the earth. What's underneath the earth?
1 Peter 3:18-22 (New International Version)
For Christ died for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God. He was put to death in the body but made alive by the Spirit, through whom also he went and preached to the spirits in prison who disobeyed long ago when God waited patiently in the days of Noah while the ark was being built. In it only a few people, eight in all, were saved through water, and this water symbolizes baptism that now saves you also—not the removal of dirt from the body but the pledge of a good conscience toward God. It saves you by the resurrection of Jesus Christ, who has gone into heaven and is at God's right hand—with angels, authorities and powers in submission to him.
Just study these verses above carefully and take note of the words in bold again. All authority is the Lord's. What does this authority do on earth?
Luke 7:1-10 (New International Version)
When Jesus had finished saying all this in the hearing of the people, he entered Capernaum. There a centurion's servant, whom his master valued highly, was sick and about to die. The centurion heard of Jesus and sent some elders of the Jews to him, asking him to come and heal his servant. When they came to Jesus, they pleaded earnestly with him, "This man deserves to have you do this, because he loves our nation and has built our synagogue." So Jesus went with them.
He was not far from the house when the centurion sent friends to say to him: "Lord, don't trouble yourself, for I do not deserve to have you come under my roof. That is why I did not even consider myself worthy to come to you. But say the word, and my servant will be healed. For I myself am a man under authority, with soldiers under me. I tell this one, 'Go,' and he goes; and that one, 'Come,' and he comes. I say to my servant, 'Do this,' and he does it."
When Jesus heard this, he was amazed at him, and turning to the crowd following him, he said, "I tell you, I have not found such great faith even in Israel." Then the men who had been sent returned to the house and found the servant well.
The gentile centurion in the passage above knew what was authority but this authority was something different he knew. It breaks all physical or human barriers.
It nullifies the laws of the nature. He does not have to be there in person or orders be given through another person like the centurion always practised as an official in authority among men. He told the Lord Jesus Christ to just say the word from where he was and his servant would be healed. His servant was healed that same moment just as he had believed.
The Lord Jesus Christ has authority to heal anyone from anywhere. He had authority to forgive anyone's sins. He has authority over the wind and the seas. He has authority to raise anyone from the dead. He had authority to say and wither a tree so that it died where it stood. He had authority to say to the hopeless leper "be clean" and he was made clean. To the demons He said; "leave" and they obeyed Him. He ordered Satan to leave after he had tried tempting Him after He had fasted for forty days and nights and Satan bowed to Him.
He says now that this authority has been given to those who are His.
Luke 10:19 (New International Version)
I have given you authority to trample on snakes and scorpions and to overcome all the power of the enemy; nothing will harm you. To be continued......
