Scripture: Romans 13:1
Judicial authority is level two and comes with our Sonship position. Every policeman earns a badge. Jesus made us kings and priests. That is our royal priesthood. That position carries a badge of spiritual authority. Jesus gave His kings and priests authority that is accessed by faith! Counterfeit signs and wonders will proliferate in the last days! Romans 13:1 says, “Let every soul be subject to the governing authorities (exousias). For there is no authority (exousia) except from God, and the authorities (exousias) that exist are appointed by God.” Here is what we discover in verse 1. We discover that governmental biblical authority empowers law enforcement. And exousia is spiritual governmental authority assigned to men to execute God’s wrath on those practicing evil. We would say that the police, the customs, the military all bear governmental authority. The perversion of that authority through bribes and mammon brings destruction. God’s end-time witnesses will war against anti-Christ government. Governmental authority has its roots in God’s assignment. When wicked governmental authority is released, God releases authority to confront it. We have to judge by the Spirit and be anointed with exousia in the realm of the Spirit to be effective against spirits.
There is the natural and there is the spiritual. In first Corinthians 15, we are told first the natural and then the spiritual. Natural things help us comprehend their spiritual counterpart. There is natural authority that comes with a badge and a spiritual authority that comes from God. Jesus demonstrated His spiritual authority in healing, deliverance, resurrection, and in miracles, signs, and wonders. You and I as we develop in Spirit are supposed to be doing the same thing with one end-time addition—judgment! I believe we are headed for the greatest revival including signs and wonders that the earth has ever seen. All of this will come with a purpose and that is a mighty harvest of the nations. Why are we studying this? We need to understand that as legal heirs of our Father we are called to make a difference and a contribution to the great end-time harvest. The Book of Revelation portrays God’s final mercy to man as a radical display of divine judgment in seals, trumpets, and bowls! Standing for the Gospel of Christ during this season could be costly!
- Pray that you will charge into the raging spiritual battle fearlessly Pro 28:1, Ps 46
- Pray that this season you will laugh, scorn and be a terrible terror to the enemies of God’s purposes in your life, family, church, and the nation. (Ps 27:3; Prov21:31).
- Pray that God will pave a way for you even in difficult places and will make lives to fall for you in pleasant places.
- Activate the divisive nature of the number 2 in this Jewish second month to divide the tongues of those fomenting trouble in every anti-God gathering in your life, family, the Body of Christ, the nation and continent. (Jeremiah 49:36)