BIBLE STUDIES ARCHIVE.....OUR POWER AND AUTHORITY IN CHRIST
 
The ultimate source of all power and authority is jesus christ! 
                  
Matthew 28:18
Mark 2:10
Daniel 7:13 & 14
Ephesians 1:18-23

How would you define Authority?
How would you define Power?
 
Jesus gave the twelve power and authority!
 
Luke 9:1 & 2
Acts 1:8
Matthew 10:1
 
What are some examples of the way the apostles used their power and authority given by christ?
 
We have the same claim to that authority and power today in christ!
 
Ephesians 3:16 - 19
Colossians 1: 9 – 14
 
How do we gain our authority in Christ?
How do we acquire our power in Christ?
What are some ways we use our authority and power in Christ?
 
What tools do we have available to use in order to appropriate this authority and power we have in Christ?  
 
“In all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us.”  Rom. 8:37
 
USING OUR POWER AND AUTHORITY IN SPIRITUAL BATTLES
 
OURS IS A POSITION OF POWER AND AUTHORITY IN A VERTICAL PLANE
 
GOD
jesus christ
HOLY SPIRIT
us
 
the fallen world
 
 
  What strikes you about this diagram? ______________________________
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  What important message does it send to you? ________________________
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The horizontal tug of war
 
 
God, Jesus, Holy Spirit                             Us                        Fallen World
 
Like a tug of war, the enemy would like us to believe the battle is horizontal – so that we have to keep fighting and pulling harder and harder – always exerting our strength and energy.  This is a clever tactic – which is wrong!!  We have no need to pull, for “it is finished.”
 
How do we know we have already won? .
 
  
OUR TOOLS FOR SPIRITUAL BATTLE
 
  Powerful prayer -- James 5:16
 
 
  Look up and write down the results of these examples of powerful prayer by faithful men of god:
 
  Elijah:         James 5:17 - 18
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  Hezekiah:      2Kings 19:14-19; 35 - 37
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  Jehosophat: 2Chronicles 20:1-30
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  Josiah:         2Chronicles 34: 29-33
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Share one example of answered prayer in your life:
     
 
  God’s Word
 
  The Proof is in the Truth:  John 17:17
 
  What are some powerful scriptures which have had a significant impact
      on your Life ?
 
 
  A Statement of God’s Authority:  Isaiah 45:5-8
 
“I am the Lord, and there is no other; apart from me there is no God.
I will strengthen you, though you have not acknowledged me,
so that from the rising of the sun to the place of it’s setting,
men may know there is none besides me.
 
I am the lord and there is no other.  I form the light and create darkness,
I bring prosperity and create disaster; I, the Lord, do all these things.
 
You heavens above, rain down righteousness; let the clouds shower it down.
Let the earth open wide, let salvation spring up, let righteousness grow with it.
I, the Lord, have created it.”