CERTAINTY IN A NAME
When I first decided to
buy a house in Las Vegas, the Lord blessed me with the absolute best realtor,
Shelley Brown. She found the perfect house, and she knows all the right people.
Just mention her name and you get great service. Shelley’s name has clout, and
is a great example in the physical, of what the name of Jesus Christ is in the
spiritual.
Philippians 2:9-11 tells
us how powerful the name of Jesus is: “Wherefore God also hath highly exalted
him, and given him a name which is above every name: that at the name of Jesus
every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth; and that every tongue should
confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.”
Since God created everything in the first place, if He says
everything is in subjection to the power of the name of His son Jesus, then it’s
true. And if anyone says different they’re lying. John 8:44 tells us the devil “was a murderer from the beginning, and does not
stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks
out of his own character, for he is a liar and the father of lies.”
Sometimes at night if I have a bad dream, I wake up and say
the name of Jesus over and over and then I go back to sleep easily. Just saying
and believing in the power of His name gets the job done. There is certainty in
saying the name of Jesus Christ, when you believe in it.
When I pray for someone or ministering healing or deliverance
to someone, I check with Jesus first, and then often He directs me to speak
straight to a demon or demonic forces and tell them they must bow and obey
whatever I say in Jesus’ name. I remind the devil spirit that it is not more
powerful than the Son of God. Then I believe for wisdom and revelation and do
whatever the Lord directs.
James 4:7 says, “Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.” We’ve been
given the powerful name of our Lord Jesus to use in making any demon spirit
flee from around us. And we can also help others. Just like I’ve told friends
about Shelley’s recommendations and they’ve been blessed, we can help others by
sharing what happens when we use the name of Jesus Christ and we get blessed.
In the book of
Acts, we have many examples of the believers using the authority of the name of
Jesus. In Acts 3, Peter and John healed a man who was born lame and the people
were astonished. “And when Peter saw it, he answered unto the people, ‘Ye
men of Israel, why marvel ye at this? or WHY
LOOK YE SO EARNESTLY ON US, AS THOUGH BY OUR OWN POWER OR HOLINESS WE HAD MADE
THIS MAN TO WALK? The God of Abraham, and of Isaac, and of Jacob, the God of our fathers, hath glorified his Son Jesus”
(vv.12-13).
Peter goes on to
say, “Be it known unto you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of
Nazareth, whom ye crucified, whom God raised from the dead, even by him doth this man stand here before you whole” (Acts 4:10).
That’s a lot of
power behind a name, the biggest power in the universe, in fact! And God loves
us so much He’s given us the name of Jesus to flash at any force that is coming
against us or the people we love. Let’s get more familiar with the power of
Jesus and His name by reading the Gospel’s and the book of Acts too, and start
to walk in even more victory than before.
Love, Carolyn
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