CERTAINTY IN
THE NAME OF JESUS CHRIST
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 minister 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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