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Too late! You opened your Bible, and it’s too late. You know the Good News. You know the
Gospel. You know the truth, and it makes you free.
When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice. (Proverbs 29:2) It’s no wonder so many
people are down, defeated, upset, and so confused. It’s because they’re not in authority. They
don’t believe they have any. They believe they are helpless, hapless, victims to this life, and the
best they can do is beg God that He will make it quit. I’m not making fun, I’m pointing out error.
We’ve not been taught that we are kings and priests. We’ve not been taught that we’ve been
given authority in this Name. When the Holy Spirit came on us, it was so we could be
empowered to look death, disease, confusion, and bondage in the face and say, “Stop! I said
stop! And stop now!” and expect it to happen, and see it happen.
We’re going to put a stop to some things. We’re not waiting on God for our victory. Jesus
already bought it and paid for it, and He has given it to us. But He has instructed us on what to
do. We’re to rise up and speak to that mountain and command it to get out of the way. We’re to
stand up and resist anything that steals and kills and destroys, and say, “Not here! Not here you
don’t! Get!”
It is said that Brother Smith Wigglesworth, on one occasion, was standing at a train depot
waiting on a train, and there was a woman there who had a little dog that had followed her from
her apartment. They’re waiting for the train to get there, and she said to the dog, “No, no, honey,
you can’t go. Now go back to the house. Go back to the house.” But the dog just stood there and
wagged his tail and looked at her. It was getting later, and the train was coming, and she said,
“No, no. Now go on, go on. Go back to the house.” He just stood there and wagged his tail and
looked at her. Finally they could hear the train coming. She looked over at the dog and shouted,
“Get! Get! Get back to the house!” And he took off and ran.
Brother Wigglesworth shouted out, “That’s it! That’s the same way you got to do the devil! Just
like that!”
It’s not a matter of volume. It’s not how loud we can get. That’s not it. But, do we mean it or
not? Do we believe it? When you’re real strong in your belief, it affects your volume some,
doesn’t it? I think we’ve been too mealy-mouthed about these things. I think we’ve talked around
it, and about it, and just played with it, and the devil knows it. He knows we don’t mean
business. We have got to get strong about this. We have to get serious about it and do it like we
mean it, do it like we believe it.
I want to include for you an excerpt from the same book I mentioned earlier, I Believe in
Visions, by Kenneth E. Hagin. Something that he learned goes right along with this.
In the chapter prior to the excerpt I’m going to include here, he tells how the Lord ministered to
him the anointing to minister to the oppressed and the sick. The Lord told Brother Hagin that
when he sensed this anointing, it would mean that the work of the enemy was there, and that he
was to command it to leave, and it would. He told him this only a month or so prior to this
meeting: