Authority Over Demons and Disease
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Verse 18 continues, “They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not
hurt them…” We have one example of a serpent when Paul got bit. He wasn’t handling it to
prove he had faith, but he was obeying God and got bit. This applies to us in so many ways.
There is enough stuff in the air and the water and the food we eat to kill us any day.
Say this out loud:
If I eat any deadly thing, or drink any deadly thing, or
breathe any deadly thing, it won’t hurt me.
“They shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.” Who is going to do that? We are. We
are going to preach the Gospel. We are going to speak in new tongues. We cast out devils. We
lay hands on the sick. And we’re not going to do it mealy-mouthed with a “let’s try,” and “let’s
see
if
,” and “do the best that we can.” No! Jesus said, “I said they would,” so they will.
We have allowed things we shouldn’t have allowed. We’ve yielded to them. We didn’t mean to,
and we didn’t want to, but we thought we didn’t have a choice, that we couldn’t help it. We
thought we were just victims waiting on the Lord, waiting on Him, pleading with Him, and
begging Him. So many times good people, who love God, are just doing it ignorantly. They are
ignorant of the Bible and ignorant of their authority.
Say this out loud:
In light of God’s Word that I see, I am not a victim.
I am not helpless.
I have authority.
I have power in Jesus’ Name over all demons, to cast them out.
Over all sickness and over all disease, I’ve been given the authority.
I’ve been given power in the Name of Jesus.
Hallelujah.
Now I want you to act on it. I want you to reach down to your toes. I want you to reach down in
your spirit, and don’t be afraid of getting too loud. I want you to mean business on this. We are
running these things out in the Name of Jesus. Are you ready? Stand up if you’re able to. Get up
on your feet right now and get serious about this. Don’t be doing anything else; turn everything
else off. This is serious. We’re taking care of business right now in the Name of Jesus.
Say this out loud:
In the Name of Jesus, the Head of the Church,
you foul spirits, you unclean spirits, oppressing bodies, oppressing minds,
spirit of death, spirit of infirmities, I command you, get!
Get out! I rebuke you!
Leave my body! Leave my body!
Leave my mind!
I rebuke you!
Go, in the Name of Jesus!
