what did you feel like you gained in 2020 well i think you said it i think it's so important you
said because you're under the authority yes right you have the authority absolutely you know and i
think it's for all of us if we just stay focused we said it earlier this year if we stay focused
on just staying in his face yeah and staying under that authority then you can walk in that authority
come on and whatever you're faced with no matter how grim no matter how exciting you know what i'm
saying stay under the authority yes and then you can access it by speaking his word that's right
not yours yeah that's right you know but saying what he says because he wants us to yeah you know
he gave us that same resurrection power yeah yeah yes same speech you know like you said we prayed
for a young girl last year 37 years of age and she transitioned we fasted and prayed and we yeah
declared god's word we had faith yes our church i mean i was just so proud of how you know i would
go see hannah and before i get there some of the kids had i call them kids they're in their 30s but
they they were outside praying outside the house i mean they believed god and god decided
to bring her home yeah transitioner and as sad as i was it was like a heavy and a happy
i knew god had did what he wanted to do you know what i'm saying that's right we have the authority
to rebuke death yes right and premature death yes we we are all right you know we don't know
how we're going to leave some leave older some leave younger but don't let that stop you from
walking and be authority that's what god has given us and so i rejoice with you i realize
with you but i do believe that it's time for the church to walk in that authority
at all times no and he said to his disciples you have authority to raise the dead heal the sick
preach the good news deliver the demons i give you authority it's why he sent out
the seven you know go out and do it but we wait for the pastor right to pray for him and i think
2020 has been so great in that we've been isolated because you've got to go to the secret place for
your breakthrough for yourself and i think it's taught people how to pray for themselves and not
wait for somebody who they think that's right right you know they've got more access to god
yeah and i believe that we fall short in walking in the authority that god has given us because
we're too worried about what people think exactly old selves yes that's right you cannot walk in the
authority of god and worry about what you're going to look like totally and i've preached on this
before i've said obedience increases authority disobedience decreases that's right absolutely
because if you look at the garden we were given all authority dominion and power over the earth
the birds the fish everything he said everything is yours subdue it rule reign over dominion
have dominion that's full authority yeah because of their disobedience that's right yeah they lost
it they lost that's right then jesus comes full authority full obedience to a higher authority the
father right there is no disobedience in jesus so there's a hundred percent authority to heal
be raised from the dead so the key is obedience yeah when you have obedient and willing to look
foolish willing to be like a risk taker god goes i can trust you yes and then power moves right
it's really simple yeah i love how the lord heals us when we walk in authority and we stand and we
claim and we proclaim and it doesn't go the way that we think i remember when my mom was diagnosed
with pancreatic cancer and i'm telling you i i fasted i prayer walked i called every prayer
line i had everyone praying very much like what you shared with hannah and i remember um standing
in what i thought was authority but jonathan i were talking about this my husband and i
he had received a scripture that the lord said to him precious in the sight of the lord is the death
of his saints as she was diagnosed and the lord spoke to me i'm going to heal your mama
but there are things she needs to be healed of that are only going to be taken care of
in the eternal hello because it's beyond just the physical i didn't want to hear that so i'm
just kind of speaking from an honest place where i was like no i'm going to take the name of jesus
and i'm going to slap it on something right be real honest yeah that in the gut i wanted more
than i wanted anything else yeah he took her yeah she said hello to to the lord eternally
but i want to share this about how he restored biblical authority through that i'll try to get
through it yeah so she passed away in three months just about like they said she would
and she went home to hospice at my uncle bob's house because my parents were divorced and
levi was only 18 months so i'd have to fly in every 10 days he couldn't be around all the
chemo drugs so she was hospiced there and my uncle bob had resisted god for probably 35 or 40 years
yeah and my aunt carolyn my mom's sister had prayed for him everybody had prayed for uncle bob
pray for uncle bob mom passed and i had been in the house and i was overcome by the spirit of god
to actually declare that salvation would come to the house i can't explain it it was one of those
weird you know when he walks into the room and you're like i know you're imminent and transcended
that you're right here yeah like right i could see you right here yeah i remember where i was
and i said in the name of jesus by the authority that he has invested i declare salvation right
and this is right after kind of having a weird experience with not seeing it go the way i wanted
after mom went my cousin sherry got to lead him to the lord and do you know what he said he said the
reason i came to christ is because i watched how pat died in the house with peace and so
i just want to encourage anybody that yes this is very good that if you've seen what you think like
what it means to walk in his authority doesn't quite go the way you think yeah right yeah allow
him to go to that place with you and realize that even death yeah and salvation came yes
and so anyway i've never i've never shared that story before but i just feel like there
might be somebody who's yeah who's come to the end of their road and said i tried but you know
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