subject: Word Of God [print this page] Speaking the word of god rather than your circumstances. Speaking the word of god rather than how you feel or even what you think. I know for me, almost 32 years ago when I really became a serious student of the word of god, I didn't have an understanding of who I was and who I was in christ.
Joyce Meyer started learning that when I received christ as my savior, I was actually made right with god by the blood of christ, so that meant that I had a right-standing with god; I didn't have to feel badly about myself all the time, and that i'd been given authority over the enemy in jesus' name, and that I had the blood of jesus to protect me and to cleanse me. I went through a period, though, where I had that as head knowledge, so I was trying to take authority. "I take authority -- I take authority over you!" and i'd take authority over the devil.
I remember the lord saying to me one day, "why don't you just walk in your authority instead of trying to take authority?" when I come into my office here, everybody knows who I am. I know i'm the president. They know i'm the president. So, I don't have to walk in and say, "okay, now here I am; I take authority!" because I walk in that and I have a knowledge of who I am. Occasionally, I might have to remind somebody but not very often because I know, and if you know, then they know. So we have to come to a point where that head-knowledge of having this authority becomes a revelation to our spirit. Then things begin to get a lot easier because you get to the point where you know that god loves you.
He doesn't have to prove it to you all the time; you know that you know that you know. So you know that even if you have a trial, that you do have authority, and if you just keep on doing what you know you should do, doing what's right, obeying god, loving god, giving praise, that that thing has to turn around in your favor. Having authority doesn't mean that you never experience a trial. Joyce Meyer Ministries tells us that it just means that you will come out on the other side of it victoriously. What we do and say and think and how we behave while we're in that trial really largely determines how long we're going to be in it.
