Understand the authority you carry as a child of God. I call it the “Redeeming Factor.” Because you are a child of God, He will take care of you. God takes care of His children! All you have to do is use the authority that He has given you.
Do your parents take care of you? Can you imagine if you were a baby and they never changed your diaper? NOBODY would like you! You would stink all the time!
“Ewwww, there’s that stinky baby! Run away! Run away!” No, your parents took care of you. They changed your diaper so you didn’t get a rash so bad that your butt fell off. (Am I getting too graphic here? Just wait – it gets better!)
Well guess what, we have a God, a Father that loves us! Don’t you think He is going to take care of us as much – if not better – than our own parents? Right?
I can just imagine God going, “I love you. You’re my child and I’m going to bless you and I’m going to protect you…. What? Did you say the devil came against you? You just say to that devil, ‘In Jesus name you are under my feet.'”
That’s all it takes for God to make a big stomp that the devil hears! God’s got a big foot and He stomps on that devil with the authority that He has given you! When God stomps, the devil feels pain.
A few summers ago Tori, my oldest daughter, came running in the house screaming, “Oh Dad! Gross! Oh gross!”
I said, Tori what is wrong?” “Oh Dad oh! Dad…” She couldn’t even tell me.
“Your garage door…Oh, it came down, oh… it’s awful!” So I went out and opened the garage door and there underneath the door was what was once a toad. It was now a very flat toad….
In fact, it was now a very flat and messy toad. Man, I started thinking that this is what it is like when you use your authority against the devil!
I can just see God putting His big foot on the devil’s head and all of sudden. Thiiittt. One flat devil, no garage door needed!
That’s the authority that God has given to you and He wants you to use it! You are His child!
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Pastor Steve and Becky Munds began working with young people in 1975.
They've been traveling and working in camps, prisons, detention centers, churches, concerts, conferences, and more than 35 international outreaches including Peru, Mexico, Russia, Jamaica, and England. This includes schools, colleges, universities, TV, radio, just to name a few.
Basically, if it involves young people, they've been there!