{"id":2012,"date":"2013-01-26T01:00:55","date_gmt":"2013-01-26T06:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kspministries.org\/wordpress\/?p=2012"},"modified":"2013-01-26T01:06:03","modified_gmt":"2013-01-26T06:06:03","slug":"pearls-of-wisdom-01-26-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kspministries.org\/wordpress\/2013\/01\/26\/pearls-of-wisdom-01-26-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Pearls of Wisdom 01-26-2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><strong>AUTHORITY AND POWER, PART 10<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Isaiah 54:17, Amplified Bible<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>But no weapon that is formed against you shall prosper, and every tongue that shall rise against you in judgment you shall show to be in the wrong.\u00a0 This [peace, righteousness, security, triumph over opposition] is the heritage of the servants of the Lord\u2026. . . .<\/p>\n<p>Even in the Old Testament God assured His people that they had authority over that which rose up against them in judgment, against them in opposition.\u00a0 As they were told, the battle was not theirs, but the Lord\u2019s.\u00a0 He does protect His own.\u00a0 Now He has given us His authority and His power to defeat any weapon formed against us.\u00a0 No weapon formed against us shall prosper or succeed.\u00a0 Why?\u00a0 When someone or something comes against you, he or she comes against God.\u00a0 He is our defender and our vindicator.<\/p>\n<p>Look at the next statement in that verse.\u00a0 We have a heritage.\u00a0 What does God\u2019s authority and power give us?\u00a0 It gives us peace, which is shalom, which means that all is well, that we are whole, and that nothing is missing or broken in our lives.\u00a0 It gives us righteousness; we have been made right with God because of the blood of Jesus Christ.\u00a0 He has given us the rights that are ours as God\u2019s children.\u00a0 It gives us security.\u00a0 We are secure in Christ Jesus.\u00a0 We know that He takes care of us.\u00a0 It gives us triumph over opposition.\u00a0 What is it that is opposing you today?\u00a0 Is it sickness and disease?\u00a0 Is it poverty?\u00a0 Is it fear?\u00a0 Is it unbelief?\u00a0 Is it a temptation you can\u2019t seem to overcome?\u00a0 Is it lack in some area of your life?\u00a0 Whatever it is that opposes you, God has given you His authority to overcome.\u00a0 You are an overcomer in this life by Christ Jesus.<\/p>\n<p>Know who you are in Christ Jesus.\u00a0 Nothing that opposes you will be successful.\u00a0 Let that reality sink down deep into you and give you confidence.\u00a0 Remember<strong> 1 John 4:4.\u00a0<\/strong> We are of God.\u00a0 We are His children.\u00a0 We belong to Him.\u00a0 As His children, we have already defeated and overcome the agents of antichrist because greater, mightier is He Who is in us than he that is in the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AUTHORITY AND POWER, PART 10 Isaiah 54:17, Amplified Bible But no weapon that is formed against you shall prosper, and every tongue that shall rise against you in judgment you shall show to be in the wrong.\u00a0 This [peace, righteousness, security, triumph over opposition] is the heritage of the servants of the Lord\u2026. . . [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kspministries.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2012"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kspministries.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kspministries.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kspministries.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kspministries.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2012"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.kspministries.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2135,"href":"http:\/\/www.kspministries.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2012\/revisions\/2135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kspministries.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kspministries.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kspministries.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}