When Jesus Christ walked the earth, He demonstrated the creative power of speaking God’s words. The disciples were at sea with Him once when a fierce storm arose. Panic struck. In their terror, the disciples were thrust into a world charged with fear. They were living at the moment in anxiety, tension, stress and impending tragedy. When they woke Jesus—Who was sleeping peacefully—to tell Him of
the peril, He stepped onto the bow of the boat and spoke a creative word to the storm: “Peace, be still” (Mark 4:39). When Jesus spoke it, the Holy Spirit accomplished it, and there was peace.
Jesus went to a house where a young woman lay dead. He told all the mourners to leave, and He said to the young lady, “Arise” (Mark 5:41). At that moment, life arose where there had been lifelessness. Where there had been the pallor of death, the radiant face of a living soul emerged. His word created life.
To another person Jesus said, “Arise, go thy way: thy faith hath made thee whole” (Luke 17:19). Jesus spoke, and the Spirit brought each of these things into existence.
Jesus had the Spirit of God without measure (John 3:34). We have God’s Spirit with measure. When we “die to the flesh” and allow more of the Spirit to indwell us, we have a greater measure of God’s Spirit, but none of us experiences God’s Spirit without measure as Jesus did. When Jesus spoke, He spoke by the power of the limitless Holy Spirit within Him. He said and did everything God wanted Him to say and do, and it was always by the power of the Holy Spirit. He lived in total dependence upon the Spirit.
But Jesus said a peculiar thing. He said, “Greater works than these shall he [you] do; because I go unto my Father” (John 14:12).
Peter understood this delegation of power rather quickly. Days after Jesus had ascended into heaven, Peter went to the temple at the hour of prayer. There he saw a lame man begging, expecting to receive something. Peter said, “Silver and gold have I none; but such as I have give I thee: In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth rise up and walk” (Acts 3:6).
Using the Name of Jesus, Peter reached out his hand to the beggar and helped him to his feet. And as the Spirit of God confirmed the word which Peter spoke using Jesus’ authority, the man leapt to his feet and began walking and jumping. His legs, lame since birth, were suddenly filled with strength and life.
Kenneth Copeland Ministries
I am really blessed by your teachings from God’s Word. I’m learning to work in the authority of Jesus Christ little by little. I have a testimony to show that it WORKS! It sooooo works.
I was attacked on my way from work sometime in November this year. Earlier that day, I had seen an old high school friend of mine (who led me to the Lord), after I closed from work, who shared some very serious burdens with me and we had prayed together and I knew I had gotten into warfare by reason of her sharing. As I left her, the burden didn’t leave me. I just kept praying about the situation ( I was just speaking in tongues and expressing the distress in my heart towards God and binding the devil. It was a bit late 10.00pm at night. I boarded a motor cycle (a popular means of transportation in Nigeria where I live), and just kept praying, not knowing that the bike man was taking me somewhere else. Before I knew it, he had taken a detour to a very deserted, very dark and solitary place on the way to one of the most dangerous suburbs. As soon as I realized this, I just tapped him and said “you’ve missed your way” and he said, why are you afraid can’t you see people, he pointed to some 3 or 4 people who most likely were touts (in my heart I just knew he was a bad guy, but I could not feel any fear in my heart. I sought for it, it just wasn’t there) and I felt a strong urge to command the man. I just said you know what, you are going to take me back to where you have brought me from. You will return me to where you picked me. And he just turned and began to move back in a jittering fashion. Then he became aggressive and started asking me why I was praying, and that I was a stupid woman. All his words were just to intimidate me. I just couldn’t register fear that night, it just wasn’t there. And he said, “touch my gun, I say touch my gun, as though to subdue me. I just said, “I do not need to touch your gun, I am saying return me to where you picked me from, you are talking about a gun, what has a gun got to do with it”. Then he says, “get off my bike, if I waste your life here now, what would you do? what can you do?” I just said, my brother, I can’t do anything, but God can do ALL things”. we had this conversation about 2 times and he says just give me my fare and go away. And I did, and said, I bless you with this money in the Name of Jesus” You won’t believe it, he caught himself saying amen! He took the money and zoomed off. Some how God sent someone to get me home safely.
I have just been sooo awed by my boldness. I am amazed because, actually, the prayers weren’t directed at him at all initially, in fact my mind was not there. I know the prayer (in the Spirit) was what emboldened me. I was sooo bold.