You've Got the POWER!

Feeling powerful today?  I guess some days we feel it and some days we don't.  But have you ever asked yourself how much power you really do have?

If you have been a parent, you watch the "power" that you have over your children fade by the day from their birth to adulthood.   Sometimes that influence is allowed back in when they become adults, but often not, and if it has always been about power when they are growing up, that probably will never happen.

If you have been a boss, you realize after a while that if you are trying to yield "power" over your employees, you will quickly lose their respect and loyalty.

If you have tried to change a bad habit, you may have quickly realized that you really don't even have power over yourself.

BUT when it comes to fighting the enemy and doing big things that God has called us to do, we do have the power.  We have the power over the enemy.

I memorized this in the King James as a child:

Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you.

This is what it says in the Message:

See what I’ve given you? Safe passage as you walk on snakes and scorpions, and protection from every assault of the Enemy. No one can put a hand on you. All the same, the great triumph is not in your authority over evil, but in God’s authority over you and presence with you. Not what you do for God but what God does for you—that’s the agenda for rejoicing.” 

So as you can see, you have the power!  The enemy is not going to win whatever battle you are facing whether it be the battle for the hearts and minds of your children or grandchildren, the battle to destroy a team that is about to do great things, or the battle that rages inside of you.  

In fact, Jesus even said that we could speak to mountains and they would move.  Now that's POWER!

You have the power!

I have loved this song for decades.  I still have it completely memorized.  I hope it runs through your mind all day