Authority Over Demons

December 22, 2015

Devotions:

        “Then the seventy returned with joy, saying, “Lord, even the demons are subject to us in Your name.” And He said to them, “I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven. Behold, I give you the authority to trample on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing shall by any means hurt you. Nevertheless do not rejoice in this, that the spirits are subject to you, but rather rejoice because your names are written in heaven.””  ‭Luke‬ ‭10:17-20‬ ‭NKJV‬‬

        After the twelve went out and were successful in healing the sick and casting out demons, Jesus commissioned seventy others to go out and proclaim the kingdom of Heaven and demonstrate the reality of the kingdom.  As Jesus had taught in Matthew 6:10 that we were to pray, "Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.  They saw the reality and were filled with joy that the demons were subject to them.  This had never happened before.  Men had been cruely subject to demons but now there was a solution.  Jesus came to set the captives free and then delegated this authority to His disciples. 

        Jesus spoke of the defeat of Satan looking forward to the cross.  Satan's power was already in danger.  Jesus gave the disciples the authority to trample on serpents and scorpions and over all the power of the enemy. 

        We are on the other side of the cross and the work of Jesus has been accomplished and fulfilled. We have a greater authority than these seventy that includes all that Jesus told them. We are to tread on serpents and scorpions and over all the work of the enemy.  We are not to be afraid of the occult or demons but we are to speak to them in the authority that Jesus gave us.  We know that the evil forces must bow their knee to the Name of Jesus.  Jesus said that this is not to be the source of our rejoicing but the fact that our names are written in heaven in the Lamb's book of life. 

        In Jesus you are a master in the spiritual realm. Do not yield to the demonic forces that would try to destroy you and your family but walk in who you are.