Thoughts for Life: #48 When You Should Use the Command of Faith

Dr. Wesley L. Duewel- The command of faith is not an optional spiritual power that you may use at will to make life easier for yourself, to remove all your trials, or to vent your spite on the Devil.

It is a very deliberate exercise of Christ's own authority and name in a situation where His glory is at stake, where His kingdom is being hindered, or where Christ calls you to demonstrate His power to prove He is the living God.

As an official representative of Jesus Christ, you may always use it, though implementing your command my require the help of His holy angels. (Google image, Pray boldly)

But may it not be used in cases of self-protection? Yes, there are legitimate emergencies when God's children have rebuked a person intent on robbery, rape, or physical attack. Because you are the child of God, you are under His protection.

Similarly, you may be led of God to command the elements in Jesus' name as did John Wesley when an approaching storm threatened to disrupt his preaching to an open-air crowd. Notice, however, that Wesley did not appropriate this power for his own comfort or convenience, but for the purpose of promoting the gospel.

The command of faith is not an alternative to prayer. It is an additional step of obedience which normally grows out of prevailing prayer or prayer warfare. In an emergency you may not have time for protracted prayer, but must call instantly on Jesus' name.

Normally, however, the command of faith is an element of offensive prayer warfare as you invade Satan's territory, attack Satan's roadblocks, or confront satanic resistance. The following are examples of occasions when God may lead you to use the command of faith:

To command Satan to be gone from an area
To command Satan to stop agitating opposition to the gospel
To command Satan to lift his demonic darkness with which he is blinding a person, family, or village
To command Satan to stop binding the will of a person who is hesitating to follow Christ
To command Satan to lift depression and leave a person in peace
To command satan to keep his hands off a person or family
To command Satan to stop confusing a new believer
To command Satan to stop oppressing a child of God
To command Satan to stop afflicting a person with illness
To command Satan to get behind you when he approaches you with vile temptations
To command Satan to stop inciting division among God's people
To command Satan to cease working his counterfeit signs, wonders, and miracles
To command Satan to stop frightening believers with his lionlike roar
To command Satan to restrain his demons
To command demons to leave a person
To command illness to depart
To command the elements to cease for a period of time
To command a criminal to stop or go

(Chapter 15, pp. 113-114, italics added for emphasis)

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Let's pray-

"Dear Lord, Thank you for always being by my side and for giving me your strength and grace when I am simply weak and broken. Please help me look to you in every shattered matter.
In Jesus’ Name, Amen"

Gwen Smith +
From When Comfort is Stripped Away

Today's Bible verses-

Psalm 149:4 "For the Lord takes pleasure in His people; He will beautify the humble with salvation."

Rom 10:10 (KJV) “For with the heart one believes to righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.”

1 Corinthians 2:9 (NIV) “What no eye has seen, what no ear has heard, and what no human mind has conceived”— the things God has prepared for those who love him."

Today's quotes:

~ Lisa Buffaloe- "Instead of placing the emphasis on the mess done by the devil, let’s place the emphasis on the message of what God has done, who God is, what God can do no matter how messy the life. Jesus makes all things new. All things! No one is too messed up for nothing is impossible for God!

Be an overcomer, be one who allows God to change those defining moments into refining moments. Be one who keeps the eye on the eternal prize, who chooses to move forward no matter what the devil says and no matter what the devil has done. Move forward in the power of our all-powerful, healing, restoring, amazing God. And one day you will stand on the victory podium in heaven, because you overcame the devil by the blood of the Lamb and the word of your testimony." (Revelation 12:11)

~ F. B. Meyer- "Nothing can compensate the church, or the individual Christian, for the lack of the Holy Spirit. What the full stream is to the mill wheel, that the Holy Spirit is to the church. What the principle of life is to the body, that the Holy Spirit is to the individual. We shall stand powerless and abashed in the presence of our difficulties and our foes until we learn what He can be, as a might tidy of love and power in the hearts of His saints."

Herald of His Coming

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