From “The God of Miracles Lives Today” by Velmer Gardner – 1950
Mark 13:34: “For the Son of Man is as a man taking a far journey, who left his house, and gave authority to his servants, and to every man his work, and commanded the porter to watch.” He gave AUTHORITY to his servants and to every man his work. Authority means the right to command obedience, the right to enforce obedience, and the right to act officially. Christ had authority over sickness and the devil. He had the right to command the sickness to leave and the devil had to obey. He had the right to enforce obedience, and He had the right to act in the official capacity as the Son of God.
The centurion came to Christ, and said, “My servant is sick at home and I want you to heal him.” Jesus said, “I will go.” The centurion said, “Jesus, you don’t need to go and heal him, I am not worthy that you should enter under my roof, but speak the Word and my servant will be healed.” He said, “I am a man of authority. The ones over me tell me what to do and I have to obey. I have authority over a hundred men. I will tell them to do this or do that and they do what I command them to do.” And he said, “Now Christ, you have authority. You don’t need to come to my home, all you have to do is say the Word and that sickness will have to leave because you have authority over it.” And Jesus marveled and said, “I have not found such great faith, not in all Israel.” (Paraphrased from Luke 7:3-9).
The thing that brought healing to that centurion’s servant was his faith in the authority there was in the Name of Jesus over sickness. And dear friend, today, if you have faith in the authority of the Name of Jesus over sickness you will be healed. The very moment that you appropriate that faith you will be healed. Healing comes as you recognize that Jesus has authority over sickness–all He has to do is speak the Word and it shall come to pass.
Now Christ gave His disciples this same authority. In Luke 9:1 it says, “He called His twelve disciples together, and gave them power and authority over all devils, and to cure diseases.” He said they were to preach the kingdom of God and to heal the sick. He gave them authority. Christ did not need this authority, He already had it. He gave this authority to His followers.
In Matthew 10:8 Jesus told His disciples, “Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out devils: freely ye have received, freely give.” Some people say we shouldn’t preach on healing. Jesus preached and practiced healing. The disciples preached and practiced healing. The Word of God preaches healing, and I’m going to preach healing because God is a God of healing. He gave His disciples this authority. They went forth, and He went with them.
“Behold I give you authority over all the power of the enemy–over all the powers of the devil–over all the powers of hell–over every diabolical spirit or demon.” (Paraphrased from Matthew 10:1 and Luke 9:1-2)
Jesus has given that very same authority to us as His servants today. Christ has gone to heaven to prepare a glorious place for us, and what a place it must be. He has been there for nearly two thousand years getting it ready. He said, “I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto Myself; that where I am, there ye may be also,” John 14:2-3.
He is preparing a place where there will be no more sickness. There will be no more heartache. There will be no more funerals. There will be no more separations—no more poverty—no more weakness or tiredness. What a wonderful place! It will be reserved for the children of God. But listen, friends, while He is gone, He has not left His church down here to face the ravages of hell alone. Jesus said He was going to build His church upon a rock. It is going to take something to keep that church going while He is gone. He has given authority to His servants to carry on His work until He returns. He didn’t give us the power to heal, but He gave us the authority to use His power, “In His Name.”
There is not a businessman in America that would leave his business without someone in authority. He would have someone become the President of the firm while he was gone. He would have someone to be the custodian, someone to write the checks, someone to hire, and someone to take care of the bookkeeping. Every man would have his place, and that man would have authority over that certain position.
My dear friends, Jesus has gone away, and while He is gone He has given authority to His servants to carry on His work until He returns. I believe today, there are many people who are sick because they have not recognized the authority God has given His servants. They do not treat God’s servants with the respect they are due.
Saul was a man that God blessed, anointed, and used in a tremendous way. Saul backslid, sinned, rejected God, and became a murderer and a terrible character. He even became demon possessed and died by suicide. The people told David to kill him, but David said, “Thou shalt not lay thine hands against God’s anointed.” (Paraphrased from 1 Samuel 24:6). David would not even lift his hand against this man that he had seen God use in such a tremendous way. He was afraid that the wrath of God might come upon him. So respect the servant of God. Respect your pastor, respect the evangelist, respect the missionaries, and respect the ones that have authority over you under God.
In James 5:14 it says, “Is any sick among you? Let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord.” That friends, is exercising POWER OF ATTORNEY. Christ has absolutely given us the legal right to use His name. He has given us authority to face the devil in the power of His name. He is not here, but He has given us authority to carry on His work until He comes. We can go forth using that power of attorney—using His name.
And my friends hear me now. THE DEVIL HAS TO RECOGNIZE US WHEN WE USE THE POWER of Jesus’ Name, just as though Jesus Christ Himself were standing before the devil and the devil would have to obey Him. We know that every time Jesus met the devil He defeated him. The devil was always defeated. Why? Because of the power and the authority Christ had. Christ has given us authority through the power of His name. Friends, He has not left us alone. He has given power and authority to His servants to carry on His work until He returns.
There is a difference between power and authority. No one has the power to heal, but we do have the power to exercise His authority. We have the authority to use His power. Then that power will bring healing—the Apostle Peter said, “In the Name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth rise up and walk,” Acts 3:6. It was the first apostolic miracle performed. He recognized the authority there was in that Name, and he used that Name by faith. It did the work, and brother/sister, it will do it again today. There is power in the Name of Jesus, and we have authority to use that power, to use that Name. It’s not the power of man. It’s not the power of a church, but the power of Jesus’ Name that brings healing today.
Now we have not the power to heal, but we have the authority to use His name. A policeman can stand down here at an intersection; a little hundred and twenty-five pound policeman. He holds out his hand, and the big logging truck stops. A big two hundred and twenty-five pound logger is in the truck. He says, “Hurry up policeman, I’m in a rush.” And the policeman says, “You’ll go when I tell you to go.” You’ll never move until I tell you you can move. Then the logger glares at him, and says to himself, “I could get out there and with one hand I could whip you. You haven’t the power to stop me.” It’s true, he doesn’t. The policeman knows he doesn’t have the power, and the logger knows he doesn’t have the power. But THE POLICEMAN DOESN’T NEED THE POWER. He has been given the authority under the law to carry on and to fulfill the works of the law of the land. And there is only one reason that logger stays there—he doesn’t stay there because he’s afraid of the power that this man has, because he knows the man hasn’t the power to stop him. He knows that policeman has authority entrusted to him. If he violates that position of authority, and he runs past and resists the signals of that officer, he’s going to have the whole city, the whole county, the whole state, and the whole United States after him. That policeman has been entrusted as an officer of the law and given authority to carry on the work of the law.
It is exactly the same thing in regard to God. God has not given any man the power to heal. There is not a man in the world who can heal anybody of anything, but God has given men the authority to use the power of Jesus’ Name. Every man that God has called and ordained to preach the Gospel is a servant of God, and to that servant God has given authority to carry on His works until He returns. Every man will not have the same authority. Every man will not have the same talent-the same gift, but all of us have authority to carry on the works of Jesus until He returns. We can use the Name of Jesus with authority and it’s going to produce works—it’s going to produce the same works that Jesus produced when He was here. Jesus said, “The works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father,” John 14:12.
Oh, friends, the power is in the Name of Jesus. The devil trembles when he hears the Name of Jesus. We have authority to use that Name, to exercise it legally. Resist the devil. The devil has no claim upon a child of God. You can break every attack of the devil by the Name of Jesus. In the Name of Jesus, exercise the authority that God has given, and God will drive the devil’s power back.
Jesus said, “I must work the works of Him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work,” John 9:4. In these dark closing days of time, as darkness is coming down upon the world, we must go forth and use the authority that God has given us. God has given us authority today over all the powers of sickness and over all the powers of the devil. When we pray for you, we demand in the Name of Jesus that the devil release his hand from you. All sickness is the result of the devil. If there had never been a devil there would never have been any sickness.
Jesus has given us the authority to demand the devil to release his hand from you and the devil has to obey us. Friends, the devil has to obey us as His servants just as much as he would obey Jesus Christ. I say that reverently. I say that because I know it’s the Word of God. In the Name of Jesus we can become bold. In the Name of Jesus we can make the devil fear us. There is power in the Name of Jesus, and we dare by faith to exercise that divine authority He has entrusted us with. All the power of hell has to flee. The powers of the enemy are defeated forever by the authority of Jesus Christ.
Every child of God has the legal right to use that name. Perhaps your child is epileptic. When one of those epileptic convulsions come upon it, God has given you power and authority to use that Name and command the epileptic demon of hell to leave that body and go back to hell where it belongs. It will have to obey you just as though Jesus Christ Himself were there because He is there. He’s there in the power of His name. So when we pray for you friends, we exercise this authority. Through the Name of Jesus we come before the devil. We command the devil to release his power and the devil has to do it. God has not given us authority to heal, but He has given us authority to believe that He has already done it. You are already healed. Two thousand years ago Jesus healed every one of you just as much as He saved all of you. Believe Him now, and you’ll be healed. Have faith in the authority of the name of Jesus like the centurion did. You don’t have to beg and ask God for it, just believe Him. Take it by faith and stand upon God’s Word, and God is going to honor it.
As servants of God we are His ambassadors. An ambassador has no power, but he has authority to act in official capacities, and every nation recognizes the authority of an ambassador. If they don’t treat that ambassador right, it won’t be just the ambassador that they will have to contend with but the whole country, the whole government that is behind that ambassador. We are ambassadors of the King of Kings and Lord of Lords. We meet the devil and say, “Devil, take your hand off that body. Take your satanic influence away–take your oppressing hand from that body.” And the devil says, “You haven’t the power to make me do it. You haven’t the power to cast me out.” Sometimes the devil speaks forth boldly.
It’s true, we tell the devil. We admit we don’t have the power. We have no power. We are weak human beings with no power in ourselves, but we are not depending upon our power. We are ambassadors of the Kingdom of Heaven. We have the authority to command that the devil obey us. We have the right to enforce the devil to obey us because God has given us authority in the Name of Jesus to demand the devil to do it. When we boldly take that stand, the devil is going to flee. He will flee from you. The Bible says so.
If the devil can bluff us and cause us to fear and tremble at his presence and power he will defeat us. But when we boldly meet the devil with, “Thus saith the Word of God,” we claim our throne rights, and we claim our legal capacity in the Name of the Lord. When we say, “Devil, I stand as an ambassador of the kingdom of Heaven, and you are defeated in the Name of Jesus–I command you to listen to me–I command you to obey me–I command you to leave–I command you to take your hands from my body,” then the healing power of Jesus will begin to flow because God recognizes that “power of attorney.”
You exercise legal faith as you appropriate the power of Jesus Christ, and everything that Christ had or did is yours right then, through the power of His Name. Oh, let’s believe Him friends. God has given authority to His servants, so let’s have faith in God, and God will heal you. God wants to heal every one of you friends, and God will, if you will believe. So, when you are prayed for, have faith in this authority.
When you call for your pastor to pray for you and he lays hands on you, anoints you with oil, and prays the prayer of faith . . . right then friends, forget the man’s hands. By faith, appropriate the nail scarred hands of Jesus–that’s what it means: “And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up,” James 5:15. They can receive because they have come legally and claimed healing through the Name of Jesus.
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love this, this message demonstrated a lot of how we utilize our authority through using the name of Jesus Christ because now we are ambassadors of Jesus Christ.
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The thing that brought healing to that centurion’s servant was his faith in the authority there was in the Name of Jesus over sickness. And dear friend, today, if you have faith in the authority of the Name of Jesus over sickness you will be healed. (Quote from above)
So according to this, a person with enough faith will always overcome sickness, and therefore never die from sickness. Is this for real?
Jesus did this in the 1st century to support his message at that time. (remember there was no Bible).
If people can claim to heal sickness it is their Christian duty to go heal children with cancer etc. and not to attack others saying to get sick is a lack of faith. this is nonsense.
There are plenty of physically sick people in the Bible that do not get healed, it’s the spiritually sick that Jesus is referring to. Shame on the writer of this article.
To learn more about believers in Jesus authority to heal the sick, I recommend listening to the Elijah Challenge. https://theelijahchallenge.org/
It is true… Jesus heals today… after 40 years my thyroid has been healed. It was by renouncing my sins, all word curses , all generational curses. Ect. Then saying out loud that I detach myself from everything I just renounced. I then speak a creative miracle into my body for Jesus to perform. Recently. I started speaking and praying the word of God in prayers over my husband. Yesterday. My husband showed me he could lift his hands straight up in the air without any pain. He has not been able to do this in countless years. Praise God. He is still on the thrown. We also need to remember, that when God healed people. He would tell them to go sin no more unless they want something more worse to come upon them. We have to choose to sin no more.
That is so awesome I have been sick for over a year with heavy metals and brain swelling and the doctors dont know what to do – God was really impressing on my heart to keep it pure and to speak his word over my body daily
Thanks I love this expository teaching,as an evangelist, my ministry is taking a new dimensions.
Sir I need more on this very topic
More anointing in Jesus mighty name
Kevin, shame on you for your unbelief. God says to you as he said to his disciples in Matthew 17, “you perverted generation, how long must I put up with you?” Religion has taken its toll on you. Believe God.
Thank u for using this article to increased my faith
Most empowering exposition on appropriation of the authority to heal in the name of Jesus. We always be conscious of the authority we have to exercise the power through faith , believing totally without any doubt that Jesus already conquered everything for us ,we only come to possess the loot.
John 14:12 Jesus is speaking; most assuredly, (it is and shall be so) I say to you, he who believes in Me, the works that I do he will do also; Jesus did not say one had to be ordained or hold any office . The only qualification we need is to a believer in Jesus
Thank you for helping my prayer life to have more power. I stand in the gap for my son. 🙏💕
What An Incredible teaching. Thank you.
My spirit has been lifted as I read this article
My spirit has been lifted as I read this article . Glory be to God who led me to this site
Thank you for this article, a very big blessing to readers like me. I have experienced the power of healing in the name of Jesus many times, and i testify the power in the name of Jesus, and this helps me understand it more. Glory to God for everything
I believe In the healing Power of Jesus.I have commanded sickness to go and I claim in Jesus mighty name but it’s still tormenting me.what have I not done?
You have asked amiss if yu haven’t recieved your healing in Jesus Name.Jesus as said anything we ask in his name believing we will reciece.
Marie
Give thanks in all things . You have been healed. You may not be experiencing the manifestation outwardly yet.
Paul earnestly prayed three time but the Lord allowed him to be buffeted by Satan.
Trust the Lord in you illness / torment / suffering. He is absolutely in control .
Lord you are in control. You have power and authority over this illness and I trust in you.
I will not be afraid or anxious.
Habbakuk 3….
I heard and my heart pounded,
my lips quivered at the sound;
decay crept into my bones,
and my legs trembled.
Yet I will wait patiently for the day of calamity
to come on the nation invading us.
17Though the fig tree does not bud
and there are no grapes on the vines,
though the olive crop fails
and the fields produce no food,
though there are no sheep in the pen
and no cattle in the stalls,
18yet I will rejoice in the Lord,
I will be joyful in God my Savior.
19The Sovereign Lord is my strength;
he makes my feet like the feet of a deer,
he enables me to tread on the heights.
awesome message…….I believe in healing in the name of Jesus Christ!…..may everyone be blessed
Healing is our assurance in Christ Jesus
My boyfriend has a sister Katrina whom is 53 seven years ago she was diagnosed with cancer. As a result she had a breast removed she has had her right arm swelled and everything taken out of her she fought hard. She could no longer work a few months ago she had a headache it led to a stroke they found a brain tumor they took it out she almost did not have the surgery. She lost a lot of weight she is tired weak but has continued good spirit. The doctors told her the cancer spread to her brain three layers when it hits her spinal area there is no medical treatment. They informed the family but I still have HOPE In the name of Jesus he can allow me authority to ask him to cast out sickness make the cancer cells disappear and allow her to live. I want her to be able to still continue to watch her children grow, have happy times.
GOD I beg you in the lords name, Jesus and The Holy Spirit to cast out her sickness. I want her to be blessed with your blessing.
Please change the test results and give her back
HOPE
Seek the face of the Lord at SCOAN. God mightly uses His servant, TB Joshua, to bring healing to many.
I was touched reading this article. May the Lord bless you.
Thank you for this article, this has been a blessing reading our authority as children of God.
God bless you more!
Do they have a prayer request form that I can fill out?
Thanks!
Praying for healing in the mighty name of Jesus!
We need to understand who we are in Christ. We have the fullness of God and authority in Jesus’s name. Jesus said “it is done”, He defeated the works of the enemy, but just line being saved, its for everyone but we have to believe to appropriate it. Healing is a part of salvation, if you have faith to get saved then you have faith to be healed, they go hand in hand…. when you receive salvation, you receive healing, you don’t have to believe separately for it… just accept it!!
Hello HopeFaithPrayer,
I’m curious about something. My father-in-law was diagnosed with a terminal brain tumor in April 2016, and given 4-6 months to live. He believed with all his heart that God would heal him. The elders of his church prayed healing over him. My FIL became a completely changed man (for the better) throughout all this. However, in April 2018, he passed away. I disagree with you that if we just believe and command God’s authority over us, he will always heal us. Have you read Job where God allowed satan to torment Job and take everything away from him? Satan was allowed to cause Job great pain, physical, emotional and mental. Job believed in God and his healing yet things continued to get worse. I believe that God will allow us to be in pain and have sickness because it can grow our faith in Him. Our suffering and how we react to it and handle it can also bring glory to God. For example, by the time I was 30, I’d suffered 3 strokes. Everyone around me, including my pastors and others at church, were amazed at my attitude and how I never complained but rather praised God and had faith in Him. This caused friends to want to come to church, my grandpa to accept Christ (after telling me my whole life he would never even set foot in church or have anything to do with God), and my family’s faith in God to grow. I’m still not healed and have had several other major health issues, but my faith in God has grown.
God did not allowed that sickness on him! Jesus wanted him healed but check out Andrew wommack ministries- awmi.net teaching articles..He has been in the ministry over 50 yrs or so….https://www.awmi.net/reading/teaching-articles/
Steven, God does allow and even bring the illnesses. Read thru your Bible as a whole, it’s there over and over again. One place just off top of my head is 2 Samuel 12:15 ….”the LORD sent a deadly illness to the child of David and Uriahs wife. ”
He sent this as a consequence of David’s sin. Even though David repented, fasted, and begged the child still died. You have to read the story (and the Bible) as a whole to see why.
That being said, we do have authority to use and can use it, but the final decision if someone is healed or not is left up to God’s sovereign will.
No. You do not understand covenant at all. Do a serious study on covenant especially blood covenant. It is not and cannot be the sovereign will of God. In His sovereignty He gave man authority. Because of that His will doesn’t always happen. One article on covenants I recommend is by Rockofoffence. It is the most clearest teaching on covenants I have ever read.
I also forgot to mention Never use Job as an example. Job was NOT in covenant. How God dealt with Job is NOT how He deals with us, His children. We are heirs of salvation, joint heirs with Jesus Christ
Hi Terri
Was a touching story of your prosperity in your faith walk with Christ . Few things to think about though. Do you think your earthy father , would in a million years , put 3 strokes on you to bring you to faith ? I can’t think of one parent that could reason with a good way of teaching would be to give there child sickness and disease. Your heavenly father loved you more than anything you could ever understand. Also the book of Job is the oldest book in the Bible. With that said, the book of Jude , Jesus brother, explains it . God has the enemy in chains , they don’t talk anymore . The book of Ephesians tells you everything you have in Christ. Which one of those things are authority in Christ to command your body to line up with the God’s word and promises. Look up every script on God’s word in regards to healing and confess it without doubt. Mark 11 . By his stripes you were healed. Past tense already done. Believe and receive . Say I received healing 2000 years ago on that cross , until if someone says something opposite of that , it makes you mad . That’s when you know you have it down deep in your spirit. Then start telling your body to do what you said . Amen girl friend
Mark 11
Key words. says and does not doubt . but believes what he says . So speak what you want . If you’re doing so then your not doubting .
You are healed !! In Jesus name !
Hi Shelly Wslsh
Just quick question
Are all born again believers given the power and authority to heal people? If so
Why would the Holy Spirit give certain gifts to certain people, some heal, some speak in tongues, some prophecy ,,,,,,,,,,,, are we not only GIVEN THE POWER AND AUTHORITY to do these thing at the moment the Holy Spirit gives it to us.
If all born again believers had the power and authority to heal , then 2000 years of all christians going out healing people there should be no sickness in the world by noq ???
NSPPD- New Season Prophetic Prayers Declaration.
Amen in jesus name
I have learned a lot when I read this bcs I’m in a prayer now praying for my younger sister’s child who is sick & now I know I have the authority over sicknesses through Jesus Christ and I believe the child is healed in Jesus’ Name!
check out awmi.net……Andrew wommack been teaching Word since 1960s……https://www.awmi.net/reading/teaching-articles/
I have authority over sickness ! Thank u so much and God bless you!
I like to have a prayer due too my sickness for healing and health.For body and mind and spirit.Thank you
To Dan
Believe your healed, with continuous prayers and thanksgiving. You will be made whole in Jesus name.
PleaSe I need help I think the devil living inside me forever. Is there only 1 devil out there? I will live forever abd become homeless and never age. I feel my heart stopped beating like it was squeezed by something awful for hours abd my brain shut off. I have no dreams or visions or thoughts anymore. I don’t sleep either. Other super natural things happened to me to. I feel l got brain raped and strangled and hear voices and my heart got pinched before it got squeezed abd entities going into and out of body. I also lost my bladder like couldn’t hold it. I feel negative energies too. I’ve had something like I feel someone else’s face cake upon me and I couldn’t breathe.
https://www.awmi.net/reading/teaching-articles/ Luke :10:19 Ps 91:11
You need to get medical health. Talk to a medical doctor about this. I believe in healing but you could have something else going on other than devils and demons.
PERFECTLY DELIVERED
AND THANKFULLY ACCEPTED❤️
Hii Danielle. Is there a way I could talk to you personally
The person being prayed for must believe they will be healed . Lord I believe , help thou my unbelief .
I am curious what your reply would be to someone who you’ve commanded the sickness or devil to leave from….and they are still experiencing the same symptoms? Believer or non believer
Powerful Reinforcement for a better understanding ! Thankyou for allowing God to teach through you.
I am so pleased to read this. God bless you. Amen
Very pleased. God bless you
This is awesome pastor! God bless you in Jesus name!!!!
Please help me in prayers as I’m fighting a battle of sickness. I trust and depend on the Lord for total healing.
Peace!!!
I want to heal but there’s nobody to do it.
What can I do?
David,
First Pray for the church God wants you to be a part of. God will answer you. Then, get plugged in to that church. Ask the pastor to anoint you and pray over you. This may stretch you and cause you to try out denominations that you are not familiar with. I grew up Baptist and none of this was preached there. Later in life, I joined a Pentecostal church. We have healings, and deliverances on a regular basis. I pray for your healing David. In Jesus name.
go to this website understand Jesus already healed you but u need use your authority in Him in His Word about healing and who u are…https://www.awmi.net/reading/teaching-articles/
Am so bless and I pray that God give u more wisdom to help the world with the Gospel of Jesus Christ