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DAY 2: REVIVE OUR AUTHORITY

The day we decide to follow Jesus, EVERYTHING changes. We are not just saved; we are given a future. This should enable us to live our lives differently to how we have lived before. Now, the same Spirit that raised Christ from the dead lives IN us (Romans 8:11). We don’t walk alone, we walk by the Spirit - and this means that there needs to be a shift in how we live, what we believe, and how we speak. 

So often we can fall into living a mediocre and mundane Christian life and completely miss the authority that we have been called to live in. To follow Christ means to live AS Christ, yet so many miss this life-changing truth. We are called to live as Jesus lived, love as Jesus loved, and speak as Jesus spoke. Christianity is not meant to be a practice of just ticking off the religious ‘checklist’. Go to church – check. Go to connect group – check. Give to the offering – check. Surely there is more to this. I don’t know about you, but I want to walk in power. I want to see people healed, transformed and set free. But we can only see that when we walk in the authority that God has given us. 

In Ezekiel 37, God commands the prophet Ezekiel to begin to prophesy over a valley of dry bones. To speak and declare life to what appears to be dead - very dead. In our own lives, God calls us to stir our faith to believe for the impossible, and to speak life where there isn’t any. Sometimes we can look at our lives, and all we see is dead things. Dead dreams, dead plans, dead visions and dead relationships. However, God calls us to use the authority we have been given to speak life into the dry and dead areas of our lives, and see them come to life.

We need to know that there is power in our DECLARATION

When we speak, things happen - not by our power, but by His Spirit. Proverbs 18 reminds us that our tongues have the power of life and death. We need to understand that every word that comes out of our mouth is either putting things to death or bringing things to life. 

We need to know that there is power in our OBEDIENCE

God didn’t ask Ezekiel to prophesy once, he asked him to prophesy three times. God will often ask us to do something, yet so often we stop half-way. We can miss the calling or miss the breakthrough, not because God has a limit to His power, but because we have a limit to listen. 

Revival is not just something that accidentally happens. God has given us authority to speak life into dead places. Now is the time. SPEAK. 

QUESTIONS:

1. What is God asking me to declare over my life? 

2. What Godly decisions am I making (or need to start making) to step into a life of revival?

3. In what areas of my life do I need to take authority over?