Whatever You Permit Will Be Permitted

Scripture of The Day Luke 10:19: 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. Many things happen because we, as believers, permit them to happen by not using the authority given to us in Jesus' name. I once heard a preacher say that as he was studying along this line of the believers’ authority, he sensed the Lord was challenging him. At the time, he had been praying for his brother’s salvation for fifteen years. He said he had often prayed and fasted three days at a time for him to be saved, but his brother would only seem to get worse. He’d pray, “God save him! God save him!” But nothing ever happened. He said that as he lay across the bed studying on this particular day, he heard the Lord in his spirit. He challenged him: “You do something about that situation. You’ve got the authority. You’ve got my Name!” He said he rose up off that bed and said, “In the name of Jesus Christ, I break the power of the devil off my brother’s life. And I declare his salvation and deliverance in Jesus' name." In less than two weeks, he got word that his brother had been born again.II Corinthians 4:4: Whose minds the god of this age has blinded, who do not believe, lest the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine on them.II Timothy 2:26: And that they may come to their senses and escape the snare of the devil, having been taken captive by him to do his will.Don’t permit the devil to have your family. Use your authority in Jesus' name.