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IN MY NAME.

Text : Mark 16:17-18 

And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues; They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.

Having believed in the gospel (Good news of the resurrection of Jesus and His victory over Sin, Satan and Death), you now need to start using the name of Jesus authoritatively. JESUS said that in His name you shall cast out devils; you shall speak with new tongues; you shall take up serpents; and if you drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt you; you shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover. This means that you will undertake all these in the authority of Jesus' name. No matter how small or powerless you may think you are in your own eyes. Once you believe in His name, you shall do all that He promised. 

 Unbelief was the sin that Israelites committed that wasted a whole generation(age 20 upward) in the wilderness."Your carcases shall fall in this wilderness; and all that were numbered of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward, which have murmured against me" Numbers 14:29

 They perished because they did not believe in His name (ability and personality). And there we saw the giants, the sons of Anak, which come of the giants: and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight.Numbers 13:33 

 The Israelites were comparing their stature with that of the giants in Canaan. They forgot the name and the promise of God. Is this not your situation today? Quick to slide into unbelief, quick to look down on yourself, quick to forget the potency of the name- to save and deliver. 

 Using someone's name means that the power is only resident in the name and not in you. You have only gotten authority. No matter how Big or powerful you are, when you stand before a judge in the court of law, you will shiver. Why? He is backed up by constituted authority (as spelt out in the constitution). The judge only believes in constitution that he's got authority to send anyone to jail, sentence to death or set free. 

You have the authority in the name of Jesus to loose and bind. Use it simply in Faith! 

 *It's high time you started experiencing all that Jesus said you will in His name.

Bible reading: Mark 16:1-20. 

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