1. The Reality of Spiritual Authority

2. “For this reason I bow my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, from whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named, that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be
strengthened with might through His Spirit in the inner man,”
Ephesians 3:14-16

3. “So that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the width and length and depth and height— to know the love of Christ which passes knowledge; that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.”
Ephesians 3:17-19

4. “Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us,”
Ephesians 3:20

5. “Believe Me that I am in the Father and the Father in Me, or else believe Me for the sake of the works themselves. Most assuredly, I say to you, he who believes in Me, the works that I do he will do also; and greater works than these he will do, because I go to My Father. And whatever you ask in My name, that I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.”
John 14:11-13

6. Authority is the right to use someone else’s power.

7. Spiritual Authority in the Old Testament – a hand upon the throne

8. Spiritual Authority in the Old Testament – a hand upon the throne
“Then Amalek came and fought with Israel at Rephidim. So Moses said to Joshua, ‘Choose for us men, and go out and fight with Amalek. Tomorrow I will stand on the top of the hill with the staff of God in my hand.’ So Joshua did as Moses told him, and fought with Amalek, while Moses, Aaron, and Hur went up to the top of the hill Exodus 17:8-10

9. Spiritual Authority in the Old Testament – a hand upon the throne
“Whenever Moses held up his hand, Israel prevailed, and whenever he lowered his hand, Amalek prevailed. But Moses' hands grew weary, so they took a stone and put it under him, and he sat on it, while Aaron and Hur held up his hands, one on one side, and the other on the other side. So his hands were steady until the going

10. Spiritual Authority in the Old Testament – a hand upon the throne
down of the sun. And Joshua verwhelmed
Amalek and his people with the sword.” Exodus 17:11-13

11. Spiritual Authority in the Old Testament – a hand upon the throne
“Then the Lord said to Moses, “Write this as a memorial in a book and recite it in the ears of Joshua, that I will utterly blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven.” And Moses built an altar and called the name of it, The Lord Is My Banner, saying, ‘A hand upon the throne

12. Spiritual Authority in the Old Testament – a hand upon the throne
of the Lord! The Lord will have war with Amalek from generation to generation.’” Exodus 17:14-16

13. Spiritual Authority in the Old Testament – a hand upon the throne
“And the Angel of the Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire from the midst of a bush. So he looked, and behold, the bush was burning with fire, but the bush was not consumed. Then Moses said, ‘I will now turn aside and see this great sight, why the bush does not burn.’”
Exodus 3:1-3

14. Spiritual Authority in the Old Testament – a hand upon the throne
“So when the Lord saw that he turned aside to look, God called to him from the midst of the bush and said, ‘Moses, Moses! Come now, therefore, and I will send you to Pharaoh that you may bring My people, the children of Israel, out of Egypt.’”
Exodus 3:4,10

15. Spiritual Authority in the Old Testament – a hand upon the throne
“Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh, and that I should bring the children of Israel out of Egypt?”
Exodus 3:11

16. Spiritual authority is the ability to touch heaven in such a way that circumstances on earth change.

17. Spiritual Authority in the New Testament – wrestling in heavenly places

18. Spiritual Authority in the New Testament – wrestling in heavenly places
“Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ, just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love, having predestined us to

19. Spiritual Authority in the New Testament – wrestling in heavenly places
adoption as sons by Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will, to the praise of the glory of His grace, by which He made us accepted in the Beloved.
Ephesians 1:3

20. Spiritual Authority in the New Testament – wrestling in heavenly places
“that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him, the eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that you may know what is the hope of His calling, what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints, and what is the exceeding greatness of His power

21. Spiritual Authority in the New Testament – wrestling in heavenly places
toward us who believe, according to the
working of His mighty power which He worked in Christ when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His right hand in the heavenly places, far above all principality and power and might and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this age but also in that which is to come.” Ephesians 1:17-21

22. Spiritual Authority in the New Testament – wrestling in heavenly places
“and raised us up together, and made us sit together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,
Ephesians 2:6

23. Spiritual Authority in the New Testament – wrestling in heavenly places
“To me, who am less than the least of all the saints, (past) this grace was given, that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ, and to make all see what is the fellowship of
the mystery, which from the beginning of the ages has been hidden in God who created all things through Jesus Christ;” Ephesians 3:8-9

24. Spiritual Authority in the New Testament – wrestling in heavenly places
“...to the intent that now the manifold wisdom of God might be made known by the church to the principalities and powers in the heavenly places, according to the eternal purpose which He accomplished in Christ Jesus our Lord, in whom we have boldness and access with confidence through faith in Him.”
Ephesians 3:10-12

25. Spiritual Authority in the New Testament – wrestling in heavenly places
“For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places.”
Ephesians 6:12

26. Spiritual Authority in Our Lives Today – the battle before us

27. Spiritual Authority in Our Lives Today – the battle before us
“For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty in God for pulling down strongholds,”
2 Corinthians 10:4