Understanding realms of authority is a safeguard
against getting outside of your spiritual coast.
Knowing your limitations in the spirit is a must.
Understanding realms of authority will also
enhance and accent your God-given gifts. It
brings correction to our tendencies to rebel.
Understanding realms of authority gives us a
better foundation in understanding order. It is
true there is no male or female in the spirit—but
there is always order. You do not have to worry
about proving what you can do when you are
subject to God's order. God's order always
undergirds true authority, and that which He sets in place cannot be moved.
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The authority of God will always be challenged.
It is simple: The devil hates believers! Whether it
is in the natural or the spirit realm, demonic
forces always fight against the constituted
authority of God's elect. The words constituted
authority are very important and must be defined.
Constituted authority is that which has been
appointed, set up and established by God. What
God has appointed is anointed and cannot be
denied.
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Many people try to operate in the spirit and do
not understand spiritual realms. In order to
understand spiritual realms, we must understand
realms of authority. Though there are many kinds of authority, spiritual authority is the greatest. If
our authority in Christ is by the Spirit, it cannot
relate to whether or not a person is a male or
female, Jew or Gentile. There is no distinction
between them in the spirit.

Some people would give everything they have for
religious authority, political authority or even the
authority that comes with fame. Athletes draw
from physical authority, while great minds lean
on the authority of the intellectual realm. Rich
people glean from their financial authority, and
the people of the world cannot help but depend
on their natural authority. Although spiritual
authority is the greatest, it often takes the back
burner in the minds of men for the more obvious realms of authority.
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Spiritual authority is the secret weapon of
creation. Many people in high positions have
tapped into this truth. Witches and those from
the dark side crave authority in the spirit realm
to the point of knowing that authority, when
harnessed and pushed in the right direction, can
rule over and affect every other realm that
exists.
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By making this point, I must note that there are
always opposing authorities in the spirit realm—
good vs. evil, dark vs. light, the kingdom of our
God vs. the kingdom of darkness. There is a
battle going on in the spirit, and it is not a
natural one. The real battle is not over land, oil,
political positions or the keys to the stock
market. The real battle is over authority in the
spirit. Every human being has the potential
inside to rule and have dominion in the earth.
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In the Garden of Eden, God gave dominion to all
mankind, not just to believers. The problem
comes into play when believers do not use their
access to the spirit realm that God has given
them to represent Jesus in the earth realm. The
devil has been recruiting men to operate in the
spirit realm (on the dark side) since the fall of
mankind. The Holy Spirit is wooing us to walk
with God again as Adam did in the cool of the
day.

To be effective in the earth realm, we must do
two things:
1. Walk with God in a personal relationship and
have nothing before Him in our hearts.
2. Walk in the dominion that God has given us in
the earth realm.
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Doing the things I have listed above will confuse
darkness. It causes a level of spiritual authority
that overrides the authority of those on the dark
side. I have an armor bearer who was a crack
addict for 10 years. He was on crack most of the
time while he was in my church. He was also a
part of a cult that was involved in the Yorùbá
religion form of witchcraft. He was dedicated to
the devil and was involved in sacrifices to
demons. His wife was studying to become a high
priestess in the cult. She was at the church for
many years but eventually went back to
operating on the dark side. My armor bearer
eventually separated from her and was
miraculously delivered and is serving the Lord.
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He had three children with his ex-wife. After he
divorced her, she got into a relationship with
another warlock and had two more babies with
him. I thought this young man would never be
delivered, but today I witness him living for the
Lord wholeheartedly.
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Recently the warlock that his ex-wife is with
flagged him down as he was driving through the
neighborhood. My armor bearer was caught off
guard, because he knew that this young man was
working witchcraft against him. The warlock ran
up to him and made amends. He said, "I have
fasted seven days for you to die. I have sent
spiritual hurricanes and tornadoes to your life,
but none of it has affected you." Glory to God!
When we walk in power as we walk with God,
our spiritual authority overrides all authorities of
opposition.
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At an early age, I took an interest in mythology.
At the time I did not know the Lord and had no
interest in reading anything. For some strange
reason I became absolutely fascinated with
reading stories on mythology. I took classes on
the subject in high school and college. After
giving my life to the Lord and becoming a
deliverance and warfare preacher, I noticed that
there was a connection between the spirit realm
and mythology.
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The importance of what God revealed to me was
rooted in the meaning of what a myth actually
is. A myth is a legendary narrative that has been
verbally passed through generations but cannot
be verified. God showed me that just because
things cannot be verified does not mean they do
not exist. This is why people do not understand
how to maneuver in the spirit. Believers are
supposed to walk by faith and not by sight.
Unfortunately this is not always the case.
Second Corinthians teaches that what we see is
temporal, but what we cannot see is eternal (2
Cor. 4:18). I am sure most Christians understand
what this passage means when they use the
word eternal, but we need to investigate deeper
into the meaning of temporal . The Greek word
for temporal is proskairos, and it relates to that
which is only for a season and temporarily
exists.

The things of the spirit realm are very real, but
they cannot be socially, scientifically or
intellectually confirmed. The things of the spirit
can only be spiritually discerned. Let's take a
look at 1 Corinthians 2:
"But as it is written: 'Eye has not seen, nor ear
heard, nor have entered into the heart of man
the things which God has prepared for those who
love Him.' But God has revealed them to us
through His Spirit. For the Spirit searches all
things, yes, the deep things of God. For what
man knows the things of a man except the spirit
of the man which is in him? Even so no one
knows the things of God except the Spirit of
God. Now we have received, not the spirit of the
world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we
might know the things that have been freely
given to us by God. These things we also speak,
not in words which man's wisdom teaches but
which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual
things with spiritual. But the natural man does
not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for
they are foolishness to him; nor can he know
them, because they are spiritually discerned. But
he who is spiritual judges all things, yet he
himself is rightly judged by no one" (1 Cor. 2:9–
15).
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This passage of Scripture is very clear and to
the point. Spiritual things must be spiritually
discerned! Intellect, science or anything that we
can relate to in the natural will only distort a
clear view of what is going on in the spirit realm.
We discern things spiritually by knowing them
through our spirit man and not through our
natural man. First Corinthians 2:14 says that the
natural man cannot relate to the things of the
spirit.

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Interesting