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Day Four – Two More Keys to Exercise Your God-Given Spiritual Authority

Key #3: You come with your King’s authority. If you watch the television show Cops, you will notice that someone who is out of control suddenly changes his or her behavior once a police officer shows up.

Why?

Because when someone with more authority shows up, you must surrender. You can do this willingly or you can do this unwillingly.

When a demon comes into your life, it does not need to surrender to you. You have no authority apart from Jesus. Every demon must submit to Jesus because He has all authority. No one and nothing has authority equal to Jesus Christ.

Key #4. Your defeated enemy has to surrender to your victorious king. Do you remember that game in which two kids squeeze one another’s hands until one of them surrenders by shouting, “Uncle!” or “Mercy!”

Satan and demons seem to like playing their own spiritual version of this game. They will bring some sort of trouble, trial, or temptation and squeeze until you surrender to them, thereby allowing them to win. Demons want you to believe the lie that they will never stop squeezing until you surrender.

The truth is that you do not have to play their game. Rather than surrendering to unholy spirits, you can yield to the Holy Spirit. If you surrender to the Spirit and command the demonic to depart, it must leave you. As we surrender to the Spirit, the devil must surrender to Him as well. The Spirit of God in you is greater than the demonic spirits against you.

Was this plan helpful to you? It was adapted from our book Win Your War: For in the Realm You Don’t See For Freedom in the One You Do.