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Authors: Joyce Meyer
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Jesus--Name Above All Names: Releasing His Anointing in Your Life
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Contents
5: REVERENCE ANDRESPECT FORTHENAME
PRAYER FOR A PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP WITH THE LORD
ARE YOU EXPERIENCING THE POWER?
What is in a person's name? So much more than most people realize.
A name is representative of the person; it personifies his character. It identifies him and sets him apart from everyone else.
When we call someone by his name, we are not just speaking a name. We are declaring something about him.
In the same way, when we speak the Name of Jesus, we are not just speaking a name. We are declaring a Name that embodies power—not human power, but all the power and authority of God. (Colossians 2:9,10.)
When we speak the Name, we are describing the Person. Jesus means Savior, and we are calling Him according to what He does for us—He saves us from sin, from our failures, from our mistakes and from circumstances that are not in His will. (See Matthew 1:21.)
The Bible teaches us that there is no other name which is above the Name of Jesus. It teaches us that at the mention of Jesus’ Name every creature must bow, that Jesus’ Name has power and authority in heaven, on earth and under the earth. (Philippians 2:9,10.)
Jesus’ Name represents Jesus, so when we pray in His Name, it is just as though Jesus is the One doing the praying, the asking.
When we speak the Name of Jesus in prayer, power is immediately made available to us.
What kind of power?
Power to bless others, power that brings help for ourselves, power to enjoy the good things God has planned for our lives.
Many times in the meetings and conferences I hold, while I am ministering, I speak the Name of Jesus from the platform. When I do, I can sense His Presence and power being released in the room. I believe people are receiving healing, accepting Jesus as their Savior and becoming filled with the inner strength of the Holy Spirit in that Name.
We need more revelation about the power the Name of Jesus holds.
A few years ago I wrote a book called
The Word, the Name, the Blood.
As I was preparing recently to teach on the Name of Jesus, 1 reread the section in that book on the Name of Jesus. I believe the Lord was encouraging my faith in that area. I have found that God will occasionally give me a little refresher course about the power and authority in the Name.
No matter how much we may know about the power the Name of Jesus holds, there are new things we can learn, or we may need to be refreshed in things we have already learned.
The Lord does not want us to forget the foundational principles of His Word. He knows that if our faith is not stirred up in this area, no matter what we may try to do in our life, it will not work.
If you as a Christian are feeling as though things don't seem to be “working” for you the way they used to work, it may be that you have lost sight of the foundational principles in the Word about the power in the Name of Jesus.
You may think there are greater and more important things to devote your time and attention to, but you must never feel that it is unimportant to study on the Name of Jesus.
If you do not have a personal relationship with the Lord, there is something you need to know right now. There is power in His Name to change the circumstances in your life that you are struggling with. All you have to do is receive the power He has made available to you through His Name.
With His power, you should be able to handle anything that comes against you.
I would like to share with you some things I have learned about the power in the Name to enlighten and refresh your understanding.
In this book you will learn how to stir up your faith in the power of the Name to effectively use its authority in prayer.
As a minister of the Gospel, I know I need to keep my faith strong in these areas because I cannot minister without it. I must be constantly aware of the tremendous power that is released every time I speak the Name of Jesus.
I pray that by the time you finish reading this book, your faith in the Lord and in Jesus’ Name will be so stirred up that you will begin to pray in a different way, that when you speak that wonderful Name, it will go forth and do what needs to be done. You will begin to experience the breakthroughs you have been waiting for in your life and in the lives of others!
God bless you as you receive this word from the Lord about the power of Jesus’ Name—
the Name above all names.
T
HERE'S
P
OWER IN THE
N
AME!
And [so that you can know and understand] what is the immeasurable and unlimited and surpassing greatness of His power in and for us who believe….
Ephesians 1:19
Imagine what it would be like to have so much power that your circumstances could not defeat you—power so great that its strength, its force cannot even be measured. In this passage, the apostle Paul tells us that is exactly what is available to us through Jesus.
Many people want to experience that kind of power in their lives, but they don't understand how to release it. An important key to releasing that power is speaking the Name in faith.
The Bible says that Jesus has a Name that is above every other Name, that it is the highest Name, the most powerful Name in heaven and in earth—and His Name has been given to us. All we have to do is believe.
What do we believe?
In John 20:31 we read,…
believe that Jesus is the Christ (the Anointed One), the Son of God, and that through believing and cleaving to and trusting and relying upon Him you may have life through (in) His Name [through Who He is].
When we believe in Jesus, develop a personal relationship with Him and pray in His Name, God's power becomes accessible to us.
We receive everything God has provided for us in Jesus through faith in that Name –continual love, peace, joy, healing, prosperity, security, strength to be more than a conqueror in any situation and power to turn our circumstances around.
Think about that for a moment. When we become children of God, everything in that Name belongs to us.
Clueless and Powerless
My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge…
.
Hosea 4:6
Millions of people—including Christians—have no clue about the tremendous power that is found in the Name.
I know that is true because I used to be one of them.
I was a Christian for many years who went to church every week, sometimes several times a week, was on the board of my church and part of an evangelism team, whose husband was an elder in that same church. But I had no clue about the power in the Name of Jesus.
Like many, if not most, Christians today, I was powerless because I was clueless.
Oh, I “used” the Name of Jesus. I tacked it onto the end of my prayers like I had been taught. But I had no idea what I was doing. So I lived a powerless Christian life. I was powerless to bring about any real change in my life or in the lives of my family and others.
Do you know that you can live a Christian life and still live one without power?
Sad to say, there are probably more Christians living
powerless
lives than there are Christians living
powerful
lives. But that is not the way God intended it to be. That was not the way it was in the beginning of the church.
The Power of the Early Church
And with great strength and ability and power the apostles delivered their testimony to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus.…
Acts 4:33
Why were there so many dynamic things happening in the early church?
Why is it that we read in the book of Acts about people being healed, demons being cast out and breakthroughs occurring in many people's lives?
Why were the early Christians able to perform so many miracles, signs and wonders?
The early Christians knew the power that was in the Name of Jesus, and they used that Name on a regular basis in the way God intended it should be used. (As we will see later, there is a way it should not be used).
When the apostle Peter used the Name to pray for a man who had been lame since birth, the man was healed. (Acts 3:1-8.)
Phillip preached to large crowds of people about the kingdom of God and the Name, and…
as Phillip preached it, they were baptized, both men and women
(Acts 8:12).
Paul used the Name when he commanded a demon to come out of a woman who was…
possessed by a spirit of divination [claiming to foretell future events.…]
…. Immediately the spirit came out, and she was set free. (See Acts 16:16-18.)
It is obvious that these early disciples understood the power in the Name of Jesus, and they knew how to use that power to receive His blessings and bless others.
Power in the Name to Save
…stretch out Your hand to cure and to perform signs and wonders through the authority and by the power of the name of Your holy Child and Servant Jesus.
Acts 4:30
From this passage we can see there is power in the Name of Jesus for times of crisis and power to perform signs and wonders like healing the sick and casting out demons. The Word of God also reveals to us that there is power to save anyone who calls upon that Name. (Acts 2:21.)
The Bible says there is salvation in the Name of Jesus and that there is no salvation in any other name except that Name. (Acts 4:12.)
Salvation simply means believing in the Name of Jesus and making a decision to place your faith in Him. (If you have never done that before, and you would like to, there is a prayer you can pray at the end of this book).
In Colossians 2:9 we read: For
in Him the whole fullness of Deity (the Godhead) continues to dwell in bodily form [giving complete expression of the divine nature].
Then in verse 10 we are told:
And you are in Him, made full and having come to fullness of life [in Christ you too are filled with the Godhead—Father, Son and Holy Spirit—and reach full spiritual stature]. And He is the Head of all rule and authority.…
Get hold of that. All the power of God has been invested in the Name of Jesus, and that Name has been given to the church.
Wow!
His glorious Name is powerful. In order to release that power, as I discuss later in the book, faith is required. If we are seeing very little power manifested in our daily lives, we lack faith in the Name.
I can go around saying “in Jesus’ Name,” can pray “in Jesus’ Name” and can even rebuke demons “in Jesus’ Name,” but if I am not really releasing faith when I pray and speak in that Name, I will not get the results I would if my faith were stirred up.
The Name As a Spiritual Weapon
For the weapons of our warfare are not physical [weapons of flesh and blood], but they are mighty before God for the overthrow and destruction of strongholds.
2 Corinthians 10:4
I believe the reason God wants to stir up powerful men and women today is because we are engaged in a war, a spiritual war…
against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places
(Ephesians 6:12 KJV).