Magic vs. Witchcraft Part 3: The Two Ways to Gain Power

Magic vs. Witchcraft Part 3

The Two Ways to Gain Power

Well, let’s get into it a bit further.  There are two ways a person can receive power and authority here on Earth, and the same is true for God’s Kingdom.  A person can inherit power or earn power.  Basically, a child inherits power while a servant must earn power.  A child can actually earn power as well, but until they earn power they must simply rely on inherited power.

So what’s the difference between inherited power and earned power?  The difference is actually in the execution of the power.  Inherited power is something that is simply given because of who a person’s parent is.  Just because a prince or princess is the child of the king means that they have certain power over servants of the king.  Earned power is something that is given because of a person’s actions.  The servant or child has earned authority or power over something because they have pleased the king or master.  Again, they have shown that they can handle the responsibility that comes with the increase in power and authority.  Basically, the following scenario I think will best explain what I mean:

There is a prince and a servant.  When the prince is first born the king gives authority to the servant to take care of his son.  The servant has been given authority over the prince in spite of who the prince is.  Only a servant who has proven himself to the king as being responsible and loyal to a fault would be given such authority.  So the servant now has every right to act with complete authority over the prince even as the king himself would have such authority over the prince.  To the prince, only the king has authority over the servant.

So the servant can command the prince and the prince must obey or receive punishment given out by the servant because that right has been given to the servant.  The servant doesn’t even have to check with the king at all because the king has entrusted this authority to the servant.  The king believes that the servant knows the king well enough to know exactly how the king would want the servant to discipline his son.  Nevertheless, the king would want status updates from his servant so that he ensures that no abuse is taking place.  He would not only ask his son how things are going but he would also ask his servant just to make sure that the stories are the same and there is no suspicious activity.

So the servant only remains in authority as long as the king is convinced that the servant is handling the responsibility well.  Any abuse of power would not be tolerated by the king.  Therefore, if the servant is not sure whether his discipline is correct, he will go to the king and ask the king if his ideas are what the king would want.  The servant respects the king enough that he will not want to anger the king by just assuming his way is the right way.  This is how a good servant and a wise king would handle the situation.

Now, if the servant does something the prince does not like, the prince can take the matter to his father, the king, and thus the king may punish the servant if the king feels the servant did something wrong.  So just because the prince is the son of the king he has the right to go to the king about anything.  Even though the servant has been given almost total authority over the prince, the prince can still override the servant’s authority by going straight to the king.

As you can see the execution of power is different. The prince has no authority except to go to his father and get his father to intervene.  He can’t tell the servant what to do at all because the king has given the servant authority over him.  The servant can tell the prince what to do because the king has given him the authority to do it.  So the prince must obey the servant because of the earned authority that the servant has.  However, the prince’s inherited authority gives him the ability to go to his father at any time to plead his case before his father.  The father is more apt to believe his son because it is his son.  He favors his son over his servant because of his love for his son.  Therefore, he prince knows that simply because he has inherited power that he can get the servant in trouble with the king if the servant steps out of line.

How does this translate to us?  We, being princes and princesses, have inherited authority automatically over angels and over the world in which we live.  This means that, simply because we are God’s children, we have the power to go to our Father, God, the King of all things, and ask Him to bless or curse ANYTHING we desire to have Him bless or curse.  This is why our very words are so powerful.  This is why the Bible teaches that we will be held responsible for EVERY idle word that we speak.  In other words, EVERY word we speak is important to God; even the stupidest things that we say.  Thus, the Bible teaches that we should be careful about what we say and how we say it.  It should be important to us.

We, like God, should be individuals who speak positive words; words of encouragement and love.  We should speak life and health to others, no matter what we’re going through.  We should say, “I am suffering from this illness…but I know God will make me well again.  He has my situation under control.”  We should avoid saying things like, “I am sick and I’m never going to get better.”  When we say negative things like this, it DOES have a negative impact on our circumstances.  When we say positive things, it has a positive impact on our circumstances.  This is part of our inherited power.

Now…this being said…THANK GOD for His mercies every day!  Each person is on a different level spiritually. It is no different than children in a household.  Some children are babies and others are almost fully grown.  The Father expects different things from different children.  A baby babbles a lot and says a lot of gibberish.  Therefore, God commands His servants to ignore that baby’s meaningless words.  He teaches His servants when to respond to the child and when not to, just as a human father might teach his other children when to run to the child and when to ignore the child’s noise.  When the baby truly needs something, it will cry in certain ways, and the siblings are taught that they should come running to the baby when those cries are made.

But an older child knows how to speak.  Therefore, a good father disciplines the older child to ask for things in a polite and respectful way.  That is why you might hear a father or mother say to their children, “What did you just ask me?  We don’t ask people for things like that.  You should say ‘please’ and ‘thank you’ when you are approaching someone.”  The parent corrects the child’s speech because they expect more from the child because they are more mature.

So those who are babies spiritually can relax a bit and not panic because just today you spoke about a dozen negative things.  God isn’t going to suddenly curse you and have you experience all of those horrible things.  Because of His mercies, because you are still an infant in Christ, He overlooks those things that you have said and they won’t come to pass.  Granted, this being said, as a human father may provide a teachable moment for their child by giving them exactly what they asked for, so God may allow His children to experience one or two of those things that they are saying that are negative in the hopes that through suffering consequences the child might stop speaking negatively.  However, because of His love for us, as any loving parent is, God does not want His children paranoid about every little thing they have said or ever will say.

The point, here, is that words are powerful, and we humans as a whole need to be more careful about what we say.  Especially those who are more mature in Christ, they should be very careful about what they say and how, making an effort, as a good, disciplined child should, to speak politely, respectfully, positively and lovingly to everyone, especially God.  For the more mature, God expects more, and the more negative a mature person is the more those negative things will come to pass.

If this is hard to understand, think of it again like the servant and the prince.  As the prince gets older, more and more is expected of the prince.  Also, the servant becomes more and more concerned with disobeying the prince, for the servant knows that the prince is being raised to be a ruler as well.  More and more authority is to be granted to the prince as he comes of age.  Therefore, the servant becomes more apt to obey the prince, even if the prince is sprouting off things that are not good, because the servant fears the prince’s inherited authority.

In the same way, as a person becomes closer to God and begins to learn more about Him, so the angels and the world around us become more apt to listen to us and obey us.  Therefore, even if we say stupid things, those things start to come to pass more and more because of the inherited authority we have.

Again, however, like the servant and the prince, inherited authority only goes so far.  The servant must still answer to the king.  His authority rests in the fact that he is confident that he is doing what the king wants him to do.  So if the prince, for example, commands the servant to go out and rob one of the king’s citizens, the servant isn’t going to obey the prince because the servant knows that the king would be angry with him for doing this.

Likewise, if a person commands something and it doesn’t happen, it is almost certainly because the servant who the person has just commanded knows that God doesn’t want that person to have that thing.  What I am saying is that there are angels all around humans every day.  When we command things like, “In the Name of Jesus, Tiffany, that tumor is removed, in Jesus Name,” and that tumor isn’t removed from Tiffany, it’s because the angels around Tiffany heard the command of the person issuing the command and they said to themselves and one another, “God did not issue such a command.  We should not do this thing.  It would break the rules that God has set up for the world to obey, and this prince/princess has not been given authority to break those rules.”  Therefore, they do not heal Tiffany.

So if you can’t command your circumstances it is because your circumstances have been given authority over you.  The only way to change your circumstances is by going to God and having Him intervene, not by trying to express your inherited power and authority.  However, if God has given you authority over your circumstances then those circumstances no longer have power over you and you don’t even have to go to God to change them.

We see a perfect example of this in Mark 9:14-29. Jesus’ disciples attempted to cast a demon out of a boy but they couldn’t do it.  Because they didn’t have authority to do it the crowd came to Jesus to do it.  He was the one who had the authority.  So Jesus cast out the demon and the disciples asked him, in verse 28, “Why couldn’t we drive it out?” and he replied, “This kind can come out only by prayer and fasting.”

Why prayer and fasting?  Because the disciples hadn’t been given authority.  They needed to go to God first and ask His permission.  That’s what prayer is.  It is going to God, the King, your Father, as a prince or princess, and asking Him if you can have whatever it is that you want.  As for fasting and why that was so important in this case, we’ll get into that a bit later.