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Royalty & Spiritual Authority

Spirit School

When we interact with the spirit realm, we carry our spiritual authority with us. As with all authority, it carries weight and enables us to do certain things in the heavenly realms. It is important to understand what our spiritual authority is, where it comes from and how to steward it in spirit.

 

As born again children of God, we inherit our Father’s spiritual imprint. We are transformed in our hearts, awakened into the Kingdom of light, having received the Holy Spirit into our hearts who imprinted into our spirits a propensity to conform to the likeness of Jesus Christ. By depositing his very spirit inside our inner person, God has planted his very essence into us.

 

The spirit of God and all that God is: Father, Son and Holy Spirit, now abides in us and we abide in him. We are unified with the supreme only wise God and partake of all his nature, which includes his royalty.

 

We are a kingdom of priests and kings in Christ, and our inheritance in the future is to reign within the Kingdom of God (1 Peter 2:9, Revelation 1:6, 5:10). As for the current time, we are considered God’s royal people, we are a people of royal blood having been redeemed by the blood of the great King, Jesus Christ.

 

God has transferred his royalty onto us through the blood of Jesus Christ and being born into his family by the Holy Spirit.

 

Unpacking the entirety of what this means would be an infinite task, just as God himself is infinite in so many ways, but just as royalty commands authority, so we command spiritual authority, being royalty in Christ.

Love and Spiritual Authority

The moment we believed in Jesus Christ, we were enfolded into him. We became one spirit with him, united and interwoven into all that he is and now, we partake in the divine nature (2 Peter 1:4). This is correlated with escaping the corruption of this world and so, rising above it, we reign and rule in life to bring the Kingdom of God, even within the spirit realm.

 

For Just as he (Jesus Christ) is, so we are now (1 John 4:17). Our spirit has been enfolded into Christ, and as he is love (1 John 4:8), we abide in love and love abides in us. We are entangled with love, inseparable from love in Christ, we are engulfed and wrapped around by love.

 

To the spirit realm, including angels and demons, our spirits appear just as Jesus is now - enfolded in everything that he is, we are clothed in love and we appear as light, carrying the nature of God in our spirits and clothed in royal robes, which are Christ.

 

Taking a look at several examples in Jesus’ life, we can see how he used his spiritual authority to bring God’s restoration and advance the Kingdom of God, impacting both the natural and spirit realms.

 

When Jesus was faced with a woman who had been caught in adultery, her accusers wanted to punish her. Jesus, however, forgave her, demonstrating his spiritual authority to forgive sins. He also restored her dignity by speaking to hear directly and reinstantiating her into society in front of the crowds (John 8:1 - 11).

 

Jesus made his way to the region of the Gerasenes, where he met a man possessed by many demons. Anyone else would have avoided this man due to the amount of destruction he could do, but Jesus sought him out. After restoring him to his right mind, Jesus appointed him with a high commission in the Kingdom of God, to tell the surrounding areas about him. Jesus transformed this man, who had been outcast from society and damned to suffering, through casting out demons and bringing the Kingdom of God. Jesus appointed this man in his Kingdom as an evangelist (Luke 8:39).

 

More so, Jesus took authority over the demons that had tormented the man. The demons entered into a discussion with Jesus because they could not go anywhere from that place without being given permission by Jesus. They recognised his authority and although they initially challenged it, they had to submit to him.

 

Jesus demonstrated how love overcomes a multitude of sins (1 Peter 4:8), by loving people and restoring them with dignity in society. When Jesus Christ forgave sins, the Jewish people around him were astonished because they recognised that only God had spiritual authority to forgive sins. Jesus chose to overcome sin with love and acted in love to forgive sin. Just as love overcomes a multitude of sins, so love has a spiritual authority direct from God. As we abide in love, we are connected straight into the spiritual authority of God.

 

To understand how to have the greatest effect when operating in our spiritual authority when encountering angelic and demonic entities, along with anything else that is in the spirit realm, we need to understand the nature of love.

The Nature of Love

Love is a royal, priestly, sacrificial spiritual commodity. Everyone who loves reflects the true nature of God, who is royalty. Every power and governing royalty receives its power from God, for from him originates all power, authority, rule and royal ordinance (Romans 13:1). Ultimately, love lays down its life for its friends (John 15:13) and this is the ultimate sacrifice that Jesus made for us, he laid down his life that we might inherit eternal life and so be endowed with his spiritual authority.

 

In this act of love, Jesus restored what had been lost. Love seeks to restore things back to God’s design and intent. Our spiritual authority, to reign and live with God, had been abandoned in the garden of Eden. As a consequence of the rebellion, the hearts of people became darkened and in alignment with darkness, humanity aligned with spiritual forces who were not of God, but usurped the position of authority that God had intended for himself, over us. In response, God wanted to restore our authority to rule and reign with him, which he did through the crucifixion, resurrection and ascension of Jesus Christ.

 

Love was the passion of Jesus on the cross, and through his love he longs for us to be where he is. In his love, he has raised us spiritually with him, while we live here on Earth, so that we can reign in life with every spiritual blessing from our inheritance as God’s royal children.

 

The royalty (and nobility) of God is defined by several characteristics that are outlined in 1 Corinthians 13, which concerns the attributes of love. If we look in depth at the passage on love, it becomes evident that love gravitates around honour, gratefulness and celebration of the good in one another. In essence, love sees the christ-likeness in each other and makes it our focus.

 

Here is a personal testimony that help show how remaining in love affects our spiritual authority.

Personal Testimony

During the days when I was being trained by Holy Spirit about spirit translocation, I received a direct warning from him concerning love and spiritual authority. At that time I would spend my lunch breaks in a public garden and meditate on God under a tree.

 

In training, Holy Spirit would show me how to see in the spirit, so that I could see in great detail, who was coming around the corner in the spirit realm. Holy Spirit would also take me in the spirit into heavenly realms where I would encounter angels and speak with Jesus on crystal beaches.

 

I was hungry to spend time with Jesus in that heavenly place again, so I made my way to a bench by my usual spot next to a tree, when I received a Holy Spirit nudge in my spirit, and it was a warning:

 

“Do not think to come into the heavenly realm today.”

 

I asked why and the nudge came again, “You have hurt someone and you are ignoring seeking forgiveness and resolution. If you come into the heavenly realm now, you will have filters on your spiritual eyes because of the hurt that you hold in your heart. The spiritual forces in the air will see this and will latch onto your weak points.”

 

I examined my heart and realised I was not at peace with this other person, so I had to go to make things right, despite knowing if I did, I faced a very difficult conversation and accusation, which later came. I also realised that even by holding unforgiveness, whether I recognised it or not, I had a potential hook that evil spiritual forces would want to manipulate in the spirit realm.

 

After I had forgiven the person and sought forgiveness, Holy Spirit was happy to take me back into training again.

I had slipped out of love, having hurt someone and having been hurt by them. So my “reputation” in the spirit realm would have gone ahead of me and been something for the dark spiritual forces to use against me, had I encountered them. Until I forgave the other person and reached out to them to make peace, I carried potential hooks that dark spiritual forces could have manipulated in the spirit realm, and caused me to see a deception.

  • caveat : We do not need to reconcile or receive forgiveness from the other person in order to live in accordance with the royalty of God that we are. We are responsible for our hearts only, so if we forgive others and reach out to make peace, regardless of whether or not the good intent is returned, we have done our part (Romans 12:18).

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