Absolute Power
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Dedicated to my mother,
Vada Swick Hagee
Never doubt that the power
of a committed prayer life
can change the world.
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
Its dark out there.
If you had any doubt that our world is broken and fallen, a glance around should relieve you of all uncertainty.
Thus, its no surprise that many of Gods people are overwhelmed, pessimistic, and despondent. Some have lost hope and given in to despair. But I have written this book to assure you, that is not the appropriate mindset for a child of God. Believers have been given the power to turn things around for ourselves, for our families, for our communities, and for America.
Im talking about heavenly power. Divine power. Supernatural power that changes circumstances and destinies. Power that turns the fate of nations. This book, Absolute Power, reveals the various forms this extraordinary force takes. Ill also help you learn to harness and release that power. As you do, supernatural things will happen. Thats what this book is all about: discovering and releasing the supernatural power of God in your life.
Two-thousand years ago, there lived on Earth a man named Jesus who was the literal Son of the living God. He raised the dead, He healed the blind, the lame, and the deaf; He touched the rotting flesh of lepers and healed them. Jesus calmed the violent winds and waves and walked on the waters of the sea of Galilee.
He ordered demons to come out with a word. He did not interview them or scream at them all night. He spoke a Word and they obeyed. He fed multitudes with a boys sack lunch and there was enough left over to start a Jewish delicatessen. He turned water into wine at the wedding in Cana. Jesus spoke with such authority that the politically correct crowd was stunned with silence. The last day of His life, He willingly climbed on His blood-soaked cross on the hills of Calvary and conquered death, hell, and the grave.
The Gospel of Jesus Christ is the Gospel of Power. Saint Paul said in 1 Corinthians 4:20, For the kingdom of God is not in word, but in power (KJV). David said in Psalm 62:11, Power belongs to God.
There is power in His Word. There is power in His blood. There is power in His name. There is power in His presence and in His presence is fullness of joy (see Psalm 16:11). Where is Jesus now? He is seated at the right hand of the Father, which is the position of power in heaven. How is He coming back? With power and great glory in the clouds of heaven.
Jesus said in Matthew 28:18, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth (KJV). Because He possessed the power, Jesus also had the authority to bestow that power onto others: Then He called His twelve disciples together and gave them power and authority over all demons, and to cure diseases (Luke 9:1). Jesus looked at his followers and said, greater works than these he [those who believe] will do (John 14:12).
The early Church laid hands on the sick and they recovered Thats power! If the pastor of an average mainline American church today were to call for a deliverance service to cast out demon spirits next Sunday, his church board would have him committed.
Ananias and Sapphira, lied about how much money they gave to God, and they were struck dead at the Wednesday night prayer meeting Thats power!
People were attracted to the New Testament Church because of its power. The church experienced daily revivals. They were healing the sick. They were casting out demons. They were winning the lost. They were going from house to house having fellowship and favor with God and man. They were also being persecuted, fed to lions, burned at the stake, and crucified, and through it all they praised God.
If we had that kind of spiritual purity and power in Americas churches, there wouldnt be enough funeral homes to handle the dead people next week. If you lived in the New Testament standard of holiness, and you joined the average American church, you would have to backslide to be in fellowship with a majority of the membership.
The early Church thrived under persecution. Peter and John were forbidden to preach in Jesus name. But unlike some of todays leaders, instead of praying for diplomacy, instead of having seminars on diversity and inclusion, instead of trying to placate hells legions with political correctness, Peter and John prayed for more boldness.
I assure you; the New Testament church did not deny the inerrancy of the Word of God. They did not deny the virgin birth of Jesus Christ. They did not stop preaching Jesus Christ, and Him crucified. They did not replace the power of the Gospel with some watered down, think-positive message that will never remove the stench of sin from the human soul. When Paul was in jail, beaten for preaching the Gospel, he prayed, not for a more subtle, subdued way to present the Gospel, but for more boldness.
The early Church met demon powers in Philippi and Ephesus head on. They were not afraid to take authority through the power of the Spoken Word of God. If you think the pews of Americas churches are not filled with demonized congregations, I have some beachfront property in the Mojave Desert Ill sell you.
In the book of Acts, the Bible says of the early Church: These who have turned the world upside down (Acts 17:6). When the pagans saw Christians coming, thats how they described them world-changers.
Todays church has stopped setting the world on fire. We stopped walking in the footsteps of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and traded Him in for a cotton candy theology that is more New Age than New Testament. We stopped living in Gods power and started acting like defeated victims.
Listen! It is Gods will for believers to walk in power; supernatural power, healing power, delivering power, power to pull down strongholds, power to break the chains of misery and deadly addictions that enslave some of the people who are reading this right now. You have the power to overcome the world, the flesh and the devil.
