“Jesus knowing their thoughts said, ‘Why are you thinking evil in your hearts? Which is easier, to say, “Your sins are forgiven,” or to say, “Get up, and walk”? But so that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins’—then He said to the paralytic, ‘Get up, pick up your bed and go home.’ And he got up and went home. But when the crowds saw this, they were awestruck, and glorified God, who had given such authority to men” ~ Matthew 8:4-8.

What was it that caused the people to glorify God? It was seeing this Man, Jesus, walking in the authority God gave to fulfill His purpose. Jesus, our example, shows us how to bring glory to God.

Beloved, we each have a calling, an equipping, the authority from God to fulfill His purpose in this day. Do you possess the authority God gives you and walk in it? People seeing you doing what only God can empower you to do, doing so as a gift possessed and used with full assurance of faith brings glory to God. This requires we hear and receive His call and trust His supply for fulfilling our purpose for being in this hour.

“We preach the word of God with sincerity and with Christ’s authority, knowing that God is watching us” ~ 2 Corinthians 2:17, NLT.

Whatever we say, whatever we do as followers of Christ, we must do in the authority He gives us in the work done. I write because God instructs my heart often that this is my calling, with full equipping from Him. When I write what He gives me, it flows with the assurance of His authority and provision, so I can write with certainty, owning what I know true.

I post my writings online because that is what God instructed my heart to do. This blog is a platform sanctioned by God with assurance that each post will go far and wide, to all He desires to receive it. Whether read by only one or a million and one, that is not my concern. My authority and equipping is to write it. God’s authority and power is to lead those to read it that He desires to speak to. It is your authority and equipping from God to discern His voice in the words and receive it so-as-to walk out His will in your life.

Whatever you do, beloved, realize the authority of God in it. If you do not see Him there, leave it. That thing, for you, is a work in futility, having little or no eternal worth. However, when inspired and equipped by God, it comes with authority to accomplish things of eternal value. Grasp hold of the assurance of God’s calling and equipping you and press forward with faith to fulfill your call (Colossians 4:17).

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“Therefore I urge you, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living and holy sacrifice, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service of worship. And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect” ~ See Romans 12.