Do you see yourself as someone with authority? When you are asked to pray for someone, do you grab at the opportunity to bring God’s Kingdom down unto someone or do you shy away thinking that you are not qualified to do so.

The Bible says that we are in Christ and He is in us, it is no longer us who lives, but He who lives in us (Galatians 2:20). Wherever we go, we are His representatives and we are not acting in our own names, but in His Name (2 Corinthians 5:20).

We are set apart from the world in the sense that our happiness does not come from what we have or what we do, but it comes from Who we know and who we are. We are the chosen generation of God. Jesus, Who died for our sins, and rose from the dead, offered the one sacrifice that redeemed us all from our sins—His life, a complete sacrifice (Hebrews 10:12). We are children of Almighty God, we are the treasures in His hand. We are never alone as He is always with us.

As Jesus completed His ministry on earth, He did one final act of significance before He ascended to His Father in heaven…

“While He was blessing them, He parted from them and was carried up into heaven.” (Luke 24:51, NASB)

He blessed His disciples and empowered them to walk in His authority as His representatives on earth. We read in Mark 16:19, “So then, when the Lord Jesus had spoken to them, He was received up into heaven and sat down at the right hand of God.” (NASB)

As believers in Christ, we are in Him and He is in us. Thus, we are no longer measured by earthly standards, but by His heavenly standards. We no longer walk in the authority that the world bestows us, but we walk in the authority of Christ. In Him, we are seated in heavenly places.

John 14:12 says, “Truly, truly, I say to you, he who believes in Me, the works that I do, he will do also; and greater works than these he will do; because I go to the Father.” (NASB)

When Jesus went back to heaven, He gave us His Holy Spirit to take up residence in us. We speak with the authority of the Word, we walk in the presence of God, and His thoughts become our thoughts as we have the mind of Christ (1 Corinthians 2:16). We should reach a point in our lives that we start to operate from our heavenly position in Christ. When we ask for something, we must see ourselves with God in His throne room, receiving it from Him. When we pray for ourselves or someone else, we must see ourselves in the heavenly realms acting with our authority in Christ—we do not ask for healing or change to come, we declare it, we do not ask for provision, we receive it by faith.

Wake up every morning, seeing yourself sitting at God’s right hand. Whatever you do and whatever you say, remember the authority you are walking in. Doors will open, circumstances will change and it will be because of the Name of Jesus!