“Truly, I say to you, whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.” ~ Matthew 18:18 ESV
The Kingdom of God is all about access... Citizens of His kingdom have an all-access path to the very throne room of heaven and to the Father of all the known and unknown universe. That all-access pass was purchased for you by the blood of the Son, Jesus Christ of Nazareth. That all-access pass that is freely made available to you as a citizen of the Kingdom of God literally cost God everything. In order to join you to Himself, He separated from His very personified Self: His Son. Sinless Jesus bore our sin and suffered the penalty for sin He had no part in order that we who were guilty of sin might be joined to the Father as if we were innocent. Through Jesus’ sacrifice fulfilled by the cross, we are given an all-access pass to the very power that would resurrect Him from the death inflicted on the cross He bore for us. What a terribly yet delightfully expensive gift we have been given!
A-C-C-E-S-S. It is what the blood of Jesus has purchased for every believer in Him. And it is that access that Satan is determined to separate you from. He is the peddler of the only thing can separate you from accessing the power you have through the blood of Jesus: sin. Satan knows he is powerless against the power you have been given access to. “The thief comes only to steal and to kill and to destroy” (John 10:10). His first plan of attack is to block your access by stealing your access altogether. If he can successfully steal your access to the power you have to bind him, he can freely move forward with his mission to kill and ultimately destroy you from within.
The easiest way to steal the access you have been given to the power of God within you is to separate you from the knowledge of the power you have access to. Satan’s chief weapon to this end is ignorance. Satan peddles ignorance by the pound, and to those he can get away with it, by the ton. It is his authorship of confusion, that bad seed he sows even among the elect of God, to separate us from the truth of who we are and what we have access to through our personal relationship with Christ. One of Satan’s most effect strategies is to inflict you with an identity crisis that results in spiritual paralysis. You cannot move in the power of the Holy Spirit simply because you do not know who you really are, what you really have, that you can move in godly power or how. Ah, the mind of Christ is a terrible thing to waste! And if you are a born again believer in Jesus Christ, you have “the mind of Christ” (see 1 Cor. 2:16). Use it!
The power to bind the enemy, whether in the spiritual realm or the material realm, is all yours. You have all-access to all the power of heaven to bind whatever is necessary on earth to bring about God’s purposes for your life and on behalf of others on the earth. You have been purposefully and strategically placed in time from out of eternity to make a heavenly impact on earth by colonizing earth on behalf of heaven. You are God’s hands on the earth and His boots on the ground. It is our responsibility as representatives, ambassadors, emissaries of God on earth, to carry out His purposes on the earth.
By the authority given to you by the Word of God, which addresses whatever situation you will ever face in life, take up the mantle of your power to bind whatever is standing in the way of your earthly purpose being fulfilled on earth. Bind the physical opposition of sickness, disease and addiction. Bind the financial opposition of poverty and lack, greed, hoarding and stinginess. Bind the relational opposition of unequally yoked relationships, adultery (sexual immorality), contentiousness, strife, jealousy, envy, unforgiveness and divorce. Bind whatever is separating you from God’s absolute best for you! The term, “whatever you bind,” is all-inclusive catch-all to whatever is separating you from having all-access to all the bounty of blessing that God has in store for you. Bind the devil and access your abundant life! There’s wondrous working power in the blood of the Lamb! Use it to your advantage and that of the Kingdom of God. Perspective Matters...
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