Are You Authorized?
A few years ago, I had a dream where Jesus came to the church to check the credentials of people who were teaching about God. Those who were teaching without being authorized by Him were in trouble. His primary concern was authorization. A secondary issue was the content people were teaching. Many false ideas about God were being taught by people who weren’t authorized by Him.
In the dream, I understood that along with the Lord’s authorization to speak on a subject, came the content of a person’s message. The fact that they needed to be authorized to speak on certain subjects came as a surprise to most people, even though Jesus warned them about this.
Social networks have created a global platform where anyone can share their views about God. We’re bombarded with theological opinions. And apparently, Jesus is listening.
Due to our unique personalities, talents, and life experiences, God authorizes each of us differently. Those who have been authorized to speak on a subject are given His heart on that subject, the right life experiences, and the right message. He also provides the right audience.
Having God’s authorization creates a favorable environment. Those who speak on subjects He’s authorized tend to bear good fruit. Those who speak without His authorization tend to create discord and confusion. Since God is not the author of confusion, if there is confusion surrounding a message, there’s a good chance that someone who is not authorized is doing the talking.
What I’m authorized to speak on is pretty limited. I’m authorized to teach on healing, deliverance, dreams, and more recently, politics. I’m often asked questions about things that I’m not authorized to speak on, like generational sins and curses. While I know people who have personal experience and revelation from God on these subjects, I can’t think of a single thing God has revealed to me about them. So when people ask me I simply tell them, “I have no revelation on that,” and point them to people who have received revelation on it. I don’t want to step outside my realm of authority.
There’s no shame in admitting to your ignorance on a subject. If you give people counsel that isn’t from God, you’re going to lead them astray. It seems wiser to say nothing at all. One of the sticky points of being granted authority is that in addition to giving us freedom to speak on certain issues, it restrains us from speaking on others. Jesus modeled this restraint by only saying what the Father authorized Him to say and only doing what the Father authorized Him to do.
My suggestion (if you’re looking for one) is pretty simple: Check with Jesus and ask Him what you are and aren’t authorized to speak on and make a list. Once you have a clear direction, ask Him to reveal His heart on those issues and confine your conversations to those which He has authorized you to speak on. Then watch how He moves powerfully through you.
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This is a timely and good word! Not only many people speaking, but many people doing a work that was never authorized. Sharing.
Excellent and such food for thought. It’s almost scary.
AMEN!!! Preach it brother!!
Sounds like hooey to me. also sounds very convenient that he is not authorized to speak on subjects that are very controversial in today’s society, like abortion. I will bet he is also not authorized to preach repentance from the sin of homosexuality. we are all authorized to read the whole word of God to anyone who will listen. especially if we keep it simple.
Very powerful wisdom brother! God bless you all abundantly in Jesus Mighty Name AMEN and Hallelujah! I love and miss y’all!
I reflected on what you said. There is at least one post that I’ve submitted where it was not within my authority to do so. I wanted to help people step out. Yet, I wasn’t doing it myself and had no right to offer encouragement when I was not doing it myself. I was in error and recognize it now. I meant well. However, that isn’t enough. One needs the authority of God. I will receive it when I step out and heal people in the Name of Jesus. As to whether, He’ll want me writing about it, I don’t know. When the time comes, I will know. Thanks for exercising wisdom. Much appreciated!
The “areas” are things that are your actual heart that you love and possess, as your true self even. Authority is always (only) property, and Jesus said the things that he owned, as from his heart, where his father shared with him, and made things property to and in him.
Most of what you are seeing as people speaking without “authority” is them speaking on hearsay and things they have no heart knowledge of.
This is not an issue when the things are in and come from inside, but only when one expects a God who is outside the man to bestow some authorization on him to speak things that he has no inherent knowledge regarding. God in this ear never authorizes anyone ever from outside of him, we must get used to it. It is written on heart or it is not God authority.
Any witness that operates on hearsay and external influences is not a good witness. His word is not really his word, it is another’s. Parroting is wishful speaking, and not heart truth.
This is why a sentence that starts with “so and so says that…” will never be that. This will not be made up for, by the words being written in a bible, either. Same thing. Its not real unless it is you.
This is closer in practice to what you said near the end, “I have no revelation concerning that” or words to that effect. What that really means extended a bit, for example sake, is those words are not part of the version of truth I stake my own reputation on and are not from my heart and I will not testify on external things and pretense concerning what I do not know.
When Jesus spoke as one with authority, it is very surely to me, that he spoke what was his. His property. what pertained to him, and what was “made flesh” in him. No man of any sort can have the weight of that unless he speaks on what he knows, and guess work will never cut it. It is a good thing that you have an unction that teaches you inside, and if not you should never speak as though you know concerning God.
I know many thing in lots of areas that god does not need to authorize me to speak, for example that the King’s Indian is a queen side chess opening. But some experience with it might mean that my heart knowledge of it makes it powerful in the right situations.
There is a hint of danger in this subject any time someone used the word authority, because people who are deceived into giving weight to those who claim to be authorized by God to be clergy, are somehow authorized to know things that the rest of us can’t know.
Those who err over the ideas of submission will then take this as irresistible and as such be snared. Do not believe that some man is right because he is authorized in some claimed measure. Nor because he has a sheepskin saying he is a doctor of it.
This is the false authority that the universal church is to repent from bowing to, and a big part of our hope, is that what is real to you, is not what important seeming men say, but what is real in your heart, and if you opt for another outside thing, your chances of erring and putting your trust in error, are much greater.
If you ever trust a word because someone seems to be an “authority” then you are leaving the inner weighing of things that you must, if god is in you, trust above all. You are in fact staking your eternal life, or at least your reward, on these. You are the authority in your life, its your property to be so, and no one will stand with you to say, “Well I told him/her that so that’s on me” in any judgment.
Thanks Joe. As always, an excellent treatment of the subject. Thank you for your thoughts, my friend.