- The name of the Lord as Authority.
The word name in the Hebrew scriptures is ‘shem’, which stands for authority. The name of the Lord is the authority of the Lord. As believers when you have been translated from the kingdom of darkness into the kingdom of God, Colossians 1:13, you have certain rights and privileges. However, it is knowledge and faith that gives us access to it. Psalm 49:20, Galatians 4:1. We have to know that the name is powerful and understand what Jesus has done and why it is powerful to utilize effectively. The name has been freely given to the church as long as you are a believer, it requires that we grasp an understanding, to know this absolutely to use it.
A case study to understanding this authority will be from the book of Esther 3. 7- 15. “ And the king took his ring from his hand, and gave it unto Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, the Jews’ enemy … in the name of King Ahasuerus was it written, and sealed with the king’s ring”. We could see from the story above the power of the kings’ ring. The entire nation knew the power of the kings’ signet ring, symbolizing his authority. Haman could write anything and seal it with the kings’ signet ring and it was taken as the word of the King since it was sealed in his name and with his signet ring. The king did not have to know about Haman’s’ decree for it to be law. It just has to be sealed in his name. In a similar way, we have the name of the Lord, which everything in heaven and on the earth and beneath the earth recognize and submit to. Matthew 28:18, Philippians 2:9-11. Anything you say in prayer in Jesus’ name is done. We do not need to go back to God to get approval and authority over prayers when He has given us this authority already.
In Esther 8, we can see Esther’s response to the king. She sought to reverse that which Haman had decreed, but that could not be done. The king gave a response “Write ye also for the Jews, as it liketh you, in the king’s name, and seal it with the king’s ring: for the writing which is written in the king’s name, and sealed with the king’s ring, may no man reverse. Esther 8:8. In a similar way, we should have confidence, seeing the name of Jesus as His signet ring, when we pray in the name of Jesus.
Jesus said, And in that day ye shall ask me nothing. Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my name, he will give it to you. John 16:23. We do not need to meet Him for another authority when we ask in His name. We see that only the Lion of the tribe of Jesus can lose that which has been sealed by God, Revelation 5, and if He says He will do what we ask, then we should have the confidence to use His name. No other power can cancel that which is sealed in the name of Jesus. Jesus is described as the Amen, Revelations 3:14. Everything in His name is verily and done. God knew we would need as a powerful tool, so He highly exalted the name Jesus above every name named even in the ages to come. Ephesians 1:21
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