Stop Whining and Take Authority!

Recently, I returned from a visit with my family in my hometown on Roanoke Rapids, NC. It had been months since we saw each other! This was a much-needed visit. I had a wonderful time fellowshipping with my grandmother, siblings and other relatives. I have always been a little different from them, not better, but different. They consider me more of an outcast even though I am the eldest.  Outcast or not, we have always remained extremely close. This closeness is one positive result of our difficult upbringing. I like to call my family "wide open" compared to myself. Lol

Anyhow, after this wonderful time of spreading love and imparted small nuggets here and there about the Lord (= , I returned home. I fixed dinner for my tot, Zi Zi and made a small snack for myself. All of a sudden, irritability came on me. I noticed Zion playing in his food and said "Zion, EAT YOUR FOOD". Immediately after saying this, I snapped out of it and said to myself, “He’s only 18 months; he's doing what children do, calm down, Jazz." As soon as I spoke, my body was INSTANTLY under attack. I mean my body temperature shot through the roof, I became very weak to the point of trembling, dizziness came over me and I felt as though I would faint. I was sitting at the kitchen table in one chair and fell over into another chair. I felt as if something was physically pushing me down. Zion and I were the only two down stairs and I did not have the strength to call out to my husband who was upstairs.

Zion, with his gift of discernment, acknowledged that something was wrong. He began to yell and beat on the kitchen table. I lifted up slightly to glance at him. He was looking directly at me with a look of concern on his face, steadily yelling and beating on the kitchen table. As I fell back down into a slump, fear came on me even stronger. "Lord," I said, "I don't want to pass out here in front of him. Please, please help me." Immediately, I heard "Stop whining and take authority! You have it!" The revelation of THE POWER within me quickly registered and I began to speak out into my atmosphere. I took authority over anything trying to hinder my good health and bound it in the name of Jesus. I reminded Satan that I have the authority to trample over serpents and scorpions and over ALL the power of the enemy and nothing shall by ANY MEANS harm me. I am a blessed woman of God; I am a child of the Most High. By the stripes of Jesus, I am healed. I SHALL LIVE AND NOT DIE.

Within seconds, I was able to sit up in the chair. After making this declaration, I turned on Pandora-Israel Houghton radio- as an added blow to Satan. I began to sing the song playing and sent up praises to my Lord. He deserves all the praise!

This attack came on because of the day's previous events. The devil knew that there were breakthroughs coming to my family because of our fellowship and was quite upset about it. The Lord spoke to me in such a way to remind me that He is within me. Greater is He who is within me than he that is in the world. I should not ask Him for things that I already have. I was asking Him for a victory that Jesus had already won.  I was asking for healing that Jesus had already given to me. I was asking for power that already worketh within me. I maintained my victory and total healing, not by might nor power but by the Spirit of the Lord!

Reverence verses: Luke 10:19, Deuteronomy 28:1-14, John 1:12, 1 Peter 2:24, Psalm 118:17, 1 John 4:4,  Zechariah 4:6, 1 Corinthians 15:57