As a prophet that he was in his lifetime, Kenneth Hagin learned several truths from God’s Word through visions of the Lord Jesus Christ. Kindly find the book and make time to read it.

 

While all power in heaven and on earth was given to the Lord Jesus Christ, in giving His name to the church and giving the great commission to us, the Lord gave His authority on the earth to us. He continues to exercise His authority in the heavenly realms but we are to exercise authority on the earth. Unfortunately, the devil has either successfully hidden behind human activities so that Christians are focused on human beings as their enemies or they turn to God in supplication to deal with the devil on their behalf. In hiding behind human behavior, we are extremely fixated upon how our spouses, friends, relatives, and neighbors hurt us that rather than arrest the forces causing strife and confusion between us, we fight them in the flesh and open more doors for satanic oppressions and influences. Worse still is our fixation on the enchantments and divinations of witches and wicked people against us. While that is true, the devil will rather focus our attention on cursing them with malice, hatred, and bitterness which actually weakens us spiritually. He knows that outside the light of love, the believer is powerless. Instead of focusing on people, the believer should realize they are under satanic influences and should arrest the forces using them against us.

 

Prayer meetings are either the most attended or the least attended church programs in Nigeria. The most attended ones are usually focused on dealing with the scourge of witchcraft and demonic activities. However, many of such meetings are unproductive in people’s lives because warfare is either directed against human beings or supplications are made for divine intervention against the devil. Like Kenneth Hagin, we are expecting God to drive out the spirits behind our spiritual, financial, or social problems, while He is also waiting for us to do something about them. Many spiritual attacks persist because believers do not exercise their God-given authority over the enemy. In the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, whatever we permit on earth is permitted in heaven and whatever we prohibit on earth is prohibited in heaven (Matthew 16:19, 18:18 ISV).

The ball is in your court, play it rightly. It’s your move, do something! Get angry at the enemy and put him where he belongs: under your feet. Do not wait on Jesus to deal with him, the Lord already did all He would 2,000 years ago through His redemptive work on the cross of Calvary (Colossians 1:12-13, 2 11-15, Revelations 1:18). He is waiting on you to exercise the authority you have in His name and through His sacrifice on the cross. The victory is yours!!