In Jesus Name: A Key to Spiritual Authority

In Jesus’ Name…

We, believers, hear this phrase quite often in Christian circles.

But I want to reveal something God revealed to me:

Recently, in my quiet time, I wrote down this instruction of the Holy Spirit to myself. And, because it has indeed impacted me, personally, I desire to share it with you now, in Jesus’ Name. I believe it will help you in your own understanding.

The Word of the Lord to Me, Elizabeth:

What you do in my name must be from me, or it’s in your name!

Let me explain —

If I asked you to do something – then you do it – then it’s in MY name.

If I don’t ask you to do something – and you, do it – then, it’s in YOUR name.

This is NOT the SAME!

Most of my kids are not doing what I ask – not OBEYING …they are doing what they want to do for me – but not in my name.

And what I see and what I breathe on – is done – in MY name… in obedience to something I have asked of you!

As I received this word from the Holy Spirit recently, I personally envisioned and related this instruction to my being an Executive Assistant for many years…wherein, in my position, I would contact people or arrange events in the President’s or Vice President’s name of the company I worked for.

I had no authority to accomplish anything in my own name, but when I did something my boss asked of me, and name-dropped his name as the name it was being done in, then things got done!

Let me give you a example:

My boss, Kurt Christensen, the President of American Health and Safety, says to me, “Contact President Ken Andrews, of First Aid Solutions, and tell him I’d like a meeting Thursday afternoon. Request him to bring any of his staff he would desire to have there, for I’d like to discuss enclosure of their new bandaging product line in our new fall catalog.”

Well, if I, as his assistant, would then call that company and ask to speak to the President, I’d get someone saying: “May I ask who is calling?” and if I said my name I would get the response, “Sorry, he cannot be disturbed. May I please take a message?”

I’d get nowhere using my own name and authority! Nothing would be graced, met with favor, or accomplished of any value!

But, if I would, as his assistant, call that company and say “I am calling on behalf of President Kurt Christensen of American Health and Safety, who needs me to speak directly to the president, Ken Andrews, with an important message about the enclosure of your bandaging product in our upcoming catalog.” then I would get right through, being announced to the president there in this manner: “President Kurt Christiansen of American Health and Safety is calling.”

I would then be given full authority IN HIS NAME to be his ambassador and accomplish his purposes. That company, you see, would know that I represent the ones of importance… our president and our company, in this example.

It is the same, brothers and sisters, when we are walking in Christ’s Authority. We are ambassadors of God and Christ (the ones of importance, as the president in my example) and the Kingdom of God (as the company in my example).

When Christ asks us to do something, and we obey, we have HIS NAME granting THE AUTHORITY to make things happen that He wants to make happen!

We abide in Him, the vine, to bear any fruit, for he does it! Without him, we can do nothing.

We are not to ask if our agenda is his, but rather is His agenda ours.

Are we listening to Him giving us instructions? …so that in obeying we will carry His Authority?

Or are we going about doing our own thing?… powerless, and wondering why so.

Are we trying to get him to bless “our authority”, rather than us submitting to His?

I hope you stop to ponder each of last six paragraphs… giving thought to how to apply them within your own life going forward.

This is a short, sweet but firm conversation from the Spirit, and its application described by me; But, if followed by us all, we will be kept from needless and draining religious activity, for his yoke is easy and burden is light. We won’t waste energies doing things in our own name that he never asked of us… putting our noses in business that does not pertain to us… and centering on doing our own thing for him, rather than with him.

Do you think the President in my example knew I was doing it for him when I did it?

Of course, he did! He trusted me! He let it into my hands! I was doing as He wanted! I felt empowered in using his name! It was glorious!

The same will be true of the Lord, with you, when you reach out and follow an instruction, He gives you! You will feel empowered and be empowered when you are doing as the one in authority has asked. You will be doing it in His Name!

I encourage you to be “listening” and “obeying”, rather than looking around for good deeds you’d like to do… for then your joy will become way fuller as He lives out His life and plans through you. Yes, you may still do your good deeds, but they will be in your name, not his, as he spoke to me in conversation.

Ponder for a moment how Cain and Abel may actually be “a picture” of this lesson from the Holy Spirit:

Cain offered to God what he wanted in way of sacrifice. Basically, he was doing his good works in his own name.

Abel offered his sacrifice according to what He knew the one in authority desired. God had taught their parents that a sacrifice had to be slain to “cover them” as they left the Garden of Eden. Aware of God’s way, Abel was basically giving the lamb, In His Name.

Whereas Cain wanted to approach God as he chose to, i.e., in his own name. Therefore his “sacrifice”, though it was beautiful abundant fruit that Cain was proud of, was rejected and this made Cain super angry!

Abel’s lamb “pleased God”, and God let it be known.

There’s a lesson here for us all. Of course, we know that the lamb is a picture of how Christ Jesus would be slain for our sins, so God had a purpose, in what was done in his name.

At the beginning of this article, I had in bold what the Word of the Lord said. I repeat now…

He said, “Most of my kids are not doing what I ask – not obeying… they are doing what they want to do for me – but not in my name.”

Isn’t this just what Cain did? He gave what he wanted to, yet Genesis 4:5 tells us, “Unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect.”

Cain then grew angry, his countenance fell, and he killed Abel as the result.

Does this give The Church warning how perhaps, in these end times, religious people who are doing for God in their own name may grow angry if they fail to see God’s respect toward them? …and what they are doing? They then may persecute or destroy the ones who are doing things In His Name? Become alert that this could become the case…and examine yourself.

An interesting passage in Galatians 4:28-29 says:

“Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are the children of promise. But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was born after the Spirit, even so it is now.”

When The Lord does ask something of you, and you are clear on it, you can then proceed with great confidence that ‘what you do In His Name’ will indeed be met with His Authority. He sees it and will breathe life into it. And you will accomplish the task He has given you to do in His name, as He empowers you to do so.

There is Power available in doing what He asks of you…what He impresses upon you to do.

That doing is always “what Jesus would do” if He were here doing it…  You are doing it as His Ambassador.

This is doing it In Jesus’ Name.

I will explain it one step further: So many Christians say the words, “In Jesus’ Name, Amen” as they end a prayer, and yet they have no clue WHAT they are doing, nor WHY they are doing it. It’s just words they’ve come to say. Maybe you are one of those Christians that just have not been taught.  So let me teach a moment.  You apply this same exact principle!

When you pray, you ought to keep in mind that you are basically praying something Jesus Would Pray to the Father!  You are praying In His Name!

This will change the way you pray, if grasped by The Believer.  You will not pray curses toward others, for you know Jesus would not pray that. You would be led by the Spirit in what to pray and how to pray. Yet you can pray similar to what Jesus prayed to the Father in John 17! That we’d Be One! That we’d Love One Another! And so on.  Now, for some more detail:

If you form your prayers, as if praying FOR CHRIST in regard to something, your prayers will be POWERFUL!

James 5:16 tells us to be honest with one another about our faults and then to “pray one for another, that ye may be healed”… The verse ends by saying “The effectual fervant prayer of a righteous man availeth much!”

Imagine if you prayed for that “other person” exactly how Jesus would pray for them! In His Name! Wow! You’d pray differently than just you praying your own thoughts! Your prayer would be Effectual! Effectual means “successful in producing a desired or intended result. Effective!  Your prayer would be Fervant! Fervant means “having or displaying a passionate intensity”! Friends, if you are praying In Jesus’ Name, believe me, you may become intense! Don’t be embarrassed by that, if it’s coming from within, and by the Spirit!

We find throughout scripture that Jesus prayed with strong crying and tears!

Let’s look at Hebrews 5:7-9

“Who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death, and was heard in that he feared; though he were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered; and being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him…”

There is much in this verse, but what I want you to see is the strong crying and tears that may accompany prayer in His Name!  We are also told that He was “touched with the feeling of our infirmities” and was “tempted in all points as we are” in Hebrews 4:15 … so if we are praying over someone, in His Name, it stands to reason, we can pray with them against temptation struggles, for healing, etc.  We are praying FOR THEM, as HE WOULD PRAY FOR THEM… in Compassion, in Knowing the Father heard!

Once Jesus told Simon Peter, “But I have prayed for you, Simon, that your faith may not fail.” (Luke 22:32) He knew Simon was going to be sifted like wheat, meaning the Devil was going to be allowed to have a heyday with his life… an allowed testing, so when he was converted (transformed in character through that suffering), he could then strengthen the brethren! We, too, can pray for others that their faith may not fail! If we see them in sufferings we can pray In Jesus’ Name! We know we are praying AS HE WOULD for them!

You see, We are his voice, his hands, his feet… reaching out to others, in His Name. Keep this in mind always!

To end this message, I repeat:

There is Power available in doing what He asks of you… what He impresses upon you to do…

That doing is always “what Jesus would do” if He were here doing it… 

You are doing it as His Ambassador.

This is doing it In Jesus’ Name.