Quotes about Authority

God's words possess omnipotent achieving and accomplishing power. Our words can have potent achieving and accomplishing power.

Oh, from what heights of blessing it is possible for a man to fall! To what depths of sin a man can descend, even with all that spiritual background! The higher the pinnacle of blessing, authority, and publicity he has attained by grace, the deeper and more staggering can be his collapse. There is never a day in any man's life but that he is dependent upon the grace of God for power and the blood of Jesus for cleansing.

Lord, our God, other lords than You have ruled over us, but we remember Your name alone. Isaiah 26:13

As long as you have a male covering, were words I'd heard over and over again, and I believed them to my bones. A male covering was the key to a woman being blessed by God in ministry.

Instead, he is under guardians and stewards until the time set by his father. Galatians 4:2

Satan still takes advantage of women and men, seizing their powers of influence for his own purposes.

Why are you amazed at this? Or why do you stare at us, as though by our own power or godliness we had made him walk? Acts 3:12

The Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins. Luke 5:24

When we live under the umbrella of God's authority and seek to obey His commands, the enemy may oppose us and even oppress us, but he cannot thwart the fulfillment of God's plan for our lives.

He demonstrated this power in the Messiah by raising Him from the dead and seating Him at His right hand in the heavens. Ephesians 1:20

Yielding to His authority and affections makes no small difference in our judgment (1 Corinthians 2:12-16). When we look through spiritual eyes, we can see fruit for what it is—we can distinguish between pride and confidence, between self-abasement and humility, between contentiousness and healthy confrontation.

We quench or grieve the Holy Spirit by refusing His authority over us. In other words, by choosing not to yield to Him.