Divine power, wisdom, and authority are God’s and God’s alone. It is by his power that everything we know came into being. It is by his wisdom that he is able to know everything that there is to know. And it is by his authority that he is able to decide what will happen, when it will happen and how it will happen. If you are a mature believer, you may know that, at times, God may even allow his people the privilege of experiencing some of his divine power, tapping into some of his divine wisdom, or even directing some of his divine authority. In Matthew, Jesus granted a level of his divine authority to his disciples. He gave them the authority to drive out impure spirits and to heal every disease and sickness. It says in Matthew, chapter 10, verse 1:
“Jesus called his twelve disciples to him and gave them authority to drive out impure spirits and to heal every disease and sickness.”
From their own lips, and by their command, impure spirits obeyed them and disease and sickness left the bodies of those inflicted. This happened through them, only because God gave them the authority. Not one of us can perform a miracle on our own. Nor can we conjure something out of nothing or know the future. We don’t even have the power to save someone’s soul. These things fall under the power, wisdom and authority of God and God alone. Though this is true, we can appeal to him that he may exercise his power, wisdom and authority on our behalf. Have you ever asked God for a miracle? Have you ever asked him for wisdom in a situation? Maybe you’ve asked him to heal someone through you, to save a lost soul through you, or to use you in a mighty way. If you have, and if he has granted your request, then in that moment you were like one of his disciples in Matthew 10:1. He granted you access to the miraculous and the divine. I’m not sure how often God gives humans blanket authority to perform miraculous like he did with is disciples in Matthew, but I do believe that he is still in the business of allowing a level of divine power to flow through his people if we would ask, if we would have faith, and if he is willing. So I would encourage you to have the faith of a disciple; to know that God is able to grant you the authority to do the miraculous. If you are able to do this with humility and the right heart, then maybe God will use you as a vessel for his mighty work and power.
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What did Jesus mean when he said things like, “you may ask me for anything in my name, and I will do it”? or “until now you have not asked for anything in my name. Ask and you will receive, and your joy will be complete”? or “truly I tell you that if two of you on earth agree about anything they ask for, it will be done for them by my Father in heaven”? I believe that these, along with several other examples, are Jesus explaining to us that he is willing to exercise for us a little of the authority that he granted his disciples. We may not have blanket authority to command sickness to leave by our will. But God may choose to honor the words that Jesus spoke many times in the Bible; that if we ask anything of the Father in his name, then he will do it. We are never in a position to command God, but he has given us permission to appeal to him. So I encourage you to have the faith to believe that God can, and will, do the miraculous through you. Not for your glory, but his. Not by your will, but by his. And not by your power, but by his. Allow him to filter your appeal through his divine holiness and, like a Father who knows what is best for his children, trust that he will use his divine power, wisdom and authority on your behalf.
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