(Singing) I know my God has made the way for
me. I know my God has made the way for me.
GLORIA: Well, welcome, everybody, to watch
the rest of the broadcast. You don't want to miss
any of this. Sister Billye's with us again today,
and she's got some really good help for you. You know, the more
you know about the Word of God, the freer you live-- BILLYE: Oh,
isn't that the truth? GLORIA: --if you believe it and act on
it. So that's why we enjoy sharing it with you. BILLYE: And
we're acting on the authority that we have as believers.
GLORIA: The authority that we have. You know, nothing much
changed, Billye-- BILLYE: No, right. GLORIA: --for us, in our
lives, until we learned how to take authority. BILLYE: It's the
truth because the devil kept pushing you-- GLORIA: That's
right. BILLYE: --pushing you, pushing you. He didn't want you
to find out about-- GLORIA: He's a thief. He's a liar. He's all
the bad things, and you have to keep him-- BILLYE: And once you
find out about it-- GLORIA: --bound up. BILLYE: And, you
know, that's what God has done. We've been seeing that when He
raised Jesus--when He quickened Jesus, He quickened the body,
the Church. GLORIA: Yeah. BILLYE: When He raised the head,
He raised the body of the Church. When He seated the head,
He seated the church in Him. And now this--these rebel holders of
authority who usurped into the prince of the power of the air,
the ones operating in the middle heavens, now we're over them.
And God--it's going to be, Gloria, that they're all shaken
out and gone. And they've already been--that kingdom has
already been done much damage. GLORIA: Yes. BILLYE: But God has
a purpose. They're going to all be gone, and God has a purpose,
and I love this. I have meditated on this. I have
thought about these scriptures right here in Ephesians. And
just know this, that God doesn't do anything without purpose.
GLORIA: That's right. BILLYE: It's for purpose. GLORIA:
Mm-hmm. BILLYE: So we're going to look at Ephesians 3:9. He did
this. He raised us from the dead with Jesus. See there, it says,
"the right hand," for something. And we're going to read it in
the King James first, "--to make all men see what is the
fellowship of the mystery." That word "fellowship" is the one
that's translated "partner" and "partakers." We, the Church, are
in partnership with God. We partake of the profits. And this
is the mystery of the Church, "which from the beginning of the
world has been hid in God, who created all things in Jesus
Christ." It's hidden. In the Old Testament, you can't see
anything about the Church. It's hidden in God. New Testament
calls it the hidden mystery revealed. GLORIA: Mm. BILLYE:
Now, here is the purpose for the church. Verse 10, "To the
intent--" that means God's purpose, the--He intended this
"--that now--" right now, not when you die and go to heaven,
now "--unto the principalities and powers in the heavenlies
might be known--" "through" is really the preposition used here
"--through the church the manifold wisdom of God,
according to the eternal purpose which he purposed in Christ
Jesus our Lord." God had a purpose from the beginning of
the ages, and that purpose was because Satan rebelled against
God in the first place, and then Eve and Adam did--Adam and Eve
did, and Satan was behind it. GLORIA: Yeah. BILLYE: So God's
had a purpose. He's going to bring forth a people legally. He
has to move legally. He is not like Satan. GLORIA: No. He's not
a thief. BILLYE: He moves legally, legally, legally. He
gets His Word in the earth. He gets the family of Israel in the
earth. He gets all of the Old Testament prophets in the earth.
And then we come into the New Testament, and He gets the Lord
Jesus Christ that makes a show of him openly. GLORIA: That's
right. BILLYE: And Jesus says, "Body, I'm believing it with
you. You--" and it says right here-- GLORIA: He gave them
authority. BILLYE: Right. And God wants to use that body on
the earth to manifest Himself to those demons. Look, that's what
it says. "To the intent--" Ephesians 3:9 "--that now unto
the principalities and powers in the heavenlies might be known
through the church the manifold wisdom of God, according to the
eternal purpose which he purposed in Jesus our Lord."
Hallelujah. Now-- GLORIA: Praise God. BILLYE: --I'm going to read
you that in the Amplified, the last part of it, starting with
Verse 10. "The purpose is that through the church the
complicated, many-sided wisdom of God in all of its infinite
variety and innumerable aspects might be--might now--" can't
leave that word out "--be made known to the angelic rulers and
authorities (principalities and powers) in the heavenly sphere.
In accordance with the terms of the eternal and timeless purpose
which He has realized and carried into effect in the
person of Christ Jesus our Lord--" GLORIA: Praise God.
BILLYE: It's called "the eternal purpose." It's called, in some
translations, "the purpose of the ages." GLORIA: Mm-hmm.
BILLYE: Ever since the first age began, He had that plan. Jesus
Christ was a Lamb slain before the foundation of the world--
GLORIA: That's right. BILLYE: --and He's going to bring forth
a Body. And that Body is going to reveal God to those
principalities and powers-- GLORIA: Amen. BILLYE: --evil
spirits. GLORIA: That's right, that's right. BILLYE: The
Weymouth Translation, Ephesians 3:9, "To show all men in a clear
light what my stewardship is." Paul writes, "It is the
stewardship of the truth which from all the Ages lay concealed
in the mind of God, the Creator of all things--concealed in
order that the Church might now be used to display to the powers
and authorities in the heavenly realms the innumerable aspects
of God's wisdom. Such was the eternal purpose which He formed
in Christ Jesus our Lord--" When you take your authority, you are
fulfilling God's dream from the ages. GLORIA: Praise God. That's
a good statement. BILLYE: From the first age ever, He planned
to reveal Himself through men and women, boys and girls. And
when you do it, you're doing the will of God. When the devil runs
roughshod over you, it brings God no glory. GLORIA:
Hallelujah. BILLYE: But when you resist that devil and he flees
from you, when you rule and reign over him, God's eternal
purpose of the ages, His dream, comes true as you manifest that
power. GLORIA: That's good, Billye. I like that. BILLYE:
Hallelujah! GLORIA: Establishing it-- BILLYE: Yes. GLORIA:
--eternal purpose, mm-hmm. BILLYE: Now, I'm going to start
here from the bottom of page 13 and read his--his words because
he has such an ability to put these things in words,
MacMillan. "This purpose," God's purpose, "present and future, is
very definitely stated in Ephesians 3:9-11. Here, it is
revealed as the divine will that 'now (nun," the Greek word, "the
present time) unto the principalities and powers in the
heavenly places might be known through the church the manifold
wisdom of God.' The Church," the Body, "is to be God's instrument
in declaring to these rebellious, and now usurping
powers, the divine purpose, and in administering their
principalities, after they've been unseated and cast down.
That's for the future, but right now, we are to also demonstrate
now. This is further declared to be 'according to the eternal
purpose of the ages which He purposed in Christ Jesus our
Lord.' That is to say, God, through all the past ages, has
had in view this wonderful plan of preparing in Christ Jesus a
people, chosen and called--" GLORIA: Hallelujah. BILLYE:
"--and faithful, whom He might place in these heavenly seats to
rule now and in the ages to come." GLORIA: Praise God.
BILLYE: That's God's--we're God's eternal purpose.
Hallelujah. GLORIA: Called and faithful. BILLYE: Hallelujah.
GLORIA: That's good. BILLYE: Now we're going to go over to page
27, thinking of all these things that we've already--and we're
going to be doing the Word. The Bible says, in James 1:22, that,
"Be a doer of the word, and not a hearer only, deceiving your
own selves." So if you have agreed with everything Gloria
and I have said, everything that MacMillan and Hagin have said,
if you agree with every word that God has said, and you don't
do it, it'll do you no good, zero, zilch. GLORIA: That's
exactly right. That's right. BILLYE: So I give this book to
people. I've given so many of them away. And then I wrote a
little book myself, "Authority of the Believer and How to Use
It." But particularly when I give this book, I tell to the
people, "You meditate in these great truths." And then you do
page 27. On page 27, going to start right here, Gloria.
GLORIA: Okay. BILLYE: "Do we believe--" GLORIA: "Do we
believe," yeah. BILLYE: "Do we believe that God hath quickened
us together with Christ and hath raised us up together and made
us sit together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus as
Ephesians 2:5-6 tells us? Do you believe it?" GLORIA: I do.
BILLYE: "If we do, our reaction to it will be a fervent--" and
this is like a prayer "-- 'Lord, I accept your gracious Word. I
believe that you have thus wrought from me. In humble
faith, I do now take my seat in the heavenlies in Christ Jesus
at your right hand.'" GLORIA: Yes, amen. Praise God. BILLYE:
"Teach me how to fulfill this sacred ministry, how to exercise
the authority--" GLORIA: Yes, Lord. BILLYE: "--which you have
entrusted to me." GLORIA: Praise God. BILLYE: "Train me day by
day that I may attain to the full stature of the perfect man
in Christ so that in me your purpose of the ages may be
fulfilled. Amen." GLORIA: That is so powerful, isn't it?
BILLYE: "In me, your purpose of the age is to reveal yourself--"
GLORIA: Ooh. Yes, Lord. BILLYE: "--to those principalities and
powers. Oh, God. Teach me how to do it." GLORIA: Praise God.
Thank You, Lord. BILLYE: Now, that's a prayer beginning right
here. I'm going to go on reading what he said. "If we are walking
in the Spirit, our normal life is in the heavenlies. To secure
the consciousness of this, there must be the daily acceptance of
the fact." Remember, he accuses us morning and night. "Let us
morning by morning, as one of our first acts of worship, take
our seat with Christ as suggested in the previous
paragraph, and return thanks to God for all that it implies. Let
us often remind ourselves that we are seated far above--"
GLORIA: Far above. BILLYE: "--all the powers of the air,
that they are in subjection to us. As our faith learns to use
the name and the authority of Jesus, we shall find the
spiritual forces yielding obedience in ways that will
surprise us." GLORIA: Mm. BILLYE: "As we continue to abide
closely in Him, our prayers for the advancement of the kingdom
will become less and less the uttering of petitions and will
increasingly manifest the exercise of a spiritual
authority that recognizes no boundaries but fearlessly binds
the forces of darkness in any part of the world." What he's
saying is, things you've been asking God for-- GLORIA: Yeah.
BILLYE: --begging God for, it'll probably go down because you're
going to start dealing with the enemy behind them, who is trying
to steal from you, who is trying to kill you, who is trying to
destroy you. And when you move legally, and you take authority
over him, he has to, they have to--the low-level devils--
GLORIA: That's right. BILLYE: --they have to obey you. GLORIA:
Praise God. BILLYE: So I tell people--I give them this book.
The devil's been--the reason why I gave it to them usually is
because the devil's been running them around by the nose. And so
I say, "Now, when you read this first part here and you meditate
on it, then you do page 27." And I've had them come back to me
maybe a year later, and the devil's still running them
around, having high carnival in their life. That's what Brother
Hagin used to say. And I'd say to them, "Didn't I give you that
book, 'The Authority of the Believer,' by MacMillan?" "Yes,
you did. I've got it. I read it. It's at home on my bookshelf,
but I read it." I said, "Did you do page 27?" "Well, I did it for
a little bit, a few days." It doesn't work for a few days.
It's day by day. The persistent devil, he's a-- GLORIA: Yeah.
BILLYE: --he's good at his job. He gave himself the job, but
he's good at it. GLORIA: Stays with his program. BILLYE: He
stays--he doesn't take even vacations. GLORIA: Hmm-mm.
BILLYE: And so you did it a few days, and he can tell--in here,
he talks about the light of our countenance. He can tell by your
countenance, Gloria, if you mean business or not. He can tell if
you're going to--if you're going to keep this up or you're going
to--if he can do all these things to stop you from doing
it. But what I do every single day, and sometimes I read page
27, and sometimes I don't. But I get in my chair because we're
kings. We're royal priests, and you reign-- GLORIA: You get on
the throne. BILLYE: I do, because it--look it here. We've
got to read you this scripture right here because you've got to
know you're obeying the Lord. In Romans 5, (Singing) "Acts an
epistle to the Romans." I'd sing my little Sunday school song to
find the books. Romans 5:17, "For if by one man's offence--"
that would be Adam "--death reigned by one; much more they
which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness
shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ.)" GLORIA: Praise
God. BILLYE: The Amplified said, "Shall reign as kings in life by
one Jesus Christ." GLORIA: That's good, isn't it? BILLYE:
What life? This life. Now, God wants you to sit in your chair,
and He wants you to reign, and He wants the principalities and
powers to see it. He wants to see what God did in you, and
that you take that authority, and you manifest God. GLORIA:
Praise You, Jesus. BILLYE: So the way I do it is I get up in
the morning, and I have a prayer chair. And one wall is--where my
prayer chair is all glass. And I sit there and I look out.
There's the trees and the lake and all this. And I begin my
prayer every day this way. I praise the Lord and love Him,
praise the Father and love Him. And then I pray--first of all, I
make my petition prayer, and I make it, first of all, for those
that are in authority, like He told us to in Timothy, "Pray for
the kings and those in authority." So I pray for my
president and all down the line. And then I pray for my family,
my children. They're important to me. And then I pray for the
good works God's ordained I should walk in, the call to the
ministry and other things that bring up to me in prayer. I
spend a little time in tongues. And then I thank God. I thank
Him, I thank Him for Colossians 1 which says, "Giving thanks to
the Father--" GLORIA: Yes. BILLYE: "--that he has
translated me out of the dominion of darkness, and into
the kingdom of God's dear Son, the Son, the kingdom of the
light." GLORIA: Praise God. BILLYE: Darkness has no
authority over me. Hallelujah. I have dominion over it. So then I
say, "Lord, You told me to rule and reign in life, and I'm going
to obey You right now." And then I've been looking like--this is
how I do it. I turn over this way, to the wall. I say, "Listen
up, your kingdom of darkness. In the name--" and I call Him by
the names I love to say "--Jesus, Yashua, Yahweh-Yashua,
I come against you. My Father told me to. You have no
authority over me. It is written that I am translated out of the
dominion and--your dominion, and I am seated at the right hand of
my Father. I am seated in my Lord Jesus Christ, and I'm here
to reign over you today. I'm going to tell you what you're
not going to do. You're not going to touch me, spirit, soul,
or body. In the name of Jesus, I plead the blood of Jesus over
me. You're not going to touch--" and I name my family "--Shelli,
Terry, Brenda, Chip." Sometimes I name every single person in
that family. I won't do it today, but sometimes I just say,
"My progeny, Shelli, her family, Terry and his family," and nail
them down like that. Then I go to the good works God's ordained
I should walk in. "Satan, you get your hand off the good works
God has ordained I should walk in. You know where they are,
right here in Branson, Missouri, Prayer Mountain the Ozarks;
Collinsville, Oklahoma; Gloria's church; Fellowship; Migdal-Arbel
in the Galilee." And then if I'm going on a meeting someplace,
just like I went to Amarillo recently, "In the name of Jesus,
I--you don't go anywhere near Amarillo, Texas, anything that
has to do with me." And I take my authority. GLORIA: You take
your place. BILLYE: I take my place and rule and reign. "Don't
you touch our vehicles. Don't you touch our assets. Don't you
touch our partners. Don't you touch our moneys." GLORIA:
That's right. BILLYE: I rule and reign--because he likes to steal
your money--and he's not stealing mine. He's not stealing
the money that God has. "I command you, Satan, to release
the money that God has for us to do what you called us to do."
GLORIA: Yeah, that's good. BILLYE: And, in fact, I'm
speaking concerning a certain thing right now. And you don't
need to know about it, but he knows. GLORIA: Praise God.
BILLYE: "And I'm telling you, Satan, you get your hand off
that money and release it right now--" GLORIA: Amen. BILLYE:
"--in Jesus' name." GLORIA: Praise God. BILLYE: And then I
just tell him what he can't touch, what he can't do. And
then at the end, I praise God, maybe pray in tongues and
whatever. But you have to do it. I have a little minibook where I
show you. I usually start to--and I pray that prayer in
Ephesians, "Give unto me the spirit of revelation before I
deal with the devil." Now, maybe you don't have that kind of
time. Maybe you get up in the morning and you've got to get
those kids off to school, and you've got to go to a job. Well,
I always sit down and do it because kings sit. Usually, on
your way to the job, you're going to be riding in a car.
You're going to be riding in a commuter train or a bus, and you
can just get with it right there while you're in that car. You
can take your authority. GLORIA: Praise God. BILLYE: You're
seated right there. Maybe you're in front of a mirror, brushing
your hair, whatever. You can do it. This is not a religious
thing. This is a thing you do, and Satan has got to listen to
you. He's got to hear it, and he's got to obey you. GLORIA:
Whatever you bind is bound. Whatever you loose is loosed.
BILLYE: Matthew 18:18. GLORIA: So there you have it. BILLYE:
"It is written whatever you loose on earth--bind on earth is
bound in heaven." Heaven backs you up. Whatever you loose on
earth is loosed on--in heaven. Heaven backs you up as we bind
these forces. And the thing that just gives me great, great
blessing is, the purpose of everything, Gloria, everything,
is to give glory to God. That's the purpose of everything in
life. GLORIA: Praise God. BILLYE: "Whatever you do in word
and deed, do all to the glory of God." GLORIA: Amen. BILLYE: And
so when I rule and reign, my Father's glorified. When He sees
that I have manifested Him to those principalities and powers,
praise the Lord, it is a wonderful--wonderfully
satisfying thing to do. Bless the Lord. GLORIA: Hallelujah.
And, it works. BILLYE: There's the big thing. There's the big
thing. GLORIA: Ooh. BILLYE: He backs up, doesn't he? GLORIA: He
does. He does. He doesn't have any choice in the truth. BILLYE:
He doesn't have a choice. GLORIA: If you do that in faith,
he has no-- BILLYE: He has no choice. GLORIA: The devil has no
choice. Jesus Himself said, "Whatever you bind is bound,"
and you stand on that. "Whatever you loose is loosed." Well, if
you can't fix it by binding it, loose it. That's the way we
live. It works. Make a habit of it. You've got to take time to
spend with the Lord, get in agreement with
what He says. Billye and I'll be right back.
ANNOUNCER: We hope you enjoyed today's teaching from Kenneth
Copeland Ministries. And remember Jesus is Lord.
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