I Give You Authority Quotes

“When we bless people and treat them lovingly, we are using our status the way God intended.”
― Charles H. Kraft, I Give You Authority: Practicing the Authority Jesus Gave Us

“We were intended for second place. We are created “only a little lower than God” (Psalm 8:5, nlt), in the image of God Himself (Genesis 1:26). Our position at Creation (as we saw in the last chapter) was far above all created beings, including the angels—in second place in the universe. We must never forget this, for the enemy will not be content until he has blotted it out of our minds.”
― Charles H. Kraft, I Give You Authority: Practicing the Authority Jesus Gave Us

“The Spirit that God has given us does not make us timid [or fearful]; instead, his Spirit fills us with power, love, and self-control” (2 Timothy 1:7).”
― Charles H. Kraft, I Give You Authority: Practicing the Authority Jesus Gave Us

“God has set certain limitations on Himself by giving to humans and, apparently, to angels a certain amount of autonomy that we can use, if we choose, even to oppose the One who gives it to us.”
― Charles H. Kraft, I Give You Authority: Practicing the Authority Jesus Gave Us

“An important part of responsibility is to not neglect it. I wonder how often we have neglected the authority Jesus has given us by not applying His power to illness, weather, poverty or other life situations that He expects us, as His agents, to deal with? I wonder how many people Jesus heals directly because we do not participate? Worse yet, how many go unhealed because we who have been commissioned to operate in Jesus’ authority and power have neglected our responsibility?”
― Charles H. Kraft, I Give You Authority: Practicing the Authority Jesus Gave Us