Free Jesus--Name Above All Names: Releasing His Anointing in Your Life by Joyce Meyer Page B

it, they were baptized, both men and women
(Acts 8:12).
    Paul used the Name when he commanded a demon to come out of a woman who was…
possessed by a spirit of divination [claiming to foretell future events.…]
…. Immediately the spirit came out, and she was set free. (See Acts 16:16-18.)
    It is obvious that these early disciples understood the power in the Name of Jesus, and they knew how to use that power to receive His blessings and bless others.
    Power in the Name to Save
    …stretch out Your hand to cure and to perform signs and wonders through the authority and by the power of the name of Your holy Child and Servant Jesus.
    Acts 4:30
    From this passage we can see there is power in the Name of Jesus for times of crisis and power to perform signs and wonders like healing the sick and casting out demons. The Word of God also reveals to us that there is power to save anyone who calls upon that Name. (Acts 2:21.)
    The Bible says there is salvation in the Name of Jesus and that there is no salvation in any other name except that Name. (Acts 4:12.)
    Salvation simply means believing in the Name of Jesus and making a decision to place your faith in Him. (If you have never done that before, and you would like to, there is a prayer you can pray at the end of this book).
    In Colossians 2:9 we read: For
in Him the whole fullness of Deity (the Godhead) continues to dwell in bodily form [giving complete expression of the divine nature].
    Then in verse 10 we are told:
And you are in Him, made full and having come to fullness of life [in Christ you too are filled with the Godhead—Father, Son and Holy Spirit—and reach full spiritual stature]. And He is the Head of all rule and authority.…
    Get hold of that. All the power of God has been invested in the Name of Jesus, and that Name has been given to the church.
    Wow!
    His glorious Name is powerful. In order to release that power, as I discuss later in the book, faith is required. If we are seeing very little power manifested in our daily lives, we lack faith in the Name.
    I can go around saying “in Jesus’ Name,” can pray “in Jesus’ Name” and can even rebuke demons “in Jesus’ Name,” but if I am not really releasing faith when I pray and speak in that Name, I will not get the results I would if my faith were stirred up.
    The Name As a Spiritual Weapon
    For the weapons of our warfare are not physical [weapons of flesh and blood], but they are mighty before God for the overthrow and destruction of strongholds.
    2 Corinthians 10:4
    I believe the reason God wants to stir up powerful men and women today is because we are engaged in a war, a spiritual war…
against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places
(Ephesians 6:12 KJV).
    This war cannot be fought in the natural, carnal world. The devil and his demons are our enemy, and we can only fight against them in the spiritual realm with spiritual weapons.
    As the
King James Version
of 2 Corinthians 10:4 tells us,…
the weapons of our warfare are not carnal [or “natural”], but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds
[things that hold us in bondage].…
    One of the most powerful spiritual weapons God has given us to use is the Name of Jesus. (See Luke 10:17.) It is a spiritual warhead.
    According to Your Faith Be It Done to You
    As Jesus passed on from there, two blind men followed Him, shouting loudly, Have pity and mercy on us, Son of David!
    When He reached the house and went in, the blind men came to Him, and Jesus said to them, Do you believe that I am able to do this? They said to Him, Yes, Lord.
    Then He touched their eyes, saying, According to your faith and trust and reliance [on the power invested in Me] be it done to you;
    And their eyes were opened.
…
    Matthew 9:27-30
    I know about the power in the Name of Jesus. I have been praying and preaching in that Name for more than twenty years. But God visited me