"A Call to Arms"

     This "Call to Arms" isn't about guns and weapons, but prayer, God's Word and the Authority given to believers through Jesus Christ and the new birth.  We've said so much about Adam and how he turned the Blessing into the Curse and delivered all of his inheritance over to the enemy.  God's Church has done the very same thing. 

     God gave me a message titled "Return to Eden," several years ago.  God gave the First Adam complete dominion and authority over the earth and everything in it.  The Garden of Eden wasn't just a small portion at the edge of Creation.  It was all of the things the Father had created on and in this planet called Earth.

     Things aren't out of order here because of politics, but because the Church isn't doing our job.  The Last Adam Jesus took back everything the First Adam gave away and delivered it back to the family of God, to which it had been given.  We've done the very thing Adam did, in relinquishing this authority over to the enemy.  Matt.28:18(Amp) says, "Jesus approached and breaking the silence, said to them, "All authority, all power of rule, in Heaven and on earth has been given to Me."  Jesus prayed in Matt.6:10(Amp), saying, "Your Kingdom come. Your will be done on earth as it is in Heaven."  He instructed His followers to pray and believe in this manner.

     Through Jesus and the Power of His Name, which has been given to us, we're to walk in His Authority and have dominion over the earth, like God intended from the beginning.  We were born of the seed of the First Adam into sin, death and bondage, but we were born again by the Seed (Jesus, the Word) into Righteousness.  We're once again the children of God, born into His dominion again.

     In Eph.6:10-19(Amp), Paul tells us that we're "the Redeemed of the Lord, who have Spiritual weapons, against our spiritual enemy."  Through Jesus, we've gained back the Authority and dominion God gave the First Adam.  Will we stand in this Authority or like the First Adam, give it over into the hands of satan and lawlessness?

     We've prayed for the Blessing to come upon us, when it came upon us when we were born-again and became new creations through Jesus Christ.  We're to be a Blessing to others, by the Power of Jesus' Name and we're to hold back the enemy, from others and ourselves.  The only power satan has over the Church, is the same power he had with the First Adam, which is the power of deception.  If we know the Lord, God's Word and His Spirit, then it will be difficult to be deceived.  The unsaved, the world, don't have the knowledge and the Name of Jesus to use against the enemy, so we're to hold the enemy back for them.

     We can speak Light into the darkness that has "blinded their eyes" to the Glory of the Gospel.  1Cor.4:4(Amp) says that we're "called to be Light and salt to the earth and the people."  The Church is called to be "a city high on a hill, to give Light to the world."  Why do we tolerate the ungodly ruling and reigning over us, taking our God-given nation into a Sodom and Gomorrah?  God didn't instruct only preachers to pray, but He called all who are born-again into full-time ministry, in Eph.4:12-13.

     Jesus said in Matt.18:18,10(Amp), "Truly I tell you, whatever you forbid and declare to be improper and unlawful on earth must be what i already forbidden in Heaven, and whatever you permit and declare proper and lawful on earth must be what is already permitted in Heaven."  Jesus spoke about the children and little ones, saying, "Their angels always look upon the Face of the Father," in Verse10, where He says, "Beware that you do not despise or feel scornful towards or think little of one of these little ones."  Do you suppose that the things occurring in our school systems with our "little ones" is what is already declared "forbidden in Heaven?"  Do you believe that we have a lawful right and the authority to bind these unclean spirits in Jesus' Name?  Why then, have we allowed these unclean things to be in our schools and government?  Like the First Adam, we've given away the Authority given to us through Jesus Christ, because we've been deceived by the enemy and the world.

     This is a call to arms to God's Church.  We must stop the work of the enemy that Jesus defeated for us, when He restored us back into Authority.  We are to "Pray and having done all to stand, stand therefore," according to Eph.6:13-14(Amp).