Main Summary: Jesus gave every believer the legal right to use His name as Power of Attorney. In “The Wonderful Name of Jesus by E.W Kenyon“ the author teaches that this name carries all His authority to heal the sick, cast out demons, and answer prayer. The early church used it with stunning results, and you can too.
Lessons You’ll Learn From This Post
- Legal Right to Use the Name
- How He Obtained His Name
- What Backs the Name
- The Use of the Name
- In My Name Ye Shall Cast Out Demons
- Man and Miracles
- The Place of Faith in the Use of the Name
- The Name in the Gospels
- The Book of Acts
Also read The Name of Jesus by Kenneth Hagin [Summary]
When we pray in Jesus’ Name, it is as though Jesus Himself were doing the praying- He takes our place.
Legal Right to Use the Name
● The author believes the early disciples possessed a power that is utterly strange to today’s church, and this power should belong to all believers.
● A lawyer confirmed that if language meant anything, Jesus gave the church His Power of Attorney, the legal right to use His Name.
● The value of this Power of Attorney depends entirely on how much power and authority the Name of Jesus represents.
● Jesus not only gives us the use of His Name but declares that a prayer prayed in His Name will receive His special attention.
● When we pray in Jesus’ Name, He endorses that prayer, and the Father gives it to us.
● Praying in Jesus’ Name places prayer on a purely legal basis and passes the responsibility from us to Jesus.
● When we pray in Jesus’ Name, Jesus takes our place before the Father, and we take His place on earth to carry out His will.
● All authority in heaven and earth has been given to Jesus, and He is with us in the power and authority of His Name.
● The Father knows all that the Name implies when breathed in prayer, and it is His joy to recognize that Name.
● Jesus giving us the use of His Name is like giving the church a signed check on the resources of heaven and asking us to fill it in.
That Name is to take His place. All that He could do locally then can be done locally now by every believer.
How He Obtained His Name
● Jesus is great for three reasons: He inherited a great Name, He made His Name great through achievements, and a great Name was conferred upon Him.
● God spoke through men of old, but in these last days He speaks unto us in the person of His Son.
● Jesus is the outshining of God’s very glory and the exact image of His substance.
● After making purification for sins, Jesus sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on High, the highest seat in the universe.
● In Hebrews, we learn that Jesus inherited a more excellent Name than any angelic being.
● In Philippians, we learn God gave Him the Name which is above every name.
● At the Name of Jesus, every knee shall bow in the three worlds: heaven, earth, and under the earth.
● God raised Jesus from the dead and seated Him at His right hand, far above all rule, authority, power, and dominion.
● God made Jesus Head over all things for the benefit of His Church, which is His body.
● God made this investment of power and authority for the church to draw upon for every need.
● Jesus despoiled principalities and powers, triumphing over them openly in His conquest before He rose from the dead.
● Jesus grappled with Satan, conquered him, and left him paralyzed, whipped, and defeated.
● When Christ rose, He not only had the keys of death and hell but also the very armor in which Satan trusted.
● All the authority and power Jesus gained by His mighty conquest is in His Name, and He has given that Name to us.
● The authority Jesus won is delegated to us in the use of His Name.
● Jesus gave His Name to us so that we might carry out the Father’s will in this present age.
● The early church used this authority and wrought miracles, which opened doors for ministry and service.
● Jesus promised that whatsoever we ask in His Name, He will do, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son.
● The right to use the Name comes with the new birth and does not require special faith to activate.
● All that Jesus was, His Name is; all that Jesus was, that Name will ever be during this dispensation.
● The Name of Jesus has lost none of the power of the Man who bore it.
● Satan is paralyzed and stripped of his armor by the Lord Jesus, and disease and sickness are servants of this Man.
● The centurion understood that Jesus had authority over disease and sickness just as he had authority over his soldiers.
Also read The Believers Authority by Kenneth Hagin [Summary]
To say He was but a good man is an insult. To say that He was the highest expression of Deity in humanity is to throw the lie into His face.
What Backs the Name
● There has never been a more intense battle over the deity of the Man of Galilee than is being waged today.
● The deity of the Man of Galilee is the crux of Christianity.
● If the deity of Jesus can be successfully challenged, then Christianity has lost its heart and will cease to function as a living religion.
● If Jesus is not a deity, then He is not Lord, and He cannot interfere with our moral activities.
● If Jesus is not Lord, then the laws founded upon His teachings have lost their force.
● If Jesus of Nazareth is not a revelation from God with divine authority, then He is merely a man.
● Modern civilization has been built around this Man, and He has been built into civilization.
● Jesus has been the inspiration for young men to keep themselves clean and pure.
● Young women have looked upon the face of the Man of Galilee and pledged to preserve the purity of their womanhood.
● Children have been incited to obedience and purity by the example and teachings of Jesus.
● Businessmen have been deterred from crooked dealings by the consciousness that one day they will meet that Man.
● To say Jesus was merely a good man is an insult.
● To say He was only the highest expression of deity in humanity is to throw a lie into His face.
● Jesus either is or is not what He said He was.
● If we challenge one of the four Gospels, we have the right to challenge all of them.
● Skepticism holds no guarantee for our future.
● The wave of crime and lawlessness sweeping over the land is a by-product of the modernists’ challenge to His integrity.
The Name ‘Jesus’ is inseparably connected with salvation. The very Name is filled with music to a repentant soul.
The Use of the Name
● The name “Jesus” is inseparably connected with salvation and is filled with music to a repentant soul.
● There is no other name under heaven given among men whereby we must be saved.
● Believers are baptized into the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
● On the ground of the name, we shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
● Jesus promised that whatsoever we ask in His name, He will do so that the Father may be glorified in the Son.
● Peter said to the lame man at the Beautiful Gate, “In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, walk.”
● Paul cast a demon out of a possessed girl using the name of Jesus, setting her free.
● Where two or three are gathered together in His name, Jesus is in the midst of them.
● The early church assemblies gathered about the name of Jesus as the center around which everything revolved.
● In that name, the sick were healed, demons were cast out, and the Holy Spirit came upon believers.
● Believers were taught to do all things in the name of Jesus.
● Believers were taught to give thanks always for all things in that name.
● Believers were washed, sanctified, and justified in the name of the Lord Jesus.
● The new commandment was that believers love one another and believe in the name of His Son, Jesus Christ.
● The name of Jesus touched every phase of early church life, filling a place in their thought, prayer, and preaching that is utterly unknown today.
Also read A Better Way to Pray by Andrew Wommack [Summary] Pt1
The more quickly we recognize that the very air about us is filled with hostile forces, who are attempting to destroy our fellowship with the Father, the better it will be for us.
In My Name Ye Shall Cast Out Demons
● Most readers know what they own financially, but in the spiritual world, few know what their deed in Christ covers.
● Jesus said as He left the disciples, “In My Name ye shall cast out demons.”
● A large part of Jesus’ ministry was filled with combat against the unseen hosts of darkness.
● Demons have not gone out of existence, despite what much modern religious literature and preaching suggests.
● The Scripture teaches a great deal about demons, their habits, influence, and power over men.
● Our combat is not against flesh and blood but against principalities, powers, and world-rulers of this darkness.
● A hidden, intelligent force is warring against the purpose of God.
● Many people cannot accept Jesus as Saviour because they are held by the power of demons.
● The author commanded an unseen power to be broken over a person in the name of Jesus, and instantly that person was delivered.
● Many people have said, “I cannot become a Christian. I want to, but something holds me.”
● In the name of Jesus of Nazareth, the author commands the power that holds people to be broken, and they are set free.
● Men held by habits of tobacco, liquor, and lusts have been delivered instantaneously in the mighty name of Jesus.
● Christians who were unable to testify or pray in public meetings have received immediate deliverance when the power was commanded to be broken in Jesus’ name.
● A woman who was almost blind was healed by the power of the name of Jesus and can now read without glasses.
● Many people find it difficult to receive their healing because they are bound by demonic power.
● Believers cannot be in a place of continual victory unless they recognize that the source of their danger lies in demoniacal power.
● The power to conquer demons is in the name of Jesus of Nazareth, the Son of God.
● The very air about us is filled with hostile forces attempting to destroy our fellowship with the Father.
● Three things are necessary to take deliverance over demons: we must be children of God, have no unconfessed sin, and know the power of the name of Jesus.
● When we pray in Jesus’ name, we are taking Christ’s place and acting as His representatives on earth.
● The believer’s position in Christ gives him the same standing with the Father that Christ had when He was here.
● Peter did not stop to pray for the sick; he simply said, “In Jesus’ name, rise and walk.”
● The early church did not argue or analyze; they simply acted on the words of Jesus.
● This supernatural power is available to every believer, regardless of education or ordination.
The miracle realm is man’s natural realm- he is by creation the companion of the miracle-working Father-God.”
Man and Miracles
● The very name of Jesus has miracle-working power within it even to this day, nearly two thousand years later.
● Jesus was a miracle worker, and His life, wisdom, teachings, death, resurrection, and ascension were all miraculous.
● The most outstanding miracle of those wonder days was the event of Pentecost.
● Peter, who shrank in fear fifty days before, now goes out and faces the Sanhedrin with courage that amazes us.
● A stream of miracles flowed from the apostles that upset Judaism and shook the Roman government to its foundation.
● The sick were healed, the dead were raised, and demons were cast out by simply breathing the name of Jesus over the afflicted ones.
● Christianity began in miracles and is propagated by miracles.
● Every new birth is a miracle, every answer to prayer is a miracle, and every victory over temptation is a miracle.
● When reason takes the place of the miraculous, Christianity loses its virility, fascination, and fruitfulness.
● Christianity is not a religion; Christianity is the life of God in man.
● Man craves a miracle-working God today and wants a living God.
● God created man in His own image and allows him, through Jesus Christ, to become a partaker of His own nature.
● The answer to the universal craving of man for the supernatural is found in the new birth, the indwelling presence of the Holy Spirit, and the name of Jesus.
● Miracles are not out of harmony with the desire of humanity.
● Education does not eliminate the desire for the miraculous in man; it intensifies it.
● The Bible is a record of miracles and divine interventions throughout its history.
● Abraham, Joseph, Moses, and all the major characters of the Old Testament had God work miracles through them.
● The crossing of the Red Sea and the forty years in the wilderness were a series of miracles unparalleled in human history.
● When miracles ended, Israel lapsed into heathenism.
● When Jesus began His public ministry, it was a ministry of miracles.
● When the Church began her ministry, it was a ministry of miracles.
● Every revival since Pentecost that has honored Jesus has been a revival of miracles.
● All normal men crave the supernatural and long to see the manifestation of the power of God.
● Man was created by a miracle-working God, and that miracle element is still in man.
● The miracle realm is man’s natural realm; he is by creation the companion of the miracle-working Father-God.
● Sin dethroned man from the miracle realm, but through grace, he is coming into his own.
● Sin dethroned the spirit and crowned the intellect, but grace is restoring the spirit to its place of dominion.
● When man recognizes the dominance of his spirit, he will live in the realm of the supernatural without effort.
The greatest need of the hour is not more faith but more knowledge that will produce an unconscious faith in our great, loving Father-God.
The Place of Faith in the Use of the Name
● Nowhere does Jesus mention faith or belief when talking about using His name except in the future tense.
● Only believers have the right to use the name of Jesus, and this right is a conferred blessing to the church.
● We have a fourfold right to use the name: we are born into God’s family, baptized into the name, given the Power of Attorney by Jesus, and commissioned as ambassadors.
● Using the name of Jesus does not require any special faith because it is legally ours.
● If you have a thousand dollars in the bank, it does not require a conscious act of faith to write a check for one hundred dollars.
● The finished work of Jesus Christ has made a deposit for us in heaven that cannot be overdrawn.
● If you are a child of God, you have a right to use the name of Jesus because of your place in the family.
● Jesus is in that name, and He is that name.
● All He was, all He did, all He is, and all He ever will be is in that name now.
● He wrought healing for us, and He is healing for us now.
● When Jesus gave us the right to use His name to heal the sick, He wanted the afflicted one to know that the living, healing Christ was present.
● Believing becomes unnecessary in the modern sense of that term because healing is already ours.
● That name makes healing available to us, so do not try or struggle, just use it.
● Use that name with the same freedom you use your checkbook.
● When a sinner accepts Christ, he receives the same legal rights before the Father that Jesus has.
● We are raised together with Christ and seated in the heavenly places in Him.
● We are as free from sin and sickness as Jesus was when He rose from the dead.
● The moment you confess your sins, God is faithful and righteous to forgive you.
● The moment you confess that Satan has put a disease upon you, God is faithful and righteous to heal you.
● Unbelief is a challenge to the integrity of God.
● The greatest need of the hour is not more faith but more knowledge that produces unconscious faith in our loving Father-God.
● Christianity is a confession, and our faith is gauged by our confession.
● We never believe beyond our confession.
● Every time we confess weakness, failure, doubt, and fear, we go to the level of them.
● Your confession must absolutely agree with the Word of God.
● It is easy to destroy the effect of your prayer by a negative confession.
The Name of Jesus has been the only Name that would stop wars between nations. That Name bears within it love, life, light, liberty, joy.”
The Name in the Gospels
● Mary was told to call His name Jesus, for He shall save His people from their sins.
● That name has grown until today it fills the whole earth.
● That name means justice, love, righteousness, civilization, invention, discovery, art, literature, music, health, happiness, and home.
● Immanuel means “God with us,” referring to the incarnate One.
● Jesus knew that men would love His name enough to die for it and hate it enough to commit murder because of it.
● The name of Jesus has been the only name that would stop wars between nations.
● For the first time in human history, little children have a friend, and they can be received in His name.
● Where two or three are gathered together in His name, Jesus is in the midst of them.
● Jesus knew false teachers and impostors would come in His name, and He warned the church of this danger.
● The Great Commission commands baptizing disciples into the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
● Men were casting out demons and healing the sick in the name of Jesus even before His death, resurrection, and ascension.
● Jesus specifies that in His name believers shall cast out demons, speak with new tongues, take up serpents, drink deadly things without harm, and lay hands on the sick for recovery.
● The Greek text means “the believing ones” shall lay hands on the sick, which includes every child of God.
● Jesus said, “Lo, I am with you always unto the end of the age,” and giving us the use of His name is His method of being present today.
● God never intended any change in the methods or ministry down through the ages.
● The miraculous element enfolded in the name of Jesus should be the means of opening closed doors to the church everywhere.
● Receiving a little child in His name is equivalent to receiving Jesus Himself.
● Jesus told John not to forbid someone casting out demons in His name, even if that person did not follow with them.
● The disciples returned with joy, saying, “Lord, even the demons are subject unto us in Thy name.”
● Repentance and remission of sins are to be preached in His name to all nations, beginning from Jerusalem.
● When Philip preached the kingdom of God and the name of Jesus, people were led to accept Christ.
● Salvation comes by believing in His name.
● As a sinner, we believe in the name; as a believer, we are baptized into it, and then we walk and live in the name.
● Judgment comes to man because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
● Jesus gave His disciples the unique privilege of praying in His name, which no man had ever been taught before.
● Jesus is seated at the Father’s right hand to endorse our petitions when they come to the Father in His name.
● John 16:23-24 is the Great Charter Promise in the name of Christ.
● If we are children of God, all that is in that name belongs to us, regardless of our worthiness.
The Name of Jesus actually took the place of the Ascended Lord; wherever Jesus would have been glorified by His personal presence, that Name took His place.
The Book of Acts
● Peter told the three thousand on the day of Pentecost to repent and be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins.
● To be baptized into that name was to put on that name and bear its stigma among their fellows.
● The first public miracle in the name of Jesus occurred at the Beautiful Gate of the temple.
● Peter said to the cripple, “Silver and gold have I none, but what I have, that give I thee. In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, walk.”
● The man’s ankles that had been useless from babyhood were filled with the strength of manhood.
● Peter declared that on the ground of faith in His name, His name had made the man strong.
● This miracle created such a sensation that the disciples were arrested and put in jail.
● The number of disciples increased to about five thousand as a result of this miracle.
● Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, told the Sanhedrin that in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom they crucified and God raised from the dead, this man stood before them whole.
● Peter declared there is no other name under heaven given among men whereby we must be saved.
● The Sanhedrin admitted that a notable miracle had been wrought, and they could not deny it.
● The council charged the disciples not to speak or teach at all in the name of Jesus.
● The disciples prayed that God would grant them boldness and that signs and wonders would be done through the name of His holy child, Jesus.
● The place where they prayed was shaken, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit.
● By the hands of the apostles, many signs and wonders were wrought among the people.
● The sick and those vexed with unclean spirits were brought from cities around Jerusalem, and they were healed every one.
● The high priest asked the disciples, “Did we not straightly charge you not to teach in this name?”
● The disciples departed from the council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer dishonor for the name.
● Philip preached the kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ in Samaria, and both men and women were baptized.
● The early church devoted time to instructing people regarding the use of the name of Jesus.
● Paul was a chosen vessel to bear the name of Jesus before Gentiles, kings, and the children of Israel.
● The name of Jesus was in Paul’s hands what the rod was in the hand of Moses.
● If the Gentiles and Jews could stop the church from using the name of Jesus, they would rob the church of its supernatural power.
● The modern church, having lost the power of the name of Jesus, is reduced to the position of a shaved Samson.
● The Gentile church is a people taken out of the world unto the name of Jesus.
● When believers meet as an assembly or church, they are gathered about the name of Jesus.
● Paul commanded a spirit of divination to come out of a girl in the name of Jesus Christ, and it came out that very hour.
● The same name that liberated the girl from the power of the demon led the jailer to salvation.
● God wrought special miracles by the hands of Paul so that handkerchiefs and aprons from his body healed the sick and cast out evil spirits.
● The seven sons of Sceva tried to use the name of Jesus, but the evil spirit said, “Jesus I know, and Paul I know, but who are ye?”
● The man with the evil spirit leaped on them, mastered them, and they fled naked and wounded.
● When this became known, fear fell upon all, and the name of the Lord Jesus was magnified.
● Paul confessed that he once thought he ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth.
● The name of Jesus actually took the place of the ascended Lord wherever Jesus would have been glorified by His personal presence.
● That name has lost none of its authority or power.
● The name of Jesus belongs to believers now; it is their legal right.
In conclusion, you now know that Jesus gave you His name as your legal right. Do not just read about it. Begin using it today. Lay hands on the sick, command your mountain to move, and watch God work through you.
Finally, here is a question we’d love you to answer.
What would change in your life today if you truly knew you had the legal right to use Jesus’ name against every sickness and fear?
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