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When Jesus delivered us from the grip of the devil, you would think that He wouldn’t ever entrust us again with authority since we blew it the first time. You would think that God might think: don’t trust humans with dominion. They don't know what to do with it. Just deliver them and keep them safe until the rapture. Don’t trust them to resist deceitful Satan. Don’t entrust them to cast out demons. The devil and his demons are cunning and deceitful.  If they could manipulate angels into deception, how much more mere humans. 

I am going to say it again, God believes in us more than we trust in Him. God is immediately trusting us again with authority. His disciples were not mature yet. In fact, they were not baptized in the Holy Spirit yet. Jesus didn’t wait for them to finish Bible school before giving them authority. The devil is powerful, but he is not all-powerful! Our enemy has power, but we have authority over all of his power through our Lord Christ Jesus. 

Satan rules over humanity because of sin, but we can rule over him because of God’s gift of righteousness and through the abundance of His grace. Dominion was first given to us at creation, and then Jesus had to restore it on the cross. We are saved by grace through faith, but we are also empowered by grace to reign in life. Many of us appropriate only enough grace to make it to heaven but have not gone for an abundance of grace to reign while here on earth. 

Believers today are like the people of  Israel who had come out of Egypt but failed to enter the promised land. We have been saved by grace, but now it’s time to be empowered by that grace to reign. If you have been delivered from the power of sin, curses and demons, it’s time to move on to walk in dominion.