Growing up as a kid, I had an older brother who grew quicker than most other boys and was intimidating.  Whenever he was around in the world of “kiddom,” it was amazing how bold my younger brother and I would become.  No one would dare mess with us, knowing he would pummel them if they did.  It gave us great confidence in those situations.

When you know God’s power, you can confidently face any situation.  You need not fear when you know His power.  Satan works in your circumstances to play down God’s power in your mind.  He looks to operate through your emotions and five senses to keep you from realizing the power of God for you.  He seeks to get you to think about the natural instead of the spiritual. By doing this, he magnifies your problem.  Remember, he roams about as a roaring lion seeking whom he “may” devour.  Scripture does not say he is a roaring lion. It says he roams about as one.  In other words, it is an act.

In the grasslands of Africa, the hyenas and jackals sometimes will prance as though they are the king of the jungle.  That is until the real lion roars!  When the Lion of the tribe of Judah roars in your circumstances, everything pretending to have authority has to go!  Your God is not needy!  He is almighty!  I am not saying He is almighty to you.  I’m saying it to whatever is against you!   There’s no circumstance greater than our God.

Another thing you need to know is that God has real integrity.  Integrity is not merely honesty; it is the ability to do whatever has been honestly promised.  It involves not speaking beyond one’s means to supply.  God can make a promise with real integrity because He has the power to supply it.

Ephesians 3:20 Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us, 21 to Him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus to all generations, forever and ever. Amen.

Did you catch what it says?  According to the power that works in us!  What power?  Christ Jesus, the head of the church who has all authority in heaven and here on earth!

Everything in God’s word has a dimension of His power to make it so.  All the promises of God are yes and amen in Christ.  God backs up His word.  So, knowing what God has said in His word is important so that you can pray and speak according to it.  God’s word activates His power.  He will not deny Himself. He will uphold His word and be true to what He has spoken!

Matthew 28:18   And Jesus came and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth. 19 Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” Amen.   

Christ has all authority on earth and in heaven!  Christ lives in you!  You are now in Christ!

1Corinthians 1:23 but we preach Christ crucified, to the Jews a stumbling block and to the Greeks foolishness, 24 but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God.

The power and wisdom of God lives in you!  Once you truly know God is all-powerful, what He has promised, and how He is for you, not against you, you will bully darkness and victimization out of your life!  Knowing this can empower you to accomplish things far greater than your own strength and ability would ever be able to do. I encourage you to consider this and allow the Holy Spirit to grow it in your heart.  Possessing these facts according to faith empowers you to intimidate your circumstances and the enemy who tries to magnify them to you.  Knowing His power breeds confidence in you!