Authority - The Reward of Faithfulness

I believe this is a time that the Lord is rewarding our faithfulness from the previous season. We are about to enter into the new year on the Hebrew calendar (Sept.18 at sundown - Rosh Hashanah). I believe that the Lord is bringing certain things in our lives (personal and corporate) to completion as He shifts us into that which is before us.

Luke 19:17 - "Well done good slave. Because you have been faithful in a very little thing, be in authority over ten cities."

Pat Hodges, prophet: "God takes us from a place of faithfulness to a place of authority."

Chuck Pierce, prophet: "God is bringing us to a new level of authority. The testing we've been through has qualified us if we've pressed through to victory."

Rev.2: 26,27 - "And he who overcomes, and he who keeps My deeds until the end, to him I will give authority over the nations. And he shall rule them with a rod of iron.....as I also have received authority from My Father."

In Revelations 19:13-15 and Psalm 2:9, we see that the "rod of iron" and the Word of God/Sword of the Spirit are one and the same.

Nugget of Gold: The Lord is now promoting those who have overcome their testings and trials in this past season. This reward involves increased power and authority in the Spirit, which we are going to need for the battles ahead. Just as Jesus rules with a "rod of iron" and the "sword of the Spirit" that proceeds from His mouth, so, too, will we rule over our circumstances with the Word that we speak and decree.

Psalm 149:6-9 - "Let the high praises of God be in their mouth, and a two-edged sword in their hand, to execute vengeance on the nations, and punishment on the peoples; to bind their kings with chains and their nobles with fetters of iron (the demonic); to execute on them the judgment written. This is an honor for all his godly ones. Praise the Lord!"