Warrior Church Home Fellowship Study
Dr. Kevin Zadai 07-18-2021
Commander of Truth
Then He appointed twelve, that they might be with Him and that He might
send them out to preach, and to have power to heal
sicknesses and to cast out demons:
—Mark 3:14-15 (NLT)
The commander of life, the commander of truth is a person who drives out devils
all the time, no matter what.
~Kevin Zadai
DISCUSSION:
God has a command about Him. He has full authority. All three parts of the Godhead are bold. The Holy Spirit is an advocate and helper. The word advocate translates to the idea of a lawyer. Good lawyers push for the truth and get to the bottom of a case, just like a good judge will judge by the truth. It seems as though people get away with things on the earth, and there is injustice and corruption and unrighteousness, but remember God runs a tight ship in Heaven, and He is the commander.
When He says something, it doesn’t come back to Him void. What He speaks goes out and is accomplished. (see Isaiah 55:11) When the spirit of God comes upon you, and you say what the spirit is saying, there's a command and an authority that takes place in you. Then when you proclaim the truth of that word, it will drive out the devil, accomplishing what God shared with you to release. Jesus walked in authority and drove out devils from people. He gave that power to His disciples and to you to drive out devils in His name. All the believing ones have authority. (see Mark 16:11)
• 1 John 4:4 NLT: But you belong to God, my dear children. You have already won a victory over those people, because the Spirit who lives in you is greater than the spirit who lives in the world.
There is a greater one who lives inside you that is above all the injustice in the world. He’s above the situations you may have encountered, such as fraud or theft. God has a command about Him for every situation. When Jesus cast out devils, they left. The disciples had this authority, but they didn’t know it because of their unbelief. They eventually gained authority. There’s a strength and confidence that comes when you know the person in whom you believe, and they spent a lot of time with Jesus. Peter in Acts 4 gained a great deal of boldness because of the amount of time He spent with Jesus and getting to know Him. Part of it was in the yielding to Jesus that brought the belief. When the Holy Spirit came on the day of Pentecost and fell on the people in Acts 2, and they began speaking in tongues, it changed the dynamic and aligned everything from that point on.
o How have you experienced God’s upholding justice in your life? Give an example of how God brought breakthrough in a situation that otherwise seemed like there was no way.
AUTHORITY IN CHRIST
Often there’s a disconnection with people with what the word of God says and the realization of the word and how they receive it and believe it for themselves. It comes down to you grasping that you are a son or a daughter of God. You have authority because you're under authority. When you begin to understand that you’re the son or daughter of the King, something changes in you. If we were living at the time in the Bible and you were under a king, and the king said, go take over the city, you wouldn't think twice.
You would do it because the king would never send you to do something you could not accomplish.
It's the same thing with the word of God. Jesus sent us to heal the sick, cleanse the leper, raise the dead, and cast out demons in His name. He has given us full authority. When you're under Him as a son or a daughter, you can execute this without even blinking.
When you were a new Christian and had your first experience with a devil, and you said, “Come out,” you were hoping it came out, but the more you got around your Father God, you realized that He is enthroned in authority. When His power gets on you, you start to become as bold as a Lion.
Warrior Church Home Fellowship Study
Dr. Kevin Zadai 07-18-2021
Then the next time you see a devil, you say, “How dare you?”
Because now you're under that authority, walking in it, and executing that authority. When you know who God is, you won’t question a command He gives you.
Let’s look at Abraham, who became the father of many nations.
• Romans 4:18,19 KJV: Who against hope believed in hope, that he might become the father of many nations; according to that which was spoken, So shall thy seed be. And being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body now dead, when he was about an hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sara's womb.
Abraham staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief, but He was strong in faith, giving glory to God. He was fully persuaded that what God had promised, he was able to perform. The Lord is highlighting this for us to get to the place where we're fully persuaded that what God has promised, He is also able to perform. It was counted to Abraham as righteousness just because he believed. The moment Abraham believed is when it happened that he became a father. He had a baby at the age of 100 years old. That’s how He became the father of many nations. There are truths that God has established in Heaven that He knows and wants to come to pass.
God is commander over truth.
• He sits on the throne and enforces that truth.
• He proclaims the truth because He is truth.
• He sends the Holy Spirit, who enforces the truth.
• The Holy Spirit is the spirit of truth.
1. Discuss: What happens when God's authority and truth are not established in your life. How do you receive the authority of God in your life?
2. Do you believe that people are unknowingly committing to evil spirits because they don’t understand God’s truth? Evil spirits will always undermine God.
They come to steal, kill and destroy. God’s truth provides life and abundance.
3. How does the transference of truth occur within the groups you associate with and in your life personally?
4. Have you prayed for anyone and seen the authority and power of God take place in their life by casting out devils or through healing?
5. What are some of the misconceptions about driving devils out? How can satan convince you to believe that you need to be soft and weak by requesting demons to leave? In contrast, talk about being a commander, bold and forceful with
6. Talk about how when God's Spirit comes upon us to minister to people, we have a change in our personality, how God anoints us with an authority and command so people can encounter Him.
PRAYER:
Thank you, Father, for everyone all over the world meeting right now at Warrior Church. We just thank you, Lord, that you're building us up. You're not tearing us down. You're building us up in the unity of the faith. You're causing us to be mature all over the world. We're becoming fighting men and women of God; warriors to change this generation, to represent you on the earth.
I thank you that you're the commander of our faith. You're the commander of truth. I thank you, Holy Spirit, that you anoint us with a yoke-breaking anointing and that by that power, we can drive out devils. I drive out satan right now. I drive out the devils right now in the name of Jesus. I break the power of the enemy over the people, and I thank you, Father, that they will have Godly, very truthful discussions about the truth that you've given them. I thank you for healing. I thank you for deliverance from trauma. I thank you, Father, those discrepancies will disappear, and discouragement will disappear. I thank you, Lord, that you lift us into the throne in Jesus' name. Amen.
