THE SUPERNATURAL KEY

John 16:23: “And in that day ye shall ask me nothing. Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my name, he will give it you.” Jesus gave us the right and the authority to use His Name in prayer. He gave us the authority to use His Name. He gave it to us. We now have that right. He said, “. . . In my name shall they cast out devils. ..” (Mark 16:17). We have a right to use that Name against the devil. Thank God, that Name has authority. We have the right to use that Name to call out demons that bind men’s souls with darkness and disease.

When you go to your automobile, you have a key that unlocks the door. You say that you unlock the door, but really you don’t unlock the door: the key does it. You also have a key that fits the ignition. Ordinarily, you couldn’t start the car if you didn’t have a key. Again, you don’t actually start the car; the key does it. The key is the important factor to the entire process of unlocking and starting your car. I began to look at the authority in the Name of Jesus from this standpoint. In other words, I’m not the one who is going to cast out any devils. I don’t have any authority in myself, in the natural. But Jesus gave me the key to all the authority I would ever need – and it’s in His Name.

Jesus’ Name is the key! His Name has the authority! All I have to do is use the key, and the key does the work. This alleviated the fear I had. I was able to use the Name because the Name is the key, and the Name works!

Meditation on the Word Brings Light

Let me encourage you to meditate on the Word after you have studied it. Your spirit can be educated and trained. But just because you read the Word of God doesn’t mean your spirit is educated. You can read the Bible and not understand what you’re reading, and it won’t mean a thing to you. The Word has to get down on the inside of you, in your heart or spirit.

You get the revelation of the Word in your heart by meditating on it. When I was nineteen or twenty years old, I heard talk about Einstein’s theory of relativity. I decided I would read it, since I’d heard so much about it. Before I read it, I didn’t know a thing in the world about it. When I finished reading it, I knew less than I had before I read it!

I think sometimes that’s the way it is with people who read the Word of God. They know less when they finish reading it than they did when they began. They’re trying to grasp the truth of God’s Word with their minds. But you have to get the revelation of God’s Word in your heart.

After studying the Word, I would then shut my eyes and begin to meditate on the Word and just think about the scriptures I had been reading and studying. I’ve had a number of visions and revelations, but this revelation I had concerning the Name of Jesus was a revelation of the Word that any believer might have. The Holy Ghost will teach us the Word. As I meditated on the Word, on the inside of me I began to see something that I had never seen before.