HELEN SANDERS
12-30-2025
THE NAME OF JESUS

In and of ourselves we have very little authority in the natural realm. You may own a business and the “buck stops with you,” but that is only within your measure of influence. You have no authority over another person’s life or someone else’s life or business in the natural.

When God created Adam and Eve, He gave them authority or dominion. In Genesis 1:28 it says, “And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue [have authority] it: and have dominion [authority] over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.” This would include the serpent that came into the garden and deceived them.

When Adam rebelled and ate of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, he lost his authority or dominion that had been given to him by Jehovah God.

After sinning, Adam and Even were cast out of the Garden of Eden and lived by toil and the sweat of their brow. They no longer had dominion over anything. Yet, God promised them that one would come through the woman’s seed and crush the head of that serpent.

That one that came was Jesus. He defeated Satan by dying on the cross, being raised from the dead, and his sinless blood being placed on the altar in heaven as a payment for all mankind’s sin. He purchased back the authority given to Satan through his blood sacrifice.

We read in Matthew 28:18b that “…All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth.” When we accept Jesus as our Lord and Savior, we are given that same power through his name. Peter saw a lame man walk when he said in Acts 3:6, “…Silver and gold have I none; but such as I have give I thee: In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth rise up and walk.” Immediately that lame man went walking and leaping and praising the Lord for his miracle. Peter did not heal the lame man. God did through Peter’s using the name of Jesus.

We have that authority also. When we pray to the Father in Jesus’ name, we also see great miracles performed. It comes through faith in His Name. His name is the greatest name there is.

Philippians 2:9-11 says, “Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name: That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth; And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ Lord, to the glory of God the Father.” There is no name greater than Jesus. Use it for His glory!