This word is submitted by Teresa Seputis (ts@gospeak.org)

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                           My Authority

I have put My power and My authority and My glory within you. I do not give 
this to you that you might accomplish your own purposes, but that you might 
accomplish Mine.

I have been testing My people to see who is committed to My purposes, to 
see who will obey Me and do as I command. Some have shown Me that they 
love money more than they love My true riches.  (My riches are greater 
the release of measures of My power and anointing). Some have shown Me 
that they are ruled by the opinions of others; that pleasing man is more
important to them than pleasing Me and doing My bidding. Some have shown 
Me that they are ruled by fear and intimidation, and they are not willing
to step out in faith and obey the things I have commanded them to do.
But others have shown Me that they are committed to do My will, and those
are the ones upon whom I will release increased measures of anointing
and authority.

I am going to reposition how My power and My glory is released in My body.  
You will see this over the next few years.  Some who are in positions of 
great authority now will have to step aside as the ones that I am 
anointing start to raise up and take their rightful place.  Even the
distribution of wealth within My body is going to change, for I will
finance the ones who are actively doing My bidding, to the ones who are
moving in My power and in My authority and in My love and compassion.  I 
will release favor with government to those who will heal the sick, cast 
out demons, advance My kingdom and drive back the oppression of the enemy. 

Those of My servants who try to minister only from reason and human 
strength will find that they are loosing ground.  This is not the time 
and a season where I am advancing My kingdom through words and debate 
and human reasoning.  This is a time and a season where I am requiring
obedience and faith from My own, that they might indeed do the works that
I have given them to so.

Those of My servants who surrender completely to My will and embrace My 
purposes will be allowed to move with Me in greater measures of My power 
and anointing.  This is a time and a season where I am releasing My power 
back into My people, that they might demonstrate My glory to the nations, 
that they might win the lost unto Me and teach them My ways.  

Spiritual warfare and the enemy opposition are going to increase; the dark 
is going to grow much darker. That is why it is so important for My people 
to learn to move in My authority and demonstrate My power; I have called 
you to be a light and to shine brightly in the midst of the darkness.  I 
have destined you to do the works that I did when I walked on this earth.  
I have already put My authority in My own, but so few of them are willing 
to walk in it.  That must change.  It is time for My servants who are 
called by My name to rise up and do the works that I have given them to 
do: to heal the sick, to cast out demons and to advance My father's kingdom 
here on earth.

It is the time where I am releasing greater measures of My power and 
authority upon My church.  Are you willing to be a part of this? Will you 
give Me complete Lordship in your life and will you fully embrace My will? 
Will you obey My voice and do as I command? Will you step out in faith and 
exercise the power and authority that I have already placed within you?
As you step out in faith, the anointing will grow and you will learn to 
walk in greater and greater measures of My power and authority.  As you
obey Me, I will begin to show you more and more clearly what I am doing,
then I will empower you to do it with Me.  I have put My power and My 
authority and My glory within you to accomplish My purposes.  Now I want 
you to step out in faith and learn to walk in it.