God says you are a new creation and your old mindsets have passed away. Included in this re-birth is the authority to exercise dominion over every principality and power in our sphere of responsibility.

The devil's strategy is to is to do everything he can to keep us distracted from this revelation so we don't see the truth about our authority in Christ. A distracted church is a powerless church!

That's why Paul didn't pray that God would just send down revival from heaven. He said in Ephesians chapter one that God would grant us a "spirit of wisdom and revelation" so we'd know the hope to which we were called, the riches of the glory of His inheritance in us, and the exceeding greatness of His power working in us who believe.

Instead of just sending down revival from on high, God's contending to wake us up so that we release revival from Christ within us, the hope of glory.

This sermon is number eight in a 10-part series, One Spirit. Pastor Joe McIntyre has also written a book on this topic, The Eternal Defeat of Satan. Show notes and a full transcript are at www.empoweringgrace.org/podcast38.