In this book, ‘Are you aware
of this power?’ we are to examine critically various aspects of power but to
lay more emphasis on the spiritual with respect to the bible. The spiritual controls the physical in all things. This
is an indisputable fact as it relates to human life. Life experiences have
proved this beyond all reasonable doubts.
In the society
today, people demonstrate their powers mostly when they are leaders and are
occupying vital position. They will always like to show to their followers that
they are in charge of everything. This you can easily observe by the ways they
force their followers to obey them merely to satisfy their own selfish
interest.
For instance, it is more noticeable in the family between
the husband and wife; in the school, between the headmaster / principal / vice
chancellor and their staffs. In the church, between the superintendent and the
curate; in the market, between the executives / task force and the members. In
the offices between the director / manager and the employees. Power is
demonstrated in the Motor- Park between the loaders and passengers where
passengers have no say to the kind of bus, they wish to travel with. You can
equally observe this in the barracks where senior and junior officers were living
together, also in the village where the leaders can decide what the villagers
should do and in many other places.
Certainly, people
living and working together must have problems and in order to solve their
problems, they must have rules and regulations guiding them. Therefore, they
must have leaders. Note that it is natural for human beings to battle for supremacy
and power whether consciously or unconsciously because all human beings are
political animals. Sometimes it is a spontaneous act and this is why it is
natural for one to indulge in politics.
For this reason, some people were forced from their inner
most to speak common power languages like:
◘ you must know who I am .
◘ Who are you?
◘ Who do you think you are?
◘ I will show you who I am
◘ You will see.
◘ I will deal with you.
◘ I will know you and me who is controlling this school.
◘ How much do you have?
◘ I have my connections.
But this is not the
kind of power we will discuss in this book. These are earthly or physical
powers but not spiritual. There is power that supersedes all these earthly
powers and it is power from the kingdom of God (power from heaven).
Consequently, we
are going to look into these spiritual powers:
◘ power of Creation
◘ power of Life (Eternal life) and Light
◘ power of Revelation
◘ power of Deliverance
◘ power of Resurrection
◘ power of Knowledge and Wisdom
Brethren, as you study along
with me, God must certainly and definitely open your spiritual eyes merely to
see and to become aware of these powers
He gave to you to become his son. He must give to you the spiritual strength or
the inner ability to function with these powers.