Jesus--Name Above All Names: Releasing His Anointing in Your Life by Joyce Meyer Page A

you speak that wonderful Name, it will go forth and do what needs to be done. You will begin to experience the breakthroughs you have been waiting for in your life and in the lives of others!
    God bless you as you receive this word from the Lord about the power of Jesus’ Name— the Name above all names.

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    T HERE'S P OWER IN THE N AME!
    And [so that you can know and understand] what is the immeasurable and unlimited and surpassing greatness of His power in and for us who believe….
    Ephesians 1:19
    Imagine what it would be like to have so much power that your circumstances could not defeat you—power so great that its strength, its force cannot even be measured. In this passage, the apostle Paul tells us that is exactly what is available to us through Jesus.
    Many people want to experience that kind of power in their lives, but they don't understand how to release it. An important key to releasing that power is speaking the Name in faith.
    The Bible says that Jesus has a Name that is above every other Name, that it is the highest Name, the most powerful Name in heaven and in earth—and His Name has been given to us. All we have to do is believe.
    What do we believe?
    In John 20:31 we read,…
believe that Jesus is the Christ (the Anointed One), the Son of God, and that through believing and cleaving to and trusting and relying upon Him you may have life through (in) His Name [through Who He is].
    When we believe in Jesus, develop a personal relationship with Him and pray in His Name, God's power becomes accessible to us.
    We receive everything God has provided for us in Jesus through faith in that Name –continual love, peace, joy, healing, prosperity, security, strength to be more than a conqueror in any situation and power to turn our circumstances around.
    Think about that for a moment. When we become children of God, everything in that Name belongs to us.
    Clueless and Powerless
    My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge…
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    Hosea 4:6
    Millions of people—including Christians—have no clue about the tremendous power that is found in the Name.
    I know that is true because I used to be one of them.
    I was a Christian for many years who went to church every week, sometimes several times a week, was on the board of my church and part of an evangelism team, whose husband was an elder in that same church. But I had no clue about the power in the Name of Jesus.
    Like many, if not most, Christians today, I was powerless because I was clueless.
    Oh, I “used” the Name of Jesus. I tacked it onto the end of my prayers like I had been taught. But I had no idea what I was doing. So I lived a powerless Christian life. I was powerless to bring about any real change in my life or in the lives of my family and others.
    Do you know that you can live a Christian life and still live one without power?
    Sad to say, there are probably more Christians living powerless lives than there are Christians living powerful lives. But that is not the way God intended it to be. That was not the way it was in the beginning of the church.
    The Power of the Early Church
    And with great strength and ability and power the apostles delivered their testimony to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus.…
    Acts 4:33
    Why were there so many dynamic things happening in the early church?
    Why is it that we read in the book of Acts about people being healed, demons being cast out and breakthroughs occurring in many people's lives?
    Why were the early Christians able to perform so many miracles, signs and wonders?
    The early Christians knew the power that was in the Name of Jesus, and they used that Name on a regular basis in the way God intended it should be used. (As we will see later, there is a way it should not be used).
    When the apostle Peter used the Name to pray for a man who had been lame since birth, the man was healed. (Acts 3:1-8.)
    Phillip preached to large crowds of people about the kingdom of God and the Name, and…
as Phillip preached