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Authority to Heal

Given to the Twelve
• Matthew 10:1; Matthew 10:7-8

Given to Seventy-two Others (Not apostles)
• Luke 10:1, 9, 17-20

Philip
• Acts 8:4-8

The Great Commission
• Mark 16:15-18 Matthew 28:18-20

All Believers
• John 14:12

• Power has to do with the

to do something while authority has to do with the

to do it.
• Authority is

.
• Authority is an

 The fact you’ve been given authority is no

you’ll use it.
 Some people are

of the authority they’ve been given.
 Some people

themselves.
 Some people are unwilling to take the

.
 What feels “risky” to us is really

to God.

• Authority releases power only when we

 His power comes when we risk doing what He has

us to do.

• Jesus doesn’t tell the disciples to “

for the sick,” He tells them to “

the sick.”
• In “praying for the sick” we need to begin to

the authority of Jesus.
• When we look at Jesus’ prayers for healing three things stand out:

 Their

(they were

).
 They weren’t really “

” in the sense that Jesus was

the Father to do anything.
 Jesus

to the person or the condition, exercising and releasing the authority of the kingdom.