3 Steps To Exercise Faith In the Name of Jesus

A friend of Kenneth Copeland called him on the phone and said, “I want you to pray for some stomach problems I’ve been having.”
He began praying for the man: “Stomach condition, be thou removed and be thou cast into the sea.” This was how he normally prayed for someone who is sick, according to Mark 11:23: “You can say to this mountain, ‘May you be lifted up and thrown into the sea,’ and it will happen. But you must really believe it will happen and have no doubt in your heart.”

Then the Spirit of God stopped Kenneth right in the middle of his prayer and prompted him to say, “And, You [God] have highly exalted Jesus and given Him a Name which is above every name (Philippians 2:9). Stomach condition is a name. I speak to you, stomach condition, and tell you that the Name of Jesus is above you. You bow your knee.”

He realized that there is NOTHING that can stand against the Name of Jesus!

Just like Brother Copeland, you can use the Name of Jesus over circumstances in your own life by following 3 Steps To Exercise Faith In the Name of Jesus.

1. Believe on the Name of Jesus

The first step to exercising faith in the Name of Jesus is believing, or having faith, in His Name. First John 3:23 says, “And this is his commandment: We must believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and love one another, just as he commanded us.”

When you were born again, you believed on the Name of Jesus. Romans 10:13 says, “For ‘Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.’” But that’s not the only time you believe on His Name. As a believer, you daily believe on His Name for healing, provision, wisdom and whatever else you need.

2. Speak to Things In the Name of Jesus

When you understand, like Kenneth did, that every name has to bow to the Name of Jesus, you can exercise your faith by speaking to those “names.” This is living by faith. You are living by the revelation you have of the Word of God, and you are exercising faith in the Name of Jesus.

Just like Brother Copeland prayed for the man with stomach problems, you can speak to those things in your life that are distressing you. Anything that has a name must bow its knee to the Name of Jesus! Poverty is a name. Arthritis is a name. Diabetes is a name. Cancer is a name.

Does that sound crazy? Whether you realize it or not, you are already talking to things. You talk to your car. You talk to signal lights. You talk to stop signs. You talk to washing machines. Throughout your life, you talk to things. You drive up to a signal light and say, “Are you ever going to change?” You may speak to your washing machine, “You no-good washing machine!”

Here’s where worldly thinking can trip you up. No one in the world thinks anything abnormal about a guy standing by the side of the road cussing at his car and kicking its tires. They think that’s perfectly normal. But many in the world think it’s unusual for someone to speak to something in the Name of Jesus.

Jesus is our example, not people in the world, and He spoke to things. When Jesus went to Peter’s home, He found Peter’s mother-in-law sick with a high fever. Everyone was begging Him to heal her. What did Jesus do? He spoke to the fever. “He rebuked the fever, and it left her” (Luke 4:39). Then she got up at once and prepared a meal for them. Put aside any religious thinking you may have. When you speak to things in the Name of Jesus, you’re not talking to God. You’re not talking to Jesus. You’re speaking to that thing (that has a name), and the Name of Jesus is above it!

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3. Experience the Power In the Name of Jesus

When Peter was at his mother-in-law’s house, he saw Jesus speak to the fever. Peter experienced the power in the Name of Jesus, and then he put into practice what he saw Jesus do.

In Acts 3, Peter prayed for a lame man in the Name of Jesus and the man began walking, leaping and praising God. The crowd of people saw this and were astounded! Peter took the opportunity to address the crowd: “Why stare at us as though we had made this man walk by our own power or godliness?… Through faith in the name of Jesus, this man was healed – and you know how crippled he was before. Faith in Jesus’ name has healed him before your very eyes” (Acts 3:12, 16).

Peter acknowledged that this man wasn’t healed because he was an apostle or because he was someone special or extra holy, as others may have thought. He explained that it was faith in the Name of Jesus that caused this lame man to walk.

Like Peter, you’ve not only been given the right to use the Name of Jesus, but you’ve been commanded to use the Name of Jesus. Anything the Bible tells you to do, you can do.

“At the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue declare that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father” (Philippians 2:10-11).

The Name of Jesus is powerful enough to handle anything. God seated Jesus “at His [own] right hand in the heavenly [places], far above all rule and authority and power and dominion and every name that is named [above every title that can be conferred], not only in this age and in this world, but also in the age and the world which are to come” (Ephesians 1:20-21, AMPC).

Everything that has a name – Jesus’ Name is above it. Every name that’s named, not only in this world but in the world to come, Jesus’ Name has been put far above it. Not barely above it – FAR above it.

Use these 3 Steps To Exercise Faith In the Name of Jesus for whatever situation you’re facing. If you have something wrong in your body, speak to that illness and tell it that there is a Name above it. If you’re experiencing financial lack, command it to get out in the Name of Jesus. If there is strife, tell it to go in Jesus’ Name. Soon, you’ll experience the power of God in your own life!