10,000 Times 10,000

Please don’t try to make a doctrine out of this. It is a spiritual principle, and not intended to be an exegetical study.

I was in a prayer meet most of the day last Saturday with some of the leaders of the Business Men’s Fellowship. Most of the day we had twelve men in constant prayer to seek God’s direction for the ministry. Twelve was also a significant number to Jesus. Though He had many disciples, He specifically called out twelve. What was the point of twelve? This Scripture came to my remembrance.

“How should one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, except their Rock had sold them, and the LORD had shut them up?” Deuteronomy 32:30

I recognize that this passage refers to the favor of the armies of Israel against their enemies. But I have often found that Old Testament physical warfare has correlations to New Testament spiritual warfare. One Israelite warrior had tremendous favor on the battlefield against the enemies of the Lord. So what did that have to do with Jesus ordaining twelve with apostolic authority. I’m no “math wiz”, so bear with me. It seems the favor increases ten times with each warrior, etc.

Then it hit me …
1 vs 1,000
2 vs 10,000
3 vs 100,000
4 vs 1 Million
5 vs 10,000,000
6 vs 100,000,000
7 vs 1 Billion
8 vs 10,000,000,000
9 vs 100,000,000,000
10 vs 1 Trillion
11 vs 10,000,000,000,000
12 vs 100 TRILLION

I have no idea how many godly angels or fallen demonic spirits exist in the kingdom of God. John the Revelator said, “And I beheld, and I heard the voice of many angels round about the throne and the beasts and the elders: and the number of them was ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands” (Revelation 5:11). That number alone looks like 100 million and then some.

In prayerful authority we walk in spiritual power over the forces of darkness! Jesus told these same disciples, “Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you” (Luke 10:19). We really don’t need a mathematical formula to realize that just a room full of Spirit filled believers who come together to pray in faith and agreement with the Lord’s will, do so in authority over ALL spiritual forces! But the shear numbers gave me a vivid picture of what ALL really means. The theory (not doctrine) is that Jesus called out 12, because 12 possessed total domination over any, every and all spiritual powers. It only took 12. Twelve was enough. If this is true, then the principle is unchanged for us in our day. We must gather to pray! As the National Day of Prayer approaches on Thursday May 7, let us put into perspective, the power of prayer to affect the will of God in the earth! Let us pray!

Two Kinds of Storms

Jesus said, "Peace be still." Those words in the midst of that tempestuous moment must have calmed more than the wind and the waves. Albert Barnes puts in this way, "There is something exceedingly authoritative and majestic in this command of our Lord. Standing amidst the howling tempest, on the heaving sea, and in the darkness of the night, by his own power he stills the waves, and bids the storm subside. None but the God of the storms and the billows could awe, by a word, the troubled elements, and send a universal peace and stillness among the winds and waves. He must, therefore, be Divine." Words can have their meanings and definitions, but when the "Word made Flesh" speaks with such commanding authority, all of the kingdom must bow, in heaven, on earth and under the earth. Light and darkness stand at attention. Even so must the very fear and anxiety within us bow to the calming command of the One who set the very stars in their places, and ordered the sun to rule the day, and the darkness to rule the night. In one moment Peter and the other disciple are questioning if the Master even cares for their well being as the stormy sea batters the little boat and slaps them coldly in the face. In the next moment another kind of chill shuddered their souls as their sea of doubt turns to humble tranquil surrender in the wake of the absolute Lordship of Christ...:

People's New Testament Commentary adds, "Such an astounding display of power, the control of the storm in which men are as helpless as infants, filled them with awe. What manner of being could he be whom storm, wind, and sea obeyed? They had not yet learned that the word which the sea obeyed was the word in obedience to which the world itself was made." Is it any wonder that these same fear filled disciple burst out of that upper room on that great day of Pentecost as the men who "turned the world upside down?" This same Jesus, who arrested the wind and the waves on that day, is the very same Spirit of Christ who released the rushing mighty wind that filled the place where they were sitting, with cloven tongues of fire that consumed their timidity and turned them into the Apostles of the New Covenant!

In our past, we have lived in the bondages of fear, anxiety, timidity and doubt. We have now been empowered by the same Holy Spirit who enables us to break free from the controlling influences of our past, and go forth, living the rest of our lives in power and love and a sound mind of the Spirit of peace! Jesus in the Prince of peace! Jesus is the King of kings, and the Lord of lords! He is Lord of all, and He is Lord of the storms of my life!

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