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TheBeliever’sAuthoritybyAndrew WommackStudy Guide
Unless otherwise indicated, all Scripture quotations are taken from the King James Version of the Bible.The author has emphasized some words in Scripture quotations in italicized type.The Believer’s Authority Study GuideISBN: 978-1-59548-131-3Copyright 2009 by Andrew Wommack Ministries, Inc.P.O. Box 3333Colorado Springs, CO 80934-3333Printed in the United States of America. All rights reserved under International Copyright Law.Contents and/or cover may not be reproduced in whole or in part in any form without the expresswritten consent of the Publisher.
CONTENTSIntroduction. ixHow to Use Your Study Guide. xLesson 1We’re in a Spiritual Battle. 1Outline.7Teacher’s Guide.9Additional Information.11Discipleship Questions.12Answer Key.13Scriptures.14Lesson 2Whom He May Devour. 15Outline.21Teacher’s Guide.23Discipleship Questions.25Answer Key.26Scriptures.27Lesson 3Satan’s Inroads. 29Outline.33Teacher’s Guide.35Discipleship Questions.37Answer Key.38Scriptures.39Lesson 4No Wicked Thing. 41Outline.47Teacher’s Guide.49Discipleship Questions.51Answer Key.52Scriptures.53Lesson 5Unconditional Authority. 55Outline.61Teacher’s Guide.63Discipleship Questions.65Answer Key.66Scriptures.67The Believer’s Authority Study Guide
Lesson 6God of This World. 69Outline.75Teacher’s Guide.77Discipleship Questions.79Answer Key.80Scriptures.81Lesson 7Under the Umbrella. 83Outline.88Teacher’s Guide.90Additional Information.92Discipleship Questions.93Answer Key.94Scriptures.95Lesson 8Is This the One?. 97Outline.104Teacher’s Guide.106Additional Information.107Discipleship Questions.108Answer Key.109Scriptures.110Lesson 9Such as I Have.111Outline.117Teacher’s Guide.119Additional Information.120Discipleship Questions.121Answer Key.122Scriptures.123Lesson 10Command Ye Me.125Outline.130Teacher’s Guide.132Discipleship Questions.133Answer Key.134Scriptures.135Lesson 11Proclaim and Demonstrate.137Outline.142Teacher’s Guide.144Additional Information.146Discipleship Questions.147The Believer’s Authority Study Guide
Answer Key.148Scriptures.149Lesson 12Be a Witness.151Outline.157Teacher’s Guide.161Additional Information.163Discipleship Questions.164Answer Key.165Scriptures.166Lesson 13How to Pray for the Lost.169Outline.173Teacher’s Guide.175Discipleship Questions.177Answer Key.178Scriptures.179Lesson 14How Does Revival Come?.181Outline.187Teacher’s Guide.191Additional Information.193Discipleship Questions.194Answer Key.195Scriptures.196Lesson 15Believe and Receive.199Outline.205Teacher’s Guide.207Discipleship Questions.209Answer Key.210Scriptures.211Lesson 16God Has Given You Power.213Outline.219Teacher’s Guide.221Additional Information.222Discipleship Questions.223Answer Key.224Scriptures.225Lesson 17The Devil Will Flee from You.227Outline.233Teacher’s Guide.235The Believer’s Authority Study Guide
Additional Information.237Discipleship Questions.238Answer Key.239Scriptures.240Lesson 18Law Enforcement.241Outline.249Teacher’s Guide.251Discipleship Questions.253Answer Key.254Scriptures.255Lesson 19How the Power Flows.257Outline.263Teacher’s Guide.265Discipleship Questions.267Answer Key.268Scriptures.269Lesson 20Cooperate with God.271Outline.277Teacher’s Guide.279Discipleship Questions.281Answer Key.282Scriptures.283Lesson 21As You Think.285Outline.289Teacher’s Guide.291Discipleship Questions.292Answer Key.293Scriptures.294Lesson 22Honor God.297Outline.301Teacher’s Guide.303Discipleship Questions.304Answer Key.305Scriptures.306Lesson 23No New Testament Model.309Outline.315Teacher’s Guide.317Discipleship Questions.319The Believer’s Authority Study Guide
Answer Key.320Scriptures.321Lesson 24One Mediator.323Outline.329Teacher’s Guide.331Additional Information.333Discipleship Questions.334Answer Key.335Scriptures.336Lesson 25The Battle Is in Your Mind.339Outline.344Teacher’s Guide.346Discipleship Questions.347Answer Key.348Scriptures.349Lesson 26Fight to Win!.351Outline.359Teacher’s Guide.361Discipleship Questions.362Answer Key.363Scriptures.364Conclusion.367Receive Jesus as Your Savior.368Receive the Holy Spirit.369About the Author.370The Believer’s Authority Study Guide
INTRODUCTIONMost people have a humanistic view of how life works. Even though Christians don’t like thisterminology, many of them function day by day with this same mentality. By only looking on thesurface level, they don’t recognize the spirit realm behind it all.Humanists don’t acknowledge God. As a whole, they’re either agnostic or atheist—believingthat everything in life has a natural, physical cause. It’s sad to say, but many Christians havethis same attitude. They don’t realize the spiritual dynamics behind what’s happening in thephysical realm.We are in a spiritual battle! Every single day, there is a battle raging in the spirit realm for theheart of each individual person, society, and the world as a whole. God is trying to draw peopletoward Himself and righteousness. He’s trying to influence people to live consistent with Him sothat His blessings can manifest in their lives. At the same time, Satan is trying to steal their heartsaway from God. In an all-out battle against the Lord and His kingdom, the Enemy is pouring allthe trash and corruption he can into people’s lives.Most of us—even Christians—don’t recognize the intense battle waging all around us eachand every day. We don’t know the spiritual significance of our choices, words, and actions. We’refunctionally ignorant of how these things determine whether we’re yielded to God and releasingHis power and blessing into our lives or whether we’re yielded to Satan and releasing sin and deathinto our lives (Rom. 6:16).The devil can’t control you outside of your will. However, your lack of awareness andunderstanding of the battle only works to his advantage. If you choose to believe God’s Word andlearn to recognize what’s happening in the spirit realm, you can begin taking the proper action toimprove your situation. You can cooperate with God to manifest His power and blessings.Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.James 4:7You can resist the devil, and he will flee from you. However, your passiveness and lack ofresistance doesn’t mean that the battle isn’t raging; it simply means that you aren’t winning. Satanis beating you in this area.The revelation of God’s Word contained in this book has the potential to transform your life.As you begin to understand and exercise your authority as a believer in the Lord Jesus Christ, Satanwill flee, and God’s power and blessings will manifest in your life greater than ever before.The Believer’s Authority Study Guideix
HOW TO USE YOUR STUDY GUIDEWhether you are teaching a class, leading a small group, discipling an individual, or studyingThe Believer’s Authority on your own, this Study Guide is designed for you! Here’s how itworks:Each study consists of a Lesson Outline, Teacher’s Guide, Discipleship Questions, AnswerKey, and Scriptures. Some Lessons also have Additional Information.The teacher reads the Lesson aloud. While the Lesson is being read, each student follows alongwith their own copy of the Lesson Outline.Once the Lesson is read, the teacher then facilitates a group Bible study using the Teacher’sGuide. Simply read aloud one numbered section at a time, ask the corresponding questions thatfollow, and have the group answer them. Then, repeat the process for the next numbered section.For your convenience, answers are provided in parentheses.Except for the corresponding questions and answers, the information on the Teacher’s Guideis the same as the Lesson Outline. Therefore, the group should use their Lesson Outlines to assistthem in answering the questions.Whenever a question mentions a specific scripture, be sure to have the group look it up in theirBibles and read it together before answering the question. Feel free to interact with the group overthe scriptures and points from the Lesson as time allows. Don’t let any individual dominate thediscussion, but try to draw out the quieter ones for the group conversation. As much as possible,keep the discussion centered on the scriptures and the Lesson points at hand. Remember, the goalis understanding (Matt. 13:19).Discipleship Questions are provided for further study and meditation. They are designedfor use as “homework,” but—according to the teacher’s discretion—may be helpful during thegroup study sometimes as well. Each Lesson comes with an Answer Key. As a brief review beforelaunching into the current Lesson, the teacher may wish to go over the Answer Key for theprevious study’s Discipleship Questions with the group.Some Lessons also have Additional Information. This section is geared toward the teacher. Itcontains resource recommendations for further study.Scriptures from the King James Version of the Bible are included as another tool for referenceand meditation.xThe Believer’s Authority Study Guide
For personal study, read the Lesson and review the Teacher’s Guide. Then, answer theDiscipleship Questions and check your work with the Answer Key. For maximum impact, besure to utilize the Additional Information and Scriptures.Outline for Group Study:I.Briefly review previous study by going over the Answer Key for theDiscipleship Questions (homework).II. Read the current Lesson aloud.A. Be sure that each student has a copy of the Lesson Outline.B. While the Lesson is being read, students should use their LessonOutline to follow along.III. Once the Lesson is read, facilitate a group Bible study using the Teacher’sGuide.A. Read one entire numbered section (above).B. Then ask the corresponding questions (below).C. Group looks up and reads aloud each specifically mentioned scripturebefore answering the question.D. Discuss the scripture and the answer/point from the Lesson as desired.E. Then repeat the process by reading the next numbered section (above).IV. Distribute copies of the Discipleship Questions to be worked on ashomework.Materials Needed:Study guide, Bible, and enough copies of the Outline, Discipleship Questions, and Scripturesfor each student. (PDFs of the Outlines, Discipleship Questions, and Scriptures can bedownloaded via the URL located on the first page of this study guide.)Outline for Personal Study:I.Read Lesson.A. Read Additional Information, if any.B. Meditate the Scriptures, as desired.II. Review Teacher’s Guide.III. Answer Discipleship Questions.IV. Check your work with the Answer Key.Materials Needed:Study guide, Bible, and something to write with.The Believer’s Authority Study Guidexi
WE’RE IN A SPIRITUAL BATTLELesson 1Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might. Put on the wholearmour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. For we wrestle notagainst flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of thedarkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.Ephesians 6:10-12God’s Word reveals that we are not wrestling against flesh and blood, but demonic powers. Ourfight isn’t against people but the spiritual forces influencing them. However, most of us simply don’trecognize the role the spirit realm plays in our daily lives. We think it’s just human—natural—butthe devil is busy influencing people every day.It’s useless to debate whether or not an individual is possessed, oppressed, or simply depressed.When the New Testament calls someone “demon possessed,” the Greek word there literally means“demonized.” They are under the influence and, therefore, control of the devil. This issue peoplemake about whether someone is possessed, oppressed, or just depressed isn’t in Scripture. The truthis that people all around the world today are being influenced, controlled, and used—to whateverdegree—by the devil.PROPER PERSPECTIVEMany Westerners honestly believe that all the demons are over in some third-world country.But anyone who is spiritually perceptive knows that there is an abundance of demonic activityanywhere you go in the world, including the West. We just tend to look at things as being normaland natural. We miss the fact that the origin of many things that happen in our day—thingsthat tick us off and come against us—is spiritual. We fail to recognize the spiritual influencebehind it.However, if you were to adopt the biblical mindset, it would make a huge difference in the wayyou respond. You’d recognize that it’s not that person who sits next to you at work. It’s not yourneighbor, your spouse, or your circumstances that are really what’s coming against you. They canbe influenced, inspired, and used by Satan, but they really aren’t the source. When you genuinelyunderstand that this isn’t a physical battle, it changes the way you respond.I get a lot of hate mail and criticism because of the things I say. There was a time when I tookthese things personally and thought, Why is this individual so upset with me? I just looked at it andalways tried to deal with them on the human level. Since then, I’ve come to recognize that Satanis the one who’s trying to get my attention off of what God has told me to do. I just recognize thatthe Enemy is using some person to come against me. He’s just trying to gain an inroad into my lifeLesson 1 - We’re In A Spiritual Battle1
so he can steal God’s Word from me (Mark 4:17). But because I look beyond the individual anddon’t take it personally, I’m able to put things into proper perspective and deal with it differently.I’ve actually had some good friends come against me. Even though they did some pretty meanthings, I’ve been able to look past that and forgive them. I recognized that they had a sensitivity insome area that Satan took advantage of and used them against me. I haven’t been angry or bittertoward them, because I understood what the devil was trying to do. Since then, they’ve turnedaround and realized what happened. We’ve been able to completely reestablish our friendshipbecause I recognized that it wasn’t just those people, but Satan trying to get at me.SATAN USES PEOPLEJesus exemplified t
T Believer’ Authorit S G CONTENTS Introduction.
