As I continue on with this subject, always keep this thought in mind: the key to success is not power alone but knowing and using authorized power. The individual who is acting with true authority empowers and protects people. True authority converts power into service. That is why the greatest protection against misdirected power is genuine authority. When people operate in an authorized way, they will use power to serve constructive ends. We must also recognize that authority without power is ineffective; it is essentially permission to do something without the ability to carry it out. Authority is responsibility, but power is ability. My question to you: Have you ever appealed to your supervisor or "boss" whom you worked for on a job, who had no ability to take action or make needed changes or corrections? You cannot give authority without also empowering the recipient to act, or that authority is useless. An individual should delegate authority only if he has the capability to back it up. Jesus the Christ our King had this authority.
King Jesus made this profound statement concerning His authority: For as the Father has life in Himself, so He has granted the Son to have life in Himself, and has given Him authority to execute judgment also, because He is the Son of Man. Jesus made this statement as well before He healed the paralytic man: “Son, be of good cheer; your sins are forgiven you.” And at once some of the scribes said within themselves, “This Man blasphemes!” But Jesus, knowing their thoughts, said, “Why do you think evil in your hearts? For which is easier, to say, ‘Your sins are forgiven you,’ or to say, ‘Arise and walk’? But that you may know that the Son of Man has power on earth to forgive sins”—then He said to the paralytic, “Arise, take up your bed, and go to your house.”
Now concerning the individual who has a "boss spirit"; The concept of the "boss spirit" is related to power, but its main attribute is the abuse of position through manipulation. The word 'manipulate' is defined as "to control or play upon by artful, unfair or insidious means". The boss spirit is the idea that having authority means you can take advantage of people, to order them around at will, and get them to do what you want through coercion. I have learned through God's Constitution, that God created Adam to manage and supervise His work, not manage people. You must take an evaluation of yourself every day. By the way, I hate the "boss spirit" because it is not of God.
John 5:26-27 Matthew 9:2-6
~~W.R. Luchie
King Jesus made this profound statement concerning His authority: For as the Father has life in Himself, so He has granted the Son to have life in Himself, and has given Him authority to execute judgment also, because He is the Son of Man. Jesus made this statement as well before He healed the paralytic man: “Son, be of good cheer; your sins are forgiven you.” And at once some of the scribes said within themselves, “This Man blasphemes!” But Jesus, knowing their thoughts, said, “Why do you think evil in your hearts? For which is easier, to say, ‘Your sins are forgiven you,’ or to say, ‘Arise and walk’? But that you may know that the Son of Man has power on earth to forgive sins”—then He said to the paralytic, “Arise, take up your bed, and go to your house.”
Now concerning the individual who has a "boss spirit"; The concept of the "boss spirit" is related to power, but its main attribute is the abuse of position through manipulation. The word 'manipulate' is defined as "to control or play upon by artful, unfair or insidious means". The boss spirit is the idea that having authority means you can take advantage of people, to order them around at will, and get them to do what you want through coercion. I have learned through God's Constitution, that God created Adam to manage and supervise His work, not manage people. You must take an evaluation of yourself every day. By the way, I hate the "boss spirit" because it is not of God.
John 5:26-27 Matthew 9:2-6
~~W.R. Luchie
