In a sermon packed with conviction, biblical insight and sobering truth, Derek Prince challenges believers to see the authority God has placed in their hands—not just to read His Word but to wield it with reverence and power.
“Now, that’s trembling at the Word,” Prince began, reflecting on Moses’ moment of awe when his rod turned into a serpent. “He suddenly realized the power that was in his rod and he ran from it.” That kind of trembling, Prince emphasized, is the first step. But it must be followed by action: “He gripped it and it became a rod again in his hand. So when we’ve trembled, then we need to take hold of God’s Word.”
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Prince pointed to Psalm 149 as a blueprint for the authority and role of the saints. “‘Let the saints be joyful in glory; let them sing aloud on their beds… let the high praises of God be in their mouth, and a two-edged sword in their hand.’” He noted, “It says this honor or this privilege have all his saints. Have you ever pondered on that?”
For Prince, this isn’t poetic language—it’s a divine assignment. “We are not the ones to make the judgments. God has made the judgments. But we have the privilege of executing the judgments on the nations, on their rulers.”
So how do believers fulfill such a weighty task? Proclamation. “How do we execute God’s judgments? By what one word? Proclaiming, that’s right,” Prince said. “We stand in the marketplace of the world and we say, Oyez, Oyez, and then we announce the decree of God.”
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But it doesn’t stop with mere words. Prince insists on Spirit-filled declaration: “When the breath of God, the Spirit of God propels the Word of God out of our mouths we can release it into a situation and it has all the authority of almighty God.”
“God didn’t step down off the throne, take the rod out of Moses’ hand and say, Moses, I’ll do it. That’s what most of us, I think, expect to happen. God says, You’ve got the rod. You do it.”
In other words, it’s time for the saints to stop waiting for divine intervention and start living as those entrusted with divine authority—proclaiming, releasing and stretching out the Word of God in power.
James Lasher is staff writer for Charisma Media.
