…While he yet spake, behold, a bright cloud

 

overshadowed them: and behold a voice out of the

 

cloud, which said, This is my beloved Son, in whom I

 

am well pleased; hear ye him (Matthew 17:1-5).

 

When God said concerning Jesus, "...this is

 

my beloved Son, in whom I am well

 

pleased; hear ye him...," He was talking to

 

all of creation! All of nature—animate and

 

inanimate—has been commanded to be

 

subject to Jesus. The rocks, wind, trees,

 

water, fish, angels, demons, etc—

 

everything in heaven, on earth, and under the earth, have

 

been commanded by God to hear and obey Jesus.

 

Philippians 2:9-10 says, "Wherefore God also hath highly

 

exalted him, and given him a name which is above every

 

name: That at the name of Jesus every knee should

 

bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things

 

under the earth."

 

No wonder everything Jesus said came to pass; He had

 

absolute mastery and exercised dominion over all things.

 

He talked to a tree and it withered (Mark 11:12-22); He

 

spoke to a raging tempest and it hushed (Mark 4:35-39);

 

He talked to bread and fish and multiplied them to feed

 

the multitude (Matthew 14:17-21, Matthew 15:32-38);

 

He talked to corpses and they came back to life (Luke

 

7:11-15, John 11:32- 44)! At His word, maimed limbs were

 

restored, blind eyes opened, deaf ears were unstopped,

 

and demons scampered in terror (Matthew 15:30)!

 

There were demonstrations of the miraculous each time

 

Jesus spoke; all creation stood to order, and gave heed

 

to His spoken word, acting accordingly. Now, about us,

 

John writes, "…as He (Jesus) is, so are we in this

 

world" (1 John 4:17). The Lord Jesus gave us the

 

authority to act in His stead; we have the power of

 

attorney to use His Name. Therefore, when you speak,

 

all of creation stands at attention to obey. You have the

 

authority to speak to anything in His Name and effect

 

whatever positive changes you desire.