Yeshua-followers are a tiny minority in Israel. This can make us feel small and insignificant. Just imagine for a moment that we are actually only twenty in number. But also imagine that all twenty of us sit in the cabinet of the government. How small would you feel then?

We may be insignificant in size, but when it comes to spiritual authority, we actually hold the balance of power.

Do you find that hard to believe? Listen to Yeshua’s words to His followers in Matthew 18:18: “I tell you the truth, whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.” Listen to Paul in 1 Corinthians 6:2,3: “Do you not know that the saints will judge the world…do you not know that we will judge angels? How much more the things of this life.” Paul says in Ephesians 2:6: “God raised us up with Messiah and seated us with Him in the heavenly realms in Messiah Yeshua.” Our spiritual authority doesn’t begin only after we get to heaven. We already have the awesome privilege to “judge…things of this life” and spiritually speaking we are already “seated… with Him” in the throne room where we co-reign with the King of the universe.

The primary means by which we exercise our power and authority is through prayer.

Someone has said, “When the books of heaven are opened and the spiritual history of the nations of the world is unlocked it will be written for all to read that the ‘prayers’, not the mayors or kings, or prime minister, or presidents of president’s men — are the real molders of events.”

We are not just civil servants shuffling papers behind a desk. Did you know that every time we pray we have a summit meeting with the King of Kings?

When God’s people really pray, the world changes.

When Elijah prayed he shut up the heavens for three and half years so that there was not even one drop of rain. But when Elijah got his orders from the King to pray again the Bible tells us that “the heavens gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit.” D.L. Moody comments on this story saying, “Elijah locked up heaven for three years and six months and put the key in his pocket.”

When we get on our knees to pray together how many of us really heave any idea what power and authority is at our disposal?