Before We Can Exercise Authority, We Must First Practice Submission. Practicing Submission, By Daphne Delay.

Culled From: www.cnn.com

Before we can exercise authority, we must first practice submission. God desires us to increase and succeed, but it’s not automatic. Every person must journey through an interim period of submission TO authority before being promoted to the one IN authority.

Consider this story: One day as Jesus was standing by the Lake of Gennesaret, with the people crowding him to listen to the Word of God, He saw at the water’s edge two boats left there by the fishermen, who were washing their nets. He got into one of the boats, which was Simon’s, and asked him to put out a little from the land. From there He sat down and taught the people from the boat. When He had finished speaking, He said to Simon, “Launch out into the deep…