POWER OF BODY OF CHRIST

Body of Christ is simply the church. Scripture makes it clear that Christ is the head of all, and his body is the church. So, he is the leader and an example to the body that is the Church. Scriptures made it elaborate that as the head can’t be without body and so is Christ that he can’t be without the church.

For the husband is head of the wife, as also Christ is head of the church; and He is the Savior of the body. .( Ephesians 5:-23), NKV

So, we are the members of the body of Christ

For we are members of His body, of His flesh and of His bones. .( Ephesians 5:-30), NKV

Concerning reigning is concerned, as that there is no king that can’t reign without his body, so it is to Christ. He can’t reign without his body which is the church. Therefore, Christ reigns on earth by the Church. The act of Christ manifesting all of realities that are available in Christ is the act of Christ reigning.

Even the victory that Christ has won from the cross is for his body which is the Church. So, Victory and power of Jesus Christ is the victory of his body(Church). So, the power of Christ of being above all principalities and powers and might and dominion is also to the Church.

Therefore I also, after I heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love for all the saints, do not cease to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers: that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him, the eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that you may know what is the hope of His calling, what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints, and what is the exceeding greatness of His power toward us who believe, according to the working of His mighty power which He worked in Christ when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His right hand in the heavenly places, far above all principality and power and might and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this age but also in that which is to come. And He put all things under His feet, and gave Him to be head over all things to the church, which is His body, the fullness of Him who fills all in all.( Ephesians 1:15-23), NKJV

Therefore as the body of Christ, we are sited in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus.

and raised us up together, and made us sit together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,

( Ephesians 2:6) , NKJV

The highest power and authority of the body of Christ is in oneness because as we are members of the body of Christ, the whole body works when every organ is working properly so it is to the body of Christ that we are powerful while we are one.

as the body is one and has many members, but all the members of that one body, being many, are one body, so also is Christ. For by one Spirit, we were all baptized into one body--whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free--and have all been made to drink into one Spirit. For in fact the body is not one member but many.(1Corinthians 12:12-14)

This is why Jesus Christ also prayed for oneness among us as his body.

I do not pray for these alone, but also for those who will believe in Me through their word; that they all may be one, as You, Father, are in Me, and I in You; that they also may be one in Us, that the world may believe that You sent Me. And the glory which You gave Me I have given them, that they may be one just as We are one: I in them, and You in Me; that they may be made perfect in one, and that the world may know that You have sent Me, and have loved them as You have loved Me.

( John 17:20-23 NKJV)

Therefore, as the body of Christ, we have to lift one another and help one another that every part of the body may be safe and protected, for the proper functioning of the body of Christ.

If one of the people in the body of Christ is hurt, then the whole body is hurt therefore we have to live by caring, lifting and helping one another.

Then when this is full achieved, the power that is in the unity of body of Christ can’t be stopped by any one neither in heaven or on earth. So, if two or three people in the body of Christ agree on any matter, they cant be stopped in accomplishing that matter.

"Again, I say to you that if two of you agree on earth concerning anything that they ask, it will be done for them by My Father in heaven. For where two or three are gathered together in My name, I am there in the midst of them." (Mathayo 18:19-20 NKJV)

The power in the body of Christ is for the ministry of reconciliation, that is preaching the Gospel of truth.

Now all things are of God, who has reconciled us to Himself through Jesus Christ, and has given us the ministry of reconciliation, that is, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not imputing their trespasses to them, and has committed to us the word of reconciliation. (2 Corinthians 5:18-19)

The power of the body of Christ comes from the right understanding. The right understanding of the realities that we have in Christ as the body of Christ will make us walk in the power that we have.

I pray that you may be active in sharing your faith, so that you will have a full understanding of every good thing we have in Christ.(Philemon 1:6, NIV)

Lack of understanding will make us not operate into the power we have as the body of Christ.

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I also will reject you from being priest for Me; Because you have forgotten the law of your God, I also will forget your children. (Hosea 4:6, NKJV)

With the right understanding, we shall trend upon scorpion and serpents and reign in light.

For if by the one man's offense death reigned through the one, much more those who receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness will reign in life through the One, Jesus Christ.

(Romans 5:17, NKJV)

Behold, I give you the authority to trample on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing shall by any means hurt you. (Luke 10:19)