Sent With Everything
A devotional from Undeserved Favor Ministry inspired by the preaching "Finding God's Order in This Chaotic World"
He was given authority, glory and sovereign power; all nations and peoples of every language worshiped him. His dominion is an everlasting dominion that will not pass away, and his kingdom is one that will never be destroyed.
Daniel 7:14
The door right in front of you — the conversation that needs to happen, the person who needs to hear something true, the situation that needs the presence of someone who carries peace — that door is not as far as it feels. And the hesitation standing between here and there is not humility. It is a misunderstanding about what has already been given.
Six hundred years before the cross, Daniel watched a vision unfold that would only make complete sense on resurrection morning. One like a Son of Man came with the clouds of heaven, approached the Ancient of Days, and was led into His presence. And there, before that blazing throne, this Son of Man was given something that changed the architecture of everything that would come after.
Authority. Glory. Sovereign power. All nations. Every language. An everlasting dominion that will not pass away.
Daniel wrote it as prophecy. The empty tomb confirmed it as fact.
When Jesus gathered His disciples after the resurrection, He did not open with encouragement or strategy. He opened with a statement of accomplished reality. All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to Me. Not some. Not a carefully rationed portion. All of it — the authority humanity surrendered at the garden, the authority the enemy used to hold nations in darkness, the authority every empire Daniel saw rising from the sea had exercised in its season. All of it transferred. All of it placed in the hands of the risen Son of Man.
And then, only then — therefore, go.
The sequence matters more than it might seem. The mission does not create the authority. The authority sends the mission. Which means the believer who steps toward that door — toward the broken relationship, the grieving neighbor, the workplace that has never heard a gentle word — does not step out on the basis of their own adequacy. They step out on the basis of what has already been given to the One who sends them. The gospel that heals the brokenhearted and opens prison doors does not do so because the one carrying it is impressive enough. It does so because all authority in heaven and on earth stands behind it.
That changes the conversation about the door in front of you. The hesitation that whispers — who am I to speak into this, what if I say the wrong thing, what difference could it possibly make — that hesitation is answering the wrong question. The question is not who you are. The question is who sent you and what has already been placed in His hands.
Daniel saw the Son of Man receive it. Jesus declared it on a Galilean hillside. And every believer since has been living in the therefore — not working toward authority but working from it, not trying to make the kingdom come but carrying a kingdom that cannot be destroyed into the places that need it most.
The door in front of you is not too small for that kingdom. It is exactly the kind of door it was made for.