Here is today’s Bible reading: 2 Chronicles 26:1-28:27; Romans 13:1-14; Psalm 23:1-6; Proverbs 20:11.

Romans 13:1  Everyone must submit to governing authorities. For all authority comes from God, and those in positions of authority have been placed there by God. (NLT)

One of the keys to victorious spiritual warfare is living in right relationship to God’s authority.  You cannot exercise God’s authority if you are not properly aligned with God’s authority–including the authority He has delegated to institutions here on earth.  When we rebel against the authority God has established, we forfeit His authority in the spiritual realm.