We’ve Got The Keys // Miracle Season // Pastor Ken Claytor // Alive Church

It’s the fourth week of our Miracle Season. A powerful sermon declaring that God has given His people keys to the Kingdom, and with those keys comes with spiritual authority, dominion, and miraculous access to everything Heaven has already approved for your life. Drawing from Matthew 16:19, this message reminds us that keys represent authority the right to open, close, access, bind, and loose according to God’s Word. Too many believers live beneath their calling because they don’t understand the authority Jesus restored to us through the cross. But this sermon teaches how to pick up the keys again and walk in your miracle season with confidence. From the beginning, God designed humanity for dominion (Genesis 1:26–28). We were made in His image, created to rule, reign, manage, and bring order to the places He has entrusted to us—our homes, our marriages, our children, our thoughts, our spiritual atmosphere. But through sin, Adam and Eve surrendered that dominion. Jesus, through His death and resurrection, reclaimed that lost authority and gave it back to us (Colossians 2:13–15). Now every believer can stand boldly in the name of Jesus and command darkness to flee, sickness to depart, storms to be still, and the enemy’s plans to be broken. This sermon teaches that authority is the right to rule, and dominion is the realm where that authority operates. When you accept salvation, you receive authority—but you must choose to use it. Whenever we knowingly live in sin, we surrender pieces of that authority to the enemy. But when we repent and take our place in Christ, Heaven backs every word we speak in alignment with Scripture. Jesus explained the power of binding and loosing: whatever we forbid on earth must align with what Heaven has already forbidden, and whatever we release must align with what Heaven has already permitted. We don’t make Heaven obey us—we enforce Heaven’s decrees on earth. This message also breaks down the difference between: • Prayers of petition