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Hello! Janice with Reigning With Him, and this is just going to be a brief

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encouragement today about taking dominion and walking in what God has

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called you and said you are. And this is going to be in a context of Genesis

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chapter 1 that we've been looking at, and God gave Adam the charges of

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be fruitful, multiply, replenish, subdue, and take dominion. And we've already

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looked at the others, and dominion is different from subdue in the aspect that

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it takes on the meaning of governmental charge, of ruling, and of reigning, of

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great influence, etc. etc. So that's what we're gonna look at today. But before we

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do that, we need to remember who we are. God took everything He had. He breathed

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it. Now that was Elohim, Father, Jesus, Holy Spirit. He released the breath. It

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says He breathed, which was Father, Son, Holy Spirit, everything they had, into

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Adam. It also said that they breathed the breath, which was the inspired dreams

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that God had, the divine inspiration that God had for Adam. And that He has done

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for us as well. Even though we were not at that time of creation, if you

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are born again, and you are walking with Him, and you are born of His Spirit, you

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have His DNA in you, and when He released that breath in you at the time you were

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born again, He did the same thing. That was released within you, and you carry

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those things in with you now. So we, to walk in dominion, as Adam was charged to

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do, and as Jesus gave us in a Great Commission, we need to remember who we

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are. So instead of doing the big picture of dominion, being in education, being in

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all the aspects of society, with education, with government, with health

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care, with all of those things, we're going to bring it really close into just

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where we walk, and where we are. Because if we can't manage our own selves and

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walk in dominion in our lives, we cannot take it out beyond ourselves and walk in

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it in other areas. So let's just talk about that for a few minutes today. And I

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just want to encourage you. Now remember Psalm 91 verse 1 says, those who live,

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which means to sit and dwell in judgment, in the throne room, in judgment as

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royalty. So we're doing that over anything the enemy wants to bring in our

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lives. We're saying no. We're sitting in judgment saying, no, it doesn't belong

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here. That's not who I am. That's not who I have. That is not what I'll be allowing

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in my territory. And remember, Adam was given the territory of Eden. He was to

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guard it, and he was to keep it, just like we are to guard and keep our own lives

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and our own hearts and our own sphere of influence. He was told to keep the garden.

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And that is our place now. Now let's kind of think of this as a house. You

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move into a house. You take dominion. You take domain of the house. You have all

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these rooms, and you are gonna furnish it. That's kind of one of the aspects of

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dominion. Moving into a territory, moving in, and furnishing it. So you get to

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decide how you want to furnish your house, and what gets to stay there, and

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what other people try to bring in as gifts that you're like, no, I don't want

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that. It's gonna go. So if someone walks on your, knocks on the door and says, here

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I have a gift for you. And that gift says, or that gift looks like, you can't do

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this. You can't do what you're trying to do. It's not gonna work. Are you gonna

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take that gift into your home, which is your territory, which is in your heart,

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which is your garden, which we are to guard and protect. Are you gonna take

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that in and set it on the counter and look at it every day and go, as a

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reminder, no, I can't do this. No, I will not succeed. No, you at that door, at that

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moment, you say, no, take your gift and go. That is not mine. Because what did God

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say to Adam? Remember when he blessed him? Do you remember what that means? He spoke.

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He declared success. He declared happiness. And then it also said in the

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Hebrew that he made him successful. So you have been made successful. You have

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been

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prophesied over by Him. That was another meaning of that word. God has prophesied

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over you as He spoke those things over you and as He read you, wrote your book

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and now you're releasing your angels every day to read it and put your feet

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on the path you need to walk in to fulfill it. He has prophesied over you

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and spoken to you everything in your destiny and He's called you to do and be.

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It's already set forth. So anything that does not line up with God's heart for

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you goes in the moment. You don't take it in. You don't put it in a box. Sometimes

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the enemy wants us to take things and put it in a box and then put it on the

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shelf and then it gets to sit back there and yet it's behind the scenes but it's

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always going on. That thought is always turning. Even though it's very quiet, it's

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taking root. You need to remove at the moment the enemy brings a thought. Don't

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even let it in the front door. Don't even let it in your heart. As soon as the

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thought comes in your thinking processes, you bring it down. You say, no in Jesus

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name. I'll not align with that. I'll not agree with that. This is what the word

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says and I command it to go. And it will leave. It will not take root. Okay? That's

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what He's called you to do. To walk in dominion in your environment. But what it

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Adam do? He forgot. God had given him everything. He made him a little bit

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lower than him. And Adam forgot and when the enemy lied to him and said you are

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not or God has not given you or you have been shortchanged, he bit into that. He

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bit that. He literally bit the apple. He bit the lie and he bit the apple. God has

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called us to say, no this is what my father has said. My father loves me and

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he does not withhold anything from me. He has given me everything for life and

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godliness and that is what we keep our eyes on. Because what does the word say?

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It says, as you see yourself, that's what you will be. As you see yourself, that

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will become your destiny. As you see yourself, as you think, as you walk out

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then, if it starts with a thought, as you walk out those thoughts, it'll lead you

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in the path to your destiny, to your actions. And it'll also become the

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thing we're centered on, that we are consumed with and that's another word

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for worship. Either we're gonna be consumed with what God is saying and the

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goodness of God and the life of God and the blessing of God and how wonderful

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and magnificent he is and that is what we worship. Or we'll be consumed with

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what the enemy is saying about us and worry and that will be what we worship.

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I just want to share with you a brief scripture today. This is from Psalm

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25 and I'm actually going to be reading this from, actually all three are

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going to be from, all three verses are going to be from the Message Translation.

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Okay, so verse 13 and 14, I'm going to read those first. It says,

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Friendship is for God-worshippers. They are the ones he confides in. So, if you

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want friendship with God, you're going to be a worshiper of him. If you want

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friendship with God, you're gonna take what he says and you're gonna say yes

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and that's what you're gonna dwell in because you're taking to heart what he

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has said. You're not dissing him. You're not going, oh well, that's great, but

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you're taking it to heart. You're taking it and saying, yeah, I'm gonna think about

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this. This is important to you. This is what you say. This is important to me and

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I trust you. And that develops friendship with God, that he can trust you with what

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he says. And then it says in verse, goes on in verse 15, it says, this is great, it

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says, If I keep my eyes on God, I won't trip over my own feet. It's when we

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take our eyes off of what God's saying that we get tripped up and we trip over

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our own feet because we trip over our own belief systems. We trip over what we

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have thought that is not accurate and that's where the enemy wants to see us

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stumble. So if we keep our eyes, we keep our mind, we keep ourselves set on what

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God says, what does Philippians, what does Philippians chapter 4 say? Think on

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these things that are lovely, that are good, that have good report, that are true, that

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are honest. Those are the things we align ourselves with.

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And then in verse 12, and I know this was before, it says,

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who are God worshipers?

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What are God worshipers like?

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Your answer, this would be from God, it says, your answer.

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They are arrows aimed at God's bullseye.

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If you're in line with what he says,

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if you're saying, yes, God, I believe this,

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I will walk in agreement with,

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I'm getting rid of everything else,

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I'm not letting anything else in my home,

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I'm not letting anything else in my domain,

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I refuse anything but what you say,

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then we become like an arrow in God's hands

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for him to launch into a bullseye.

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And that bullseye will take life to people,

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it will take freedom to people, and it will demolish,

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it will demolish, it will take back territory of the enemy.

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And that allows us to walk, not just in subduing,

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but in dominion.

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So anyway, don't forget who you are.

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He did not shortchange you, he gave you everything you need.

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He is not giving you half, he is giving you it all.

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Remember that today, don't let the enemy lie to you.

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You have everything you need, God lives in you.

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God lives around you, and he's called you to abide,

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to live, to live from him in heavenly places.

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In doing that, you're gonna linger,

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you're gonna listen to his voice during the day,

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you're gonna hear him, you'll say yes,

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and then you'll listen to him as he speaks over you,

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and you catch his heartbeat for you,

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and his perspective for you,

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and his perspective about you.

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And that will be your place of walking and living,

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because that is a place of truth, that is a place of power.

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And I bless you with that today, Father,

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I just ask for encouragement upon your children today,

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men and women who love you and are running with you,

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that you would strengthen them and encourage them

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and sustain them, in Jesus' name, amen.