Hello! Janice with Reigning With Him, and this is just going to be a brief
encouragement today about taking dominion and walking in what God has
called you and said you are. And this is going to be in a context of Genesis
chapter 1 that we've been looking at, and God gave Adam the charges of
be fruitful, multiply, replenish, subdue, and take dominion. And we've already
looked at the others, and dominion is different from subdue in the aspect that
it takes on the meaning of governmental charge, of ruling, and of reigning, of
great influence, etc. etc. So that's what we're gonna look at today. But before we
do that, we need to remember who we are. God took everything He had. He breathed
it. Now that was Elohim, Father, Jesus, Holy Spirit. He released the breath. It
says He breathed, which was Father, Son, Holy Spirit, everything they had, into
Adam. It also said that they breathed the breath, which was the inspired dreams
that God had, the divine inspiration that God had for Adam. And that He has done
for us as well. Even though we were not at that time of creation, if you
are born again, and you are walking with Him, and you are born of His Spirit, you
have His DNA in you, and when He released that breath in you at the time you were
born again, He did the same thing. That was released within you, and you carry
those things in with you now. So we, to walk in dominion, as Adam was charged to
do, and as Jesus gave us in a Great Commission, we need to remember who we
are. So instead of doing the big picture of dominion, being in education, being in
all the aspects of society, with education, with government, with health
care, with all of those things, we're going to bring it really close into just
where we walk, and where we are. Because if we can't manage our own selves and
walk in dominion in our lives, we cannot take it out beyond ourselves and walk in
it in other areas. So let's just talk about that for a few minutes today. And I
just want to encourage you. Now remember Psalm 91 verse 1 says, those who live,
which means to sit and dwell in judgment, in the throne room, in judgment as
royalty. So we're doing that over anything the enemy wants to bring in our
lives. We're saying no. We're sitting in judgment saying, no, it doesn't belong
here. That's not who I am. That's not who I have. That is not what I'll be allowing
in my territory. And remember, Adam was given the territory of Eden. He was to
guard it, and he was to keep it, just like we are to guard and keep our own lives
and our own hearts and our own sphere of influence. He was told to keep the garden.
And that is our place now. Now let's kind of think of this as a house. You
move into a house. You take dominion. You take domain of the house. You have all
these rooms, and you are gonna furnish it. That's kind of one of the aspects of
dominion. Moving into a territory, moving in, and furnishing it. So you get to
decide how you want to furnish your house, and what gets to stay there, and
what other people try to bring in as gifts that you're like, no, I don't want
that. It's gonna go. So if someone walks on your, knocks on the door and says, here
I have a gift for you. And that gift says, or that gift looks like, you can't do
this. You can't do what you're trying to do. It's not gonna work. Are you gonna
take that gift into your home, which is your territory, which is in your heart,
which is your garden, which we are to guard and protect. Are you gonna take
that in and set it on the counter and look at it every day and go, as a
reminder, no, I can't do this. No, I will not succeed. No, you at that door, at that
moment, you say, no, take your gift and go. That is not mine. Because what did God
say to Adam? Remember when he blessed him? Do you remember what that means? He spoke.
He declared success. He declared happiness. And then it also said in the
Hebrew that he made him successful. So you have been made successful. You have
been
prophesied over by Him. That was another meaning of that word. God has prophesied
over you as He spoke those things over you and as He read you, wrote your book
and now you're releasing your angels every day to read it and put your feet
on the path you need to walk in to fulfill it. He has prophesied over you
and spoken to you everything in your destiny and He's called you to do and be.
It's already set forth. So anything that does not line up with God's heart for
you goes in the moment. You don't take it in. You don't put it in a box. Sometimes
the enemy wants us to take things and put it in a box and then put it on the
shelf and then it gets to sit back there and yet it's behind the scenes but it's
always going on. That thought is always turning. Even though it's very quiet, it's
taking root. You need to remove at the moment the enemy brings a thought. Don't
even let it in the front door. Don't even let it in your heart. As soon as the
thought comes in your thinking processes, you bring it down. You say, no in Jesus
name. I'll not align with that. I'll not agree with that. This is what the word
says and I command it to go. And it will leave. It will not take root. Okay? That's
what He's called you to do. To walk in dominion in your environment. But what it
Adam do? He forgot. God had given him everything. He made him a little bit
lower than him. And Adam forgot and when the enemy lied to him and said you are
not or God has not given you or you have been shortchanged, he bit into that. He
bit that. He literally bit the apple. He bit the lie and he bit the apple. God has
called us to say, no this is what my father has said. My father loves me and
he does not withhold anything from me. He has given me everything for life and
godliness and that is what we keep our eyes on. Because what does the word say?
It says, as you see yourself, that's what you will be. As you see yourself, that
will become your destiny. As you see yourself, as you think, as you walk out
then, if it starts with a thought, as you walk out those thoughts, it'll lead you
in the path to your destiny, to your actions. And it'll also become the
thing we're centered on, that we are consumed with and that's another word
for worship. Either we're gonna be consumed with what God is saying and the
goodness of God and the life of God and the blessing of God and how wonderful
and magnificent he is and that is what we worship. Or we'll be consumed with
what the enemy is saying about us and worry and that will be what we worship.
I just want to share with you a brief scripture today. This is from Psalm
25 and I'm actually going to be reading this from, actually all three are
going to be from, all three verses are going to be from the Message Translation.
Okay, so verse 13 and 14, I'm going to read those first. It says,
Friendship is for God-worshippers. They are the ones he confides in. So, if you
want friendship with God, you're going to be a worshiper of him. If you want
friendship with God, you're gonna take what he says and you're gonna say yes
and that's what you're gonna dwell in because you're taking to heart what he
has said. You're not dissing him. You're not going, oh well, that's great, but
you're taking it to heart. You're taking it and saying, yeah, I'm gonna think about
this. This is important to you. This is what you say. This is important to me and
I trust you. And that develops friendship with God, that he can trust you with what
he says. And then it says in verse, goes on in verse 15, it says, this is great, it
says, If I keep my eyes on God, I won't trip over my own feet. It's when we
take our eyes off of what God's saying that we get tripped up and we trip over
our own feet because we trip over our own belief systems. We trip over what we
have thought that is not accurate and that's where the enemy wants to see us
stumble. So if we keep our eyes, we keep our mind, we keep ourselves set on what
God says, what does Philippians, what does Philippians chapter 4 say? Think on
these things that are lovely, that are good, that have good report, that are true, that
are honest. Those are the things we align ourselves with.
And then in verse 12, and I know this was before, it says,
who are God worshipers?
What are God worshipers like?
Your answer, this would be from God, it says, your answer.
They are arrows aimed at God's bullseye.
If you're in line with what he says,
if you're saying, yes, God, I believe this,
I will walk in agreement with,
I'm getting rid of everything else,
I'm not letting anything else in my home,
I'm not letting anything else in my domain,
I refuse anything but what you say,
then we become like an arrow in God's hands
for him to launch into a bullseye.
And that bullseye will take life to people,
it will take freedom to people, and it will demolish,
it will demolish, it will take back territory of the enemy.
And that allows us to walk, not just in subduing,
but in dominion.
So anyway, don't forget who you are.
He did not shortchange you, he gave you everything you need.
He is not giving you half, he is giving you it all.
Remember that today, don't let the enemy lie to you.
You have everything you need, God lives in you.
God lives around you, and he's called you to abide,
to live, to live from him in heavenly places.
In doing that, you're gonna linger,
you're gonna listen to his voice during the day,
you're gonna hear him, you'll say yes,
and then you'll listen to him as he speaks over you,
and you catch his heartbeat for you,
and his perspective for you,
and his perspective about you.
And that will be your place of walking and living,
because that is a place of truth, that is a place of power.
And I bless you with that today, Father,
I just ask for encouragement upon your children today,
men and women who love you and are running with you,
that you would strengthen them and encourage them
and sustain them, in Jesus' name, amen.