To receive the unlimited breakthrough that God has promised us this year, you must position yourself for it. Understanding Dominion is necessary for this positioning.
You were given authority over every circumstance in your life, but you’ve been living under your circumstances instead of over them. You pray about problems instead of commanding them. You accept defeat as God’s will instead of recognizing it as the attack of the enemy.
You live dominated by sickness, lack, fear, and chaos when God created you to dominate, to rule, to exercise authority over everything that tries to control you. And the reason why you are living this way is not because you lack power. You have the same Spirit that raised Jesus Christ from the dead living in you according to Romans 8:11.
The reason you’re living in defeat is because you don’t understand dominion. You don’t know what authority you possess. You don’t understand that God never intended you to be a victim of your circumstances, but a master over them. And until you grasp this truth, until you see what God gave you at creation, lost at the fall, and restored through Christ, you’ll continue to accept bondage when you were created for dominion. This is not just about positive thinking or trying harder. This is about understanding your God-given position, and learning to exercise your authority as a new creation in Christ.
Because most Christians have been taught to endure their circumstances, to submit to whatever comes their way, to accept sickness and poverty, and defeat as God’s mysterious will. But that’s not what the Scripture teaches. The Scripture teaches that you were created to have dominion. That dominion was stolen by Satan. But Jesus won it back. And that when you were Born Again, you were restored to the position of authority Adam had before the fall. You are not a victim. You are not powerless. You are not at the mercy of circumstances. You have dominion. And it’s time you learnt how to use it.
Today, we are going to uncover what the Bible actually says about dominion. We are going to uncover the biblical Keys to exercising dominion over every circumstance that tries to control your life. This is the truth that will make you free. This is the revelation that changes everything. And once you have grasped it, you will never accept defeat in your life again. Let us start at the beginning:
In Genesis 1:26-28 God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. So, God created man in His own image, in the image of God created He him; male and female created He them. And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.”
Notice the repeated emphasis: dominion, subdue, rule. God created humanity to have authority over His creation. And not to be controlled by it. Not to be the victims of it. But to exercise dominion over it. This was humanities original design. Adam was given dominion over the whole earth. He was to rule, to manage, to exercise authority under God’s sovereignty.
And as long as Adam remained in fellowship with God, as long as he operated under God’s authority, he had complete dominion over everything in his realm. Sickness couldn’t touch him, lack didn’t exist, fear had no place in his life and chaos was subdued, all because Adam was ruling from his position of dominion that God had given him.
But then came the great fall. Genesis 3:1-24 records how Satan, through deception, convinced Adam and Eve to rebel against God’s authority. And the moment they sinned, they forfeited their dominion. They handed their authority over to Satan. And from that point forward, humanity lived under the domination of the enemy, instead of in the dominion that God intended. This is why the world is full of sickness, poverty, chaos, and death. Not because God designed it to be that way. But because humanity lost dominion, and Satan usurped authority over the earth.
What was the tragedy of the fall? The tragedy of the fall was not just that man sinned. The tragedy was that man lost his dominion. Man was created to rule, but sin made him a slave. He was designed to have authority, but rebellion stripped him of that authority and gave it to Satan, and from that day until Jesus came, humanity lived under Satan’s dominion instead of exercising the dominion that God originally gave them.
That’s the reality. Sin didn’t just separate humanity from God. It stripped humanity of authority and handed the authority over to the enemy.
But here is the Good News: Jesus came to restore to humanity what Adam lost. Luke 4:18 records Jesus saying, “The Spirit of the LORD is upon Me, because He hath anointed Me to preach the gospel to the poor; He hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised.”
Jesus came to deliver, to restore and to set free. And part of that restoration is giving back the dominion that Adam forfeited. This is exactly what Jesus did throughout His earthly ministry. He exercised dominion over sickness, and people were healed. He exercised dominion over demons, and they fled. He exercised dominion over nature, and storms obeyed Him. He exercised dominion over death, and the dead were raised.
In all these, Jesus was simply demonstrating the dominion that God originally gave to humanity. And then, after His resurrection, He gave that authority to His followers.
In Matthew 28:18-19 Jesus said, “All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth. Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen.”
Jesus has ALL authority, and He is sending His disciples to operate in that authority. This is not just for the 12 disciples. It is for every Born-Again believer including you.
Now, here is what happened: When you got born again, you were restored to the position of dominion that Adam had before the fall.
From that moment, you were given authority, not because you are special, but because Christ lives in you, and His authority is your authority.
Question: Why then is it that most Christians never get to walk in this authority?
To be continued!!
Watch out for the next edition of Good News from the Pulpit.
- Your friend, I. I. Madubunyi (Senior Pastor, HOG).
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