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DOMINION

Text :   Genesis 1:26. 

And 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.

From the very beginning, God's intention for man is that he should have dominion over all of His creation.

Note that at no point did God tell us to exercise dominion over fellow man, this came about by reason of the fall of man. 

To work in God’s image is to exercise dominion. Exercising royal dominion over the earth as God's representative is the basic purpose for which God created man.... Man is appointed king over creation, and he is responsible to God the ultimate King.

Before the fall, man was in charge of every thing God created- the sea and everything in it, the air and everything in it, the land and everything in it, the earth and everything in it. Genesis 1:26.

After the fall however,  man lost this dominion to satan. This is why a man who was created in the image of God worships the created things instead of the Creator.

One terrible effect of sin is that it makes things to have dominion over man instead of man having dominion over things.

When Adam fell,  mankind fell, and sin began to rule over man. Man practically became a servant to sin. But the story didn't end there. God made a way out for man through Jesus Christ. 

For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous. Romans  5:19.

So you don't have to be under the dictates and dominion of sin any longer. For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace. Romans  6:14.

Bible Reading: Romans 6:1-23.

PRAYER FOCUS

1.) Father God, I decree and declare that sin shall not have dominion over me, by your grace I live above sin  and death.

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