THE SECRET OF WALKING IN SPIRITUAL DOMINION
Dr Glory Adeola is the senior pastor of living Manna Ministries Int'l, Lagos, Nigeria. He is a dynamic teacher, life coach and author of books. He is also the founder and president of Living Manna Bible College, a bible college dedicated to raising fire brand men and women of God.
In the beginning God gave man a dominion mandate over the earth and the fullness thereof. Man was made to have dominion over all things in the universe. It is written: “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 birds of the air, over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth.” (Genesis 1:26)
God originally made man to walk in dominion in the earth realms. What is dominion? Dominion means government, ownership, control, kingship and headship. In essence, man has a mandate from God to govern and exercise His authority over the earth realms. All things on earth are subjected to man by divine order. God put all things under the feet of man as it is written: “What is man that thou art mindful of him, and the son of man that thou dost care for him? Yet thou has made him a little less than God, and dost crown him with glory and honour. Thou has given dominion over the works of thy hands; thou has put all things under his feet,” (Psalm 8:4-6)
See, by divine order and plan, nothing was made to have dominion over man. Everything was made to be a subject to man. That is why you must know that circumstances on earth must not control you but you must control them. Every challenge is subject to you. Every mountain is subject to you because you have dominion over them by divine order. That is why Jesus said that truly, truly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, “be taken up and cast into the sea,” and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says will come to pass, it will be done for him. (Mark 11:23).
Jesus believed in man’s dominion over every situation of life according to the bible verse above. He taught his hearers to exercise their given dominion over issues of life but it depends on their dominion consciousness or mentality. To use power you must be conscious of power. Similarly, to walk in dominion you must be conscious of dominion.
Dominion is a birthright of every man. As a man, you’re born to walk in absolute dominion in the earth. But we have to understand that dominion begets dominion. To walk in dominion man must submit to him who gave him dominion. We know through the scriptures that the first man lost his dominion over the world to Satan and this is why Satan is called the god of this world or the prince of the world.