{"id":1994,"date":"2013-01-17T01:00:23","date_gmt":"2013-01-17T06:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kspministries.org\/wordpress\/?p=1994"},"modified":"2013-01-17T01:13:30","modified_gmt":"2013-01-17T06:13:30","slug":"pearls-of-wisdom-01-17-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kspministries.org\/wordpress\/2013\/01\/17\/pearls-of-wisdom-01-17-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Pearls of Wisdom 01-17-2013"},"content":{"rendered":"

AUTHORITY AND POWER, PART 1<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

As God\u2019s children we operate in two different ways:\u00a0 (1)\u00a0 We enter into the intimacy of God\u2019s personal presence and worship and honor him in all our ways, walking in the fullness of His Love and enjoying a Father relationship with Him.\u00a0 (2)\u00a0 On the other hand, we are great and mighty men and women of God, tearing down the enemy\u2019s strongholds in our lives and other people\u2019s lives, taking our God-given authority and using it to establish our rights in this earthly realm.\u00a0 The result of taking authority over the devil and all his works is true freedom.\u00a0 For the next several days, we are going to discuss the authority that God has given us and the power that resides in us to walk in victory.<\/p>\n

We must start at the beginning with Genesis 1:26-28<\/strong>.\u00a0 In this passage of scripture we see what God\u2019s design was for us as human beings.\u00a0 We are to be people of dominion and authority.\u00a0 He commanded us to subdue and have dominion.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd 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.<\/p>\n

So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.<\/p>\n

And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it:\u00a0 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.\u201d<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s specifically look at some of the words in these verses.\u00a0 God said:\u00a0 LET US.\u00a0 That means that the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit were all involved in making man.\u00a0 MAKE:\u00a0 Mold into shape, create, form from nothing, cause to exist (1828 Webster\u2019s Dictionary)\u00a0 The word asah used in this verse describes God\u2019s creative ability (Hebrew-Greek Study Bible).<\/p>\n

MAN:\u00a0 Adam refers to generic man as the image of God, the crown of His creation, distinct from the rest of creation.\u00a0 God created human beings by a special immediate act.\u00a0 God put Adam and Eve in a position of honor and had great plans for them (Hebrew-Greek Study Bible).<\/p>\n

IN OUR IMAGE, AFTER OUR LIKENESS:\u00a0 We are like God in our nature because He made us like Him, in His image, with His qualities.<\/p>\n

AND LET THEM HAVE DOMINION:\u00a0 Strong\u2019s Concordance and Webster\u2019s 1828 Dictionary tell us that dominion means to rule and to reign with supreme authority.\u00a0 It is the sense of being in charge.\u00a0 God gave us authority over the earth like He has authority over us.\u00a0 He delegated His authority to us to take care of the place He has created for us to live in.<\/p>\n

AND GOD BLESSED:\u00a0 The word \u201cblessed\u201d means to be prosperous, to enjoy happiness and the favor of God, the enjoyment of good, great joy.\u00a0 God intended for us to enjoy life in the fullness in every aspect—-spirit, soul, body, socially, financially.<\/p>\n

FRUITFUL, MULTIPLY:\u00a0 Increase, excel, produce in abundance.\u00a0 Everything we touch is blessed and prospers and comes to maturity.\u00a0 We must see that in our mind\u2019s eye.\u00a0 We were created with God\u2019s ability to multiply and increase and produce abundance, which is overflow in every area of life.<\/p>\n

REPLENISH:\u00a0 Keep filled up and fully supplied<\/p>\n

SUBDUE:\u00a0 Conquer, tread down, bring into subjection, implies a permanence of conquering<\/p>\n

God created the earth, delegated His authority to Adam and gave Adam the command to operate as a king in this earth, under God\u2019s direction as The King.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

AUTHORITY AND POWER, PART 1 As God\u2019s children we operate in two different ways:\u00a0 (1)\u00a0 We enter into the intimacy of God\u2019s personal presence and worship and honor him in all our ways, walking in the fullness of His Love and enjoying a Father relationship with Him.\u00a0 (2)\u00a0 On the other hand, we are great […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kspministries.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1994"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kspministries.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kspministries.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kspministries.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kspministries.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1994"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.kspministries.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2101,"href":"http:\/\/www.kspministries.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1994\/revisions\/2101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kspministries.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kspministries.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kspministries.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}