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Dominion is your birthright!

It was bestow upon us when God said,

“…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.”

We give away our dominion

Dominion means to take over. God started the work of creation, and then he created the man and woman to manage it. The seventh day of creation was a day of celebration. God invited Adam and Eve on the seventh day to enjoy the fruit of  works of his hands.

Creation is a partnership. Dominion is an integral part of that partnership. God also  gave him infinite power in the form of the river of God (Revelation 22:1).

Adam and Eve gave away their dominion when they broke the covenant with God, when they ate the forbidden fruit, their sacrifice.

Third Party

They invited the Serpent into the partnership. The Serpent gained seed in the fall. GOD SAID in Genesis 3:15 to the Serpent

‘I will put perpetual warfare between thy seed and her seed. It shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel.’

The head represents authority, and the heel represents dominion.

Man gives dominion away through choice. The thief comes to steal, kill, and destroy. Much like what happened to Adam and Eve, when they ate the forbidden fruit, their sacrifice. They took the fruit and lost dominion over creation.

You give your dominion away when you agree with a third party to meet your needs. The borrower is the lender’s servant.

God’s way is SEED (Genesis 1:29). All seeds are supernatural. Seed was designed by God to transmit life. Seed is living. Money is dead. Seed is PRO-VISION. Seed was designed by God to carry out the vision of creation.

In Isaiah 55:8-9, God says,

“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD. For as the heavens are higher than the earth , so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts. For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returned not thither, but watered the earth, and makes it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the Sower, and bread to the eater: so shall my word be that goth forth out of my mouth: it shall return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing thereto I sent it.”

The good news is that God never walked away from his original plan. God never took away your dominion.

The problem is that most people are highly developed in a sin consciousness instead of God’s image and likeness. 

People are highly developed in the ways of the world. They want other people to fight their battles. Israel told Samuel, ‘Give us a man to go before us and fight our battles.’ I  Samuel 8:19-22.

In Exodus 32:1, ‘They told Aaron, ‘Up Make us gods which shall go before us…” They got the golden calf, and that became cursed to them.

People are much like the children of Israel. They are begging the world to meet their needs.

The truth is, the Revelation of Dominion is given to those who are humble. Luke 10:17-20

“And the seventy returned again with joy, saying, Lord, even the devils are subject unto us through thy name. And he said unto them, I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven. Behold, I GIVE UNTO YOU POWER to tread on SERPENTs and SCORPIONS, and over ALL  the POWER of the enemy: and nothing shall BY ANY MEANS HURT YOU.”

Genesis 3:15 became a reality

“In that hour Jesus rejoiced in spirit, and said, I thank thee O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and REVEALED them unto babes: even so, Father; for so it seemed good in thy sight.”

Luke 10:21

Secrets from the Garden of Eden, God’s Blueprint for Eternal Life

It took me over 30 years to write this book. I have been in public service all my life. I served four years in the Marine Corp. Fourteen years in the Postal Service. I have been in pastoral ministry for thirty-nine years. I served as a Detroit Police Chaplain for 22 years. I served as a chaplain in the Wayne County Jail, Dickerson Dentention Facility, and the Detroit Rescue Mission.

I served in prayer groups during this time. I also served in a community center.

I pray once a week with a pastor from the AME CHURCH. I also pray three nights a week with my  prayer partners.

Applying the principles of this book changed my life from being in debt to being debt free. From being the tail to being the head. My wife healed of cancer simply by applying the principles of the Word of God.

You get the benefits of the book and much  more on WordPress website.

Grace & peace

God Establishes a Testimony…

In God, We Trust

God established a testimony

God established a testimony that he commands to be passed down to the succeeding generations so that they might set their hope in God, Psalms 78:5

That testimony consists of all the mighty acts of God. His miracles, deliverance, and daily provision and daily acts of grace and mercy.

The purpose of the testimony is to build faith and confidence in God’s goodness and mercy

When Israel got to the promised land, a land flowing with milk and honey, a land God watched over from the beginning of the year to the end of the year. Deuteronomy 11:12 literally says, “a land God is seeking,” which is what he planned in Genesis 1& 2. He gave them days of heaven on earth.

God was establishing a testimony. Moses told them, ‘When you eat and are full, and all that you have is increased, your gold, silver, and all the works of your hands. You shall remember that it was God who gave you power to get wealth. Lest your hearts be lifted in pride, and you say, “My hand has gotten me this wealth.”

Moses said, and this is important, ‘But you shall remember that it was God who gave you power to get wealth that he might establish his covenant, which he swore to your fathers.’

Israel was commanded to profess over the first fruits of the land

God commanded the people to bring the first fruit of their harvest to the priest of the land. They were to make a series of professions over the produce: that God brought them into the promised land. God delivered them from Egypt.  God brought them into a place flowing with milk and honey. That this is the fruit of the promises God gave to Abraham, Issac, and Jacob.’ (See Deuteronomy 26:1-15)

God was not only establishing a testimony in Israel, but he was also witnessing to the nations, according to Acts 14:17

“Who in times past suffered all nations to walk in their ways. Nevertheless he left not himself without witness, in that he did good, and gave us rain from heaven, and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness.”

God is good to all, and his tender mercies are all over the works of his hands. He is of great mercies.

James 1:17, “Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness neither shadow of turning.”

Look around and count the blessings. The food, water, clothing, transportation, provision, deliverance, etc., all of it comes from God.

Jesus taught in the LORDS Prayer, “Give us this day our daily bread. “Thy will be done on earth as it is heaven.“

The problem is unthankfulness for the daily blessings of God. Inability to recognize or appreciate them, the little miracles, and daily bread. When the big challenges hit in life, there will be no confidence in God to provide, even though he has already made provision.

This is our testimony

“And they overcame him (Satan) by the blood of the Lamb, and by the Word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death.” Revelation 12:11

“Thou openest thine hand, and satisfiest the desire of every living.” Psalms 145:16

Jesus said, “If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, HOW MUCH MORE SHALL your Father which is in heaven GIVE GOOD THINGS to them that ask him? Matthew 7:11

Jesus also said,

“The thief comes to steal, kill, and destroy:  I am come that they might have life, and that they might have life and have it more abundantly.” John 10:10

Every good and every perfect gift comes down from above.

There is nothing wrong with the Giver.

There is nothing wrong with the gift.

It is in the ability to receive!

Grace & peace be multiplied to you!

Don’t Be Like the Gentiles!

In Matthew 6, Jesus said the Gentiles are preoccupied with seeking food, water, and clothing.

Jesus’ direction to his disciples is powerful because it points to the Father’s goal, rooted in restoring the blessing of the Garden of Eden, his original design.

In Jesus’ teaching in Matthew 6, the Gentiles represent the nations without covenant with God. The first time I came to understand what Jesus was speaking, it started me on a journey of seeing the world differently and seeing the kingdom as God’s plan for provision and the future.

Jesus starts this conversation by saying,  “You can not serve God and money.”

He said,

“If God so clothed the grass of the field, which today is, and to morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith.”

Jesus then made reference to food, water, and clothes. He said, “Take no thought for these things,

“For after all these things do the Gentiles seek.”

Jesus said, “Seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these other things shall be added unto you.”

There are articles on this platform that deal specifically with God’s righteousness. 

The kingdom of God is on a whole other level. The world is in chaos and confusion. The economies of many nations favor the rich and the few chosen.

But God’s kingdom is given to the poor, rich in faith.

“Hearken, my beloved brethren, hath not God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he hath promised to the that love him?” James 2:5

This promise doesn’t mean anything to those who do not understand nor appreciate “their inheritance in Christ.”

You see, according to James 1:17

“Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.”

There is nothing wrong with Giver or the gift. Both are perfect and good. The problem is with the receiver.

Grace and peace!