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“God put his power in our hands”

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“When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained; What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him? For thou hast made him a little lower than angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honor. Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet.”

Psalms 8:3-6

I struggled for many years, thinking my success was dependent on other people rather it was the banker who was willingly to give me a loan or an employer who was willing to pay me a salary. I was dependent on credit cards to put gas in my car.

Sometimes I was successful, other times I burned out on the side of the road. I was stuck working other people’s visions.

I saw something in the word of God that changed my perspective on life. I saw that God had a vision. Although I read this scripture thousands of times, it finally came alive in my heart. It is one of those secrets from the garden of Eden that changed my life forever!

God created man in his image to be like him

“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.”

Genesis 1:26 (KJV)

God created man in his image! Genesis chapter 1, show us an image of God of which he was deliberately creating the heavens and the earth. He took pleasure in each created act and he said it was good and he blessed it and said, multiply! You never seen God depressed, angry, bitter or frustrated. The only time this occurs is because man turned the earth into cess pool.

God created us in his image after his likeness! God created us to act like him. When God wanted something he planted a seed, which became a fruit tree yielding fruit.

When God wanted fruit that could produce eternal life, he planted a seed that became a tree that yielded fruit called the tree of life. We see that same process in Revelation 22:2!

God’s Vision for Man

“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.”

Genesis 1:28 (KJV)

Adam inherited a fully functioning system

Adam inherited a fully functioning system; all he had to was work the system. God gave him dominion, seed and fruit trees for the vision. God said,

“And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall for meat. And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so.””

Genesis 1:29-30

Seed was designed by God to transmit life. God designed fruit trees for generating fruit which produced a multitude of fruit. Seed is provision. Seed is pro-vision. Seed is for the vision.

Seed communicates vision. God said, to Abraham, ‘your seed shall be as the stars of heaven and as the sand on the seashore’ Genesis 15:5 & Genesis 22:17.

The problem we encounter when it comes to understanding seed is, we only see seed as one dimensional, in its herbal form. Seed comes in many forms. For example, when God addressed the serpent in Genesis 3:15 God said, ‘I will put enmity between thy seed and her seed and the seed of the woman shall bruise your head and you shall bruise his heel.’

Genesis 3:15 also reveals something else! The serpent gained seed out of the transaction that took place in the garden of Eden. In the parable of the sower sows word, Jesus said,

“He answer and said unto them, He that soweth the good seed is the Son of man; The field is the world; the good seed are the children of the kingdom; but the tares are the children of the wicked one; the enemy that sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the end of the world; and the reapers are the angels.” Matthew 13:37-39

How did Satan birth these children? The same way God birth his children. The seed of the word of God is sown in the heart and a persons believes it and are born again by the power of the Holy Spirit.

Satan has a multitude of people rapping his lyrics (satan’s seed) and people are acting on and giving birth to Satan’s vision.

  • The Word of God is compared to incorruptible seed, 1 Peter 1:23-25
  • The seed which the LORD God hath blessed, Isaiah 61:9

The system that was created in the beginning exists today and is called the kingdom of God. It works on the same principles as in the as in the beginning.

Jesus compared the kingdom of God to the smallest of seed,

“And he said, Whereunto shall we liken the kingdom of God? or with what comparison shall we compare it? It is like a grain of mustard seed, which, when it is sown in the earth, is less than all the seeds that be in the earth: but when it is sown , it groweth up, and becometh greater than all herbs, and shooteth out great branches; so that the fowls of the air may lodge under the shadow of it.”

Mark 4:30-32

While the world’s system is getting more technologically advance in its money making operations, the kingdom of God will outlast them all.

“Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which can not be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear: for our God is a consuming fire.”

Hebrews 12:28

Why is it important that we reconcile the works of our hands in alignment with the kingdom of God? For one thing, all of our works shall be tried by fire. God is going to shake all things.

“For thus saith the LORD of hosts, Yet once, it is a little while, and I will shake the heavens, and the earth, and the sea, and the dry land; and
I will shake all nations, and the desire of all nations shall come: and I will fill this house with glory, saith the LORD of host. The silver is mine, and the gold is mine, saith the LORD of hosts. The glory of the latter house shall be greater than of the former, saith the LORD of hosts: and in this place will I give peace, saith the LORD of hosts.”

Haggai 2:6-9 (KJV)

There is coming a judgment. God is going to shake all things. He is going to shake the heavens, the earth, the sea and the dry land. There will be a redistribution of wealth. God is the legal rightful owner of all things. The first family, Adam and Eve, were given stewardship responsibility in creation. They were given an assignment and that assignment has not changed.

Sow Seed

“But this I say, He which soweth sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he which soweth bountifully shall reap also bountifully. Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, or of necessity: FOR GOD LOVETH A CHEERFUL GIVER. AND GOD IS ABLE TO MAKE ALL GRACE ABOUND TOWARD YOU; THAT YE, ALWAYS HAVING ALL SUFFICIENCY IN ALL THINGS, MAY ABOUND TO EVERY GOOD WORK.”

2 Corinthians 9:6-8 (KJV)

Personal Testimony

There are so many ways to sow seed. I sowed seed for years through volunteer work. But my most effective way of sowing seed has been through giving money. I sow seed into ministries, mission organizations and those ministries who feed the poor. There was one season, where I gave money to the customers of the Dollar Store. I would walk up and ask someone, “Can I be a blessing to you” and I would put a $20.00 bill in their hand. God always multiplied my seed for sowing. He always blessed me to be a blessing!

God’s Vision vs. Man’s Vision

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God’s vision versus man’s vision!

There are three categories of visions:

  1. God has a vision for man.
  2. Man has his own vision.
  3. Satan has a vision for man.

We get stuck in the latter two categories, that is, our own vision and Satan’s vision. God’s vision is the best vision.

If you want to know what Satan’s vision look like, look around you. It is a world full of chaos, pain, sorrow, death, destruction and trouble.

If you want to know what our vision look like, look around you as well. If there is sickness, sorrow, disease, and broken promises; it is because we have had help from the wicked one in crafting our image.

The image of God has been marred in us.

When the image of God is marred, it causes everything around us to be marred. Marred according to the Bible means “to destroy,” “to disfigure,” “to damage” See Nahum 2:2, Leviticus 19:27; 2 kings 3:19; Isaiah 52:14; Jeremiah 13:9

It is difficult to get things right when you function from a marred reality. For example, in my earlier Christian walk, I saw myself as defeated, so I made decisions based on that image. I saw myself as broke and I borrowed heavily to put gas in my car and to finance my ministry.

Proverbs 18:22, “The rich ruleth over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender.”

I became a servant to the lender. I remember many days standing in line to pay my credit card bill and my house mortgage payment. If I was late, they charged me a late fee. When the credit card provider went up on their interest rate, they said, “if you don’t agree, stop using the card.” I was so dependent on credit that I had developed a lifestyle around credit debt.

Every year I received a credit card statement of the total interest paid during the year. It always came out to over $1,000.00. Now that I am debt-free, I have money in my savings account more than the credit card debt I was carrying. I made about $1.44 in interest off my savings. I could have invested my money in a higher interest bearing account. But what I am talking about is three different visions; God’s vision, man’s vision and Satan’s vision.

God has storehouses in heaven. He instructs us to store treasure in heaven where moth can’t eat, rust corrode or thieves breakthrough and steal.

The difference between the two visions; my vision and the world’s vision is slavery. I was plowing other people’s fields.

“The global debt reached 305 trillion American dollars in 2022, including debt by both public and private debtors.” Global debt- Wikipedia

Coming out of the debtor’s prison

“And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.” Romans 12:2

I realized, if I was going to come out of slavery to man, I had to get God’s vision. God doesn’t borrow money. He doesn’t suffer depression. He doesn’t eat out of garbage cans. He doesn’t beg for a loan. He isn’t starving!

I wish I could say the transformation was over night. It wasn’t. It was gradual, little by little, I slowly came out debt! I made a decision that I wasn’t going be in debt to man. I started giving and sowing. The harvests came in and I was able to pay off my mortgage, credit card and put a new roof on my house debt-free.

God created us in his image

In Genesis 1:26, God said, let us make man in our image after our likeness: and let them have dominion over…

You have to accept the fact that you are created in the image of God. God never changed his mind about making man in his image.

The truth is, God did something about the marred image of himself in man.

“Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.” 2 Corinthians 5:17

He did something more, he sent his Son Jesus Christ to tell us what his will is

Hebrews 1:2-3,

“Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds; whom being the brightness of his glory, and the express imagine of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of his Majesty on high.”

We can also see what God is like by reading the Bible, especially these four chapters among many others that gives us a picture of what is the true image of God; Genesis, chapters 1-2 and Revelation chapters 20-22 presents a picture of the image of God.

Genesis 1:26 (KJV)

“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.”

God uses the word “over” five times to communicate his vision for Adam and Eve. For example, God wanted them to manage the earth. They were to reproduce heaven on earth. They were to create things by speaking words! Like God did and still does!

“Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.”

The Communication Void

The communication void is the big issue. There is a chasm between what God created us to be and what we are now! We must fill that chasm by speaking God’s word into void.

Pray for God to open our eyes so that we can see what he wants us to see. Pray for God to open our ears so that we can hear clearly what he wants us to hear.

“And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.”

Today, I encourage you to speak light into your darkness, into the empty void of pain, sickness, disease, and lack. God created you in his image and likeness!

Grace and peace!