God gave us dominion!

In life’s crisis sometimes we feel less than strong, far from feeling dominion, burdened, enslaved by the fears and concerns. But God gave man dominion over all things. He put everything under man’s feet (power) so that Man is the free born not the enslaved by matter, by cares, by fears.

It is said in the very first book, the very first chapter of the Holy Bible in Genesis, “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 thing that creepeth upon the earth. So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. 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 in the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.”¹

Dominion is the “Sovereign or supreme authority; the power of governing and controlling. Power to direct, control, use and dispose of at pleasure; right of possession and use…Territory under a government; …right of governing…” Man has been given dominion not enslavement! Man has been given ‘sovereign or supreme authority’. Are we acting like we have dominion? Or are we bowing down to all the hardships this life is throwing at us?

David questions and marvels in his Psalms, “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 the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour. Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet:”²

We have been given dominion. To practice dominion is to learn how to say, “NO” to all falsehoods. To those things that are not like God, the lies, fears, temptations, doubts, concerns, based upon the serpentine suggestions of all errors concerning the truth about God and Man. These falsehoods can and must be removed from our thoughts and lives. God is good, perfect, All. Man is His perfect image and likeness. He cannot be anything less than God’s perfection as His image and likeness. Therefore the false conclusions, the aggressive demonic suggestions, the lies put upon man must and can be removed. Man is Godlike. When he knows what he is as ***God’s offspring, all that God is is manifested through Man, God’s image. Man has the dominion to stop following lies and instead see himself as reflecting all that God has made him to be, perfect, whole, and free.

Let us today start thinking of ourselves as God’s image and likeness. Let us see how those thoughts help us gain dominion over the enslaving beliefs of fear, doubt, concerns and sickness. Because God cannot fear, be in doubt of His Perfection, concerned about the future or any lack, nor can God be sick or die, in actuality neither can His perfect image and likeness, Man. Let us regain our dominion through His Truth, Life and Love. Let us start taking back our lives through the simple but strong statement, “NO” and the why, because we are God’s offspring.

Gentle Hugs

1 The King James Version of The Holy Bible Genesis 1: 26-28
2 ibid Psalms 8 vss. 4-6

God is trustworthy...NOTHING is impossible to Him

It is said, “with God nothing shall be impossible.”1

The only way that we can follow this line of thinking is by trusting.  The only way we can trust anything or anyone is by magnifying their trustworthiness.  One would not and could not trust their money to a bank robber. One wouldn’t trust their home to an arsonist.  One wouldn’t trust their children to…you get the point.  So we must see that our trust must be placed in one who is trustable.  The only way we can trust God is to have as much knowledge, understanding and experience with this perfect All-knowing Mind and witness to His guidance in our days, weeks, months and years. 

The only way we can trust that ‘nothing is impossible’ to God is by turning to Him consistently, persistently, through higher and higher experiences.  Each step of the way His abilities, that guide our daily lives, are revealed as we turn to Him for all answers. In this consistency we do learn to trust Him for everything.  Through meekness, childlike trust, and through study of the Bible we see that God is ever-available, ever-present, the Omnipotent (all-powerful) Supreme Being that is here for us all to turn to and trust.  We learn that we must turn to Him for everything, for He is everything that there is.  He fills all-space as Spirit.  He creates all as Soul.  He knows all as Mind.  His gentleness is to be magnified because He is Love.  His Law is the Principle of the universe.  He is Life to all life.  The more we learn this the more we can see, feel, trust, and know that ‘nothing is impossible’ to God, The Truth.

“Trustworthiness is the foundation of enlightened faith.”2

The more we learn, study, grow in our understanding of God who is to be trusted we can see that all-things are possible to Him, there is nothing that He cannot do.  This includes healing us of all complications, all challenges, all issues that have made us feel less than perfect, whole, complete, healthy. God give to us a higher view of what and how He knows us.  We can trust this view.  This perfect view heals us.  There is nothing that God cannot heal.  God, being all-Good, brings to view our all-goodness.  He is ever-present, ever-available, ever-willing.  We can trust Him and His perfect viewpoint of us.  He sees us as we are, perfect.  We can turn to this view and be healed of anything and all.  We can see that ‘WITH God nothing shall be impossible’ to God.

Need healing?  Go to Him who is all Perfect, learn His ways, His perfect view of us all. Trust that His healing presence includes all, even you, me, us. WE can demonstrate that nothing is impossible to God.  We can turn to him and be healed.

"The Hebrew and Greek words often translated belief differ somewhat in meaning from that conveyed by the English verb believe; they have more the significance of faith, understanding, trust, constancy, firmness.  Hence the Scriptures often appear in our common version to approve and endorse belief, when they mean to enforce the necessity of understanding." 3

We must get more understanding so that we may exchange our beliefs to trust, doubt to faith, fear to constancy and firmness in the real of What God is...the Truth, Life, Mind, the power, ability, creator, the God who is Love. 

Nothing is impossible to God!  We can understand this and trust Him.

Gentle hugs

1 Luke 1:37
2 Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy 15:30-31
3 ibid 488:7-13