May 2022 – Dominion Winning Secrets

“You did not choose Me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain, that whatever you ask the Father in My name He may give you” (John 15:16).

We welcome you to the fifth month of this year in which every siege in our lives has been terminated. Last month, the LORD taught us the methodology and explosive power of the four dimensions of the Holy Spirit. Notably, the Holy Spirit was given to you to do the works of Him that sent you, and doing so completely, not for eating hamburgers. In John 4:34, “Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of Him Who sent Me, and to finish His work.” This amplifies what the Master said in John 15:16.  

This month, the focus is on the divine champion’s privileges afforded by the availability of secrets to win dominion. We need to understand what accrues to us by the complete work of Jesus at Calvary and by the infilling of the Holy Spirit. There are innumerable possessions that become reality in our lives by virtue of our relationship with Jesus Christ. Genesis 1:28 clearly outlines the dominion secrets of which we speak. It says, “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.”

The winning secrets to maintain your dominion as a bonafide born again, sanctified, and Holy Ghost-empowered child of the living God are as follows:

1. Fruitfulness: Fruitfulness is to increase, reproduce, multiply and is covenanted by God. The earth, land and man all have fruitfulness locked inside them. When all conditions are fulfilled, the earth (Psalm 67:5-6), the land and your life will yield their abundant increase and fruitfulness according to the Creator’s mandate. The word ‘fruit’ is used about 55 times in the New Testament and refers to: (i) repentance (Matthew 3:8); (ii) Kingdom living (Matthew 7:16-21); (iii) answered prayer (John 15:7-8); (iv) giving to God (Romans 15:26-28); and (v) winning the lost (Romans 1:13). The truth is God want us to be fruitful!  Fruitfulness is God’s will for every Christian and every church.

Let me congratulate you for your fruitfulness by saying to you: “REHOBOTH.” That is, the LORD has made room for you, and you shall be fruitful in the land, in Jesus’ Name.

2. Diligence: Diligence is defined as constant and earnest effort to accomplish what is undertaken; persistent exertion of body or mind. Simply put, it is hard work. Diligence is investing the best of one’s time and energy and resources in the pursuit of a given task. It has been proven that only hard workers become highflyers.
3. It is not just being busy, but being productively engaged and focused in the pursuit of a given task. Ecclesiastes 10:18 says, “Because of laziness the building decays, And through idleness of hands the house leaks.” Not being engaged in the achievement of a goal results in one’s continuous loss of value. Whereas, through diligence, one’s value is enhanced.
4. Prioritizing the Word of God above one’s circumstances: Peter toiled all night and caught nothing. Luke 5:4-5 says, “When He had stopped speaking, He said to Simon, “Launch out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch.” But Simon answered and said to Him, “Master, we have toiled all night and caught nothing; nevertheless, at Your word I will let down the net.” The light of the word is the fire of faith. When light comes from the word, it fires one’s faith.
   1. The ability to find the Word for your Life:  Jos. 1:8,” This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success.”
   1. 5 things to do to grow in the word: Read, Hear, Study, Memorize and Meditate on the Word
5. Obedience: The story and life lesson of Naaman is that of complete obedience (2 Kings 5:1-19). Naaman was a noble man, a captain in the camp of Syria, and yet, a leper. Thankfully, he had an encounter which resulted in a relationship with the God of the Hebrews, the God of mercy. 

• The prophet of God asked him to go bathe in River Jordan. After dipping himself 7 times in the river, his skin was like that of a baby (2 Kings 5:10,14). Not only was the leprosy taken away, but his skin was fully restored.
• Your glory shall be restored, sickness and disease shall be no more, in Jesus’ Name; just obey His Word!
• Naaman almost lost the opportunity of a lifetime by his initial inclination to disobey the word of Prophet Elisha (2 Kings 5:11-12).
  • Just keep dipping! This is not the time to give up; miracles are for the persistent and obedient, not the wishful.
• As we read the rest of Naaman’s story in 2 Kings 5:15-19, we see that Naaman’s encounter with God caused genuine repentance. He submitted himself to God with a declaration that essentially said Jesus Is LORD! Obedience will bring you to the door of the kingdom. Imagine that!
  •  Naaman became invested in following Jehovah so he could be made and counted as a disciple of the One True God, Elohim.
  • The reading ends with Elisha giving Naaman his blessing to continue in the service of the King of Syria even while living as a worshipper of Jehovah.

5. Praying & Fasting: The value of prayer is its divine empowerment of a man to pursue his pursuers, overtake them and recover all that had been stolen or taken away from him. James 5:16-17 say, “Confess your trespasses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The effective, fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much. Elijah was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed earnestly that it would not rain; and it did not rain on the land for three years and six months.” In addition, Mark 9:29 says, “So He said to them, “This kind can come out by nothing but prayer and fasting.”

Prayer is communication with God. It is an invitation to God and Heaven to intervene and invade our world, situations, and communities. The value of prayer is its divine empowerment of a man to pursue his pursuers, overtake them and recover all that had been stolen or taken away from him

• Jesus said something very profound in the parable of the unjust judge
• He taught that God would grant answers to prayer when prayer is persistent. “Shall God not avenge His own elect who are out day and night to Him?” Luke 18:7. Anyone who refuses to pray will end up a prey. Prayer has the ability to release the promised blessings, delayed blessings and detained blessings.
• Men may spurn our appeal, reject our message, oppose our argument, and despise our person, but they are helpless against our prayers. Will you pray?

6. Being filled with the wine of God’s Spirit: When the wine of the Spirit is upon you, you are full of power to function supernaturally. 2 Timothy 1:7 says, “For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.” When you transact with God’s Spirit, you are enabled to move with authority and audacity. We are encouraged to build this capacity for enablement. Jude 1:20 says, “But you, beloved, building yourselves up on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit.”
   • As explained last month, of the Overflowing or Swimming depth – Ezekiel 47:5; “And again, he measured one thousand, and it was a river that I could not crossed; for the river was too deep, water in which one must swim, a river that could not be crossed”  The river is deepest, and the current is fastest at the center. We need to be in the center of God’s will before we can experience the fullness of the river of God.    At the swimming depth, the river takes us wherever the river flows. The river controls us. We do not control the Holy Spirit. It is a picture of a Christian yielded to the Holy Spirit.
7. Thanksgiving and praise: Both thanksgiving and praise are important in this warfare (Paul & Silas – Acts 16:16-26). We must thank God for what He has already done while continually praising Him for Who He Is. Luke 17:17 says, “So Jesus answered and said, “Were there not ten cleansed? But where are the nine?” When you learn to thank and praise God, you will be made whole (Luke 17:19).

Dominion Can Be Lost:

If care is not taken to constantly ensure the presence of the winning secrets above, one’s dominion can be lost. It can be lost by carelessness, arrogance, disobedience, or lawlessness. Saul, the first king of Israel, is a classic example of someone who had dominion but lost it (1 Samuel 15:1-30). He was not only disobedient, but also unrepentant. He chose to enjoy popularity among the people over obedience and submission to God. Yet, he eventually lost this desired popularity when God’s grace departed from him. To his face, the women of Israel sang that “…Saul has slain his thousands, And David his ten thousand” (1 Samuel 18:7).

Dominion can attract fame and popularity. However, if care is not taken, these can make one lose his or her dominion. In that eventuality, the individual is left with nothing, thus becoming a shadow of his or her former self. Beloved, one can only have dominion by virtue of being a new creature in Jesus Christ.  Come to Jesus today and have everlasting dominion (2 Corinthians 5:17).

PRAYERS:

• Thank You, Father, for the gift of the Holy Spirit. LORD, I accept the friendship of the Holy Spirit; help me to live up to heaven’s expectations of me, by Your grace and mercy, in Jesus’ Name.
• Jacob had to die for Israel to emerge. Father, let me die to every work of the flesh in instead yield myself to manifest all of the fruit of the Spirit daily (Galatians 5:18-23).  
• “Thy people shall be willing in the day of Thy power, in the beauties of holiness from the womb of the morning: Thou hast the dew of Thy youth” (Psalm 110:3). May today be my day of restored power and righteousness, in Jesus’ Name.
• Amos 9:13 says, “Behold, the days are coming,” says the LORD, “When the plowman shall overtake the reaper, And the treader of grapes him who sows seed; The mountains shall drip with sweet wine, And all the hills shall flow with it.” I receive the manifestation of Amos 9:13 into my life. I decree that the days described are already here for me, in Jesus’ Name.
• I decree that every garment of forgetfulness, reproach, disgrace and shame upon my life and destiny is hereby torn by the fire of the Holy Ghost, in Jesus’ Name.
• Right now, I receive the magnetic anointing that attracts help, divine connection, divine collection, favor and all the pleasant things of life, in Jesus’ Name.
• Father, I receive the grace to discipline myself in the pursuit of the winning secrets of dominion that I may attain my destiny and fulfill my purpose in life for Your glory, in Jesus’ Name.