The desire to be in charge, the desire to rule and reign is a God given desire to us who are created in the image of God. Yahweh is ruler of the nations and we who are created in His image have been given dominion over all of creation. The desire to take dominion is not an evil desire, it is a God given desire. The challenge is, the enemy of our soul knows we were created with a dominion mandate, but in true demonic fashion, it has been twisted in order to get us to rule over one another, rather than to rule over creation. 

Psalm 8:5-8 says, “What honor you have given to men, created only a little lower than Elohim, crowned with glory and magnificence. You have delegated to them rulership over all you have made, with everything under their authority, placing earth itself under the feet of your image-bearers. All the created order and every living thing of the earth, sky, and sea— the wildest beasts and all that move in the paths of the sea— everything is in submission to Adam’s sons.” 

King David is telling us we have been given dominion over: Abundance; harvest; creation; land; the waters; animals; every created thing is in submission to us. The enemy tells us we have dominion over other people, but we do not have dominion over other people, we have dominion over creation. No wonder Romans 8 says, all of creation is awaiting the manifestation of the sons of God. Creation is waiting for us to take dominion. 

We get frustrated, go to war, fight, strive, and steal all because we want dominion over other people, and they won’t let us control them because we do not have authority over them. Church, it is a full time job to take dominion over creation and if we did it together, as image bearers of God, we would have so much work to do, but the enemy has convinced us we get to have dominion over other people, so we are making little progress in our calling over creation because we are fighting with other image bearers. It’s time to take dominion away from ruling other people and to start taking dominion over creation. Creation is already submitted to us, but we have not been ruling over it. You have been given dominion, rule over creation and watch it yield its increase to you!!!!