We were formed and birthed into the very Likeness and Image of our Heavenly Father. We were made to have dominion and authority over all the things of this earth. We learn from Genesis 1:26 (Amplified) that, "When God had made man in His Image, He gave them authority and dominion over everything."
We all understand, or at least have probably heard, how Adam fell and how the authority God gave him was transferred, by fault, into satan's hands. Jesus came to "Seek and to save that which was lost," according to Luke 1:10 (Amplified). We've always taken this scripture means "saving" mankind, but the truth is that Jesus came to restore all things. Not only were God's children lost, but the work and all of God's creation was taken into captivity as the result of Adam's fall. Luke 4:5-7 (Amplified) says, "Then the devil took Him (Jesus) up to the high mountain and showed Him all the kingdoms of the habitable world in a moment of time (in the twinkling of an eye)." Verses 6-7 says, "And he said to Him, To you I will give all this power and authority and all their glory (all their magnificence, excellence, pre-eminence, dignity, and grace) for it has been turned over to me, and I give it to whomever I will. Therefore if you will do homage to and worship me (just once), it shall all be Yours."
All the authority and the dominion that God gave Adam in the Garden of Eden, along with everything God had given to His children, was transferred to satan. Jesus came to "seek and save that which was lost," including everything, man and creature. We've been restored, by the new birth, back into His Image and Likeness.
We've only walked in a very limited facet of this Image and Likeness. And, we've mostly believed we'll only be in His Image when we get to heaven. This isn't what Jesus did or what He came to do. It's true that we're forgiven and made in right standing with our Father, but that doesn't mean these things are only for when we get to heaven. We are to take back that which satan stole through deception in the Garden of Eden.
As God's children, we have the attributes and character of our Heavenly Father. Since we are made in His Image and Likeness, we are to be like His children. We were created to rule over the works of His hands and to have His authority rule through us in the sonship rights.
There are many things involved with our earth walk. The things we watched our Lord Jesus do, were things given by our Father to His entire family. We weren't to get born again in the spirit only to go to heaven, but to bring more heaven to this earth.
The Lord has revealed so much to today's last days Church that were discarded or passed over by the religious teachers of previous days. If we're now made into His Image and Likeness, then there are things we need to know about our heritage. We can trace our earthly heritage and lineage today via the computer. We can learn where and who we came from fairly quickly and easily, today.
We need to find out who we are in our Spiritual heritage. Everything God is, He has placed in us through the new birth. We are of His flesh and Blood creation. I've long heard and studied about how my Father acts and does. Jesus told us that, "When we see Him, we see the Father." So, everything I see Jesus say and do reflects my blood and heritage from the Father.
Did you ever notice how when the Father created all things, it was through His spoken Word? Did you ever notice how Jesus used the very same MO in His earthly walk? Jesus spoke to the storm, He spoke to the dead, He spoke to unclean spirits, He spoke to trees and to blind eyes and no matter what He spoke, He got results just like His Father.
John 3:34 (Amplified) says, "For since He Whom God has sent speaks the Words of God (proclaims God's Own message)." God doesn't give Jesus His Spirit sparingly or by measure, but God gives His Spirit boundlessly. God could trust what Jesus said and could back it all up with His Own power because it was His Own Word. The Holy Spirit could bring to pass everything Jesus said, just like He had done in the beginning. He never needed to screen Jesus' Words because He had the full assurance that what was said was God truth.
Many Christians have a problem with the teaching of "you have what you say" and call it "blab it and grab it." Some have taken that teaching out of context and some have dismissed it completely. Both are wrong. Read the Book of James (especially chapter 3) to find some very interesting things about the "words of our mouths." Speaking God's Word is one of "Great attributes" found in the very Image of our Father for our new lives.
Jesus was always conscience of what He said and how He said it. Our Father, Who was the One Who walked in and through Jesus, held the same power in His Words when He said, "Light be."
I believe that once we, as being in God's Image and Likeness, begin speaking His Word, instead of just saying things without understand the power of the spoken Word, will begin seeing results in our lives and the lives of those around us. Can you imagine what would happen if God were to release the power of the spoken Word in the Church like He did with Jesus?
Jesus spoke many times throughout the four Gospels, about what we should say. Mark 11:21 (Amplified) says Jesus spoke to a fig tree that had no fruit and "Peter brought it to the attention of Jesus, and all those present, that the fig tree had withered and died." Jesus commented on what happened to Peter saying in Verse 23, "Truly I tell you, whoever says to this mountain, Be lifted up and thrown into the sea! and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says will take place, it will be done for him."
Some might say that Jesus wasn't speaking about a literal mountain, but He was speaking allegorically. Was it a literal fig tree that died or was it an allegorical one? Have we simply denied the power of words in the mouth of God's people? Or, is it that our words do have power, but not selection. Could it be that if we spoke God's Own Words, like Jesus did, then we could have the results that Jesus did?
It's true that the characteristics of my earthly father have come through me and into my personality. Why wouldn't the characteristics of my Heavenly Father do the same? Were my earthly father's genes more prolific than God's? Have we overlooked the genes of our Heavenly Father and limited His life in and through us?
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