Abundant Grace for Dominion
But remember the LORD your God, for it is he who gives you the ability to produce wealth, and so confirms his covenant, which he swore to your ancestors, as it is today. (Deut 8:18)
During the Prayer and Revival Week, we have been called upon to receive grace upon grace for progress from our Saviour Jesus Christ. In general prayer meetings and specific fellowship meetings, the Word of the Lord was shared and prayer for revival made by all. I believe that the revival is not just here at the altar, but the fire is felt on the entire hill of Kyambogo and in the City of Kampala. Those who have been fired up will bear much fruit wherever they go. Let us keep the fire burning.
Consider the abundant grace for dominion: dominion means sovereignty or control, and Johnny Enlow identified seven mountains or domains that believers need to give attention in order to give practical meaning to the prayer: “Your Kingdom come”. Deut 8 is part of Moses’ lengthy speech that he gave to the Israelites just before they entered the Promised Land, before they conquered the ‘seven nations mightier’ than themselves. They would take dominion over those seven nations – by God’s grace. Indeed, only by grace! The Israelites were few and not established as a nation yet; they had been in the wilderness for forty years, in temporary tents; they were not the kind of army to defeat well established cities with walls and gates. They could only enter in the strength of a higher power – only by grace.
What Moses informed the Israelites, that “it is he [the LORD] who gives you the ability to produce wealth”, was not just for that time. It applies to us today. We can trust the LORD for greater wealth than our financial projections are predicting, if it is for God’s greater glory. We have the duty to cling to His Word and obey His leading, that we may remain in His will. Jesus extrapolates the dominion blessings of power and wealth: “I tell you, … you who have followed me will also sit on twelve thrones… And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or fields for my sake will receive a hundred times as much and will inherit eternal life” (Matt 19:28-29). Do you believe this?
This is a season to lift your eyes off the limitations of background, the narrowness of the economy, the disappointments of the past; it is time to get out of what one leader called the ‘grasshopper’ mentality. It is time to acknowledge that the Almighty God is with us, and has poured out the abundance of his grace through our Lord Jesus Christ – abundant grace for dominion. May the Lord give you the renewed strengthen to go for that mountain and take control of it for His glory.
God bless you all.