“What is man that You are mindful
of him, And the son of
man that You visit him? For
You have made him a little lower than the angels, And You have crowned him with
glory and honor. You have made him to have dominion over the works of Your hands;
You have put all things
under his feet.”—Psalm 8:4-6
By reading our scripture verse for today and meditating on
its truth, you will begin to have an understanding that God loves you. His plan for you has not changed. He has crowned you with glory and honor.
God has given you a
crown—a symbol of victory, success and high achievement. Our enemy does not want
us to believe that we have the victory.
He wants to sow seeds of distress and unrest in our lives to keep us from
believing that we are the over-comers, the victors, and the champions and that
we are successful and achievers of the dreams that God has given to us. The
important truth of 1 Corinthians 15:57 becomes and reality when you say with all confidence, “But
thanks be to God, who gives us
the victory through our Lord Jesus
Christ (emphasis added).”
Jesus Christ’s death, burial and resurrection
restored the dominion that God had originally given to human-kind in the Garden
of Eden. Because Christ has given to the
believer dominion, as a believer in Christ, you are the one in charge. Satan and his cohorts no longer have the
legal right to rule and reign in your life.
“If anyone speaks, let him speak as the oracles of God.
If anyone ministers, let him do it
as with the ability which God supplies, that in all things God may be glorified
through Jesus Christ, to whom belong the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen” 1 Peter 4:11(emphasis
added).
Allow
your perspective of who you are in
Christ to grow, develop and get stronger, by mediating upon the truths of the
gospel of who you are in Christ Jesus. “For whatever is born of God overcomes the
world. And this is the victory that
has overcome the world—our faith” 1 John 5:4(emphasis added).
Prayer—Heavenly Father,
today I cast down imaginations and every high thing that exalts itself against
the knowledge of God, those things that I have thought that do not agree with
how You see me and what You think about me. I bring into captivity every
thought into the obedience of Christ and I ask You Lord to help me see myself
as You see me, in Jesus’ name. Amen.
