LIVING WORD DEVOTIONAL
By Pastor Mensa Otabil
 
Saturday 30th May 2026

THE DOMINION MANDATE

Scripture Reading: Psalm 8
 
You have made him to have dominion over the works of Your hands; You have put all things under his feet, *Psalm 8:6
 
According to Genesis 1:26-27, God created us to have dominion. That divine intention that the Lord uttered at the creation of the first human being is shared by all human beings.
 
God gave us a dominion mandate when He created us. The Lord made us to be masters of the world He created. In the Garden of Eden, Adam and Eve began living the life of dominion that the Lord had created them for. They were crowned with so much glory and honour that no animal dared to attack them. However, the disobedience and sin of our first parents robbed them and us of our crowns of glory.
 
As God’s representative on earth, man was given dominion over all kinds of animals, birds, fish, and reptiles.
 
The book of Hebrews reminds us (Hebrews 2:5–9) that although God created us to have dominion, we are not yet enjoying the fullness of this blessing. The creatures of the earth are not fully submitted to us. Dogs bark at us, mosquitoes bite us, and viruses plague us. The explanation is that when sin entered the world through Adam, man lost his sovereignty over the lower creation.
 
People today live more like slaves than rulers; so why aren’t we living like kings? Because our first parents sinned and lost their crowns, forfeiting that glorious dominion.
 
God the Son came to earth to redeem and restore us to our dominion. Today the Holy Spirit of God is the one who empowers us to “reign in life by one, Jesus Christ” (Romans 5:17). When you crown Jesus Christ as Lord of all, you are a sovereign and not a slave, a victor and not a victim.
 
When God places the righteous on the New Earth and the New Heavens at the end of this age, we will experience the full manifestation of our dominion mandate.

Prayer:

Heavenly Father, you made me have dominion and not to be a slave to sin. Teach me how to walk in dominion. In Jesus’ name, Amen.