Hebrews 11:3 KJV “Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.”

God created man to have dominion (Genesis 1:26). For forty days, Israel, including the king, were paralyzed with fear of destruction, as Goliath (the giant) paraded the main street of Israel mocking with words of intimidation (1 Samuel 17:16). David, a young boy, eventually killed Goliath with a sling and with a stone (1 Samuel 17:50). But it was neither the sling nor the stone that gave Israel the victory; it was David’s clear-cut understanding and application of dominion through the spoken WORD. Examine carefully the words that David spoke in 1 Samuel 17:46-47. Those words shifted the battle paradigm (pattern); it became a battle between Goliath and God. Your words can limit you or put you over. The words of Jabez freed him from the curse of pain (1 Chronicles 4:9-10). The words you speak, when filled with faith, have creative power. That is God’s pattern of operation which we need to emulate (Genesis 1:2-3, Romans 4:17). What you say is what you see. If your faith is not talking, your faith is not working! The only way to exercise dominion, is to keep speaking the language of God’s kingdom, where we belong! The language of faith (faith-filled word) is the language of dominion (Matthew 8:8-9).

1 Timothy 6:12 NKJV “Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, to which you were also called and have confessed the good confession in the presence of many witnesses.”

Many believers in Christ have the mistaken idea that if something is God’s will for them to have that it will just automatically happen without any effort or involvement on their part. Some think Christianity is passive, advocating that we have to wait for God to act. Not true! On the contrary we must have an active faith. We have a devil to contend with. We have to cooperate with God. We must believe what He says. We must resist doubt and fear. To walk in the fullness of blessing God desires for us, we must fight the good fight of faith. For example, the Israelites had to fight the giants in the land to possess what God said was already theirs. The Promised Land belonged to them already because God had given it to them. But it was still inhabited by others, including giants, who had to be driven out before they could enjoy what was theirs. Standing in faith often involves a struggle because of the contradictory evidences we may experience, so we must hold fast our confession of faith (Hebrews 4:14, 10:23). The devil will try to steal our faith by trying to get us to doubt God’s faithfulness to His Word. We may have to fight with our own logic and perspective. It may tell us it is impossible for things to work out, that God’s Word will not work for us, that we should not expect good things to happen to us. But the plan of God for us is victory through faith in the finished work of Jesus Christ. We must do whatever it takes to maintain our faith in God. It will require boldness. It will require being fearless. It will require active faith. That is the fight we must engage in – the good fight of faith!

GENESIS 8:22 NIV “As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night will never cease.”

You plant seeds, then in due season you harvest the crops. As long as the earth exists, this is the way things work on earth. This is true in the spiritual realm as well as in the physical realm. The Bible teaches that our words and our actions are the seeds we plant, that produce a harvest in our life. If we are merciful to others, we will be treated with mercy. If we show love and respect, others will show love and respect to us. If we speak words of faith and blessing, good things will increase in our lives. But if we continually speak fear, doubt, and trouble, life will not go well for us. A man reaps what he sows (Galatians 6:7 NIV). The world has a saying based on this principle, “what goes around comes around.” We reap what we sow; using modern terms, we harvest what we plant. And the more we plant, the larger our harvest will be good or bad. The Bible teaches us that the kingdom of God operates on the “seed principle.” (2 Corinthians 9: 6 NIV). So the wise course of action is to continually give out what you would like to receive. If you desire respect, respect others. Would you like people to give you things? Then continually look for opportunities to give to others (Luke 6:38 NLT). Seed, Time, and then Harvest is how God operates. When Jesus wanted to explain to people how God operates in His Kingdom (or rule), He told them it could be illustrated by planting a seed, which will then grow, and produce a harvest (Mark 4:30-32 NLT). Plant the seed. Be patient and keep believing while the seed grows. Then you will reap a harvest of blessing.