Changeover in Potency

Let’s begin by listening again to Scripture, in relationship to God and you and me, and in relationship to whom He has created us to be.

Then God said, Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth. So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. Then God blessed them, and God said to them, Be fruitful and multiply, fill the earth and subdue it; have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that moves on the earth. Genesis 1: 26 – 28

Many of us have been asking our Lord for changeovers, as we know that the deceiver has been using all kinds of suggestions and tactics to have us living and performing most contrary and totally opposite to God’s expressed will and way for us.

We then turned to David, who not only understood this, but who believed with all his heart, mind, soul and strength, that God made him to have dominion over the works of God’s hands, over everything that moves on the earth and to fill the earth and subdue it. We know this to be true, when we study the life of David. Albeit, David’s words of praise, acknowledgement and full confidence in God, in relation to His human creation, which we’ve been looking at, is this. You have made him to have dominion over the works of Your hands; You have put all things under his feet. Psalm 8: 6.

Having discussed other changeovers, we now come to one which is huge. You have put all things under his feet. Whatever David is saying to God - Sovereign God, He who has Preeminence, He who is Creator of the earth, making humans in His own image and likeness - he is saying that God has put all things under human feet. Is not David able to be before God with such powerful speech, because of God’s own authoritative speech? When you listen to God and listen to David, don’t you see how David is speaking after God?

God has put all things under our feet. Have you heard that? Are you and I living this fact also? Let’s spend some time on this, with different mindsets. I offer this to you as God giving us Potency to be and do as He has ordained. Potency includes both power and authority. The phrase, under your feet, has many meanings, but I am offering you this meaning. Under his feet, is being used in the same sense as we use the phrase, having things, under the belt. To have a problem, or issue under your belt, simply means that you have it under control or you have already dealt with it. Is this not what God has already done for us, when He put all things under our feet? If you believe that God has put all things on this earth under your feet, then certainly He has given you potent feet. As simplistic as this may sound, think of it.

Jesus said this to all who are born again and who are His. You are the salt of the earth; but if the salt loses its flavor, how shall it be seasoned? It is then good for nothing but to be thrown out and trampled underfoot by men. Matthew 5: 13. Let’s reason this in relation to potency. When Jesus says that you are the salt of the earth, is He not saying that you already have this under your belt? Is He not saying that God has already taken care of what you are to be, as salt, because in you, lies all the power and authority of salt? Is He not saying that you are potent in the earth, to subdue, to rule, to multiply and all that to have dominion entails? Here is the targeted point. For all things to be under your feet, you have to have potent feet. You have to have feet full of all it takes to produce this dominance. Potency has already been taken care of. It’s under your belt, as it were, so you do not have to worry about it.

Let’s bring this even closer in understanding. When Jesus said that you are the salt of the earth, He is saying that you are potent salt, powerful salt, and authoritative salt. We know this, because Jesus does not speak of changeover in potency. If the salt loses its flavour, or potency, then it is good for nothing, but to be trampled under feet.  

Pause! Listen! Seek Divine help if this is you. This has really come to me, leaving me aghast. Where are you? This is what I’m seeing. As God’s human creation, you and I have been given power, authority, privilege and precedence in the earth. We are the ones to have all things under our feet. The question then is this. Why are we under the feet of so many things and people? Have we lost our potency as God’s people? Jesus says that we will be trampled underfoot, when we lose our potency.

What God-given power and authority have we in our feet? How potent are our feet? May we be refreshed, re-fused, refueled and returned to this privilege, favour and pronouncement concerning our feet, as we gather back Scripture verses to us.

Tomorrow we conclude, looking at and receiving these Scripture verses.