Our Inheritance
We’re not just getting away with using God’s authority, as if it were stolen, It’s our inheritance. Jesus gave us authority and a command to heal the sick, raise the dead, and cast out devils. (Matthew 10:8) Our adversary, the devil, knows of the power and dominion given to God’s children. Our authority on the earth was never withdrawn from us. Adam and Eve became slaves through their newly acquired knowledge of good and evil. Christians fall for the same deception today and fail to enter the freedom of their inheritance in Christ Jesus. The wages of sin is death (Romans 6:23 NKJV), and death did not exist before Adam’s transgression. (Genesis 2:17 NKJV)
…to whom you present yourselves slaves to obey, you are that one’s slave whom you obey, whether of sin leading to death, or of obedience leading to righteousness (Romans 6:16 NKJV).
When man sinned God never lost His power. He had a plan for our salvation, and He remained steadfast to His word that we should have dominion over the earth. God’s heart was to redeem man from the beginning. It was not a last-minute idea. What is even more remarkable is God used man’s dominion to achieve His plan. Because God had granted legal authority to us, He used it to defeat what satan viewed as a victory. There is nothing or no one on earth with legal God-given authority but man. If eating the forbidden fruit could have made Adam and Eve wise, they were obviously deceived. Deception is always at the root of error.
And you He made alive, who were dead in trespasses and sins, in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the sons of disobedience (Ephesians 2:1-2 NKJV).
God demonstrated love, humility, and longsuffering to mankind by keeping His word and allowing man to complete the plan of redemption. Man did not redeem himself, but Jesus could not just appear. He had to be prophesied into existence through God’s inspired words spoken by mankind.
Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will by no means pass away (Matthew 24:35 NKJV).
The thread of dominion bestowed on us is repeated over and over in God’s word. Scriptures in the New Testament make dominion even more clear and make it a command.
Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out demons. Freely you have received, freely give (Matthew 10:8 NKJV).
Then Peter said, "Silver and gold I do not have, but what I do have I give you: In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, rise up and walk.” (Acts 3:6 NKJV)
Peter understood the command, and that his authority to heal the sick was freely granted—not earned. He may have had money, but he knew what this lame man needed, and he acted accordingly. Indifference to God’s commands creates a home for unbelief, and in this case the man would have remained lame. We must continually be aware of the people and divine moments we encounter.
But how many of us have said, “Oh God do something!” Or, “Jesus heal this person?” when we have the Holy Spirit of Jesus living inside us—His manifest presence in us who believe. Instead, a lot of us seek a God that will do as we wish instead of using our God-given authority. This kind of reasoning serves as strong-seated unbelief and makes impotent the “gods of this world”. Many of us also demonstrate a pseudo dominion that expresses itself as a personal sovereignty that relinquishes our authority to our own intellect. In other words, many think man’s ideas are better than God’s and try using the psychology of this world to accomplish His will.
Love has been perfected among us in this: that we may have boldness in the day of judgment; because as He is, so are we in this world (1 John 4:17 NKJV emphasis added).
I said, "You are gods, And all of you are children of the Most High (Psalm 82:6 NKJV).
The highest heavens belong to the LORD, but the earth he has given to mankind (Psalm 115:16 NIV).
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 1:28 NKJV).”
“Be fruitful and multiply, fill the earth and subdue”— embrace stewardship—are terms that the majority of mankind ignore. But creative power and authority were given to us, making us guardians over what comes into existence on the earth, good or bad. Dominion is easy when you understand that it only requires faith in God and speaking His words. Again, even though Adam and Eve erred in God’s instruction, dominion was not withdrawn.
And on the seventh day God ended His work which He had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had done. Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because in it He rested from all His work which God had created and made (Genesis 2:2 NKJV).
The relevance of this verse regarding man’s God-given dominion is that God rested from His work. What He had commanded and authorized in that work, was that we were to enter into our inheritance.
We change our world and our lives by speaking faith-filled words of God. Unspoken thoughts or imaginations are powerless until spoken by a child of God.
For assuredly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be removed and be cast into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that those things he says will be done, he will have whatever he says (Mark 11:23 NKJV).”
And Jesus came and spoke to them, saying, "All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth. Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit (Matthew 28:18-19 NKJV).”
We have a natural, inherent ability as children of God, to hear His voice and speak His word. We must take every thought captive and stop allowing intrusive ungodly thoughts to go unchallenged, seize our inheritance, and exercise our authority on earth. This is our work as children of God and heirs of His promises.
The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God, and if children, then heirs—heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer [persecution] with Him, that we may also be glorified together (Romans 8:16-17 NKJV emphasis added).
© 2026 Mark Rossback