This blog been stirring in my spirit for weeks. I am experiencing dominion as a result of the massive transformation from Karen to Jo. As the song so beautifully crafted by Rita Springer says, “The Lord went out to battle before I even knew there was a war, and brought back the heads of my enemies and called it MY victory.” Through the battle He taught me how to keep the ground just won. Through the battles I began learning dominion. He teaches us how to battle to hold ground which requires the defeat of flesh in the moment, and a constant abiding... literally a lifting of my eyes to the hills, from which my help comes from. There is something about pain in the moment that clouds our ability to first let it go and then to look to Him for the truth He wants to implant instead of the lies we are currently believing.
Dominion is my ability to control the things I allow in and to control the things I give out. The Lord is gracious to give me lessons in both areas. I was speaking to my neighbor about the fact that I was moving and knowing he wanted to buy the house I was moving out of, I told him the owner was putting it on the market. I went on to convey to him how to negotiate with my landlord, as I had some unsuccessful negotiations with her. In my attempt to help him which was only an excuse to speak disparagingly about her aging process, which we all need grace in our own aging process, I heard myself speak the words of gossip. I was then corrected by the young man, who showed her grace and I immediately understood I had stepped back into old ways of negotiating the world and I had left the dominion I had been given. I have been given authority to control what I give out and the last thing I will do is to align with the enemy about someone else’s life. I have been transformed and the fruit of that transformation is dominion.
Dominion is required by those who’s life is governed by every word that proceeds from the Father. We are the enforcer of the words He has spoken. The Lord has had me in Isaiah 43 for a long time, at least a year, I would like to say I read it everyday but I don’t. I drift away from it as the Lord speaks in so many areas of my life, but when He gets back to the core area He has been working in I fall back into my beloved Isaiah and I am again carried away by His words to me.
“Now, this is what Yahweh says; Listen, Jacob, to the One who created you, Israel, to the one who shaped who you are. Do not fear, for I, your Kinsman-Redeemer, will rescue you. I have called you by name, and you are mine.” Isaiah 43:1 TLP. Do you see it? Jacob was created, but Israel was formed. God transforms Jacob into Israel. God is seen here as the God who transforms the nature of man. I have been on this road of transformation for some time, massive transformation. When God says Jacob was created but Israel was formed, don’t fear... He knows the fear and pain involved in the process.
The people who know me know that God changed my name maybe now almost a year ago. In the midst of my divorce after 40 years, and the subsequent withdrawal from my family of origin, as I was walking through the consequences of choices I had made and the choices others had made in my life-alone- days and days of not even seeing another person- The Lord said to me “Marry Me Jo-Jo! My name is Karen Jo, I have been Karen for 60 something years, and kept the Jo part of my name hidden, under wraps. I mean Jo really?? The Lord said, the name you despised, I love because she was formed by Me! Karen was created, but Jo was formed. My Kinsmen-Redeemer rescued me! As we read on in Isaiah, the second verse says “ when you pass through the deep stormy sea, you can count on me to be there with you.” His deliverance was not out of my circumstance, but He was with me as I went through it. It was here in the midst of the pain that God transformed me. In Hebrews 13:5 “He says, I will never leave you nor forsake you” As He broke the chains of familiarity with unholy alliances and my desperate need for love from these alliances, I writhed in pain. In the writhing and breaking I trusted my Kinsmen-Redeemer, my Savior as He told me what I would never do again and I knew His way is so much better than the ways I had chosen. All of the false constructs of false love were stripped away. These strongholds once broken completely disappeared. “sees”. Right here, is where dominion has been established in my life and I choose to stop at the gate the thoughts and the condemnation allowed to enter into Jo. No more demonic systems that are used on the trading floors of the world, are allowed. I choose to govern my life based in faith on what the Lord has said and is saying, not on the worlds standard. In my deliverance the Lord graciously delivered me from the fear of man. For what can man do to me? Reject me? They have done that to me my whole life! I am accepted in the Beloved and that Truth trumps all the lies!
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