Blood Relationship “Dominion Living Inheritance”

Here is a devotional from Diana Houk. The theme is humanity lost its “Dominion Living Inheritance” when Adam sold the mandate of God to the devil as a lease making everything God gave to charge to Adam under the devil’s authority. It is the Blood of Christ that begins the restoration of dominion living with the full Redemption being fulfilled at Christ’s return.

JRH 9/22/08
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Blood Relationship “Dominion Living Inheritance”
Diana Houk
September 20, 2008

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.” Then the Lord God formed man of dust from the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being [or soul].

And we know that when Adam and Eve sinned against God, by disobeying Him, they lost their status of eternal life, for up to that time there was no death.

In essence, Adam and Eve sold their souls and their inheritance, the earth and their eternal life, to the devil, which is evident by the fact that death became present. Genesis 3:21.

Leviticus 17:11.

'For the life [or soul] of the flesh is in the blood, and I have given it to you on the altar to make atonement for your souls; for it is the blood by reason of the life [or soul] that makes atonement.'

Hebrews 9:11-22.

But when Christ appeared as a high priest of the good things to come, He entered through the greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this creation;

And not through the blood of goats and calves, but through His own blood, He entered the holy place once for all, having obtained eternal redemption.

And for this reason He is the mediator of a new covenant [which is love, without additional death], in order that since a death has taken place [Jesus' death, the last death necessary] for the redemption of the transgressions that were committed under the first covenant, those who have been called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance.

Those who are called are those who have accepted Jesus Christ as their personal Lord and Savior, and have received God's forgiveness through the power of His shed blood.

And this is exactly what Jesus said at the Last Supper when He picked up the cup (Mark 14:24), "This is My blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many."

For where a covenant is, there must of necessity be the death of the one who made it.

For a covenant is valid only when men are dead for it is never in force while the one who made it lives.

This is Jesus' last will and testament.

It's our inheritance, too, and like any inheritance, it doesn't pass to the receiver until the death of the one who made the will, or covenant.

Our inheritance of forgiveness and eternal life is brought about through the power of the shed blood of Jesus Christ.

Therefore even the first covenant was not inaugurated without blood.

For when every commandment had been spoken by Moses to all the people according to the Law, he took the blood of the calves and the goats, with water and scarlet wool and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book itself and all the people,

Saying, "This is the blood of the covenant which God commanded you."

And in the same way he sprinkled both the tabernacle and all the vessels of the ministry with the blood.

And according to the Law, one may almost say, all things are cleansed with blood, and without shedding of blood there is no forgiveness.

But now the last blood has been shed.

There is no longer a need to shed any other blood; it has all been done.

Now we can walk in our inheritance that was purchased through the blood of Jesus!

This blood that was shed wasn’t just for “Redemption” as some may think, but for everything! Death, Sin, Sickness, divine health everything that concerns you!

When Jesus looked up to “Heaven” (to the Father God) & said “It is FINISHED” IT WAS! Now we have to understand the fullness of the bloodshed & walk in the “inheritance that belongs to us.

“Dominion Living” is the place God set in motion for us from the beginning.

So Live (walk) in “DOMINION LIVING”