From this first passage, we see two things: First, That it was the intent of God to make man in His image, after His likeness.  In other words, God created man (woman) in His image. He created man (woman) to be like Him, His Spirit image.  Man would be a god man in the earth with all the likeness and character and nature of God.  He would not be God but would be like God.  In fact, He would be a child of God.

The second thing that we find in this verse is that man was given dominion “over all the earth”.  “And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.” This meant that man would be in charge of every thing pertaining to the earth.  So God made man in the image of Himself, created He them and gave them dominion in the earth.  God created man and woman in the earth and they would be just like Him.  As God was in the heaven, man and woman was in the earth realm. This is important.

Faith takes you into the world of God, the Kingdom of Heaven. Faith enables you to receive the blessings (riches) of the Kingdom of God. Faith enables you to operate in God’s world – to live, move and have your being in the spiritual world. We have yet to fully experience what it means to live in God’s world. Thank God we have a few more years left to find out. Hunger to know. Hunger to learn. Faith and the Word takes us there. Faith enables you to operate in the wisdom of God. Faith gives you the mind of Christ. Faith enables you to operate in the power of God. Faith enables you to walk in the Spirit of God. So you are to learn faith and use faith in all of life.

We have stepped into the world of “faith in God”. It is a world where everything we are, everything we have, everything we do, and everything we say is by faith. From this night on we have got to remember and keep uppermost in out minds that faith is the key to all we do and say.  The continuous operation in faith is very important to our spiritual growth and development. As you believe that Jesus died and rose from the dead and as you believe that you are filled with the Holy Spirit by faith, you now use that same faith to walk and carry on all your business in this world. This is what God is seeking to do: to have a people who will use faith to live in this natural world. Satan wants you to be controlled by your feelings or senses, but we are not under Satan’s dominion anymore. We are under the dominion of the Kingdom of God. Thus whether in this world or out of this world we operate life in/on faith in God. We are returning to the life that Adam lived before the fall.

With the Word in your mouth and in your heart, you now have the creative ability of God in you.  Hebrews 11:3 reads, “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.”  And in Hebrews 1:3 it reads, upholding all things by the word of his (God’s) power…  This tells you that the source of God’s ability to create is in His word(s).  What He says comes into existence.  What He says, He does.  He never does anything that He does not say first.  His words are the source of His ability to do.  It is the same for you.  Your ability to do is found in the source of God’s word in your mouth and in your heart.  You can do no more than what you have from God in your mouth and in your heart.  God (Word in your mouth) is the source of God’s creative power in you.  It is the source of your ability to do.

Now you can stand fearlessly before any enemy and prevail because of the Word in your mouth and in your heart – Luke 10:19 “Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you.”  Now you can stand and be strong and prevail over what you are going through because of the Word in your mouth and in your heart -Philippians 4:13 “I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.”  Now you can stand with authority before sickness and disease because of the Word in your mouth and in your heart – 1 Peter 2:24 “Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.”  You can now love those who seem so unlovable because of the Word in your mouth and in your heart – John 13:34,35 “A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another. 35 By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.”

Now it is important for you to always be conscious of the fact that the word is God.  John 1:1,2 “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 The same was in the beginning with God.”  When you have the word of God in your mouth and in your heart, you have God in your mouth and in your heart/spirit.  The word is God.  This being true, then the Word in your mouth and in your spirit prevails over every situation you go through.  This is just like saying that God in your mouth and spirit will prevail over any situation that you go through.  God can not fail.  God will not fail.  God will prevail.  The Word will prevail.