“Without faith it is impossible to please God…”
Hebrews 11:6
You have the potential to be in God’s class. So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them (Genesis
1:27). God sees you as being in His class. Because He made you in His image, you have the potential to be in the God class—which is spirit. You have the potential to operate like God.
Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, in Our likeness…” (Genesis 1:26). When God made you in His likeness, He did not make you to look like Him. He made you to function like Him. That’s what likeness literally means. When God created you, He made you to operate like Him. If you are not functioning like God, you are “malfunctioning,” because God wired and designed you to function like Him. How does God function? His Word says, “Without faith it is impossible to please God” (Hebrews 11:6). God functions by faith. You and I were designed to operate by faith. Our potential therefore needs faith in order to be maximized. God sees in you the potential to dominate, rule and subdue the whole earth.
[God said] “…let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.”…God blessed them and said to them “…Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and over every living creature that moves on the ground” (Genesis 1:26,28). God created you to rule over all the earth and everything that creeps in it. He will never demand anything of you He didn’t already build into you. Thus, if the earth in any way is dominating you, you are malfunctioning. You were not created to give into cigarettes or submit to alcohol. God did not intend for you to be controlled by drugs, sex, money, power, or greed. If any of these are governing you, you are living below your privilege. Because God has already declared it to be so, you have the ability to dominate the earth. Everything in the earth must be under your subjection, not mastering you.
When God created you, He made youto operate like Him.
