Regional Conference prayer for Tamil Nadu
12.9.2020
Gen 9:2 And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon the animals of the earth, and upon every bird of the air, upon all that moves on the earth, and upon all the fish of the sea. Into your hand they are delivered.
When God created man He gave only this authority: To rule over the Earth. In Old Testament, the Psalmist has described the heavens, planets and stars which have beenput under Man’s authority!
Psa 8:1 O Jehovah our Lord, how excellent is Your name in all the earth! You have set Your glory above the heavens!
Psa 8:3-4 When I look at Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, the moon and the stars which You have established;
Psa 8:5-8 For You have made him lack a little from God, and have crowned him with glory and honor. You made him rule over the works of Your hands; You have put all things under his feet: all sheep and oxen, yes, and the beasts of the field; the birds of the heavens, and the fish of the sea, and all that pass through the paths of the seas.
The Psalmist got the revelation that God made Man ruler of everything that He created. It goes even beyond the planet earth, “The works of His hands”.
Psa 8:6 You made him rule over the works of Your hands; You have put all things under his feet:
When Neil Armstrong landed in moon on 24 July 1969, he exercised the authority given to man over the planets.
When Tensing and Hillary climbed Mount Everest, the highest mountain peak in the world, on May 29, 1953, they were obeying God’s specific command in Gen 1:28
“Subdue the earth”
When the US Government started NASA on October 1, 1958 for the development of Science and Technology , they were fulfilling the command of God. Those who are working in Vikram Sara Bhai Centre or all atomic research centres are vigorously obeying the demands of Bible
Our late President Abdul Kalam was obeying the command of God by spending his whole life in making researches on planets and trying to subdue them. He won to a great extent. He spent his whole life in fulfilling this command of God and hence the Lord blessed him with an award,
“Vision India 2020”
Since he was not able to interpret it in the light of the Gospel, the Lord raised people in His Church to interpret “Vision India 2020”. The first Vision about the future of India was given to Dr. Abdul Kalaam because he proved his eligibility by obeying the God given command Gen 1:28.
Gen 1:28 And God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”
The Lord blessed man with the authority and power to subdue everything that He created. If God had given just a command to rule over the earth without His blessing him, then
Bible would have read,
“God commanded him”, Be fruitful…..
But the word used in Gen 1: 28 is not “Commanded” but “Blessed”.
It is a command plus blessing. In other words, the grace to fulfil the conditions of the command given, is also inherent in the Blessing.
So Adam was not only given a command but given all support, stamina, divine help, wisdom, and all that needed in administering and governing the whole earth by the authority given to him by God.
Let’s see what all came under the authority of Adam as per Gen 1:28
- Fish of the sea (v, 26)
- Fowls of the heavens
- Every living thing that moves on the earth.(v 28)
- All the earth (v 26)
All the earth: It includes surface of the earth , every inch of the land on the earth, mountains, hills, rivers, clouds, trees, vegetation, forests, soil, air, animal kingdom, minerals, ocean etc.
Dear smp soldier, coordinator,
Our only duty on earth is subduing. Each one among you is given a portion of the earth.
It is your Constituency or the area of your residence.
As you are fully engaged in it, Heaven is rejoicing over you.
Those whom He loves, God gives authority to rule
“Administration” is taking part in the divine work of the Lord. It is a gift to be claimed and developed by every individual who is created in the image of God. They cross the barriers that come against them, one by one, and finally becomes an overcomer, ruler of everything.
Soldier of AOJ aim at this! Become a ruler ! Not only of one, of many !Sr. Angelica