25TH JUNE, 2022

PASTOR OLUBI JOHNSON

INCREASING GOD’S GOVERNMENT

OLUBI JOHNSON

Isaiah 9:7 NKJV
Of the increase of His government and peace there will be no end.

The scripture tells us that, ‘of the increase of His government there shall be no end’.

This means God’s government has been limited and so is gradually increasing.

What is God’s government anyway, and why has it not been absolute (since God is omnipotent), therefore needing increase?

God’s government is the manifestation of the dominion or rule of the will of God in the earth.

Because of the fall of man and the entry of sin into the world, the will of God has not, and is not being done in many places and in many lives on the earth.

This is why the Lord Jesus asked us to pray “..thy Kingdom come, Thy will be done as in heaven, so in earth.”(Lk. 11:2).

However, God desires to rule in the kingdoms of men and He does this sovereignly through the prayers of His people as we see Him do through Daniel in Babylon (Dan. 4:32).

The reason why God wants His dominion or government to increase in the earth is that, without His dominion in the earth, evil will prevail and destroy the earth (Rev. 11:18).

For God’s dominion or government to increase in the earth He needs Christians who, through prayer, become His legal instrument of war to overcome or dethrone the dominion of Satan in the earth (Isa. 41:15-16).

Jeremiah 51:20 NKJV “You are My battle-axe and weapons of war: For with you I will break the nations in pieces; With you I will destroy kingdoms.”

We need to understand that God cannot do anything legally on the earth unless He does it through man, because God gave the dominion of the earth to man (Gen. 1:26-28; Ps. 115:16).

Therefore, to increase God’s government in our personal lives, homes, cities, nations and the earth we need to make fervent, effectual prayer the priority of our lives because God reigns through us when we pray.

James 5:16-17 NKJV Confess your trespasses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The effective, fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much.

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