Hi, Chris Valaton here. Welcome to my podcast where I hope to inspire you to walk

in your Royal Identity in Christ and experience God's goodness in every area of your life.

I hope you enjoy this message today and if you're looking for more resources,

check out ChrisValaton.com. I want to talk about prayer that shapes history.

And so if you have a hand free, why don't you grab a hand of your neighbor, we're going to begin with

praying a prayer that will shape you so you can shape history. Father, thank you for everything

that you've done for us. Thanks for this wonderful week. And Lord, we pray that you would open

our eyes to the authority that you've given us in Jesus Christ to mold and shape history,

to be cultural architects that bend history towards the king and his kingdom. Amen.

I want to talk about the divine responsibility of mankind to take our divine authority and

lead the earth. Prayer is an act of leadership as it authorizes God to do his will on a plant.

Let me read this again. Prayer is an act of leadership as it authorizes God to do his will on our

planet. Now, what does that mean? I want to turn to Genesis chapter one and I just want to just

begin to lay the foundation for what is it that God has for us, both as believers and as humans.

And Genesis chapter one, verse 26, God said, let us make man in our image according to our

likeness. And listen to this, let him rule over the fish of the sea, the birds of the sky,

and over the cattle, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth. Ladies,

is it an awesome that you have authority over creeps? I just thought it was awesome right from

the beginning. The Lord's life, they'll need authority over creeps and just put it in there right

there. And God created man in his own image and in the image of God, he created him,

male and female, he created them, and God blessed them, and God said, be fruitful and multiply,

fill the earth and subdue it and rule over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the sky,

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