—By Isaiah Ogedegbe
My message is titled: “The Person That God Gives Dominion” and my anchor Scripture is taken from 1 Samuel 10:1-6.
In the introduction of my message today being the 28th of January 2026, the indelible words of our spiritual father, Rev. Lawrence O. Agbirekomi, spoken during the first Sunday service of Gihon City Bible Church on the 4th of January 2026, stand as a perfect definition of Kingdom dominion. Let us refresh our minds with his words:
“This year 2026, for us we are enforcing the Dominion Mandate. And God is telling us that you and I are chosen for dominion; we are chosen for dominion. The Dominion Mandate is the first Mandate that God gave to man; it is God that gave dominion to man. In Genesis 1:26, after God had created everything, God said, ‘Let Us make man in Our image, after Our likeness, that they may have dominion over the earth, over the fishes, over every creeping thing that moves upon the earth.’ So God gave dominion to man; He gave dominion to us. And the Dominion Mandate was not put aside. And so this year and all through our lives, we must begin to enforce Kingdom dominion—dominion over sicknesses and diseases, dominion over satanic manipulations, dominion over the earth—by bringing out things that will replenish the earth, restore the earth to its good position, and impact men and impact lives. So we must understand that it is a call to enforce what God has given to us. He made man and gave man dominion. In the beginning, God gave man dominion.”
In the previous chapter, the story begins with Saul, the son of Kish, a Benjamite, who went in search of his father’s lost asses. But when he and his servant could not find the lost asses, they went to Samuel, a prophet of God, for prophetic direction as to where the lost asses might be. When Samuel saw Saul, the Lord told him that he was to become king over Israel. Then Samuel assured Saul that the lost asses had indeed been found and invited Saul, who ate with Samuel that day.
Our spiritual father also once told us that, “God is in control, but we are in charge.” Saul was in charge of his father’s business until he lost his father’s asses. The very moment those animals got missing, he was no longer in charge and their source of income was probably gone.
What are those things that we might have lost along the line, which have made us not to be in charge? Just as Saul met Samuel and his story changed for good, today we are meeting Jesus and He is restoring all those things (Joel 2:21-27). There is restoration for us through Christ in the Dominion Mandate, but we must look unto Jesus so that whatever we are looking for will begin to look for us.
Saul was moving from one place to another in search of the lost asses, but it was an exercise in futility until he searched for God and the man of God. He not only found what he had been searching for, but also found himself—a discovery of royalty.
Chapter 10 opens with Samuel anointing Saul and saying, “Is it not because the LORD hath anointed thee to be captain over his inheritance?” The words of Samuel that followed next were signs that God had chosen Saul as king over Israel, if they should come to pass. In other words, Saul was chosen for dominion and was a person to whom God gave dominion over Israel.
However, from the words of Samuel we could capture a picture of the life of the person that God gives dominion. No doubt, his words now relate to us who want to be people that God gives dominion, as much as they related to Saul thousands of years ago. Let us examine them:
1. The person that God gives dominion must first come to the place of Death, that is, the Cross of Christ. In 1 Samuel 10:2, Samuel said to Saul, “When thou art departed from me to day, then thou shalt find two men by Rachel’s sepulchre in the border of Benjamin at Zelzar; and they will say unto thee, The asses which thou wentest to find are found: and, lo, thy father hath left the care of the asses, and sorroweth for you, saying, What shall I do for my son?”
Samuel told Saul that the first place he would reach was Rachel’s sepulchre and he would find two men by it. The significance of Samuel’s words as they relate to us is that, the person that God gives dominion must first come to the place of Death, that is, the Cross of Christ.
The two men by the sepulchre are a representation of both the old man and the new man, or the old nature and the new nature. From Samuel’s words, we can see that when a person comes to the Cross of Christ, the old man is crucified with Christ and the new man lives unto God. Apostle Paul lends credence to this fact in Galatians 2:20 when he said, “I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me.”
Saul might not have understood that Samuel was trying to tell him that he needed to come to the place of Death, where his old nature would be done away with and a divine nature would be impacted, if he was to become the person that God gives dominion.
2. The person that God gives dominion must come to Gihon City Bible Church with a heart of sacrificial service to God, be receptive to the Word of God and be filled with the Holy Spirit.
In 1 Samuel 10:3-4, Samuel said to Saul, “Then shalt thou go on forward from thence, and thou shalt come to the plain of Tabor, and there shall meet thee three men going up to God to Bethel, one carrying three kids, and another carrying three loaves of bread, and another carrying a bottle of wine: and they will salute thee, and give thee two loaves of bread, which thou shalt receive of their hands.”
The three kids are a representation of a heart of sacrificial service to God. The person that God gives dominion must be willing to do God’s service. Apostle Paul also tells us in Romans 12:1, “I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.” According to our spiritual father, “Our genuine service to God will attract God’s blessings to our bread and our water, and remove sickness from our midst” (Exodus 23:25).
The three loaves of bread are a representation of the Word of God, that is, the Bread of Life. The person that God gives dominion must hunger for more of the Word of God and must be receptive to it on a daily basis. Job said that he had desired God’s Word more than his necessary food.
The bottle of wine is a representation of the Holy Spirit. The person that God gives dominion must be drunk with the Holy Spirit.
3. The person that God gives dominion must always obey constituted authority to contact communicable anointing. According to our spiritual father, “Our obedience to instructions is what delivers from destructions.”
In 1 Samuel 10:5-6, Samuel said to Saul, “After that thou shalt come to the hill of God, where is the garrison of the Philistines: and it shall come to pass, when thou art come thither to the city, that thou shalt meet a company of prophets coming down from the high place with a psaltery, and a tabret, and a pipe, and a harp, before them; and they shall prophesy: and the Spirit of the Lord will come upon thee, and thou shalt prophesy with them, and shall be turned into another man.”
I want us to understand that divine anointing is communicable. You can only function according to the unction that you follow.
Because Saul followed the prophets, the power of prophecy fell upon him and he functioned in that capacity. Because Elisha followed Elijah to the end, he got a double portion of his master’s anointing. We can also contact that communicable anointing if we follow our spiritual father in obedience to the end. Obedience is our contact point to the anointing.
It is my prayer that we will contact a part of that uncommon grace and divine anointing upon the life of our spiritual father in Jesus’ name. May God help us to always obey constituted authority to contact communicable anointing in Jesus’ name. Amen.
