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Breaking the Curse of Poverty  David K. Owusu

Our likeness; let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over
the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over [a]all the earth and
over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” 27 So God
created man in His own image; in the image of God He created
him; male and female He created them. 28 Then God blessed them,
and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth
and subdue it; have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the
birds of the air, and over every living thing that [b]moves on the

earth.”

a) Vs. 26 – God said to the Spirit and the Son, let us make man
in our image. God made us in His image and likeness. Image
denotes how God looks; Likeness denotes what He does.
Therefore, God built in us the capacity and ability to do what
He does.

b) God created us to have dominion – over circumstances, over
situations, over money. Therefore, we were designed to have
money under our feet that is to rule over money.

c) After God created man, He “blessed” him. The word “bless” used
in the context of Genesis 1:28 in Hebrew means “empower to
prosper”. It therefore means that, after God created man, God
empowered man to excel and prosper.

Just as every young lady after the age of puberty, with a fully
functional reproductive system is capable of conceiving, similarly, as
a Creation of God and a believer, made in His likeness and image,
you have been infused with the DnA to excel; you have the ability
and mandate to prosper. God wants us as His children, to prosper

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