When I refer to myself as "queen" it is not because I am boastful or egotistical. It is not because I have an elevated opinion of myself. It is because I know who I am. Twenty-three years ago as an eight year old, second grader I accepted Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior, and God changed my name and and gave me a title. My name was changed from Kendy to Child of God, and as a child of God I am a queen.
In Genesis 1:28 God gave Adam and Eve the command to subdue the Earth and have dominion over it. The word subdue means to conquer and bring under subjection. Miriam Webster's dictionary defines the word dominion as a supreme authority; sovereignty. The function of a king is to conquer, bring under subjection and to have supreme authority or sovereignty.
From the very beginning God placed man in His royal family and gave him all the rights and privileges of a king, but then sin entered the Earth, changing man's perception of himself. Man's fall from grace relegated him to life of mediocrity. When sin entered the world it changed man's nature, mindset and perception. Sin blurs our view of things. I Corinthians 13:12 says that we see through a glass darkly, meaning our vision is impaired.
Sin impairs our vision of ourselves. So instead of seeing ourselves as the kings and queens that created us to be, we see ourselves as mediocre. Instead of taking dominion and subduing the Earth, the Earth has dominion over us and subdues us. We are subject to our jobs, our bills, our sickness, our pain, our addictions, our past, our abusers and our tormentors.
God did not create us to be subjects. He created us to be royalty! He created us to be rulers of our world. He gave us the power and the authority to frame our existence with our words. If God gave us the ability to speak our world into existence, why would we speak death over ourselves instead of life? Why would we speak poverty instead of riches? Why would we speak sickness instead of health? Yet this is what most of us do. We speak (command) death, poverty and sickness in our lives instead of life, riches and health; and it's all because we don't know who we are.
I pray that we, the children of God, would recognize who we are in Christ Jesus because the world is waiting for the manifestation of the Sons of God (Romans 8:19). The world is waiting for the Kingdom of God to take up its rightful position, waiting for its kings and queens to rule, reign and take dominion.
I am reminded of story, The Man in the Iron Mask. When we were born the devil recognized who we were before our parents did so he concealed our identity from us and from the world. Just like the man in the iron mask. Because our parents didn't know any better and their parents didn't know any better and the preacher didn't know any better the devil concealed our identity and then locked us in the prison of our fears - fear of being successful, fear of being beautiful, fear of being powerful.
God wants us to take off the mask, look in the mirror that is Jesus and see ourselves for who we really are. We are a royal priesthood, a holy nation, sons and daughters of the Most High God, kings and queens.
So I remind you that I call myself queen not because I am arrogant, proud, boastful or egotistical. I call myself a queen because that is who I am, and that's the truth.
Rebirth of Truth
