The word “command” carries several nuances—to control, to take charge, to order, to
mandate, to manage, or to master, to take authority over, to nullify, to decree or declare.
When God asked job the rhetoric question, “Have you commanded the morning,” He was
implying that Job needed to take control, or take charge of his morning. In other words, he
could set things in order for his day. He could manage or master the circumstances
surrounding his day. He could also mandate the forces of darkness to have no effect on the
affairs of his day; and also establish authority over every contrary thing that would confront
him that day. Moreover, he could nullify, disannul, and negate every attack that may be
raised up against him during the day. “To command the morning” also means that he could
decree a thing and it will be established for him, so light will shine on his way (Job 22:28).
When you command your morning, therefore, you exercise your right to determine what
takes place during the rest of the day. You also exercise mastery over every potentially
detrimental circumstance that might have been earmarked for you. You ensure that nothing
contrary intrudes into your space and time for that day. So that once you decree God’s
exceedingly great and precious promises over your life at the dawn of your day, you are
setting the legal boundaries for darkness to stay out, and that light would shine for the rest
of your day.
Commanding your morning implies that you are operating in your kingly anointing, and not
merely the priestly anointing. Your priestly anointing as a servant of the true and living God,
allows you to petition God or make certain requests of Him. That has its place; but as a king-
priest, or one belonging to the royal priesthood, according to 1 Pet. 2:9, you have the right
to decree and command things to happen. Our kingly anointing affords us the distinct
honour of decreeing vengeance against the heathen, punishment upon evil advocates and
transgressors, as well as to bind occult kings and nobles with feathers of iron, and to
execute the judgment of God already written against the devil and his emissaries.
By commanding your morning, you will avert mishaps and disasters in your life, and cause
your day to spring forth with joy; nothing shall happen to you by chance anymore. You will
stop the evil deeds manufactured during the utter darkness of the night via the hatching of
cockatrice eggs and the weaving of the spider’s web (Isa. 59:5) from intruding into your day.
In other words, witchcraft and evil covenants do not stand a chance against you.
In the light of the foregoing, Jesus makes one of the most profound statements in all of
Scripture in Matt. 6:34: “Therefore, do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry
about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.” This statement implies that
each day’s evil must be reprogrammed by Satan. That is, the evil one must assign a quota of
evil for each successive day. That is why Jesus is admonishing those who trust in Him not to
be overly concerned about the evil of tomorrow, since He has the measure of the enemy
and can intercept whatever the enemy sets up. He can nullify it, bringing peace and
blessings instead. Psalm 30:5b says: “Weeping may endure for a night, but joy comes in
the morning.”
It is a known fact that at midnight and just past midnight, particularly during the third
and fourth watches of the night, until around the start of the dawn, or thereabout, the
occult world is buzzing with activity. This is like business time for witches, warlocks,
diviners, enchanters, Satan worshipers and the like as they are busily engaged in
incantations, invocations, seances, blood sacrifices, casting spells, hexes, spitting
curses, and other manipulative practices. They invoke the rulers of the darkness of
this world to assist them in their deadly games.
When we command our morning, we are the ones who determine what happens to
our day, rather than the evil one. We stop him in his tracks. He cannot carry out his
plans. We ensure that the prince of darkness has no power over our day. If you fail
to command your morning, you may well lose by default, since Satan finds a wide-
open door to bring in darkness and could wreak havoc in your life. We have the first
rights to the dawn, since the dawn signifies the entry of light, and we are children of
light, not of darkness (1 Thes. 5:5). However, if we fail to exercise our rights, there is
the wicked one waiting to seize the opportunity to paint our day black.
Next, we will look at how the dawn gets to know its place.