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And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and SUBDUE IT: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth. Gen 1:28 

To subdue is to overcome, quieten or bring under control, usually of a feeling or person. The Earth: Ground, Dust, crust, the hard part that we stand upon, farm on, build our houses on, etc

Man was formed from the dust/clay of the ground and in fact, the name of the first man, Adam was given in reference to his earth connection; it meant 'Clay/Ground/Earth' interesting, right!

Adam was the prime and primary representative of earth. When God calls Adam, He answered for the whole earth, he answered for everything because of his connection to them. Anything that would happen on the earth had to happen through that man, and that was why his fall led to a reversal of the normal order of things Gen 3:1-15. By extension, today, the custodian of the earth is still man, the redeemed of the Lord.

Firstly, let's understand 

Subdue the Earth

God is very particular about His creation, you! In the lead scripture, God speaks primarily to man, to you! What's the message here: God is telling us to control ourselves, the reason is that men have a tendency to be wild; we took on this nature after the fall, Rom 3:23. God knows that the body of man can yield to environmental factors and depart from Him; the body of man can follow the patterns of the world and forget the leading of the spirit. 

This often happens through the body, and here’s how: the body is ruled by the senses (Touch, Taste, Hearing, Feeling/Touch, and Smell), when these are not in subjection to the laws of God, the contrary nature is on display.

Men today are not under control because the flesh/self is wild; this is the origin of selfishness. Where the self or the senses is glorified, due to this, men never reach the height of destiny. The base of every war today is the lack of self-control.

How can I subdue the Earthen Nature

Like an athlete I punish my body, treating it roughly, training it to do what it should, not what it wants to. Otherwise, I fear that after enlisting others for the race, I myself might be declared unfit and ordered to stand aside. 1 Corr 9:27 TLB

1. Discipline your body: The above scripture suggests a training regimen and a brutish treatment of little or no comfort. Control the senses, don't let them control you. Determine to see, hear, taste, touch smell the needful only, not just anything.

2. Make the decision to guard your soul against all corruption. Your mind must be committed to the cause of the spiritual, not carnal The mind governed by the flesh is hostile to God; it does not submit to God’s law, nor can it do so. Rom 8:7 also Proverbs 4:23

3. Consciously and intentionally submit yourself to the Holy Spirit for help. And in the same way, the Holy Spirit helps us with our daily problems and in our praying. For we don’t even know what we should pray for nor how to pray as we should, but the Holy Spirit prays for us with such feeling that it cannot be expressed in words Rom 8:26. TLB

Jesus can help you subdue that earthen nature, redemption is for you

Keep yourself under.

God bless you