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The Glory GatheringFiled under: Kingdom Building | Tags: Blessed, Child Like, Fellowship with God, Humble, Joyful, Kingdom of God, Kingdom of Light, trusting
What a wonderful thing to know that there is a whole new realm we can operate out of that is full of goodness, peace and joy. If you are a believer of Jesus Christ and have accepted his free gift of salvation then you are born again by the Spirit of God and have been translated out of the kingdom of darkness and into the Kingdom of His dear Son, the Kingdom of Light…
I hope to open up that realm to you more with these posts so you can understand the wonders that are available right now for Christians all over the world, in every village, every town, every city & throughout every country. Like any place you live you cannot have full access to the benefits of that place unless you have knowledge of what is available for you to live with and have. So learn all you can about the Kingdom of God and you will be amazed at what is available to all believers right now!
The Kingdom of God is likened unto many different things in the Word of God, but before we look at what it is, let’s look at how we must come to enter into the Kingdom of God. Mar 10:15 says, “Truly I say to you, Whoever shall not receive the Kingdom of God as a little child, he shall not enter into it.” Likewise Jesus in the second half of Mar 10:14 says to “Allow the little children to come to Me and do not hinder them. For of such is the kingdom of God.” The Kingdom of God is available for all who believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, but it must be accessed like a little child. When you think of a little child there are several attributes that immediately come to mind. They are firstly- TRUSTING, because they don’t know how to do things or what to do next… Second- BOLD, they are naturally eager to let you know what they want, and when they think they it…. Third- SIMPLE, because they don’t know all the ins and outs their requests and communication are simple, direct yet simple…. Fourth- JOYFUL, Children are naturally full of Joy until the environment around them breeds fear in them…. Fifth- THANKFUL, the innocent thankfulness and glee in a child who has just received is precious…. Sixth- HUMBLE, A child relies wholly on the strength of their Parents, they cannot do things on their own.
This picture of a child is perfect for us as believes, sons and daughters of God and how we are to come into the Kingdom. We must trust explicitly on Him in every facet of our lives. We can come boldly before His throne of Grace (Hebrews 4:16) and receive the Joy of the Lord which is our strength (Nehemiah 8:10). Our heavenly Father is moved by our faith and thankfulness (Philippians 4:6,7) and lifts up the humble and exalts them (James 4:6, 1 Peter 5:5). He wants us to come to a place where we know He is faithful and will do everything He has promised to do, every time. All throughout the Bible He is shown faithful to His Word. Just by studying out Abraham and Sarah you find that God was faithful and this faithfulness strengthened their faith to the point of believing in the promise of a child after they were well spent in years. If He says anything to you He will do it, as long as we do our part and follow His instructions…
Every Child knows the voice of their parents…. They are comforted by it, corrected by it and guided by it. It builds them up and gives them confidence to try new things and added strength to go beyond their fears and limitations. It imparts knowledge and wisdom to them and it smothers them with love. Our Heavenly Father is no different toward His children, in fact He never stops talking to us. We need to start developing an ear to hear his voice so we don’t miss out on all the benefits He has for us in His great plan of our lives. God wants to lead us by the voice of His Holy Spirit to save us from perils and show us things to come (John 16:13) things that will bless you and your family beyond your wildest dreams. God has never changed. Right from the beginning He has always wanted mankind to be blessed beyond measure, walking in authority upon the earth. He never sin, sickness and lack in the earth, man stuffed that up and let it in. God’s Kingdom has now been re-established by Jesus the second Adam and has reverted all attributes of life back to what was experienced in the Garden of Eden. We have fellowship with Him once more(1 John 1:3); authority over all things in Christ Jesus (Ephesians 1:20,21); Healing for our bodies (1Peter 2:23); Financial Prosperity (2 Corinthians 8:9); Peace in our Hearts and Minds (Philippians 4:7) and much much more…
All these wonderful things are available for us believers, but they are not all automatic. When Jesus died, was buried and rose again He did everything we will ever need to succeed in every area of life. There is nothing more He can do for us. The emphasis now is on us and our appropriating His promises in our lives, and that takes faith and patience. Learn to listen to Him and be led by that still small voice leading you from yourinner most being and He will bring you into the manifestation of His promises in your life. Be like a little child and enter into the Kingdom…
next post: Appropriating the Promises…
Filed under: Kingdom Building | Tags: Christian Living, Christianity, The Kingom of God
The Kingdom, a Christians Domian…
There is a place specially prepared by God for His children… This place is called the
KINGDOM OF GOD!
“In those days came John the Baptist preaching in the wilderness of Judea and saying; REPENT FOR THE KINGODM OF HEAVEN IS AT HAND” (Matthew 3 vs 1)
Jesus said to “seek first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness and all these things will be added to you” (Matthew 6 vs 33) and He even sent out the twelve disciples telling them to “go, preach saying, The Kingdom of Heaven is at hand .” (Matthew 10vs 7) He himself camein to Galilee preaching the Good News of the Kingdom of God (Mark 1 vs 14,15) John the Baptist and Jesus both preached the same message; THE KINGDOM OF GOD IS AT HAND… IT IS HERE RIGHT NOW!!
The kingdom of God was in fact the only message that Jesus went around preaching and teaching about. Every Miracle, provision, act was carried out under the governance of the Kingdom of God and demnstrate to us all how we too can operate under this system. If you were to read the four Gospel accounts extensively you would find that Jesus told everyone about the good news found in the Kingdom of God; so if it was such an important focus and message from our Lord and Saviour, the very Son of God himself who we know through Scripture that He said or did nothing unless He heard the Father say it or do it, then why is so little available to the everyday person about the subject? I can safely say that the Kingdom of God in a believers life is the very foundation of everything that we should do and say. It encompasses everything that the Word of God reveals, both how to operate in it and also how not to.
Views from on High is all about getting greater understanding about the Kingdom of God together as a worldwide community of Believers. It is a place where you can comment on any post and can openly share your revelation and understanding on this most important of subjects. I don’t profess to know all there is about the Kingdom of God and I can almost guarantee that you don’t either, so let’s grow closer to God together gaining greater understanding about His Glorious Kingdom.
To see how valid a subject is for discussion you first have to assertain the importance of a subject. So just how important is the message and understanding of the Kingdom of God to a believer?
In Mark 1 vs 14-15 Jesus came into Galilee after being Baptized and filled with the Holy Spirit and then led into the wilderness where He was tempted by the devil. He came
“Preaching the gospel (the Good News) of the Kingdom of God, and saying THE TIME IS FULFILLED AND THE KINGDOM OF GOD IS AT HAND (it si finally here); REPENT THEREFORE AND BELIEVE THE GOSPEL (the good news).”
The very first thing we see here is that Mark remembers Jesus preaching was the fact that the Kingdom of God prophesied by Isaiah the prophet (Isaiah 9 vs 6, 7) hundreds of years earlier had been established and was now for the very first time operational in the earth through common man. Normally people who have important news tell that special news of most importance first… You don’t hear a weatherman tell you about the beautiful day you are having and then telling you that a hurricane is about to wreak havok in your city, NO he starts by telling you the important stuff, like RUN for your life! From this scripture and many more like it we also know that Jesus believed several things…
1… The Kingdom of God coming to earth was GOOD NEWS!
2… To operate in the Kingdom of God you must do something different than before (Repent, turn away from your old way of doing)
3… We need to believe the Good News, both that it is really Good News and that the Kingdom is real.
There would have been no point at all for Jesus to mention the Kingdom of God if we weren’t supposed to live our lives by the way the Kingdom operates. He wouldn’t have told us that we need to change (repent) and do things differently and He certainly wouldn’t have told us to believe in it. He later went on to instruct us to “Seek first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things will be added (or given) unto you.” Matthew 6 vs 33. To Jesus there was no higher instruction to His believers because every other commandment was intricately part of the Kingdom of God. Every Promise God has ever made, every principal or foundational Spiritual “Law”(for want of a better word) only operates within the boundaries of the Governance of the Kingdom of God. God himself cannot and will not overstep the boundaries He set in place as they are perfect already.
Just like Jesus, every believer should make it his/her priority to seek God’s Kingdom and His way of doing and being right. The big question is can we as mere humans understand an infinite Omniscient God and His Kingdom? How can we presume to know how God’s Kingdom truly works and is it possible for us mere mortals to operate effectively and fully in His Kingdom?
The answer is simple and can be found in the Gospel of Mark 4 vs 11…
and He said to them, TO YOU HAS BEEN ENTRUSTED THE MYSTERY OF THE KINGDOM OF GOD, BUT FOR THOSE OUTSIDE EVERYTHING BECOMES A PARABLE.
So not only are we to know the good news of the Kingdom but He has entrusted or given over to us the very mysteries of the Kingdom FOR US TO KNOW. The hidden things, the very understandings that make the Kingdom of God operational in this earthly realm. He has not hidden it from us, but rather given it freely to us. For God to have given us this responsibility we must treat this matter with the highest importance and utmost respect. We should all have an understanding of the Kingdom so we can demonstrate through our lives the very Good News that the Kingdom of God is to us humans. We have been delivered out of the Kingdom of darkness (no understanding and hopelessness) and translated into the Kingdom of His dear Son. (Colossians 1 vs 13) therefore we no longer need to operate under the failing systems that the world and its rulers both satanic and human have tried to imprison us with. I will point out here that not all governments are bad per-say as God asks us to pray for them that they would implement Godly values and principals in the land. There is a new way of doing things that is foreign to our natural way of doing things.
I encourage you that you start seeing things differently now concerning the way you live life because everything you do will either build and establish the Kingdom of God in your life or it will detract and weaken its influence in your life.
As believers we should believe what our master did… THE KINGDOM OF GOD IS AT HAND & IT IS GOOD!
