Kingdom Consciousness

We are called to live fully in the Kingdom of God and as fully as possible here and now - not just in the hereafter.  That's what our intentions should be.  As we rely upon Jesus, the vision of life in the Kingdom makes it possible for us to intend to live in the Kingdom as He did.  We can actually decide to do it.  We intend to live in the Kingdom of God by intending to obey t...

In order to accept your assignment, you must settle it once and for all that your flesh is not for you.  You are a  spirit being having an earthly experience.  Decide to obey God and accept your assignment.  No one else's assignment.  God will never anoint you to be somebody else. The anointing is attached to the assignment.  It's attached to your coming into agreemen...

Regardless of your call, gifts and assignments, the true measure of success will be in the fruit that follows.  People around you will recognize that you are walking in the fullness of your identity and grow from it and encounter Christ through it.  You are alive on earth even when you have not realized your assignment because God is waiting for you to realize what you were created to do...

God creates every person for a specific assignment on earth - to good works ordained before you are created.  Eph. 2:20 says: "For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to good works, which God has before ordained that we should walk in them."  You are not on this earth by mistake.  Life on this earth has no meaning to you and to the Kingdom of Heaven when you are living w...

Kingdom living aligns with the rule and standard of King Jesus as opposed to the desires of oneself.  When we submit to "walk by the Spirit and not by the flesh," God's Kingdom agenda advances in our lives.  You should look more like Christ today than yesterday or last month, or last year.  Believers are not immune from the effects of sin; however, we will not remain in habitual sin...

The Christian life is so much more than just a one-time decision to secure a place in Heaven. What if you could experience Heaven on earth today? Much of the way the Gospel has been packaged in modern times revolves around joining up with God’s Kingdom after we die. If you think about it, even our prayers, our services, our creeds, our liturgies and our motivation are geared toward tomorrow. &nbsp...

The Bible tells us that even in times of famine you can still enjoy the provisions of God.  But this requires interactions between earth and Heaven.  So we need to access Heaven from earth to live a life of immunity and dominion on earth.  Dominion in your life is your portion and you will receive fresh insight on how to walk in the grace that commands resources because the Kingdom...

As believers, we must live in light of God's future Kingdom while, at the same time, combating the world's endless temporary pleasures.  To live faithfully, we must have eternity in mind every day.  There are several ways we can do this, such as:  evangelizing the lost, reading our Bibles, committing to a local church, and fighting our sins.  We must remember to move the focus...

The mind of Christ is an active mind.  A passive mind is a consciousness not directed by its owner but open to allow any thought to pass through.  It does not accept completely the Word of God as truth.  Therefore, it's always questioning and wondering, which weakens the will, causing the person to be slow to obey God.  Being passive means you are allowing the enemy to come at...

What if you woke up with an unquenchable fire that could never be extinguished?  What if you woke up like royalty?  What would it look like for you to live on mission in such a way that every morning you left your bed with purpose, intention, and inspiration for whatever the day ahead might entail - in Kingdom consciousness?  If you are a follower of Jesus, there is no other way to...

The Kingdom of God is not primarily about thinking and saying right things - "the correct doctrine" - as so many insist.  It's about doing Jesus-like things.  It's about Christ-like quality ACTION.  It's about sacrificing to meet a need when you see it.  It's about mimicking Christ with every breath, brainwave and heartbeat.  Because we are called to love like Christ loved...

Jesus had an intentional consciousness of those around Him, especially those who suffered.  This awareness flowed out of His understanding of who He was in relationship to God.  He offered His followers a model of what it meant to live under the rule of God.  His life expressed the essence of God's character and love through sacrificial action and vulnerability toward humanity. &nbs...

Psalm 27:14 is spoken in the context of suffering and sorrow and difficulty.  That is what the word "wait" implies.  It means that at the present time you are in a very difficult way, in which you do no want to wait.  It is the time when God's purposes are being hid from your eyes and it seems that God is leading us in a way that's contrary to His promises.  We desire relief -...

Life's waiting room is a place where time seemingly stands still.  It's a place where life is put on hold.  When we are in the waiting room of life, it seems like all progress has come to a halt.  This is how it feels sometimes while we wait on the Lord.  Because we are part of the fallen community, we are prone to take matters into our own hands and to follow our own schemes....

Since the Kingdom has historical continuity, we can speak of it in the past, present and future tenses (already-but not yet). In each phase, God’s people rejoice in what they have and look forward to more to come. One phase builds upon the other. As we now experience some limited aspects of the Kingdom, we gain confidence that the future Kingdom will also be a reality.   The expression “...

IJohn 3:2 - "Dear Friends, now we are the children of God, and what we will be has not yet been made known.  But we know that when Christ appears, we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is."  We have - in this scripture - a "now" (we are the children of God), and we have a "not yet" (our future state). We are actively taking part in the Kingdom of God, although the Kingdom will...

When Jesus came back from the dead, it marked the beginning of a new Kingdom. Death and sin no longer ruled.  He overcame them both.  He spent many days with close friends and followers, preparing them to spread this good news to the world.  At that time, many thought the Messiah would free Israel from Roman rule, but Jesus' Kingdom was, first of all, a spiritual kingdom established...

As we stated on last week, one reason the concept of the Kingdom of Heaven is so hard for many people to grasp at first is because understanding it calls for a complete change of thinking. Moving from a worldly view to a Kingdom view requires a total paradigm shift. Priorities in the Kingdom are different from those in the world. Worth and value are assigned differently. Standards for evaluating g...

One reason the concept of the Kingdom of Heaven is so hard for many people to grasp at first is because understanding it calls for a complete change of thinking. Moving from a worldly view to a Kingdom view requires a total paradigm shift. Priorities in the Kingdom are different from those in the world. Worth and value are assigned differently. Standards for evaluating greatness are very different...

Why does the flock of God struggle with fear? Luke 12 implies clearly that we do, and that we don’t need to. What fear is Jesus trying to eliminate? He’s trying to eliminate the fear that God is not the kind of God who really wants to be good to his children. This is a fear that rises up in the hearts of those of us who are prone to feel that God does not want to be gracious to us, that He does no...

The Kingdom of God in our lives is just as real as this physical life. Therefore, dwelling in it affects our earthly lives now in very powerful and real ways. We are called to a different existence now. We discern the Kingdom differently than the physical world, but its affect on us is more potent than what we see. The impact in our lives from dwelling in God’s Kingdom affects our health, family,...

Kingdom living has to do with activating you spiritual authority.  God has an expectation of us.  He expects us to use our authority to invade, occupy, and influence the world for Christ.  The message of the Kingdom is a message of dominion, authority and purpose.  The Kingdom lifestyle enables you to activate your kingship and live the life of purpose, authority and dominion t...

The heart of Kingdom culture is service.  The Kingdom of Heaven has a distinctive culture.  One of the clearest distinctions of Kingdom culture is that it is characterized by service.  The cultures of the world manifest an every man for himself approach to life and success.  However, Kingdom culture measures success by service and self-giving.  Kingdom culture is a culture...

Jesus taught many parables to help us understand what the Kingdom is like.  In Matthew 13:47-50, He compared it to a net that's cast into the sea and gathered of every kind ... This refers to the Gospel that is preached for the purpose of gathering souls.  However, in reaching souls, it also reaches people of every kind:  every nation, race, nationality, good and bad, and the like....

What is God trying to say to us through all this devastation?  We need to turn to God's Word to interpret His voice in nature - whether it's in the voice of the wind in the hurricanes; in car crashes; in the voice of the earthquake;  in wild fires; in COVID-19; or in floods.  The Bible speaks and we must listen.  God has shaken this planet.  Who else could shut the church...