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The Upside Down Life:  The Mystery of the Kingdom

Perhaps it is the most asked question ever presented to me –

          What is God’s will for my life and how can I know it?

Here is my answer –

It is God’s will for you to intimately know Jesus Christ and to learn how His secret Kingdom functions in the earth.

The words “mystery” and “mysteries” occur some 27 times in the New Testament.  As this word is used in the Bible, it refers to something which has been kept secret through times eternal, but is now revealed.

It also is a divine purpose, hidden in the heart of God for a long period of time until He unveils it with a new revelation.

The “mystery” of the Kingdom is unveiled by Jesus as He demonstrates the Upside Down Life.  The secret of this unveiling is found in the dynamics of Jesus’ prayer life.

He listened to God’s heart and then spoke God’s will to those around Him.

God has entered into a partnership with every believer. 

Prayer is the link between us and the unlimited purposes of God.  Prayer is our “Kingdom connection” to the will of God in our lives.  Prayer in its purest sense means to put our lives totally into God’s desires for us.

Literally, we determine His will and then make ourselves available to Him for His will to be done through us.

His desire for us is to live in His Kingdom, live by Kingdom laws, and carry out His directives, which we receive from His Word and by His Spirit.

If you missed this weekend @ theChurch…

“Love, With All Your Heart”

John 13:34-35 (AMP)

I give you a new commandment: that you should love one another. Just as I have loved you, so you too should love one another.  By this shall all [men] know that you are My disciples, if you love one another [if you keep on showing love among yourselves].

If you wanted to express the ultimate theme, message, law of the Kingdom in one word, that word would be “Love.”

Jesus came to show us, to give us a Kingdom, which is founded upon perfect love.   More than 500 times, love, and its many derivatives are used in the Bible.

God is capable only of “perfect love.”  He can never love more or less – His love cannot be enhanced or diminished.

Everything Jesus said and did was a demonstration of Kingdom love.

Every “Godly action” of our lives is the result of His Kingdom love within us.

The positive manifestation of the Kingdom attitude is God’s love within us.

Everything God intended for us is included in His love to us and through us.

The world’s greatest revelation is that God is love and God loves us.

Love is who God is – His very nature.  Thus, He can never cease to love us since His very essence is love.

God has chosen to pursue a love relationship with us as He takes the initiative to bring us into that relationship.

To be loved by God and to love God is the highest relationship, the highest achievement and the highest position available to mankind.

Join us this upcoming weekend as we continue to talk more about “Love, With All Your Heart” and we celebrate “Friend Day” at theChurch, Feb 18^th & 19^th!

Law of the Moment

Perhaps there is no greater tragedy than to miss our moment, which all of our life has prepared us for.

Browning wrote –

I shall arrive!  What time, what circuit first, I ask not.  In sometime, His good time, I shall arrive!

The only way to live the dream in your heart is to understand what time it is.

Life for all of us is filled with momentous possibilities.  The real difference between people is not in their opportunities, but in their ability to recognize their opportunities.

Ephesians 5:16 tells us to make the most of every opportunity. Time, in God’s Word, contains at least four ingredients:

          1) Appointment

          2) Expectation

          3) Patience

          4) Fulfillment

Matthew 6:34 (MSG) – Give your entire attention to what God is doing right now.

The Law of the Moment demands 100% focus and participation.  It demands a state of active, open, intentional attention on the present.

When you don’t live in your moment, you are not there to know that you are not there.

To live and practice the Law of the Moment, you must be fully conscious of and participate in it.

Are you fully here in this moment this morning?  Have you totally focused your entire being on this living moment?

The Discipline of Celebration: Week 3 Recap of the “Go” Series…

God values celebration.  He is pleased when we as His people celebrate.

Joy is at the heart of His plan and purpose for His Kingdom.

Matthew 22:2 – Jesus said, “The Kingdom of Heaven is like a king who gave a wedding banquet for his son.”

From Jesus’ teaching in the New Testament, it is easy to see His Kingdom as a party, a celebration with fun, joy, and laughter.

Church-time should be party-time.  No wonder David exclaimed, “I was glad when they said unto me, let us go unto the House of the Lord.”

Let your past go and then go and celebrate that it is gone and you are free from it.

(Nehemiah 8) Verse 10 (MSG) – “Go home and prepare a feast, holiday food and drink; and share it with those who don’t have anything: This day is holy to God. Don’t feel bad. The joy of God is your strength!”

God desires that we live in joy, live in abundance, and continually celebrate Him as our Savior.

We are not created to live in mourning over sin, but rejoicing that we are saved.

As we go through life celebrating, being party animals for God, don’t forget those who have not eaten at His table nor drank from the wells of Living Water.  Go to those who have not heard His healing, saving, delivering Word and share your celebration with them.

There is something special about the joy of the Lord – if you don’t share it, you lose it.

The secret to continual joy is to share the good news of the Kingdom with others. Everyone needs to know the Provider of your joy!

It’s Morning in the Kingdom!

Daily, the voices and messages of the world around us are seemingly filled with fears and anxieties. 

Concerns about the future, as well as the present, are written on the countenance of millions of people. 

There is little evidence of hope in the lives of men and women who wander aimlessly through life.

That is life on the one hand in America. 

On the other hand, “It’s Morning in the Kingdom.” 

God is still on the throne in heaven and earth is his footstool.  He is still directing the affairs of mankind. 

“It’s Morning in His Kingdom” here on earth.  In Him we live and move and have our being. 

With this “Morning” comes a fresh breath of hope, energy, excitement, and opportunity.  Let your life today be filled with “The Morning in His Kingdom.”

Patience Like a Honey Bee

To produce one tablespoon of honey, the bee makes 4,200 trips to flowers.  He makes 10 trips a day each lasting about 20 minutes and visits 400 flowers.  He will fly as far as 8 miles to find a nectar flow.

This is a true picture of patience.

In the New Testament there are two distinct words translated patience.

• The first means long suffering and denotes self-restraint which does not hastily retaliate a wrong.
• The second word means steadfastness, constancy, endurance, persevere, stand one’s ground.

Hebrews 10:36: “For you have need of steadfast patience and endurance, so that you may perform and fully accomplish the will of God, and thus receive and carry away [and enjoy to the full] what is promised.”

There are three major aspects of patience:

1. Luke 21:19 ~ The Bible says, “In your patience you shall possess (win) your souls.”
2. Tried faith produces patience.
3. Patience produces fruit.

Patience builds up the muscle of our faith which gives us the ability to wait, allowing the Holy Spirit to make the necessary adjustments in our lives to accommodate our dreams and visions.

When we allow patience to have its perfect work in our lives, we shall be growing to become more and more like Jesus — perfect, mature, full-grown, complete, entire, perfect in every part, lacking in nothing, deficient in nothing, wanting nothing.