If You Missed This Weekend at TheChurch on Strayer 1.16.12

In our world today, there exists a great hunger in the human heart for life.  It is natural for man to love life and to cling to it.

Beyond our physical life, God’s Word offers a life on a higher level.  It is the life given to us through the Kingdom of God.

We “enter the Kingdom” through repentance and surrender to God’s will in our lives.  The Kingdom is the rule, the reign, the government of God in this age in the hearts and lives of those who yield their lives to Him.

For His Kingdom rule to come within you, your kingdom rule must go.  This is The Upside Down Life.  This produces a miraculous transformation.

The kingdom of darkness blinds men, while the Kingdom of light, illuminates them.  Kingdom living frees us from fear, anxiety and worry – true upside down living.

Jesus invites us into His Kingdom to take a journey into the life and heart of God.

As we enter this Kingdom, Jesus speaks to, heals, and empowers us individually.

Only by living the Kingdom life, is it possible to understand our life.

We were created to count, to matter, to make a contribution.

Our desire for significance is a sign of who we are and why we are here.

  • We are already sons and daughters of God:
    I John 3:2 -     Beloved, we are [even here and] now God’s children…
  • We are being made in His image:
    II Corinthians 3:18 (MSG) - And so we are transfigured much like the Messiah, our lives gradually becoming brighter and more beautiful as God enters our lives and we become like Him.

Only as we come to know and experience God and His Kingdom and live by its laws, rules, principles, do we become whole, well, and complete.

16.01.12
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How can we, in our finite beings, understand and grasp something so vast as the Kingdom of God?

By a process of renewal, God generously loves us and patiently leads us from our fleshly perspective into our true spiritual selves.  God is available always to lead us into spiritual reality.

It is in our personhood – experiences, feelings, thoughts and will – where we come to know exactly what the spiritual is.

Our “spirit” is who we are and from which we cannot escape.  It is our true nature and destiny.

Our “spirit” was created by God for Him to communicate His life and purpose into our daily life. 

John 3:36 (MSG) - That is why whoever accepts and trusts the Son gets in on everything, life complete and forever!

He thus enables us to know His truth, to do His truth.  This truth is partial and incomplete – I Corinthians 13:12 – Now I know in part.  His truth empowers me to interact with Him in His Kingdom rule.

His truth equips us to live our purpose as we function in a conscious, personal relationship of interactive responsibility with Him.

Eternal life also means His Spirit dwells within us – we are “born of His Spirit” (John 3:5).

We are spirit, we have a soul, and we live in a body.

God created every living thing to live within its natural habitat.  What it is, dictates its world.  Move it out of its special environment and it struggles and dies.

As human beings we are created to live spiritual lives deriving our life from His life.  It is the way we are created to live.

Day by day we are to integrate our life into the spiritual world of His Kingdom rule.

Increasingly as we do this, our life is filled with His wisdom, knowledge, strength and power.

You and I are made for the spiritual environment of His Kingdom rule.

23.01.12
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If you missed this weekend at TheChurch on Strayer…

Let us begin our study today with a profound truth -

        As a believer, you now have the very life of heaven within you.

That means you and I are right now equipped by God with eternal life which we can live out on a day-by-day basis in the presence of this evil age.

In this world, we are soaked with secularity.  It seems people have little regard for a loving, caring, interactive God.

Jesus prayed for us to live in victory and be fulfilled while being in the world but not of the world.

Full-time Kingdom living brings us into our created purpose as we live lives of righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.

John 17:14 - I have given and delivered to them Your word (message) and the world has hated them, because they are not of the world…

The Holy Spirit is the C.O.O. ─Chief Operating Officer─ of God’s Kingdom on earth.  He is also the C.E.O. ─Chief Executive Officer─ of God’s Kingdom on earth.

The presence of the Holy Spirit in our lives daily helping us, comforting us, and counseling us by becoming our advocate (defense attorney), intercessor, strengthener, and standby is God’s guarantee of His promise of eternal life. (John 16:7)

  • You don’t have to win ─ God guarantees victory.
  • You don’t have to struggle, fight ─ trust and obey.

Live as subjects of His Kingdom; enjoy His protection, preservation, and provision.  As Kingdom subjects, we are sealed by God.  “Sealing” keeps out the polluted air.  He keeps us in the midst of an evil age.  Nothing shall, by any means, harm us.   

 

30.01.12
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If You Missed this Weekend at theChurch…

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.

06.02.12
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