Kingdom Living
Devotions:
The place where God is in total control is a place of only good. This is the kingdom of God. The Kingdom of God is where God is sovereign and God is only good. We call this place heaven. There there is no sighing, crying, grief, pain, dying, sickness or disease, no lying, cheating, stealing or killing. All of this started when Adam turned the lordship of the earth over to Satan. But Jesus came to restore the kingdom. He has to do it person by person and we have the privilege of colaboring with Him.
“And when he was demanded of the Pharisees, when the kingdom of God should come, he answered them and said, The kingdom of God cometh not with observation: Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you.”
Luke 17:20-21 KJV
We enter the kingdom when we receive the work that Jesus did on our behalf. So the kingdom of God right now is in the believer and as we walk in faith we see the manifestation of the kingdom in our lives. This is the arena we are to walk in. In this arena we walk by faith because it is not a natural area but a supernatural spiritual arena. That is we walk in divine health based on the word of God not based on what we feel. As we stand on the word of God that says that we are healed, Matthew 8:17 we are expecting to see the results. Faith produces results.
We are of the kingdom of God is we are born again. We should not walk a natural walk but a supernatural walk based on God's covenant with us. All that Israel walked in and more belongs to us.
The kingdom of God comes not with obsrevation but as we walk in it the whole world sees the kingdom manifest through us just as it manifested through Jesus. We demonstrate heaven on earth. We are not perfect in this demonstration, we are still learning. We need to be radical about our heritage.