The Kingdom of God!

 

Chapter 121

 

Father, our prayer today is that you illuminate our heart and minds and open our ears so that we as a family of the most high God may understand what is happening, both in the spirit world and in the world we live in, so that we might be involved in the tearing down of the strongholds of the devil. Amen!

 

One of the things that our Lord is saying in the day that we live is that we must know how to wait for victory to arrive, we must know how to claim our victory when it doesn't seem possible!

 

Jesus said in Mark 4:23-25, (KKV)

 

If anyone has ears to hear, let them hear." "Consider carefully what you hear," he continued. "With the measure you use, it will be measured to you,and even more. Whoever has will be given more; whoever does not have, even what they have will be taken from them."

 

So many of our churches today have become dull of hearing because they have been taught the doctrine of men. They have been taught the surface of what the Word is saying and because they have become dull of hearing, they never listen to what Jesus is really saying. This is why Jesus said in Matt. 13:15,

 

"For this people's heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and should understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them!"

There is so much negative news being broadcast across our nation and absolute lies that fill the ears of those who buy into all that they are saying and especially Christians, that it causes their ears and their hearts to be filled with deceit and hopelessness.

 

But the Lord is saying, "This is not a time to shrink back in defeat!" "It is a time to claim your victory."

 

In order to do this, you must have a strong foundation in the Word of God. Paul said in 2 Cor. 2:14,

 

"But thanks be to God, who always causes us to triumph in Christ and uses us to spread the aroma of the knowledge of him everywhere."

 

Notice that he says that God always causes us to triumph in Christ! In other words,

God gives us the power (Authority) to have victory in the face of defeat. He literally causes our victory to happen!

 

I could tell you story after story of how God has caused me to have victory and to always be in the right place at the right time for me. He has opened doors of opportunity for me many times. That is where faith becomes active, and we have to walk forward believing that He will cause all things to work together for our good.

Paul said in Rom. 8:27-28,

"He that searches the hearts knows what is the mind of the Spirit, because he makes intercession for the saints according to the will of God. And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose."

 

Faith is an active word and you can believe all you want to but it takes you walking by faith to see it come to pass. When you pray and ask the Lord to do something for you is the time for you to activate your faith and look into the future and see what you have prayed for coming to pass. Jesus said in Mark 11:24.

 

"Therefore, I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours."

 

Paul said in 2 Cor. 5:7,

 

"For we walk by faith, not by sight!"

 

To illustrate this for you; if I said to you go down to the United Bank on 5^th Street in Parkersburg and give them your ID and tell them that I sent you and they will give you a million dollars. You can say to yourself, "I believe that what Dave told me is true and even tell this to your friends, however, until you go down to the bank and give them your ID and tell them I sent you, you will never get the million dollars.

 

Your actions by going down to the bank and giving them your ID is your faith in what I said to you in action. If we really have a revelation that God always causes us to triumph, we know that whatever He leads us to do will end in victory always! We can always be certain that no matter how impossible it seems in the natural, God is working behind the scenes setting up things and bringing people and things our way and enabling us to accomplish everything He has put within our spirit to accomplish!

 

Sometimes it takes time for God to arrange events to bring about what He has asked you to do! For an example, I was in a meeting with a preacher friend of mine and the Lord spoke to my spirit and told me that He wanted me to go to Africa. I said ok Lord I will go, just open the doors with the details.

 

It was just three months later that I had a friend of mine from, Christ For The Nations, to speak at our church and I took him out for lunch after the service and He said that they were taking a group to South Africa and having a teaching seminar and asked me to go with them and teach on the Holy Spirit. I did absolutely nothing to cause this to come to pass except be willing to go when the Lord opened the door. Never in my life did I ever anticipate going to Africa and yet the Lord wanted me to go. Not only did I go to South Africa three times, but I preached there at a United Methodist Church, a Presbyterian Church and several Charismatic Churches and in Europe I preached at an Assembly of God church in Zurich, Switzerland. I also was in Berlin, Germany.

The Lord may never ask you to do something like this, but He does have something for you to do and if you will learn to be a servant to the Body of Christ, He will have you doing things that are comfortable for you to do. It all depends on your level of commitment! Never limit what the Spirit of the Lord can do through you. Jesus said in John 7:37,

 

"If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink. He that believeth on me, as the scripture has said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water."

 

He also said in John 4:14,

"Whosoever drinks of this water shall thirst again: But whosoever drinks of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life!"

 

Jesus was speaking of the Holy Spirit and His Word. In Zechariah 4:6 the Lord said,

 

"Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit, saith the LORD of hosts." 

 

Today God is at work setting up blessings, opening divine doors, overthrowing the enemy's plans, and enabling you to accomplish everything He has put within you to do!

 

In the beginning, when did the Spirit of God move? Gen. 1:2-3,

 

"And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. 

 

In other words, He moved when nothing made sense and everything was dark. Things look pretty dark in the world at this time and especially in our nation, but know this one thing for sure, God is not through with this nation that He raised up because of a covenant and a prophecy given to Ephraim and Manasseh that one of them would become a league of nations and one would be a great nation.

The United States is the greatest nation ever to be upon the face of this earth and there are millions of born-again believers living in this nation that are believing the Lord to move on our behalf. He has heard our prayers and is arranging events and things to cause this nation to be even greater than it has ever been.

 

If you would have been alive during World War Two, you would have known the tremendous darkness that was upon the face of the world at that time, yet the Lord intervened and turned things around and He is doing that again. Just be patient and anticipate it happening! In times like these is when your faith is put to test. Just watch what comes out of your mouth!