The Kingdom of God!

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Chapter 25

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Jesus said in Mark 11:24,

 

"That is why I tell you, as to whatever you pray and make request for, if you believe that you have received it, it shall be yours."

 

We Christians are very good at asking the Lord to give us something that He has promised in His word to give us if we would just ask! We need to realize that if He promised to give us something, then we can rest assured that He will. For example, how many of our prayers begin with,"Father, forgive us our sins and our unforgiven sins!"

 

Did He promise to forgive us our sins if we met a certain condition? Read, again, what the Apostle Peter told the people to do on the Day of Pentecost. Acts 2:38,

 

Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost." 

 

The condition was that they should repent of their sins and be baptized! We have been told a lie about who we are in Christ Jesus! We are not sinners saved by grace! We may have been sinners in the past but that old man died with Jesus on the cross! Paul said in 2 Cor. 5:17,

 

"If any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new."

 

I am a son of God, saved by grace and I am no longer a sinner! When Jesus washed the disciple's feet, he told Peter that he didn't have to be washed all over but just his feet because they had become dirty by touching the world. As we walk in the corruption of this world we live in, we are bound to get our feet dirty and thus we can come before the Lord and repent and be washed clean by His blood! Jesus said in John 15:3,

 

"Now you are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you." 

 

We then can stand before the Lord in the righteousness of Jesus. Jesus said in Matt. 6:33,

 

"But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you." 

 

He did not tell you to try to be righteous but He said to seek God and His righteousness which is a gift of God to those who believe on His Son Jesus Christ! We need to begin to see ourselves as the Lord sees us! If we have an image of ourselves as being poor and wretched and just an old sinner, then that is how we will act! I am righteous because He is righteous and I live and dwell in the spiritual body of Christ pure and holy before our God.

 

Back to Mark 11:24. We are good at asking our Father for our needs and the needs of others, but we are lacking in receiving what we ask for! We receive what we ask for by having faith the Lord heard our prayer! John said in 1 John 5:14-15,

 

We have an assured confidence that whenever we ask anything in accordance with His will, He listens to us. And since we know that He listens to us, then whatever we ask, we know that we have the things which we have asked from Him."

 

We need to learn to anticipate the answers to our prayers. If we know that we have ask the Lord for something according to what His will is, we need to learn to expect those things to come to pass! We sing a song in church that says, "I anticipate the inevitable, supernatural, intervention of God, I expect a miracle!" This should be our attitude after we pray. Paul said in 2 Cor. 1:20, (NKJV)

 

"For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by us by me, Silvanus, and Timothy"was not Yes and No, but in Him was Yes. For all the promises of God in Him are Yes, and in Him Amen, to the glory of God through us."

 

If you have accepted Jesus and have been baptized into the body of believers, (Christ) by the Holy Spirit, all the promises of God are yes and amen to you! Paul again said in 1 Cor. 12:13-14,

 

"For by one Spirit we were all baptized into one body,whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free and have all been made to drink into one Spirit. For in fact the body (of Christ) is not one member but many."

 

When we are in prayer to the Lord and we ask Him for something that is His will, we should have confidence that we have it! That is where our faith comes in and we can anticipate what we ask Him for to come to pass! Our faith is based on what He said He would do if we ask! There is no need to go back and bug him about it again! The answer of our prayer may be on the way to us if we don't doubt by asking Him again for it! In our prayer time with the Lord, we can thank Him for it coming to pass and give Him praise before it happens because we have the word of the Lord to back us up.

 

Perhaps our problem is that we really don't believe what we say we believe! We can say, "Oh I believe that but if you really believe something you will act like it!" A long time ago I made a resolute decision to believe the word of God no matter what the circumstances are! My five senses often tell me something that disagrees with God's word. I then have to make a decision what I want to believe. Since I have a long time ago made the decision that I was going to live my life believing the word of the Lord, that decision is easy for me to make!

 

So many of my Christian friends will tell me, 'Well, I know that is what Jesus said, but...!" This is because they have never determined to do whatever the Lord instructed them to do! The Bible says that the righteous shall live by faith and faith comes by hearing the word of God. Paul said in Rom. 10:17,

 

"So, then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God." 

 

I have shared with you what the Spirit of the Lord is saying concerning Donald Trump that he is anointed of God to lead our nation out of the swamp that it is in and not only our nation but many of the nations of the world! He is in the likeness of Cyrus of old that was anointed of God to favor Israel. So many Christians have bought into the lies and corruption that have been spewed out by those in the congress of our nation and in the news media because Christians were looking for a man like Saul of old who would stand tall among the leaders of the world and would be politically correct and would be a saint to lead our nation. The Lord will use whom ever He chooses. He raised up Pharaoh so He could show His power on behalf of His chosen people!

 

What we so many times fail to take into account is that His ways are not our ways! The Lord said in Isaiah 55:8-9,

 

"For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts." 

 

The Church is in the greatest spiritual battle today that it has ever faced. What we see happening in the world today and in our great nation is the agenda of the evil forces of Satan attempting to take over the rule of the world and he has sneaked into our nation while we had our guard down and infiltrated our society, our schools and colleges, our news media, and yes, our government! It is the fault of our churches because while we were fighting over doctrinal issues, he infiltrated the foundations of our nation. Those of you who are my age can remember a time when the foundations of The Kingdom of God were respected in our schools and in our government!

 

It has only taken one generation to turn these things around! A generation is 40 years which means that if I go back to when I was born in 1949 by the year of 1989 the moral principles of The Kingdom of God were being replaced one by one which brings us to the world and nation we live in today. In the last 32 years since 1989 the changes in our morals as a nation has been on an exponential curve downward. These things start so small and then take off like a rocket. It started with gays and lesbians coming out to stand out and demand that we accept them. Roe vs Wade decision made by our Supreme Court in 1973 to allow a woman to choose to have an abortion if she so chose. Roe v. Wade reshaped American politics, dividing much of the United States into abortion rights and anti-abortion movements, while activating grassroots movements on both sides.

 

Fifty years ago, on June 25, 1962, the U.S. Supreme Court declared school-sponsored prayers unconstitutional in the landmark case Engel v. Vitale. Public outrage was immediate and widespread. For millions of Americans, the Court had "kicked God out of the schools," to use a phrase that has entered the culture-war lexicon. Five decades later, Engel continues to be reviled by a good number of televangelists and politicians who take every opportunity to rail against the "godless public schools." Eliminating school-sponsored prayer, they argue, set America on the road to moral and spiritual ruin. Over the years, the absence of school prayer has been linked to almost every social ill, from schoolhouse shootings to drug addiction. One popular YouTube video asks why God doesn't do something about the terrible things happening to our students in public schools  and a deep voice replies in ominous tones, "I am not allowed in schools."

The results of these things and others are that we opened the door for Satan to come into our nation! The spirit of Jezebel is running rampant in many of our nations women and Satan is having total control of many of our House and Senate men and women! You can discern this by the absolute hatred being manifest in so many and the total lack of honesty and concern for the people of our nation. It is more important for them to protect their position of power!

 

And then along came Donald J Trump saying that he was going to put America First and drain the swamp! By doing this he stirred up the spiritual forces of evil because they were behind all of this and operating their agenda. If Trump were to be elected it would interfere with their agenda and possibly set them back for years and they would have to start all over! Can you now understand why Trump was so opposed and every dirty trick they could think of to get him out of there was attempted but the Lord stopped them all.

 

They finally decided to have a backup plan to steal the election if necessary and around midnight on the night of the election they stopped the counting and sent the people home so they could put into effect plan B. The evidence of corruption in the election ballots of 7 states is overwhelming. The news media and many Senators will tell you that the courts found no proof that there was any illegal voting going on. What they don't tell you is that the evidence has never been presented before any court because of legal technicalities! Anyway, the courts can find to not have to hear the evidence. However, the good news is that this is not over yet and we need to continue in our faith that the Lord is aware of what is going on! The Biden administration is slapping the Lord in the face with all their decrees and He is allowing them to fall into His trap and they are being exposed for who they really are!

 

This is much like what Paul, in Acts 23:12-15, had to face some radicle far left Jews,

 

"Now, when daylight came, the Jews formed a conspiracy and solemnly swore not to eat or drink till they had killed Paul. There were more than forty of them who bound themselves by this oath. They went to the High Priests and Elders and said to them, We have bound ourselves under a heavy curse to take no food till we have killed Paul. Now therefore you and the Sanhedrin should make representations to the Tribune for him to bring him down to you, under the impression that you intend to inquire more minutely about him; and we are prepared to assassinate him before he comes near the place."

 

It's the same spirit that is working in our nations capital to overtake and destroy Trump! I know that some of you don't agree with me but I would just ask you to measure everything that is happening with the word of God and His Kingdom principals. Any of you who are Christians will have to agree with me that abortion, except is a few unnatural circumstances, is against what The Kingdom of God stands for! There are so many laws being made that are against Kingdom principals!

 

I want to encourage you that this is not over and there will come a day of reckoning! In the mean time, continue your prayers for the Lord's will to be done in this great nation of ours! Have a great week and be of good courage because the Lord our God is with us! Amen!