Kingdom Advancement

Three simple truths define a believer’s walk with God: faith, trust, and obedience. One’s faith in Him—His goodness, majesty, and sovereignty—enables the trust. His nature—the same yesterday, today, and forever—makes Him trustworthy. Faith and trust, however, are incomplete without obedience. Because He is Who He says He is, because He is unchanging, one’s obedience is well-placed and well-portioned in Him.

1^st Truth: Faith

Hebrews 11:1 is perhaps the hallmark faith Scripture: “Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see.” (NIV) The word faith in this passage is the Greek word pistis—a conviction that God exists and is the creator and ruler of all things, the provider and bestower of eternal salvation through Christ; a strong and welcome conviction or belief that Jesus is the Messiah, through whom we obtain eternal salvation in the Kingdom of God. Strong’s Concordance also includes the definition of fidelity and faithfulness—the character of one who can be relied upon. The root of pistis is peithō, a primary verb meaning to persuade, to be persuaded, to believe, to listen to, to obey, to yield to, to comply with, to trust, to be confident in.

These definitions, then, confirm that one’s faith in God has substance. It is not some ethereal, wispy wish, but a well-rooted, weighty belief in His Divine three-person Godhead. Read More

I have never been more aware as I am now of the fact that we all are subject to the Fire of God without notice. Yet in these difficult times of being tried, it is possible to see the will of the flesh being quelled and swallowed up in the Refiner’s Fire for His DELIVERANCE if we relinquish all rights to self. It is only in this smoldering aftermath that we realize that the Fire we thought would destroy us actually became our salvation. This conversion from carnal thinking creates a godly expectation and a renewed HOPE. This wisdom can only be embraced as we are intimate with the God who is a Consuming Fire. Mindset transformation should be a continuum in the life of the believer. It is a fundamental part of the ONGOING PROCESS of sanctification that we must submit to and one that is a key factor in walking in the Spirit.  Galatians 5:16 says: “Walk in the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh.”

“When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; And through the rivers, they shall not overflow you. When you walk through the fire, you shall not be burned, nor shall the flame scorch you.” Isaiah 43:2 Read More

“It is the glory of God to conceal a matter, But the glory of kings is to search out a matter.” [Pro 25:2 NKJV]

I hear the Lord saying it is time to search out the glory within you! Even as the wise men saw the stars and searched out the Christ, the Spirit of God within you is constraining you to search within and draw out the glory. Search beneath the soulish realm, go deep until you hear the Holy utterance of the voice of the living God and let the roar of the Lion of the tribe of Judah release the sound that produces the glory in your circumstances.

Heaven is calling you forth. You are dissatisfied because you have fallen short of the glory! The Spirit of God, the life of Christ within you, is drawing you forth. This is the reason for your dissatisfaction. It isn’t other people or your circumstances that are causing you grief. It is a holy dissatisfaction because you are falling short of the Glory of God that is within you.

“For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;” [Rom 3:23 KJV]

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