Wednesday, April 3, 2013

His Kingdom is Bigger than Your Needs, Your Life, and Your Everything Else

"But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you."  Matthew 6: 33)

Let us review what the Kingdom of God is all about:

"For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost." (Romans 14: 17)

and

"For the kingdom of God is not in word, but in power." (1 Corinthians 4: 20)

The Kingdom of God is brought to us by the Holy Spirit, who is God:

"Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost." (Romans 15: 13)

The Holy Spirit is not merely limited to within the Body of Christ. Joel prophesied:

"And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions" (Joel 2: 28)

This prophecy was fulfilled on the Day of Pentecost in Acts:

"And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams:" (Acts 2: 17)

"On all flesh" has the Holy Spirit been released, with no limit based on time or space or person or power, just like the grace of God, which has been revealed to all men (Titus 2: 11).

So, the same Kingdom which we have received is everywhere throughout all time -- past, present, future.

This is why Jesus said:

"Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?" (Matthew 6: 25)

and

"Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof." (Matthew 6: 34)

Rest in the Spirit of God, who brings the His rule in every area of your life, that through His righteousness and grace you may reign in life (Romans 5: 17).

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