Monday, October 19, 2009

Is there no KING in YOU?

By Bill Winston
IS THERE NO KING IN YOU?

THROUGH THE OLD TESTAMENT PROPET MICAH, GOD ASKED A QUESTION
OF HIS PEOPLE WHO HAD LOST SIGHT OF THEIR IDENTITY AND PURPOSE IN HIM.
“NOW, WHY DOEST THOU CRY OUT ALOUD? IS THERE NO KING IN THEE?”
(MICAH 4:9). IF THE CHURCH WERE ASKED THE SAME QUESTION TODAY,
I’M SURE WE WOULD HAVE THE RIGHT ANSWER:

“Yes, there is a King in us – the King of kings and Lord of lord!”,We know we’ve been made royalty as joint heirs with Jesus, and personally sent as ambassadors to bring the blessing of His heavenly kingdom to the whole earth.

So why, the, is the Church not making more of an impact on the world? Instead of living like we’re citizens of a kingdom that has all the provision this world needs, why do we, in so many ways, manifest what King Solomon foresaw? “There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, as an error which proceedeth from the ruler: Folly is set in great dignity, and the rich sit in low place. I have seen servants upon horses, and princes walking as servants upon the earth: (Ecclesiastes 10:5-7)

The Reason the Church has not yet manifested the fullness of her place and purpose in the world is found in God’s Word through the prophet Isaiah:

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. For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater: so shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it (Isaiah 55:8-11)

What we’ve lacked is not information about God, but kingdom perspective. We hear His words, but process to mean something entirely different than what He is saying. Our programming is messed up. What we need is a download of kingdom thinking!

WHAT ARE WE THINKING?

This download of kingdom thinking begins with an understanding that we have been chosen WE HAVE BEEN CHOSEN with a KINGDOM PURPOSE. Like Joseph, we’ve been chosen – from our families, our communities, our countries, even our planet, to be trained according to the ways of another kingdom and to come back manifesting THE BLESSING so men will not miss heaven.

Joseph was forced out of his family home by brothers who were jealous of The Blessing of Abraham manifesting in his life. Yet Joseph refused to take his identity from being a slave and a prisoner. And he refused to hold anger against his brothers, or resentment against those who accused him unjustly. Instead, he lived as an heir of the promise and assignment given to his great-grandfather that “in they seed shall all the nations be blessed. (Genesis 22:18). When the wisest men in Egypt ran out of answers, Joseph reached into the wisdom of a greater kingdom. As a result, he was raised up to the second-highest position of authority in the land by a ruler who observed: “Can we find such a one as this, a man in whom the spirit of God is?” (Genesis 41:38) God had deliberately planted Joseph in Egypt. When his brothers cam seeking food during the famine, Joseph explained: “Now therefore be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that ye sold me hither: for God did send me before you to preserve life” (Genesis 45:5).

God purposefully trains and deliberately plants His people where His light, life and Blessing will be needed most. He raised up Esther to be chosen queen of a Persian king, for example, to prevent a massacre of her people (Esther 4:14). And, He created such a great display of His kingdom in preserving Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego, that Babylon’s king declared: “Blessed be the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, who hath sent his angel, and delivered his servants that trusted in him, and have changed the king’s word … There is no other God that can deliver after this sort” (Daniel 3:28-29).

Daniel’s faithfulness to God and deliverance in the lions’ den caused the Persian King Darius to write “unto all people, nations, and languages, that dwell in all the earth; Peace be multiplied unto you. I make a decree, That in every dominion of my kingdom men tremble and fear before the God of Daniel: for he is the living God, and stedfast forever, and his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed, and his dominion shall be even unto the end” (Daniel 6:25-26).

All were chosen and taken out and raised up to represent the kingdom of God before the kingdoms of this world.

God’s assignment in your life is no less deliberate and purposeful. GOD’S ASSIGNMENT IN YOUR LIFE IS NO LESS DELIBERATE AND PURPOSEFUL. There IS a KING in YOU. As with Joseph, Esther, Daniel, Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego, the situation where you’ve been put does not matter. As God directs you, He will raise you up. AS GOD DIRECTS YOU HE WILL RAISE YOU UP.

THE ADVANTAGE OF KINGDOM THINKING

As I began to hear these things and go through the Word looking at things from a kingdom perspective, everything shifted. I saw that once I got a kingdom mentality, I could go place I had never been able to go in my natural thinking. That’s when our ministry absolutely took off. Several years ago, God spoke to me and said, I want you to buy that mall. At first I thought that could not be Him. I couldn’t hear because I didn’t know of a church that owned a mall. Because I hadn’t seen it, my mind kept rejection it, But experience, whether your own or that of others, is not the final authority when you are learning when you are learning to think kingdom thoughts. God kept speaking to me until we purchased a 33-acre mall and began to develop it according to His direction.

Later He told me to start a school of business to educate kingdom thinkers in principles that would survive the failings of the world economy. WE WILL SURVIVE THE FAILURES OF THE WORLD’S ECONOMY WHEN WE FOLLOW KINGDOM PRINCIPLES. Most recently, He instructed me to purchase a commercial bank. The old way of thinking asks: “What does a church need with a bank?” That’s the WRONG question. The question should be: “What does the kingdom need with a bank?” IN 2002, nearly $120 billion came in to churches in the U.S. and made income for banks that did not have a kingdom purpose or vision. Imagine how many churches could be started and church buildings built debt free with the help of a bank that had a kingdom vision for the income off investments from those deposits!

The Church has not thought of all the ways God has to take the light of His kingdom into the darkest places – through people who will begin to think like He thinks.

CHOSEN, PREPARED, AND PLANTED

Don’t automatically reject the situation you are in right now because of the darkness that is in it. The best place for the light is where it’s dark – where you can go in and be the most effective. The Kingdom is in you, and Jesus teaches, “Let your light so shire before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify you Father which is in heaven” {Matthew 5:16). You and I are the mustard seed in Matthew 13:31-32, where Jesus said that the kingdom of heaven is as if a man would plant a mustard seed in his field, and that seed would grow up, and be greater that all the herbs in the field.

God chose us to be brought out, trained with the good news and demonstration up and sent back, AND SENT BACK with the good news and demonstrations of another kingdom. He transplants us into a field with His Anointing on our lives. Just as the sons of Israel in Babylonian captivity were observed to be 10 times as excellent than all the other young men. The Blessing in us will cause us to rise up and take over the field we are in. Not only has God chosen us. He has also equipped us. He has given us an advantage – revelation knowledge. HE HAS GIVEN US AN ADVANTAGE – REVELATION KNOWLEDGE! Joseph was raise up and because someone recognized: “this guy knows something I don’t know.” And Daniel was promoted because he had information no one else had.

Revelation Knowledge is knowledge of what already exists, It’s not advance knowledge of something that’s going to happen. It’s something that has already happened. God has given you the ability to see, by His Spirit, things’ that are not visible to the natural eye (1 Corinthians 2:9-10) Equipped as ambassadors of His kingdom, we go tout into our various areas of influence – politics, media, medicine, education, government, sports, hospitality, and churches and neighborhoods and grocery stores and gas stations and the world etc – with His Anointing and giftings to be the people of influence in our fields. We go into these fields bringing resources such as love and righteousness that dismantle the hate, bribery and manipulation that are all they have know. And as we go, we find ourselves transforming things.

DISMANTLING A FAILED KINGDOM

It’s time to rewrite the script. We’ve seen a flood of the Word of God go forth throughout the earth in our generation as God raises up and trains His people. God is getting His Church moving again. He is getting our thinking right and moving us into a place where we can demonstrate what His Kingdom is really like.
We are learning to think the way God thinks, representing a different mentality, with a different outlook, with a different moral standard, different principles, different culture and values. We are bringing in a brand new kingdom. Not only are we going to recover what was lost – we are going to dismantle the devil’s system. NOT ONLY ARE WE GOING TO REVOVER WHAT WAS LOST – WE ARE GOING TO DISMANTLE THE devil’s system! The kingdom the enemy has set up seems powerful until in is confronted by kingdom-minded citizens – people who are in the kingdom of God. We’ve been sent to overthrow, WE’VE BEEN SENT TO OVERTHROW the kingdom of darkness AND ESTABLISH the AUTHORITY OF THE KINGDOM OF LIGHT!

YES THERE IS A KING IN US! And we have been equipped and assigned to establish His kingdom – to take dominion TO TAKE DOMINION BACK. The Church didn’t come to take sides. We’ve not come here to coexist with the kingdom of darkness. WE’RE HERE TO TAKE IT OVER! Victory!

To the stalwart in heart, the call is given!

OMGosh! I just woke from a dream you would BELIEVE! no seriously YOU WILL BELIEVE in all it's connotations, this is going out all over even on several of my facebooks and myspaces and google blocks, I have a million of them altogether, cha, cha, cha!

OMGosh! I can scream and flip out right now in spades. this is awesome!!!! The Lord's had me on the Armour of God lately so that I now carry a "sword" with me at all times, a big plastic one albeit but a SWORD nevertheless to remind me from Him that WE are the ones on the cutting edge here and no others. Now many of us KNOW how to do intercessary warfare and we DO do it mightily and see great results,For it's one thing to be praying in your prayer closet and wave your hands all around or not depending on your style of prayer warfare, But it's another thing entirely to have a physical sword in YOUR HANDS and start slicing the attacks of the enemy up in your prayer closet instead. IT MAKES A DIFFERENCE AND IT CHANGES YOU!

I've been buying up little swords from local dollar or family dollar stores lately and adding glitter and faux jewels to them for myself and for friends. and also getting the bigger ones from Walmart as well. my personal advice is to go buy yourself one and some for your friends as many as you may or may not be led to do quick as these things in the average stores are only out on the market at this particular time of year and will be gone very soon. it's just a silly type and shadow maybe play thing to some. But to others it will be the start of a whole new adventure in God!!! When you swing that sword around and stand at ready and do some of the battle swing manuevers, OH YEAH you ARMED AND DANGEROUS alright! And the enemy of all mankind doesn't stand a chance with you and God at your side in your heart and mind and now in your fully armed SPIRIT anymore. And like Carmen sings about "we become more of a threat to the enemy than the world around us had been a threat to us!"

When the children of God Rise up and take their rightfully ARMED positions as the SONS AND DAUGHTERS OF THE MOST HIGH GOD THEN THE WORLD CHANGES! WHEN THEY SEE US ROBED IN HIS RIGHTEOUS WALKING IN OUR CALL FROM GOD AS HIS SWORN FEALTY VESSELS [vassels became a distortion of the True dedication down through the ages] WALKING IN HIS ANOINTING AND POWER JUST LIKE THE MAN JESUS DID AND DOES AGAIN THROUGH US THEN THE WORLD WILL CHANGE!

BUT UNTIL WE SHED THE CHAINS OF THE WORLD'S WAY OF THINKING, UNTIL EACH OF US GET WITH GOD AND FIND OUT OR REDISCOVER OUR FIRST LOVE, WHO WE ARE IN CHRIST, NOT A THING WILL CHANGE IN OUR LIVES.

Many of us have looked into the palantir [lotr reference], the crystal ball of satan of shinning "promises" and false hopes and distorted visions of grandeur and recovery from rotten treatment down through the ages to follow this and that man or women who seems to have it all together, whom seems to have all there is for us to make it when all else around us has failed. But it isn't a woman here or a man there that has what we need. It is the real Sovereign Lord God ALMIGHTY who has the answers for ALLLLLL our needs. and it is HIM we must align ourselves with in these coming days. Mighty big hint here. They will only be as hard as we make them. as we accept the conditions of the world that they must be so. NOT! Under the Royal Hand of ALMIGHTY GOD we learn to work with the ARMOUR THAT HE HAS PROVIDED NOT THE WAYS OF MAN THAT WILL FAIL YOU!

HIS ARMOUR WILL NOT FAIL YOU, HIS PROMISES ARE YES AND AMEN.

In the Dream there was a woman, [weeell the dream was all about moi who has battles to win for the Lord too, you know] who had had her Kingdom stolen from her and in this dream she'd got it BACK, But getting it and keeping it or two different things. And She was walking around her castle making sure all was safe and secure against the coming night. [hint hint] [oh boy was this dream full of metaphors he he] And her men of the guard all volunteered to do this for her, but it was something she must do herself because it was HER Castle that she had the calling and the responsibility and the LEADERSHIP over just as well all have our own "castles" to guard and protect. So she was going out on the limb, out in the places she wouldn't even let her guards go, out where only she[he] could go, walking out onto the precarious battlements inspecting and examining and looking over every railing and forecastle and passaways of her castle to make sure all was secure. And the enemy has sent assasins to try and trip her up [he was still out there, still trying to steal from her, from us lest we be weary in well doing] and did make an attempt while she was out on the battlements preparing a spill of some sort as she crossed a narrow wooden bridge between one tower wall and another. But the attempt failed and she didn't fall to her doom on the courtyard below after all. The assasin got away and ran back to hide among her courtiers at the feasting table again. She came back into the banqueting room and she spotted the theives right off the bat, they were the ones trying to act their best and nonchalance but they were sweating in fear of discovery. the enemy always sweats and trembles and shivers in fear of discovery when we are on our guard in the Lord and know what to look for as far as the devious tricks of the enemy go. It was interesting that her place at the table, these two were sitting there just to her right for in their mortal disguise they were always trying to whisper subtle suggestions in her ear to go with this or that man's plans. Yet to her left was her strongest and most powerful Knight sworn to her and her's alone PROTECTION at the COST OF HIS OWN LIFE [ooohh getting chills now he he] And as she went to the tabor to select sweet meats for her meal the scene faded out into how this story all began. [did I say chills, now it's full blown goosebumps!!! he he]

When in the previous generation the enemy had full sway in the land and in the guise of a powerful noble who promised the Lords and Ladies, the nobility of the land many things, he had sent out to them each many gifts and and a wrapped item to each of them in beguiling cloth or wrapping and they were to come against a "Kingdom" he had wilely convinced them was the scourge of the land, the rot of all their problems and grievances. And when they got to the mighty walls of this King's Fortress they were to unwrap this item and look into it and recieve the power to tear it down and remove it's influence from the land [oh i declare you are getting what HE is saying here!] So here is this full army of Lords and Ladies in all their dark battle gear come up before the walls of the lone single huge fortress that had stood for eons against the ultimate darkness in their land and at the last moment as they sat on their horses they pulled out each their wrapped package and slowly unwrapped them and as each gazed into the palantir of the enemy a different spirit took them over and they had the power to call down fireballs to destroy the Fortress that had long protected them and keep them safe in the land. And it looked like the end for the King of this Fortress and the destruction of all that was right and good in the land.

BUT, [of coures there's always a but, in these stories and in this dream] the King had long known they were coming and had prepared for this day and he sent his son, his only begotten son, [chills AND crying now!] out into the world beyond his castle, in the guise of a little baby in what looked like a bowman but was really a peasant woman who "carried" the King's Child out of the castle as fireballs and destruction rained all around.

Well now that SON is grown up and HE'S COMING BACK TO CLAIM HIS KINGDOM IN US AND IN THIS WORLD. AND THIS "DAUGHTER" HAS GOT HER KINGDOM BACK AND HE'S RAISING UP HIS ARMY OF MEN AND WOMEN OF GOD WHO HAVE ALSO GOT THEIR KINGDOM'S BACK and oh by the way there were three people who also stood before that castle that seemingly doomed day in ages past. Two Knights and a Lady, and they KNEW the deception that was about to take place, and though they rode with the blinded army of darkness, [because once you take up the enemy's cause you become as dark as he is in spirit, soul and mind] once they were at the walls of the Fortress they unwrapped their items prematurely and threw them down! and walked off the battlefield refusing to take part in that evil destruction. So in the years that went by they became the guardians of this new and restored Queen at the start of this dream. [whoa!]

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So then I woke up, but I was still seeing visions awake now and a presentation began to unfold itself in my mind to present on the stages of the auditoriums of churches all across this land. Of KNIGHTS carrying a CHEST that contain the ARMOR from stage left to the center and other Knights opening the chest and taking out the sword and the shield, and the breastplate and the helmet and the girdle and the sandals and re-arming a little child, a small boy, and they closed in around him so the congregation could not see him and when they were finished and stepped back BEHOLD THERE WAS A FULL GROWN KNIGHT FULLY ARMED IN THE LORD! and they challenged the people seated out there to join their cause and take back the Kingdom/s that rightfully belonged to them each and all. And hidden among them all wrapped up in a "new" cloak many folks throughout the auditoriums threw off those cloaks that had kept them hidden among them and stood up also as full grown KNIGHTS, MEN AND WOMEN throughout the whole congregation wearing the silver chain link armor and they thrust their swords in their right hands to the ceiling and cried "WILL YOU JOIN US?" and the entire congregations thus emboldened all cried "YES!" and then another figuare came on the scene seemingly to suddenly appear right behind the Knight on the stage. All clad in WHITE and RADIANCE with His Staff and Rod in His Hands declaring it's TIME for HIS ARMY to GO FORTH AND TAKE BACK THE LAND, TAKE BACK OUR KINGDOMS IN HIM!

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The WHITE RIDER IS COMING PEOPLE! IT'S TIME TO LAY DOWN THE TRADITIONS AND METHODS OF MAN AND TAKE UP THE CAUSE OF THE LORD ONCE MORE AND AGAIN RE ARMOUR OURSELVES IN HIM, THE HELMET OF SALVATION, THE BRESTPLATE OF RIGHTEOUSNESS, THE GIRDLE OF TRUTH, THE TWO EDGED SWORD OF TRUTH, THE SHEILD OF FAITH AND OUR FEETS SHOD WITH THE GOSPEL OF PEACE!

what is that Kingdom of God which is available RIGHT NOW for EACH OF US. JOY, PEACE AND RIGHTEOUSNESS IN THE HOLY GHOST.

WILL YOU JOIN US?