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!