Journey to God's Kingdom
Throughout history, God has revealed more and more aspects of His Kingdom little by little in each generation.
We are living in a very important season as we approach the greatest showdown between the Kingdom of light and the kingdom of darkness.
Throughout our Christian walk, God takes us on a journey and always takes us to His destination if we follow His leading. Not every journey is comfortable because our Christian walk will always have highs and lows. However, God will always take us to a good place. It’s not always about the journey, but the destination.
God has been talking the church on a journey for the past two thousand years and we are about to experience wonderful events in this season which will reveal new secrets of the Kingdom. The fact that it is called a Kingdom means that there is a King and He is the King of kings and Lord of lords and His name is Jesus.
The Kingdom is not some kind of mystic concept but is known as a Kingdom because there is a King and His name is Jesus. As we learn more and more how the Kingdom works, we will begin to know Jesus more and more.
This generation is positioned favorably and prophetically chosen to release the blessings of heaven on the earth.
God always does things through His anointed people and those who are positioned and present will be used to bring the glory of God to all the nations of the earth.
It is one thing to start the race, but it is more important to finish the race. When we start out on our spiritual journey, we must do everything in our power to look after each part of the journey and finish the race. Too many people start out but never finish what they started out to do.
Luke 9:62 - And Jesus said to him, No man, having put his hand to the plough, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God.
Everything about the Kingdom is starting out, enduring the journey, and finishing strong. The Kingdom of God is a forward moving Kingdom and never looks back.
God has allowed many examples to be recorded in the Bible so that we can understand how the Kingdom works. They are there to show us the nature and the character of the King and how He responds to our choices.
God has a purpose for everything
Even if the things of God do not make any sense to our intellect and may be difficult to figure out, God has a purpose for everything. We may wonder why we went through strange situations, but that is God’s way and He knows best. Your journey may have begun in a strange place and you have been unable to work it out, but God has a purpose in that.
When the Israelites lived under Pharaoh in Egypt, they found themselves in a godless place. The sad thing is that most of them became comfortable in Egypt. A new season came and it was time for them to move on, but they resisted the voice of God. Wherever you may find yourself, always keep your eyes on the Lord because God will speak in the right season and take you from a godless place to another place.
God has never ever allowed his people to camp and stay camped. He always moves His people on. He moves them to greater things, to greener grass, to greater promises, but the journey always ends where He wants us to be.
When God speaks, we need to move. We must also understand that we may not necessarily go to a better place, but it is the journey that God uses to take us to our promises.
There is a beginning and an end of every journey and there is a beginning and an end of an every leg of a journey and that may be a time in a wilderness. This wilderness experience may just be for a time and there are few things that we can do while we are going through this phase of your journey.
We can be like many of the Israelites and fight God which caused them to lose the promises. They made life very difficult for their leaders. They fought their leaders, turned their back on God, and bowed down to idols.
They were always seeking something. We do not have to seek for God, because He is right there waiting to bless us in that wilderness experience. We can make a choice and see this part of the journey as a time to exercise our faith and thank God for this learning process.
Those that are destined to enjoy the promises of God have to be men and women of faith and tenacity.
Separation must come
Separation must come as God moves us on to the next leg of our journey. We have to put something between us and the past. The Israelites had to put the Red Sea between them and the Egyptians. The Red Sea parted and closed again which meant that they could not go back and they could not be followed.
The Egyptians could not come into the wilderness. There are some people and some experiences that cannot come into this phase of our journey.
Separation must come, but it must also come in our heart. There were times that the Israelites longed to go back to Egypt.
Physically they were in the desert, but their hearts and minds were in Egypt. When God moves you on, embrace the new season with your whole heart, mind, and spirit. This is how He molds us so that we can fit into our Kingdom purpose.
God matures us
After forty years in the wilderness, a new generation was positioned to take the promises. The sad thing is that not many survived the wilderness and therefore never saw the promises. Only those who have been faithful in the wilderness experience and have matured through the process will see onto the next part of the journey.
Many thousands of people followed Jesus but only one hundred and twenty saw the glory of Pentecost when the church was birthed in power. God is about to birth a new phase of His Kingdom but only those who have been faithful will experience it.
Do not allow your circumstances to make you lose the blessings. Although life may have been an endless struggle for you and it may seem that that all the forces of hell have come against you, never give up. Never give up on your dream and do not give up on your love for God. Do not stop worshipping God and continue fellowshipping with the children of God because God is about to take the church to the Jordan.
Possess the land
Joshua 1:3 - Every place that the sole of your foot will tread upon I have already given you, as I said to Moses.
We are called to be rulers and to preside over everything that belongs to God.
God told Joshua to cross the Jordan and possess the promises. What do possessors do? They conquer, overcome, establish, and rule. There were no complainers and murderers in the Promised Land. Those who did not have faith were left in the desert and did not cross over.
There are so many people in the world today who do not know Jesus and the only Jesus they are going to see are mature men and women of God that have stayed the course and have never given up.
Make preparation for the journey
There are ten things that God wants us to know in order for Him to prepare us for our journey and ultimate destination. These are found in Isaiah 55.
1. There is a call.
Isaiah 55:1 - “Ho! Everyone who thirsts, Come to the waters; And you who have no money, Come, buy and eat. Yes, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.
The Bible tells us that we are all called and no-one is excluded from God’s plan of salvation. When we hear the call and come to Him, our past is forgotten and forgiven and we only have a future.
2. Lay down your works
Isaiah 55:2 - Why do you spend money for what is not bread, And your wages for what does not satisfy? Listen carefully to Me, and eat what is good, And let your soul delight itself in abundance.
It is not necessary for us to work for our salvation. We need to stop working so hard to promote ourselves and to try and make things work out. We should allow God to work things out for us. Too many Christians work for their salvation but will never be able to work to be good.
We should allow the anointing to fill us and to transform our weaknesses into His strength.
3. We need to listen
Isaiah 55:3 - Incline your ear, and come to Me. Hear, and your soul shall live; And I will make an everlasting covenant with you - The sure mercies of David.
We hear many things but we should be careful before we react. There are many voices out there and some of us pick up the wrong messages. The one that listens with the Spirit is the one who has the best hearing.
4. God is preparing a new breed of leaders
Isaiah 55:4 Indeed I have given him as a witness to the people, a leader and commander for the people.
God has brought you this far because He is preparing you for your tomorrow. There is a unique anointing on your life and God is preparing you for things that have never been done by anyone else before.
5. You shall called for nations
Isaiah 55:5 - Surely you shall call a nation you do not know, And nations who do not know you shall run to you, Because of the LORD your God, And the Holy One of Israel; For He has glorified you."
God has called us for big things and is preparing us to preach to nations.
6. Seek and call.
Isaiah 55:6 - Seek the Lord while He may be found, call upon Him while He is near.
At what point of any journey do people normally give up? It is when they are just about to receive the prize. Many can already see the finishing line, but fall down before they cross over.
The church is there already. That is where we are. We are almost at the finish line but we see many Christians give up and turn from God. This is the time to call on God for renewed strength.
7. God's ways are different.
Isaiah 55:8 - 9 - “For My thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways My ways,” says 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.
What are we thinking? We should ask ourselves “What would Jesus think about this? What are His thoughts on this matter?” We should align our thinking with God’s ways of thinking.
The Angel of the Lord was standing and watching Gideon as he worked. Both had two opposite thoughts on the matter. Gideon thought he was a nobody, with no future, and in bondage to his enemies. The Lord thought Gideon was almighty man of valor.
Our thoughts can keep us captive, but God thinks we are overcomers. What do you think?
8. Supernatural provision.
Isaiah 55:10 - “For as the rain comes down, and the snow from heaven, And do not return there, But water the earth, and make it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower And bread to the eater.
The moment the Israelites crossed the Jordan, they no longer had to rely on the manna, but enjoyed the abundance of blessings in the Promised Land.
Our blessings are not going to fall from heaven, but God is going to transfer the wealth of world under our control. Are you ready for it?
9. The working of God's Word
Isaiah 55:11 - So shall My word be that goes forth from My mouth; It shall not return to Me void, But it shall accomplish what I please, And it shall prosper in the thing for which I sent it.
Every word of God is a promise of His provision and blessings. God will never ever go back on His Word.
For example, if God has promised us healing in His Word, He will not go back on His Word. His Word accomplishes what it promises.
Every promise in the Word is a promise of possession and an abundant life here on earth during our lifetime.
10. God is going to give you a new experience
Isaiah 55:12 - “For you shall go out with joy, And be led out with peace; The mountains and the hills Shall break forth into singing before you, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.
We need to have a new experience in our lives. We should experience something different to sadness, lack, and failure.
God wants us to experience His love, mercy, and blessings. For some of us this is a new experience that we are longing for which will result in joy and peace.
Remember – Look after the journey and the destination will take care of itself.
