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 taking 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 is 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 to 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 for 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 yet 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 spent in a wilderness. This wilderness experience may just be for a time and there are a few things that we can do while we are going through this phase of our journey.
We can be like many of the Israelites who fought God which caused them to lose the promises. They made life very difficult for their leaders. They fought their leaders, turned their backs 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.
1. 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 hearts. 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.
2. 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 they never saw the promises. Only those who have been faithful in the wilderness experience and have matured through the process will go 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 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.
3. 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 to possess the promises. What do possessors do? They conquer, overcome, establish, and rule. There were no complainers or 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.
