Live in Your Own Kingdom

READ: Luke 17: 20-21
MORE LESSONS: I Cor . 6:9-1 1
Bible Reading in One Year: Leviticus 8-10

The word 'Kingdom' is a two syllable word: King and dom(Domain) where the king stays. When you get born again a kingdom is set up on your inside. There are two dimensions to possessing God 's Kingdom- His Kingdom is right now inside us and we will also enter into His kingdom in heaven when we leave this temporal world. His Kingdom inside us is brought about by the presence of God in our lives through the Holy Spirit and the Kingdom we are looking up to enter in heaven is also by the Holy Spirit of God. So the Kingdom of God, both now and here after, is about the power, righteousness, peace and joy of the Holy Spirit (Rom 14: 17).
There is yet another kingdom-the kingdom of Satan. This kingdom also has two dimensions to it: the kingdom of darkness as located in the heart of every wicked sinful person and the kingdom of darkness which every sinner goes to after this temporal earth passes away, that is the lake of fire. Man is created to rule over the earth. This means men have their own kingdom on the earth but every man is either part of the Kingdom of God or the kingdom of Satan. So, we have three kingdoms; the Kingdom of God (spiritual), the kingdom of Satan (spiritual) and the kingdom of men (physical). In this present age there is a conflict between the kingdom of God on our inside and the work of wickedness of the kingdom of darkness in the children of disobedience. Jesus has His Kingdom here on earth in the same way as Satan. Every kingdom has a king; those he rules (the subjects) and the rules that guide that kingdom (law). The king who rules your destiny determines the kingdom to which you belong. A believer already belongs to God's Kingdom so he goes to heaven when he dies because the King takes him/her to the location where He physically dwells and rules. The same thing happens to the sinner in whom Satan has a throne; so when he/she dies, he is taken to where his king lives.
The Word of God is the constitution or law of God's Kingdom. When a believer is born again and is full of the Word of God then he is fully of God's Kingdom. For many people, Jesus is the Lord of their lives but they want to live by the law of Satan's kingdom. You cannot implement the law of one kingdom in another kingdom. As a child of God, there are certain things you cannot do. In God's Kingdom there is law but in the kingdom of darkness there is lawlessness. If you want to remain a member of the Kingdom of God, you have to keep the laws of the Kingdom. Many believers love the power and joy in the Kingdom of God and also the lawlessness in the other kingdom, but you have to choose on. Stay under God's Kingdom and

Prayer/Action
* Rededicate your life and ways to Him and His Kingdom afresh today.
* Proclaim that the power of the kingdom of darkness will not prevail against you.
* Plead the Blood of Jesus over your spirit and body now.

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Celebrate God by His Works

READ: Psa. 19:1-10
MORE LESSONS: Psa. 139:14
Bible Reading in One Y ear: Leviticus 5-7

What you don't get by praying to God, you will get by praising Him. Prayer will take you into the presence of God, and give you what you are asking for while praises will bring God from heaven into your situation. Imagine the Almighty vacate His throne in glory and come down to stand right before you and ask, ''What can I do for you?'' That is what praising God gives to you. It is good to give Him praise. Praise God for all His manifold works in creation because even the heavens declare the glory of God; and the skies proclaim the works of His hand (Psa. 19: 1). This means that when you consider the heavens, the firmaments and all nature, praising and glorifying God should be the spontaneous response from you. Each time you see the graphic works in the sky and the different designs, colours and formations of the clouds in the rain, you know this is beyond the fingers of man. Learn to observe, appreciate and enjoy nature; don't just live on earth like someone who never passed through it. Look at the mountains; some of them leaning and hanging as if they are about to fall, and they have been like that for ages without crashing down. Sometimes you look ahead of you and it is as if a mighty mountain is sitting in the midst of the road but you get there and realize that the road actually passes by the mountain side.
Then there are the waterfalls with water cascading down from the mountain tops every moment of the day for years, and you wonder where the source of the water is that it never dries. There is a water spring with warm and cold issuing from the same rock source. These and more should make us sing the song, “Oh Lord my God, when I in awesome wonder, consider all the works thine hands hath made...”. The heavens declare the glory of the Lord by their beauty- the beautiful things in nature announce the praise and glory of God in heaven. As you praise and glorify God in response to nature's beauty, the glory and beauty rubs on you and your life also begins to declare the glory of God. God makes your life so beautiful that things begin to happen such that when people see you, they cannot but praise God. People look at your life and say, ''As soon as I saw you, I just felt like praising God.'' Elizabeth said to Mary, For, lo, as soon as the voice of thy salutation sounded in mine ears, the babe leaped in my womb for joy: Lk. 1:44. May you get to the point where your academics, health, career, finances and destiny begin to declare the glory of God.

Prayer/Action
* Ask God to make your life an example of His glory forever.
* Expose and destroy today whatever is the secret of reproach in your life, in Jesus’ Name.
* Prophesy a daily life of glory to your destiny.

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Staying in Your Purpose

READ: 1 Cor.7: 20-24
MORE LESSONS: Phil. 3:7-14
Bible Reading in One Year: Leviticus 1-4

Grace becomes available when purpose is found. God endows grace on a man in the place of his purpose. And since a man cannot prosper nor make contact with heaven without grace, it means then that discovering your purpose is not only important for now but even for eternity. Y our eternity is tied to your purpose, and the moment you step out of what God has prepared for you to do, your eternity becomes jeopardized.
This is because when you are doing what God didn't design and wire you for, in the midst of it you will mess up. When you are functioning in your purpose, difficult jobs look so easy but without grace the easiest job on earth becomes the most difficult. God is not a waster of grace; He only gives you grace to do what He has sent you to do, not what He has not assigned to you. There is security and defense for a man inside his purpose. He might be going around in risky situations and be safe as long as he is pursuing God's purpose for his life. Please locate your purpose and don't copy another man's purpose because you may not survive what he is doing in his purpose. There is joy and accelerated promotion for a man inside his purpose. That is why the devil fights your purpose; he knows that life is easy if you find your purpose because everything you need is inside that purpose. You are dangerous to the devil in your purpose.
A young lady told me that God asked her to do something. She stepped out and saw everything God said to her coming true but she was also getting the greatest persecution, and so she wanted to quit and do something else. I told her to continue with what she was doing. If the enemy does not oppose a man's purpose what else do you think is his job? Purpose is the most fought battle on the face of the earth. When you are in the will of God, be prepared to get the hottest fight from the devil because he knows that if only you can stay in your purpose you become a threat to him. He wants to get you out of where you are defended to where grace is not available for you so that he can attack you when you make the slightest mistake.
Have you found something doing for God? Ask Him for grace for that assignment. Never be bothered about the size or type of the assignment, small or great, toilet or pulpit. Just ask for grace to fulfill God's purpose for that assignment. Don't get attracted to someone else's assignment, no matter how attractive it is. Abide in His grace and be a servant of Christ not a servant of your choice.

Prayer/Action
* Ask God not to hide your destiny from you. * Pray that nothing will be strong enough to distract you out of God’s assignment.
* Pray against every satanic confrontation targeted at uprooting you out of your purpose in life.
* Write down five possible threats to your life mission and in 30 minutes before the end of today pray against them.

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Raising Men of Purpose

READ: Hab. 2:2
MORE LESSONS: Joel 2:7-8
Bible Reading in One Year: Matthew 26-28

One of the vital preparations for the coming of the Lord is building and raising men who will do the job. Our desire is that God will raise a new generation of men that will do greater things than we are doing. If God uses a man to raise a good number of people and send them, each to a nation of the world to make great impact, that is when the ministry of the man actually becomes global. Global impact and ministry is activated by raising men. In raising men, you have to identify and launch each man into what he has actually been called to do. The best result comes when a man is found doing exactly what he is called to do. You can't get the best of results by copying somebody else because you will always be behind the person you are copying. As a matter of fact, you can only copy what the man has done; you can't know the remaining concepts, ideas, dreams and visions inside him. He has a purpose and destination which his methods and actions are geared toward. Meanwhile, you can enter into error copying his methods because you don't know his purpose for those methods. Be sure you are doing exactly what God asked you to do and not just copying somebody. And when you do it, you can be sure your allocation will meet you in your location.
Get your priority right: put God first in your life. Making the most of life begins with recognizing that you are in destiny for a purpose. God didn't bring you here without a purpose. What God wants you to do and from which you are running away may actually just be the key to those things you think you are pursuing around. Be prompt in pursuing God's purpose for your life. Several people have made God to be prompt in attending to their matters by being prompt in what they are doing for God. The men the Lord is raising at this time are men of purpose and vision. They are those who will be able to stand upon their watch like Habakkuk said: I will stand upon my watch, and set me upon the tower, and will watch to see what he will say unto me… And the LORD answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it: Hab.2:1-2 (NIV). Finding men that will run with an assignment is much more important than the method of the assignment. However, don't ever forget that you are not raised for yourself; you are raise for others. God raised you and blessed you for others around you. I pray that in life you will be numbered among God's men of purpose.

Prayer/Action
* Father, open my eyes of understanding to know your full purpose for my life.
* Father, I receive wisdom to guide everyone under my tutelage that they might fulfill the purpose they are called to.

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