Manifesting The Kingdom

Jesus taught His disciples to pray in Matthew 6:10.

"Your kingdom come,

Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven."

The sequence of the Lord's Prayer is important, because unless His kingdom comes, His will cannot be done. Why? Men in the flesh will not submit to His will. Neither will we naturally do His will.

Jesus came to show us how a Man can be fully submitted to God's will and do His will.

Matthew 12:28 - But if I cast out demons by the Spirit of God, surely the kingdom of God has come upon you.

Jesus came to manifest the kingdom of God. Unless the kingdom is here to reign, God's will cannot be done. By being the King and manifesting the Kingdom, He showed us the perfect will of God the Father (Heb 10:7-9).

The kingdom of God is righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Spirit (Rom 14:17). In other words, where the realm of the Spirit is, the kingdom of God is.

The Cross is not meant for us to get into the kingdom. The Cross is meant for the kingdom to get into us.

When Jesus came, He came with the kingdom. When He died, the kingdom ceased to reign. This is why He had to rise again to send the Holy Spirit into us who have become righteous in Him (Romans 4:25; Acts 1:8). Without the gift of righteousness, the Holy Spirit cannot come and live in us.

When Jesus rose from the dead, the kingdom was ready to descend and reign in the lives of every believer. On the Day of Pentecost, the Holy Spirit (the kingdom of God) came to live inside us.

Now, the kingdom is within us. (Luke 17:21) Now we are positioned to walk in the Spirit because the kingdom has come to reign in us and through us. Now we can submit to His will because we have died (Gal 2:20) and our flesh can be yielded to do His will. 

This is when the Lord's Prayer BECOMES a reality: "Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven."

How is God's will going to be done? Through YOU and ME!

As we set our mind on heaven and walk according to heaven (Col 3:2; Rom 8:6), we prove His will (Rom 12:2).

We are not praying for His kingdom to come. It already came. We are now called to manifest His kingdom and do His will. It is now the responsibility of every believer because of the privilege that God has given us by putting the kingdom of God within us.

Now the prayer focus has changed. Instead of "Father, let Your kingdom come...", we pray, "Father, I thank You that Your kingdom has come to live in me and through me. I'm ready to manifest Your kingdom and do Your will." #identity #kingdomofGod