Dear Beloved in Christ,

We are on a journey on knowing the Lord personally and His Kingdom.  Jesus brought the Kingdom of God with Him and asked His disciples to pray on those same lines. “Your Kingdom come and let your will be done on earth as it is heaven” (Matt.6:10). After He finished His work on the earth and before leaving, He said and commissioned His disciples to go and make disciples of all nations.  He told them to teach others to obey everything He has commanded them.  We need to know what all Jesus taught His disciples from the Word of God. Because we too are His children and disciples, we need to learn all that He wants us to learn so we experience the fullness of God and abundance He intended for us NOW.

Jesus came to finish the reign of the devil on the mankind and said, “All authority in Heaven and on earth has been given to me.”(Matt 28:18b). We need to learn that Jesus defeated the devil and his power of sin and death from our lives.  We need to learn this intentionally so when the enemy who is defeated tells us that we are defeated, hopeless and fearful, we can boldly declare the Word of God that we are God’s children and God has not given us the spirit of fear but of love, power and self control. (Jn.1:12:13; and 2 Tim. 1:7).  We need to know that ALL authority in Heaven and on earth now belongs to Jesus.

Dear Beloved, I want you to know that Heaven is a real place and has its own culture, atmosphere, and environment.  The whole culture of Heaven is centered on God.  He is the object and permeation that seeps into every atom of Heaven.  The reason God wants us to know Him so personally and His Kingdom is so we can experience the Kingdom NOW on this earth and have our eternal life begin for us NOW.   Don’t let anyone tell us that eternal life is only in heaven.  Eternal life can begin for us NOW, it starts with having an intimate and intentional relationship with God and His Son Jesus Christ through the power of the Holy Spirit (Jn.17:3).  The next thing is to learn everything Jesus taught His immediate disciples.  Jesus taught and preached about the Kingdom of Heaven and healed everyone who believed in Him.  That is the culture Jesus produced around Him.  I pray that each one of us would have this longing in us to see this as happening in our generation.  Let me encourage you by saying that many generations has carried this out in small measures but as we draw closer to the Lord’s Day, we will see a greater and powerful measure and  atmosphere in our generation.

This is so exciting!  I hope you think and pray on these lines as well.

Together in His Kingdom,

Pastor Sam

*** Worship, Fasting and prayer this coming Saturday August 06, at 10 a.m.