GOD"S KINGDOM AND THE HOLY SPIRIT FIRE

1/23/2020

The Kingdom Of God. A Kingdom Principled Life. The Holy Spirit. The fire of the Holy Spirit. Spiritual Gifts. A life of Moral Excellence. The Will of God. The riches of Heaven. Eternal Life. If you are like me, these are some of the things that you thirst to understand in a much deeper way. Once you have been saved, it is a natural process that God begins to move your heart toward deeper and more important things. He begins to move you on a trajectory that will pull you closer and closer to him. A fire has been ignited inside you to become a part of His Kingdom, and that fire allows you to move into His Kingdom because it is inside of you. The fire that begins to burn inside you is yours to stoke and grow and nurture and allow to consume you. It is the gift of the Holy Spirit that Jesus promised His original apostles that He would plant in and upon them as He ascended to Heaven. At Pentecost, that fire entered and rested upon the heads of these men and caused them to begin to speak in tongues, and those around them were amazed and distraught and confused ( Acts:2). Were they drunk, were they crazy, perhaps possessed ? Then the same fire came to Cornelius the Roman Centurion and his household and rested on them as well ( Acts 10). But they were Gentiles ! How could this be ? Why would God send his spirit to non Jewish peoples ? The things that I am learning about these things are truly changing who I am, and they are changing my life. I never quite realized just how big and how deep The Kingdom of God is, and the amazing truth, That The Kingdom Of God Is Inside Of You !

ONCE ON BEING ASKED BY THE PHARISEES WHEN THE KINGDOM OF GOD WOULD COME, JESUS REPLIED, “THE COMING OF THE KINGDOM OF GOD IS NOT SOMETHING THAT CAN BE OBSERVED, NOR WILL PEOPLE SAY ‘HERE IT IS’, OR ‘THERE IT IS’, BECAUSE THE KINGDOM OF GOD IS WITHIN YOU”. LUKE 17:20-21

If you are a born again Christian seeking the Kingdom of God, realize the Kingdom is in inside you, and that Kingdom where your spirit and life now exist are in the Kingship and rule of God, His son Jesus, and The Holy Spirit. You are not the same person you were before you accepted Jesus. The world and your flesh and your former self and desires are gone! You are a New Creation ! The fire of God’s spirit will lead you and change you into who God made you to be, and to move you onto and into the purpose and path He has for your life. Your life becomes a Kingdom Principled Life because you have a new hunger for moral and spiritual excellence. Jesus dying for you has propelled you forward. Salvation has justified your sonship in His Kingdom, and now you are moving into being sanctified into who He has made you. Being burnished by the fire and molded into a man or woman of God. Constantly moving toward holiness and into His Glory. Glorification of serving Him and being His. Along this path, the Holy Spirit will guide you, allow the power of the Spiritual Gifts that you may have been blessed with once He entered you. These gifts can be powerful and amazing, but the true Gift of the Holy Spirit is the Fire that God has put in your heart to be His and serve Him. To love him completely and earnestly, while also loving all those who are in your life and who you walk around every day. That fire allows you to share the Gift of Jesus, and to let His light in your life shine outward so that all may see His impact in how You Live, how You Act, how You Honor God, and follow His commandments and character in your own person You move into things of God and begin to understand and desire Heavenly riches more than the things the world offers. Gold, Silver, Self Importance, acquiring things. They all become less and less significant. The joy of a changed heart, with different desires, relationship with your Lord and King, and the Promise Of Eternal Life with Him ! These are the things that make that fire roar inside of you, and make your life complete. These things are what YOU LIVE FOR !

DO NOT BE CONFORMED TO THIS WORLD, BUT BE TRANSFORMED BY THE RENEWAL OF YOUR MIND, THAT BY TESTING YOU MAY DISCERN WHAT IS THE WILL OF GOD, WHAT IS GOOD AND ACCEPTABLE AND PERFECT. Romans 12:2

AND SUCH WERE SOME OF YOU. BUT YOU WERE WASHED, YOU WERE SANCTIFIED, YOU WERE JUSTIFIED IN THE NAME OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST AND BY THE SPIRIT OF OUR GOD. 1 Corinthians 6:11

Step One : Accept Jesus as you Lord and Savior. Realize you are a sinner, and you need Him to take all of that on for you. Give Him your self and be reborn.

Now: Step into your New Life, and The New You ! Seek God, Be in His Word. Change your Heart and Desires. Live toward Moral Excellence. Strive for Heavenly Things. Desire and seek His Will, His Path, His Authority and Power. Worship Him, and Glorify His Name.

The best part of all of this is that once you are His, He does all of these things with you and for you. You get to rest in Him, because His yoke is light. He holds you up, and picks you up when you stumble and fall. All you have to do is Love Him and Trust Him with all your heart and soul and spirit. He is your King. His Kingdom exists for YOU. Let His fire and love for you make you who you are meant to be ! May His Fire Burn inside and upon you every second of your life/JA

SEE WHAT KIND OF LOVE THE FATHER HAS GIVEN TO US THAT WE SHOULD BE CALLED CHILDREN OF GOD; AND SO WE ARE. 1 John 3:1

GOD’S LOVE HAS BEEN POURED INTO OUR HEARTS THROUGH THE HOLY SPIRIT WHO HAS BEEN GIVEN TO US. Romans 5:5