Kingdom Dynamics the Power to Overcome By Frank J Manaseri

Today with the corona virus pandemic many are wondering what is going on?
How did this happen?
When will it end?
Why is this happening to people in over 184 Countries?
Sometimes it is difficult to figure out what’s going on in life. Much of life is an enigma.
It is during tragic times like these many wonder if God has anything to do with what is going on.
Man cries out to God in desperation and asks why is this happening?
We do this because we think that if there is an all knowing God then surely He must know what is happening.
I have found that God has a tendency not to inform us of everything He is doing, or not doing on a day to day basis.
God does not reveal to us the specifics of everything going on in our lives.
I have also come to understand that God desires that we place our complete trust and faith in His unlimited abilities.
To trust God gives Him joy!
The one thing God asks for is to be trusted completely through any and every situation and storm we face in life.
We ask if this situation is of God.
Is that action from God?
Lord what are you doing?
Do you even hear my cry?
God please save us from all this pain!
We may not know everything but what we we do know as believing followers of Christ is that His kingdom is coming soon.

Yes! The answer to the Lord’s prayer is imminent!
This is our greatest Hope when we pray “Thy kingdom come, Thy Will be done in earth as it is in heaven.
His kingdom shall be established on this earth and nothing or no one has the power to stop this from occurring.
Only our heavenly Father knows the timing of this magnificent universal event and all He desires is that we have peace by putting our trust in Him.

We know as each day passes the kingdom draws closer to becoming a reality.
We know this as we see the mystery of iniquity manifesting through the action of evil in the lives of those who embrace hate and death.
There is so much uncertainty in life today therefore we must be awake! We must awake thou that sleepest and arise from the dead and Christ shall give thee Light.(Ephesians 5;14)
We must watch and be sober! We must embrace the kingdom Christ has prepared for us. Prepared to invite everyone we see to become a member of God’s Kingdom.

This transcends church or any other worldly organization in that the kingdom is not limited to these but is greater than all. This is why Christ told His disciples to Go into the entire world and preach the Good News of the Kingdom to every creature.
Kingdom business is serious business!
With each passing day we can see and perceive the deepening contrasts between those who are of the darkness and those who are of the true light.
This separation of light and darkness indicate there are two basic cultures in this world. These are the cultures of hate and death and the cultures of love and life. These are complete opposites in every way.
There were only two trees in the Garden to choose from. We must choose either the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil or the Tree of Life and we must choose wisely.
If we have chosen wisely then we are Sons of the kingdom. Therefore we are of God who is Love and Life.

The law or code of the kingdom is love but it is not a selfish love but a selfless love.

God’s Love is a selfless love and nothing can ever separate us from God’s love!
Christ was/is the full expression of this perfect love.
Christ is the Word become flesh!
What does this mean?
Christ is the perfect reflection of the image of God to humanity.
Christ fleshes out for the entire world to see the invisible God so mankind may learn to see what God is like.

We see the character of God in Christ’s words and actions. Through Christ we may now experientially know our Father and become imitators of Him as dear children.
At the same time, Christ is the example of how we as people should live if we really do love God.
In this Christ is the prime example of our personal and social behavior.
How is this realized?
It is realized in our loving others even as we love our selves.
It is not enough for us to just love God with all of our mind, soul, heart and strength!
We must love the people around us also.
Loving God without loving people and your own self cancels out the benefits of the greatest love ever expressed.
Those who refuse to love God’s Way are the ones who lose the most in life. When a person does not love themselves they become hard and judgmental on themselves and others around them.
Paul said that if we do not love we become like a noisy clanging cymbal or a blaring trumpet. (I Corinthians 13:1- 13)
It is only in the expression of this love that fear is cast out. There is no fear in love!
It is only love which is the active ingredient of faith.
Nothing else has but God’s Love has the ability to energize true faith.
Without faith no man can please God!
The goal of the plan of the ages is that those of us who have accepted Christ may grow up into the perfect, completely, whole image of Christ, which is the image of God.
Maturity in Christ is that we become like mirrors reflecting God’s image to this world. A true light shining into the darkest darkness is what our Father desires we become.
This is the outcome of the teaching of the Sermon on the Mount!
That we may be perfect even as our Father is perfect.
This is our reward!
Too many have given up on achieving this goal because we have tried to accomplish this through our own self efforts. Thus we soon learn a lesson in futility. We become discouraged and faint in our minds.
A self-centered righteous person is hard and uncompromising, but a Christ-centered righteous person is tender, merciful and accommodating.
When we begin to learn true humility we then begin to move away from a self-centered existence to a Christ-centered existence.
We are now out of the picture so Christ may live through us as a New Man.
This is what it means to pick up your cross and to follow Christ. We are to begin our journey with Christ as one who is Poor in Spirit mourning for others as we show then the love of our Father.
This is what it means to die to a self-serving attitude and to pick up a self-less attitude carrying it through life as a servant of mankind.
Too many of us have not learned the vital role of the beatitudes for our spiritual growth into the new creation of the Sons of the Kingdom.
We have rarely taken the time and considered that the kingdom of God is relevant to life today! It is not merely relegated to the kingdom being in some faraway place somewhere in the future age.
In this many have fallen short and reduced the kingdom from its biblical center of a universal global reality into a smaller model that is not equipped to make its citizens over-comers.
In many ways over the centuries the kingdom has been reduced to a smaller concept of a place of glory (heaven) reserved for believers after they die.
To most the kingdom is not relevant now but sometime in the future as our eternal home and reward.
Is it possible this kingdom of God that Christ preached is vitally relevant for both this present evil age in which we live and also for the future age to come?

Have we as a whole lost the one and only key Christ gave that is able to unlock the doors of division and bring unity to the true followers of Christ?
What might happen if we became focused on the kingdom of God and its application to life today thus becoming one with Christ and God?
Could it be this is what Christ meant when he said that we all may be one?
(John 17:20-23)
Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word;
That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.
And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one:
I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.

Do we as God’s people need to begin to focus on seeking first the kingdom of God as the Lord Jesus taught the disciples?
Do we need to learn as the Apostles and first century Christians learned from Jesus how to live these kingdom values today?
The kingdom of God is of such a priority to Christ that he spent 40 days in his resurrected body teaching the disciples “the things concerning the kingdom of God.”
Not only was Jesus of Nazareth a living example of God but he was also an example of how man should live in this kingdom.
Paul tells us in Romans that the kingdom of God is not in food and drink, but it is in righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Ghost.
Today more than ever there is so much to be excited about and learn from the life and teachings of Christ in the Gospels. These life lessons are further illustrated throughout the New Testament scriptures.
So let us pray and continue to encourage one another to love and good works. Even the more so as we see the day of the Lord coming.
We are the Children of Light!
We are the Son’s of the Kingdom!