6-13-2026 Kingdom Mindset
Life is
filled with choices. Do we trust God
emphatically or do we choose to go our own way?
A kingdom mindset is believing God truly is – Creator of all things. It is accepting God for who He is and what He
has, is and what He will and do for us.
It is understanding what he
expects from us in this relationship.
Finally, it is not doubting but rather trusting Father in and for all
things.
Believe
In the
beginning God … (Gen 1:1). These first four words of the bible are the
foundation of a Kingdom Mindset. It is
the basis for what we believe and/or what we know.
The earth
was without form. The Hebrew word for
‘form is tohu, which means
without form, confusion, empty, nothing.
There was just God Elohiym (plural of Eloaah, Gen. 1:1) a diety, God; the ‘I Am’ or Yahweh (YHWH )(Exod. 3:14); El which is God, great or
mighty one (Gen. 16:13); or Jehovah
(YHWH) all sufficient or eternal (Gen.
6:5).
God is
Spirit, we worship Him in Spirit and in truth (John 4:23-24). The Spirit of
God is expressed as His breath (Gen.
1:2, Gen. 2:7) and He gives us the breath of life (Acts 2:1-8). The breath of
God is the Hebrew word ruwach which
is breath, wind or spirit. God is not
contained in a body as we think.
Consider the wind, we don’t know where it comes from nor where it is
going. We only know when it blows past
us (John 3:8).
We need to
understand that the nature of God is love.
Do we choose to really believe this?. His ultimate love is defined as agape
(Greek) or dowd (Hebrew) love which is having
affection for or being benevolent towards another. Jesus loved us so much He died to cleanse of
our sins and took our place on the cross (Rom.
5-8). The Greek word phileo
and the Hebrew word reya is having a close or personal friendship, as with David
and Johnathan (1 Sam. 18:1). God always has our best interests at heart (Heb: 12-6-11, Rom. 8:28). We may even say that God’s love was His
reason for creating.
So how did
God, the creator, bring everything into existence? God spoke “Let there be …” (Gen 1:1-29). He spoke words and, for our sake, His words
became flesh (John 1:1-5). Speak of love! His Word took our sins to the cross (1 Peter 2:24) and immediately opened a
friendship or direct access, with the Father as the veil to the Holy of Holies
was torn in two (Matt. 27:50-51).
God (Jesus)
is our Savior (Exod. 15:2, Luke 2:11, John 3:16, John 4:42, 1 John
4:10-16).
Jesus is our
healer, by His stripes we are healed (Isa. 53:5, 1Peter 2:24).
God/Jesus is
our protector (Psalms 91:4, 2
Thess. 3:3, Heb. 13:5).
The Lord is
our teacher (Gen. 3:10-15, Matt. 10:19-20, John 14:16-17, 26).
God will
provide for us (Gen. 1:28-30, 2 Corinth.
9:8, Phil. 4:19)
The Lord had
a fellowship with Adam and Eve in the garden (Gen. 3:8-9). He seeks
fellowship with us (1 John 1:1-3, 1
Corinth. 13:14).
We can speak
more about the qualities and characteristics of God but our choice is ‘do we
accept Him for who He is or do we believe that God is just a fairy tale, a
myth or something else’?
Accept
Job said
that he knew all about God from what others had told him, but after his
encounter with the Lord, he came to know who God really is (Job chapters 38-41, Job 42:5).
Do we know all about God? Do we
really know who He is and what He
does for us? Or do we just believe what
others have told us?
In
salvation, God is making a covenant, a pact, a contract, an agreement with
us. We’ve already mentioned some of the
things Father has and continues to do for us but how many of us have examined
our end of the bargain?
The first
commandment God gave Moses was “You shall have no other gods before Me nor make
for yourselves any graven image or likeness of anything in heaven above, the
earth beneath, nor that which is in the water under the earth nor bow
yourself down before them and worship
them (Exod. 20:3-5). ‘Water’ used here is the Hebrew word mayim and could refer to running water, urine
or even semen, in other words a stream, waste product (non-essential liquid) or
even that which produces life. Again,
don’t make statues or pictures of these things and then give your love and
devotion to these ‘them’.
Jesus tells
us that if we love HIM, keep His commandments (John 14:15). When we read 1
John chapter four, John explains our ‘love’ relationship with Father and with
everybody else. We love God above all,
then our neighbor (everybody else) as ourselves. If we don’t love our neighbor, how then is
the love of God abiding in us (1 John
4:1-21)? Do we understand our side
of this contract? Do we choose
love? Do we choose that because God has
loved us so we then care about the welfare and edification of those around us?
We accept
the ‘condition’ that we love God and then others as Father has loved us … and then
do it! Or do we put anything and
everything before God?
Understand
Our understanding
of God’s love is discovered when we interact with Him and see the evidence of
His love towards us. Jesus tells the
disciples that He is in the Father and he Father is in Him so as we believe on
Jesus, He will give us whatsoever we ask in His name (John 14:11-14). To make this
a little clearer, Jesus declares that He abides in us and we bide in Him (John 15:1-9). Do we see a deeper connection? Have we chosen to abide in Jesus? We ask
and Jesus will meet our needs (Phil.
4:19). When we let Him in, He will
sup (abide) with us (Rev. 3:20). As
with the woman with the issue of blood, answer to an unspoken request can also
come (Matt. 9:20-22). Or as with
Daniel, the answer to our prayer may not come immediately. The spirit that ruled over Persia, for 21
days, detained the angel bringing the answer
to Daniel’s prayer, but the answer did come (Dan. 10: 8-14). How many
prayers has God answered for us? How
quickly or did we have to wait for a response?
As we abide
in Jesus, the answer to our prayers will come.
Maybe not when we expect it or maybe not the way we might think, but it
will come. There is a song called
“On Time God”. We may not always
understand when or how, but Father will always honor our obedience – in His
timing (Ecc. 3:1)! Experience helps us to understand God’s purpose,
timing and blessings. Do we get ‘antsy’ and choose to move outside of God’s
timing?
Don’t doubt
Aside from
faith, the biggest thing to remember is that faith doesn’t work where doubt
abides. Should we doubt, Father is not
obligated to do things for us, we have to maintain absolute faith so that He
will accomplish (bring) it to pass.
Doubt xxx’s out faith or at best delays it until we can truly believe
God for what we ask. Some examples:
I tell you,
whatsoever you desire, when you pray, believe you receive (Mark 11:24).
If you ask
in faith, don’t waiver for he who waivers is like the wave of the sea
and is tossed bout so don’t let this one think he shall receive anything from
the Lord (James 1:6-7).
Two blind
men approached Jesus seeking a healing and Jesus responded “Do you believe that
I am able to do this?” The men said yes
and Jesus touched their eyes and said “According to your faith let it be
unto you.” (Matt. 9:27-29).
Jesus had
spoken to the barren fig tree and it withered away and Jesus said “Truly, if
you (we) have faith and don’t doubt, not only can you do what was done
to this fig tree, but you shall tell a mountain to be removed and cast into the
sea and it shall be done. What things
you shall ask in prayer and in believing, you shall receive it” (Matt. 21:18-22).
Father says
that “concerning My sons and the work of My hands, command Me.” (Isa. 45:11). Here, the Hebrew word for command is tsavah
which means constitute, enjoin, appoint, charge, send with a command or set in
order. In connection with ‘not doubting’,
this would imply, as we ask according to His will, we can come boldly
before the lord, expecting our request to come to pass (1 John 5:14).
I could go
on with more examples but I trust that you are getting the picture?
Conclusion
So the Kingdom
Mindset is believing that God is. Accepting
and understanding our relationship with the Lord. Accept
the fact the Father will do all that He says He will do and, as we abide in
His love, we can come boldly before His throne knowing (not doubting) that He
will grant our request. Our choice is to develop and maintain
that ‘love’ relationship with our Heavenly Father through Jesus Christ
our Lord. He is our strength to make the
right choices. Live in His love.
