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.