My Favorite Weather is Sunshine in my Heart

Posted on March 23, 2025 by Steve Simms
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What is your favorite type of weather?
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My favorite weather is sunshine in my heart. I enjoy that kind of beautiful inner weather day and night by letting the Son of God continually shine in and be the literal King to rule over my thoughts, feelings, and desires and by gathering with other Christ-followers in a King Jesus group.

Does much of Christianity betray King Jesus? To betray people is to be disloyal to them. To put our desires, feelings, or program ahead of the risen King Jesus and His will seems to me to be a form of disloyalty to Him. When we gather for worship are we loyal to the living King Jesus and His presence in our midst or have we shifted our loyalty to a religious format that we feel comfortable with?

A King Jesus group goes beyond an outward “form of godliness” (2 Timothy 3:5) by allowing everyone present to listen to, follow, and obey King Jesus during the meeting. (Romans 8:14 & 1 Corinthians 14:26) It opens the door for the kingdom of God where the risen Jesus can literally be the reigning and ruling King, not just a mere figurehead King whose leadership and authority has been replaced by human leadership and human authority.

A King Jesus group is hard to find. It is a group of Christ-followers who gather to focus on, listen to and obey the risen King Jesus. If you find one and participate in it, it will help you grow closer and closer to Christ. A King Jesus group isn’t led by a program, by an agenda, or by a pastor, but by the Spirit of Christ.

If you can’t find a King Jesus group, you can open your home to one. Invite a few people who love Jesus to gather with you. Ask Jesus to take charge and be the Head (the King) of the gathering. Then have everybody be still and listen to Jesus. He said: “My sheep heart My voice,” so take Him at His word and have everybody present listen to what He is saying to them and then say and/or do what He is telling them to.

The results will be powerful. Instead of confusion there will be amazing order. Instead of dry religion there will be vibrant spiritual life. Instead of isolation there will be beautiful heart-to-heart connection with Jesus and with one another.

In a King Jesus group, instead of listening to someone mentally analyze the Bible, we absorb it with our heart as King Jesus prompts us to quote, read, and share insights about passages of Scripture. It’s always amazing how it all comes together in a beautiful mosaic of understanding the Bible.

King Jesus groups can change a nation. If all the Christians in the USA (or any other nation) would continually listen to and radically obey the risen Jesus it would truly make the nation great. If you make your country more religious but you don’t personally get closer and more obedient to the risen Jesus, you’ve missed the whole point of the kingdom of God. However, when your inner self-kingdom surrenders fully to the kingdom of God, the outer kingdom (country) where you live will be greatly impacted by the radical changes in you!

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The King of Hearts

Posted on March 22, 2025 by Steve Simms
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Who was your most influential teacher? Why?
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The King of Hearts is my most influential teacher. I love Him because He first loved me and has taught me so much. He wants to be the King of your heart. Let Jesus welcome you into His deck of cards (the body of Christ) and shuffle your priorities until they align with the kingdom of God. Always follow His lead and obey His call. Refuse to discard Jesus (even for a moment) from your thoughts, words, and actions.

The first-century Jews didn’t recognize who Jesus was because they wanted a political Messiah who would make Israel great again. They didn’t want the invisible, supernatural, heart-transforming kingdom (inner government) of God that Jesus came to give them. They wanted a leader and a visible government that would physically overthrow the Romans and drive those without Jewish documentation out of the land. The end result in 70 AD was disaster — the flattening of Jerusalem and its temple that Jesus had predicted in Matthew 24.

Freedom: If people aren’t governed from within by wisdom, kindness, and righteousness, turns into conflict and chaos. The kingdom of God isn’t built by forcefully taking away people’s freedom to do wrong. It’s built by cultivating an environment where God can change people’s heart and give them the desire and the power to be led by His Spirit instead of by their own opinions, desires, and feelings. It’s built by Christ-followers radiating such joy, peace, love, and hope that they cause other people to want to be governed from within by Jesus. When Christians radiate self-righteousness and pride, they cause other people to want nothing to do with their religion.

The kingdom of God and the kingdoms of this world don’t mesh. One is led by the Spirit, the others by human opinions and desires. “The flesh desires what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit what is contrary to the flesh.” (Galatians 5:17)

Expecting the kingdom of God to come through the actions of a human political leader is to confuse the human with the divine. Nations rise and fall, but the kingdom of God is forever. Put your trust in God’s eternal kingdom, not in temporary ones built by humans. A Christian’s first and most committed patriotism needs to be to the invisible kingdom (inner government) of God and to Christ’s Kingship and Lordship.

To “seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness” is to continually cultivate your mind, your will, your desires, and your emotions causing them to align more and more with the risen Jesus. It is to remove everything from your heart that hinders the fruit of Christ’s Spirit from flourishing within you and radiating through all you say and do.

When Jesus is truly your King people will see the kingdom of God in action when they look at how you live and what you say. Take the kingdom of God by force! (Matthew 11:12) Compel your every thought, word, and action to align with King Jesus. (2 Corinthians 10:5)

Be a mustard seed person. Let King Jesus take full moment-by-moment control of your life so He can grow you from a tiny seed into a great tree. Mustard seed people realize that by laying down their own minuscule strength and by surrendering their all to the risen Jesus, the kingdom of God will grow within them into a mighty tree. Too many Christians are content to remain an itty-bitty mustard seed instead of growing into a powerful demonstration of the kingdom of God.

“The kingdom of God comes without observation.” (Luke 17:20) Until Christ is reigning as absolute King, Lord, and Master in your heart and in your daily life, you won’t be able to see His kingdom anyplace else.

“All we like sheep have gone astray.” “There is none righteous, no not one.” All of us human beings deserve Hell. Christ came to offer to rescue us from Hell. The question isn’t whether or not you desire Hell. The question is whether or not you want Christ to rescue you from Hell.

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Tattoos Decorate the Skin, but God Heals and Changes the Heart

Posted on March 20, 2025 by Steve Simms
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What tattoo do you want and where would you put it?
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The Pharisees wouldn’t hear or see what Jesus was truly saying and doing. Will you?

You can be a hearer and a seer. Set aside your opinions. Look beyond borders. Listen to God’s inner voice. View from His perspective instead of from your own point of view. Cultivate fertile ground in your heart for God’s seeds to grow and flourish. Humbly receive direct impartation and immediate revelation from God.

Ask yourself these questions:
* What am I not seeing?
* What am I seeing distortedly?
* What have I been unwilling to see?

To surrender to God’s inner winds (instead of to the winds of society) is to soar in the Spirit to ever greater clarity. Ride God’s inner wind not your own self-effort. Refuse to be distracted by the clouds that are passing by. Set your eyes and your heart on eternal things.

Look deeply into your own heart. Notice the overlooked and hidden things that are unaligned with God. Let Jesus have full access to your heart and mind. Allow Him to continually realign every thought, feeling, and desire that is in any way apart from His will.

Human coercion, laws, and physical force can often change peoples’ behaviors, but they can’t transform peoples’ heart. They can’t build the kingdom of God. Only Spirit-empowered love can do that.

It’s easy to be deceived. The Pharisees believed that they were representing God when they pressured Rome to kill the King of Kings. The Zealots thought that they could establish God’s kingdom by using physical violence to overthrow Rome. Instead, the city that Jesus wept over, and God’s physical temple, were both leveled to the ground in 70 AD.

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I Want to Demonstrate the Kingdom of God Better Every Day

Posted on March 20, 2025 by Steve Simms
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What do you wish you could do more every day?
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The kingdom of God is close by and available to all people, but it is invisible and can’t be seen with the eye because it occurs in human hearts (not in visible institutions or governments). When Jesus is allowed to rule as the supreme Lord and Master in a person’s heart, that person begins to live by and demonstrate the wonderful fruit of the Spirit and the characteristics of the Beatitudes. Refuse to settle for anything less in your life.

The kingdom of God isn’t somewhere beyond you in societal structures and organizations. It’s within you. If you won’t let Jesus be your King and Commander and govern your life from within, you’ll won’t experience the kingdom of God.

You will know that the kingdom (inner government of God) is within you when you see and sense the fruit of the Spirit and the characteristics of the Beatitudes growing and flourishing within you. When the fruit of the Spirit is missing the kingdom of God has been abandoned. When you don’t see the Beatitudes in people’s behavior and words, they aren’t seeking first the kingdom of God.

The traditional church service trains people to receive information from one person week after week. It neglects to train people to connect (and stay connected) heart-to-heart with King Jesus and with one another.

The kingdom (inner government) of God begins to manifest when Christians gather to let King Jesus be the Head and Director of the meeting as they each one follow and obey the inner promptings of the Holy Spirit. If we follow our own programs, agendas, order of worship, opinions, feelings, and desires, we’re focusing on our own kingdom instead of on God’s kingdom.

For far too many Christians the Bible is like a recipe book. They set it on a counter but seldom pick it up and read it. When they do pick it up, they read a couple of recipes and then quickly walk away without following them. They would rather hear a man talk about the Bible once a week instead of ceaselessly following its instructions and cooking up a marvelous relationship with the risen King Jesus.

Listen. Jesus said, “My sheep hear My voice.” When “Christ in you, the hope of glory,” speaks in you, you can recognize His voice because He won’t contradict what He said in the Sermon on the Mount. (Matthew 5, 6, & 7)

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Seeker

Posted on March 19, 2025 by Steve Simms
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What is one word that describes you?
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I am a seeker. I am always seeking and pursuing personal growth. I chaise after mental and emotional health. I hunt for inner peace. I search for what Jesus called the “kingdom of God” — God governing and ruling from within my heart.

To know the one, true, living God and to love Him with all that you are — with all your heart, mind, and strength — and to actively work for and care about your neighbor’s wellbeing as much as you work for and care about your own, means that: “You are not far from the kingdom (inner government) of God.” Jesus also said that loving God and others “is more important than all burnt offerings and sacrifices.” It is more important than all the religious things you can do.

To passionately love God enough to allow Him to continually rule and govern you from within is to draw close to and to begin to experience the kingdom of God. To actively and persistently show love for God and for people (even people who disagree with you, argue with you, and/or insult you) let your life be consistently governed by the presence of God’s Spirit within your heart.

Let all the obstacles in your life that are keeping you distant from the inner government of (hardheartedness, superficiality, and self-focused desires and opinions) be swept away by God’s Spirit. Then His light can sine brightly in and through you.

Unpackage “Christ in you.” “Loose him and let Him go so that He can fully rule and reign inside of you, no matter the consequences to your emotions, relationships. and self-esteem. Put the crown of your inner Kingdom on Christ’s Head and let Him be the Head of your life. Give Him the scepter. Crown Him as your absolute monarch and King. Then let Him have all the reigns so He can continually reign supreme in all you say and do.

Remove human tradition from the presence of the King of Kings. Make His paths straight. Dethrone your delights and distracting desires.

Look deeply into your own heart. Notice the overlooked and hidden things that are unaligned with God. Let Jesus have full access to and control of your heart, mind, and behavior. Allow Him to ceaselessly realign every thought, feeling, and desire to His will. To refuse or neglect to let the risen King Jesus personally lead you from within is to avoid the kingdom of God.

To take the kingdom of God “by force” is to courageously use the non-physical weapons of denying yourself, carrying your cross, and radical obedience to “Christ in you, the hope of glory.” Taking the kingdom of God “by force” requires constantly confronting your ungodly thoughts feelings, and desires with great and persistent inner force. Soldiers of God’s kingdom fight with spiritual weapons instead of physical ones.

To “seek first the kingdom of God” is to always make hearing and obeying King Jesus your moment-by-moment, number one priority. If you are a citizen of the kingdom of God, then think like it, talk like it, and act like it.

Human coercion, laws, and physical force can often change peoples’ behaviors, but they can’t transform peoples’ heart. They can’t build the kingdom of God. Only Spirit-empowered love can do that.

It’s easy to be deceived. The Pharisees believed that they were representing God when they pressured Rome to kill the King of Kings. The Zealots thought that they could establish God’s kingdom by using physical violence to overthrow Rome. Instead, the city that Jesus wept over, and God’s physical temple, were both leveled to the ground in 70 AD.

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Deny Yourself

Posted on March 10, 2025 by Steve Simms
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Write a letter to your 100-year-old self.
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Desires are a fake ID
Built on subjectivity.
Ignoring reality
And true objectivity
They lead to captivity
To deep insecurity
And to false identity.

The Holy Spirit led Jesus into the wilderness to resist, confront, and overcome the devil’s temptations (Matthew 4:1) and Jesus faithfully stayed aligned with the will of His Heavenly Father. When you are in the wilderness and are tempted to disengage from the presence and the will of God, take up the Word of God, the sword of the Spirit, (Ephesians 6:17) like Jesus did (Matthew 4:4,7,10) and “fight the good fight of faith.” (1 Timothy 6:12)

Resist, confront, and overcome temptation. Cast down everything within you that in any way exalts itself against the knowledge of God so that you will be able to “take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.” (2 Corinthians 10:5) Refuse to serve your own feelings, desires, opinions, and habits. “Worship the Lord your God and serve Him only.” (Matthew 4:10)

Resist and reject the temptations and the compulsions that try to compel you to conform to them. Refuse to applaud them and never define yourself by them.

When your thoughts, feelings, desires, and actions are aligned with the living Lord Jesus, your life will produce a huge harvest of the fruit of the Spirit. (Mark 4:20) To be unaligned with Jesus is to be aligned with chaos. Christ is the Prince of Peace.

Jesus said, “Deny yourself.” He never said to define yourself. Instead of defining your life by your desires, feelings, and opinions, begin to align everything within you with the risen Jesus and the will of God. That is called repentance, and it will revolutionize, revitalize, and reboot your life. The kingdom (inner government) of God is open to everyone who will align their heart and life with King Jesus.

To focus on self-effort and will-power is to overlook the power of God’s presence and love. Self-denial really does overcome temptation and produce a beautiful life.

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Shopping For a Clearer Perspective

Posted on March 9, 2025 by Steve Simms
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Where would you go on a shopping spree?
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As humans our perspective can get foggy, habit bound, and bogged down in the same ole same ole. But there is hope. We can always shop for a fresh, encouraging perspective. Let me help you do that. Let’s go online shopping in your heart.

What should we look for? Our hope is in Christ and in being directly and inwardly led by His Spirit — “Christ in you the hope of glory.” Timothy Tennent wrote: “Many of the acts of worship in the Psalms are quite different from what we might experience on a typical Sunday in church.” Let’s get back to gathering for worship under the direct inner leading of the Holy Spirit.

Here are some heart insights that came to my mind this morning that are helping me gain perspective on how the body of Christ can function more effectively and how it can more clearly demonstrate the kingdom (direct inner government) of God:

* The body of Christ is all the people worldwide who are living under the direct Headship of the risen Jesus by being internally led by His Spirit.
* The ekklesia is any gathering of two or more Christ-followers to listen to and be directly led by the Holy Spirit together. The ekklesia is continually being built by the living Jesus (Matthew 16:18) wherever people gather in His name to let Him lead them by His Spirit and assemble them together heart-to-heart on the rock of direct revelation from God.
* A church is a human led religious organization that is substituted for Christ’s Spirit-led ekklesia assemblies. (Theologian Emil Bruener wrote in his book “The Misunderstanding of the Church:” “What we know as the church or churches resulting from the historical developments cannot claim to be the ekklesia in the New Testament sense.”
* Christ’s apostles are “sent ones.” That’s what the Greek word “apostle” literally means. To be sent on a mission by the Holy Spirit is to be an apostle (a missionary). (Acts 13:2)
* Christ’s prophets are people who hear directly from God (Revelation 2:7) and are prompted by the Spirit to share what they have seen and heard. They are revealers who show people what God is saying and doing.
* Christ’s evangelists are Spirit-led recruiters for the body of Christ. To introduce people to the risen Jesus and help them surrender to the direct inner government of His kingdom is to be an evangelist.
* Christ’s pastors are shepherds. They are Spirit-directed overseers who observe and watch over gatherings of the body of Christ. Anyone who watches out for other Christ-followers and compassionately redirects them when they are off track is an overseer.
* Christ’s teachers are disciple makers. They train and coach people to daily follow and obey the risen Jesus. (Matthew 28:19-20)
* Don’t just study or memorize or analyze the 5 gifts that Christ is giving the members of His body, (Ephesians 4:7-16) demonstrate them in your daily life. Find people who are functioning as sent ones, as revealers, as recruiters, as overseers, and as disciple makers and let them help train you to be directly led by the Spirit so that you too can demonstrate the functions of those 5 gifts. (Ephesians 4:12-13)

Jesus prayed that all of His followers be united as one. (John 17:21) However, churches are shattered and scattered. According to bibleanalysis.org, there are more than 45,000 Christian denominations worldwide. Today the concept of church is like a beautiful wine carafe (pitcher) that has been dropped and shattered and then pounded with a hammer until it is nothing but tiny shreds. How we need to return to the beautiful unity of Christ’s Spirit-led ekklesia.

“Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the ekklesia and gave himself up for her to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word, and to present her to Himself as a radiant ekklesia, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless.”(Ephesians 5:25-27)

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My Favorite Name

Posted on March 8, 2025 by Steve Simms
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What is your middle name? Does it carry any special meaning/significance?
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There’s a name I love to hear. The mention of that name gives me hope, peace, and encouragement. I love to keep that name in the middle of my heart and mind. That name did this for me: “By faith in the name of Jesus, this man whom you see and know was made strong. It is Jesus’ name and the faith that comes through him that has completely healed him, as you can all see.” (Acts 3:16) If you will open wide your heart to ponder and absorb the Bible verse John 3:16, the eternal one who goes by that name will do the same for you.

Keep your attention intensely focused day and night on Jesus, the Lamb of God who sets people free from the power of sin. (John 1:29) Let Him continually immerse you in and saturate you with His Spirit (John 1:34) so that His rivers of living water can freely flow from within your innermost being. (John 7:38)

Cast out everything that hinders you from being aware of, hearing, and obeying Jesus. (John 10:27) Boldly toss aside hardheartedness, superficiality, and self-focused desires and detractions. (Luke 8:11-15) Ceaselessly cultivate your heart to make it good ground so that you will daily hear what the Spirit is saying (Revelation 3:22) to you. Then the Living Word of God, (John 1:1-5) Jesus Christ, will take deep root, abundantly flourish within you, and produce an amazing harvest of supernatural fruit in and through your life.

The kingdom of God is to do what God says do and to go where God says go — to go, flow, and grow with the Spirit. You are sincerely invited to experience the jubilation of living as a faithful citizen of God’s kingdom.

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Every Day I Learn More About a Unique Kingdom

Posted on March 7, 2025 by Steve Simms
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What is the last thing you learned?
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I’m captivated by a kingdom. I learn more and more about this kingdom and its King throughout each day. I’ve actually discovered a way to communicate with the King and He responds to me. There’s nothing like the sound of His voice. Of course, I’m talking about King Jesus.

Jesus is the King (Matthew 2:2) — “the ruler who will shepherd” God’s people (Matthew 2:6) — “Christ in you, the hope of glory.” (Colossians 1:27) When the wise men proclaimed King Jesus to King Herod “the Great,” the human ruler Herod was so threatened by the kingdom of God that he ordered the death of all boys in Bethlehem two years old and under so that he could eliminate King Jesus. However, the kingdom of God and its King survived. About 30 years later religious people teamed up with the Roman government to crucify King Jesus because He was a threat to both of them. Within 3 days King Jesus rose from the dead and lives to this day to rule and reign in the heart of everyone who will fully surrender to His Spirit-led, moment-by-moment, inner government. Dare to ceaselessly submit and surrender your will to God!

Receive and use the keys to God’s kingdom that Jesus has offered to give you (Matthew 16:19) (the fruit of the Spirit, the Beatitudes, and the gifts of the Spirit) so that you can bind up and cast down (2 Corinthians 10:5) everything in you that in any way quenches the Spirit (1 Thessalonians 5:19) or that hinders the Lordship of Christ (Philippians 2:9-11) in you. Use those kingdom keys to continually unlock and loosen up your heart to Christ’s inner presence. (Revelation 3:20) Humble yourself (Matthew 5:3) so that you can hear what the Spirit is saying (Revelation 2:17) and the King of Glory (Psalm 24:7-9) can freely rule and reign within you. Lock out anything that brings you pride so that you can unlock your heart to Christ’s humility. (Luke 14:11)

Jesus taught that three things hinder the kingdom (inner government) of God from growing and flourishing inside of a person: 1) hardness of heart, 2) superficiality, and 3) self-focused desires and distractions. The “secret of the kingdom of God” is to persistently avoid those three things so that your life can produce a bountiful harvest for and demonstration of God’s inner kingdom and glory. (Mark 4:11-20)

If you’re a Christ-follower, His Spirit in you isn’t passive and inactive. Christ is speaking and working in you. Are you noticing and cooperating with Him? Are you letting Him rule and reign in you as your daily Master and King?

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Will You Stop Talking About the Holy Spirit?

Posted on March 6, 2025 by Steve Simms
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What is one question you hate to be asked? Explain.
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An old man named Simenon who was waiting for the Jewish Messiah was led by the Spirit. (Luke 2:25-35) “The Holy Spirit was on him.” “It had been revealed to him by the Holy Spirit that he would not die before he had seen the Lord’s Messiah,” and “he was moved by the Spirit” to enter the temple courts when the newly born Jesus was being circumcised. Then he took Jesus in his arms and spoke by the Spirit proclaiming Jesus to be “a light for revelation.”

This was about 33 years before the glorious and rowdy release of the Spirit though powerful demonstrations of the inner government of God through 120 of Jesus closest followers as described in Acts 2. If Simeon could receive direct revelation and information from the Holy Spirit and be moved (governed) by the Spirit, how much more should we who have “the Spirit of Christ” (Romans 8:9)

“Christ in you, the hope of glory.” (Colossians 1:27) This is true for all genuine Christ-followers. “Fan into flame the gift of God which is in you.” (2 Timothy 1:6) “As many who are led by the Spirit are the children of God.” (Romans 8:14) It’s vital that Christ-followers begin to live under the kingdom (inner government) of God and be directly and personally led by the Holy Spirit.

The kingdom of God has a unique culture that abounds with the blessings of the Beatitudes and the fruit of the Spirit. When people encounter citizens of the kingdom of God being led by the Spirit and governed by King Jesus, they experience culture shock and mouth-dropping awe.

“The kingdom of God is not a matter of talk but of power.” (1 Corinthians 4:20) It overflows with demonstrations of King Jesus and of His Spirit’s character, presence, and power. (1 Corinthians 2:4) Always persistently seek the inner government of God first of all (Matthew 6:33) and never push aside God’s promptings and leadings. Refuse to settle for mere religious talk. “Having a form of godliness but denying the power thereof, from such turn away.” (2 Timothy 3:5)

A citizen of the kingdom of God is supposed to be a freely flowing fountain of the fruit of the Spirit not a soiled spring of self-focused secularism. The shocking culture of the kingdom of God is like a treasure hidden in a field (Matthew 13:44). It’s easy to overlook it and let it stay buried in unawareness. God’s kingdom has to be believed in (John 3:16) and diligently searched for (Matthew 6:33) with sold out hunger and thirst for righteousness. (Matthew 5:6) It needs to be dug up, put in constant circulation, and allowed to govern all your thoughts, feelings, and desires by continually keeping them in God’s will. (Romans 12:2) The Spirit-led inner government of God is the narrow gate and straight way that few people find and follow. (Matthew 7:14)

If you’re a Christ-follower, His Spirit in you isn’t passive and inactive. Christ is speaking and working in you. Are you noticing and cooperating with Him? Are you letting Him rule and reign in you as your daily Master and King?

Staying focused on the politics of a particular nation isn’t the way to “seek first the kingdom of God.” (Matthew 6:33) It’s very important that Christ-followers not confuse the kingdom of God with a nation’s government. Set your attention on the risen Jesus and His kingdom. Jesus and His early followers never focused on Roman politics.

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