​When one of His disciples asked how they should pray, King Jesus gave this reply:  When you pray, don’t be like the hypocrites who love to pray publicly on street corners and in the synagogues where everyone can see them. I tell you the truth that is all the reward they will ever get. But when you pray, go away by yourself, shut the door behind you, and pray to your Father in private. Then your Father, who sees everything, will reward you. When you pray, don’t babble on and on as the Gentiles do. They think their prayers are answered merely by repeating their words again and again. Don’t be like them, for your Father knows exactly what you need even before you ask Him! Pray like this: 
 
Our Father in heaven, may Your name be kept holy.  May Your Kingdom come soon. May Your Will be done on earth, as it is in heaven. Give us today the food we need, and forgive us our sins, as we have forgiven those who sin against us. And don’t let us yield to temptation, but rescue us from the evil one. Matthew 6:5-13
 
Those who are reborn of the Spirit of God, make it personal as the Lord Jesus did. He had a personal relationship with His Father. Whenever the Lord Jesus spoke to His Father, He never referred to Him as God. Even John, the earthly cousin of the Lord Jesus, spoke of them as Father and Son.  For He is sent by God. He speaks God’s words, for God gives Him the Spirit without limit.  The Father loves His Son and has put everything into His hands. John 3:34-35
 
We who are citizens of the Kingdom of God are also children of the Lord God, because we have been reborn by His Governor—the Holy Spirit. When we pray or speak to the Father, we address Him as our Father. Why? Because we are children of the King. Read what ambassador John stated: See how very much our Father loves us, for He calls us His children and that is what we are! But the people who belong to this world don’t recognize that we are God’s children because they don’t know Him. Dear friends, we are already God’s children, but He has not yet shown us what we will be like when Christ appears. But we do know that we will be like Him, for we will see Him as He really is. And all who have this eager expectation will keep themselves pure, just as He is pure. 1 John 3:1-3
 
Religious individuals use the name God, which is who He is, and it is far from being a personal greeting. They fail to have the Spirit of the Lord God living in them. Do you recall what the Lord Jesus stated concerning the Governor—the Holy Spirit? If you love me, obey my commandments. And I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Advocate, who will live with you forever.  He is the Holy Spirit, who leads into all truth. The world cannot receive Him, because it isn’t looking for Him and doesn’t recognize Him. But you know Him, because He lives with you now and later will be in you. John 14:15-17 Yes, forever!  
 
Being born again isn’t a religious expression. It is what happens when you repent, accept Jesus the Christ as your Savior and are obedient to His Word. The Holy Spirit gives you the right to be called the children of God. Remember the Lord Jesus never addressed His Father as God when speaking to Him. Even when He was anticipating the pain He must endure.  He went on a little farther and fell to the ground. He prayed that, if it were possible, the awful hour awaiting Him might pass Him by.  “Abba, Father,” He cried out, “everything is possible for you. Please take this cup of suffering away from Me. Yet I want Your will to be done, not Mine.” Mark 14:35-36

The word Abba, normally used by children in those days when speaking to their father, implies familiarity, a personal relationship. Those who are filled with the Holy Spirit use terms of affection when referring to the King as Father or Lord because they have a personal relationship with Him and see Him as Father and Lord. They have interactions with Him on a daily basis. They speak to Him and praise Him and come to Him when they have a need. They realize their Heavenly Father is the Creator of the heavens and earth.  In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.  The earth was formless and empty, and darkness covered the deep waters. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the surface of the waters. Genesis 1:1-2

Citizens of the Kingdom of the Lord God know that their King and Father sits on His throne and is aware of what is happening in their lives. The Lord is in His holy temple, the Lord’s throne is in heaven; His eyes behold, His eyelids test the sons of men. The Lord tests the righteous, but the wicked and the one who loves violence His soul hates. Upon the wicked He will rain coals; fire and brimstone and a burning wind shall be the portion of their cup. For the Lord is righteous, He loves righteousness; His countenance beholds the upright. Psalm 11:4-7 NKJV
 
I thank my Heavenly Father for forgiving all of my sins and disobedience to His laws and commands in my past life. I thank my Heavenly Father for my two lovely daughters and for the love and respect they have for me, which is rare in this day and age. That is all thanks to my Heavenly Father! When you have a close relationship with your children, they call you by terms of endearment such as daddy and mommy, father and mother. They almost never call their parents by their first name because it shows a lack of respect. When I religious people refer to my Father as “the man upstairs” or God, it causes me to see that they lack a close personal relationship with Him. I also realize that many aren’t filled with His Spirit which would cause them to cry out to their Abba Father. Ambassador Paul made it perfectly clear concerning the gift of the Spirit that our Father gave us.

Therefore, brethren, we are debtors—not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh. For if you live according to the flesh you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.  For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God. For you did not receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption by whom we cry out, “Abba, Father.”  The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God, and if children, then heirs—heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with Him, that we may also be glorified together. Romans 8:12-17 NKJV
 
When you know who you are in His Kingdom, you can walk with your head up, because you are a citizen of the Kingdom and a child of the King. Your confidence and boldness is in being a child of the Lord God! I call Him Father and even Daddy. He is the only Father I have ever known and there is none better! When I gaze up into the sky, I realize who my Father is and the power He possesses. I recall what ambassador Stephen stated to the religious leaders, reminding them what God told the prophet Isaiah. However, the Most High doesn’t live in temples made by human hands. As the prophet says, “Heaven is My throne, and the earth is My footstool. Could you build Me a temple as good as that?” asks the Lord. “Could you build Me such a resting place? Didn’t My hands make both heaven and earth?” Acts 7:48-50
 
Always remember, your faith in your Lord and King is your greatest asset in the Kingdom.

​​All NLT except where noted

​~~W.R. Luchie
www.kingdomcitizens.org
 
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Take heart! Your faith in God and His Word gives you the protection of the King in this fallen world! You are a citizen of God's Kingdom. It is your faith in God's Word that will give you the victory every time! In this world, trouble and challenges will come, but your obedience to His Word will give you the victory.

Stress, chaos, crime and all that is in this fallen world may surround you but will not touch you because of your unwavering faith. Love has been perfected among us in this: that we may have boldness in the day of judgment; because as He is, so are we in this world. There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves torment. But he who fears has not been made perfect in love. 1 John 4:17-18 NKJV  Read that carefully. Fear torments and it doesn't come from the Lord God. Fear is what the evil one uses to keep Kingdom citizens from being prosperous and productive. The question is, how is that possible? The answer is by failing to read, study and embrace the Lord God's constitution--His Word. In this fallen world, that must be our consistent priority. Remember, it is only when fear gets a hold on many saints that the world's troubles come upon them. It is like getting a big hole in your boat. In time, what gets in that boat will sink you! When fear comes to test us we must take the fear captive and send it back from where it came! For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty in God for pulling down strongholds, casting down arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ, and being ready to punish all disobedience when your obedience is fulfilled. 2 Corinthians 10:4-6 NKJV ​

It is because of this fallen world that the color of my skin isn't accepted in some communities. That comes from fear--fear of the unknown. But here is part of my joy: In the Kingdom, skin color isn't an issue. We are spirit beings in a skin suit. If you are reborn by His Governor--meaning the Holy Spirit--you are a citizen of the Kingdom. The King stated that unless you are reborn of the Spirit, you can't even see the Kingdom. That is why so many religious Christians don't understand the Kingdom government message. Read what King Jesus stated to the religious leader who should have know, being a teacher of the law:  Jesus replied, “I tell you the truth, unless you are born again, you cannot see the Kingdom of God.”

“What do you mean?” exclaimed Nicodemus. “How can an old man go back into his mother’s womb and be born again?”

Jesus replied, “I assure you, no one can enter the Kingdom of God without being born of water and the Spirit. Humans can reproduce only human life, but the Holy Spirit gives birth to spiritual life. So don’t be surprised when I say, ‘You must be born again.’ The wind blows wherever it wants. Just as you can hear the wind but can’t tell where it comes from or where it is going, so you can’t explain how people are born of the Spirit.”

“How are these things possible?” Nicodemus asked.

Jesus replied, “You are a respected Jewish teacher, and yet you don’t understand these things? John 3:3-10 

Nicodemus should have known, because he was a ruler and teacher of his Jewish people. There was a man named Nicodemus, a Jewish religious leader who was a Pharisee. After dark one evening, he came to speak with Jesus. “Rabbi,” he said, “we all know that God has sent you to teach us. Your miraculous signs are evidence that God is with you.” John 3:1-2 

Now here is the difference between living in the Kingdom and rediscovering the Kingdom. In the original Kingdom, all they had to do was listen and obey the Lord God's command.  But the Lord God warned him, “You may freely eat the fruit of every tree in the garden—except the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. If you eat its fruit, you are sure to die.” Genesis 2:16-17... Then the Lord God called to the man, “Where are you?”

He replied, “I heard you walking in the garden, so I hid. I was afraid because I was naked.”

“Who told you that you were naked?” the Lord God asked. “Have you eaten from the tree whose fruit I commanded you not to eat?” Genesis 3:9-11 

Rediscovering the Kingdom, our spirit has to be reborn or renewed through Jesus Christ so that we can be Kingdom citizens in good standing. The Lord Jesus came to earth to redeem His people and all those who would accept Him by their faith. He came to deliver them from this fallen world and into His Kingdom. Let's continue reading what King Jesus told the religious ruler:  “For this is how God loved the world: He gave His one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in Him will not perish but have eternal life. God sent His Son into the world not to judge the world, but to save the world through Him.

“There is no judgment against anyone who believes in Him. But anyone who does not believe in Him has already been judged for not believing in God’s one and only Son. And the judgment is based on this fact: God’s light came into the world, but people loved the darkness more than the light, for their actions were evil. All who do evil hate the light and refuse to go near it for fear their sins will be exposed. But those who do what is right come to the light so others can see that they are doing what God wants. John 3:16-21 

We should be praising King Jesus for giving us access into His Kingdom through faith in Him. Praise the Lord! But some of these branches from Abraham’s tree—some of the people of Israel—have been broken off. And you Gentiles, who were branches from a wild olive tree, have been grafted in. So now you also receive the blessing God has promised Abraham and His children, sharing in the rich nourishment from the root of God’s special olive tree. But you must not brag about being grafted in to replace the branches that were broken off. You are just a branch, not the root. Romans 11:17-18

Remember, your greatest asset in the Kingdom is your faith in the Word of the Lord God.

 ​All NLT except where noted

​~~W.R. Luchie
www.kingdomcitizens.org
 
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From the very moment Adam failed to keep the Father's command, this world fell out of favor with their Creator, the Lord God. Then came his punishment: And to the man He said, “Since you listened to your wife and ate from the tree whose fruit I commanded you not to eat, the ground is cursed because of you. All your life you will struggle to scratch a living from it. It will grow thorns and thistles for you, though you will eat of its grains. By the sweat of your brow will you have food to eat until you return to the ground from which you were made. For you were made from dust, and to dust you will return.” Genesis 2:17-19 

It is because of that failure to treat the Lord God's Word as top priority that we are in this situation.  The Lord God placed the man in the Garden of Eden to tend and watch over it. But the Lord God warned him, “You may freely eat the fruit of every tree in the garden—except the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. If you eat its fruit, you are sure to die.” Genesis 2:15-17 He listened to the message that the devil passed on to the serpent and then to his wife (companion). Note the procession. The devil never approached the man, but came through the woman. 

The serpent was the shrewdest of all the wild animals the Lord God had made. One day he asked the woman, “Did God really say you must not eat the fruit from any of the trees in the garden?”

“Of course we may eat fruit from the trees in the garden,” the woman replied. “It’s only the fruit from the tree in the middle of the garden that we are not allowed to eat. God said, ‘You must not eat it or even touch it; if you do, you will die.’”

“You won’t die!” the serpent replied to the woman. “God knows that your eyes will be opened as soon as you eat it, and you will be like God, knowing both good and evil.” Genesis 3:1-5 ​

By the way, that is a conversation that should never have taken place. The Lord God gave Adam specific orders and Adam passed it on to his wife. Notice, at no time did the devil ever approach the man directly, but through a second and third party. It was Adam's responsibility to make sure that the Lord God's orders were followed through. It was Adam's responsibility to convey the Lord God's orders to those under him. It was Eve's responsibility to follow those orders given by her husband, believing it was from the God.

This order can only happen in this fallen world when the husband and wife are filled with the Spirit of the Lord God. Otherwise it will be filled with chaos as we see it today. Notice, the Lord God called out the man first:  Then the Lord God called to the man, “Where are you?” Genesis 3:9 Please understand this one thing: The Lord God does all things decently and in order. That is why it is so important to keep reading and studying God's Constitution. In this world, the enemy will continue throwing all manner of distractions at you to keep you from focusing on the Father's purpose for your life. He doesn't have to "take you out", he only has to keep you distracted and unfocused! Now I want you to notice that all things were put under Adam's authority. That is why the serpent was punished as well. He failed to obey the command that Adam received from his Father and Creator. 

Keep in mind, being in a fallen world, the enemy (the devil) will use any means at his disposal to keep you in chaos and disobedience to the Lord God's Word; for it is His Word that gives you abundant life. The Lord Jesus made that very plain when speaking to the crowd. When King Jesus characterized Himself as the Good Shepherd, here is what He said: The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly. I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd gives His life for the sheep. John 10:10-11 NKJV

​​It is because we live in a fallen world that we have murders, pain, strife, adultery, gender confusion, and all manner of evil and perversion. The Kingdom and the fallen world are completely separate. Don’t team up with those who are unbelievers. How can righteousness be a partner with wickedness? How can light live with darkness? What harmony can there be between Christ and the devil? How can a believer be a partner with an unbeliever? And what union can there be between God’s temple and idols? For we are the temple of the living God. 2 Corinthians 6:14-16 It is because this is a fallen world that there are wars around the world. It is because this is a fallen world that religion separated the people of the Lord God! Even as I write this article, the evil one is on the attack. Don't be surprised of what you hear or see these days, for the devil knows his time isn't long here and he is getting desperate. 

Do you think that King Jesus came to this fallen world to bring peace and harmony? He did not. Read here what He said about that: "I have come to set the world on fire, and I wish it were already burning! I have a terrible baptism of suffering ahead of Me, and I am under a heavy burden until it is accomplished. Do you think I have come to bring peace to the earth? No, I have come to divide people against each other! From now on families will be split apart, three in favor of Me, and two against—or two in favor and three against. ‘Father will be divided against son and son against father; mother against daughter and daughter against mother; and mother-in-law against daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law against mother-in-law.’” Luke 12:49-53 Those are the words of King Jesus!

Some may think, how can that be?! Briefly, the people in this world who aren't filled with the Governor--the Holy Spirit--can't tolerate those who are. The Holy Spirit is our way out of this fallen world, even as we continue to reside in it. It is how we may be "in this world, but not of this world". The devil has no place or entrance into the Kingdom of God. That is why, in the Kingdom of God there is no chaos!

Remember that your faith in the Word of God is your greatest asset in the Kingdom.

 ​All NLT except where noted

​~~W.R. Luchie
www.kingdomcitizens.org
 
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