​Now, what do I mean by “our Governor”? He is the Holy Spirit, which the Lord Jesus had His Father send to us after He returned to Heaven.  “If you love me, obey My commandments. And I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Advocate, who will never leave you. 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 14:15-16 NLT If we obey His commands, our Father God will give us the Holy Spirit to lead and guide us.
 
His disciple John taught first century Kingdom citizens what he learned from King Jesus who was the Master teacher.  Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God; because many false prophets have gone out into the world. By this you know the Spirit of God:  Every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God, and every spirit that does not confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is not of God. And this is the spirit of the Antichrist, which you have heard was coming, and is now already in the world.
 
You are of God, little children, and have overcome them, because He who is in you is greater than he who is in the world. They are of the world. Therefore they speak as of the world, and the world hears them. We are of God. He who knows God hears us; he who is not of God does not hear us. By this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of error.
1 John 4:1-6 What He is saying by the one who is in you, is the Holy Spirit or Governor. What He meant by the one who is in the world, is Lucifer and his followers. When the Spirit lives in you, heaven is your home country. In essence, He is your passport and you have its authority and power.
 
Keep in mind, there is nothing and no one in this world who has more power and resources than the King of kings! That means you don’t need to be frightened by those who may threaten you here on this earth. Do you recall what the Lord Jesus stated to His disciples while He was here on earth with them? “And I say to you, My friends, do not be afraid of those who kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do. But I will show you whom you should fear: Fear Him who, after He has killed, has power to cast into hell; yes, I say to you, fear Him!

Are not five sparrows sold for two copper coins? And not one of them is forgotten before God. But the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Do not fear therefore; you are of more value than many sparrows.” Luke 12:4-7 He will take care of us. He said it and He cannot lie! God is not a man, so He does not lie. He is not human, so He does not change His mind. Has He ever spoken and failed to act? Has He ever promised and not carried it through? Numbers 23:19 NLT
 
Fear of mankind in your life will become a snare to you as a citizen of the Kingdom. Remember what King Jesus said to His disciples:  You will be brought before governors and kings for My sake, as a testimony to them and to the Gentiles. But when they deliver you up, do not worry about how or what you should speak; for it will be given to you in that hour what you should speak; for it is not you who speak, but the Spirit of your Father who speaks in you. Matthew 10:18-20 You won’t be acting in authority and power if you allow intimidation and anxiety to cloud your thinking. Ambassador Paul wrote these words in his letter to Timothy:  For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind. 2 Timothy 1:7 You can be composed—cool, calm, and collected—in all circumstances because you know that your King lives within you through the presence of the Holy Spirit, your Governor.
 
Keep this thought in mind, when the Governor comes to live within an individual, He assists him in the Lord God’s assignments on that person’s life.  For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them. Ephesians 2:10 But when the Father sends the Advocate as My representative—that is, the Holy Spirit—He will teach you everything and will remind you of everything I have told you. John 14:26 NLT  The Lord God has your purpose prepared for you from the beginning of your existence. What you have to do is to get closer to Him through obedience to God’s Word.
 
You are newly created when the Governor comes and dwells in you. You can start over in the Kingdom to do the good works which the King planned for you to accomplish even before you were born. “I knew you before I formed you in your mother’s womb. Before you were born I set you apart and appointed you as My prophet to the nations.” Jeremiah 1:5 NLT
 
As you know, we live in a fallen world. This is why we need the Holy Spirit—our Governor. The Governor gives back to older citizens of the Kingdom the dreams they thought they had lost. For the young men He gives them visions for their lives to assist them from wasting their time and energy on useless things while they are here on this earth. That is what it is to have the Governor living in us.
 
Remember, your greatest asset is your faith in the Lord Jesus and His Kingdom.

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​W.R. Luchie
www.kingdomcitizens.org
 
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Fundamental: The foundation; basis; essential; primary or most important. In reference to God’s Kingdom principles, its foundation, its very essence, is the Lord God’s constitution, His Word.

Anyone who listens to My teaching and follows it is wise, like a person who builds a house on solid rock.  Though the rain comes in torrents and the floodwaters rise and the winds beat against that house, it won’t collapse because it is built on bedrock. But anyone who hears My teaching and doesn’t obey it is foolish, like a person who builds a house on sand. When the rains and floods come and the winds beat against that house, it will collapse with a mighty crash. Matthew 7:24-27 NLT This is why I stress reading and studying the King’s decrees each and every day. With my whole heart I have sought You; oh, let me not wander from Your commandments! Your Word I have hidden in my heart, that I might not sin against You. Blessed are You, O Lord! Teach me Your statutes. Psalm 119:10-12
 
We should speak He Word over our life and lifestyle. It is by His Word that we live and prosper. The fundamentals of the principles of His Kingdom are to make His Word your lifestyle. It is the foundation on which we may confidently build our life. This may only be accomplished by knowing and being obedient to His commands. Remember that the Lord Jesus isn’t a religious figure or a symbol of a religion called Christianity. He is, now and forever, a King ruling over His Kingdom.
 
In order for us to get in the place that the Lord God wants us to be, we must first put aside all the religious traditions and customs and focus on His Kingdom government as if it were the first time we ever heard of God’s constitution. Change your perspective and get a fresh understanding of what King Jesus was teaching. Do you recall what He stated to His disciples when the question, who was the greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven, was asked?  At that time the disciples came to Jesus, saying, “Who then is greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven?” Then Jesus called a little child to Him, set him in the midst of them, and said, “Assuredly, I say to you, unless you are converted and become as little children, you will by no means enter the Kingdom of Heaven. Therefore whoever humbles himself as this little child is the greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven. Matthew 18:1-4
 
Remember, this is a fallen world and when we are born again by His Spirit, we must start all over again. We must learn to humble ourselves to the Holy Spirit—our Governor.  “Therefore whoever humbles himself as this little child is the greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven.” Matthew 18:4
 
Before I could speak or write about the Kingdom, I first had to acquire a Kingdom mindset and that was a process. I am consistently humbling myself to His Word. It is an ongoing process. When you do that, the Holy Spirit will give you wisdom and understanding and you will see things as you’ve never seen them before as you read and study. In order to grow in the Kingdom, you first must learn how to follow instructions, something King Saul didn’t do well. Now the word of the Lord came to Samuel, saying, “I greatly regret that I have set up Saul as king, for he has turned back from following Me, and has not performed My commandments.”
 
And it grieved Samuel, and he cried out to the Lord all night. So when Samuel rose early in the morning to meet Saul, it was told Samuel, saying, “Saul went to Carmel, and indeed, he set up a monument for himself; and he has gone on around, passed by, and gone down to Gilgal.” Then Samuel went to Saul, and Saul said to him, “Blessed are you of the Lord! I have performed the commandment of the Lord.”
 
But Samuel said, “What then is this bleating of the sheep in my ears, and the lowing of the oxen which I hear?”
 
And Saul said, “They have brought them from the Amalekites; for the people spared the best of the sheep and the oxen, to sacrifice to the Lord your God; and the rest we have utterly destroyed.” Then Samuel said to Saul, “Be quiet! And I will tell you what the Lord said to me last night.” And he said to him, “Speak on.” 1 Samuel 15:10-16
 
A fundamental principle in the Kingdom is to be obedient; His Way, not ours. Keep in mind what the Lord God stated to Saul through His representative Samuel:  “Has the Lord as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the Lord? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to heed than the fat of rams. For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because you have rejected the Word of the Lord, He also has rejected you from being king.” 1 Samuel 15:22-23
 
 
Your idea—your plan—will never be as good as God’s plan! Sometimes we get so caught up in the way we want to do something that when the Holy Spirit tells us another way we are too proud of our plans to humble ourselves and submit to His Way. We are so blinded by what we know that we can’t be taught by the Holy Spirit!  “For My thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways My ways,” says the Lord.  “For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways, and My thoughts than your thoughts. Isaiah 55:8-9
 
A Kingdom mind filled with His Word, a submissive heart, and a humble spirit are essential and fundamental principles in the Kingdom of God. That is a citizen who will hear and be led by the Holy Spirit. That is a citizen of the Kingdom that the King will use!
 
Remember, your faith in King Jesus is your most valuable asset in the Kingdom.

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​W.R. Luchie
www.kingdomcitizens.org
 
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There is much more we would like to say about this, but it is difficult to explain, especially since you are spiritually dull and don’t seem to listen. You have been believers so long now that you ought to be teaching others. Instead, you need someone to teach you again the basic things about God’s Word. You are like babies who need milk and cannot eat solid food. For someone who lives on milk is still an infant and doesn’t know how to do what is right. Solid food is for those who are mature, who through training have the skill to recognize the difference between right and wrong. Hebrews 5:11-14 NLT
 
Ask yourself, what is the level of my faith in my King and His Word (God’s Constitution)? Is that faith greater or less than your faith in a physician? Having our prayers answered is also a great faith-builder. I am a living example of our King’s healing power. Ever since He healed my hand—the one I am writing this article with—my faith in His Word has become more radical and unshakable every day. Since the day I walked out of the doctor’s office, with his recommendation to have hand surgery on my mind, my faith in the Lord God’s Word has been growing. Trust in the Lord, and do good. Dwell in the land, and feed on His faithfulness. Delight yourself also in the Lord, and He shall give you the desires of your heart. Commit your way to the Lord, trust also in Him, and He shall bring it to pass. He shall bring forth your righteousness as the light, and your justice as the noonday. Rest in the Lord, and wait patiently for Him. Psalm 37:3-7
 
If you believe as the centurion (Roman officer) believed when he went to Jesus, your faith in the King will be recognized. He believed in the Words of King Jesus to the point that he knew King Jesus didn’t have to go and lay hands on his servant.  Now when Jesus had entered Capernaum, a centurion came to Him, pleading with Him, saying, “Lord, my servant is lying at home paralyzed, dreadfully tormented.”
 
And Jesus said to him, “I will come and heal him.”
 
The centurion answered and said, “Lord, I am not worthy that You should come under my roof. But only speak a word, and my servant will be healed. For I also am a man under authority, having soldiers under me. And I say to this one, ‘Go,’ and he goes; and to another, ‘Come,’ and he comes; and to my servant, ‘Do this,’ and he does it.”
 
When Jesus heard it, He marveled, and said to those who followed, “Assuredly, I say to you, I have not found such great faith, not even in Israel! And I say to you that many will come from east and west, and sit down with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven. But the sons of the kingdom will be cast out into outer darkness. There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.” 
 
Then Jesus said to the centurion, “Go your way; and as you have believed, so let it be done for you.” And his servant was healed that same hour. Matthew 8:5-13 The kind of faith this centurion displayed could be considered radical. The centurion went all out, believing in King Jesus. That is the kind of unshakable, unwavering faith our Savior and King desires His citizens to have in Him, no matter how circumstances look. We should never look to mankind for healing, not if you truly believe in the Lord God’s constitution. So, I ask again, what would you say is your level of faith in the Lord Jesus and His Word?
 
Remember, we must answer to Him for our actions, not to mankind. We as His children and citizens of His Kingdom must learn how to walk in the belief that He will protect and keep us every day. The Governor—Holy Spirit—will guide you and lead you down the correct pathway for His name’s sake. It is all for His glory and for His name’s sake. Yes, You are my rock and my fortress; for Your name’s sake You will lead me and guide me. Psalm 31:3 AMP
 
His name should be very important to you because it is important to Him. Do you recall what ambassador Peter said to the religious leaders in the Sanhedrin court? And it came to pass, on the next day, that their rulers, elders, and scribes, as well as  Annas the high priest, Caiaphas, John, and Alexander, and as many as were of the family of the high priest, were gathered together at Jerusalem. And when they had set them in the midst, they asked, “By what power or by what name have you done this?”
  
Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said to them, “Rulers of the people and elders of Israel: If we this day are judged for a good deed done to a helpless man, by what means he has been made well, let it be known to you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead, by Him this man stands here before you whole. This is the ‘stone which was rejected by you builders, which has become the chief cornerstone.’ Nor is there salvation in any other, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.” Acts 4:5-12
 
Keep in mind, you are not in a religion, you are in His Kingdom government. We must be free of a religious mindset and root it all out of our minds by reading and studying the Lord God’s constitution.
 
Your healing, deliverance from sin, and a victorious life hinges on what you believe. Remember what King Jesus said to the centurion:  Then Jesus said to the centurion, “Go your way; and as you have believed, so let it be done for you.” And his servant was healed that same hour. Matthew 8:13
 
Do you recall what King Jesus stated when the fig tree withered? And Peter, remembering, said to Him, “Rabbi, look! The fig tree which You cursed has withered away.”
 
So Jesus answered and said to them, “Have faith in God. For assuredly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be removed and be cast into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that those things he says will be done, he will have whatever he says. Therefore I say to you, whatever things you ask when you pray, believe that you receive them, and you will have them. Mark 11:21-24
 
Remember, your faith in King Jesus and His Word is your greatest asset in the Kingdom.

​W.R. Luchie
www.kingdomcitizens.org

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To know the Lord God’s purpose for your life, you first must study and seek to be obedient to His Word above anything else. Study and do your best to present yourself to God approved, a workman [tested by trial] who has no reason to be ashamed, accurately handling and skillfully teaching the Word of Truth. 2 Timothy 2:15 AMP

The Lord God instructed Saul through Samuel, His representative, to destroy all the Amalekites, even the children, infants, cattle, sheep, camels and donkeys. Now go and attack Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and do not spare them. But kill both man and woman, infant and nursing child, ox and sheep, camel and donkey. 1 Samuel 15:3 That may seem extreme, but that is what He commanded Saul to do. He didn’t tell him to “use his own judgment, as if Saul knew better than the Lord God!
 
Then the Lord God gave Samuel a word for King Saul:   So Samuel said, “When you were little in your own eyes, were you not head of the tribes of Israel? And did not the Lord anoint you king over Israel? Now the Lord sent you on a mission, and said, ‘Go, and utterly destroy the sinners, the Amalekites, and fight against them until they are consumed.’ Why then did you not obey the voice of the Lord? Why did you swoop down on the spoil, and do evil in the sight of the Lord?” 1 Samuel 15:17-19
 
Keep in mind that the Lord God wants complete obedience to His Word, not a partial response. He wants man to trust Him and freely obey Him, even down to what may seem as the smallest detail. But Saul and his people thought they knew better than the Lord God and could make good use of that livestock.  And Saul said to Samuel, “But I have obeyed the voice of the Lord, and gone on the mission on which the Lord sent me, and brought back Agag king of Amalek; I have utterly destroyed the Amalekites. But the people took of the plunder, sheep and oxen, the best of the things which should have been utterly destroyed, to sacrifice to the Lord your God in Gilgal.” 1 Samuel 15:20-21 Remember, the Lord God told him to destroy all. Here is the Lord God’s response to Saul through His prophet Samuel:  So Samuel said:  “Has the Lord as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the Lord? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to heed than the fat of rams.

For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because you have rejected the word of the Lord, He also has rejected you from being king.” 1 Samuel 15:22-23
 
Now, concerning our top priority in discovering your God given purpose in life, King Jesus made it quite clear when He was speaking to His disciples. He started out by telling them not to worry and what their priority should be:  Therefore I say to you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing?  Look at the birds of the air, for they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they?  Which of you by worrying can add one cubit to his stature?
 
So why do you worry about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin; and yet I say to you that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. Now if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will He not much more clothe you, O you of little faith?
 
Therefore do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ For after all these things the Gentiles seek. For your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. But seek first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.
 
Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble. Matthew 6:25-34
 
Once you are obedient to His Word you will not have to pursue your purpose. The Lord and King will reveal it to you as He did to ambassador Paul. He first will get your total attention, and then He will give you what you need to live in victory in this world. He gives you the Holy Spirit—our Governor in the Kingdom of God. The Holy Spirit is the extension of the Lord God, sent to lead and guide those who love and obey God’s Word. King Jesus told His disciples about the Holy Spirit:  And whatever you ask in My name, that I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If you ask anything in My name, I will do it.
 
If you love Me, keep My commandments. And I will pray the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may abide with you forever—the Spirit of truth,  whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him; but you know Him, for He dwells with you and will be in you. John 14:13-17
 
Discovering the Lord God’s purpose for your life hinges on your priorities. Your priority is not to seek your purpose, but to seek God’s Kingdom and His righteousness. To do that, you must seek His Word and His rightness by desiring to be obedient to His constitution. When you desire His righteousness for your life above everything else, you will know the assignment He placed on your life. As Jesus told us, our Father will take care of everything else.
 
As He told the woman who said to bless His mother who bore Him:  But He said, “On the contrary, blessed (happy, favored by God) are those who hear the Word of God and continually observe it.” Luke 11:28 AMP This is our priority and focus. And don’t worry about tomorrow either! (Matthew 6:34)
 
Remember, your faith in His Word is your greatest asset in His Kingdom.

W.R. Luchie
www.kingdomcitizens.org

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