GIG247 Christ Given His Kingdom, Daniel 7:14

Growing In God Podcast 

Web Description: After a vision of men turning away from evil because of the force of the Kingdom of God in the spirit realm, Gary laid out a burden for greater effectiveness in our prayers to see real change happen in the earth. Our meditation should be something that connects with the Kingdom of God that we have already received and then manifests the power of God in the earth from within us.

Show Notes: Daniel saw the Son of Man come up to God from where He was given “dominion, glory, and a kingdom.” He saw this before Christ ascended to the Father, which to us is a past event. But Daniel was beholding the reality of Christ’s Kingdom in the spirit world where there is no past or future. There is only now. God is not bound by time. He is always in the present, and with Him all things exist, and all things are possible in the present. And whenever we are in His world, we are in the realm where nothing is impossible.

Christ said that where He is, His servants will be also. If there is anything we want to see happen on earth by our prayers, it is from this realm where Christ is. It will happen through His unlimited power that moves within us. If we want to change the world, then the change happens within us before it impacts the world. This aspect of God moving from within rather than outside of us is an experience Christians need on a greater level.

Prayer is a matter of asking God for something. But we are usually praying outside of ourselves for something to happen outside of ourselves. In meditation, however, we are wanting to connect with God’s unlimited power within us from where God will move in the earth. Instead of something we avoid, meditation should be something we work at to become aware of the Holy Spirt and the power of God within us, just as Christ and the apostle Paul taught. Let us reach into the realm where God’s Kingdom is not a future event but an ever-present force that we turn loose in the earth.

 

Key Verses:

 

•       Ephesians 3:20. “Now to Him who is able to do … according to the power that works within us.”

•       Zechariah 4:6. “‘Not by might nor by power, but by My Spirit,’ says the LORD of hosts.”

•       Mark 11:24. “All things for which you pray and ask, believe that you have received them.”

•       Matthew 6:9–10. “Your Kingdom come. Your will be done.”

•       John 14:23. “We will come to him and make Our abode with him.”

•       John 12:26. “Where I am, there My servant will be also.”

•       Galatians 5:25. “If we live by the Spirit, let us also walk by the Spirit.”

•       Daniel 7:13–14. “With the clouds of heaven One like a Son of Man … came up to the Ancient of Days.”

•       Acts 1:9. “He was lifted up while they were looking on, and a cloud received Him out of their sight.”

•       Isaiah 9:6–7. “There will be no end to the increase of His government … from then on and forevermore.”

•       Psalm 2:1–8. “I have installed My King upon Zion, My holy mountain.”

 

Quotes:

 

•       “The spirit world that is demonic in its moving and possessing people is driving a lot of the activities that we see on a natural level. But we know that it's rooted and initiated out of the spirit world. It's coming from that realm, and we know that it has to be changed from that realm.”

•       “We should be living in this realm where we have free access to the totality of God's creation, and we can connect with the things that are available to us.”

•       “God said, ‘I have installed my King on the throne in Zion.’ It has taken place. We shouldn't be praying for it to take place. We should be connecting with it and letting the reality of it begin to be the vibrational power that is exuding from us, that is impacting the world around us.”

 

Takeaways:

 

1.    We have seen prayer, intercession, and fasting. But what we have not seen are the results we need in the physical, natural world outside of us. That is because the evil we see in the world is being initiated by and controlled from the spirit realm. If we want to see it change in the physical realm, then we need to change it in the spirit realm.

2.    Paul had spiritual experiences and wrote that believers would have them as well. He taught about finding how the unlimited power within us is expressed from us and through us. However, the Church lost something when it lost the practice of what came to be looked upon as Eastern style meditation. Yet we must find the way to turn loose the power of God that is within us.

3.    Daniel saw that Christ was given the Kingdom. The Kingdom of God exists now in the spirit realm. So our prayers are not about believing that God will do something outside of ourselves sometime in the future. It is about believing that we have received His Kingdom now and it actually comes within us. His Kingdom is expressed in the earth from us and through us.