John McDonald

Living in and for a Kingdom Culture

A few days ago whilst listening to a radio broadcast I heard whilst driving something was triggered in my spirit. The speaker was speaking about ethnicity within the church.

It seems nearly everyday as I hear things said that I hear from a Kingdom perspective and again my spirit is impacted.

Here is what I heard as I listened to His Spirit.

Father, because of the obedience unto death on the cross and the resurrection of His Son Jesus, is building one new nation, from out of many nations. But more than that, He wants us, out of our different ethnicities focused on developing one culture, which must be the Kingdom culture.

The problem with us as believers, is we want to keep and live in our culture rather than change it. It is important for us to understand that all culture is religious in nature. As such it determines how we live, how we govern, how we build families, how we develop our businesses and economics etc.

As we have accepted the man made idea of multi-culturalism we have also accepted other gods and religions, and in doing so have built a confused nation, that has lost its identity. People want to speak only in the language of their birth, not the language of the land they want to live in. This is so clearly seen as other religions want to live according to their religious laws.

It doesn’t matter whether the culture we have is American, African, British, or any other, our role is not to promote our culture, but His.  After all if we want to promote the culture of the nation we live in, then people who come from other nations say why shouldn’t we be able to live by our cultural mandates.

As Christ Jesus is King, reigning over all the earth now, it is our responsibility if we are truly citizens of the Kingdom, to first learn about, then promote it, by living out the culture of the Kingdom. The Kingdom culture embraces all ethnicities, can work regardless of any language. The Kingdom economy will function with the currency of any nation.

It’s time to show forth the culture of the Kingdom.

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“After these things the word of the LORD came unto Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram: I [am] thy shield, [and] thy exceeding great reward”. Gen 15:1. This is the Word of the Lord to Abraham, before he had his name name changed. Abraham, the Father of Faith is the first man to receive the command from the Lord to Fear Not!

When we walk in Faith doubt will always come alongside, it will always show itself to us as we begin to walk in faith. The enemy will use doubt to bring fear, and as fear gets a foothold it will bring us to a stop, and in many cases a paralyzing dead stop. Remember as Paul so succinctly tells us, “God has NOT given us a spirit of fear, but a spirit of power, love and a sound mind”.

As you obey the command to “Fear Not” and walk in faith to accomplish what we are called to do, there is great reward.

Remember that there are no men in the bible that were born great, rather they learned to walk in obedience, and were thus able to accomplish great things.

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Watching and re-watching Amazing Grace over the last few weeks I discovered something that awakened my spirit in a new way. We know that God used a man named William Wilberforce to be His instrument in abolishing the slave trade; he was also instrumental in serving the Lord in numerous other ways, including the establishing of the British & Foreign Bible Society. His friend William Pitt who suggested that he could both serve God and work to abolish the slave trade, rather than just seclude himself in religious duty. I have maintained for some time now that a Kingdom mind does not separate ’spiritual’ from ‘the natural’ as does the religious mind, but rather sees that the spiritual is to be entwined with the natural, thereby making what we call ’supernatural’. However this is what grabbed my attention, a message seemingly lost, due to the powerful theme of the movie, the power of the destruction of the slave trade. The message I refer to is the age of Wilberforce and Pitt. A simple search led me to see that William Pitt was elected to Parliament at 20 and became the Prime Minister of England at the age of 24.

Yes! It’s Time To re-Build

Let me ask you, where are these passionate young people today, the Sons of Issachar? Youth that not only have a passion for more, not only in the spirit realm, that is demonstrated in an openness to be used of the Holy Spirit to change nations, but have a depth of intellect that alongside a solid biblical worldview, will have answers for the nation. Youth that see no limits to their ability to change their nation.

It is a sad indictment on our Western society and in particular the U.S.A, a nation that was developed by Christian minds, has not only become ineffective by rejecting The Faith, that was the sole reason it became a great nation, but at the same time has an education system that has been over generations been dumbing down its people, and especially its youth. We have a political system that is raising itself up as the savior of its people, by redistributing the wealth of its people.

While it is true we have seen great inventions, we have very few great thinkers, thinkers, of the caliber of Wilberforce and Pitt, and many others in the 17 & 1800’s, who changed nations, who wrote incredible works that are still used today.

It is even sadder to see this disease so rampant in the church that God’s people have little solid biblical knowledge, for they are only about ‘feeling’ good, either by looking for another sign or miracle, in our Pentecostal/Charismatic churches, or ‘feeling’ good in evangelical churches that not only refuse to confront lifestyles that are filled with the world standards, and think at best that discipleship is a program, of a few hours of teaching, or a worst refuse to disciple and raise Son’s in the house.

Today we see the sad result, it is a world where the church has proved it has no ability, to be the agent of change that our Lord established it to be. It is powerless to influence the political realm, and we are moving further and further as a nation into slavery. We lock ourselves into church and think, praise God I’m saved, and I’m going to heaven. We were not saved to go to heaven, we are saved to grow up and become sons so we can enter the Kingdom. We are saved to manifest heaven on earth.

God created a Kingdom on earth Genesis 1 & 2, man’s fall, did not alter God’s original intent, rather God had already placed the strategy to bring back God’s original intent, Christ Jesus the Lamb slain before the foundation of the earth. He sacrifice redeemed us to bring us back to the Garden.

Yet in spit of all this, there is a remnant who have had enough of the status quo, who refuse to settle for mediocrity, refuse to see the church and even their nation continue on the disastrous downward spiral that even a child can see

In this New Year, a new opportunity 2010, I am asking you to commit yourself to be an agent of change, to no longer accept the status quo. Rather let this, be a year while in the midst of brokenness in our families, our economics, businesses, churches, ministries, and governments, a time in which we will work to equip ourselves so as to be the re-builders of and for the future (Isaiah 58:12-14). It will not be easy, in fact doing it alone will be impossible, but together obedient to the Holy Spirit we will make a difference.

Our first task is to understand we are the Kingdom of the Lord, for He hath made us a kingdom and priests unto our God (Revelation 1:6 & 5:10). So we must get a solid foundation of Kingdom Theology in our minds, and our part in it. We must pursue to increase our God given intellect, whilst at the same time building our relationship with Him, not forsaking one for the other but increasing both together.

My mission as an apostolic/ambassador of the Kingdom is to serve as an equipper for the task of re-building the future.

I am steadfast in this Holy Spirit given conviction, that 2010 is the first year of a decade of re-building.

John McDonald. http://www.SchoolOfTheKingdom.com