Kingdom Principles

Kingdom Principles

Everyone is strong in the strength and presence and influence of the King and in the secure knowledge of their place and privilege as equal citizens of the Kingdom. Seeing life from this perspective will require a major change of mind-set for most people. We have to learn, we have to train, we have to be taught to think this way. A change of mind is what the Bible calls “repentance.” So now the words of Jesus become much clearer when He says, “ Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is near ” (Matt. 4:17). He is saying, “Change your mind! Stop thinking like the world with its inadequacies and inequities, and start thinking like a Kingdom citizen! Stop operating from a worldly mind-set of “never enough” and start operating from a Kingdom mind-set of “more than enough”! The Kingdom of Heaven is here and everything has changed!” TEN PRINCIPLES OF THE POWER OF LAND I hope that by now it is becoming clear how important territory is to the kingdom concept. With this in mind, I want to conclude this chapter with a brief discussion of ten principles of the power of land. In this context, land , territory , and domain mean the same thing. 1. The first thing God gave man was land. We have already discussed this. God created the earth and then created man to rule it. Specifically, God placed Adam in a lush, beautiful garden and gave him the responsibility of car ing for it and all its inhabitants. The King of Heaven gave the king of earth a physical domain—land—over which to exercise dominion. 2. The first thing man lost was land. When Adam and Eve rebelled against the king, He drove them out of the gar den. They lost the property God had given them. Having lost their dominion, they discovered that the earthly environment was now hostile to them.

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