When I hear people use the phrases “I’m under attack” or “I’m in a battle,” I usually make an assumption about what they mean different from their viewpoint. I assume they mean that God has assigned them to fulfill a purpose and they’ve run into some of God’s enemies when what they usually mean is […]
Category: General
The “Controlling Leader” Syndrome
The “controlling leader” labels may be valid for many leaders who hold people in bondage to their own agendas. Millions of believers are held captive by controlling leaders. Such a condition if foreign to the kingdom – God is never a controlling leader. He is a Father, and the kingdom is a spiritual family. The […]
False vs Immature
In order to move the Body into a reset of its foundations, reclaiming apostolic and prophetic foundations, we may have been guilty of “dumbing down” certain aspects of these kingdom leadership functions. Coming out of a season of in which our definition of “church” was “the accumulation of believers,” we have approached this reset in […]
Unequal Equality
The kingdom is filled with both inequality and equality. In some ways, all citizens share equally. In others distinctions and destinies are unequal, by human standards of measurement. The kingdom functions in abundance, so having equal shares so no one has “too much” or “has some of mine” is foreign to kingdom culture. Peter says, for […]
Kingdom Dynamics: Honor
Honor Releases Anointing Honoring the one sent releases what God sent through the one He sent. This sense of sending and releasing is fundamental to kingdom dynamics. Honor releases anointing when releases calling which releases created destiny. Everything in the kingdom functions SpiritFirst, and anointing is spiritual power and authority. God targets kingdom people with […]
God’s Design for Covenant Marriage – “Leave Comes Before Cleave”
Being separated to is better than being separated from. Covenant will always involve a separation to that redefines our relationship with everything else. Our new agreement with God will alter every other existing agreement. God is holy, and what He agrees with us will make something, including us, holy. Jesus says, “From the beginning of Creation” […]
Dominion of God on Earth
Every Scripture that promises us Jesus will be King and take dominion also promises us that His dominion will be carried out through redeemed people. From the beginning of Creation this was His strategy. Something radical to nature will change, however, once we receive glorified bodies: we won’t marry anymore because gender distinctions will disappear. […]
People and Process: Ecclesia
“People and Process” principles are important to Jesus. In the Body or Ecclesia, what we have come to call “church,” He has provided leadership as a means of preparing and positioning people to produce, do the “work” of ministry. This leadership, when properly functioning, prepares and positions people to work out the processes that produce […]
God’s Design for Covenant Marriage – Sex in the Sacred Synthesis
There is no “Sex in the City” in the kingdom. The futility of selfishness produces this sentiment, an endless search for can never be obtained in any way other than God’s design. There is sex in marriage covenant, by design. We include this in the “cleave” part of the Creation equation: “This is why a […]
David, the Sheepherder in the Valley of the Giant
Note that David enters the valley of the giant equipped with a shepherd’s stick, bag, and sling. While we often make a pretty big deal about this because it plays into the “david vs goliath” scenario that has become a cliche, the reality is that David enters the valley of the giant with “what brung […]