Seers and Doers

Have you ever noticed there are two tracks in the Kingdom, the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His suffering? The life and life more abundantly track sounds like a recent podcast I listened to. The interview was conducted around a business ministry “model.”

I’m a serial entrepreneur who began with nothing and now I’ve started multiple businesses and investment funds. I’m on numerous boards and I’ve leveraged my success into ministries that help other businesses and investors become successful. I’m busy all the time, fruitful, wealthy, generous and wise. I’m sought after for advice, visible, acclaimed, celebrated and connected at influential levels. God has blessed me.

The second track is simply the antithesis of the above:

Lord, I feel unused, wasted, set aside, and hidden. My resources limit my dreams. The desires of my heart go wanting. My investments and my life are best characterized by mediocrity. For sure, no one is calling for my advice. I feel like a billboard for theft; God’s example of weakness!

The two tracks, or examples, are both evidenced in the Bible. They can also represent seasons in our lives. Most of us experience both . . . victories and valor; defeats and delays.

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When Jesus stands at the door of our heart and knocks, the offer is that “I will come in and eat with him, and he with me” (Rev 3:20). Our hearts are equipped with a table we set for communion and communication with Jesus. Servants invite Him in to sit on a throne so they can obey; friends just take up the offer to eat together so they can collaborate. It’s wisdom to set a table because Jesus is coming to eat with us, not rule over us.

Wisdom has built her house; she has hewn out its seven pillars. She has prepared her meat and mixed her wine; she has also set her table. Prov 9:1-2 NIV

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My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place. When I was woven together in the depths of the earth, 16 your eyes saw my unformed body. All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be. Ps 139:15-16 NIV

Once we get saved and receive the Holy Spirit, a hunger to find our Kingdom purpose is birthed. It starts with becoming a servant who can obey. It continues as we become students of His word and exercise our gifts. It peaks when we become His friends who collaborate and co-labor with our Father. Now we’re free to undertake initiatives because we know our heart and our Father’s heart are on the same page. The Lord is pulling the curtain back on a generation of young lions who are hungry to play their role in this coming reformation. They are excited, they have volunteered before the Lord, and their hearts are all asking the same question, “What can I do?” Jesus wants to answer that question Himself.

Finding your personal why and opening your book is not easy, but it is very possible. If you want clarity on your purpose in the Kingdom and your role in this reformation, here are some practical steps to get you there.

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We just got back from two weeks in the Netherlands with Beverley Watkins and a quick visit to Warsaw to catch up friends. Marcel van den Berg helped us pack that time with conferences, small groups and individual appointments. It was way more exhilarating than exhausting and we really had a lot of fun. The Lord always clarifies things for me on trips like this; I get ministered to more than anyone else. This was the roadmap for the trip. Here is what I experienced:

Young Lions – There is a spirit of prayer over the Netherlands and we swam in it. This nation is called to be a gateway to Europe and we found dozens of young lions who got the vision for the next reformation. We opened the Netherland’s book and contended for it. God has already positioned them in places of influence. We left a network of relationships that will be self-sustaining and I believe they have the horsepower to intentionally take steps toward the next reformation.

Beverley – I had lots of time with Beverley Watkins ministering together in the courts of heaven, teaching and in rich fellowship. It was really fun! This trip was an experiment to see if we could marry the concept of Releasing Kings and strategic prayer in the courts. We saw it work at both the individual level and the national level and it all distills down to this simple point. We are being invited to be both priests and kings to accomplish what God has set before us. Let’s define these two aspects of “one” personality:

Kingly – are people in touch with their hearts and pursuing personal destiny in their mountain. They carry Identity, initiative, boldness, wealth creation and the heart of the Father. Some of these “kings” are pre-saved, yet God has already positioned them in influence and calling.

Priestly –  can hear God daily and are naturally prophetic and seers… they can see in the spirit! When they encounter obstacles, they can navigate the courts of heaven to see the root and deal with it. They have access to their book via Jesus and they can hear the accusations of the enemy and they know how to respond to both to set the atmosphere of Kingdom.

We are no longer adding intercessors to business as a separate person or function. Business men and women are being invited into their own spirituality. In the same way, those strong in revelatory gifting’s and traditional church ministries are being invited into the culture and into wealth creation. Traditional revival around meetings will come and will still be fun and powerful and full of God’s presence “and” there will be an anointing to carry it into our mountain and bless nations. The real goal isn’t revival, it’s reformation. We are discipling nations and we started by opening the Dutch Book and finding the network who will carry it.

God is answering the deepest cry in each of our own hearts, “What’s my role? Please send me too!” You and I are being invited to Kingdom – co-laboring with our Father to implement a reformation that will bless nations. We are both priest and king, just like Jesus.

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God’s people are in an amazing transition right now to embrace our mandate to disciple nations. It’s not business as usual and it’s both exciting and confusing… because this promise is so big!

“I will make you into a great nation and I will bless you; …and all peoples on earth will be blessed through you.” Gen 12:2-3 NIV

He said to me, “You are my Son; today I have become your Father. 8 Ask of me, and I will make the nations your inheritance… Ps 2:7-8 NIV

Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. 19 Therefore go and make disciples of all nations… Matt 28:18-19 NIV

So… I just asked Jesus, “Lord, how do we transition to discipling nations? What are you saying to your people about this?” You can ask Him the same thing. It’s fun, and our Father loves to talk to His sons about this asking.

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Why Purpose? – It doesn’t matter if I’m a millennial living paycheck to paycheck or a retiree traveling the world, life without a purpose beyond “self” is empty. For believers, the irony of life in the Kingdom is that when we seek “things” they (and our purpose) drift away from us. But, when we put His Kingdom “purpose” first, everything else gets added. Each of us has a purpose or book (Ps 139:16) in two dimensions: the first is our individual purpose that God has written in our hearts and the second is the Kingdom purpose of our nation. Knowing both is a lot of fun… it puts our life’s direction on steroids.

My purpose – Releasing Kings is all about connecting people with the Kingdom purpose God wrote on our hearts. The transition from servant to friend and King (Jn 15:15-17) happens when I give myself permission to pursue the desire or purpose in my heart. I become who God designed me to be. More here and here. Jesus delights to share the Father’s heart with us, so that we know “His business.”

I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master’s business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you. John 15:15-16

My life starts to make sense when my family, vocation, ministry and heart start to align around a common theme. My history (good and bad) is a tapestry that weaves the past, present and future into a Kingdom purpose. It’s a joy to make that connection. My life’s greatest thrill is to connect with my Father’s heart and co-labor with Him and see the results. That’s the message of Releasing Kings. We help people make those connections with their heart, history, vocation, ministry, mountain and calling.

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This is an amazing and wonderful time in God’s Kingdom and in American History. New victories are appearing every week and the curtain has been pulled back on levels of corruption in politics and the press that are liberating for all of us. God Himself is doing something that approaches another reformation to be followed by another “enlightenment / industrial revolution”… a renaissance in cultures around the world.

It’s an intense season of spiritual warfare and political contention, yet the Kingdom is being unveiled and the glory of God is more visible than ever. We are on the eve of something wonderful that we have not planned or anticipated… it’s beyond all that we could ask or imagine! Our hearts, as Americans, are thrilled.

The calling on the United States is to be the light and the glory for the world. It’s our privilege to bless nations and peoples. Economies are going to get blessed and, as the US rises into her calling, all nations will rise as well. We will touch poverty in the natural and set captives free in the spirit. Sanballet will chirp and accuse, and Shimei will throw rocks, but God will prevail. It’s a season for David and his mighty men to walk in the grace of their calling. I hear this verse:

As you go, preach this message: ‘The kingdom of heaven is near.’ Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse those who have leprosy, drive out demons. Freely you have received, freely give. Matt 10:7-8 NIV

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One of the most exciting things happening right now is that people are being invited into the Kingdom. Both believers and unbelievers are being chosen first and sanctified second. People of all faiths and of no faith are being invited into this place of being ourselves and co-laboring with the Father at the same time. Finding the synergy and fellowship in your own mountain cuts through every religious barrier and unites people around the themes of their heart instead of the politics and denominations in their head. We’ve had people saved in a business conference because of this compelling invitation from the Father to join the party that is Kingdom – they heard the music and said, “yes Lord” and they long to know how to be connected to God’s Kingdom and experience even more. Can you see why it’s called the “Gospel of the Kingdom.” It’s good news.

3 Ingredients of Kingdom – Most of us are a little fuzzy on what Kingdom really is and how we can be part of it. It’s really an invitation to become yourself, and to connect the desires of our own heart with the desire of the Father’s heart and to see the fruit of that synergism in our vocation. It takes three things: Industry, Initiative from our heart, and Intercession to pull the curtain back on our “why.”

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The key to the Kingdom is centered around becoming comfortable in our God-given identity. There is an authenticity and an authority that comes when we connect with the desires of our heart. Instead of trying to discipline ourselves to rise up to some external expectation, we relax and find the grace that God has over our lives and simply walk it out. We love ourselves, other people and God much more when we turn this corner. It’s a child-like innocence and simplicity that is willing to ask for the desires that God wrote in our heart.

“I tell you the truth, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. Matt 18:3 NIV

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Last week we summarized the theme of the Holy Spirit from our trip to Poland here… We, and nations, have a book that contains our destiny (Ps 139:13-16). Kingdom is learning what’s in that book, choosing it, fighting for it and inheriting our land. The warfare takes on a courtroom setting: the accuser of the brethren is the prosecuting attorney (Rev 12:10-11), the testimony of Jesus is the Spirit of Prophecy and our defense (Rev 19:10-11), and our Father is the judge. Enemy accusations usually have an ingredient of truth that must be put under the blood of Jesus’ forgiveness, and then we have to speak what Jesus is saying about us. What is written in our book is so precious and exciting that we seek it first and then “live” for it!

They overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony; they did not love their lives so much as to shrink from death. Rev 12:11 NIV

It’s not that hard to hear the accuser raise issues over our lives. Now we know what to do about them. The next question for leaders and prophetic people is, “What do I do when I hear an accusation against someone else that is legitimate?” The choices are confronting them, exposing them or praying for them.

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