What is KINGDOM LIVING? (Part 3)

In "What is KINGDOM LIVING Part 3," we go deeper into SPIRITUAL INSIGHT as we discuss the idea that KINGDOM LIVING is a state of being where we, followers of Jesus, believe that God, through His grace, will HIMSELF perfect, confirm, strengthen, and establish us without the need for our own efforts or human merit. Drawing extensively from the BIBLE, we emphasize the paramount importance of RIGHT BELIEVING as the foundation of living by God's grace in His Kingdom.

"After you have suffered for a little while, the God of all grace, who called you to His eternal glory in Christ, will Himself perfect, confirm, strengthen and establish you." 1 Peter 5:10

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The Grace Awakening is a transformative process where FOLLOWERS of CHRIST surrender to God's grace, trust Him entirely, and allow ourselves to be remolded into the image of God.

We explore the idea that grace empowers SAINTS to make choices aligned with God's viewpoint, leading to transformation and true repentance.

We conclude by highlighting the ABUNDANCE of GRACE and its profound impact on BELIEVERS, enabling us to SHINE AS LIGHTS in the world and fulfill our purpose as God's ambassadors.

"namely, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and He has committed to us the word of reconciliation. Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were making an appeal through us; we beg you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God. He made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him." 2 Corinthians 5:19-21

KINGDOM LIVING is believing that GOD, through Grace, will HIMSELF perfect, confirm, strengthen, and establish you without your help or human merit.

"And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us, and we saw His glory, glory as of the only begotten from the Father, full of grace and truth… For of His fullness we have all received, and grace upon grace. For the Law was given through Moses; grace and truth were realized through Jesus Christ." John 1:14, 16-17

This is the third installment of a Series titled "What is KINGDOM Living." Please, after reading this essay please go back and read What is KINGDOM Living? Part 1 and Part 2.

KINGDOM LIVING is a place void of human wisdom BUT FULL of GRACE to establish TRUTH.

"After you have suffered for a little while, the God of all grace, who called you to His eternal glory in Christ, will Himself perfect, confirm, strengthen and establish you." 1 Peter 5:10

KINGDOM LIVING is living by and through the Grace of God. One must be awakened to Grace to live in the Kingdom of God. To live by God’s Grace starts and finishes with RIGHT BELIEVING.

"Now may our Lord Jesus Christ Himself and God our Father, who has loved us and given us eternal comfort and good hope by grace," 2 Thessalonians 2:16

In the simplest of terms, to live by Grace in God’s Kingdom, one must believe RIGHT, starting with Grace.

"But by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace toward me did not prove vain; but I labored even more than all of them, yet not I, but the grace of God with me." 1 Corinthians 15:10

God is our LIFE, and He gives us HIS LIGHT to SHINE BRIGHTLY as He establishes His KINGDOM of TRUTH by Grace.

"being justified as a gift by His grace through the redemption which is in Christ Jesus;" Romans 3:24

Grace is God’s womb where He incubates us, bringing order to chaos only to be activated, accelerated, and launched into the WORLD as His Ambassadors.

"Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were making an appeal through us; we beg you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God." 2 Corinthians 5:20

Right Believing

“But the free gift is not like the transgression. For if by the transgression of the one the many died, much more did the grace of God and the gift by the grace of the one Man, Jesus Christ, abound to the many.” Romans 5:15

Do we take on God’s viewpoint or the world’s? Right believing aligns our beliefs, values, and attitudes with God’s.

"Therefore, since we have so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, let us also lay aside every encumbrance and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us," Hebrews 12:1

Right believing is to take on God’s viewpoint FOR EVERYTHING while rejecting all of our self-centered and selfishly obstructed viewpoints.

"fixing our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God." Hebrews 12:2

Grace is the power to be TRANSFORMED into the IMAGE of GOD and to be launched into a dark and dangerous world, knowing we are safe to live and to flourish, to reign, and to rule on Earth through Grace, confidently facing and overcoming every obstacle and defeating every enemy - THROUGH GRACE.

"For consider Him who has endured such hostility by sinners against Himself, so that you will not grow weary and lose heart." Hebrews 12:3

The Grace Awakening

The Grace Awakening is a place of self-surrender, trusting God alone and allowing yourself to be possessed by the Spirit of God to be reformed, restored, reprocessed, reshaped, recrafted, reforged, and remolded into the IMAGE of GOD.

"You have not yet resisted to the point of shedding blood in your striving against sin;" Hebrews 12:4

The Grace Awakening is to KNOW that IN CHRIST, all things are possible through His Grace. God’s Grace empowers us to endure EVERY TEST and EVERY TRIAL, Grace in us will be tested and forged.

"and you have forgotten the exhortation which is addressed to you as sons, “My son, do not regard lightly the discipline of the Lord, Nor faint when you are reproved by Him;" Hebrews 12:5

The Grace Awakening is to KNOW we can do all things through Christ, empowered to live and flourish through Grace, HIS LIFE, knowing we can do nothing on our own apart from God’s Grace.

"For those whom the Lord loves He disciplines, And He scourges every son whom He receives.” Hebrews 12:6

In this world, we will face all kinds of trials and tribulations. This life is the TEST. In God’s Grace, which includes His Wisdom, we are given THE CHOICE and the GRACE to make the right choice, RIGHT BELIEVING.

"It is for discipline that you endure; God deals with you as with sons; for what son is there whom his father does not discipline?" Hebrews 12:7

Grace is the only thing that transforms us. Grace leads us to repentance, to think differently about our thinking, and the power to make a new choice. God gives us the Grace to REPENT, and ONLY through HIS goodness can we find true REPENTANCE.

"But if you are without discipline, of which all have become partakers, then you are illegitimate children and not sons." Hebrews 12:8

To Repent is to rethink your thinking. To repent is to consider God’s thinking over ours. To Repent is to make THE CHOICE to follow God’s thinking, His Wisdom, and the Power to carry it out.

"Furthermore, we had earthly fathers to discipline us, and we respected them; shall we not much rather be subject to the Father of spirits, and live?" Hebrews 12:9

ALL HUMANS are given THE CHOICE and the Grace to make the right choice: BELIEVE RIGHTLY. The CHOICE is to choose to FOLLOW Jesus (by Grace), or we follow ourselves, our judgment and opinions, and determine our future.

"For they disciplined us for a short time as seemed best to them, but He disciplines us for our good, so that we may share His holiness." Hebrews 12:10

God’s Grace is the ability to choose God’s viewpoint over our own.

"All discipline for the moment seems not to be joyful, but sorrowful; yet to those who have been trained by it, afterwards it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness." Hebrews 12:11

• By Grace, we find our true identity in the Self-giving love of God, our Father.
• By Grace, we seek God and deny ourselves.
• By Grace, we love our enemies and destroy hate.
• By Grace, we choose LIFE and deny death.

"Therefore, strengthen the hands that are weak and the knees that are feeble," Hebrews 12:12

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