Kingdom Mandate (3 of 4)

Mike Connell

So we have to understand God is the owner; you're breathing His air, walking His ground, using His resources. He's the owner, He owns the whole lot. Now whether in your opinion that is true or not is irrelevant, because it's actually true. One day you'll have to let everything go. One day you'll return to Him and He'll ask you what you did with what He lent you, so that's a core issue the issue of ownership. And in Daniel 4:25 this king of Babylon which was the greatest king in the whole world had to get a lesson that God's in charge and He can give it to whoever He wants. So the guy got so proud God took it all off him, and then later on He gave it back to him, so he can understand that the heaven rules over the earth and God gives it to whoever He wants, see? So that's quite helpful for you to understand that, that God can give more to you than you have now - but you have to position yourself in your lifestyle for that to receive it. Okay? Alright then, so God can give, God can take it away, God can do whatever He wants. No one can restrain His hand was the lesson that the king learnt.

You read in Daniel 4:34-35 and God can do what He wants and who can tell Him you can't do that? When He flooded the earth who could say you can't flood the earth? But He did say He wouldn't flood it again, so we don't have to worry overly about global warming sinking the earth. God's actually promised He won't let the earth be flooded again. He set the boundaries on it all - so we get a biblical perspective on it. Okay, so if God has designed the earth certainly the Bible tells us His imprint will be everywhere, and so in Romans 1 it tells us in verse 20 that the unseen things of God are clearly understood by looking and observing creation. In other words everywhere in creation is the hand and mark of God's design. So you find you know the number seven appears consistently in nature; seven days for this, or multiples of seven in terms of animal reproductive cycles and so on.

So various numbers of God appear right through, so God's hand is all through creation. Principles of sowing and reaping are in creation, so everywhere you go you see God's principles in creation. But God's design is also in you, so now let's have a look at man, the design in man. Genesis 1:26; so God's now got something He's made, a physical world, and now what He needs is someone who'll be an ambassador for Him. So He looks around, got all the animals but none of the animals are suitable. Why are none of the animals suitable? Because they're not a spirit being. He needs someone if he's going to represent Him, it's got to be someone like Him - so in Genesis 1:26 let us make man in Our image and likeness. So God created man in His image and likeness. He made him a spirit being living in a body, capable of interacting with heaven in the spirit world, capable of actually functioning on the earth so you're absolutely and completely unique in that design. You're creative but you're a spiritual person. You can't become more spiritual, you're already a spirit person - just got to learn how to work with your spirit.

Once you get born again the spirit of God within you, then you start to function the way God intended you to. Creativity flows from our spirit, ideas flow from our spirit, giftings flow from within. God's thoughts come to us from within our spirit, so we're designed to operate in the spirit. So don't say living the supernatural life is hard; actually it's normal. What is abnormal is not living that way. See, what's abnormal is when you don't connect with God and you don't function like you're intended to function - that's what's abnormal. So God has created man like Him and He's put a DNA in us. He's put His own print in us. That's why no matter where you go there'll always be people trying to reach out to find God. There's something about God and how He's designed nature that's printed in every one of us. In Luke 17:21 it says the kingdom of God is within you. Now he was saying that to unsaved people. He was telling them that the way the kingdom operates is so inbuilt into you that actually you can't violate it without consequences, so we look at that say for example a simple thing, just if you look at relationships.