Change your mind. God’s kingdom is here!

The title of this post is Matthew 3:2 from the MESSAGE translation… I don’t read this translation often, but sometimes it just hits home with the way I like to speak.

In Matthew 3 and also 4, when Jesus spoke about the arrival of THE KINGDOM he also said Repent, Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life…

I tell a longer version of this story when I travel, but when I was in Branson, MO last year leading worship I had a vision of people jumping over a brain into a very large brain… When I asked the Lord what he was showing me with this picture, he said the smaller mind represents our minds and the large mind in the MIND OF CHRIST. Often we need to HURDLE OUR OWN MINDS in order to jump into the mind of Christ.

If we really want to live according to the Kingdom of God, we have to change the way we think and the way we view life. Jesus told the Pharisees to “produce fruit that PROVES your repentance.” Jesus challenged them to produce fruit from their lives that would show that they really meant what they were saying.

One thing I want to TRY to do in this study is to tie my calling as a Minstrel into this study. As a Prophetic Minstrel, one of the things I am called to do is sing songs of the Kingdom. BUT WHY? The reason is so that we can come into an atmosphere that is proclaiming the reality of the Kingdom of God so that our minds can be renewed with Correct Thinking! We are constantly in a battle with our own thoughts based on what we are hearing, so it’s important to get into places where we can hear what the spirit of the Lord is saying.

I want to get to the place where I don’t run to THE WORD (CHRIST) to hear what he says in order that HIS WORD can CONTRAST THE BAD NEWS I HAVE BEEN DEALING WITH. I want to stay IN THE WORD so that when the negative contrary word come my way, I am already positioned with the truth and therefore it will have a lot less of a negative effect upon my thoughts… I say a lot less because nobody is perfect and we will all deal with some levels of negativity at times. I think it’s time to live life a little more offensively in the spirit.

The Kingdom is HERE, we just need to tune in to what the Lord is Saying… and stand on it in this life…

Talk to you soon… Jason

The Gospel of THE KINGDOM… NOT JUST SALVATION

Matthew 4:23… “Jesus went throughout Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the good news of the KINGDOM“

Jesus could not have talked about the Gospel of Salvation because obviously he had not yet even died and rose again… So what was the GOOD NEWS he preached…?

The Gospel – Glad Tidings – Good News… It’s not JUST SALVATION. It’s the entirety of the kingdom of God and people are stopping WAY short if they are limiting the Gospel to Salvation alone…

The Gospel is not get saved and try to make it through until Jesus comes…

Jesus did come, yes he will come again, but he came, he is and he will be…

So focus on IS and live in the Kingdom #1 Relationship and #2 Benefits NOW

And that is what I am called to do, to go forth and proclaim the Good New of the Kingdom… The Reality of Vibrant Relationship with Christ and the BENEFITS of living with Christ In Kingdom Partnership…

I will continue to post more as I go through the NT…

Starting A Kingdom Study

In some of my previous posts, I have shared about the Minstrels and The Bards of Old… These people were sent out as messengers either for a Kingdom or Community. As a messenger for the Kingdom of God, I feel the Lord directing me to go through the entire New Testament to study the usages of the word Kingdom(s)

I am not doing this so I can write a book on it or preach on it, I want to do it so I can live more fully in the reality of the Kingdom of God…

As a messenger I need to be releasing a message from a place of experience not just knowledge… I want to experience the Kingdom of God, the kingdom that transcends all of the kingdoms of this earth… I want to speak of the Kingdom of God as a reality and not just a theology… I want to live it and see it work IN me and FOR me… And I want to share it with others and help them be released into Kingdom Reality as well…. So I am going to be sharing my study here on the blog as I go through… no time limits, could be months and probably will be…

It’s one thing to, as a Minstrel, create musical atmosphere… But it’s another to do that for the purpose of people entering into the spirit and into the reality of the Kingdom of God. This is where I want to take people into during my ministry meetings, writings, music etc…

So join me as I continue the journey… Jason