God is at work in your life? Really?
How can you know?
Here are some keys which will enable you to identify the markers which are the clear signs that God is truly at work in your life. This will give you the opportunity to rightly respond (heart and spirit: joy, trust and engagement), the opportunity to align (mind: peaceful and firm decisions) and the opportunity to act (practical adjustments: repent, reorder, reprioritize):
1. A tangible awakening inside you (maybe just a beginning of such)
2. An unexpected deeper sense of responsibility and therefore fresh thoughts about direction, meaning, values and future
3. Renewed courage, determination, decisiveness and diligence
4. A deep longing for order, coherence and wholesomeness, harmony and completeness
5. An unprecedented understanding of the importance of regularity, consistency and resilience
6. A solid expectation for maturity, longevity and durability
7. A desire to identify and purposefully connect with people of the same spiritual 'tribe'
8. A deep search for spiritual fatherhood for the sake of Kingdom-legacy
9. A cry for descendants to whom legacy can be entrusted
10. An understanding of sacrificial pain
11. An awareness of hostile presence and schemes
12. The emerging mindset of a researcher because of the attraction of a revelational knowledge, that leads to spiritual intelligence rooted and sustained by God
Philip DuPont (May 2021)
The powerful basic features of the Kingdom of God
The Kingdom of God is...
... UNSTOPPABLE because of the power and authenticity of its outset:
The centrality of the Son of God
The intentional and ongoing focus on God’s leadership and instruction
The necessary presence and availability of strategic persons
... UNSHAKEABLE because of its roots in undiluted truth:
The centrality of the work of the Spirit of understanding
The need for consolidation and establishment
The necessity of progressive revelation
... UNBREAKABLE because of the strength and synergy of its relational order:
The centrality of the assignment
The need for honourable and clean hearts
The necessity of aligned generations
... UNQUENCHABLE because of the intensity of its fire-tested leadership :
The centrality of secure identity which created a safe environment
The need for training to form and reform
The necessity of accurate models
... INDIVERTIBLE because of the determination of its well-educated minds:
The centrality of the spirit of prophecy
The need for wisdom and insight in the issues of the Kingdom
The necessity of progressive revelational and understanding
... SUSTAINABLE because of the stature of its church and the resilience of its network:
The central government of Christ, the Son of God, the Head of the Church and the chief cornerstone of its foundation
The need for members and togetherness
The necessity of the Cross.
Philip DuPont (May 2021)
The books of the Old Testament are indispensable reading for the accurate Kingdom walker and forceful representation
Reading and searching the Scriptures will become increasingly important and decisive for the life and the journey of the believer and the role of God's House.
Especially the books of the Old Testament because:
1. God speaks openly and is literally quoted, which is not the case in the books of the New Testament at the exception of the books of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. Paul couldn't even mention what he had heard in the heavenly places. (Read: Jer 29 and Dan 9, Luke 15, Matt 28, Ex 19, John 3:16)
2. God can be accurately observed as and when He works together with Man according to His Kingdom and its constitution, dynamics, patterns, objectives and values.
3. God speaks regularly and consistently with His co-actors, for example: Moses in Ps 103:7, Elijah in 1 Kings 17, Adam in Gen 2:8, 2:15-20 and 3:8
4. Jesus the Son of God quoted the words recorded in the Old Testament in Luke 24
5. The first generation of believers understood and quoted the Scriptures, Stephen in Acts 17
6. Paul drew our attention to the narratives contained in these records (Read 1 Cor 10: 6, 10:11, Hebrews 5:11, 1 Peter 1:10-12 & Acts 26:22-23)
7. David did the same in his generation in several of his psalms
8. The Old Testament played a central role in the lives, the assignments of the forerunners, influencing them in a significant manner. (Read: Acts 7 and Acts 13:6, 13:26 & 13:32-37)
Philip DuPont (May 2021)
