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Topic: REDEFINE YOUR COUNTRY
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Vince Sucec
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Posted: 08/11/2009 at 12:53pm
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Do you define your country by might, by the sword?
Do you define your country by the majority of your population having advantage?
Do you define your country by your social services programs that reach the few?
Do you define your country by wealth?
Do you define your country by superiority?
Do you define your country by the wisdom of the few at the top?
Do you define your country by its borders?
Do you define your country by those who are "natives" and by those who are "aliens"?
Or do you define your country from within - by the Kingdom, the country that is within you?
In the Kingdom there is neither Jew nor Greek, American nor un-American, exclusively worldly country or exclusively spiritual.
There is only the world -
there is no special country in my eyes,
no privileged country,
there is only My people.
received 8/ 10 / 09
Edited by Vince Sucec on 08/11/2009 at 5:21pm
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Denise Detwiler
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Posted: 08/12/2009 at 5:55am
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ohhhhhhhh yessssssssss....Spirit brother!!!! Herein lies the door that's
open before us. Can you see the open door - and the voice (I SAW a voice)
saying "come up here!!!"
In various ways our feet (speaking generally here "us and we") have
remained planted in the world, and so we have not taken advantage of
our full citizenship, which is in heaven. Thus we are still more affected by
the darkness than we are intended to be. The changing and shifting of
the earth and the circumstances of life are not to cause "fight or flight" in
our walks. We are to bring heaven to earth for our citizenship is in
heaven.
This doesn't mean we should be in an aloof or walled off bubble. In fact
the opposite is true. The exact opposite! We are meant to walk in and
among, and even more so touching and rubbing elbows with people and
things. Our job now is to be ambassadors of the kingdom, calling
peoples, businesses, cities, regions, nations to enter IN to this same
heavenly citizenship HERE and NOW. We are here to demonstrate the life
and freedom in God's kingdom among them.
We will see with clear eyes and thus see in more reality than is possible
for those still wallowing or bound or buried under life. And raise people
(and each other) up in Him. Not bound by the "rules of the matrix" any
longer. In the world, not of the world. Yes engaged, but not bound or
shaken.
There was HUGE upheaval and change and oppression and everything
else going on at the time the church was born. They were accused of
"turning the world upside down" in that day. In fact there was yet MORE
MAJOR upheaval along with persecution and shewie...ever shifting
ground...in that first what 60 or so years, was there not? Read the
gospels and Acts again, thinking putting yourself in that place...and don't
leave out the insurrectionists and the corruption - has anyone ever
studied Rome in that era? And yet, these people, the early church while
living IN the world - engaged not watching aloofly - were not shaken and
were encouraged not to be shaken by it.
There is only one possible way to walk this. That is in KNOWING and
LIVING out true citizenship. Not just knowing in our heads, but so IN HIM,
IN THE FATHER, IN JESUS, IN THE SPIRIT that while we feel, probably feel
more than ever before (remember Jesus weeping and groaning over
people??) we are no longer shaken.
THEN we would be able to effectively engage, when we know the powers
of the age to come...no longer restricted by "the matrix" of the darkness,
we will see clearly and move with divine power and divine
purpose...heaven will be loosed around us and the others who are called
to be citizens of heaven will see Jesus being lifted and glorified and will
enter in too...
And then....then the kingdoms of the earth will become the kingdom of
our Lord and Christ.
The time is NOW to live and walk as sojourners and as citizens of
heaven...THEN we can effectively touch the realms of the earth...some
even in governmental circles - Daniels, Josephs...etc...no longer able to
be bound to earthly ways, rooted deep in God. YES!!!!!
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Vince Sucec
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Posted: 08/12/2009 at 7:31am
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Hmmmm ... yes the Kingdom within - I heard once that
God knows us intimatley, from the inside
and we can only know God from the inside of Him.
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Kathy Bippus
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Posted: 08/12/2009 at 6:08pm
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lol Glory to God, Denise preach it girl!
no longer restricted by the `matrix of darkness' having come into being fully alive in Spirit. these restrictions within our soul/thought life apart from Holy Spirit, but when He Who is Light penetrates the matrix, the womb the boundaries are removed. all that hindered, restricted previously, no longer exists and we live and move having our being in Him.
i'm not going to quote because i would need quote the whole of what you've shared here. just will say a huge yes and amen!
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