Kingdom Lifestyle - Part Two

Have you spent some time studying the life of Jesus since the last blog post? I hope so 🙂

Jesus IS the GREATEST example known to mankind. His lifestyle of love, compassion, truth- filled with signs & wonders- is how WE are called to live. Actually, we’re called to do “even greater” according to John 14:12-14: “Very truly I tell you, whoever believesin me will do the works I have been doing,  and they will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father. 13 And I will do whatever you askin my name, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son. 14 You may ask me for anything in my name, and I will do it.”

That just seems plain crazy to my natural mind, but extremely exhilarating to my spirit man! 🙂

We left off Part One with the question: How do we live in a place of ABIDING, with God,  like Jesus did while He walked the earth?

Personally, I believe this is a simple paradigm shift that takes our complete surrender & radical obedience (which is the harder part hahaha).  Jesus said that He willingly came to LAY DOWN HIS LIFE FOR US {John 10:18}. Willingly. This is the key: surrender to a greater purpose; Gods purposes for our lives.

But that’s rather vague isn’t it? I think this is where Romans 12:2 comes into play when it comes to consistent abiding: “Do not conform any longer to the pattern of THIS world, rather be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test & approve what Gods will is- His good, pleasing & perfect will.”

We need to live a lifestyle of transformation through the renewing  of our minds- with the Word of God. This is not a simple, one time fix. This is a LIFESTYLE, a moment by moment deal. Living in a CONSTANT CONSCIOUSNESS of His presence, His goodness & the Kingdom of Heaven.

Too often we get sidetracked with life. We all do. But we need to come back to the basics, back to our first love. Back to a place of complete surrender & radical obedience to Him & His purposes.

How do we transform our minds? Through the reading of the Word, memorizing His Word (especially for specific areas of our lives), constantly worshiping Him through our everyday lives. Be careful what you’re feeding your minds through music, magazines, movies, conversations. What we feed ourselves we conform to- hence why Romans 12:2 says “do not conform any longer to the pattern of THIS world…” It takes effort, discipline, AWARENESS.

In order to live a lifestyle of kingdom- releasing His love, HOPE & solutions to the world around us– we MUST live in constant consciousness of His incredible presence. Not in a spooky, weird way, but in a “hey, His kingdom is a greater reality than this world” kind of way.

Watch how your life & the world around you is transformed once you begin this kind of laid down, surrendered lifestyle. Greater things will begin happening in & through your life and living a Kingdom lifestyle will become naturally supernatural.

What verses are you going to memorize this week? How can you begin living a lifestyle of consistent Kingdom consciousness and awareness of His presence? What does that look like for you?

We’d love to hear.

Stay tuned for Part Three!

God bless!