Am I a Pauper or a Prince? I guess you could say that I entered this life longing and expected to become a prince, but my life started out with pauperhood. I guess you can say that I broke the laws of royalty,(usually only family are to fulfill the royal positions) which you and I know only the Kingdom of God can offer a gift so amazing!
I had the spirit of poverty constantly and barely any hope for happiness in my future.
But the thing about how God works is that, He isn’t out there to raise us up in a spirit of poverty, actually that is the total opposite. Let’s read in Matthew 7:7-8, "Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you, for everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened.”
Now in my case when I was a child I couldn't help what my parents chose to do. How they lived their life obviously affected mine. But when we are at a place in our lives where we can make our own choices, God says that we can have anything, we just have to ask. This opens a whole new door to what relationship we have with our God! Our resource has no limits because it is from Heaven, we need to pray it down!
So how does this affect our lifestyle?
In Moses’ life we see that he was born into a family that was not royalty, but with a destiny that God had made out for Moses, it became possible for him to be raised as royalty. God needed Moses to be raised in royalty so Moses could understand his significance. When the time came for him to free the Israelites, he had overall showed confidence and power that a prince would have in God’s kingdom!
This is what I feel in my life! My lifestyle should consist of confidence and power because I am a prince. Things shouldn’t seem impossible if I constantly remember that I am a prince. I feel that my life in a lot of ways relates with Moses. My birth story.
And the good news that you and I can always encourage ourselves and one another is, is that we have defeated the slave mentality. Now because of our victory, the next generations and our children, get what we have and hopefully even more! The Inheritance flows.
But what I feel that is most crucial in all of this is that we always, ALWAYS need to remember our true identity! We are princes and princesses. Our Father is a King and He has an inheritance. In 1 Corinthians 3:21 it says, “So then let no one boast in men for all things belong to you.” When you are apart of a Kingdom that is over all other kingdoms, everything underneath, above, and around you are owned, possessed by the head Kingdom. To me this is overwhelming that I am an authority over this land, nothing else can claim it because a price was paid and I am a prince.
Another way that I look at our inheritance is that in John 14:12 it says, “Truly, truly, I say to you, he who believes in Me, the works that I do, he will do also; and greater works than these he will do; because I go to the Father. When we read this we see that Jesus has a resource of how He accomplished things, so if we are to do greater things than Jesus, we need to go to that same resource and start asking our King for it to develop a Kingdom culture.
In developing a Kingdom culture I have noticed that a huge part in this is changing how our mind works and changing how our heart works. Our mind. In Romans it says that we are transformed by the renewing of our mind. When we pray for someone for healing, finances, relationships, and etc… What do we think about? Are we confident in seeing results? Do we believe in ourselves, or better yet, do we believe that our King wants to see this person blessed? One of my biggest revelations within these first 7 chapters is a great characteristic of royalty is that royalty knows that when they want something, they can get anything! There is no ifs, ands, or buts because in their hearts they want to please the King and represent the King and who He is. Their love for what they are doing and what they are capable of doing is so great!
Through renewing our hearts and minds we start living as royalty.
Conclusion
We cannot let the level of our disappointments become our level of expectations. God is way too good for us to settle for what we think we know. We have so many benefits from God when we press on to creating a Kingdom Culture.
This verse is what I like to call, “The Royal Lifestyle Promise”
Psalm 103:1-5
1Bless the LORD, O my soul,
And all that is within me, bless His holy name.
2Bless the LORD, O my soul,
And forget none of His benefits;
3Who pardons all your iniquities,
Who heals all your diseases;
4Who redeems your life from the pit,
Who crowns you with loving-kindness and compassion;
5Who satisfies your years with good things,
So that your youth is renewed like the eagle.
What I see that we get by being royalty in this Kingdom:
Authority, Power, Resource, Healing, No spirit of Poverty, True Worship, Divine encounters, inheritances, forgiveness, redemption, compassion, youthful hearts, grace, renewed minds,
There is only one Kingdom that can offer such divine, original, unique, and indescribable benefits, and that is the Kingdom of God. I believe that I am a Prince and I am no longer a pauper!
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