Kingdom Nation

Chapter 10
Kingdom Nation

We have all started things we never finish. I am known to do that quite often. As a visionary what I see is not always clear, for I only know in part, and sometimes I just miss it, and I start something and make promises that I don't always keep. It can be real frustrating to the people around me especially my wife. What happens is people lose interest in what I am feeling led to do so there is a lack of support. Thank God wisdom usually comes with age and broken promises are becoming less and less frequent in my life.

God promises in His word that He is faithful to complete everything He has started. The difficulty for us is God is multi-generational, many of His promises will never fully come to pass in our lifetime. Can we be obedient to something that we may never fully enjoy. Can we go in a direction and yet never reach the destination. All of us have experienced trying to accomplish something and not being able to complete it, having to just give up and how frustrating that can be. We love to achieve things. We love to be rewarded for our hard work. There is such a joy when we finally finish something that was so difficult. In Christ though it is no longer about us, it is about Him, His purposes, His timing and His ways. We will be rewarded for our obedience, what we set out to do will be achieved but again much of it not in our lifetime. The key to true success in this lifetime is an eternal perspective, a kingdom mindset.

Hebrews 11:11 It was by faith that even Sarah was able to have a child, though she was barren and was too old. She believed that God would keep his promise. 12 And so a whole nation came from this one man who was as good as dead—a nation with so many people that, like the stars in the sky and the sand on the seashore, there is no way to count them. 13 All these people died still believing what God had promised them. They did not receive what was promised, but they saw it all from a distance and welcomed it. They agreed that they were foreigners and nomads here on earth. 14 Obviously people who say such things are looking forward to a country they can call their own. 15 If they had longed for the country they came from, they could have gone back. 16 But they were looking for a better place, a heavenly homeland. That is why God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he has prepared a city for them. 17 It was by faith that Abraham offered Isaac as a sacrifice when God was testing him. Abraham, who had received God’s promises, was ready to sacrifice his only son, Isaac, 18 even though God had told him, “Isaac is the son through whom your descendants will be counted.” 19 Abraham reasoned that if Isaac died, God was able to bring him back to life again. And in a sense, Abraham did receive his son back from the dead.


Abraham advanced towards the fulfillment of God's promises through tests. As each test was passed he moved closer to the goal. Each test that fails we must take over again causing delay. Satan's plan is to delay God's promises, to keep back the day of final judgment. We must understand that as we advance to greater levels we will face greater devils. Satan will increase his attacks as we increase in spiritual growth. We should not run though from the tests or try to find a way to cheat the tests, like I would try to do in school especially with Algebra. We must make up our mind that we want to advance as far as possible in Christ in our lifetime leaving a great legacy for the generations to come.

Each level brings harder tests. When we are victorious it becomes natural to want to hold on to the moment to idolize the achievement and stunt our growth. God wants nothing to come ahead of Him, He wants all the glory, and everything we gain in Him, He wants it used for His glory. Abraham had passed many difficult tests before the promise of Isaac was miraculously birthed forth. It would have been easy for Abraham to divert all his attention now from God to Isaac. So Abraham had to be tested would he sacrifice his dream, would he surrender his most prized promise. Abraham passed the test and therefore passed on great inheritance to Issac who continued the path of prophetic fulfillment to Jacob later called Israel who established the promised nation. We are now His chosen ambassadors on earth to establish His reign as it is in Heaven. That the kingdoms of this world would become the Kingdom of our God. Each test we pass brings us closer in the progression of the fulfillment of this promise.

Challenge: Let's examine the difficulties we are currently facing and ask ourselves is this a repeat of a failed test, if so, let's repent for our disobedience and delaying God's will from being done. Let's make up our mind to learn from our difficulties and use them as stepping stones to advance to the next level in Christ.