Kingdom Law (pt. 2)

And a certain woman, which had an issue of blood twelve years, and had suffered many things of many physicians, and had spent all that she had, and was nothing bettered, but rather grew worse, When she had heard of Jesus, came in the press behind, and touched his garment. For she said, If I may touch but his clothes, I shall be whole. And straightway the fountain of her blood was dried up; and she felt in her body that she was healed of that plague…


As I consider this woman who suffered with the issue of blood, I’m struck by several things:

--She heard of Jesus. Word about Him had spread throughout Jerusalem and the surrounding areas. She had, undoubtedly, heard of His teachings and miracles and believed what she heard enough to seek Him out for her healing. This is the first principle of faith, that it comes by “hearing” the word of God.

--She said what she wanted, not what was wrong with her. By declaring in faith that she would be made whole by touching Jesus’ garment, she was implementing the Kingdom law that commands us to “speak” to the problem.

--She touched His garment. She didn’t merely say it, she did it. Had she not, her healing would not have manifested for “faith without works is dead”.

And Jesus, immediately knowing in himself that virtue had gone out of him, turned him about in the press, and said, Who touched my clothes? And his disciples said unto him, Thou seest the multitude thronging thee, and sayest thou, Who touched me? And he looked round about to see her that had done this thing. But the woman fearing and trembling, knowing what was done in her, came and fell down before him, and told him all the truth. And he said unto her, Daughter, thy faith hath made thee whole; go in peace, and be whole of thy plague.
(Mar 5:25-34)

This is an amazing and often overlooked point. Jesus did not know who touched Him, therefore, He did not grant her healing based on His approval of her, her sincerity in wanting to be healed, her fasting and praying, or any other condition about which He was unaware. Her healing came directly as a result of her adherence to Kingdom Law. When she believed the word she heard, spoke aloud what she expected to happen, and acted in faith, she brought into alignment the conditions required by God for His power to flow, and it did.

In the natural, when all the conditions are right, electricity flows. If any of the laws governing this flow are violated, electricity simply will not flow. Pleading with the power company won’t accomplish a thing if the toaster’s not plugged in.

The same is true in God’s Kingdom. I can plead with God to the point of tears, fast, increase my giving, all in an attempt to “move the heart of God”, or I can simply follow directions, plug in, and watch His power and promises flow through my life and ministry to the Glory of His Name.

Kingdom Law

My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips.
(Psa 89:34)

God has established His word as an unmovable, unshakable law. Whatever He has said is irrevocable, regardless of when or where He said it.

For I am the LORD, I change not...
(Mal 3:6)

Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever.
(Heb 13:8)

This should be a source of great comfort to me for it establishes, without controversy, the parameters for flowing in the power and promise of God’s earthly Kingdom. But as I examine these laws, I find myself in violation of some. And just as the natural laws that govern the flow of electricity cannot be violated without consequence, the Spiritual laws that govern the Kingdom must also be in alignment to avoid short circuiting the flow of God’s Presence into my life.

Without faith it is impossible to please God… (Heb 11:6)

Faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word (rhema) of God.
(Rom 10:17)

…whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith.
(Mar 11:23)

Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone.
(Jas 2:17)

I’ve heard and continue to hear rhema from God. It has produced in me a true faith which I do my best to live by. But the law that says to “speak to the mountain” or speak directly to my circumstance (health, finances, relationships etc.) has been repeatedly violated by me, as has the mandate from James to add “works” or action to my faith. The Lord is revealing to me how this failure to complete the “circuit” is blocking access to the flow of His Spirit and promises into my life.

I can’t simply pick and choose which of God’s laws I will obey. There are serious consequences for approaching a Holy God in such an unholy way. I must understand and practice the whole law if I want to see the whole Kingdom unfold in and through my life.

This is not legalism. This is the way things work in the Kingdom of Heaven. If I call myself a citizen of this Kingdom, then I’d be wise to understand and honor all of its laws and protocols, both for my safety, as obedience to these laws denies satan access to me, and for my effectiveness as a witness of Christ and His eternal Kingdom.

Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful. But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night. And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.
(Psa 1:1-3)

Noah, The Dove, and the Olive Leaf

Then he (Noah) sent out a dove to see whether the water on the earth's surface had gone down, but the dove found no resting place for her foot. She returned to him in the ark because water covered the surface of the whole earth. He reached out and brought her into the ark to himself.
(Gen 8:8-9)

The dove, here, is symbolic of the Holy Spirit in the Old Testament. Noah is a type of the Father who sent His Spirit into the O.T. world searching for a place to land, a place where the waters of unbelief had receded. Finding no such place, the dove (Spirit) returned again to Noah (the Father).

So Noah waited seven more days and sent out the dove from the ark again. When the dove came to him at evening, there was a plucked olive leaf in her beak. So Noah knew that the water on the earth's surface had gone down.
(Gen 8:10-11)

This speaks of the Holy Spirit in the New Testament. The olive leaf represents dry land, a place where the waters (unbelief) have receded enough for the dove to land.

After Jesus was baptized, He went up immediately from the water. The heavens suddenly opened for Him, and He saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and coming down on Him…
(Mat 3:16-17)

In this beautiful verse we see the conclusion of Genesis 8 as the dove (Holy Spirit) finally finds rest for her foot in a place where the waters of unbelief have taken no ground, the faithful heart of Jesus.

For the eyes of the LORD range throughout the whole earth (like a dove) to show Himself strong in those whose hearts are completely His...
(2Ch 16:9)

When I operate in unbelief the fruit is self evident; disobedience, fear of man, fear of insignificance, discord with others, pride, personal agendas, bitterness, unforgiveness, deceitfulness, all of which keeps the dove flying right over me in search of higher ground.

But when I operate in true, undiluted faith, giving no place to unbelief and its smothering waters, the dove will not only land in my heart and life, it will remain there.

Revelation 1:3

Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy…

Anyone can read the book of revelation, but not everyone can “hear” it.

“He that hath an ear let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches”

Like the Lord, Himself, the revelation of Jesus Christ has both a temporal (body) and an eternal (Spirit) aspect. Reading the word may give us the temporal surface of its meaning, but only “hearing” the Word (rhema) makes possible the true spiritual understanding hidden between the lines.

Too many of us have been content to work with the surface word, twisting it this way and that to make it say something credible, then building an entire eschatology upon that straw foundation. God has always intended that He should be the lone source of understanding for this book and, indeed, all of the bible. When we come to Him with this heart attitude, He is faithful to be our teacher, encouraging us to “hear what the Spirit is saying to the churches”.

For only when we hear, can we…

…keep those things which are written therein: for the time is at hand.
(Rev 1:3)

Revelation 1:1

The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave Him, to show unto His servants, things which must shortly come to pass…

What, exactly, is the “revelation” God gave to Christ “to show unto His servants”? The word translated here as “shortly” actually means “briefly”, “right away” or “at hand”. Therefore, we can immediately reject the popular belief that the book of revelation was given as a warning of coming natural or supernatural calamities, the rapture of the church, or some future millennial kingdom, since none of these has occurred, at the apocalyptic level, in nearly 2000 years. And no matter how you slice it, 2000 years is not “shortly”. Therefore, whatever the “revelation” is, we can be certain it has already been with us a very long time.

The Greek word “apokalupsis” translated into English becomes “revelation”, which actually means to “uncover that which was hidden”. Put another way, it means to shine light on a mystery. In a sense, God is saying that what was previously unknowable can now be known. This is why God entrusts the “revelation” to none but Christ alone, so His servants may receive it from Him directly, without the clutter and distortion of human interpretation.

…to show unto His servants…

If we examine the phrase “His servants” we find there are only two possible candidates for this title. Either it speaks of all the servants of God throughout New Testament history, or it refers only to the disciples who followed Him during His 3 ½ years of earthly ministry. For the reasons already mentioned, I don’t believe “His servants” refers to believers throughout church history. Jesus was given the revelation to show “His servants things which must shortly come to pass”, meaning things that have not yet come to pass but will very soon. If this was referring to you and me, the word “shortly” would be totally out of context.

That leaves us with one option: “His servants” speaks of those disciples still alive during the earthly ministry of Christ. This is the best interpretation of the phrase since only the disciples would be able to receive any revelation that must “shortly” come to pass. Therefore, the revelation God gave to Christ was to be given to His disciples during the 3 ½ year period Christ walked on the earth.

So, what was this revelation of Jesus Christ to His disciples?

And the disciples came, and said unto him, Why speakest thou unto them in parables? He answered and said unto them, Because it is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given.
(Mat 13:10-11)

Jesus came with a revelation from the Father for His chosen disciples. He called this revelation the “mysteries of the Kingdom” and He declared it to be for “His servants” only.

For verily I say unto you, That many prophets and righteous men have desired to see those things which ye see, and have not seen them; and to hear those things which ye hear, and have not heard them.
(Mat 13:17)

The Kingdom was both the Lord’s message and His mandate. He declared that the end of the world would not come until the good news about the Kingdom was heard in every country. He established, through countless parables, all the characteristics of the Kingdom, how it would both look and function on the earth. He revealed its gates (salvation by grace through faith) and its source of power (the Word and the Spirit of God).

This was the true revelation of Jesus Christ to His servants the disciples. A revelation of a long promised Kingdom that would begin mere days after Christ’s ascension back to the Father (“shortly”), when the Holy Spirit of God would come down to make His home with the bride of Christ, on the day of Pentecost.

Therefore, the KINGDOM is the revelation of Jesus Christ. It was given 2000 years ago, yet is still a mystery to much of the world, including many in the church today. It is the commandment of all who can “hear what the Spirit is saying to the churches” to understand and make known this gospel of the Kingdom to the ends of the earth.

… and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John:
(Rev 1:1)

The key word here is “signified”. It’s the Greek word “semaino” which means “to mark or indicate symbolically”. An angel was sent to John to “signify” the revelation of Christ, or, to put it another way, to symbolize the revelation of the Kingdom. But why symbolize it? Why not simply lay it out plainly so people could understand it?

To understand the answer, we need to first understand the revelation itself…

Two Dimensional Prayer Authority

Lately I’ve been hearing from the Lord about praying in 2 dimensions. He showed me that nothing 1 dimensional can be seen, let alone acted upon effectively. Even the tiniest pencil dot on a piece of paper exists in two dimensions when viewed through a magnifying lens.

The 2 dimensions the Lord is referring to are the temporal and the spiritual. God has granted every child of Adam a degree of temporal authority. He did this the moment He decreed that Adam would have “dominion” over all the physical earth. Spiritual authority, however, has always remained with God Himself.

For God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth. (Joh 4:24)

When God became a man in Christ, He reclaimed two dimensional authority for Himself.

Then Jesus came near and said to them, "All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth. (Mat 28:18)


Now, because His Holy Spirit (spiritual authority) lives in me, a child of Adam (temporal authority), I also possess this 2 dimensional authority.

But possessing is not the same as manifesting. If my prayers evidence my grasp of temporal authority in that I “speak to the mountain” but display ignorance of my spiritual authority to know and understand “why” the mountain is present in the first place, I may well be moving one mountain, only to have a bigger one take it’s place.

Likewise, if I understand the spiritual “why” of my circumstance, but fail to exercise my temporal authority to proclaim Christ’s victory over it, I have left the temporal dimension of my authority unused, resulting in half the results I should be seeing and bearing witness to.

God is all about balance. Therefore, He often, if not always, presents things in twos – Israel and the Church, grace and truth, king and priest, Word and Spirit, Adam and Christ etc. It shouldn’t be surprising, then, that satan’s preoccupation in my life is getting me to tip the scales to one side or the other. If he can get my prayer life out of balance, he knows my 1 dimensional prayers will remain largely ineffective as a weapon against his agenda for me.

However, if I’m able to achieve and maintain this Godly balance of Kingdom authority in my prayers and pursuits, the scripture teaches…

The LORD your God goes with you to fight for you against your enemies to give you victory.' (Deu 20:4)


In both dimensions.

The Fruit of My Lips

No man can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison. With it we bless our Lord and Father, and with it we curse men who are made in God's likeness.

God spoke all of creation into existence. I am His offspring and, the scripture teaches, I have the same creative or destructive power in my words.

Every word begins as a thought. The thought produces the word and the word produces the authority either for blessing or cursing. Angels, both good and evil, act on the authority of these words. The commandment given to all angels, both good and evil, is the same -- maximize the effectiveness, reach, and impact of the word spoken.

If the word spoken in authority is a blessing, the angels of Heaven are immediately empowered by this word to maximize the impact of the blessing. This may include preparing the soil of the heart of the person being blessed so they may receive the seed blessing and produce much fruit. This can take time if the soil is fallow ground, which is why the scriptures instruct us to “wait on the Lord”. It is not the Lord we are waiting on, but ourselves to become fertile ground for the blessing.

However, the same is true when the word spoken is a curse. The demons of hell are immediately empowered by this word to maximize the impact of the curse. Sometimes this will happen immediately with some tragic event, often it is just the first toe-hold for the enemy to begin the process of maximizing the destructive impact of the curse both on the one cursed as well as others who will ultimately be caught in its expanding web of influence.

I’m reminded of the example of a church in the mid-west. The congregation had long struggled with the concept that Christ’s work of healing is a finished work, that all they had to do was receive it. They were just beginning to accept the idea and healings were taking place at every service. Then one of their own, a 17 year old boy, was in an accident on his motorbike. The entire congregation prayed over him and believed for his recovery. The boy, nevertheless, died.

This tragedy severely shook the faith of the church. The pastor was inundated with questions as to how such a thing could happen if it were really true that Christ’s work of healing was for everyone who believed. The pastor had no good answer for them. He decided to go and comfort the family as best he could. While speaking with the boy’s mother he learned that she and her son had a fight before he left. She was very angry at him and, as he was walking out the door, she said “Don’t ever come back here. I never want to see your face again”. When the pastor heard this, he asked if she had repented of saying this. She had not.

As painful as this example is, I believe it drives home the point. Satan will stand on the word spoken in authority, and he has the law on his side in doing so.

Likewise, all of Heaven will stand behind the word spoken, when that word is in agreement with the word of God and His Spirit.

From the fruit of his mouth a man's stomach is filled; he is sustained with the product of his lips. (Pro 18:20)

Life and death are in the power of the tongue, and those who desire it will eat its fruit. (Pro 18:21)

Out of the same mouth come blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things should not be this way. (Jas 3:8-10)