If you are struggling with addictions, drugs, alcohol, gambling or any bad habits -- Remember the Cross.  It has the power to save, heal and deliver.  Save you from sin, deliver you from any bad habits and rescue you from the power of the enemy.  Just call on Jesus' name in prayer and ask him to help you overcome.

The Kingdom Principle of Thanksgiving

taken from author and teacher, Myles Munroe

Native Americans protest Thanksgiving.  Why?  Because they were moved from their land and placed in reservations. They were wiped out because they were the first to occupy land in this country and others wanted what they had.  Africans also were displaced from their homeland and brought over to the United States to work as slaves.  The first name of the slaves were the only thing they owned.  Their last name was given to them by their slave owners.

So, from this perspective, Thanksgiving, as it is celebrated, is quite inappropriate for Native Americans and Africans.  But what we can all be thankful for is God and his continual provision in our lives.

Matthew 4:17 "From that time Jesus began to preach, and to say, Repent: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand."

The Kingdom of God is different from a religion.  Adam lost the kingdom but Christ has come to give it back.

Matthew 16:19 "And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven."

There are keys or principles and laws for the governmental system of God.  The first key, as in all true kingdoms, the territory is the personal property of the king.  In other words, the country is the property of the king.  Ownership of land is the foundation for kingship.  Before the industrial revolution there was an agricultural society.  Everyone lived off the land.  Whoever owned land was wealthy.  You became a ruler of the land.

Ruler translated in English means "king."  The first king became king because of land.  The more land the greater the king.  All wars were land wars.  You became king by owning land.  The people on the land are there because of the pleasure of the owner.  Owner means land.  Thus you have the words, landowner or landlord.

Everything in the kingdom is the personal property of the king or the landowner.  Anything on the land was the property of the lord.  Lordship is the authority of the king.  You can't rule nothing.  Everything in the kingdom is for the pleasure of the king such as water, air, anything born, animals, etc.  The landowner has sovereignty or the right to do anything with his property.

In a kingdom, the king owns the people.  That's why Soloman had many wives.  What he wanted, he took because he owned the people.  That's why God can take your supervisor that's harrassing you in your department and put you in her place.  So stop worrying about your job--God sees everything!

"The earth is the Lord's, and the fullness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.  For he hath founded it upon the seas, and established it upon the floods.  Who shall ascend into the hill of the Lord?  Or who shall stand in his holy place?"  Psalm 24:1-3

In a kingdom, you don't have to pray for the food--you give thanks.  The Father gave Jesus the kingdom.  That's why when Jesus took the bread and the fish, he lifted it up and gave thanks.  You don't pray for things in the kingdom--it's already yours.  If you're in the kingdom, everyday should be thanksgiving. 

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