We are on a journey or an adventure together discovering how to engage the spiritual realms. Discovering those realms within us around us & the heavenly realms. On this journey we are going to follow the pathway of relationship and responsibility.
Seat of Rest Lordship. Seat of Government Kingship.
Engage the Holy Spirit as living water in the River of life .Engaged Jesus as we take His yoke upon us and are joined to Him .We engage the Father at the seat of rest and government .Matt 11:28 “Come to Me, all who are weary and heavy-laden, and I will give you rest.
Our spirit is a mountain, a place of spiritual authority .There are thrones on the mountain .A throne represents the authority to rule and the place of the government of our lives.
Depending on who is on the throne we will either: Be at rest and in authority. Or be seeking to meet our own needs in our own strength. Seat Rest – living in the eye of the storm. Jesus is our example asleep in the boat.
Peace & Joy – come from our relationship with God not circumstances. We can live with an attitude of gratitude & thanksgiving – our choice when at rest. We can live giving a sacrifice of praise – our choice when at rest. We can live treating the trials & tribulations of life joyfully and as an opportunity for growth & transformation – our choice when at rest.
When Jesus is Lord He is on the throne of our lives we are also on our throne and His throne in Him .Eph 2:6 and raised us up with Him, and seated us with Him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, His rule is rest and peace .His government brings us our authority.
Luke 17:21 For behold, the kingdom of God is in within you .The kingdom is the place where God rules and where Jesus is Lord .He is called Lord 747 times in the New Testament .Lord is His position of government from which His authority comes.
1 Cor 6:17 But the one who joins himself to the Lord is one spirit with Him. Engaging living water, the yoke Jesus and the seat of rest is about being joined to the Lord becoming one spirit .Lord is His position of governmental authority and our position in Him.
I am seated in Him seated in me. Seat of government is like being an MP in a parliamentary constituency as a member of God’s party .When He is on my seat I am being trained to rule over my governmental sphere as a part of His kingdom government.
Who is on the throne of your life? If God is on your seat of government you are you being trained to rule?
Act 2:34 ‘The Lord said to my Lord, “Sit at My right hand, 35 Until I make Your enemies a footstool for Your feet.”’ Eph 1:20 which He brought about in Christ, when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His right hand in the heavenly places,
Eph 1:21 far above all rule and authority and power and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this age but also in the one to come. 22 And He put all things in subjection under His feet, and gave Him as head over all things to the church, 23 which is His body, the fullness of Him who fills all in all.
The definition of the word lord is: one with absolute power, absolute authority. We often speak of commitment, but the real question is surrender. When you’re committed, you’re in control; when you surrender, you relinquish control.
Surrender is total submission. No man can serve two masters. Jesus is no part-time lord or king . Lordship requires absolute ownership. Are you surrendered to Jesus Christ completely and exclusively? Most of our problems stem from trying rule our own lives independently of Him.
Luke 6:46 “Why do you call Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ and do not do what I say? “No, Lord,” is a contradiction in terms. Are you afraid to surrender to that kind of obedience? Do you fear letting go of control? Do you struggle with trust issues?
Being a Christian means obedience in everything .Our homes, our work, in our relationships – our friendships and our families, in our recreation, and in our finances .We are Christians representatives of the king 24/7.
Rom 14:8 for if we live, we live for the Lord, – His kingdom governmental authority .For Jesus to be Lord of your life means that He is the ruler, the boss, the master of your whole life. He cannot be Lord of a part – We must surrender our whole life.
If Jesus is on the throne of my life everything in me is subject to that rule .Jesus is Lord of all or not Lord at all .We surrender to peace or rest. We surrender to the righteousness and justice of His kingdom .We surrender so He can exalt us to a higher place of authority.
God is Lord in control ruling over the circumstances of our lives only when we surrender by abdicating .Trust Him by seeking first His kingdom .His purpose is to train us to reign .As we mature to reign with Him being one joined to Him as a joint heir.
Seat of government is like a parliamentary seat, your constituency. A position of influence in government. Back Bencher representing your constituency. Junior cabinet position responsible for particular areas in government. Cabinet minister responsible for a department.
When God is on our seat of government He gives us access to our heavenly positions of lordship, kingship and sonship .We don’t just engage in that level of responsibility in government without training.
When God is Lord on our throne in our spirit we enter a process of training in running the family business .We first become His servants .Then we can choose to be bond servants out of desire .We can become a trusted steward.
Seat of Government is the Kingdom of God within our spirit .It is the manifestation of the fullness of the government of God within us .Seat of government is the place of your government to bring kingdom authority into and around your life.
Kingdom becomes at hand around us .You can begin to exercise the authority of the King to command everything to be subject to realm of God’s kingdom .Jesus manifested the kingdom.
Works of Jesus demonstrated His kingdom authority .The Kingdom is heavens rule .Heaven’s rule is a higher authority .Luke 10:20 But if I cast out demons by the finger of God, then the kingdom of God has come upon you.
Jesus demonstrated His authority in many ways over: Sickness, disease and death. Nature itself. Demonic realm. The vibrational frequency of matter quantum authority. Matter to transform and change matter to energy and the reverse.
Matt 6:10 ‘Your kingdom come. Your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. John 3:13 but there is One Who has come down from heaven—the Son of Man [Himself], Who is (dwells, has His home) in heaven. 1 John 3:8 .. The Son of God appeared for this purpose, to destroy the works of the devil.
Mark 16:15 And He said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to all creation. 17 These signs will accompany those who have believed: in My name they will cast out demons, they will speak with new tongues; 18 they will pick up serpents, and if they drink any deadly poison, it will not hurt them; they will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover.”
Luke 10:19 Behold, I have given you authority to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing will injure you. Matt 28:18 And Jesus came up and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth. 19 Go therefore and disciple the nations.
Dan 7:13 And behold, with the clouds of heaven One like a Son of Man was coming, And He came up to the Ancient of Days And was presented before Him. 14 “And to Him was given dominion, Glory and a kingdom, that all the peoples, nations and men of every language Might serve Him. His dominion is an everlasting dominion which will not pass away; and His kingdom is one which will not be destroyed.
Dan 7:27 Then the sovereignty, the dominion and the greatness of all the kingdoms under the whole heaven will be given to the people of the saints of the Highest One; His kingdom will be an everlasting kingdom, and all the dominions will serve and obey Him.’
Dan 2:35 But the stone that struck the statue became a great mountain and filled the whole earth. 44 In the days of those kings the God of heaven will set up a kingdom which will never be destroyed, and that kingdom will not be left for another people; it will crush and put an end to all these kingdoms, but it will itself endure forever.
Isa 2:2 Now it will come about that In the last days The mountain of the house of the Lord Will be established as the chief of the mountains, And will be raised above the hills; And all the nations will stream to it. 3 And many peoples will come and say, “Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord,
Rev 1:6 and He has made us to be a kingdom, priests to His God and Father—to Him be the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen. Rev 5:10 “You have made them to be a kingdom and priests to our God; and they will reign upon the earth.” Rev 11:15 “The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of His Christ; and He will reign forever and ever.”
Rom 5:17 … those who receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness will reign in life through the One, Jesus Christ. We are called to reign or rule in life .This has always been God’s intention.
Gen 1:28 God blessed them; and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it; and rule… Rom 8:19 For the anxious longing of the creation waits eagerly for the revealing of the sons of God. 21 that the creation itself also will be set free from its slavery to corruption into the freedom of the glory of the children of God.
Kingdom authority flows from inside out from the seat of government .John 14:10 Do you not believe that I am in the Father, and the Father is in Me? The words that I say to you I do not speak on My own initiative, but the Father abiding in Me does His works.
Matt 21:43 Therefore I say to you, the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people, producing the fruit of it. There is a major shift in government taking place this year .The kingdom is being removed from those not bearing fruit.
Lord is a position of governmental authority .We can be joined to Him in His position of authority – In us there is a Bench of 3 the Father Son and Spirit .This is a reflection of heavens government.
3 is the number of government 4 is the number of a window or portal .God is looking for agreement between heaven and earth in us: 3 +1 = 4 .Will you give Him authority as a Bench of 3 on your throne? Will you be joined in agreement as 4th
We become like the angel of the house is to the church .When we are in agreement heaven and earth are in agreement .A window opens for heaven’s kingdom to flow in and through and around us.
When He is on our throne, Heaven and the angelic realm recognizes a seat of government. The Kingdom is at hand in us, through us and around us .When we live from the seat of rest; the world will see a manifestation of God’s kingdom around.
Close your eyes .Begin to think about that door .Activate your imagination as the doorway to encounter .Picture the door reach out and open the door .Welcome His presence in your spirit.
Picture the throne the seat of rest and government .Jesus I choose to step off the throne of my life .Jesus I invite you to be Lord of my life .I ask you to take your place on the seat of government in my spirit.
I surrender the government of my life to you .I give you total control of my life as Lord .Picture Jesus on the throne .Now step into Him on the throne .Now see yourself seated on His right hand in training to reign.