So Much More: Moving Beyond Kingdom Principles to Kingdom Power (29 page)

In this physical place, the new earth, there is a Holy City, a New Jerusalem, which comes down from heaven to earth. In Revelation 21 this city is described as a 1,500 mile cube (v. 16), meaning it goes upward too. John gave us the dimensions and those dimensions would cover some two million square miles. To try to put this in perspective, the size of this city would stretch from Canada to Mexico and from Colorado to Maine and it would be 780,000 stories high, and that’s just the city. This new earth will be beyond anything we can imagine.

As we wait for the “not yet” to come, let’s do all we can to live and operate in the fullness of the “now.” Many use the “not yet” promises as an excuse to ignore their assignment today. It has been used to set limitations and restrictions on the kingdom power and authority we can operate in today. It has been used to ease people’s dissatisfaction with a lack of kingdom power in their own lives. I have a huge problem with making the “not yet” an excuse to live with less than is available now. Our model of what is possible now is Jesus. He regularly ushered in the kingdom by taking authority over demons, healing the sick, giving sight to the blind, cleansing lepers, and even raising the dead. That’s our model. We should settle for nothing less. And our assignment is clear: “Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven” (Matt. 6:10). We are not to just pray that prayer but watch it happen through our lives. Don’t settle for a mediocre Christian life while you wait for what is to come in the future. There is so much more available today than most of us have dreamed or imagined as we live to fulfill our mandate to bring heaven to earth.

NOTES

C
HAPTER
1
M
Y
S
TORY

1
. Bruce H. Wilkinson, Paula A. Kirk, John W. Hoover,
The Daily Walk Bible
(Wheaton, IL: Tyndale House, 1997), 544.

2
. Ibid.

C
HAPTER
3
R
ESTORING THE
K
INGDOM

1
. Myles Munroe,
Rediscovering the Kingdom
(Shippensburg, PA: Destiny Image, 2004), 31.

2
. George Eldon Ladd,
The Presence of the Future
(Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans, 1974).

C
HAPTER
4
C
LASH OF
K
INGDOMS

1
. James Strong,
Strong’s Greek Dictionary of the Bible
(Miklal Software Solutions, 2011), Kindle Edition.

C
HAPTER
7
B
ORN
A
GAIN INTO THE
K
INGDOM

1
. Munroe, 28.

C
HAPTER
8
P
OWER
S
OURCE OF THE
K
INGDOM

1
. Jack Deere,
Surprised by the Voice of God
(Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1996), 44.

2
. Ibid.

3
. Bill Johnson,
When Heaven Invades Earth
(Shippensburg, PA: Destiny Image, 2013), 74.

C
HAPTER
9
I
DENTITY
C
RISIS

1
. Jack Frost,
Spiritual Slavery to Spiritual Sonship
(Shippensburg, PA: Destiny Image, 2006), 120–130.

C
HAPTER
10
K
INGDOM
W
ARFARE

1
. John Eldredge, “Things Are Not as They Seem,” Ransomed Heart Ministries, September 2002 Newsletter,
http://www.ransomedheart.com/sites/default/files/assets/newsletters/2002SepNewsletter.pdf
(accessed October 23, 2013).

2
. George Barna, “Most American Christians Do Not Believe that Satan or the Holy Spirit Exist,” Barna Update, April 13, 2009,
https://www.barna.org/component/content/article/36-homepage-main-promo/261-most-american-christians-do-not-believe-that-satan-or-the-holy-spirit-exist#.UmgOeXBth40
(accessed October 23, 2013).

C
HAPTER
11
K
INGDOM
A
MBASSADORS

1
. George Shultz illustration found at
http://www.sermonillustrator.org/illustrator/sermon4/god_tests_us.htm
(accessed October 26, 2013).

2
. Munroe, 102.

3
. Translations errors found at
http://termcoord.wordpress.com/2013/08/01/10-marketing-slogans-lost-in-translation/
(accessed October 26, 2013).

4
. Ted Olsen, “Rick Warren’s Inaugural Invocation,”
Christianity Today
, Politics Blog, January 20, 2009,
http://blog.christianitytoday.com/ctpolitics/2009/01/rick_warrens_in.html
(accessed October 23, 2013).

C
HAPTER
12
O
N
E
ARTH
AS
I
T
I
S IN
H
EAVEN

1
. Bill Johnson,
When Heaven Invades Earth
(Shippensburg, PA: Destiny Image, 2013), 74.

2
. Ibid., 67.

C
HAPTER
14
N
OW AND
N
OT
Y
ET

1
. John Eldredge,
Desire: The Journey We Must Take to Find the Life God Offers
(Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 2000), 111.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

T
ODD
H
UDSON AND
his wife, Tricia, together pastor Freedom Fellowship, a church plant in Highlands Ranch, Colorado that they began in 2012. They have been married for 24 years and have five children. Todd is an anointed communicator with a strong gift for teaching and preaching. He earned a Master’s degree in 1991 and has been in full-time ministry for more than 25 years, leading some exciting ministries through exponential growth. Over two years ago he left a large, comfortable ministry to pursue a new movement of God after encountering the power of the Holy Spirit in his life. Todd is passionate about seeing believers realize their full potential, operating as ambassadors of the kingdom of heaven and pulling heaven down to earth.

CONTACT THE AUTHOR

Todd Hudson
[email protected]
PO Box 631729
Highlands Ranch, CO 80163
720-663-0764