your kingdom on earth as in heaven

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   "...some people want the physical touch when God is actually speaking to their heart and mind about perception. I was reading Isaiah 60, verse 1, "Arise, shine. For your light has come. The glory of the Lord has risen upon you. For behold darkness will cover the earth, deep darkness the people, but his light will appear upon you. His glory will be seen upon you. Kings will come to your light and nations to the brightness of your rising."

... There's a posture of responsibility in radiating the presence and glory of God that every believer is supposed to take. And in many ways it is by choice. We stand on purpose. We rise, and we shine. But what he said is we arise and shine because his light has come. Jesus is the light that came into the world, John chapter 1, enlightened every person. There's not another light coming. So we know that by that context that this is a present day word that the people of God are to rise because the glory of God will be seen upon us. Many people wait to rise, if I can use that place of faith or place of confidence, many people wait to rise until that glory is manifested. He is saying, "You rise, and the glory will be seen. I will answer your posture with heaven's invasion. I'll put my sign of presence upon you if you'll take your right place."
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   And then he describes it as being at a time when deep darkness covers the earth. So there's contrast. There's difficulty, there's challenges. But it's in the midst of the difficulty that the people of God say, "Wait a minute, not on my shift. We're not going to cower at the face of challenges. Instead we're going to take our place." The end result of that is nations come to your light and kings to the brightness of your rising. There has to be something happening with us that would make us the group that people in the world would want to come to. It's the come of the Gospel, the contrast with the go of the Gospel. I go to a garden to pick fruit. I go a stream to drink water. In the same way, the reality of people reigning in Christ, living victoriously in life, knowing how to manage their relationships or conflicts, their finances, all these things, position us into a place where the glory of God's purposes, the beauty of his kingdom becomes visible. And that becomes the very thing that draws people into the kingdom.