Who Is Really In Charge?

 The natural is a reflection of the spiritual. If you have repented of your sin an believe in Jesus as the Son of God and that God raised him from the dead on the third day, then you  have been reborn and are a new Creation! When we were enemies of God, we were citizens in the kingdom of darkness. Slaves. As a result we received what was rightfully ours: poverty, sickness, curses, etc...Because we are alive in Christ, we're no longer poor. We are rich in the spirit. All things are ours. (1 Corinthians 3:21) We only have to believe. Because God is our Father and we're in fellowship with him, we have everything we need. Do you believe that?! 

 Poverty, lack, sickness, curses, etc...are apart of the old man and the old life. Those are not characteristics of the new man and the new life in Christ. Although the earth belongs to God, the system it runs on is where Satan rules. When Adam sinned, the system he was operating under changed because man's "ruler" changed. We're either governed by God or Satan. There is no in-between. We cannot be born again and still operate in the world system; the world's way of doing things. When we do, we are giving Satan permission to mess in our stuff. (Matthew 6:24) The old man is ruled by Satan. The new man is ruled by God. Satan has no jurisdiction over the new man. The new man operates under the system of heaven. The kingdom of heaven which is superior o the kingdom of darkness because the writer is God! Everything about the kingdom of heaven's system is superior to Satan's Kingdom. (John 14:30) Satan had no power over Jesus because Jesus was in the world, but not of it. There are two words used when talking about the earth vs the world system in the bible. English translation sometimes doesn't give the distinction. These two words are Greek. They are Kosmos and Ge. Kosmos is something ordered or an ordered system whereas Ge means the earth, land, soil, ground, the physical aspect of earth. We cannot cater to Mammon. This is a demon that is behind greed which is definitely what causes us to choose money. The system of Mammon is to buy and sell. The system of God is sowing and reaping. 

Let us pray. Dear heavenly Father. Thank you for showing us that you are really the one in charge, but we must choose you and your way of doing things. Please show us how sowing seed works in your kingdom so that we can begin to operate effectively in the kingdom of heaven's system and come out of the world's system. This we ask in your Son Jesus's Name. Amen