Operating In The Kingdom Culture - Part 1 by Pastor Mildred Kingsley-Okonkwo: MP3 Download & Sermon Notes

You Are from a Different Kingdom

John 17:16

You are in this world but you are not of it. That is not a cliché — it is a statement of origin. If you only live with the consciousness of being in this world, you will live an inferior life. You have access to a kingdom that operates by completely different rules.

Jesus did not come to start a new religion. He came to establish a kingdom. The supernatural should be your ordinary. It should be your regular. And the name of this church — Supernatural Life Church — is a constant daily reminder of that fact.

The Lepers Who Moved — 2 Kings 7

2 Kings 7:3-9

A famine had consumed Samaria. The prophet Elisha had spoken a word: tomorrow at this time, abundance will be available at the gate. But four lepers sat outside the city gate and asked: why do we sit here until we die?

They had nothing going for them. They were the last people anyone expected to carry the news of breakthrough. But they made a decision to move.

If we stay, we die. If we go to the Syrian camp, maybe we live. Let us go.

When they arrived at the camp, the Syrians were gone. God had caused them to hear the sound of a great army and they had fled. The lepers found food, silver, gold, and clothing.

• They did not sit and wait for the breakthrough to come to them.
• They stepped out in the twilight — not in broad daylight, not with all the conditions perfect — and they moved.
• It was the unlikely ones, the outsiders, the overlooked, who accessed the overflow first.

Good News Is Meant to Be Shared

2 Kings 7:9

After eating and hiding silver and gold, the lepers said to one another: we are not doing right. This is a day of good news, and we are silent. If we wait until morning, punishment will come upon us.

Kingdom culture does not allow you to hoard what God has given you. What he releases to you is meant to flow through you.

Bring others into the blessing. Report the good news. What you have found, share it. That is kingdom culture operating at its finest — not consuming everything for yourself, but becoming a channel for what God has opened.