"HIS KINGDOM IS HERE!"

June 27, 2020
Greetings,

I just re-read this posting. Been a while!! I have posted words since this time, but it seems that God is doing this very thing again..Right Now! He has "Pulled us Back and Out of Things".  I believe to remind us, once again: 

"Who He is and Whose we Are!

His Intent Regarding Us!"

Posted December 31, 2012:

I have not written anything for several months now. It has been as if I have been away. I stopped writing, and really became inactive in other ways. 
From the beginning, with the very first post, I know Holy Spirit led me to share and encourage others through this blog. I believe He is saying to me: "Step back into the place I led you to."  I am truly excited and blessed to be sharing His work in my life...sharing His truths. 
Recently, I read some words of encouragement posted by others, and this encouraged me to reflect on the past three months.  
I am going through, as I am sure a lot of you are, a time of transition.  A time of change..and as we all know, "change is never easy." Feeling disconnected, as though there are a lot of loose ends, and being "uncertain for certain." It seemed as though one minute I was involved in a couple different ways of serving the Lord, using the gifts He has given me to minister to others. Then, as I was led, I believe, by Holy Spirit, I made the decision to make changes.
One decision in particular caused me some pain..even though I knew that I was to leave and let God show the me the way forward. "He has done just that."
Through all these things,  God let me know that:
 "I am alright and right where He wants me." 
 But, Holy Spirit has also given me the understanding that He is at work in me....to strengthen my resolve in Him...to draw me into a place of increased trust and abiding in Him. As I said at the beginning, It seems that I was brought to a place of inactivity.
I realize now, however, that this has been to rid me of myself, my plans and ideas, to enable me to make sure that I am following His purpose.  Here in lies the "key."
It is all about "His Purpose" in and through me.
We need to be still, in the Lord, no matter what is going on. These last three months have been, for the most, comprised of pretty quiet days. 
As I was writing this, what came to me was:
"We must remain "quiet in Him" as the days of increased, and increasing chaos are here."

Isaiah 30:15 (amplified)
For thus said the Lord God, the Holy One of Israel:
"In returning (to Me) and resting (in Me) you shall be saved. In quietness and in (trusting) confidence shall be your strength."

I believe those that are truly His, will be brought to: live, move and breathe in Him, so that we will live life in His Kingdom.
His Kingdom has come..If He dwells in us..then, His kingdom is in us..and we have full and complete access to it. The Kingdom of God is:
"Righteous, Peace and Joy, in the Holy Spirit."

Romans 14:17 (amplified)
(After all) the Kingdom of God is not a matter of (getting the) food and drink (one likes), but instead it is righteousness (that state which makes a person acceptable to God) and (heart) peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.

I have also come to see, during this time of "decreased busyness", that God is fine tuning my focus. He is saying:
 "Look to Me for everything you need. The answers to all of your questions are in Me,  My word..My presence. I want to be close to you. I want you to know the depth of My love for you. Place your trust in Me..Give Me your concerns, your fears."

Matthew 1:28-30 (amplified) says this:
Come to Me, all ye who labor and are heavy-laden and overburdened, and I will cause you to rest. (I will ease and relieve and refresh your souls.)
Take My yoke upon you and learn of Me, for I am gentle (meek) and humble (lowly) in heart, and you will find rest (relief and ease and refreshment and recreation and blessed quiet) for your souls.
For My Yoke is wholesome (useful, good-not harsh, hard, sharp, or pressing, but comfortable, gracious and pleasant), and my Burden is light and easy to be born.

His word also says in Matthew 6:33 (amplifiied):
"But seek (aim at and strive after) first of all His Kingdom and  His righteousness (His way of doing and being right), and then all these things taken together will be given  you besides."

Isaiah 32:17 (amplified)
And the effects of righteousness will be peace (internal and external), and the results of righteousness will be quietness and confident trust forever.

Reflecting over the past three months, I can see that (even though I had my moments wondering what is going on...questioning my choices, and even saying to Him one morning, "Where are you?"), I have been being kept quiet...being given rest...and I have a good sense that he is making ready. 
He wants us to expand his Kingdom right along beside Him....He is excited to have us join Him, to be fully one with Him. Paul shows us in God's word that:
"In Him we live and move.  In Him, we have our very being."  Acts 17:28

I want to know this completely. To quietly abide and rest in Him. Separated from the chaos..separated unto Him...in His Righteousness, Joy and Peace. For His Glory "and" because this is the life He has for me. "Jesus is the Truth, the Life and the Way!" It is Kingdom living!

"It is the call of our Father to walk in His Son's Glory as we move upward, outward and forward in faith by the power of Holy Spirit." 

God knows what we need..Foremost we need Him, to know Him, His love..His ways. To put our trust in Him.  He alone has the perfect plans for us and He wants to see them accomplished. His desire is to perfect Himself in us so that we can, through the power of His Holy Spirit, fully enter into life in His Kingdom. 

"The Kingdom of Jesus Christ is Here." Will you "quiet yourself in the midst of the chaos" and respond to His Leading?" 

Love and Blessings in Jesus Christ,
Drema