The kingdom within me is everything that lives in my heart.  That means people and things I love.  It’s also all the things that touch my heart every day.

I used to think that The Kingdom of God was only God’s.  It belonged to Him and I was simply an inhabitant.  Like when I lived in Denver, I was a Denver-ite but the city didn’t actually belong to me.  I only claimed it as a resident.

Then a few light-bulb moments and a couple revelations later, I saw how The Kingdom of God was laid out.  

My first analogy looked like circles.  My inner kingdom is like a circle and your’s is like a circle, and everyone else’s too.  Our circles intertwine sometimes.  Mine with yours and yours with someone else.  And like a domino effect, eventually, all our intertwined circles around the world are what comprises God’s Kingdom.

My circle is my kingdom and it isn’t your circle or anyone else’s.  It’s part of God’s Kingdom, but this part of God’s Kingdom is my inheritance.  It’s the part where I rule and reign with Jesus.  And it’s how we all rule and reign the earth with Jesus.  We do it inside our own kingdoms.

Like Denver is only one city inside Colorado, and Colorado is only one state inside the United States.  Plus, the United States is part of all the counties which comprise the whole world.  I had my own little piece of Denver and the world.  It was my house, my yard, my garage, my driveway, and my trees.  They were my responsibility, my domain, my kingdom.  But I shared that domain with Hunny because we are married.

Since my kingdom within is inside my heart, it is made up of everything I hold in my heart.  For instance,  there was a day when I actually helped a bird escape from the warehouse store where I worked.  He would have died in there and for some reason on that particular day, that bird touched my heart.  And I had compassion which was undeniable.  I couldn’t walk away.  So, I managed with some strange difficulty, to set him free.  It was surprising how powerful that compassion made me in that moment.

Afterward, Father let me see that the bird was part of my kingdom in that moment.  And it was because of the compassion in my heart.  It wasn’t contrived, and I hadn’t created that compassion myself through a decision.

I used to say often that love is not an emotion but a choice.

That’s true, but it’s so much more than that.  It is actually an entity.  And I’m talking about the kind of love that has almost a supernatural kind of compassion to it.  It feels a bit overwhelming and isn’t a creation of my own making.  It is God.  And it is powerful.  And He lives inside me, but I don’t control Him.  I don’t dictate what He does, however, because we are in love, He often performs my desires.

I can’t simply say that I will choose to love someone in that supernatural way.  Even though it’s a good decision, I can only take it as far as the choice, and then take that choice to Father God.  When I do that, He predominately performs what I chose.

And it works this way because this is all going on inside my kingdom, inside of me.  He gave me free will and free choice here.  But I’ve learned to take that choice to Him.  I don’t perform my choice myself.  I actually do it in tandem with Him.  I’m the chooser and He’s the performer.  He doesn’t perform unless I choose.  And I don’t choose to try and do it myself.  

When I try to perform anything I’ve chosen, it results in a performance-based religious sort of thing.  And suddenly the power is gone.  It has no effect.  And that’s because I left out one of the main ingredients – Him.

It’s like a marriage.  We each have our roles and we do them uniquely and individually, yet we produce in tandem, together as one unit.  THIS is the mystery of marriage.

And my heart is where all of this is taking place.  It is the kingdom that He gave me as an inheritance to rule and reign with Him.  Like a marriage.  A King and Queen.  Each doing their parts.  One choosing and one performing.  It’s absolutely fascinating and wonderful!

I’ve described much more of this journey in my book “MY KINGDOM” which you can find on Amazon for 99 cents.  I think you might enjoy it.

My blessings on your journey to see and function powerfully in your kingdom.

Faith