If God is omnipotent (Almighty, all powerful), if with God all things are possible (Matthew 19:26), if all things are possible to him that believes (Mark 9:23)—and if when we pray and believe, we have what we pray for (Mark 11:23-24), if God answers even before we call (Isaiah 65:24), if we are just to stand still and see the salvation of God (Exodus 14:13; 2Chronicles 20:17), then we must face some hard truths. We must admit that if any person, situation or illness can successfully stand against this God that we are believing in, that person, situation or illness is more powerful than God and therefore should be bowed down to and worshiped instead of the God we say we believe in. For that situation, person or illness has become our God.
All too often we make our theology fit our experience by explaining away God’s omnipotence or our belief in God. It is time for our experience to line up with the truth. And of course it doesn’t happen by taking thought or attempting to make it happen. It happens only when we recognize truth as our reality and are not moved by anything else that we seem to be experiencing. The kingdom of heaven comes into our experience (our earth
) when we enter into the consciousness where the mind that was in Christ Jesus is also in us (Philippians 2:5) —consciously. It is of course already there (we have the mind of Christ
–1Corinthians 2:16); but we must be consciously aware of it. It must become our reality, our only reality. It is the radical reliance on God, where we let God be true, but every man a liar
(Romans 3:4). It is the consciousness where the foolishness of God is wiser than men
(1Corinthians 1:25) and the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God
(1Corinthians 3:19).
It is the consciousness where we are willing to say with Esther, If I perish, I perish
(Esther 4:16) when others tell us that to believe the truth about God is certain death. For in this consciousness we rely on all the words of Jesus, including, If a man keep my saying, he shall never see death
(John 8:51). We know that we have been born again … of the Spirit
and that we are Spirit (John 3:5-6), that the Life that we are is everlasting life. We have already died, having been crucified with Christ so that it is no longer we who live, but Christ living as us (Galatians 2:20). We no longer live in fear of death, knowing that Jesus abolished death and brought life and immortality to light through the Gospel
(2Timothy 1:10) and that His perfect love (from which we can never be separated —Romans 8:39) has cast all fear from us (1John 4:18). In this consciousness we are not anxious about anything (Philippians 4:6), because our Father knows what we need even before we ask (Matthew 6:8). It is a life of righteousness, peace and joy; for it is living in the kingdom of heaven (Romans 14:17) here and now.