Kingdom Mindset by Dr. Pete Norris

Harvest Fellowship Church

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Stand on earth and beg God to come and fix your problem or live in heavenly places and command this authority to come and fix the problem.

The renewed mind is the mind of Christ.

And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God. (Romans 12:2 NKJV)

A transformed mind means a transformed life. What is the will of God?  On earth as if it is in heaven. 

Your kingdom come. Your will be done On earth as it is in heaven.

(Matthew 6:10 NKJV)

A renewed mind proves the reality of heaven on earth. A renewed mind God’s way of transforming the world. The renewed mind sees the answer more than the problem.

But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you. (Matthew 6:33 NKJV)

The enemy tries to make us aware of the problems we face more than the  solution we carry. Jesus never reacted. Jesus lived in respond to the Father.

Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. (Romans 6:4 NKJV)

Likewise you also, reckon yourselves to be dead indeed to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord. (Romans 6:11 NKJV)

The mind is a horrible leader and tremendous student. We know that we don’t believe in the mind. We believe with the heart.

For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.  (Romans 10:10 NKJV)

I’m dead to SIN. How much sin takes place in our lives because we let ourselves think about it before it’s birthed? What kingdom your thoughts reveal, that kingdom will be manifested in your life.

And you, being dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He has made alive together with Him, having forgiven you all trespasses, having wiped out the handwriting of requirements that was against us, which was contrary to us. And He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross. Having disarmed principalities and powers, He made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them in it. (Colossians 2:13-15 NKJV)

He who sins is of the devil, for the devil has sinned from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that He might destroy the works of the devil. (I John 3:8 NKJV)

God created Adam and Eve and planted them in a perfect garden, paradise, in a world of chaos and told them to subdue it.

Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” (Genesis 1:26 NKJV)

The devil wars against God’s creation. God didn’t create evil. Evil is a distortion of what He created. God wants to give gifts all day long, but He wants to give rewards. And there are no rewards without choices.

Then Jesus made a public spectacle of all the powers and principalities of darkness, stripping away from them every weapon and all their spiritual authority and power to accuse us. And by the power of the cross, Jesus led them around as prisoners in a procession of triumph. He was not their prisoner; they were his! (Colossians 2:15 TPT)

This is written in the Aramaic.

Having put off His body, He’s stripped principalities and powers and shamed them openly. This implies that between the day of crucifixion and the day of resurrection, while in the spirit realm, Jesus destroyed death, the powers of darkness, and every work of the enemy through the blood of His cross. All the enemy’s weapons have been stripped away from him. And now the church has authority in Christ to enforce. That is triumph upon the dethroned rulers of this world.

But to each one of us grace was given according to the measure of Christ’s gift. Therefore He says: “When He ascended on high, He led captivity captive, And gave gifts to men.” (Ephesians 4:7-8 NKJV)

If He went to hell and suffered, then the blood was not enough. This is what happened between the cross and the resurrection.

But Mary stood outside by the tomb weeping, and as she wept she stooped down and looked into the tomb. And she saw two angels in white sitting, one at the head and the other at the feet, where the body of Jesus had lain. Then they said to her, “Woman, why are you weeping?” She said to them, “Because they have taken away my Lord, and I do not know where they have laid Him.” Now when she had said this, she turned around and saw Jesus standing there, and did not know that it was Jesus. Jesus said to her, “Woman, why are you weeping? Whom are you seeking?” She, supposing Him to be the gardener, said to Him, “Sir, if You have carried Him away, tell me where You have laid Him, and I will take Him away.” Jesus said to her, “Mary!” She turned and said to Him, “Rabboni!” (which is to say, Teacher). Jesus said to her, “Do not cling to Me, for I have not yet ascended to My Father; but go to My brethren and say to them, ‘I am ascending to My Father and your Father, and to My God and your God.’ ” (John 20:11-17 NKJV)

The first person that He appears to after the resurrection was Mary Magdalene that seven demons were cast out. First Mary His mother was a virgin which stands for purity and Mary Magdalene represents grace.

And Jesus cried out again with a loud voice, and yielded up His spirit. Then, behold, the veil of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom; and the earth quaked, and the rocks were split, and the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised; (Matthew 27:50-52 NKJV)

It came to pass in those days that Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee, and was baptized by John in the Jordan. And immediately, coming up from the water, He saw the heavens parting and the Spirit descending upon Him like a dove. (Mark 1:9-10 NKJV)

Parting is Greek word “torn open”.

Oh, that You would rend the heavens! That You would come down! That the mountains might shake at Your presence— (Isaiah 64:1 NKJV)

Rend in Hebrew means “tear open”.

And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised; and coming out of the graves after His resurrection, they went into the holy city and appeared to many. (Matthew 27:52-53 NKJV)

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