Kingdom Greetings to our LWCC Family!
There’s no question that God loves people. God loves people so much that He sent His best gift, His Son Jesus Christ, to die for them and to live for them. Jesus loves people so much that He said, “I’m going to build My Church – My Ekklesia – and that Church is going to forcefully advance My Kingdom and nothing in hell will be able to stop the triumphant people that I have called out for My Name’s sake.” And when He sent the Holy Spirit, poured out on the day of Pentecost, the Holy Spirit came as the Agent of God’s love to bring a people together that will become the Church of His Kingdom.
Jesus saw the multitudes as distressed and downcast, like sheep without a shepherd, and He was moved with compassion and healed them all (Matt. 9:36). I believe that the Church of God’s Kingdom is a Church that is overwhelmingly flooded with compassion from the inside out and that the people of this Church see themselves as the healing presence of God to one another, to their community, and their city. The Church of God’s Kingdom is moved by the compassion of God’s heart. It has the power to change the culture of a city based on the culture of heaven, reaching those from the homeless to the broken and the abused; to those that are in need of recovery from addictions; to those in need of a redemptive lift that are looking for a hand up, more than a hand out.
I believe that we are on the threshold of one of the most unprecedented opportunities that we have ever been in at LWCC. So I want to encourage you, Kingdom people of God, to embrace this new season with anticipation of what wants to emerge, because where we are going we’ve never been before. Yes, we are going higher and deeper, wider and farther, and God is going to use us in ways that exceeds everything that we have done up to this point. Opportunities to enlarge our sphere of Kingdom influence to serve humanity has never been greater than now. There is an emerging hunger in the world today for a new set of values, principles, ethics and real solutions. This opens the door to introduce Kingdom values and to see the Church, the Body of Christ, stepping up to the challenge. God always intended for His Kingdom to be on earth. God created Adam to be god over the earth and to rule it. Man was subordinate to God, but he was to have dominion over the earth. God’s will was that the earth be patterned after heaven. As my late Archbishop David R. Huskins would say, “The Kingdom of God means to enforce the blueprint of heaven in earth. We declare Thy Kingdom come, Thy will be done.”
You know the Kingdom of God to which we belong is a real Kingdom. We have not been given some fables. Something real from the heart of God has been delivered unto us and each one of us has been hardwired to be creative and productive in an extraordinary way! What Jesus came to give us is a real Kingdom and, by the Holy Spirit, He is here to catapult us into something far greater than in the years before.
This year being “The Year of the Extraordinary,” something more is coming among us. The Kingdom of God is not a place you go to; it’s a realm ruled by the King within you. The Kingdom of God is not somewhere; the Kingdom of God is someone. The Kingdom of God is the rule, reign, power and authority of God within you. There is a fresh wind of the Spirit of God breathing upon LWCC. The Lord is stirring in our hearts in an extraordinary way; raising up extraordinary people doing extraordinary things and having extraordinary results! There is an unprecedented move of God happening in our midst and we want to move with Him…advancing His Kingdom, bringing positive change to our neighborhood, community, city and beyond! A new day is dawning! A new church is emerging…The Church of God’s Kingdom: an Unstoppable Force!