Have you asked God how your life could help His kingdom come on Earth? Even when we first begin our spiritual journey, we’re taught and are of the mindset that only few receive a calling to do God’s “greater works” and if we’re not one of those called, then we are free to choose any path as long as we pursue spiritual growth. No one tells us that one day, we’ll come to that proverbial fork in the road when we can no longer grow spiritually unless we give God our whole lives.

 

Kingdom living is seeing life through the eyes of God’s kingdom. It encompasses everything under His rule and reign, including everything here in this world. Therefore, believers live in His kingdom, and must view things from a kingdom perspective. Jesus’ prayer in Matthew 6 glimpses the purpose of the Kingdom to come: “Your kingdom come. Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven” (Matt. 6:10).

            For God’s kingdom to come, it has to grow, and those not already in His kingdom are invited to come in. When we enter into His kingdom we’re nurtured, healed, and our needs spiritually and physically are met. Love then, conquers hate, and good conquers evil.

            We, as believers then, as active members in God’s kingdom have a specific role for achieving kingdom growth—this is our destiny in Him.

            As we grow in the things of the Lord, pursue Him, and pursue our destiny, revelation becomes deeper, broader, and clearer; it’s progressive. First Corinthians 13 says we only see in part. The Holy Spirit constantly teaches about the deep things of God, the mysteries of the kingdom, to those who hunger after it. The Lord intends for His church; His sons and daughters, to walk in fullness. This means becoming a partaker with Jesus of the things God has released and made available to every citizen of His kingdom.

            Jesus said His Father was always at work, and His job was to do the work of His Father. He said that His food was to do God’s will. God wants His concern to be ours, too, and it’s clear through God’s word, that we are to partake of those things He releases to us, to do His work. Jesus told us to seek first the Kingdom of God and all of our needs would be met.

            Our role as overcomers and fulfillers of our divine destiny (the work of the Father) must consume us and become the reason we exist. Jesus staked a claim on our entire life, and most of us withhold most of it.

            We must yearn, therefore, to know Him as we’ve never known Him before. We must draw close to Him to learn the deep unto deep things of God.

 

There are three goals God has for our spiritual life. The first is intimate fellowship with Him. Jesus has to be our first love, our first priority, our Lord and our best friend (1 Cor. 1:9; Prov. 21:21, Rev. 2:1–4; John 15:4–15).

            The second is to be completely one with Him. This is a desire to want and to submit to His will, His plans, His timing, and His priorities. We discover these things, through intimacy with Him.

            The third is to become more like Jesus, His character, His holiness, His purity, His love and devotion for God and His love and devotion for people, His peace, joy, patience, perseverance, kindness, goodness, gentleness, faithfulness, trust, and self control. Paul said, in Philippians 3:8 that he considered everything a loss compared to the surpassing greatness of knowing Christ Jesus as his Lord, for whose sake he lost all things.

God places a desire and a passion in our hearts to do the things He calls us to do, “For it is God who works in you to will and to act according to His good purpose” (Phil. 2:13). We are the happiest and most joyful when we are in the middle of God’s will and plan. We need to prayerfully seek God and ask Him to help us discern His special plan for us. He’ll give us the blueprints, and the fullness of the Revealer, the Holy Spirit, will release His sevenfold blessings, to help us fulfill our destiny, and carry out God’s plan for our life.

            God’s presence and power will always be with us when He calls us. “Set apart for me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them.” (Acts 13:2). The Greek word for called means that God “called them unto Himself” first to a love relationship with Him, and next to where His presence and His power would be at work. We only need to respond in faith and obedience and God will provide the power and the fullness of the Holy Spirit to get the job done. A great example of this is God’s call to Moses to help lead His people out of Egypt, and how God provided everything Moses needed to fulfill His plan.

The greatest and deepest place of ministry comes from being rooted and grounded in the motivation of the love of Jesus that burns like fire in our bones. The most important reason for the outpouring of the Holy Spirit is so that we can comprehend and know His great love (Eph. 3:16–21). God is love (1 John 4:8) so when we’re filled with the fullness of His sevenfold Spirit we’re overflowing with the fullness of His love.

            The seven lamps of fire signify many things, but I’ll highlight this: The lampstand in heaven is supplied by pure oil so that the flames will burn. As long as there is a supply of fresh oil, the lamp will burn brightly. Jesus said we are the light of the world, the brilliancy of His Glory that will shine brightly in the midst of the darkness. We have to daily tap into the fresh anointing of the Holy Spirit (Ps. 92:10) to keep the seven flames burning.

            When we minister out of this flow, we can’t depend on yesterday oil, or the flow will diminish, and we will no longer see the expressions of the sevenfold Holy Spirit through our lives. We must stay rooted in Him through the length, width, height, and breadth of that love so we will know the fullness of God. Then we will see the “above and beyond anything we can ask or think, but according to His mighty power so that Jesus gets all the Glory and Honor.” (Eph. 3:20, 21).

            “Father, as we are One, let them also be One with us” (John 17:21). Love is the deepest and strongest place of ministry. It will no longer be us who lives, but He who lives through us. We will no longer minister out of a measure or out of performance because we will be yoked fully with Him, and as He is so are we!

 

The Lord wants to release the baptism of fire to our temples. We are the temple of the Holy Spirit, and everything that is not silver and gold needs to be burnt up in our life (1 Corinthians 3:12–17). The straw, stubble, and hay is robbing us of knowing His rest, and we will be useful in His Kingdom when we enter His rest because we will not be motivated by traditions and philosophies of man, but by the leading and prompting of the Holy Spirit.

            We need to ask the fullness of the Seven Flames of Fire to come upon us and burn away everything that robs and plunders us from knowing the Anointed One and His anointing. Remember the number seven represents, perfect, completeness, fullness, and consummation.

We need to have the fiery Presence of the Holy Spirit bring a consummation (which means to bring to an end or to finish) to the things that keep us in knowing Him. Knowing Him is much more than just knowing about Him, it is a place of divine union. We need to remove these hindrances so that we can say with Jesus, “It is finished.”

There are things that are plundering us and have taken us captive that we need to bring to an end, so that we can say with Jesus, “It is finished.”

             “And from the Throne proceeded lightnings, thunders, and voices. Seven lamps of fire were burning before the throne, which are the seven Spirits of God!” (Rev. 4:5). Ask for the baptism of fire and the flames of the seven Spirits of God to burn the hay, wood, stubble, and straw in your life. He’ll purify and refine you: “Behold, I send My messenger, and he will prepare the way before me. And the Lord, whom you seek, will suddenly come to His temple, even the Messenger of the covenant [the Holy Spirit] in whom you delight. ‘Behold He is coming,’ says the Lord of the Hosts. But who can endure the day of His coming? And who can stand when He appears? For He is like a refiner’s fire and like launderers’ soap; He will sit as a refiner and a purifier of silver; He will purify the sons of Levi and purge them as gold and silver, that they may offer to the Lord an offering in righteousness.” (Mal... 3:1–4)He will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire: “I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance, but He who is coming after me is mightier than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and Fire. His winnowing fan is in His hand and He will thoroughly clean out His threshing floor, and gather His wheat into the barn; but He will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire” (Matt. 3:11, 12). The Holy Spirit will burn up everything in our lives that is not gold and silver (Gold represents divine nature, and silver represents redemption.).

             He is releasing the fire to set God’s people free from heavy burdens and uneasy yokes (Matt.11:30). His prayer for us is John 17:21, “That they may be one, as You, Father, are in Me, and I am in You: that they also may be one in Us, that the world may believe that you sent me.”

 

 

One day in a vision, I saw the Lord upon the throne, and He was looking to and fro all through the Earth. Someone would get His attention, and the Lord would smile. It brought pleasure to Him to see these people. As He smiled, He reached back, tore off a piece of the mantle, and dropped oil on the torn piece and released it. As I surveyed everything, I saw hundreds of mantles released this way. As they alighted on people, they rested upon them, but then absorbed right into the person. That person then became an expression of that faucet of Christ upon the earth. They didn’t have the mantle on them; they became the expression of the mantle.

            Several months ago, I had another similar prophetic encounter where I saw in a vision the Lord standing with the most beautiful mantle that I have ever seen. It was so alive, like flowing water. The essence of the beauty of the mantle was not the color or such, but how living and refreshing the mantle looked. It is almost impossible to put into words. The closest I can come to describing it is it looked like living water in the form of a cloth that draped across the Lord’s outstretched arms. As I saw the Lord holding this living mantle, the Lord said this, “I’m loosing my people. They will become who they are.” The encounter was over. As I prayed about this encounter, the Holy Spirit began showing me the meaning of the vision.

             “Beware lest anyone cheat you through philosophy and empty deceit according to the traditions of men, according to the basic principles of the world and not according to Christ. For in Him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily: and you are complete in Him, who is the head of all principalities” (Col. 2:8, 9). Paul uses strong language here by the leading of the Holy Spirit to get our attention. “Beware lest anyone cheats you.” Cheat means to plunder you, or to take you captive. Wow! Paul says here that we can be plundered and in captivity because of traditions, philosophy, empty deceit, and the principles of this world.

            The mantle that I saw in the encounter is Jesus’ mantle. We need to put on Christ. We have been set free from bondage, but we are not fully enjoying all that we have received the moment He gave us the victory. Galatians 5:1 says, “Stand fast therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free; do not be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.”Jesus says, “Come to Me all you labor and are heavy laden and I will give you rest! [Rest means to be release you from your toil or labor] Take my yoke upon you and learn of Me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy [easy means useful, pleasant, good, suitable, and serviceable] and my burden is light!” (Matt. 11:28).

            That is the Lord’s heart for you! His heart is that we be loosed from all that has taken us captive and plundered us from living life in the Anointed One and His anointing. He wants us to live in the fullness of all that He intends for us.

 

The Seven Flames of fire also release the zeal of the Lord. We are not to be lagging in diligence, but fervent in spirit serving the Lord (Rom 12:11). Fervent means, “living fervor, fiery hot, full of burning zeal.” It is the opposite of dignified, cold, and unemotional. In a Christian context, it signifies a high spiritual temperature inflamed by the Holy Spirit. If we allow the oil to cease to flow in our lives, we will lose the zeal of the Lord! The zeal of the Lord is a baptism of His love; that all that we do will be out a deep love for Him. His passion burns in my bones like fire! The zeal of the Lord is not religious zeal or man’s zeal; it is His Love.

            In this place, we bring forth the increase of the Kingdom. The fire burns up everything that causes us to labor in traditions and performance, and we become yoked with Him so that we are in rest (Hebrew 4:9); that is the greatest flow, Him through us.

 “Of the increase of His government and peace there will be no end, upon the throne of David and over His Kingdom to order it and establish it with judgment and justice from that time forward, even forever. The zeal of the Lord of hosts will perform this”(Is. 9:7). To see the increase of the His government and to see the Kingdom go forth, we need to order it and establish it with judgment and justice by His sevenfold Spirit, and the zeal of the Lord will perform this.

            Do you see that as we are in this place of walking and living in fresh oil, we are plugged in and become a partaker of His Divine nature? (Romans 11:16-17, Zechariah 4:11, Psalm 92:10) We will see the sevenfold flow of the Holy Spirit, the seven lamps of fire and we will operate in the zeal of the Lord as we partake of His fresh oil for our lives.

 

 

Look again in one of my favorite passages, Zechariah 4, in verse 10, “These seven have rejoiced to see the plumb line in the hands of Zerubbabel.” The plumb line is a building tool: a piece of string attached to a ball of lead, and it shows the builder if the walls being built are straight and perpendicular to the foundation. “These seven rejoice.” The seven-fold Holy Spirit rejoices when the church executes the building and government of the Kingdom of God (Zerubbabel represents government). The church will begin to function out of the full ministry of the Holy Spirit with the seven expressions of the Holy Spirit when it builds by the blueprint of Heaven: by the commissioning of the Lord and by the ministry of the perpetual flow of the Holy Spirit. Even the world will begin to take notice when this happens (John 17:23).

            Even now, God speaks this great word of encouragement to the builders of your living temple; “The hands of Zerubbabel have laid the foundation of this house; his hands shall also finish it: and you shall know that the LORD of hosts hath sent me unto you. For who has despised the day of small things?” (v.9, 10a). Even though you may have a small beginning, don't despise small beginnings, because you're going to be a finisher like Zerubbabel.

            Look at the result in Isaiah 11:3 of ministering out of this capacity. It says, "His delight is in the fear of the Lord, and he shall not judge by the sight of his eyes, nor decide by the hearing of his ears.” That's John 5:30 Jesus lived in this dimension: “I can of Myself do nothing. As I hear, I judge; and My judgment is righteous, because I do not seek My own will but the will of the Father who sent Me.” He never did anything but what he heard and saw the Father doing. We’re here to bring forth justice and righteousness. The church is coming into her greatest hour, and we're going to see increase of the implementation of justice and righteousness upon the earth, but we have to be in a place where it's not by our ability that we're implementing justice and righteousness. Watch this. "He didn't decide by the sight of his eyes, nor of the hearing of his ears, but with righteousness did he judge the poor” (Isaiah 11:3). That's not just referencing poverty. It's about those who are poor in spirit. Jesus said that He came to preach good news to whom? Isaiah 61 says He came to preach good news to the poor. “Decide with equity for the meek of the earth. He shall strike the earth with the rod of his mouth" (Isaiah 11:4). That's the word of the Lord. "And with the breath of his lips he shall slay the wicked. Righteousness shall be the belt of his loins and faithfulness the belt of his waist” (Isaiah 11:5).

 

This is why we need to function out of the sevenfold flow of the Holy Spirit. We need live just as Jesus lived: He ministered out of divine union with the Father, knowing the heart and mind of the Father, and delighting in the fear of the Lord to do His Father’s bidding only. He functioned out of the sevenfold Holy Spirit, or the full ministry of the Person of the Holy Spirit. He did not know measure. He ministered out of the unlimited anointing.

            If you continue reading in Zechariah 4:11–14, you will see a generation that is going to minister out of the perpetual ceaseless supply of the fullness of the Holy Spirit, and they will have hands that drip with oil; they will be called “sons fresh oil.”

            We will build the things He has purposed for such a time as this by the sevenfold Spirit as wise master builders. We will order and establish with judgment and justice by the zeal of the Lord, His love that burns deep with us, and all that we do we will do because of Him.

In Psalm 89:13-18, You have a mighty arm; Strong is Your hand, and high is Your right hand. Righteousness and justice are the foundation of Your throne; Mercy and truth go before Your face. Blessed are the people who know the joyful sound! They walk, O Lord in the Light of Your countenance. In Your name they rejoice all day long, and in Your righteousness they are exalted. For You are the glory of their strength, And in Your favor our horn is exalted. For our shield belongs to the LORD, and Our King to the Holy One of Israel. 

We are called to bring forth godly judgment and justice upon the earth, as it is in Heaven so will it will be upon the earth. We are to render a verdict against all unrighteousness and declare the vengeance of our God and to see those who bound, loosed, to see those who are in captivity freed. 

 

 

 

 

Are you willing to give God your whole life? If your heart is devoted to Him and His work, (your destiny), then He’ll unfold the deep and mysterious secrets of the kingdom through wisdom and understanding, counsel and knowledge and He’ll give you those things and more through the fullness of the sevenfold Spirits of God. The Lord searches for those who desire to live in the flow of His unlimited anointing. Is that you? Cry out to Him, and say, “Lord, do something in me that is way beyond me!” and ask Him for the impossible, the extraordinary, the shock and awe so that people will say, “I want what you’ve got, how do I get it?” God will empower you to win whole cities for Him, if you’ll let Him. He’s got the blueprints for it, and He’s given us the Helper.