Kingdom Principles
army of David) waiting for the marching of the invisible
Pastor Paul shared important principles about living in the
kingdom.
Our Citizenship is by Birth (John 1:12). When we have
received Jesus as the Lord of our lives, we immediately
moved from the kingdom of darkness into His marvelous
light. Our rebirth in the spirit earned us our citizenship in His
kingdom and accompanying it is the immeasurable
inheritance and blessings.
Our Constitution is the Bible. The laws that guides and
protect us are those found in the Word of God. If we do not
know our constitution, we will not know our rights; which
stresses to us the reason why we should read our Bibles. The
Bible serves as the written record of the principles, promises,
and realities of His Kingdom. Every child of the Kingdom
has the legal rights to claim and lay hold of everything the
King promised and spoken in His written word. His Word is
one with Him.
Our Language is Revelation (Proverbs 29:18). In the
kingdom of God, we do not operate according to what we
see, hear, taste, smell, and feel in the physical but by
revelation in the spirit. By the Holy Spirit, we begin to
understand (revelation knowledge) the will of God. His
Words become alive – freshly spoken Word of God that
carries the ability to accomplish the very purpose they were
released (Isaiah 55:11). Our heart will bring us to places our
mind cannot take us. If we allow the Lord to reveal the
abundance in the kingdom, we will live with new
perspectives and apply the principles of God in the natural
word.
Our Commerce is Declaration. We can only get what is in
the invisible if we declare it in the physical, to declare it
means to get what we have in the spirit.
Our Currency is Faith. We can only receive the kingdom
riches in the spirit if we have faith. Without faith, it is
impossible to please God.
Our Taxation is Tithing. We give back the tenth of what we
received from God. In any kingdom, the government always
requires you to give something, like taxes. This is also true in
the kingdom of God where we offer tenth of everything that
we own, to receive more from Him. The difference however
is that we give our tithes and offerings not on the basis of
obligation but an expression of worship and love to the
Father King – the Great Provider and Protector.
Army of God
The kingdom reveals the King. Whatever a kingdom appears
to be, it is just a shadow of the Person and Deity of the King.
In any kingdom, there is an existing army. More so, with
God’s kingdom, in His kingdom there are two armies: the
invisible and the visible army.
In I Chronicles 12:20-22, there is an army that is seen (the
army of God (the angelic hosts). Together the two armies
united for one purpose, to subdue the Philistines. The
invisible armies of God are the legions of angels,
commanded to wage war against the principalities and
powers of this world.
In Joshua 5, Joshua talked to the general of the armies of
God. He had an encounter with the army of God. We have to
have a clear grasp of the roles of the angelic hosts in the
whole purpose of God here on earth. We are called to expand
the Kingdom of God to the dark places of the world. The
Church cannot do it alone. She has to learn how to walk in
unison with the heavenly army of God to see greater results
and greater harvest.
We, the Church, are the visible army. God is raising up this
army into a new level. In the past, the Church only focuses
on deliverance or binding of the demonic spirits. This part is
essential. The Church should exercise intercession and
prophetic declarations continually. However, there is another
aspect of spiritual warfare that this new breed of the visible
army of God should apply.
In Ephesians 3:10 Paul said that through the Church, the
MANIFOLD WISDOM OF GOD be made known to the
principalities and rulers. This aspect of warfare must be
given equal importance if we desire to see an acceleration of
the expansion of the Kingdom of God to the dark places of
the world. The Church must take her place as the
demonstrator, the illustrator of the manifold wisdom of God.
She has to exercise authority and dominion on the seven
mountains of influence over societies and nations.
Pastor Paul further expounded on the weapons of the visible
army of God aside from the full armor mentioned in
Ephesians 6. It is interesting to note two closely related
verses one in Joel 3:10 and other is Isaiah 2:4. The first
talks about beating plowshares into swords and pruning
hooks to spears while the other says the opposite, beating
swords into plowshare and spears into pruning hooks. It
is interesting to note, Pastor Paul said that they came from
one metal source. The plowshares and the pruning hooks
represent the works of our hands, our God-given
assignments. As we excel in these areas, we are actually
extending the Kingdom of God, bringing an atmosphere
of heaven, transforming lives, systems, communities and
eventually nations. We need the release of the manifold
wisdom of God in every aspect of life to expand His
Kingdom bringing down the reality of perfect heaven on this
broken earth. He further challenged the leaders to raise up
people who will excel in their fields not just in church affairs.
If we do not know who we are, we cannot do what we are
supposed to do. It is important for us to know our identity in
Christ, what we were called for, so that we would know what
we are going to do with our time. God desires to give us the
kingdom. With that revelation, we should operate according
to the perspective of God. We should change our heart and
mind because we cannot expect to succeed if we do things
according to our own perspective. If we live IN the
Kingdom, BY the kingdom, and FOR the kingdom; then we
will have the blessings, immeasurable resources and the
favor of the King.
Wisdom
To take dominion, that is to live for the kingdom of God and
to demonstrate the manifold wisdom of God, we should have
WISDOM. Wisdom is expressed as integrity, creativity,
and excellence in everything that we do.
Integrity means being ‘one’. If we are being one with our
purpose, identity and our word, then we are applying
wisdom.
Creativity is not just creating something from nothing,
but it also means developing or improving something
already in existence. Pieces of twisted metals, broken tools
etc. can be made into awesome art pieces in the hands of
skilled and seasoned artist. This is creativity. For the majority
of individuals they are useless scraps of metals, to him they
are the perfect materials for his beautiful creation. The art
piece reflects the creativity of the creator. However, creativity
is not only in the fields of music and arts. Engineers,
architects, businesspersons, teachers, parents have all that
built-in God-given ability to be creative.
Another aspect of wisdom is excellence. Excellence also
means extravagance. Some people think excellence means
perfectionism it is not. Perfectionism is a trap, another form
of slavery and fear that leads to frustration and
discouragement. Excellence is an outward expression of an
inspired and passionate soul not a product of oppressed
slave. There is a need to change our perspective about
excellence and be extravagant in our works. Kingdom people
work with excellence because they are filled with love and
inspiration from the Father.
Taking from what Leif Hetland shared to him, Pastor Paul
also expounded on the prophetic vision about eagle
Christians who would conquer the seven mountains. The
seven mountains of influence in any given society are as
follows: Business, Education, Entertainment/Media, Church,
Family, Science and Technology/ Research, and Government.
As eagle Christians, we were called to rule in the realms and
expertise we are assigned to. To be able to demonstrate the
power and the reality of the Kingdom of God by the
anointing of the Holy Spirit, we must know our specific
assignments. With the assignment come the anointing,
authority, favor and provision.
The pastors prayed for the leaders, that their spiritual eyes
would be opened to see the heavenly army, which are the
angels in our midst and unite with them in battling against
the enemy. The leaders also prayed for the people to be
released in their domains, like eagles conquering one of the
seven mountains.
After being spiritually filled from the morning session, we
had a lunch break and enjoyed fellowship with co-leaders
from different sectors. It was a great time for the family.
Equal but Unique: The Men and Women of the Kingdom
The afternoon session was set apart to discuss the important
roles of men and women in the Kingdom of God. Pastor Ahl
shared about how God designed women, and likewise Pastor
Paul shared about the role of men in the Kingdom.
In Gen 1:27, God created the spirit man in us: neither man
nor woman. God is Spirit, so he created spirit man in His
image and likeness. Spirit man is created - meaning he was
made out of nothing. He then created the physical man and
woman, Adam and Eve. He breathed His life on them and
they became living souls. We are equal because of the spirit
man but we are unique because of our design. Gal 3:28
emphasizes that all are the same.
God said, “It’s not good for man to be alone”. This does not
mean that Adam was lonely. He was alone but not lonely. He
was already complete in God, doing His work in the Lord.
God recognized the need to have a physical partner for
Adam. This was the reason why God created Eve. She was
not a fill in; she was an added bonus to Adam. Eve was a
helper fashioned by God, to complement and help Adam.
Adam did not ask but he simply received. Like in the
Kingdom, everything is to be received, not achieved.
1Cor 11:3-4 tells us that Christ is the head of the church, just
as man is the head of every woman. Men are to serve God,
and women to submit to men. Women without covering
utter powerless prayers. Women are created to have a
covering, an authority over them – who are the men. As
for the singles, their covering is their parents, pastors or
leaders over them.
1Peter 3:7 says that if the husband is not living in an
understanding way with his wife, his prayers are hindered.
On the other hand, if authority of her husband does not cover
the woman, the angels are just watching the woman and
could not recognize her command. (Eph 5:25-33).
Phil 2:6-8 talks about the submission of women to men. Like
in Eph 5:22-24, which encourages the wives to submit to
their husbands, as unto the Lord. They will submit only if the
men are also submitted to the Lord. Man has the utmost
responsibility to the Lord. The Lord did not reprimand Eve
directly when she made the grave mistake of eating of the
forbidden fruit. God rebuked Adam because Adam is the
covering of Eve. Submission means going under the
mission of man or the authority above us and lifting him
up until he is released to his mission. The glory of a
woman is in submission.
A man must have a vision. Many can do their roles but not
knowing their purposes in life. This is important for the man
to have a clear vision because lack of vision makes people
perish. Also with vision comes provision. A woman
accomplishes man’s vision. She is to assist or help to fulfill
his God-given vision. Therefore, a woman cannot support a
man without a vision. In addition, husbands and wives should
have one vision, if not they are not one, but divided. In Luke
11:17, a house that is divided will fall. We should not have
two visions: di-vision is division.

Man is the leader, and as the headship, the man who lives in
the Kingdom should be strong and courageous. This means
having the faith to take risks. Men should lead. Some were
called to be visionaries but they are not leaders in their field.
However, all leaders should be visionaries to lead his family.
Man should also be obedient to God’s command. Woman
can enhance man’s leadership. However, she can be good
or wrong enhancer. An example of a wrong enhancer is
Sarah, when she used her power to persuade Abraham to
push the promise about fathering nations, thus giving birth to
Ishmael.

Men are logical thinkers. This is needed if they want to lead

their families according to the vision God gave them. What
one teaches, so should he do. Women are adaptable. She
easily adapts to her environment. She can follow wherever
the man/head thinks the best place to go. A woman is a
reflector. She reflects what she receives. As the Church
reflects Christ, so is the female reflects the male. In 1Cor
11:7, the woman is the glory of the man. She reflects what
her partner speaks over her. If a wife is cared for and loved
by her husband, it will reflect with how she carries herself,
and how she acts.

Men are to be cultivators. This means that they should work

with their talents and skills, and be able to cultivate it. Man
is also the protector. He is to protect his family, properties,
etc. Women are not only to give birth to children, but she
multiplies what she receives from what the man
cultivates. A woman can multiply a single idea. When you
give her groceries, she will give you a meal, give her a house,
she will give you a home. She has the capability to incubate
things in her and they will multiply. She will multiply and
overflow in love from the love that she receives from her
husband; on the other hand, she can multiply the hurts and
pains that her husband gives her.

Eve means life-giver. That is why woman is ‘wombed-

man’. It is in her design to give life, to produce, to create, to
influence, to take care, and to take dominion by bearing
fruits.

The roles given to us are our responsibility. Men and women

were called to multiply and fill the earth, to subdue and
conquer it. With the knowledge of our uniqueness, we can
understand one another better. We can now submit to one
another with the knowledge that we are equal but unique.