SECTION THREE
PRIORITIES: “Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done. ’’
Ch.10. (GOD’S KINGDOM IN YOU AND YOUR FAMILY)
The Mekilta, an ancient manuscript that includes a commentary on most of the book of Exodus, includes this parable.
A man came to a province and asked the people if he could reign over them.
They said, “What good have you done for us? Why should we accept your reign?’’
In response, the man built them a wall. He brought them water. He fought battles for them. Then he asked the question again, “May I reign over you?”
They responded, “Yes! Yes!”
The parable continues： Thus it was with the Omnipresent. He redeemed Israel from Egypt. He parted the sea for them. He brought them manna.
He provided them with a well. He sent them the quail. He fought the battle of Amalek for them. He said to them, “May I reign over you?” They replied, “Yes! Yes!” The parable stops there, but its application does not. God our Father comes to us and asks, “May I reign over you?”
Often our audacious reply is “Who are You and what good have You done for us that we should accept Your reign?”
God need not reply, yet out of love He does： “I am your Father, the Creator God, who so loved the world that I gave My only begotten Son that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life. His shed blood brought you righteousness and sanctification, peace and access into My presence. With the stripes on His back you were healed and made whole. “He has redeemed you from the curse of falling short. He sees your needs ahead of time and makes provision for them. He is your banner who goes into battle before you and breaks open the way. You do not have to fear death or hell because He is the Good Shepherd who laid down His life for His sheep, abolished death and brought life and immortality to light.”
Then once more God asks, “May I reign over you?” God reigns over us when we obey Him, accept His rule and authority in our lives and become active in Jesus’ kingdom movement to defeat evil, redeem sinners and bring to mankind the blessings of God’s reign. This, essentially, is what we are earnestly desiring when we declare, “Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done.” We are submitting to God and calling upon Him to perform His will on earth.
Consider the verbs in these two statements： Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth as it is in heaven. In the Greek, the verbs are placed at the begin¬ning of these two statements for emphasis. I cannot translate the meaning in any better way than to say that it is like a man firmly, decisively putting his foot down. “Come, kingdom of God! Be done, will of God!’’ Let me illustrate.
In a business transaction or in a relationship, have you God’s Kingdom in You and Your Family ever said, “I’m drawing the line right here. This is the way it’s going to be. Fm putting my foot down!”? That is the idea in these two statements. Therefore, it is neither arrogant nor presumptuous to declare boldly, “Come, kingdom of God. Be done, will of God.”
God has a will for each day of your life； therefore, put your foot down in prayer. Instead of constantly mouth¬ing weak little prayers such as “Oh, Jesus, help me,” begin boldly declaring God’s promises. Stand in the victory that Christ has won for you. Refuse to let Satan’s puny attempts to intimidate you hinder God’s mighty purposes. Declare that God’s will shall be done, that His kingdom shall come. And what is the kingdom of God? Paul tells us, “The kingdom of God is not meat and drink, but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost” (Rom. 14:17).
We want God’s priorities to become established in our lives, but so often ‘‘the tail wags the dog.” Someone has called it “the tyranny of the urgent,” meaning we allow many things that cause us anxiety and trouble to crowd out the important things, things that should be given top priority.
For example, have you ever buttoned up your jacket and missed the top button? You glanced down, saw everything was out of line and realized you’d have to unbutton it and start all over. Life is like that. If you don’t have God as your top priority, nothing else will line up as it should. Your health, emotions, goals and relationships get off center.
How well I know! In the early years of my marriage and ministry, my time priorities were all out of line. I was a student at a seminary 35 miles away from home, minister of youth and evangelism at Beverly Hills Baptist Church, a husband and the father of three little kids.
When it came to time management, my priorities went something like this： The church came first, my studies came second, my family came third, and prayer and com-munion with God came last. I knew that Jesus com¬manded, ‘‘Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness； and all these things shall be added unto you” (Matt. 6：33), but I did just the opposite. I was busy seeking “all these things” instead of seeking first the kingdom. But when I put Jesus first, He began to put all the other things into their proper places, and the confusion and disorder were replaced by the soothing peace of God.
As the years passed by and my schedule became busier and more complicated, it became necessary for me to be away from my family much of the time, but Melva and I knew what to do. We made our schedules a matter of prayer, and God showed us unique solutions for our particular way of life.
What works for me will work for you. As you give priority to prayer and seek God’s wisdom, the Lord will begin to correct and realign your schedule, revealing the solutions to your time management problems.
Ordering your time priorities is important, but next you must establish prayer priorities. As you pray, you must declare that God’s kingdom come and His will be done in these four major areas： 1. yourself； 2. your fam¬ily； 3. your church； 4. your nation. How do you pray over these four important areas?
Just as the set of its rudder determines a ship's course, so the tongue sets the course of one’s life, for the tongue is the rudder of life (see James 3:3-5). Although aimless confessions will not accomplish much, when the tongue agrees with the Spirit of God and declares with sincerity and faith, ‘‘Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done,”
God’s Kingdom in You and Your Family the correct course of life is set.
So every day as you pray, declare that God’s kingdom shall come and that His will shall be done in these four major areas.
Yourself
Begin with yourself. James 5：l6 says, “The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.” Unless you are right before God, your prayer will not be effective. Each day pray that God’s kingdom一His righteousness, joy and peace—be established in you and that His will for you that day be set in your spirit.
You need divine wisdom and revelation if you are properly to administrate your home, business, resources and so forth. When you pray, ‘‘Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done,” invite Jesus to assume His rightful place on the throne of your heart and to rule your spirit, soul and body. Then pray over the particular concerns in which you will be involved throughout the day.
Ask the Holy Spirit to empower you with ability, effi-ciency and might. In the words of Jude, ‘‘Build yourself up...make progress, rise like an edifice higher and higher...” by praying in the Holy Spirit (v. 20, Amplified). Stay before the Lord until the course of your day is set and the Spirit of God is functioning in you. This is vitally important, for if Jesus is not Lord in you, He will not be Lord in your second priority—your family.
Your Family
If you are married, pray for your mate. Pray that righteousness, peace and joy will rule your mate’s life. Making the declaration of faith, “Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done,” pray over the needs of your mate until the Spirit releases you to move on in prayer. This is vitally important because if you lose your own house, your work for the house of God will be greatly hindered. A young evangelist on the verge of losing his wife seemed more concerned about his reputation and the revival meetings he had scheduled than in wooing his wife and seeing their marriage restored. As he knelt to pray about the great ministry he wanted to do for God, the Lord put a piercing question to His young servant： “What makes you think I want to entrust My Bride to you when you won't even take care of your own?’’
Our families must come first. Some of the most remorseful people I know are individuals who tried to win the world for God but lost their own families in the process.
How should you pray for your family? If you have children, declare, “Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done，” in each of their lives. Make specific petitions. Listen to what the Spirit of God speaks to you regarding your children.
The Lord began speaking to me about our son, John Aaron, while he was still in his mother's womb, and everything the Spirit of God said to me is coming to pass in his life.
When he was 11, John Aaron said, '‘Daddy, do you remember Mikey, the boy at school whom nobody likes because he’s dyslexic? He can’t read, and the kids say he’s stupid. Well, today I led him to Jesus.”
Do you know why that happened? Because every day of John Aaron’s life I have declared, “Thy kingdom come in him, Lord. Will of God, be done in him!” Every day I pray over my son and my two daughters, Joanna and Joy Elizabeth, and make that declaration over them.
I also pray over the persons each of them may eventually marry and pray that they will not get out of the perfect will of God for their lives. Why? Because I’ve seen that it pays to pray like that. Here’s the best illustration I know of praying for your children and those God’s Kingdom in You and Your Family whom they will marry.
My wife, Melva Jo, has her master’s degree in music； she is an operatic soprano, an incredible vocalist who has sung all over the world. We met when we were in college. She was Miss Dallas Baptist College, and I was a “mole in a hole.” (I was busy reading the red and praying for the power, remember?) Here she was, the socialite of the campus, singing for the president of the Southern Baptist Convention, and here I was, just a little old guy who couldn't match my socks. We were both in the college choir, so I’d noticed her, of course. But I was going with a girl back in my home town, and Melva was engaged to a guy in Mississippi.
Our choir traveled all over the world that year, and Melva and I became friends. One evening she and I were in my car headed for a concert when she casually announced, “Well, I’m gonna’ get married.”
I grinned and said, “You ought to marry that poor guy, Melva. You’ve been engaged to him for three years.” Melva was silent for a minute then answered quietly, “Yes, but I’m not going to marry bim.”
Something in the way she said that made something inside of me go “Doi-yoi-yoi-yoiing!’’ I didn’t say a word and neither did she, but it must have hit her, too, because she didn’t want me to drive her back to the college that night. Actually, she did something really mature： Here she was a senior in college, and she hid in the bathroom so I couldn’t find her.
And the next day? Well, then she wouldn’t go to class because she didn’t want to face me. But I knew where she worked, so I did something really mature, too. I went there and hid behind a tree. When she got off work, I jumped out in front of her and commanded, “Melva Jo Bryant, don’t you go anywhere. She smiled, ducked her head and said softly, “I’m not going anywhere.’’
We went to a quiet hillside to talk. The sun was setting, and it was so romantic. Like Simon Peter not knowing what to say on the Mount of Transfiguration, I blurted out, “Do you realize we could get married?” (That was one of the first serious things I had ever said to her.) Returning my gaze, she said thoughtfully, “Yes, I guess so. Larry, if this is really the Lord, my fiance will call and break up with me.”
You guessed it. Three days later that dude called hen “Melva,” he confessed, “I’ve been wanting to call for several weeks now, but I didn’t want to break your heart. You see, I’m going with a girl here in Mississippi, and
I want to break my engagement to you. I don’t think we should get married.”
He must have been shocked by the tone in Melva’s re-ply. “Good!” she said, breathing a prayer of thanks. “Good!”
Melva came to me and told me what had happened, adding emphatically： “This is the Lord’s
I thought, I’m too young to die! Then Melva announced, “We’ve got to talk to my daddy.”
‘‘Your daddy?’’ I mumbled, trying not to choke.
So we drove off to the hills of Arkansas where Melva had grown up. Late that night we arrived at her parents* home where they greeted us at the door. Melva introduced me and announced proudly, “Daddy, this is the man I’m going to marry.” Mr. Bryant stared at me and sputtered, “That? That? That’s what I’ve prayed for—for almost forty years?” (That’s not the whole truth, but it went something like that.)
Then he sat me down at their breakfast table and told me a story I’ll never forget. “Son,” he began kindly, “Melva’s mother was told that it was medically impossible for her ever to bear a child. But we cried out to God as Hannah did for Samuel. For twenty years we prayed, ‘God, give us a child. Thy will be done over our child/ After twenty years of marriage, we made a vow to God. We promised, 'God, if the child You give us is a boy, we will dedicate him to the ministry. If it’s a girl, we’ll dedicate her to be a pastor's wife.”
Mr. Bryant paused, and I thought, I never even bad a chance!
Then Melva’s dad continued the story. “When my wife was 40 years old, she conceived for the first time. For seven of the nine months of pregnancy she lay flat on her back in bed. But when she gave birth to a healthy girl, we held our baby up before the Lord and vowed, ‘Jesus, every day of her life we will declare that the will of God be done in our child. ’’
Don’t you see? Melva’s decision, “I’m not going to marry him,” was the 40-year composite of her parents putting their
foot down in prayer and declaring, “Thy will be done in the life of our daughter, Lord.”
That’s why I urge you to intercede for your children and to pray that they will not get out of the perfect will of God for their lives. While your children are young, ask God to reveal His plans for their futures in order that you can train them up in the way they should go. Treasure in your heart those things the Lord speaks to you about each child, and claim God’s wisdom daily in guiding and training your children.
Petition the Lord to lay other family members upon your heart. Allow the circle of your concern and com¬passion to be enlarged.
At times you are sure to get “hung up” in prayer, unable to leave one person. When that happens, be sensitive to the Holy Spirit because He knows that the person needs prayer that day. Make sure you do not rush through some little prayer formula, but pray until the Holy Spirit gives you release.
If your prayer time is gone and you have not prayed through all the topics in the Lord’s Prayer, stop and then pick up the prayer outline where you left off at the first opportunity later in the day一driving your car, working around the house, before going to sleep. Let your life become a life of prayer. Learn to “pray the price” for what you need.
And every day as God asks, “May I reign in you?,” joyfully declare： “Yes! Yes! Thy kingdom come, Lord! Thy will be done. I call upon You to perform Your perfect will in me, in my mate and children and in my loved ones. I place Your will before my own desires.”
There are other important priorities yet to be established and maintained. Let’s consider these next as we, with intense inward yearning, continue to pray this powerful plea： “Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done!”.
Ch.11. (GOD'S KINGDOM IN YOUR CHURCH AND NATION)
In 1974 I interviewed Richard Wurmbrand, a Jewish Christian who had spent three years in a Romanian dungeon where he was tortured for his faith. “Mr. Wurmbrand,” I asked, “do you think American Christians are going to experience what you experienced?” His reply startled me. “No,” he answered thoughtfully, “I don’t think it's going to come. I think it’s already here. In America, I experience ten times more demonic spiritual oppression fighting to make me draw back than I ever experienced in a dungeon.”
It is an indisputable fact. As believers, you and I are part of God’s army, and it is at war. It’s time we realized that God’s army was formed to fight, not to show off our shiny brass buttons and spit-shined boots. God has called us to be warriors—to be an anointed, delivering army with healing in our hands. We can lose by default, but we cannot lose if we will fight.
Paul, one of God’s generals, commanded us to “fight the good fight of faith” (1 Tim. 6:12). Notice that Paul didn’t say, “Fight if you feel like it. Fight if you have that sort of personality.” Every believer must fight the good
fight of faith. Satan has declared war on believers, and he does not fight fair.
The devil doesn’t bat a bloodshot eye at attacking the harmless, the innocent or the inexperienced in battle. You and your family are just as much Satan’s prey as your church and your nation are. Therefore, it is of critical importance that you learn how to pray daily over four vital areas and declare, “Come, kingdom of God! Be done, will of God!”
We have talked about how you can establish and maintain godly priorities in yourself and your family. Now turn your attention to two other critical areas, your church and your nation, and let’s discover how to defeat the devil there.
Your Church
Your third prayer priority is your church. Pray for the pastor, the leadership of the church, the faithfulness of the people, and the harvest.
Pastor. As you pray for your pastor, ask God to anoint him, speak to him and direct him. Petition the Lord to
give your pastor a shepherd’s heart, to impart wisdom to him as he spends time in the Word and in prayer, and
to make him a pure channel through which the gifts and power of the Holy Spirit can flow.
Leadership. Say the leaders’ names in prayer. As you pray for them one by one, the Holy Spirit often will show you specific needs. Pray for the people in the church who are ministering in ways which touch your own life directly. Pray that the Lord will make the various groups and organizations in the church healthy. Ask the Lord to show them how to breathe in through fellowship and breathe out in evangelism.
Faithfulness. Pray that the people of the church will be faithful to their families, to the vision God has given
God’s Kingdom in Your Church and Nation your church, and to Jesus. Entreat the Holy Spirit to plant them in the house of the Lord, so they will bring forth fruit as soul winners and intercessors. Pray that they will be faithful in bringing their tithes and offerings into the storehouse and that they will serve God as He deserves to be served.
Harvest. God gave me a passage from Isaiah to claim when praying in the harvest for the church：
Fear not： for I am with thee： I will bring thy seed from the east, and gather thee from the west；
I will say to the north, Give up； and to the south, Keep not back： bring my sons from far, and my daughters from the ends of the earth； even every one that is called by my name： for I have created him for my glory (Is. 43:5-7).
Therefore, as I pray over my church, I speak to the powers and principalities of the air who work in the children of disobedience (see Eph. 2：2). These powers and principalities hold the reins over certain areas, so I speak to the area north of my church as if it were a person and say, “North, you have people God wills to become a part of my church. I command you in the name of Jesus to release every person who is supposed to become a part of this body.”
Then I speak to the South, East and West, and in the Spirit I look them right in the face. I command them to release every one—not every other one—that God has ordained to be saved, planted, strengthened and established in my church. I tarry there in prayer until I have a release in my spirit that the evil powers are listening and relinquishing what belongs to me. Through the Spirit, I face those geographical areas and challenge them until they drop the reins of control. Then in Jesus’ name, I ask God to dispatch angels to minister to the heirs of
salvation (see Heb. 1:13,14).
Now that may sound “far out” to some people. But let’s not fall into the habit of labeling every slightly out of the ordinary approach we run up against as the sure sign of a counterfeit； it may be the real thing. Remember how unorthodox Jesus’ methods seemed to the Pharisees who perceived themselves to be spiritual experts. As Donald Gee, a wise British pastor and Bible teacher for many years, once said, “Those who pretend to pass judgment in spiritual matters must be prepared to show their credentials of personal spiritual experience” Unfortunately, many people condemning manifestations and experiences birthed by the Holy Spirit have had little personal experience with either.
How many of you know Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today and forever? And how many of you also know the Pharisees are the same yesterday, today and forever! Let’s not be spiritually ignorant and naive. Let’s desire to be balanced, not embalmed. Now get a good grip on your theological hat, because I’ve got something else to say!
One day when I was praying intently in the Spirit and commanding the North to give up everyone who belonged to my church, I saw a vision of a huge, black, moss-covered, Darth-Vader-looking creature. He stood at least nine feet tall, and he held a chain. The demonic spirit sneered at me in contempt, beckoning to me, mock¬ing me, as if to say, ‘‘Are you really serious? Are you willing to fight me over this?”
Something stood straight up in my spirit, and I knew how David must have felt as he faced Goliath. I heard myself backing him down, declaring that he would release every soul the Holy Spirit was drawing to become a part of God’s church. He stared at me as I resisted him in the name of Jesus, then he slowly dropped the chain and backed off.
Close to that time, something else happened. One morning I was speaking to the North, South, East and West, commanding them to give up. Just then, I saw a vision of a huge, marching army. Fm talking about tens of thousands! They were wearing fatigues and marching in perfect time. Amazed, I asked, '‘Lord, what is that?”
The Lord replied, “Son, that’s your church.” At that time, our church had only about 300 people, so I gasped incredulously, “My church?”
Later, the Lord spoke again and explained, “Larry, when you pray that the East will give up, you’re thinking about the Texas towns of Greenville and Sulphur Springs, less than 50 miles away, but when I say East, Fm thinking about Germany. I’m talking about Jerusalem. I’m the God of the whole earth.”
I laughed and really got a kick out of that. I even shared it with the intercessors in our early morning prayer meeting, and we all laughed about God thinking of Germany when we declared, “East, give up! Keep not back!”
Well, the next Sunday as I gave the invitation at the close of the service, I said, “All week long I have prayed over you people, and I know you are here from the North, South, East and West, because we have prayed you in. The Bible says the Lord added to the church daily such as should be saved. How many of you feel today that the Lord is adding you to this church? Will you please raise your hands and then come down to the front here so I can pray over you?’’
Down the aisle walked a handsome six-foot-four man with his beautiful blonde wife and two cute little boys. The Spirit of God whispered to me, “Ask him where they’re from.” Obediently, I singled out the man and inquired, “Sir, would you tell me where you are from?”
He almost clicked his heels together and saluted! He said, “Two years ago while I was serving in Germany as a major in the U.S. Army, I heard one of your tapes about praying over the North, South, East and West. The Lord told me to resign my commission in the army, move to Rockwall, Texas, and join the army of God here.”
Folks, this is real stuff! We must learn to pray and obey, as Cho said years ago, and God will take care of the details. It wasn’t a beautiful building or some perfectly orchestrated program that added 4,789 new members to Church on the Rock in 1985. In one three-month period in 1986 we saw over 500 people born again. That spiritual momentum continues to build. That’s not Larry Lea； that’s God.
God has taught us first to pray and command the North, South, East and West to give up. Then we ask the Holy Spirit to draw soids to Jesus, and we release angels to minister to the heirs of salvation. We pray, “Don’t let the people have wrecks while they’re on their way to church. Don’t let things provoke families to arguments and prevent their coming to God’s house. Minister grace to the people as they’re driving here.” And last, we declare the faith level given to us by God.
What do I mean by that? When I speak of faith levels, I’m not referring to “hype,” “positive mental attitude” or man-made and man-motivated objectives. I’m talking about Spirit-imparted goals. You see, the Spirit of God puts into my spirit a specific number of souls I am to ask God for. I share it with my staff, and we begin to ask for that specific number of additions. Each morning as we pray, we set ourselves in agreement with God for that particular number of souls to be added to the church.
Through the years, we have noted a marked correlation between the number of faithful intercessors in our early morning prayer meetings, the amount of tithes and offerings given and the number of people added to the church. For instance, in 1984 we had about twenty faithful intercessors at morning prayer. (We had more people praying, but I’m talking about faithful prayer warriors.) Our offerings were around $20,000 weekly, and about twenty people joined the church each week.
The number of intercessors grew, and about mid-way through 1984 God said, “I want you to believe Me for sixty new members and $60,000 a week.” We began having about sixty faithful intercessors, the offerings grew to $60,000 weekly, and we averaged sixty new additions to our church each week.
The number of faithful intercessors climbed, and in 1985 our faith level was for one hundred additions to the church and $110,000 each week. God brought it to pass, and this spiritual correlation continues. Today we have many more prayer warriors. Entire families come to the church for morning prayer, and many members of our church who live too far away to drive to Rockwall each morning for prayer have begun morning prayer meetings in their homes.
Now I'm not promising the same thing will happen in your church, but I’ll tell you this： If I were you, I’d ask the Holy Spirit to purify my motives. Then I would help begin an early morning prayer meeting in my church if it didn’t already have one, and release God to do what He wants to do in your midst.
Make prayer for your church a priority. Pray for the pastor and leadership. Pray for the faithfulness of the peo-ple and for the harvest and declare, “Come, kingdom of God. Be done, will of God!”
Your Nation
Your fourth prayer priority is your nation. Pray that the president will have the wisdom of God； that spiritual leaders will walk in wisdom, be people of prayer and be kept by the power of God. Pray specifically, naming your city, state and national leaders. Intercede for the United States. Pray for revival.
The Lord also commands us to pray for the peace of Jerusalem (Ps. 122：6), so pray for the success of the nation of Israel. You may wish to ask God to lay another nation of the world upon your heart—communist nations, countries experiencing revolution or famine, and so forth. Allow the Spirit of God to enlarge your borders of concern and compassion.
At this point, you will have prayed through the first two topics in Christ’s model prayer： “Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name”; and ‘‘Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth as it is in heaven.” There are four remaining demarcations.
Perhaps you now realize how simple it is to pray one hour. You are learning how to pray for multitudes of things that once caused you fear, worry and frustration. And now instead of thinking, How could I ever pray an entire hour?, you may be wondering, How can I ever get through in only one hour?
You see, our problem has been simple. Not knowing what to say or do when we prayed, we wore ourselves out in about ten minutes. But Jesus said, “ After this manner pray ye,” and He gave us a prayer outline to follow.
In the context of this prayer are the five major themes that have been restored to vitality in the church in our time.
They are praise and worship； kingdom authority； prosperity； relationships； and spiritual authority. Each of those themes is there, and each is in perfect balance. Yes, in the context of this prayer is everything you need in order to live full and free in spiritual victory!
Review Questions
1. The ________________________________ is the rudder of life (James 3：3-5).
2. What is the kingdom of God? Romans 14:17 declares, “The kingdom of God is not meat and drink； but _________ , and, ___________________ , and ________________________________ in the Holy Ghost.”
3. What are four major areas in which God’s kingdom should be established?
a. _______________ __ _ b. ________________________________
c . _____________ ___ d.___________________________
4. Unless you are right before God your prayer will not be effective, for the Bible says：
“The effectual, fervent prayer of a _____________ man availeth much” (James 5： 16).
5. Your third priority is your church. What four specific areas should be covered when you pray for your church?
a. _______________ __ _ b. ________________________________
c . _____________ ___ d.___________________________
6. As a reminder to yourself, in the space provided below list specific people and topics for which you personally want to pray when you come to the fourth priority, your nation：
7. Can you think of time you spend doing unimportant, unnecessary things during the course of your day that could be
devoted to prayer? If so, list those times here and ask the Holy Spirit to help you and remind you to redeem that time
Prayer Outline
I. Make a declaration of faith： “Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done—not simply willed—but done.”
II. Four major areas to establish His kingdom
A. Yourself
1. Be sure you are right before God.
2. Ask Jesus to be seated on the throne of your life and to rule in every area.
3. Abide before the Lord until the course of your day is set and the Spirit of God is functioning in you.
B. Your family
1. Mate
2. Children
3. Other family members
C. Your church
1. Your pastor
2. Leadership of church
3. Faithfulness of the people
4. The harvest
D. Nation
1. City, state and national political leaders
2. Spiritual leaders
3. Revival
III. Ask the Spirit of God：
A. To implement your priorities.
B. To help you live them out.
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