This Present Kingdom

<p>Jesus' warning, that whoever lives within and under the&nbsp;reign and rule of the Father through Jesus His Son will have eternal life, and whoever consistently does NOT live within and under the reign and rule of God the Father through His Son Jesus will suffer eternal death, is an act of love!</p>

<p>The call of Jesus into discipleship with Him in the Father’s&nbsp;Kingdom is at its root the transformation of character of the inner life and for us to experience that transformation, we must be rightly behaved and rightly believing.</p>

<p>For Jesus to become the one person who has supreme&nbsp;authority over our life (being) and our lives (behaviors) we must surrender our wills to Him which begins with our intention to commit fully to a thoughtful plan built in accord with the details that come from Jesus teaching.</p>

<p>God's powerful, effectual, authoritative word is a means of&nbsp;lasting change to all who submit to its teaching, reproof, correction, and training in righteousness.</p>

<p>Christ suffered and died to prove and to show us His love&nbsp;and grace so that we might walk with Him and learn about it in His Father’s Kingdom.</p>

<p>The Holy Spirit leads us from death to life as we come to&nbsp;know God's love as His children.</p>

<p>The Holy Spirit leads us into the ways of God through our&nbsp;response to him in the ordinary moments of life. We need to receive, rest, and rejoice in every circumstance (trials) and stop rejecting, running from, or reinterpreting them so we can be made mature in Christ.</p>

<p>The path to Spiritual transformation and growth requires&nbsp;disciplined effort through the exercise of the spiritual disciplines under the direction of God's word and will and the Holy Spirit.</p>

<p>When we enter into Solitude we begin to detangle our&nbsp;lives from the world’s control of our souls and begin to experience the freedom Jesus knew perfectly.</p>

<p>The discipline of silence requires us to place our bodies in the&nbsp;“silent” places, practicing the action of not speaking so we become people who are free from our dependence on its presence in our lives.</p>