Overdue thanks

Le sir,

I should have thanked you for all the wonderful information you sent me about doing Paida and other treatments for varicose veins so many months ago...

So, thank you so very much...Much appreciation of your time...

One other question about doing Paida for varicose veins, you recommended doing the other body parts to open up the pathways before working on the legs...Makes sense...

I wear support hose every day and would like your opinion on using the slapper on my legs while the stockings are on...Do you think this method would work or should the Paida only be done without the stockings on...I thought about doing both...

Any opinion would be greatly appreciated...

Much thanks again and hope all is well with you and yours...

Thank you Thank you,

Linda

Your Spirit Man Was Built to Dominate — So Why Are You Being Dominated?

 Chapter 1: The problem of reversed order

There is a sentence that exposes something most believers have never been able to name because you can develop spirit life until you dominate circumstances.

Read that again slowly. Not manage circumstances, not survive circumstances, not cope with circumstances. One difficult season at a time. Dominate them. That is the design. So why does your daily experience look nothing like that? Why does your mood, not the word, decide how your morning actually feels?

Why do your feelings carry more authority in your decisions than the quiet witness, Romans 8:14 says is supposed to lead you? Why does the pain in your body still shout louder than first Peter 2:24, even after you have confessed healing a 100 times? Something has gone wrong in the order. Not in your theology. Not in your salvation, not in your commitment to God. In the order, the specific God-designed creation established sequence in which you were built to function. The spirit leads, the soul follows, the body serves. And in the daily life of most believers, that order has been completely reversed. The body sets the agenda. The feelings govern the decisions. The reasoning faculties override the spirit's witness.

And the spirit man, the part of you specifically recreated at the new birth to be the dominant force in your life, is following 

And we are going to diagnose precisely what has reversed that order. Name exactly what is dominating your spirit instead and walk through the specific reversal that restores it to the position it was always designed to occupy. This is not another devotional   encouragement to trust God more. This is a precise diagnosis of why the spirit man that was built to dominate is in your daily experience being dominated instead. 1 Thessalonians 5:23 gives us the exact design scripture itself describes. And the very God of peace sanctify you holy. And I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless. Spirit, soul, body, named in that order deliberately, not an arbitrary list, a sequence. The design in which the spirit recreated and indwelt by God himself was built to lead the soul and the body rather than be led by them. 1 Corinthians 2:14 tells us why this order matters so much. But the natural man receiveth not the things of the spirit of God, for they are foolishness unto him, neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

Spiritually discerned, which means the governing center of accurate perception was never meant to be the senses or the reasoning mind. It was always meant to be the spirit. And a believer whose spirit is not leading is a believer trying to navigate life using the one faculty least equipped to interpret spiritual reality accurately. I said, "This tragedy is not that the order has been reversed. It is that most believers do not even know it has been reversed. They have lived under the domination of the soul and the senses for so long that it feels normal. It feels like Christianity itself.

Struggle, striving, the constant internal battle between what the word says and what the circumstances are reporting. But that was never the design. And between that design and the daily experience of the average believer is a specific diagnosible reversible condition. Today we name it precisely.

Genesis 1:26 gives us a glimpse of the original design before anything went wrong. And God said, "Let us make man in ...

Chapter 2: Identifying the dominators our image, after our likeness, and let them have dominion. Dominion, not domination by the environment, governance over it. That was the design from the very beginning, stamped into the nature of the being God created and the new birth. Before we name what is doing the dominating, we need to understand what domination of the spirit man actually looks like in daily life.

Because most believers experience it constantly without recognizing it by name. You wake up and the first thing that sets the tone of your day is how you feel. Not what the word says, not what the indwelling one is communicating, how you feel, tired, anxious, hopeful, worried. The emotional state of the body and the soul claims the governing position before the spirit has even had a chance to speak. And the rest of the day flows from that emotional starting point rather than from the spirit's governing reality. 

And it looks like this. A decision arises and the primary inputs you consult are your reasoning and your feelings. What makes sense to you, what feels right, what the people around you think, what your past experience suggests, and the inner witness of the spirit. The quiet knowing that Romans 8:14 describes as the primary way the Holy Spirit leads is either not consulted at all or is overridden by the louder vote of the reasoning faculties. It looks like this.

The Word says by his stripes you wee healed. The body says there is pain and the pain is louder than the word. Not because the Word is less true, because the sense report has been given more authority than the spirit's knowing of the word. And the governing response to the situation comes from the senses rather than from the spirit.  The average Christian today is carnal or sense ruled babes in Christ. They have never learned to develop the recreated spirit until it dominates circumstances.

And then he identifies precisely what is doing the dominating. Instead he calls it sense knowledge. The continuous relentless habitual rule of the five physical senses over the daily life of a believer whose inner man has never been developed enough to compete with what the senses are constantly broadcasting.

And since knowledge dominance is not a character flaw. It is not evidence of spiritual failure. It is simply the

result of a specific developmental deficit. The spirit man was not developed. And an undeveloped spirit man in a world that has been training the senses to lead since birth cannot assert its God-given dominance without deliberate consistent daily development.

2 Corinthians 5:7 gives us the scriptural standard that sense knowledge dominance directly contradicts. For we walk by faith, not by sight, not by sight, not by the body's report, the mind's analysis, or the circumstances claim to finality. By faith, by the spirit's knowing of what the word declares, regardless of what the senses are currently reporting. And the believer whose spirit has never been developed enough to compete with the senses walks the opposite verse bydefault by sight not by faith. Not because they have chosen unbelief because the undeveloped spirit simply cannot yet hold its ground against decades of practiced reinforced sensrained thinking. Think about how early this training actually starts.

From infancy, every human being is taught implicitly and explicitly to trust what can be seen, touched, measured, and felt as the primary definition of what is real. By the time a person is born again, often decades into that training, the senses have an enormous head start over a spirit that has existed in its recreated form for only a fraction of that time. This is not a reason for discouragement. It is a reason for precision. The spirit man is not weak. It is young in terms of its development relative to a sensrained mind and body that have been practicing their dominance for a lifetime. And what a young undeveloped faculty needs is not shame. It needs training. 

Romans 12:2 confirms exactly where that training must happen. Be not conformed to this world, but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind. Transformed not instantly through a renewing, a process repeated consistently that moves the mind from its sense defaults into alignment with what the spirit already knows. And this is exactly where diagnosis becomes so important because once you can name what is dominating your spirit man sense knowledge specifically you can begin the specific deliberate work of reversing it not in general precisely. Sense knowledge dominance is a single identifiable condition but it operates through three specific instruments three dominators each of which needs to be named clearly before any one of them can be reversed. That is exactly where we are headed next. Now let us name precisely what is dominating the spirit man because there are three specific dominators that I identify in the hidden man and each one needs to be recognized and reversed before the

Chapter 3: Understanding the three dominators spirit man can take its designed position of leadership. The first dominator is the sense ruled mind. The mind was designed to be the spirit's servant to process and express what the spirit receives from God. To take the wisdom and direction the inner man receives and translate it into practical decisions and actions in the physical world, spirit to soul to body, that is the designed order. 

But a mind that has been educated exclusively by sense knowledge, that has been trained from birth to treat what the five senses seconds report as the primary measure of reality, becomes not the spirit's servant but its competitor. It generates its own assessment of every situation based on visible evidence. It produces its own wisdom based on accumulated experience. It arrives at its own conclusions based on what can be seen and measured and analyzed. And it presents those conclusions to the whole person as though they carry the same authority as what the spirit knows. And in the believer whose spirit has never been developed, the mind wins that competition every time. Not because it should, because it has been practicing longer. The mind has been operating as the governing voice since before the believer was ever born again. It has decades of practice leading and the spirit however recreated and however full of God's life is functionally new to the role of leader. An inexperienced leader will always initially yield to an

experienced follower who insists on leading and wise. The reversal begins with the practice. The consistent daily deliberate practice of feeding the spirit on the word until the spirit's voice is stronger and more familiar than the mind's analysis. Not by silencing the mind, by developing the spirit until its voice is louder. until the inner knowing the spirit carries is more immediately accessible in daily decisions than the reasoning the mind produces. The second dominator is the emotional body. I identify the emotions as one of the primary instruments through which the soul dominates the spirit in the average believer's daily life. Not because emotions are wrong. Emotions are a genuine and valuable dimension of the soul. But emotions were designed to be informed by the spirit and expressed through the body, not to govern the spirit, not to set the agenda for the inner man, not to determine what is true based on how something feels. But in the average believer, the emotions do exactly that. They feel fear and conclude the situation is dangerous.

They feel peace and conclude God approves. They feel doubt and conclude the promise is not reliable. They feel excitement and conclude the direction is right. And the spirit, however clear its witness, is overridden by the emotional report. Every single time the emotions are sufficiently activated. 

1 John 3:20. For if our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart and knoweth all things. The heart that condemns is the emotionally turbulent inner man measuring spiritual reality by how it feels rather than by what God actually says. And my prescription for emotional domination is the same as for mental domination, not the suppression of emotion. The development of the spirit until the spirit's knowing is more trusted and more immediately accessible than the emotional report.   until the believer can distinguish between what they feel and what the spirit knows and consistently choose to govern from the knowing rather than from the feeling. Think about how often these two dominators work together in an ordinary week. The mind produces an anxious analysis of a situation. The emotions respond to that analysis with fear and the fear in turn convinces the mind its anxious analysis was correct.

All along a closed loop feeding itself with no input from the spirit at any point in the cycle. Breaking that loop does not require eliminating thought or suppressing feeling. It requires inserting the spirit's voice back into the sequence consistently until the loop includes a third party that neither the mind nor the emotions can simply override. Before we go on to the third dominator, I want to mention something built to help you break exactly this kind of loop through genuine daily fellowship with the Holy Spirit. Our secret place devotional, a 90-day practical journey with the Holy Spirit is now live and available.  Dot not more information about the spirit. consistent daily fellowship with him until his voice becomes familiar enough to actually compete with the mind and the emotions rather than being drowned out by them. The third dominator is circumstantial evidence.

This is perhaps the most pervasive and the most subtle of the three dominators.

Circumstances have a way of presenting themselves with an authority that feels absolute. 

The bank statement says empty.

The medical report says serious. The relationship says broken. The opportunity says closed. And each of those circumstantial reports comes with an implicit claim to finality. This is reality. This is what is true. This is what you must govern your life from. And the spirit man that has not been developed to the point where the word is more real than the circumstance will accept that claim to finality. Will govern the confession from the circumstance. will let the visible determine the declaration will allow what can be seen to override what the spirit knows and the result is a believer whose life is shaped by circumstances rather than shaping them.

 In new creation realities that the new creation was never designed to be governed by circumstances.

The design is a spirit man so thoroughly developed in the word, so consistently fed on covenant reality, so habitually leading the soul and the body that the circumstances it faces are subjects of the spirit's authority rather than governors of the spirit's reality. 

2 Corinthians 4:18. We look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen, for the things which are seen are temporal, but the things which are not seen are eternal. The temporal yielding to the eternal, the visible yielding to the invisible, the circumstance yielding to the spirit.

That is dominance. Three dominators now named clearly. The sense ruled mind, the emotional body, circumstantial evidence.

Each one operating through the same underlying mechanism, sense knowledge, dressed in three different disguises.

Chapter 4: The path to spiritual reversal

And now let us look at the specific reversal. How the spirit man moves from dominated to dominating. Not in a single dramatic encounter through a specific deliberate daily developmental process that I identifies with precision.

But the first step in the reversal is feeding the spirit before the dominators get their say.   The hidden man , the spirit must be fed consistently. The same requirement that applies to the body applies to the spirit. A starved spirit cannot lead. A fed spirit leads naturally. And the domination that most believers experience is largely a result of a spirit that has been consistently underfed while the soul and the senses have been consistently overfed. The reversal begins with the morning before the mind begins its analysis. Before the emotions respond to the day's demands, before the circumstances present their claims to authority, you feed the spirit. One verse meditated on, spoken slowly, personalized, dropped past the intellect into the inner man, not as a religious exercise, as the specific deliberate feeding of the organ that is designed to lead. And a consistently fed spirit over days and weeks and months of this daily practice grows in exactly the way I describe, stronger, more vocal, more capable of asserting its designed dominance over the soul and the body.

Mark 1:35 gives us Jesus's own pattern for this kind of deliberate first priority feeding. And in the morning, rising up a great while before day, he went out and departed into a solitary place, and there prayed a great while before day. Before the demands of ministry, before the crowds, before anything else had the chance to claim that window, Jesus himself protected the first minutes of the day for exactly this purpose. Feeding the spirit before the dominators of an entire day's worth of ministry, pressure, and need had any opportunity to speak first. This is not incidental to one's effectiveness. It is foundational to it. A spirit man that leads an entire day of supernatural ministry, healing the sick, casting out demons, teaching with authority, does not arrive at that capacity by accident.

It arrives there because the spirit was fed deliberately before anything else got a vote. Think about the specific difference this makes in the actual texture of your own morning. The believer who checks their phone first, wakes into a day already shaped by notifications, headlines, and other people's demands before their own spirit has been given a single moment of priority. The believer who feeds their spirit first wakes into a day already anchored in covenant reality before any competing voice has had the chance to set the tone. Same morning, same demands waiting. Two entirely different starting points determined entirely by which voice got first position. 

This is step one of the reversal. not complicated, not time consuming, but non-negotiable.

If the spirit man is ever going to develop the strength required to compete with and eventually dominate three dominators that have had a lifetime's head start. 

The second step is acting on the spirit's witness before the dominators have a chance to override it.

This is the specific exercise that builds spirit dominance faster than anything else. And it requires what I call corresponding action. Every time the spirit gives a witness, every time there is an inner knowing about a direction or a decision, you act on it before the reasoning faculties have produced a competing analysis and before the emotions have produced a competing feeling. Not recklessly, not without wisdom, but immediately before the dominator gets its word in. Because the dominator's primary strategy is delay.

If it can get the believer to wait, to analyze, to weigh, to consult, to feel long enough, the spirit's witness gets buried under the accumulated weight of sense knowledge input. And another opportunity for spirit dominance becomes another instance of sense knowledge domination. Luke 16:10 gives us the scriptural principle behind why this matters so much. He that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in much. The spirit man that is consistently acted on even in small daily decisions grows in its capacity to lead. Its witness becomes more familiar.

Its voice becomes more distinct. Its authority over the soul and the body becomes more established. And over time the reversal occurs not dramatically cumulatively the spirit begins to lead by habit rather than by effort. And what was domination becomes what the design always intended dominance. The third step is maintaining the spirit's declaration through the dominators pressure. The dominators do not yield without resistance. And the specific test of whether the reversal is taking hold is what happens when the dominators push back. When the mind produces a competing analysis, when the emotions produce a competing feeling, when the circumstances produce a competing report, the spirit man that is growing in its dominance maintains its declaration through that pressure. Not by denying the competing input, by refusing to give it governing authority.

Hebrews 10:35, "Cast not away, therefore, your confidence, which hath great recompense of reward." The confidence is the spirit's declaration of what the Word says over the situation, and casting it away is allowing the dominator's pressure to override it. The reversal is complete when the spirit's confidence holds through the dominator's pressure, not perfectly, not without challenge, but consistently. 

Chapter 5: Living from spirit dominance

The spirit leading, the soul following, the body serving, the designed order restored. Think about what this actually looks like in a specific ordinary moment of pressure.

The diagnosis arrives and the mind immediately begins calculating worst case outcomes. The spirit man that has been developed through steps one and two does not silence that calculation by force.

It simply does not hand the calculation governing authority over the confession. The mind can keep calculating.

The declaration by his stripes I was healed holds regardless. That is the difference between suppression and dominance. Suppression tries to stop the competing voice from speaking. Dominance lets it speak and simply does not let it govern. Three steps now complete.

Feeding the spirit before the dominators speak, acting on the witness before they can override it, and maintaining the declaration through whatever pressure they apply afterward. Together, these three steps are the specific practical

I identified, not willpower, development. 

Father, I decree right now over every person reading and hearing this that their spirit man is being fed, obeyed, and maintained according to this three-fold pattern. I decree that Hebrews 10:35 is becoming their settled experience. Confidence held through pressure rather than confidence cast away by it in the name of Jesus Christ.  

That is the complete reversal laid out in three deliberate steps. Not a theory anymore.

A specific daily practical pathway available to you starting with your very next morning. Now let me give you the complete picture of what a spirit man operating in its designed dominance actually looks like. Because the goal is not just the reversal of domination. It is the full expression of what the spirit man was designed to produce when it is finally leading as God intended.

 In the hidden man that the believer whose spirit has been developed to the point of dominance has reached the place where faith is not something they manufacture. It is something they live from. Not straining to believe, simply knowing. The way a branch simply draws from the vine without effort because the connection is maintained.

The spirit is leading and the life flows from the spirit's leadership. The way water flows from a source without effort, without striving, without the constant internal battle that characterizes the dominated spirits experience. And in new creation realities,  the practical picture with equal precision. I say, "We are what we confess." And the believer whose spirit is dominant confesses from the spirit's knowing rather than from the senses report, not because they are ignoring reality.

Because the spirit's reality is more real to them than the senses report. The word has been eaten rather than just cataloged. The inner man has been developed rather than just educated. And the governing voice in every situation is the spirit's voice rather than the dominator's voice. John 15:5 gives us the exact picture I am drawing on.

Chapter 6: Practical steps for daily life

I am the vine. Ye are the branches. He that abideth in me and I in him. The same bringeth forth much fruit. For without me ye can do nothing. Abiding, not straining. The branch does not manufacture its own fruit through effort. It simply remains connected and the fruit is the natural result of the connection being maintained. This is the normal Christian life as I understood it. Not the exceptional experience of the spiritually advanced.

The designed experience of every born-again believer who does the daily work of developing the inner man until it occupies the position it was always designed to occupy. 

Spirit first, soul second, body third, dominance rather than domination. Think about how differently an entire life unfolds lived from that order compared to the reversed one. The believer whose spirit leads does not need every circumstance to improve before they can function in peace. They are not waiting for the diagnosis to change or the bank account to recover or the relationship to heal before their inner man settles. The settling happens first because the spirit not the circumstance is governing. And from that settled place, the believer engages whatever the circumstance actually requires with clarity. The dominated spirit never has access to. This is not a promise that circumstances stop being difficult. It is a promise that the difficulty stops being the governing authority over the believer's inner life. And that distinction lived out daily is the entire difference between the Christian life I described and the Christian life most believers have settled for.

Father, I decree right now over every person hearing this that they are moving from manufacturing faith through effort to living from faith through abiding according to John 15:5. I decree that the normal Christian life where spirit leading, soul following , body serving is becoming their daily settled experience in the name of Jesus Christ.

So here is your starting point. Three daily practices that begin the reversal immediately. First feed the spirit before the dominators speak every morning. One verse meditated on before the phone is checked, before the news is consumed, before the day's demands begin their broadcast. Not a long process, a deliberate one. The spirit gets fed first every morning. Second, act on the first clear inner witness you receive each day. Not the dramatic, the ordinary, the small leading, the quiet, knowing about one ordinary daily decision. act on it before the mind produces a competing analysis. One act of spirit obedience per day builds spirit dominance faster than any amount of theological study about the spirit.

Chapter 7: Conclusion and final decree

Third, when the dominators push back, maintain the declaration. When the mind says but what about and the emotions say

but I feel and the circumstances say but it looks like you hold the spirit's position not aggressively quietly firmly

with the settled certainty of a spirit man that knows its position is established not on sense evidence but on the word of God that does not change when the circumstances change. Father, I bring a final decree over every person receiving this teaching right now. I decree that these three practices are becoming their daily non-negotiable pattern. I decree that the reversal from domination to dominance is taking hold in their inner man day by day according to 1 Thessalonians 5:23.

In the name of Jesus Christ, amen. 

Now before you go, declare this out loud. Right where you are, my spirit man leads. Not a description of where you currently are. The declaration of the reversal you are choosing to build from this day forward. Go to the comments right now and type these exact words. My spirit man leads. These three practices maintained consistently reverse the order. Day by day, the spirit grows stronger, the dominators grow quieter, and the life God designed, the life of a spirit man leading, governing, dominating, gradually becomes the daily reality rather than the distant aspiration.

Understand what has actually shifted in you today. Not new information filed away with everything else you have heard about the inner man. 

A precise diagnosis of why your spirit man built to dominate circumstances has instead been dominated by three specific nameable forces. The sense ruled mind, the emotional body, circumstantial evidence. 

The order was reversed not by God's design but by a lifetime of untrained development. And the order can be restored not through willpower but through the same kind of deliberate daily development that reversed it in the first place. 

Every believer who has ever walked in the kind of settled dominant spirit life this teaching describes did not arrive there through some rare encounter unavailable to ordinary Christians. They arrived there by doing exactly what this teaching has laid out. feeding the spirit before the dominators spoke, acting on the witness before they could override it, and maintaining the declaration through whatever pressure followed. Your spirit man was built to dominate, not someday, after enough theological study, today through the same three daily steps that are already available to you, starting with tomorrow's sunrise.

Basque: Kristo Jesusengan nagoenez

 (Kristo Jesusengan nagoenez) 

Jainkoak Biblian niri buruz esandakoa aldarrikatzen dut 🗣️:

     "Kristo Jesusengan, Jainkoaren zuzentasuna naiz. Ez naiz Jainkoa atsegin emateko borrokan ari den bekataria. Izaki berria naiz. Aitaren irudira berregina nago. Kristo Jesus hilen artetik piztu zuen Espiritu bera nigan bizi da, eta bizia ematen dio nire gorputz hilkorrari. Ez diot inori ezer eskatzen; aitzitik, nire eskubideak ezartzen ditut. Jaunak sendatu nau. Nire aurka prestatutako arma bakar batek ere ez du aurrera egingo. Garaile baino gehiago naiz, maite izan nauten Haren bidez."

     Esan hau nirekin oraintxe bertan, eta esaten duzun hitz bakoitza benetan sentituz.

     "Kristo Jesusengan, Jainkoaren zuzentasuna naiz. Haren zauriengatik sendatua nago. Nigan dagoena munduan dagoena baino handiagoa da. Ez diot inori ezer eskatzen; gurutzean egindako obra osoa aldarrikatzen eta ezartzen dut. Izaki berria naiz. Zaharra iragan da; dena berria da. Nire Jainkoak nire behar guztiak betetzen ditu, Kristo Jesusen bidez, bere aintzazko aberastasunaren arabera. Nire aurka prestatutako arma bakar batek ere ez du aurrera egingo. Garaile baino gehiago naiz, maite izan nauten Haren bidez."

     Hau da itunaren deklarazio espiritual eta juridikoki loteslea —hitz bidez adierazia—, bere eskubideak ezagutzen dituen Jainkoaren seme edo alabaren aldetik. (Hebrearrei 3:1 {Beraz, anaia santuok, zeruko dei horretan parte hartzen duzuenok, jarri begiak Jesusengan: bera da guk aitortzen dugun fedearen Apostolu eta Apaiz Nagusia;})

     Orain, esan 🗣️ ozenki:

     Jainkoak dioena naiz.

     Jainkoak daukadala dioena daukat.

     Jainkoak egin dezakedala dioena egin dezaket.

     Hauek errealitate sendo eta aldaezin baten hiru dimentsio dira: nire nortasuna, nire ondarea eta nire agintea Kristo Jesusengan.

English: ( In Christ Jesus I am )  

I speak 🗣️ what God said concerning me in the Bible: 

     "I am the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus. I am not a sinner struggling to please God. I am a new creation. I am recreated in the image of the Father. The same Spirit that raised Christ Jesus from the dead dwells in me and gives life to my mortal body. I do not beg. I enforce. I am healed of the Lord. No weapon formed against me shall prosper. I am more than a conqueror through Him that loved me."

        Say this with me right now and mean every word.

     "I am the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus. By his stripes I am healed. Greater is He that is in me than he that is in the world. I do not beg. I enforce the finished work of the cross. I am a new creation. The old has passed . All things are new. My God supplies every need of mine according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus. No weapon formed against me shall prosper. I am more than a conqueror through Him that loved me. "

     Thus is the spiritual legally binding covenant declaration, spoken words , from a son / daughter of God who knows his / her rights. ( Hebrews 3:1 { Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus;})

     Now say 🗣️ it out loud : 

     I AM WHO GOD SAYS I AM

     I HAVE WHAT GOD SAYS I HAVE 

     I CAN DO WHAT GOD SAYS I CAN DO 

     These are three dimensions of one unshakeable reality. My Identity, Inheritance, Authority in Christ Jesus. 

You were born again into the Kingdom of God, not into a religion. (I am a kingdom citizen)

 Chapter 1: Religion against Kingdom of God

 There is a question every sincere believer eventually asks, though most never say it out loud, because the asking itself feels dangerously close to unfaithfulness.

If what I have been given is as powerful as the New Testament claims it is, why does my daily experience look so little like what the New Testament describes?

Why is the gap between what the Bible promises and what I actually live so vast, so persistent, and so resistant to

every religious solution I have attempted.

I said, "The answer to that question is not a failure of faith. It is a failure of framework." Read that again slowly. 

The believer living far beneath what the New Testament promises is almost always living from the wrong

framework entirely. 

They have been given a kingdom and they have been taught to practice a religion. And a kingdom and a

religion are not two versions of the same thing.

 A religion is a system of human approach to the divine. It assumes the divine is distant. That access must be earned. That the quality of human performance determines the quality of divine response. 

A kingdom operates on entirely different principles.

 A kingdom is a realm of divine governance in which

citizens live, governed by the king's authority, sustained by the king's resources. The citizen does not earn their way into the kingdom's benefits through performance. They inhabit those benefits by virtue of their citizenship.

Mark 1: verses 14 and 15. Now after that, John was put in prison. Jesus came into Galilee preaching the gospel of the kingdom of God and saying, "The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand. Repent ye and believe the gospel." 

Chapter 2: Understanding the shift

The kingdom of God, not a new religion, not an improved system of approach to the divine. 

The kingdom of God, the realm of God's direct governance,

breaking into human experience. 

And the new birth, which is the mechanism of entry into this kingdom, is not initiation into a religious system. It is the birth of a new being into a new realm. 

John 3:3 Jesus answered and said unto him, "Verily, verily, I say unto thee, except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God." 

Born again, not initiated, not ordained, not subscribed, born. 

Everything we cover in this teaching is on the kingdom and the practical devastation that happens when a believer brings a religious framework to a kingdom reality.

 And today we are going to walk through exactly why that confusion is so costly and exactly what changes when the framework finally shifts from religion to kingdom. 

Colossians 1:13, God who hath delivered us out of the

authority of darkness, and translated us into the kingdom of the Son of His love.

Translated. The Greek word is methi to transfer, to remove from one place and establish in another. This is not the language of religious initiation. It is the language of relocation.

 At the new birth, the believer was not enrolled in a new religion. They were relocated, removed from one kingdom and established in another. And this relocation was not conditional on the quality of their subsequent religious performance. It was accomplished by the blood of Jesus Chist. It is a legal fact in the heavenly record that no subsequent failure on the believer's part revokes. 

Matthew 6:33. But seek ye first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added unto you. The kingdom first, not the religious system first, not the performance metric first. 

The kingdom, the realm of God's governance, the reality of His authority operating in and through the believer's life.

I identified five specific ways in which the kingdom framework produces a different daily experience than the

religious framework does. 

Five areas where the shift from religion to kingdom changes not just how the believer thinks but what they actually experience in the practical dimensions of their life. And that is exactly where we are headed next. 

I pressed this distinction with a force that most of my contemporaries did not fully appreciate.

 I said the confusion of the kingdom with religion is the single most practically devastating error in the history of Christian experience because it takes everything the kingdom provides. the authority, the provision, the healing, the peace, the supernatural governance of every circumstance and places it behind a performance barrier

that the kingdom's own constitution never established. 

The kingdom does not require you to earn your citizenship.

You were born into it. 

The kingdom does not require you to perform for access to its resources. You inhabit those resources as the environment of your citizenship. 

And the moment a believer understands this, the moment the religious framework gives way to the kingdom framework, everything about how they approach God, how they access the kingdom's provisions, and how they understand their own identity changes completely. 

1. The first area where the kingdom framework produces a completely different daily experience is prayer.

Chapter 3: The nature of prayer

Religious prayer is the human's approach to the divine through the performance barrier. It succeeds when the human's recent performance has been sufficient to earn a hearing and fails when recent failures have compromised their access.

It is tentative, hedged, careful not to presume too much. 

It sounds like, Lord, if I have been faithful enough, if my

prayer life has been consistent enough, if my recent record of obedience warrants your response, I humbly present

this request. 

And the uncertainty embedded in those qualifications is not theological humility. It is the posture of a religious performer who is not sure their performance has been adequate.

Kingdom prayer begins from an entirely different position.

Chapter 4: Bold access to God

 Hebrews 4:16, "Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need." 

Boldly, the Greek word is paracia, freedom of speech, confidence, the assurance of one who has the legal right to speak. 

This confidence is not produced by the quality of the believer's recent religious performance.

It is produced by the blood of the covenant that established their access by the name of Jesus Christ that gives them legal standing in the throne room.

Chapter 5: The system of provision

Kingdom prayer is not the petition of a religious performer hoping their performance has been adequate. 

It is the declaration of a kingdom citizen presenting covenant rights that the king's own constitution guarantees. 

Chapter 6: Relying on God's riches

2. The second area is provision. 

That the religious framework approaches provision through the performance system. Tithing, giving, fasting, praying with the implicit understanding that sufficient religious performance in these areas will activate God's provision in return.

And while tithing and giving are genuine kingdom principles with genuine covenant implications, the religious framework turns them into a transaction. 

I perform this religious duty and God provides in proportion to my faithfulness in the performance. 

Which means the believer who had a poor tithing month approaches financial need with a diminished expectation because their performance in the provision system has been compromised. 

The kingdom framework approaches provision from Philippians 4:19. My God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus. 

Chapter 7: Inheritance versus performance

The standard of supply is not the believer's tithing record. It is the riches of God's glory. 

And the citizen of the kingdom draws from that provision not as the reward of performance but as the inheritance of citizenship. 

Not because they earned it this month because they live in a kingdom whose king provides for his citizens as a function of his nature not as a reward for their performance. 

The kingdom citizen who missed a tithing payment does not approach financial need with a diminished expectation. They approach it from Philippians 4:19 with the settled conviction that their Father God is not a transaction partner tracking their performance record.

Chapter 9: Living in fellowship

 

He is a king who supplies the needs of His citizens from the inexhaustible resources of His glory. Think about how differently these two believers pray over the exact same

financial need. 

One is quietly calculating whether they have given enough recently to justify the request.

The other one is simply presenting a covenant right that their citizenship already guarantees regardless of how

their giving has looked this particular month. 

Same need, same God, two entirely different postures produced by two entirely different frameworks. 

Galatians 4: verses 6 and 7. Give us the family language scripture itself uses for this relationship. Because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the spirit of his son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.

Wherefore thou art no more a servant, but a son. And if a son, then an heir of God through Christ, an heir, not a

performer, hoping for a bonus, but an heir with legal standing that birth, not behavior established. 

Father, I decree right now over every person reading and hearing this that they are praying as kingdom citizens, not religious performers. I decree that Hebrews 4:16 is becoming their settled daily posture, coming boldly, not tentatively. 

And I decree that Philippians 4:19 is becoming their

covenant expectation, supply drawn from inheritance, not earned through performance in the name of Jesus. Two areas covered, prayer and provision, both completely reframed once the kingdom replaces religion as the governing framework. Two more remain.

And they touch two of the most consequential daily experiences of the Christian life. How you fight and who you believe you are. The third area is authority over the enemy. The religious framework approaches spiritual warfare

through accumulated religious merit. The more prayers prayed, the more fasts observed, the more spiritual disciplines maintained, the greater the authority available for engaging the enemy. And this framework produces a spiritual

warfare experience that is exhausting and inconsistent because the authority available fluctuates with the believer's religious performance. Which means the believer who has had a difficult month spiritually approaches the enemy with less authority than the believer who has had a consistent month. The kingdom framework approaches spiritual warfare from the legal position that citizenship already established. 

Colossians 2:15 having spoiled principalities and

powers, he made a show of them openly, triumphing over them in it. The authority to enforce this triumph was given to the church members , to kingdom citizens by virtue of their position in the kingdom, not their performance in the religious system. 

Luke 10:19 Behold, I give unto you power over all the power of the enemy. This authority does not fluctuate with the believer's spiritual performance. It is the stable, legally established, covenant grounded authority of a citizen who carries the name of the king and operates under the king's commission. The kingdom citizen who failed yesterday does not approach the enemy today with diminished authority.

They approach from the same legal position in the name of Jesus Christ, seated far above every principality and power that they occupied before the failure because their authority flows from their citizenship, not their performance.

Think about how exhausting the religious framework actually makes spiritual warfare once you see it clearly. A believer constantly auditing their own recent performance before they feel entitled to resist the enemy. Checking their prayer consistency, reviewing their recent failures, wondering whether they have earned enough spiritual credit this week to stand confidently against what is attacking them. Ephesians 2:6 gives us the position that makes all of that exhausting auditing entirely unnecessary and hath raised us up together and made us sit together in heavenly places in

Christ Jesus. Seated already not a position the kingdom citizen is earning incrementally through sufficient religious performance. a present legal reality established at the new birth and unaffected by yesterday's failure or last week's inconsistency.

The kingdom citizen does not need to recover lost ground after a difficult week. There was no ground lost. The seated position in Christ was never a performance metric. It was a birth fact and a birth fact cannot be partially revoked by a bad week the way a performance score can. This is why Kenyon insisted the kingdom framework produces a fundamentally more sustainable spiritual life than the religious one. Not because kingdom citizens never struggle or never fail, but because their authority was never built on a foundation that struggle and failure could erode in the first place.

James 4:7 gives us the simple settled confidence that flows from this legal position. Submit yourselves therefore to

God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you. Will flee, not might flee. If your recent performance has been

sufficient, will flee. The settled guaranteed response of a defeated enemy.

Confronted by a citizen who knows exactly what their citizenship already guarantees. 

Before we go on to the fourth area, I want to share something with you. Today we are reading a testimony report from one of our readers, Linda from the United States. She left this review after going through the Secret Place devotional. And I want you to hear exactly what she said in her own words. If you are hungry for fellowship with the Holy Spirit and a deeper communion with him, this book will assist you. You will experience a practical means of real fellowship with the Lord. This is not just another devotional to read and forget what you read. This is a practical aid for helping you and walking with you on what to do when you are in the secret place with the Lord. You will not be disappointed. Five stars. And Linda's words point to exactly the kind of settled daily relationship this entire teaching has been describing. 

Not a performance system to maintain, but a genuine fellowship to live inside of.

Chapter 10: Identity in Christ

The fourth area is identity and self-standing. Two, self-standing. The religious framework produces an identity

that fluctuates with performance.

 A good spiritual week produces confidence, a sense of closeness to God, the feeling of being in the father's favor. 

A poor spiritual week produces diminished confidence, a sense of distance, the feeling of being outside that favor. And the believer's self-understanding, their sense of who they are before God rises and falls with the fluctuations of their religious performance, which means they are never quite settled in their identity, never quite secure in who they are, always subject to the revision that the next performance failure will produce. 

The kingdom framework produces an identity anchored to the legal reality of citizenship rather than the fluctuating reality of performance. 

Chapter 11: Condemnation removed

2 Corinthians 5:17. If any man be in Christ, he is a new creature. Old things are passed away. Behold, all things are become new. 

The new creature's identity does not fluctuate with performance. The new creature is a new creation, not a better performer in the old system, a different category of being with a different legal standing before God. 

Romans 8:1. There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus. 

No condemnation, not reduced condemnation, not conditional condemnation, held in obeyance as long as the performance remains adequate. No condemnation.

The kingdom citizens identity is not defined by their failures. It is defined by the blood that established their

citizenship and the spirit that confirms their sonship. 

And no performance failure changes what the blood

established or silences what the spirit confirms. 

Chapter 12: The supernatural expectation

The fifth area is the expectation of the supernatural. The

religious framework approaches the supernatural as the exceptional reward of exceptional performance. 

The miracle granted to the believer whose faith and faithfulness have reached a sufficient level to warrant divine intervention.

Which means ordinary believers with ordinary performance records approach their daily lives with ordinary expectations.

The supernatural is for the specially gifted, the specially faithful, not for the person whose devotional consistency

has been uneven lately. 

The kingdom framework approaches the supernatural as the normal operating environment of kingdom citizenship. Mark 16:17. These signs shall follow them that believe, not them that have performed with sufficient consistency, them that believe.

Chapter 13: Reframing daily life

  The supernatural is not the reward of religious performance. It is the natural expression of kingdom

citizenship exercised in faith. And the kingdom citizen who knows this, who approaches their daily life with the

consciousness that signs follow believers, that the greater one who lives in them is greater than everything in the world, that the name of Jesus Christ carries authority over every force of darkness, finds the supernatural not as an occasional exceptional occurrence, but as the consistent, growing, daily expression of a kingdom life lived from the right framework. work. 

Think about the practical weight of these two areas together. Identity and supernatural expectation, both governed by the same underlying question.

 Is this fluctuating with my performance or settled in my

citizenship? 

A believer who answers that question correctly for identity but incorrectly for supernatural expectation still lives beneath their kingdom inheritance in daily practice. even while believing the right things about who they are on paper. 

Five areas now fully laid out. Prayer, provision, authority, identity, and the expectation of the supernatural. 

Every single one reframed the moment the religious

performance system is replaced by the settled reality of kingdom citizenship.

Chapter 14: Transitioning frameworks

Before we go further, I want to mention something built to help you develop exactly this kind of daily settled kingdom consciousness rather than the exhausting cycle of religious performance. 

 So, how does the shift actually happen? 

How does a believer who has been living from the

religious framework make the transition to the kingdom framework in the practical daily specific experience of

their Christian life. 

I am always precise about this because I understood that revelation without a practical path produces nothing but more information in a mind that already has more information than it has been able to act on. 

Chapter 15: Feeding the inner man

The transition begins with the deliberate sustained daily feeding of the inner man on kingdom truth rather than religious truth. This distinction matters because these are genuinely different categories of teaching. 

Religious teaching focuses on what the believer must do, the disciplines, the observances, the performance standards. 

Kingdom teaching focuses on what the kingdom has provided and what the believer's citizenship makes available. 

Religious teaching produces performance consciousness.

Kingdom teaching produces inheritance consciousness and the inner man that is consistently fed on kingdom truth on

what the blood has established, what the citizenship has provided, what the king's constitution has guaranteed gradually shifts its governing framework from the religious to the kingdom, from performing for access to drawing from inheritance.

The transition continues with the deliberate revision of the confession.

 The religious confession describes performance and petitions for response. 

The kingdom confession declares citizenship and enforces inheritance. 

Chapter 16: Kingdom confessions

I am the righteousness of God in Christ.

Not because my recent performance warrants the declaration, but because the blood established it and the Word confirms it. 

My God supplies all my need according to His riches in glory. Not because my tithing record this month has been adequate, but because I am a citizen of the kingdom whose king provides for His people as a function of His nature. 

I am seated with Christ far above every principality and power. Not because my prayer life has been consistent enough to earn the position, but because the new birth placed me in Christ and Christ is seated there. 

These declarations maintained as the governing confession of daily life spoken in the face of every religious counter-argument that performance-based access would generate are what build the kingdom framework into the governing reality of the inner world.

Chapter 17: Enforcing the victory

 And the transition is sustained by the practice of drawing from the kingdom rather than performing for religion. Drawing, reaching into what is already present, accessing what is already provided, enforcing what is already established, rather than performing in the hope of earning what has not yet been received. 

And 1st Peter 2:24, by whose stripes ye were healed. The kingdom citizen who needs healing does not intensify their

religious performance to qualify for the miracle. They draw from what that verse has already established and they enforce that legal reality over the circumstance that is contradicting it. 

Chapter 18: Drawing not earning

The kingdom citizen who needs provision does not

work harder at the religious performance system to activate the provision. They draw from what Philippians 4:19 has

Chapter 19: The easy yoke

already guaranteed and they speak it as the governing declaration over their financial situation. drawing, not performing, accessing, not earning.

Father, I decree right now over every person reading and hearing this that they are feeding their inner man on kingdom truth, not religious performance standards. 

I decree that their confession is shifting from petition to declaration according to the pattern of 1 Peter 2:24 and that they are drawing from what has already been established rather than performing to earn it in the name of Lord Jesus Christ. 

This is the kingdom life, not a better version of the religious life. a completely different framework for understanding what God has given, what the new birth produced, and how the resources of the kingdom are accessed and released.

 Here is something that every believer who has lived under the exhaustion of religious performance needs to hear.

 I said, "God never intended the Christian life to be the

exhausting, striving, never quite enough experience that religion produces. God intended it to be the natural joyful

supernaturally sustainable expression of a life lived from what the kingdom has provided. A life in which prayer is bold because citizenship is established. Provision is expected because the king provides for his people. Authority is exercised because the kingdom's commission has been given. And the supernatural is the natural atmosphere because the citizen is living in a realm

governed by the King whose nature is supernatural. 

Chapter 20: The reality of sonship

This is the life the new birth produced. This is the life the

kingdom provides. And it becomes the believer's daily experience, the moment they stop religion, what was given through the kingdom. 

First John 3 gives us the specific identity underneath this entire shift. Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God. 

Bestowed, not negotiated, not earned through a satisfactory performance record. 

Bestowed, a gift given by the Father whose love is the basis of the relationship, not a reward attached to the relationship's maintenance.

Galatians 5:1 gives us the posture that kind of bestowed sonship actually produces. Stand fast therefore in the

liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.

 The yoke of bondage.

That is precisely what the religious framework produces even when it is practiced sincerely and with genuine

devotion. A yoke, a weight, a performance treadmill that never quite delivers the rest it promises. And the

Chapter 21: Living in liberty

kingdom framework removes that yoke entirely. Not by lowering the standard, by relocating the foundation from what you do to who you are, from what you earn to what you have already been given.

 Matthew 11:28-30 give us Jesus's own invitation into exactly this kind of rest. "Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me, for I am meek and lowly in heart, and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light." Notice, he does not remove the yoke entirely, and leave the believer with nothing to carry. He exchanges one yoke for another. The exhausting yoke of religious performance for the easy yoke of kingdom relationship. 

Both involve carrying something. Only one of them is actually bearable over the long course of an entire lifetime. 

Chapter 22: Walking in citizenship

Think about how different your own week would feel lived from that second yoke instead of the first. Not approaching God tentatively, wondering if your recent performance earned a hearing. Not auditing your spiritual consistency before you feel entitled to resist the enemy. Not

watching your sense of identity rise and fall with how the week has gone. Simply living from a citizenship, already

established in a kingdom, already entered under a king who has already provided everything his constitution guarantees.

Father, I decree right now over every person reading and hearing this, that the yoke of religious performance is being exchanged for the easy yoke of kingdom relationship according to Matthew.

I decree that they are standing fast in the liberty Christ purchased according to Galatians 5:1 and refusing to be entangled again with the bondage they have carried for too long in the name of Jesus Christ.

 So, here is where this leaves you. You were born into a kingdom, not initiated into a religion, not enrolled in a performance system that will eventually reward your consistent devotion with the supernatural experiences you have been working toward. Born into a realm with the king who provides for his citizens as a function of his nature. Who governs their lives as a function of his authority, who establish their access through the blood of His Son and invites them to draw from everything that blood purchased, boldly, consistently, without the performance barrier that religion erected between the believer and their inheritance. 

Father, I bring a final decree over every person receiving this teaching right now. 

I decree that they are walking away today, no longer performing for what was given at the new birth, but living from what the kingdom has always provided. 

I decree that Colossians 1:13, Matthew 6:33, and 2 Corinthians 5:17 are becoming the settled daily reality of their life. In the name of  Lord Jesus Christ. Amen. 

Chapter 23: Declarations of identity

Now before you go, declare this out loud right where you are. 

I am a kingdom citizen. Not a religious performer hoping my consistency has been sufficient. A kingdom citizen drawing

from an inheritance that birth, not behavior, already established. 

Now write these exact words. 

I am a kingdom citizen, not as a slogan. As the confession of someone who has finally seen the difference between  what religion demands and what the kingdom has already provided. Stop performing for what was given at the new birth. 

Chapter 24: Final exhortation

Start living from what the kingdom has always provided. The resources are not behind a performance barrier. They are the environment of your citizenship. And the king has been waiting for you to stop trying to earn what he already  gave you and simply live in it. 

Understand what has actually shifted in you today. Not new theology filed away with everything else you have heard about grace. A correction to the single most practically devastating error many believers carry into their daily Christian life. The confusion of a kingdom with a religion. 

I spent this ministry confronting the church with this single unrelenting truth. The believer living far beneath what the New Testament promises is almost always living from the wrong framework entirely. Not lacking faith, but lacking the right foundation for that faith to stand on. 

Every believer who has ever walked in the kind of bold prayer, settled provision, unshaken authority and stable identity this teaching describes, did not arrive there through some rare encounter unavailable to ordinary Christians. They arrived there by doing exactly what this teaching has laid out. 

Feeding on kingdom truth rather than religious performance standards, revising the confession from petition to declaration and drawing from what has already been established rather than performing to earn it.

 You were born into a kingdom. Today, finally, stop performing and start living in it. 

Think back to the question this teaching opened with. If  what I have been given is as powerful as the New Testament claims, why does my daily experience look so little like what the New Testament describes? 

You now have the answer. 

It was never a failure of faith. It was a failure of

framework. And that framework once identified can be replaced. Not overnight in a single dramatic revelation that changes everything permanently. The same way any framework shift happens.

Daily feeding on kingdom truth rather than religious performance standards.

Daily confession, declaring citizenship rather than petitioning for favor. 

Daily drawing from what has already been established rather than straining to earn what was never behind a barrier in the first place. That is available to you. 

 Starting with the very next prayer you pray, the very next need you face, and the very next moment the enemy tries to convince you that your authority depends on how well you performed yesterday. It does not. It never did. It depends entirely on whose kingdom you were born into and the king who has already provided everything his constitution guarantees.