Let Your Kingdom Come to Earth From Heaven

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“As Jesus went on from there, two blind men followed him, calling out, ‘Have mercy on us, Son of David!’ When he had gone indoors, the blind men came to him, and he asked them, ‘Do you believe that I am able to do this?’ ‘Yes, Lord,’ they replied. Then he touched their eyes and said, ‘According to your faith let it be done to you’; and their sight was restored. Jesus warned them sternly, ‘See that no one knows about this.’ But they went out and spread the news about him all over that region.” (Matthew 9:27-31)

Can you imagine these two blind men coming along and encouraging each other? One says to the other, “Yell louder, He is coming by, He can heal us!” Ever notice that having a friend in it with you makes you bolder?

How do our relationships influence us?

With the four lepers that were sitting outside of the gates and waiting to die, it took the influence of one of the friends to say, “Hey, let’s go surrender. It is more likely we will live by surrendering than it is to just sit here and die from starvation. When they stepped out, God met them powerfully and they ended up saving everyone.

When I witness to people and I am with my two closest friends, I find that I am so much bolder and step out more in faith. This is because they are also bold in their faith and it encourages and inspires me. They also encourage me to step out and influence me in this direction.

The influence even goes deeper than what is from the natural world. 1 Corinthians 7:14 says that when an unbeliever stays married to a believer that experienced a conversion, the spouse and the children are sanctified (made holy) through the believing spouse. God recognizes covenant. So as the believing spouse is under covenant with God through Jesus and under covenant with their spouse through marriage, God honors the whole family as being under His covenant.

In the same way, we are not to come under covenant with unbelievers when we are under covenant with God. Aligning with the Kingdom, we need to be aware of influence and avoid influences that would hinder our covenant with God.

2 Corinthians 7:14-16 tells us, “Do not be yoked together with unbelievers. For what do righteousness and wickedness have in common? Or what fellowship can light have with darkness? What harmony is there between Christ and Belial? Or what does a believer have in common with an unbeliever? What agreement is there between the temple of God and idols? For we are the temple of the living God.

As the temple of God and having spiritual substance, we see this demonstrated with spiritual impartation. Years ago, the Lord spoke to me about this as I began serving communion to the body and praying for them as they came up to partake in this. When we lay hands on someone and pray for them, we impart spiritual substance that has influence in their lives.

We see this throughout the Bible. Paul tells the believers in Romans 1:11 that he longed to come see them so that he may impart some spiritual gift to strengthen them. He knew that by prayer, faith, and laying on of hands, that they would receive spiritual substance from him.

Impart is the Greek word, metadidómi, Strongs #3330, and it means to share or give what one holds to another.

All the way through the Bible we see this intertwined in blessings that fathers would give to their firstborn son. Jacob and Esau knew so well that there was spiritual substance to this that they fought over it and Esau was ready to kill Jacob because of it.

Gifts of the Spirit and appointments in ministry we see often occurring from the laying on of hands. Paul tells Timothy in 1 Timothy 4:14, “Do not neglect the gift that is in you, which was given you through the prophecy spoken over you at the laying on of the hands of the elders.”

Yet, we also know that God moving in power to influence someone is not limited to impartation by the physical laying on of hands. While it says that the elders should pray and lay hands on the sick so they should be healed, Jesus at times healed people without touching them when the faith was there for this. They received by faith.

The Roman Centurion told Jesus that if he would just say the word, he knew that his servant would be healed. And Jesus told the foreign woman who had petitioned him for his daughter, “Now go home, for the demon has left your daughter.”

The argument by the Roman Centurion for this is that he was under authority and also had authority so he knows that when you are in alignment you can utilize this authority and people are influenced. And Jesus had authority and influence in the spiritual realm. Here, the Centurion, by faith, was saying He fully received this authority and influence by Jesus.

Like a boss, pastor, friend, or parent, we choose who we allow to have influence in our lives and how much influence they can have with our will. As the Word says for children to listen to their parents and it will go well with them, it is saying that their influence was designed to have positive impact and cause them to flourish spiritually.

When there is influence, it can also be a stumbling block. Romans 14:13 says, “Therefore let us not judge one another anymore, but rather determine this—not to put an obstacle or a stumbling block in a brother’s way.”

Notice how much the enemy tries to get in and mess up relationship and create offense? We can become offended with parents, bosses, pastors, and even with friends at times and the influence becomes neutral or even negative rather than positive. However, this means that the blessing is no longer there either. It stops the flow. Dark forces want to push us out of alignment with that that would cause us to flourish and have greater authority.

In the last days, the hearts of the sons will be turned to the fathers and the fathers to the sons or there will be a curse on the land… there will be a spiritual impartation that flows to the younger generation that the enemy would try to block with offense. God made relationships as a spiritual blessing that results in flourishing, blessings and impartations. We see this with blessings of the righteous, as they are passed down generation to generation. There are so many pathways that the Lord has made to cause us to flourish and to bless us spiritual.

Harold R. Eberle, in his book, Spiritual Realities, tells us that “We must step back from the narrow-minded view of humanity which sees people merely as physical bodies in this world.” [1]

We are spiritual beings as well as physical beings. When we are born again, we become beings that live in this natural world, but belong to another realm. We have authority in this spiritual world. We can bind and loose, bless, build up and tear down as well as impart. We can take from the spiritual world and bring and impart it into the natural world.

We are learning to function in this new reality where all these unseen resources are available to us. The natural world no longer constrains us as the reality of who Jesus is and all that He gave us through the death on the cross and gift of the Holy Spirit becomes a reality. To only walk under the authority of the physical realm and ignore the authority of the spiritual realm is to lack faith.

I was listening to a sermon about the Word of God also being spiritual substance when we read it with faith through the Holy Spirit. We know from the Word that it is powerful and effective, accomplishing all that, when released, it was set out to accomplish. This minister said that when God speaks, He releases Himself. The Word of God is not only powerful and effective but active and living.

The Word of God has influence and spiritually releases things into our lives when we receive it. In this way, the Word is like small seeds spread on the ground of our heart. As there is the parable of the famer and the ground as the seeds are scattered, we know that when the Word is scattered on good soil where the weeds, rocks, and hardness has been tended to, that it produces a crop, even of 100 fold.

It also is like a mustard seed that is planted and turns into this massive tree. The Word is meant to influence us as we come under it and make us an influence to the world around us. Like a relationship with someone we care about, respect or honor, it is mean to change our behaviors as we consider it before we act.

John proclaims that Jesus is the Word of God. It is His words and He is one with them. This is why it is Him, it is His essence and can bring us into oneness with Him but its influence. The Holy Spirit enlightens the word to bring us truth causing the old to be separated off and the new to come. It feeds our faith as we spiritually relate to the Word, let God speak to us through it and transform our lives.

God will directly impart His wisdom, direction and speak His promises to us through His Word. And as we see Him through His Word, we grow in faith for His promises. It is a different influence to us as we open the Word and the Holy Spirit opens it to us with living in this new spiritual realm. To know the Word, is to know Jesus. Every effort we make to allow it to influence us, it will cause us to flourish.

Years ago, when I was a new Christian and coming alive to this new spiritual reality and how God would speak to me through the Word and even made many promises to me through it, it became such a treasure to me. I would carry it in my pocket every day and stop and read what God spoke that morning. I prayed to God that I would not only have read through it some times and have heard it, but I would know it deeply in my heart- the whole thing-every word. I want it in me and I want to live from it. I love its influence because I love His influence in my life.

Fasting is also this weird spiritual tool for influence. We see John the Baptist coming as one wearing camel hair for uncomfortably in repentance and eating locusts and honey. The camel hair was like wearing sackcloth. It was abrasive on his skin. The wearing camel hair and eating only locusts was a form of fasting the comfortability the world provides to push himself greater into spiritual places. We see this with Moses leaving the comforts and privileges of Egypt. Fasting by withholding privileges and comforts of this world have the power to push us greater over into the spiritual world.

This is how fasting has spiritual power. It is not that it directly impacts others around us but as we are pressed further into the spiritual realm and come into greater alignment with it, we pull from this authority rather than our natural authority to influence the world around us. Our spiritual side then has more impact. Prayer, which is also an impactful spiritual tool, has all the more power with fasting to change hearts because it is coming from a deeper spiritual place of power as it brings us in alignment with the Kingdom and taps into it’s spiritual power.

We see this with Ezra as he fasted, prayed and cried out for his people who had went astray.

In Ezra 10:1-2 it says, “While Ezra was praying and confessing, weeping and throwing himself down before the house of God, a large crowd of Israelites—men, women and children—gathered around him. They too wept bitterly. Then Shekaniah son of Jehiel, one of the descendants of Elam, said to Ezra, ‘We have been unfaithful to our God by marrying foreign women from the peoples around us. But in spite of this, there is still hope for Israel.’”

Through prayer, fasting, repenting and declaring, we connect with the spiritual realm and pull down from it. Fasting may get us into the spirit realm or in greater alignment with it, but prayer will pull from the spiritual realm into the natural realm. Prayer is one of our greatest tools of influence. And as we receive our righteousness from Jesus and then pray, it says that prayers of a righteous man avails much.

I have noticed that fasting as a spiritual tool can make me a little irritable, uncomfortable and not as engaged with others at various times. This has bothered me at times as it has not felt effective as a means of prayer as I don’t feel in alignment. However, the bumpiness of praying and fasting at these times perhaps has more to do with helping me to get more in alignment with the other Kingdom when I am looking to the natural kingdom for my comfort, value and favor.

Like with fasting and prayer, combining spiritual elements seem to multiply the ability to pull from the spiritual realm. For instance, prayer has spiritual power, but we see that praying the Word is all the more effective spiritually. Praying God’s perfect Word with spiritual authority, we bring power from the spiritual realm into this realm. This is often why I pray the Word of God over people when I pray for them.

We see with David that prophetically proclaiming the Word while worshipping, repenting, fasting, and giving, not as a formula for manipulation, but as tools of the spiritual realm, it increased his Kingdom authority. All these keys of the Kingdom are spiritual tools to influence the natural world.

Lord, teach us to walk in the fullness of all that You have for us. Teach us to use all the tools available to us in the spirit. Help us to live out of Your Kingdom realm and not out of the natural realm. Help us to grow in our spiritual understanding and influence over the natural realm by pulling from the spiritual realm.

1. Eberle, Harold R. Spiritual Realities: The Breath of God In Us. Volume 2