Part 15 The Glory of the Latter House Part 3

Part 15 The Glory of the Latter House Part 3

A Kingdom Mindset

Haggai 2:9

The glory of this latter house shall be greater than of the former, saith the LORD of hosts: and in this place will I give peace, saith the LORD of hosts.

God clearly stated that the glory of the latter house would be greater than the former. The early church was a glorious church, but compared to the end-time church it was just a mere silhouette of what the End-Time church is destined to be like.

The Church can be divided up into two groups

KINGDOM BUILDERS OR EMPIRE BUILDERS

Empire Builders build their own little kingdom

True Kingdom Builders build the Kingdom of God

1) Kingdom Builders are love based

Kingdom builders ask how we can serve you, how can we help you? Their focus in on the advancement of the Kingdom of God, not on there own kingdom. Their concept of the church of Jesus is different, their desire is to help and bless the Kingdom of God, they are more interest in how they can bless, build the Kingdom of God generally rather than their own local church. Kingdom builders have a different mindset, they see beyond the local parish: They are not building their church; they are more concerned about building His Kingdom.

2) Kingdom Builders live and breathe the great commission

They see a global harvest: They see the Nations, Their creative entrepreneurial spirit, seeks greater ways in God to reach the Nations.

To become a Kingdom Builder you have to cease being an empire builder

It is so easy for ministries to fall into the trap of being caught up in building their own little Kingdom. As churches grow larger it is very easy for Pastors to build a little empire around them that eventually swallows them up in the mechanics of running it.  A recent survey showed that over 60% of Pastors surveyed spent less than half and hour per day in prayer. This is a not meant as a criticism of Pastors; I know what it is like to be caught up in running and maintaining a little kingdom, it can become soul destroying.

Marks of a Kingdom Builder

1)      Free from a competitive spirit: How often when ministries gather together often the first questions asked is; how big is your church? This question often reveals an underlying attitude of a competitive spirit. Building the church is not a competition to see who does the best, in fact Jesus said; HE WOULD BUILD HIS CHURCH.                                                    

 2)   A willingness and desire to build the kingdom of God wherever we find it including other churches additional to our own local church.

3)       Willing and desiring to financially bless other ministries & Churches.

4)      Being genuinely happy when other churches are growing when yours is not.

5)      Free from ministerial jealousy.

When the shift from building your own empire to building the Kingdom of God occurs, many of these afore mentioned deadly traits just fall away.

Ambition, pride, jealousy and competition need to be eradicated from our personality in order for us the make it into the end-time glorious church that God is building.

Haggai 1:3	Then came the word of the LORD by Haggai the prophet, saying,
4	[Is it] time for you, O ye, to dwell in your ceiled houses, and this house [lie] waste? (God's House)
5	Now therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts; Consider your ways.
6	Ye have sown much, and bring in little; ye eat, but ye have not enough; ye drink, but ye are not filled with drink; ye clothe you, but there is none warm; and he that earneth wages earneth wages [to put it] into a bag with holes.
7	Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Consider your ways.
9	Ye looked for much, and, lo, [it came] to little; and when ye brought [it] home, I did blow upon it. Why? saith the LORD of hosts. Because of mine house that [is] waste, and ye run every man unto his own house. (Empire builders)
10	Therefore the heaven over you is stayed from dew, and the earth is stayed [from] her fruit.
2:3	Who [is] left among you that saw this house in her first glory? and how do ye see it now? [is it] not in your eyes in comparison of it as nothing? (Compared to the end-time church)

This passage of scripture is often used in the context of the need to build the local church as a priority and putting our personal interests secondary. However primarily it is talking about building the Kingdom of God. Pastors need to see this passage of scripture in the light of building first the Kingdom of God  before our local churches, in other words having a Kingdom Mentality.

IF WE YOU BUILD FIRST THE KINGDOM OF GOD; GOD WILL BUILD YOUR LOCAL CHURCH.

This is primarily a mindset a new paradigm that we must make a shift to, it is an attitude a new away of life and thinking.

 A new financial release is coming

Haggai 2:4	Yet now be strong, O Zerubbabel, saith the LORD; and be strong, O Joshua, son of Josedech, the high priest; and be strong, all ye people of the land, saith the LORD, and work: for I am with you, saith the LORD of hosts:
6	For thus saith the LORD of hosts; Yet once, it is a little while, and I will shake the heavens, and the earth, and the sea, and the dry land;
7	And I will shake all nations, and the desire  (Hb: wealth)of all nations shall come: and I will fill this house with glory, saith the LORD of hosts.

Habakkuk Said:

Habakkuk 1:5	Behold ye among the heathen, and regard, and wonder marvellously: for [I] will work a work in your days, [which] ye will not believe, though it be told [you].
Haggai 2:8	The silver [is] mine, and the gold [is] mine, saith the LORD of hosts.
9	The glory of this latter house shall be greater than of the former, saith the LORD of hosts: and in this place will I give peace, saith the LORD of hosts.

Financial release is coming like never before in the history of the church, this release will be so great that the world will be amazed at this phenomenon, HOWEVER; to be a part of this financial release we have to qualify, God is not about to release finance in order for you to build your own empire.

Finance will be released to build what He the Lord is building

This financial release is to build His House; His Kingdom: Do you qualify?

These Kingdom Builders are going to find each other

A repositioning is taking place, people with the same spirit are finding each other, there is a linking together of Ministries with a kingdom mentality and spirit is, this will form a great worldwide harvest net.

Matthew 13:47	Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a net, that was cast into the sea, and gathered of every kind:
48	Which, when it was full, they drew to shore, and sat down, and gathered the good into vessels, but cast the bad away.
49	So shall it be at the end of the world:

This Reformation will push (those who will flow with it) out of a parish mentality and into a Global Context.

Psalms 102:13	Thou shalt arise, [and] have mercy upon Zion: for the time to favour her, yea, the set time, is come.
15	So the nations shall fear the name of the LORD, and all the kings of the earth thy glory.
16	When the LORD shall build up Zion, he shall appear in his glory.

God Bless you N Johnson © September 2006