MYSTERIES OF GOD's KINGDOM

Pr. Geoffrey Kibombo 

Matthew 13:11 (NKJV)

“………it has been given to you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it has not been given.”

         1. Mystery One; RESPECT AND HONOUR

There are people who have worked hard to ensure that you succeed in life and have a respectable fruitful future. They sacrificed a lot in life and laid a foundation for your successes; as such they deserve your uttermost respect and honour. However, when the devil wants to remove the hand of God in your life, he causes you to disobey, fight against or wrong the people who have done good in your life.

A quick example is that of the dialogue between God and Satan concerning Job’s life. In Satan's view, Job's fear of God was not for nothing; he thought Job feared God because of the blessings and the protection God had put upon his substance, so Satan implored God to permit him to touch Job’s life and test if Job would not forsake Him. In God's opinion, Job had fully understood who God was and what having a relationship with Him meant, and he was confident that even if all was removed, Job would hold unto him. 

Job 1:7-12 (NLT) narrates;
“Where have you come from?” the Lord asked Satan. Satan answered the LORD, “I have been patrolling the earth, watching everything that’s going on.” 8 Then the Lord asked Satan, “Have you noticed my servant Job? He is the finest man in all the earth. He is blameless—a man of complete integrity. He fears God and stays away from evil.” 9 Satan replied to the Lord, “Yes, but Job has good reason to fear God. 10 You have always put a wall of protection around him and his home and his property. You have made him prosper in everything he does. Look how rich he is! 11 But reach out and take away everything he has, and he will surely curse you to your face!” 

The devil is always targeting your relationship with God. He is wandering around looking for a person to devour - he wants to bring a rift between you and God so that God can remove his hand from your life and allow him to afflict you. Satan knows that when you are with God, you have a hedge of protection upon your life.

Satan uses disobedience to tear apart relationships, but most importantly to take away God’s presence from your life. He causes people to disobey, speak ill or rise up against; the people that have nurtured to them, or those in authority. The devil causes contention with our mentors so that our relationship with them is damaged. He does that to remove God's presence - Holy Spirit from your life thus rendering you empty and unshielded. He makes people to repay good with evil which leaves them bound and their blessings taken away.

This is the generation where people turn against those who have done good in their lives. This happens in churches, politics, families, schools and workplaces. As such a curse comes upon them. If you turn against the person who has nurtured you or invested in your success, pay evil for good and rebel against your leaders, you are permitting a curse to come upon your life. Satan does not bring curses, but they come as a result of disobedience of God's commandments.

Ephesians 6:1-3(TLB) teaches about respecting our parents; 
“Children, obey your parents; this is the right thing to do because God has placed them in authority over you. 2 Honor your father and mother. This is the first of God’s Ten Commandments that ends with a promise. 3 And this is the promise: that if you honor your father and mother, yours will be a long life, full of blessing.”

Your parents (biological and spiritual) hold your blessings! If you want things to be well with you, obey and honour them - that’s the only commandment where terms and conditions apply!

       2. Mystery Two; PERCEPTION

How do you perceive the servants of God? What do you hope to see come to pass out of your association with them? How do you receive them? All those factors determine how your life turns out when you meet or associate with a servant of God - what you see, is what you receive! 

Many times we concentrate on the ordinary person with the human weakness and ignore the God’s anointed servant who serves as God’s vessel. We usually get so used, so familiar to the servants of God that we fail to discern the hand of God upon the person. We consider them as friends, relatives, neighbours, as such we lose out on blessings. Until you learn to consider the authority upon the servant of God, you will never get what you want from God through him. 

For you to see two people in one, to see two offices upon one person, is a mystery. This means that you have got to snub the ordinary person you see and consider the office upon the person. 

In Numbers 12:1-9(MSG), a story unfolds of Miriam and Aaron rising up against Moses and how God reacted.

"Miriam and Aaron talked against Moses behind his back because of his Cushite wife (he had married a Cushite woman). 2 They said, “Is it only through Moses that God speaks? Doesn’t he also speak through us?” God overheard their talk…………….….5 God descended in a Pillar of cloud and stood at the entrance of the tent. He called Aaron and Miriam to him. When they stepped out, 6 He said, listen carefully to what I’m telling you. If there is a prophet of God among you, I make myself known to him in visions, I speak to him in dreams. 7 But I don’t do it that way with my servant Moses; he has the run of my entire house; 8 I speak to him intimately, in person, in plain talk without riddles: He ponders the very form of God. So why did you show no reverence or respect in speaking against my servant, against Moses? 9 The anger of God blazed out against them. And then he left"

In the scriptures above, Miriam and Aaron were Moses’s siblings; their minds were still programmed to the idea of Moses being their brother and started rebuking him for marrying a Cushite woman forgetting that he was God’s chosen servant because only God rebukes his servants! Ultimately God came to Moses’s rescue and what befell Miriam was awful (Numbers 12:10). Had Moses done something wrong? Yes! He had married outside the Jewish fraternity which was against God’s instructions. However, we as ordinary people don’t have a mandate to rebuke those who are appointed by God 

These days, we don't see the servants of God as God sees them, we take them lightly. In the days of Old Testament, the servants of God lived in seclusion from people, they had no unifying activities with the ordinary men, they commanded respect and the fear of God was upon them. But in this generation, we see the servants of God daily, we go to the same markets, stay in the same neighbourhoods, and consequently we get so used to them and fail to see the authority they possess and the anointing upon them. Until you acknowledge the one who has been sent in the name of the Lord, you cannot see God. Until you understand that your Pastor represents God you shall not see the hand of God! 

The servants of God bear the solutions to our problems; they have authority over the things we need from God. If you want a house, job, marriage or promotion and you believe that you can get it if the man of God prays for you, then you shall receive what your request. What you see is what you get! Value, respect and protect the authority and anointing upon the servant of God! 

A revelation of God’s mysteries will bring a revolution or transformation in your life. Deuteronomy 29:29(NLT) says “The Lord our God has secrets known to no one. We are not accountable for them, but we and our children are accountable forever for all that he has revealed to us, so that we may obey all the terms of these instructions" 

God has good plans for our lives; we have big prophesies upon our lives, but the key to unlocking them is to understand the mysteries of the Kingdom of God

God bless you!