KMI – Kingdom Ministries International

Who’s Digging Under Your House?

The foundational principles of any human institution, culture, or nation, are the most important thing for the leaders to both teach, re-enforce, and defend. If the foundations are weakened or destroyed, all that rests upon them collapses and must be re-built. We live in such a historical moment when the very foundations of western culture as we have known them are at risk. While many could argue what exactly those most critical foundational principles are, I would like to put forward seven of them:

1. Strong cultures have a clear hierarchy of values that hold the majority of citizens together. If the culture or the nation is unclear about exactly what their hierarchy of core values or principles are, the nation will fracture, the people will be confused, and all existing social structuring will move into decay.

2. The family unit is the basic training place for socialization skills in any nation. If the family is broken, dysfunctional, or at odds with the core values of the surrounding culture, it will produce marginalized people.

3. If the gifted and innovators of the culture are de-energized by prohibitive taxation, severe social disapproval, or scape-goated for their “unfair” success, the loss of their creative energy will stall the entire culture and send it into steady decline.

4. That which is owned by everybody is actually not owned by anyone. Private responsibility will, in the long run, always trump collective ownership.

5. Focus on the “rights” of the general population and minimize individual’s personal responsibilities, and you will create an entitlement-based culture that fragments into waring factions. Personal responsibility promotes the building of character and culture.

6. A well-informed public which manifests local community involvement is the clearest sign of a healthy political culture. When a nation focuses on centralism, it is headed for wide-spread political and social apathy.

7. The culture’s philosophy of power is the single most important determinant of where it is going. If power is a position sought for personal advantage rather than to serve and empower the well-being of others, only those least qualified to have power will overwhelmingly have it. Power doesn’t corrupt; it reveals one’s true motives.

So who and what is digging under your house and your life? How many of these seven issues are you clear on in terms of their truth or lack thereof? What are you doing to promote the ones you believe in rather than “just believing in them?” I both hear and see those digging around my house and am motivated to change it. Strategic action is always…

Do You See What God Sees

There are always two issues forever standing before the Body of Christ. The first: God’s vision for man. The second is: Man’s vision for God. We read in Jeremiah 29 of God’s vision for man. Plans to prosper us and give us a future. I would to God that God’s plan for man was more important to man than man’s plan for God. Vision that originates in man and ultimately serves the purposes of man is a misuse of vision. Any attempt to create our own way then ask Jesus to bless it, misses the mark and leaves us short of the eternal goal.

In Habakkuk 2 we are told to “record the vision” not create the vision, make the vision or somehow generate our own vision. Ours is to simply see what He sees then record what we see so we can run with it. Like the “holy men of old” we are to be carried along” by Holy Spirit.

The vision God gives is vision born in the eternal. God’s vision is vision centered in Christ and focused to serve the purposes of Christ. The Biblical division of labor defines Jesus as the author and the finisher and man as the recorder and the runner. Abraham tried to be the creator and produced Ishmael. Jacob tried to create and spent most of his live “jacobing” his way through. This is why we are instructed so often to “wait on God.” If man was the creator of the vision he could create whenever he wanted but being we are the receiver not the creator, we must wait the appointed time. God works by appointment only. As we wait God works, He works on our behalf to bring His purposes to pass…through man. The vision God gives comes at the appointed time not the desired time or the convenient time. God stands outside of time and orders our live eternally, panoramically, dimensionally…consequently He has no need to guess or take a chance. When time reaches its fullness God orders our destiny and we respond accordingly.

So the issue that is constantly before us is ordering our lives according to what He sees not according to what we want. Consequently we must see what He sees in relationship to our future. See what He sees in relationship to our beliefs. See what He sees in relationship to our involvements. See what He sees in relationship to our responses. If we are pursuing a self created vision as opposed to a recorded vision, it is time to lay that vision down for the vision that is by Him, for Him and through Him.

The purpose of this KMI website is to help those who visit see what God sees. As we seek to address and tackle the issues of the day, our deepest desire is do so with the perspective of the Kingdom not the opinions of man.