Jesus came preaching, “Repent: for the kingdom of Heaven is at hand” (Matthew 4:17).

“And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all manner of sickness and all manner of diseases among the people.

“And His fame went throughout all Syria: and they brought unto Him all sick people that were taken with divers diseases and torments, and those that were possessed with devils, and those that had the palsy; and He healed them” (Matthew 4:23-24).

The disciples knew His central message: restoring of God’s Kingdom in the earth. In fact, the Word of the Kingdom is mentioned 127 times in the four Gospels alone. God was restoring to mankind the Kingdom from which he had been exiled through Adam.

The Bible says that Abraham “. . . By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange country . . . For he looked for a city which has foundations, whose Builder and Maker is God” (Hebrews 11:9, 10). He was in search of the government of Heaven, the Kingdom of God, which was in the Garden of Eden. It’s what every person, regardless of their background or where they live, is searching for.

Heaven’s atmosphere

The Apostle Paul writes, “For the Kingdom of God is not in meat and drink; but righteousness and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost” (Romans 14:17). God didn’t design mankind to live in an environment where there is scarcity of food and water, robberies and murders, and chaos and no order. He designed us to live in Heaven’s atmosphere of peace and prosperity.

Diametrically opposing the Kingdom of God is this Babylonian system which exists independent of God. It trains people to live by their wit versus God’s wisdom, by their salary versus believing for God to provide. True, the Babylonian system of working for money may be our starting point but we should soon transition to making money work for us. Jesus said, “You cannot serve God and mammon.”

The Babylonian world system takes the young and the very best of society and makes them dependent on it forever. The idea is to provide those working in it with such a cushion through salaries, benefits and perks until they don’t ever have to depend on God and live by faith. I heard one man of God say, “The most dangerous place a Believer can be is in a place where he or she does not have to use their faith.”

Dominion restored God deliberately plants the righteous among the unbeliever or those who don’t know the Lord. The Church is not designed to be detached from the world: “We are in the world, but not of the world.” Like His Son Jesus, God the Father planned for us to take responsibility for the darkness in the earth and to lift the curse off every place we are sent. According to Joel, Chapter 2, the Church is the most powerful institution in the world. There has never been anything like us and there will never be anything like us after we leave.

Jesus, who is our example, had no sense of inferiority in the presence of disease, death or disaster. He commanded storms to stop, as well as the maimed to be made whole. He was master and absolute ruler over the laws of nature and just as He called Peter out of the boat to walk on water, He fully expects us to do the same.

He had no sense of lack, guilt or condemnation. When He needed money, He sent Peter fishing. He had no inferiority complex and had perfect fellowship with the Father. He courageously and lovingly died for our sins and rose again for our justification, saying, “. . . I am He that liveth, and was dead, and, behold, I am alive forevermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and death” (Revelation 1:18). He restored to us the dominion and authority Adam lost and everything was put back under our feet through His Name.

Unfortunately, Believers who get caught up in this world system can’t change or influence the culture of it. Why? Because he or she is dependent on the system. Not only must we not belong to the world system but the Bible tells us to not even be friends of it, lest we become enemies of God.

Favor and prosperity. I’ve heard that in the United States by the time the average person retires from their job, they retire with no investments and have no idea where to go or what to do. If this describes circumstances in your life or where you seem to be headed, I’ve got good news for you. You’re coming out! I decree that 2014 will be your year of unending breakthroughs. Where you have struggled before, you’ll struggle no more. God is comforting Zion, His people. By faith, God has restored us to a place of no toil, no lack, no sickness or disease and no early death for you and your family. I decree that favor and prosperity are now coming on your household in an unprecedented way.

Don’t be like Gideon and try to qualify yourself looking at your own ability or background. No! What He’s going to do for you, you can’t earn it, because even if you tried to earn it, you couldn’t get that much. This is a work of grace through faith, for God is able to do “exceedingly and abundantly above all you can ask or think.”

Right now, start dreaming a bigger dream. Start believing for the impossible. I was told in the old days when Brother Oral Roberts had his office at Oral Roberts University, there was a sign hung on his wall that said, “No small plans made here.”

I am reminded of a Psalm that says, “When the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion, we were like them that dream. Then was our mouth filled with laughter, and our tongue with singing: then said they among the heathen, The Lord hath done great things for them. The Lord hath done great things for us; whereof we are glad” (Psalm 126:1-3).

Bill Winston is pastor of the 19,000-member Living Word Christian Center in Forest Park, Ill., and founder and president of the Joseph Business School, which has a branch in Miami. Jesus came preaching, “Repent: for the kingdom of Heaven is at hand” (Matthew 4:17).

“And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all manner of sickness and all manner of diseases among the people.

“And His fame went throughout all Syria: and they brought unto Him all sick people that were taken with divers diseases and torments, and those that were possessed with devils, and those that had the palsy; and He healed them” (Matthew 4:23-24).

The disciples knew His central message: restoring of God’s Kingdom in the earth. In fact, the Word of the Kingdom is mentioned 127 times in the four Gospels alone. God was restoring to mankind the Kingdom from which he had been exiled through Adam.

The Bible says that Abraham “. . . By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange country . . . For he looked for a city which has foundations, whose Builder and Maker is God” (Hebrews 11:9, 10). He was in search of the government of Heaven, the Kingdom of God, which was in the Garden of Eden. It’s what every person, regardless of their background or where they live, is searching for.

Heaven’s atmosphere

The Apostle Paul writes, “For the Kingdom of God is not in meat and drink; but righteousness and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost” (Romans 14:17). God didn’t design mankind to live in an environment where there is scarcity of food and water, robberies and murders, and chaos and no order. He designed us to live in Heaven’s atmosphere of peace and prosperity.

Diametrically opposing the Kingdom of God is this Babylonian system which exists independent of God. It trains people to live by their wit versus God’s wisdom, by their salary versus believing for God to provide. True, the Babylonian system of working for money may be our starting point but we should soon transition to making money work for us. Jesus said, “You cannot serve God and mammon.”

The Babylonian world system takes the young and the very best of society and makes them dependent on it forever. The idea is to provide those working in it with such a cushion through salaries, benefits and perks until they don’t ever have to depend on God and live by faith. I heard one man of God say, “The most dangerous place a Believer can be is in a place where he or she does not have to use their faith.”

Dominion restored God deliberately plants the righteous among the unbeliever or those who don’t know the Lord. The Church is not designed to be detached from the world: “We are in the world, but not of the world.” Like His Son Jesus, God the Father planned for us to take responsibility for the darkness in the earth and to lift the curse off every place we are sent. According to Joel, Chapter 2, the Church is the most powerful institution in the world. There has never been anything like us and there will never be anything like us after we leave.

Jesus, who is our example, had no sense of inferiority in the presence of disease, death or disaster. He commanded storms to stop, as well as the maimed to be made whole. He was master and absolute ruler over the laws of nature and just as He called Peter out of the boat to walk on water, He fully expects us to do the same.

He had no sense of lack, guilt or condemnation. When He needed money, He sent Peter fishing. He had no inferiority complex and had perfect fellowship with the Father. He courageously and lovingly died for our sins and rose again for our justification, saying, “. . . I am He that liveth, and was dead, and, behold, I am alive forevermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and death” (Revelation 1:18). He restored to us the dominion and authority Adam lost and everything was put back under our feet through His Name.

Unfortunately, Believers who get caught up in this world system can’t change or influence the culture of it. Why? Because he or she is dependent on the system. Not only must we not belong to the world system but the Bible tells us to not even be friends of it, lest we become enemies of God.

Favor and prosperity. I’ve heard that in the United States by the time the average person retires from their job, they retire with no investments and have no idea where to go or what to do. If this describes circumstances in your life or where you seem to be headed, I’ve got good news for you. You’re coming out! I decree that 2014 will be your year of unending breakthroughs. Where you have struggled before, you’ll struggle no more. God is comforting Zion, His people. By faith, God has restored us to a place of no toil, no lack, no sickness or disease and no early death for you and your family. I decree that favor and prosperity are now coming on your household in an unprecedented way.

Don’t be like Gideon and try to qualify yourself looking at your own ability or background. No! What He’s going to do for you, you can’t earn it, because even if you tried to earn it, you couldn’t get that much. This is a work of grace through faith, for God is able to do “exceedingly and abundantly above all you can ask or think.”

Right now, start dreaming a bigger dream. Start believing for the impossible. I was told in the old days when Brother Oral Roberts had his office at Oral Roberts University, there was a sign hung on his wall that said, “No small plans made here.”

I am reminded of a Psalm that says, “When the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion, we were like them that dream. Then was our mouth filled with laughter, and our tongue with singing: then said they among the heathen, The Lord hath done great things for them. The Lord hath done great things for us; whereof we are glad” (Psalm 126:1-3).

Bill Winston is pastor of the 19,000-member Living Word Christian Center in Forest Park, Ill., and founder and president of the Joseph Business School, which has a branch in Miami.