Disconnecting from the World Through Connection to God | Kingdom Mysteries | Oct 1, 2025 | CR

Crystal Rivers | Kingdom Mysteries | Oct 1, 2025
The Christian journey requires understanding foundational principles that lead to spiritual maturity: repentance from dead works, faith toward God, the doctrine of baptisms, laying on of hands, resurrection of the dead, and eternal judgment. These principles are deeply interconnected, and grasping them requires more than intellectual knowledge—it demands genuine transformation.

Unbelief isn't simply a lack of mental agreement with God's promises. It's when your heart becomes charged and weighted down by the elements of this world, making it difficult and burdensome to engage God's Word. This heaviness must be addressed before authentic faith can flourish. The primary way to displace unbelief is through prayer and fasting, but the motivation behind these disciplines matters profoundly.

Your prayer life should not be primarily motivated by fear of Satan's attacks or the desire to avoid embarrassment and failure. While prayer certainly provides protection and breakthrough, if avoiding demonic interference becomes your main reason for seeking God, you've already been compromised. The true purpose of prayer is communion with God—knowing Him, loving Him, being overwhelmed by Him. Everything else flows from this central reality.

Consider how your soul functions. Like neurons connected by dendrites, your soul has become "sticky" with the things of this world—not just obvious sins, but subtle agreements with worldly systems, thought patterns, and values. These connections exist whether you're aware of them or not, much like cancer grows in a body before symptoms appear. You might not realize how deeply connected you are to unbelief in certain areas until you actually try to engage God's Word for healing, provision, or breakthrough. Then you'll feel the resistance, the ease with which discouragement comes.

Here's the crucial insight: you cannot disconnect from this world without connecting to God. Therapy, self-improvement, and various coping mechanisms may have value, but true healing—the kind that rewrites your spiritual DNA—comes only through the blood of Jesus. You must actively engage God's Word in prayer, fasting, and meditation. As you linger with the Lord, you discover aspects of your soul that are still comfortable in worldliness, still at home with values and emotions that aren't fired by God's Spirit.

Don't reduce God to a deity you approach only when you need something specific—marriage, money, healing, deliverance. Yes, God gives these things, but He is God. Your obsession should be with Him, not with what He can provide. Be so infatuated with Jesus that everything else becomes secondary. Simultaneously, engage actively in spiritual realities—fast and pray for your business, your family, your calling—but let your intimacy with the Lord remain more severe, more intense than any other pursuit.

The kingdom of heaven isn't primarily about spiritual warfare against demons. In heaven, the cherubim aren't shouting against Satan—they're crying "Holy, holy, holy" about God's nature. The conversation in heaven is about God's Word, and this is the kingdom you're bringing down to earth. Your warfare should be for the purpose of intimacy, to remove obstacles that prevent you from knowing Jesus more deeply. When God gives you intelligence about specific spiritual battles—through dreams, visions, or revelation—you engage those battles to clear the path for deeper communion, not to make spiritual warfare itself the focus.

Just because you're experiencing some level of God's blessing—financial stability, health, ministry success—doesn't mean God's full will is being expressed in your life. Satan can hide comfortably in the absence of God's complete will, even when things appear fine by worldly standards. The goal isn't just prosperity or healing in themselves; the goal is God's kingdom flowing through every area of your life, with intimacy with Jesus as the driving force.

Throughout church history, saints manifested various supernatural abilities—invulnerability, teleportation, levitation, healing power. Some died with these powers fully active, others without them. But examine how they all died: singing songs to Jesus, deeply in love with Him, refusing to deny Him even under torture. Their common denominator wasn't the level of supernatural power they achieved; it was sincere, insane infatuation with the Lamb of God. As you behold Him, you become like Him. Keep Jesus as the main thing, and everything else—including supernatural breakthrough—will find its proper place in your life.

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