While enjoying a baseball game my husband and I commented on how many players were on the “disabled list.”  We saw most of them sitting on the “bench” watching from the sidelines. So they were at the game, but not participants of it.

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Then a light went off this could pertain to some Christian individuals. They may have accepted Christ in their lives, and are familiar with the Bible…but they’re not in the “game” so to speak, and therefore are sitting on the bench.

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What is the Kingdom of God? It’s not this church or that church, but it is “within” each one of us.  We can’t see it “outwardly” for it is within each believer. Christ tells us what to do when we seek the Kingdom of God. The scriptures are clear about Kingdom and speaks bout how to find it.  We must be born again to see it.  We must humble ourselves as a child to see it…and we must exceed the righteousness of the Pharisees.

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During our walk with God, everyday…we must seek His will, His Kingdom, and His righteousness and all the rest will be added unto you.  In Hebrews 1:8, it states, “But unto the Son he saith, Thy throne, O God, is forever and ever; a sceptre of righteousness is the sceptre of thy Kingdom.”  Righteoness is the Sceptre it’s centered in the character of Jesus Christ.

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We must surrender to His will and His righteousness.  His character of patience, His character of love which is God’s will leading us and guiding us.  This is the center piece of His Kingdom. To become as Christ, to spit out the seeds and take hold of the fruit which we should bring forth.  That is reaching and seeking the Kingdom.

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We need to receive by the abundance of grace the gift of righteousness.  Yes, a gift, from our Father. Ask, and it shall be done.  Ask for His love, His patience, His wisdom, His compassion, His humility, His courage, his motivation, in order to fulfill His righteousness.  As Jesus grows in us, we will be fruitful and it will work toward our entrance into the Kingdom where we will be abundantly rewarded.

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So, instead of sitting on the bench. Stand for Christ and what is right If  we’re doing these things, we are doing what He intends for each of us to do. If we’re not, we’re sitting on the bench. As He sees us drawing on Him. He allows us to get closer and draw on Him.  When we NEED God, and DEPEND on Him, He increases within, as we decrease. If Christ is fully present in our lives, we can bring whatever righteousness needs to be done, by the conenction, and the power, of the Lord Jesus Christ name. Amen.

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Seek His Kingdom daily by being willing to take up the scripture and apply it to LIFE. When we believe, and do, and seek, and trust…He too will trust us with His will.  Righting the wrongs and going forward in the name of Jesus Christ, we’re guaranteed a reserved seat at the wedding of the Lamb.

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Thy Kingdom come, thy will be done, on EARTH as it is in heaven…