Is Your Kingdom Surrendered to Your Heavenly Father?

Church Family:
Everyone has a kingdom. Your kingdom is the sphere where what you say, do, and decide makes a difference; it is the space in this world that you have been entrusted to steward. Your kingdom is everything you have say over: your time, words, resources, decisions, and relationships. And Jesus demands that we are to radically rethink how we live in our kingdom as we pray, “Our heavenly Father, Your kingdom come Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven” (Matthew 6:10).

The Kingdom of Heaven is not just something we wait for after death; it is God’s active rule breaking into our ordinary life, and when we live under that rule, God’s presence becomes visible through us, our little kingdoms. The gospel of the Kingdom isn’t just about being saved from something; it’s about being saved for something.

If Jesus is Lord, then every part of our “little kingdom” belongs to Him: our time, our money, our homes, our work, our relationships, and our ambitions. We are not merely called to believe the right things. We are called to surrender control of our own personal kingdoms, to take up our cross, and to live as faithful stewards of everything God has placed in our hands.

This is a demanding calling. It requires us to stop asking, “What do I want from my life today?” and start asking, “What does God want from my life today?” It challenges us to see our work not as laborious drudgery but as worship to our Heavenly Father. It calls us to treat our daily relationships as divine gatherings, our giftings as assignments, and our daily decisions as opportunities to reflect the character of Christ. The classroom, the office, the hospital room, the neighborhood, and the family dinner table are all places where the Kingdom of God is to break through and be seen, felt, enjoyed and practiced. We are responsible not only to avoid sin, but to actively bring love, forgiveness, hope, holiness, boldness, life, healing, justice, and faithfulness into the spaces we occupy.

The question for every believer is not whether we have a kingdom, but whether our kingdom is being surrendered to God, our Heavenly Father. Jesus does not invite us to a safer life; He invites us to become people whose ordinary lives are so yielded to God that we become living evidence that His Kingdom is here and active, and it is conquering the dark chaos of this world. Heavenly Father, Your kingdom come through us, living out Your character and power in our lives, so our lives can “glow with God” and make the reality of the kingdom tangible to others.

See you Sunday, living in His kingdom: Steve