Way of the Kingdom

M. Maas Kim

Description

Fight the Way Jesus FoughtFor many believers, times of unrest simply mean that darkness is on the rise. But what if the growing violence in the world today means something different? What if our "signs of the times" mean that the Spirit of God is on the move?Author and trusted prophet Kim Maas reveals one of the mysteries of the Kingdom: When light breaks through the gates of darkness, the result is violence. This is spiritual warfare, and it signals a fresh awakening. It means that the Kingdom of God is advancing and that you are advancing!Engage in Kingdom violence the way Jesus taught--with violent love, violent forgiveness, violent healing, violent deliverance, violent peace. If answering violence with violence sounds like war, it is. You are already in position. Overturn the works of darkness in every area of your life, and watch for a great move of God!

Sujets

• Philosophie et théologie

Informations

• Publié par: Baker Publishing Group
• Date de parution: 17 août 2021
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781493431281
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Endorsements
“ The Way of the Kingdom is a book that reaches deep into the heart of Christianity and provides help and a message that we need in troubled times. It is full of wisdom to bring life-saving knowledge as well as points of reflection. Kim Maas can write on such subjects as suffering, peace and redemption because she has lived that message personally. Prepare to be changed, challenged and inspired!”
Cindy Jacobs, founder, Generals International
“Kim Maas presents a brilliant profile of the times we are living in and how to position ourselves in such an hour. You will discover many revelatory keys in her book, The Way of the Kingdom , that will open the eyes of your understanding to God’s purpose, plan and power for this generation of believers.”
Dr. Patricia King, author, minister, television host
“There is an unseen enemy and demonic campaign against God’s plan and His people. Kim Maas’s powerful book, The Way of the Kingdom , decodes the mysteries of Christ’s Kingdom by unleashing prophetic revelatory insight, imparting biblical truths and activating the rules-of-engagement strategies against the kingdom of darkness for victorious living for every believer.”
Dr. Hakeem Collins, prophetic voice; international speaker; author, 10 Prayer Secrets
“ The Way of the Kingdom offers breakthrough insights into the very essence of Christianity—a Christianity from Jesus, the founder, and what He emphasized . This work is not simply a new theology. It joyously commends the mission and message of Jesus Himself to any who would follow Him.”
Dr. Jon Mark Ruthven, Ph.D. curriculum creator, Iris University, Pemba, Mozambique
“I have never met Kim Maas, but when I read her book The Way of the Kingdom , I knew her heart. Few times have I picked up a book that conveyed a better understanding of the Lord’s statement that the least in the Kingdom would be greater than John the Baptist. What you hold in your hands will help you make the divine shift and transfer your mind-set to move outwardly into God’s Kingdom plan to align heaven with earth today.”
Dr. Chuck D. Pierce, president, Glory of Zion International Ministries; president, Global Spheres
“In this inspiring and enlightening book, Kim Maas reminds us that we have entered a new season, and how we respond during this time matters deeply to God. Each chapter contains practical activations and thoughtful questions that will help you discover your role and responsibility during this epoch time in history. I recommend this book to anyone seeking strategies to demolish darkness and advance God’s Kingdom!”
Kris Vallotton, senior associate leader, Bethel Church; co-founder, Bethel School of Supernatural Ministry; bestselling author, Spiritual Intelligence
“Jesus commands us all to ‘go!’ With revelations from Scripture, soul-searching questions and activations, The Way of the Kingdom challenges us to go—to the grocery store, the library, the workplace and even to Africa. This book will help you respond to Jesus with an enthusiastic yes!”
Heidi G. Baker, Ph.D., co-founder and executive chairman of the board, Iris Global
“To overcome the darkness from generation to generation, we must understand not only the operations of darkness but also the operations of the Kingdom of God. This book will help you to sharpen your war weapons and rise to new levels of victory through faith.”
Dr. Venner J. Alston, founder, Alston International Ministries; author, Next- Level Spiritual Warfare
Title Page
Copyright Page
© 2021 by Kim Marie Maas
Published by Chosen Books
11400 Hampshire Avenue South
Bloomington, Minnesota 55438
www.chosenbooks.com
Chosen Books is a division of
Baker Publishing Group, Grand Rapids, Michigan
www.bakerpublishinggroup.com
Ebook edition created 2021
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means—for example, electronic, photocopy, recording—without the prior written permission of the publisher. The only exception is brief quotations in printed reviews.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is on file at the Library of Congress, Washington, DC.
ISBN 978-1-4934-3128-1
Chapters 4 and 10 include excerpts adapted from Prophetic Community by Kim Maas, copyright © 2019. Used by permission of Chosen Books, a division of Baker Publishing Group.
Unless otherwise indicated, Scripture quotations are from The Holy Bible, English Standard Version® (ESV®), copyright © 2001 by Crossway, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved. ESV Text Edition: 2016
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Dedication
For Ian, Jameson, Camron, Macallan and Seth.
Follow Jesus. Be Brave. Do damage to the kingdom of darkness. Remember that you are salt and light, and you are bringers of the powerful Kingdom of God. Grandma loves you so, so much.
Contents
Cover 1
Endorsements 2
Title Page 3
Copyright Page 4
Dedication 5
Foreword by Mark J. Chironna 9
Acknowledgments 13
Prologue 15
Introduction 17
1. Are You the One? 25
2. The Great Temptation 41
3. Ears to Hear 58
4. The Least in the Kingdom 73
5. Conflict Is Unavoidable 88
6. Kingdom Violence 106
7. War and Peace 123
8. Perfect Peace 141
9. Death Has Lost Its Sting 156
10. We Are the Violent 172
Conclusion 189
Appendix: “Violence” by Bonnie Beushausen 196
Notes 199
About the Author 205
Back Ad 207
Back Cover 208
Foreword
God, after He spoke long ago to the fathers in the prophets in many portions and in many ways, in these last days has spoken to us in His Son, whom He appointed heir of all things, through whom He also made the world.
Hebrews 1:1–2 NASB
T he writer of Hebrews informs us that God has spoken in His Son. You and I perhaps are bilingual. We may speak English and another language. God only speaks one language. He speaks “Son.” It is the very testimony of Jesus that is the spirit of prophecy. Jesus is the main event. The fullness of times is experienced in Him, in His very being. He is God’s eternal and ultimate Word.
As C. E. W. Green has said, “Nothing happens to God. God happens to everything.” When the incarnation occurred, time itself underwent change. Mary’s boy, conceived of the Holy Spirit in her womb, was the divine Person assuming human flesh. Saint Athanasius, in On the Incarnation of the Word , makes it clear: “He became what we are that we might become what he is.”
This is not an easy pill to swallow for us in our broken and fragmented state. We resist the cross-shaped life, the very life that Christ brings. Yet this is the testimony of Jesus. If it isn’t cross-shaped (if it isn’t cruciform), it isn’t the spirit of prophecy. The Spirit only testifies of Christ in His cross-shaped realities. Jesus calls us all to follow Him, in like manner, on the journey to becoming fully and truly human.
The cross and the cross-shaped life are a scandalous thing. It is reverse violence. It is the difficult journey of birthing something new through the pain of travail. Pain and suffering are two of the many companions that lead us into deeper intimacy and communion with God in His triune life.
It is at the cross where Jesus perfectly reveals who the Father is in His love toward us. Hence, the Kingdom suffers violence, and the violent embrace that cross, and through the birth pangs of sorrow and travail, the expression of the government of God is brought into every sphere of life.
This story is well rehearsed and well told over the course of two millennia. The key is for you and I to live in this story and see ourselves precisely as those who are easily scandalized by the cross-shaped life. How then do we now live?
The book you hold in your hand is one pathway there. Kim Maas has taken time to talk to us about the way of the Kingdom. While the pathway involves signs and wonders that confirm its declaration, it does not come without pain and suffering. That is something that is not popular in a postmodern era where the truth is up for grabs and there are seemingly no absolutes. In these pages, Kim offers to accompany you on a journey that grounds us each step of the way in how to take the next, easiest step in following Jesus through our brokenness to His wholeness, from our fragmentation to a place of integrity.
Her writing is clear and easily accessible. When I was learning how to preach, practicing on various congregations, the mothers of the churches would shout back at me, “Make it plain.” Kim makes it plain.
Kim is going to take you into the very heart of your existence in Christ, and the cross-shaped journey that is all too easy to avoid in a day when selfish pleasure, ambition, and what’s-in-it-for-me have clouded our vision and hindered our testimony. Take your time, listen deeply, and have ears to hear.
Thanks, Kim, for your voice!
Bishop Mark J. Chironna, senior pastor, Church on the Living Edge; founder, Mark Chironna Ministries
Acknowledgments
M y Jesus, the One who overcomes darkness violently, thank You. My husband, Michael Maas, the one w