Understanding Your Kingdom Position | Wednesday Morning Prayer Meeting

God called Abraham into a covenant of faithful service, as is told at the beginning of Genesis 12. By leaving the territory of his faithless extended family and following God’s call, Abraham distinguished himself sharply from his distant relatives who stayed in Mesopotamia and attempted to build the Tower of Babel, as was told at the close of Genesis 11.

When Abraham left his home in Haran and set out for the land of Canaan, his family was probably already quite large by modern standards. We know that his wife Sarah and his nephew Lot came with him, but so did an unspecified number of people and possessions (Gen. 12:5). Soon Abraham would become very wealthy, having acquired servants and livestock as well as silver and gold (Gen. 12:16; 13:2). He received people and animals from Pharaoh during his stay in Egypt, and the precious metals would have been the result of commercial transactions, indicating the Lord as the ultimate one to bestow blessing.[2]Evidence that both Abraham and Lot had become successful lies in the quarreling that broke out between the herders for each family over the inability of the land to support so many grazing animals. Eventually, the two had to part company in order to support their business activities (Gen. 13:11).

Our Kingdom position is to obey (agree with) God. Our obedience is marked by our movement. Our movement brings us to geographical and spiritual places. Our attitude and posture in each location determines our standing or reputation. Our character, discipline and habits determine our status or rank. Abraham was a prophet because He moved when He was told. No matter what place He found himself; He worshipped. His worship (obedience) brought him to settling in a place of fatness and strength (Mamre).

Our role and responsibility as members of God's Kingdom is to wholeheartedly comply with and adhere to His divine will and commands. Our obedience to God is evidenced and manifested through our actions and behaviors. As we move and journey through life, both physically and spiritually, our movement and progression brings us to various geographical locations as well as different stages and realms in our spiritual development. The attitude, posture, and perspective we maintain in each of these settings and circumstances ultimately determines our standing, reputation, and how we are perceived by others. Fundamentally, our character, self-discipline, and habitual patterns of living are what define our status, rank, and position within the Kingdom of God.