Unlock Grace Power: How to Take the Kingdom of God by Force
By Chris Cree
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Passivity is a disease crippling much of the Body of Christ today. A great many believers are sitting back, passively waiting for God to move on their behalf without realizing they are receiving God's grace in vain.
Jesus strongly condemned passivity. At the same time, He often praised those who boldly took the Kingdom of God by force. This idea of taking the Kingdom of God by force is a radically different mindset than many believers have today. But we see that passionate determination to receive a miracle from Jesus repeated throughout the gospel accounts.
We do well to learn from those examples in the gospels. It is time for believers to unlock grace power by recognizing that the righteous are bold as a lion, stepping up, and taking the Kingdom of God by force.
Chris Cree
Chris Cree was a merchant marine officer and flew off of aircraft carriers in jets with the US Navy. After leaving the Navy he spent 12 years working on the docks in various marine cargo operations positions. In 2007 Chris turned his blogging hobby into a new career developing websites, both in his own business as a freelancer and as an employee of a rapidly growing firm. This job change provided the flexibility to eventually leave the coast where the ships were, move to the mountains and go to Bible college. Chris and his wife Lisa founded NewCREEations Ministries in 2013 as a vehicle to answer God’s call on their lives to guide believers into their full inheritance in the Kingdom of God. They lived in Scotland for a number of years as missionaries. While there, they established a local campus of an international Bible college. In 2021 God gave them a clear word to pass the baton to local leaders raised up on their team and return to the States. Through NewCREEations, Chris and Lisa focus on ministering life-changing Bible teaching, helping believers experience the Kingdom of God and His goodness in practical ways which improve their lives. They travel and teach, publish books, and produce video content along with a variety of other materials. They are working on establishing and growing a new extension of NewCREEations Ministries called Kingdom Mindsets, a discipleship platform to fulfill the Great Commission by connecting anointed ministries with the Body of Christ. You can learn more and contact them with questions or other inquiries via their NewCREEations.org website.
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Unlock Grace Power - Chris Cree
Unlock Grace Power
How to Take
the Kingdom of God
by Force
A Short Read
by
Chris Cree
UNLOCK GRACE POWER: How to Take the Kingdom of God by Force
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CONTENTS
Chapter 1 - Our Mindsets Matter
Chapter 2 - Mindsets of Slaves vs. Sons
Chapter 3 - Crippling Passivity
Chapter 4 - Faith and Belief
Chapter 5 - Receiving God's Grace in Vain
Chapter 6 - The Kingdom Suffers Violence
Chapter 7 - Many Called. Few Chosen.
Chapter 8 - Your Time is Now (Step Up!)
Chapter 1
Our Mindsets Matter
For as he thinks in his heart, so is he.
— Proverbs 23:7a
Mission Trip Experience
EARLY ON IN OUR MARRIAGE I was blessed with the opportunity on two different occasions to go to Brazil on mission trips. The second time Lisa was able to go on the trip too. In the two short weeks she was there, Lisa managed to learn to communicate remarkably well with the Brazilians in Portuguese.
She probably learned about 500 words. Her accent was good too. So much so, that one of the workers where we stayed was sure Lisa had studied Portuguese in university. He couldn’t believe Lisa picked up so much of the language so quickly.
I, on the other hand, didn’t even learn 50 words despite being immersed in the language twice as long as Lisa was.
Why such a big difference between how much of the language we were able to speak? How was Lisa able to learn more than ten times as many words as I did in half the time?
Was it because Lisa is better with languages than me?
She might be. But when I looked back on that time, I see Lisa and I had very different mindsets about the whole thing.
Lisa just plowed in and tried to speak Portuguese. She knew she’d probably say things wrong at first. And she did. But she had a healthy mindset about the whole thing and chose to laugh at her mistakes and keep trying.
And with some of her mistakes, everyone was laughing. There were a couple times what she said was horribly, and hilariously, wrong.
Unfortunately for me, my mindset held me back. You see I didn’t want to say anything unless I could say it exactly right. Therefore I didn’t try to speak even a tiny fraction of the amount that Lisa did.
My mindset told me I wouldn’t be able to do it. As a result I wasn’t willing to take the risk of saying something wrong. That fear of making mistakes held me back, and meant I learned very little of the language.
Lisa’s mindset said she would give it her best shot, learn from her mistakes, and enjoy the experience along the way. She knew she would likely say things wrong. And she knew that was the only real path to learning how to say things right.
That’s just one example of how different mindsets going into a situation can produce radically different results.
Our Mindsets Determine Our Outcomes
The Bible tells us that as a man thinks in his heart, so is he (Proverbs 23:7).
Our mindsets are vitally important.
Here is how the word mindset is defined:
A mental attitude or inclination
A fixed state of mind
What we think about ourselves in our hearts really determines our identity. What we believe about ourselves really does have a massive impact on what outcomes we experience in any given situation.
Henry Ford famously said, Whether you think you can or think you can’t — you’re right.
Our mindsets are far more important to us than many appreciate. This is why the Bible tells us to guard our hearts. For example,
Keep your heart with all diligence,
For out of it spring the issues of life. — Proverbs 4:23 (NKJV)
That word keep
means to set a watch over. That’s not talking about a wristwatch. It’s telling us to place a guard over our hearts, and to be vigilant about it too.
The word issues
refers to borders, boundaries, or extremities.
The idea is that we need to pay close attention to the condition of our