Myles Munroe - The Principle and Power of Kingdom Citizenship: Keys to Experiencing Heaven on Earth

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The greatest tragedy in life is not death but life without a reason.

Dr. Myles Munroe

For a Christian statesman and Kingdom

revolutionary who pursued purpose with all of his

being, we are honored to present

The Principle and Power of Kingdom Citizenship,

the final book written by

DR. MYLES MUNROE.

M ost of us believe that we are from the planet Earth. And why not? Surely were not from Mars or Venus or some other planet.

We and billions of other people live in hundreds of different countries, large and small, that cover the face of the Earth. We order our lives according to the governments and cultures of those countries. We eat the food that the earth provides and we raise our families. Its all weve ever known and its all our parents and grandparents and great-grandparents ever knew. We believe that we are stuck with what Earth has to offer. We limit our whole lives to whats on the planet because thats the way everybody has been living for thousands of years.

Howeverwe have lost touch with reality.

Even those of us who claim to know the ultimate King (God) do not understand that we also belong to a country that supersedes any of the human countries we know about. We think of the Kingdom of God as a term thats been pasted into prayers and sermons like an add-on. We dont consider it our home country any more than Mars. We think the Kingdom of God and Heaven comprise some kind of invisible future destination above the clouds.

The truth about the Kingdom is difficult to get across to people. I always feel as if Im battling against 1,800 years of mental block. Weve been so conditioned to think religion, that God has difficulty getting through to us the real message He has delivered to us through Jesus Christ, which is about His Kingdom and how much He wants us to be full citizens of it, even while were still living on this globe.

His message is personal. Anybody who claims Christ as Savior becomes a citizen of the Kingdom of God, but too many people leave their citizenship on the shelf. They consider their faith to be religion, not citizenship, and they dont realize that it should be making a difference in every detail of their personal, earthly lives.

You cannot see citizenship; you must experience it. In the same way, you cannot see the Kingdom of God; you must experience it.

This book is a training guide for citizens of the Kingdom. It will help you learn about your new country. I want you not only to understand everything you can about your new country, I also want you to accept the idea that youre living in it now, just as you have accepted the idea that Heaven is a real place where you can go after you die. The Kingdom of God and the Kingdom of Heaven are the same thing, you know.

God, the King, has set up His Kingdom so that it is composed of earthly outposts, or colonies, populated with His citizens. But the story of these colonies has not been an easy one. When Adam and Eve declared independence from Heaven, they had to set up their own government. Gods Holy Spirit was no longer their governor, because they didnt want Him to be. So Heaven started to seem like someplace far away. We lost the language, the culture, the values, the morals, the convictions, and the lifestyle that should have been the standard for any earthly colony of the Kingdom. We became aliens to God.

Because He wanted to turn that around, He sent His Son Jesus to make sure we would know about the Kingdom again. Once we find out how we fit into the Kingdom of God, the whole thing gets reversed. We begin to feel like aliens on planet Earth. We begin to feel that we belong someplace else. We also begin to rediscover the present-day benefits that come with our heavenly citizenship.