The Lord quickened me to watch the movie Alice in Wonderland and He talked to me about it, and applied it to my spiritual walk.
To recap a little first, Alice fell down a rabbit hole, and had an experience in her dream (in her mind). The characters in Wonderland doubted whether she was the "right" Alice or not and she said "it's my dream, how can I not be the right Alice?"
She was always the wrong size! First she was too big, so she had to shrink down. Then she was too little and she had to be stretched. Once again, she became too big and she had to shrink yet again and then she got stuffed into a tea pot!
Everyone was pushing her and shoving her along, and she wasn't even sure where she was going or why and everyone told her that she was there to fight a big serpent dragon thing, that she didn't want to fight. But they kept telling her she was the only one who could defeat it.
When the mad hatter, that she had befriended, got kidnapped by the evil queen, she wanted to go and rescue him, but one of the characters said "that's not your path. If you veer from the path, you will not reach your destiny!" Alice replied said "Wait a minute! Ever since I fell down that rabbit hole, I've been shrunk and then stretched, and then stuffed and accused of NOT being "Alice" and accused of "being" Alice, and told what I have to do but this is "my" dream. I make the path!"
So she goes and when the "good" queen in exile finds out that she's "veered" from the path to go rescue the mad hatter, she says "that's where she needs to get the sword". And it's revealed that the "sword" is the only missing element in the armor that awaits her, for her battle with the dragon. And it's told that she has to have a specific sword and not just any sword and she also has to wear a specific armor in order to defeat the serpent dragon.
And when she sees the dragon, it is said "this is IMPOSSIBLE". And she says "my father said he sometimes thinks of 6 impossible things before breakfast". And as she is approaching the dragon, she starts counting 6 impossible things which she has already done including finding herself in a place such as Wonderland by falling down a rabbit hole! So she builds up her faith by remembering her journey and the 6th impossible thing she counts is to defeat the dragon! So she fights, and the dragon throws her up in the air and as she is coming down, she holds out the sword and says "OFF with your head!" and she slays him.
The kingdom of God is not a literal, natural, geographical location that it takes time to travel to. The kingdom of God is a state of mind.
If God is my King, then I am part of his Kingdom and thus I am in the Kingdom of God. If God is my Ruler and King, then I can benefit from the benefits of his government! This is a state of mind.
It's my mind. It is my choices that direct my path. I make my own path by the choices I make. By the mindset I have, I can succeed or I can fail. I can be strong or I can be weak. I can declare that God is my king & I am in his kingdom, or I can make excuses why I'm not.
The battlefield is all in my mind. The City of refuge, the "secret place", is a mindset where God's love and peace and a heart wholly given to him is. I can be there in an instant with a decision in my mind.
But it's my mind and my decision. Is God my King? YES HE IS!!! And if there is an enemy in the kingdom that has to be slayed, then it's my destiny to be able to slay this enemy, no matter how big and bad he looks! If I put on the armor that's given me, and take the special sword, it will all work out, because it is my destiny. God has brought me here to do this very thing, and given me the tools to do it.
Look at what I've already come through! Count the impossible things I've already accomplished! King David had to remember the lion and the bear that he defeated in the name of the Lord, to give him the faith to face Goliath.
I have gone through a lot of changes. I've been humbled, and I've been stretched back out, just to be humbled again! I've been boxed in and covered up. I've been pushed and shoved and told what I ought to do. I've been told I was brought to the Body to be the Bride, and accused that I wasn't the Bride! But this is my life! And I'm right on schedule in it. How can I possibly not be?
Debbie Hoffman Benfield
To recap a little first, Alice fell down a rabbit hole, and had an experience in her dream (in her mind). The characters in Wonderland doubted whether she was the "right" Alice or not and she said "it's my dream, how can I not be the right Alice?"
She was always the wrong size! First she was too big, so she had to shrink down. Then she was too little and she had to be stretched. Once again, she became too big and she had to shrink yet again and then she got stuffed into a tea pot!
Everyone was pushing her and shoving her along, and she wasn't even sure where she was going or why and everyone told her that she was there to fight a big serpent dragon thing, that she didn't want to fight. But they kept telling her she was the only one who could defeat it.
When the mad hatter, that she had befriended, got kidnapped by the evil queen, she wanted to go and rescue him, but one of the characters said "that's not your path. If you veer from the path, you will not reach your destiny!" Alice replied said "Wait a minute! Ever since I fell down that rabbit hole, I've been shrunk and then stretched, and then stuffed and accused of NOT being "Alice" and accused of "being" Alice, and told what I have to do but this is "my" dream. I make the path!"
So she goes and when the "good" queen in exile finds out that she's "veered" from the path to go rescue the mad hatter, she says "that's where she needs to get the sword". And it's revealed that the "sword" is the only missing element in the armor that awaits her, for her battle with the dragon. And it's told that she has to have a specific sword and not just any sword and she also has to wear a specific armor in order to defeat the serpent dragon.
And when she sees the dragon, it is said "this is IMPOSSIBLE". And she says "my father said he sometimes thinks of 6 impossible things before breakfast". And as she is approaching the dragon, she starts counting 6 impossible things which she has already done including finding herself in a place such as Wonderland by falling down a rabbit hole! So she builds up her faith by remembering her journey and the 6th impossible thing she counts is to defeat the dragon! So she fights, and the dragon throws her up in the air and as she is coming down, she holds out the sword and says "OFF with your head!" and she slays him.
The kingdom of God is not a literal, natural, geographical location that it takes time to travel to. The kingdom of God is a state of mind.
If God is my King, then I am part of his Kingdom and thus I am in the Kingdom of God. If God is my Ruler and King, then I can benefit from the benefits of his government! This is a state of mind.
It's my mind. It is my choices that direct my path. I make my own path by the choices I make. By the mindset I have, I can succeed or I can fail. I can be strong or I can be weak. I can declare that God is my king & I am in his kingdom, or I can make excuses why I'm not.
The battlefield is all in my mind. The City of refuge, the "secret place", is a mindset where God's love and peace and a heart wholly given to him is. I can be there in an instant with a decision in my mind.
But it's my mind and my decision. Is God my King? YES HE IS!!! And if there is an enemy in the kingdom that has to be slayed, then it's my destiny to be able to slay this enemy, no matter how big and bad he looks! If I put on the armor that's given me, and take the special sword, it will all work out, because it is my destiny. God has brought me here to do this very thing, and given me the tools to do it.
Look at what I've already come through! Count the impossible things I've already accomplished! King David had to remember the lion and the bear that he defeated in the name of the Lord, to give him the faith to face Goliath.
I have gone through a lot of changes. I've been humbled, and I've been stretched back out, just to be humbled again! I've been boxed in and covered up. I've been pushed and shoved and told what I ought to do. I've been told I was brought to the Body to be the Bride, and accused that I wasn't the Bride! But this is my life! And I'm right on schedule in it. How can I possibly not be?
Debbie Hoffman Benfield
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