The Kingdom Cowboy Podcast

Summary:

There are seven elements that make up Trinity Fellowship’s spiritual DNA. The Kingdom of God, knowing God as Father, and signs and wonders are a part of the seven. Without having a real understanding of the Kingdom and an experiential knowledge, along with a deep, intimate relationship with the Father, signs and wonders are not going to happen through us. That’s why the church needs to step up quickly to be a guide for the Kingdom of God instead of sitting on the sidelines and watching God move through other means to accomplish His will in the earth.

Show Notes:

• The worldwide church is way behind what God is doing now. That’s why church leaders must start listening to the Father and conveying that to their people.
• There are thousands of people coming to Christ presently, but most of the church is stuck in old traditions and religious ways, which is keeping people from a deeper walk with the Father. That’s why it’s so important that the message concerning the Kingdom of God—and real kingdom people with kingdom mindsets—come to the forefront to help guide and teach these new converts what it is to really have a true walk with the Father.

Quotes:

• “I’m more of a teacher than I am a preacher. I’m not trying to entertain here. I’m serious about the seven things that God has given for us to focus on. I’m not trying to grow a church, but I’m trying to develop a people.”
• “We’re going to start seeing a lot of these high-profile people—actors, even politicians—starting to get saved. A great example is Jelly Roll. Upon receiving a Grammy, he shared his whole testimony about Jesus, about God, and basically telling everybody that they can have all they want of Him.”
• “The Kingdom of God exists right now in its perfection and its fullness, but it doesn’t manifest in the natural realm until someone like you or me is obedient to what we believe God is doing.”

References:

Matthew 6:33

Takeaways:

God is moving very quickly in the earth, and the church has to step up fast, or God will find other ways to get His job accomplished.

Summary:

Having a personal, interactive relationship with the Father and having a clean heart are both actually the first step. Matthew 7:7 tells us to knock and keep knocking, seek and keep seeking, ask and keep asking, and the door will be opened to you. That’s what you have to do to be efficient at anything. We, as believers, are hardwired for the super-natural. Just because your prayers for people and things don’t turn out like you think they ought to, don’t get discouraged. Keep doing it, keep trying and don’t stop doing it. How about going after something smaller than trying to raise someone from the dead right off the bat? In reality, signs, wonders and miracles are happening much more than we know, but we have to start looking with spiritual eyes to see them.

Show Notes:

• There are so many people who think that signs and wonders are just reserved for somebody else, someone who knows a lot more Bible, or someone more committed than them. What a misconception! We’re all created for signs, wonders and the supernatural, because we were created in the image of God.

• A lot of people go around wondering why, when they pray for someone with a terminal illness or something, most of them end up dying. Understandable! But you never know what might happen if you keep praying for these people. The Bible tells us to keep on knocking, asking and believing for it to happen.

• Sometimes it’s better to pray and not see immediate results. And, sometimes, you find out months after you did pray over someone, that a healing really did take place. Could God have been protecting you from pride at that time?

• One of the greatest signs and wonders is being able to communicate with the Father, and the ability to hear Him speak to us in so many different ways.

Quotes:

• There has to be signs, wonders and the supernatural acts and events for the world that we live in, to see the kingdom of God advanced to the degree that those kinds of things start to happen on the regular course of our day.

• I’ve seen too much supernatural stuff for someone to say that God’s not doing them today. I think God always wants to do it, but now more than ever. And I think we’re in a place, the church, the body of Christ now, where we’re going to see a lot more of that kind of stuff.

References:

Matthew 7:7

Takeaways:

As believers, we should never stop believing and praying for miracles to happen for people. If miracles and healing are two of the gifts of God’s spirit, we all should be contending and going after these things to start happening in our everyday life.

Summary:

To be able to walk in this supernatural realm of signs, wonders and miracles, the first and foremost thing is to have an ongoing, close, intimate relationship with the Father, on a consistent basis. Everything we do, especially signs and wonders, stems from this. Second, God has given all of us the same portion of faith, but we all have to start using it and building it up for it to become effective. Start praying for impossible-looking situations and see how these things can start happening in situations that you get involved with.

Show Notes:

• God is eternal and if we are saved, we are also eternal. We have been prepared for good words. Isn’t it possible that those good works have already occurred in the eternal realm, and the Father is waiting for an obedient kingdom person to walk into that situation, and by faith, make it happen?

• So many believers, especially in the Bible Belt, have a mindset that only the ministry people do these kinds of things, so we have to break that mindset because we are all truly called to these things. We’re all hardwired to walk in the supernatural.

• It happens a lot where we pray for someone to be healed and it doesn’t happen. So, are we just supposed to stop because of that? God is testing us in the natural to see if He can trust us with the supernatural. If we don’t ask, and keep asking, for a healing or miracle, it certainly won’t happen.

• If you want to move in signs and wonders, just do it. Don’t think small. Cross the threshold and exercise your own faith. Activate your faith.

Quotes:

• We’ve been trying to train people around here for a long time, to ask big and to pray impossible-looking prayers.

• We are hardwired for signs, wonders, miracles and good works as kingdom people. I believe these should be happening all the time, and should be following us in the path of our life.

• Signs and wonders should have been escalating all this time, not tapering off. It’s religion that really tends to get in the way of this. Our God is a God of miracles, and He is the same yesterday, today and forever.

References:

Ephesians 2:10

Mark 16:17-18

Takeaways:

With us, when these seemly impossible situations come up, there’s no way that we feel adequate to tackle them. But then, the Father never wanted us to feel adequate. He wants us to know that we can only do all things in Him. It’s in our inadequacies and weakness that His strength and power can flow through us to pray for, heal, and see miracles come in other people’s lives.

Summary:

There are several things that factor into walking in signs and wonders, which are some of the elements of Trinity’s Spiritual DNA. These are: The Kingdom of God, Relationship with the Father, Grace, Family & Relationships, and being equipping for the work of the ministry. God intended for all for us to move in signs and wonders, but we have to shake off our unbelief and reluctance in order start taking steps to seeing these things happen. The only thing that keeps us from moving in the supernatural is our own thinking.

Show Notes:

• One of the key factors in preventing signs and wonders from occurring is unbelief and hardness of heart. That’s why Jesus, after His resurrection, appeared to the 11 and rebuked them for not believing those who told them that He had risen.

• We are called to operate in the supernatural realm, not under our own power, but under the power of God, by the Holy Spirit who lives in us.

• Signs, wonders and miracles are not limited to someone who is healed of a deadly disease or raised from the dead. It could be something as simple as God working out an impossible looking situation in someone’s marriage, or with other relationships.

Quotes:

• In Mark 16:17 it says, “These signs will follow those who have believed”. The acid test is not whether you say you believe. The acid test is if you can look back last week, last month, last year, and see if there are signs and wonders in where you have been, because we are the people who carry those signs and wonders.

• As believers, we have been hardwired for signs and wonders. We’re made for the supernatural realm. Supernatural signs, wonders, and miracles are woven into the fabric of the creation story from the beginning, and were intended to be part of every Kingdom believer’s life forever.

References:

Matthew 22: 37-39

Ephesians 4:11-12

Mark 16: 14-18

Genesis 1:1

Takeaways:

Signs and wonders are happening every day, but we have to be looking with spiritual eyes to see them occurring. When you start talking about signs and wonders, so many people start thinking about the big occurrences, like people jumping up out of wheelchairs and things like that. Most of the time, it’s the little things that God is doing, that seem to go unnoticed by most.

Summary:

Without a close, intimate relationship with the Father, where you and He are connecting and communicating together, your chances of walking in a ministry are next to none. With the help of the Holy Spirit, all of us should be desiring and walking in the anointing and gifts that God has given to us. All of us can, and should, be getting fed to go out and communicate the good news with everyone that the Lord leads us to connect with. Walking in a ministry is very simple if you drop the fear and intimidation of connecting with and touching people out of your heart and spirit.

Show Notes:

• Our main objective here at Trinity is not just to feed people, but to equip them to process the information, so that they are able to communicate it to the people they come in contact with. That way the word becomes perpetual. “Teach these things to faithful people, who will teach others also”.

• Ministry is so much more simple than people make it out to be. It can come at a restaurant with a friend, or out of the golf course, where something is brought up and you are able to talk from your position on what you have learned.

• The most important thing about doing ministry is having a close relationship with the Father, where you and He are connecting and communicating together.

• The five fold ministries talked about in Ephesians 4 are to be equipping the rest of the body for the work of the ministry. God didn’t establish them to “do all the doing”.

Quotes:

• People come to church with the main idea of getting fed, but to do nothing with it is a futile effort, in my opinion. They are not thinking about giving that away to somebody else.

• You are carrying more than you realize you are. And, you’re not going to realize how much you carry unless you’re in a situation, in real relationships, where this stuff comes out.

• Ministry is not something we do, ministry is someone that you are. All we’re doing is being able to tell our story, based on where we are in the Lord, and how we’ve grown up in the Lord.

• You’re called to the work of the ministry. That means putting one foot in front of the other. Keeping obedient to God, and listening to what God is saying to you. So, start to find out your place in the body by finding an area of need in your church and step in and start to helping out.

References:

Ephesians 4:1-16

Luke 15

2 Timothy 2:2

Takeaways:

God’s true church will never be what it is supposed to be until everyone in the body of Christ starts to wake up and starts walking in the anointing and gifts that God has already given to each of us. The Lord has given us all strengths in Him to walk out if we will just stop sitting around waiting for someone else to do it.