Col 1:13
Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son:

Every believer in Christ Jesus has without exception undergone this process. It’s not an on-going journey as some wrong Church doctrines teach. It’s not something you attain as you come to Church more often, or pay your tithes more faithfully, or even fast and pray more fervently.
No. It’s an instant grace you receive the moment you believe and receive Christ. The work has already been done.

But Pastor, if we’re already in the new Kingdom of his dear Son, why am I still being troubled by the powers of darkness? Why am I still often sick? Why do I still have financial woes?

The answer is simple. You are translated into the Kingdom. But you are yet to enter into God’s rest because you haven’t learned how?

In Heb 4:11, the Bible talks about labour to enter into God’s rest. It doesn’t mean struggle or physical effort. No. It’s a knowledge thing.
If you know that you can’t be poor, then you cannot.
If you know that you are a new workmanship created in Christ Jesus, you can’t succumb to sin.
If you don’t know the import of your translation and learn how to live in the new Kingdom, you will still be romancing the corridors of darkness from the new abode. You’ll be like Lot’s wife who was rescued from Sodom but her mind was still there, or the Israelites who were rescued from Egypt but still sought to return at
every slight opportunity.

The first spot of romance with darkness is language.
The first thing you learn in any new place is the language. If you travel from France to Belgium by road, it’s a few hours trip. But the moment you arrive Belgium, you have to speak a new language, or get yourself an interpreter.
The same with the Kingdom of Christ.
Have you learnt and mastered the language?
You cannot say ‘ I have Diabetes’. NO. That’s not the language of the Kingdom. You are well and whole, healed by the stripes of Jesus 2000 years ago. Satan is trying to put sickness upon you. You can’t cooperate with him by saying you have diabetes.
In the Kingdom, every good and perfect gift is in you already. Your language, and your communication must bring them to bear on every situation.
Paul’s letter to Philemon said that much:

Philemon 1:6
That the communication of thy faith may become effectual by the acknowledging of every good thing which is in you in Christ Jesus.

The second step is the exercise of your authority as a believer and a Christ-representative on planet earth.
It’s not when you’re faced with a challenge, that you begin to pray and cry into God.
No. When you’re face-to-face with the challenge, you act in power. You speak, command, defy, resist or do whatever is necessary as the Spirit leads.

In Exodus 14:15, the Lord rebuked Moses for crying unto him in the face of the challenge of the Red Sea.

Exodus 14: 15. “And the LORD said unto Moses, Wherefore criest thou unto me? speak unto the children of Israel, that they go forward: 16. But lift thou up thy rod, and stretch out thine hand over the sea, and divide it: and the children of Israel shall go on dry ground through the midst of the sea”.
It wasn’t time to pray. It was “time to act”.
You have the badge of authority given to you by the finished works of Christ, you have the gun to shoot (the Word of God), it’s time to simply “show up” in might.
Alleluia!
“Resist the Devil and he will flee”.
(James 4:7)
“And thou shalt also decree a thing and it shall be established into you”.
(Job 22:28)
“Man that is in honour and understandeth not, is like the beasts that perish”
(Psalm 49:20)

You need to build the muscles in peace-time, through study and prayer, so you can show-up for the Lord when calamity knocks.
Selah!

– Dr Nich Mbaezue