The kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit. Romans 14:17.
Today your LORD (יהוה) God (אלהים) says:
Walk in My ways and know My results. And My results are always to give you good things and perfect gifts. It all comes back to the plans I have for you, plans for your shalom (the whole pie of life with no piece missing) and not evil, to give you a wonderful future and a glorious hope.
“I will fill the soul of the priests with abundance, and My people will overflow with My goodness,” declares the LORD. Jeremiah 31:14.
What are My ways? Lovingkindness and truth and faithfulness, but there is more, much more.
Surely His salvation is near to those who revere Him, that glory may dwell in our land. Lovingkindness and truth (faithfulness) have met together; righteousness and peace have kissed each other. Truth springs from the earth, and righteousness looks down from heaven. Indeed, the LORD will give what is good, and our land will yield its produce. Righteousness will go before Him and will make His footsteps into a way. Psalm 85:9-13.
In this Psalm I show you something about My ways. And My ways are salvation, glory, lovingkindness, truth and faithfulness, righteousness, and peace, all meeting together making a way as you follow in My footsteps bringing Heaven and earth together resulting in an overflow of goodness and abundance. And all this is realized where Heaven and earth meet in Jesus, true God and true Man, who is the Way, the Truth, and the Life incarnate to lead you in paths of righteousness as your great good Shepherd to the table of plenty in My house forever. In Him, righteousness and peace have kissed.
I am righteous and My ways are righteous and I lead you in paths of righteousness for My Name’s sake which I have given to you. And if you are following Me, just walk close to Me, in My footsteps and you will be following the righteous way, the peaceful way, and the joyful way. My footsteps make a way and that is the highway of holiness, nothing unclean can walk there and the devil cannot get on it (it is too high for his thoughts to enter, snakes die at high altitudes, so put your mind above where Christ is seated at My right hand). My ways are HIGH ways.
And what are the redeemed doing on that highway? What is the way that leads you on? Righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit!
But the redeemed will walk there, and the ransomed of the LORD will return and come with joyful shouting and singing to Zion, with everlasting joy upon their heads. Isaiah 35:10.
For you will go out with joy and be led forth with peace. Isaiah 55:12.
The flow in the Kingdom of Heaven itself is righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.
The kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit. Romans 14:17.
So to live days of Heaven on earth you must be walking in the ways of Heaven. And Jesus wanted to make sure you do. Do know the gifts that He gave you as your inheritance the night before He died? His righteousness, His peace, and His joy.
He obtained and gave you the wonderful gift of righteousness by pouring out His blood for you to cleanse you of all your sins and pay for the eternal life you lost, putting you right with Me, divine justice having been satisfied by His death for your sins. And He left that to you in a tangible way so you would never forget it.
And when He had taken a cup and given thanks, He gave it to them, saying, “Drink from it, all of you; for this is My blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for forgiveness of sins. Matthew 26:27-28.
In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of His grace which He lavished on us. Ephesians 17:7-8.
He made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him. 2 Corinthians 5:21.
Next, He gave you His own peace, which is peace at the highest level, His peace. He walked in perfect shalom peace and He has given you the same, His way.
Peace I leave with you; My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Do not let your heart be troubled, nor let it be fearful. John 14:27.
Never say you do not have peace. You have peace beyond all understanding. You have divine peace, but you have to enforce it for the devil will try to steal it from you by troubling your mind and your heart with the spirits of anxiety and fear. You have to answer them that you have perfect peace and they have no place in you and cast them out without even giving them a chance to get a stronghold in you. Never make worry your way. It is not My way.
And He is anointed you with the oil of joy with which I anointed Him, all joy comes from Me through the living waters of My Spirit, and He gave you that anointing as well in My anointed Word.
These things I have spoken to you so that My joy may be in you, and that your joy may be made full. John 15:11.
Therefore you too have grief now; but I will see you again, and your heart will rejoice, and no one will take your joy away from you. John 16:22.
But now I come to You, O holy Father; and these things I speak in the world so that they may have My joy made full in themselves. John 17:13.
And He gives you to drink of that bubbling spring of eternal life, which is none other than the gift of the Holy Spirit in which Jesus baptizes you. And the fruit the Spirit produces with your spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control.
Jesus bequeathed these three gifts to you the night He was betrayed, so you know it is very important for you to claim them, receive them, and put them to use every moment of every day and night. He left you His ways and they are the way to the Kingdom and the way to live in the Kingdom flow on earth, just as He did.
Unless you are established in righteousness and know you have good standing before Me, that is, you know there is nothing hindering your reception of all that is good, of all My many benefits and magnificent promises, then you can have peace in all situations, circumstances and trials of life. Why? You will be able to counteract and check the devil’s accusations and not allow them to trouble your walk with Me.
A highway will be there, a roadway, and it will be called the Highway of Holiness. The unclean will not travel on it, but it will be for him who walks that way, and fools will not wander on it. No lion will be there, nor will any vicious beast go up on it; these will not be found there. Isaiah 35:8-9.
You can only come with confidence to My throne when you know that Jesus made peace through the blood of His Cross between you and Me and made you holy, blameless and without reproach before Me. In other words, you are established in righteousness by being rooted and grounded in Him, drawing up all you need from His merits, from His righteousness, from His peace, and from His joy, all of which He has given you.
I have given you everything in Him, every spiritual blessing in Heaven. You just have to receive it with peace and joy.
“Behold, God is my salvation, I will trust and not be afraid; for the Lord God is my strength and song, and He has become my salvation.” Therefore with joy you will draw water from the springs of salvation. Isaiah 12:2-3.
And I reveal Myself in My Names and I am the LORD your righteousness, Yahweh Tsidkenu, the LORD is peace, Yahweh Shalom, and the God of your exceeding joy, El simchat gili.
In His days Judah will be saved, and Israel will dwell securely; and this is His name by which He will be called, ‘The LORD our righteousness.’ Jeremiah 23:6.
Then Gideon built an altar there to the LORD and named it the LORD is Peace. Judges 6:24.
Then I will go to the altar of God, to God my exceeding joy; and upon the lyre I shall praise You, O God, my God. Psalm 43:4.
And all those promises in My Names are “yes” to you in Jesus.
And though you have not seen Him, you love Him, and though you do not see Him now, but believe in Him, you greatly rejoice with joy inexpressible and full of glory, obtaining as the outcome of your faith the salvation of your souls. 1 Peter1:8-9.
I love you. The ways of Heaven are yours on earth, for it has pleased Me to give you the Kingdom, so you are filled with righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.