What I learned is some people like playing checkers and have never moved past mastering the principles of checkers to explore chess, because they deem chess as too complicated, too intense, and time consuming. What I want you to understand this morning is about the principles of the games and the lessons concerning the games, for they can truly help it outlining foundations principles for our life strategies.
I personally don’t even know how to play chess, but I am telling you that after doing my research and pulling all the facts together to deliver you this message, I am really going to put forth an effort to learn to play chess. Yes believers can play the board game of checkers and have a strong connection and commitment to God. Now I want you not to get stuck on the board games that you are familiar with, it's not about the board game. The Wise, those committed to the mandate of God, focus on the Kingdom of God conducting their lives like play chess, not checkers. In chess, you move each piece differently based on its ability. In checkers, all the game pieces move in the same way. It’s like we are stuck playing checkers, when we should be playing chess. The problem is most of us have not embraced the simplicity of the assignment given us, so we are living our lives out of alignment.įor lack of a better word, playing the wrong game, with the wrong motives and by the wrong rules.
Each and everyone of us was created with an assignment, an assignment that goes beyond your work, your volunteer work, your church service and your parenting.Įach of us was created and dispatched from the Kingdom of heaven to strategically be part of the shifting of the culture of earth to implement the culture of heaven. This morning I want to talk to you about implementation of strategies for the Kingdom of God.