8 keys to function with a kingly mentality
It’s time believers begin to function with a kingly mentality. Most Christians have not yet developed their consciousness to function where God ordained them to function.
1) Kings Do Not Beg
Ecclesiastes 10:5–7: “There is an evil I have seen under the sun… princes walking on the ground like servants, while servants ride on horses like princes.”
It is an evil under the sun when those created to function as kings begin to live like beggars. The Bible calls it an evil under the sun: kings are trekking while beggars are riding on horses.
It is not solely the absence of God’s power; it is the product of a depraved mentality. Believers need to begin functioning in the order in which they were created. God created us to live as entities of glory on the face of the earth.
2) Kings Walk in the Glory of Their Kingdom
Genesis 1:26: “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let them have dominion.”
Dominion means a glorified existence. God created man to operate in the realm of glory, but that glory was lost when Adam sinned. We cannot control our environment if we do not operate in glory.
God wants us to function as glorified entities. Being a glorified entity does not mean we take the praise that belongs to God. Rather, it means that we share in God’s nature and function like Him.
“Glory” does not mean claiming the praise that belongs to God. It does not mean that when someone is healed, I claim to be the healer. Glory means that I have God’s nature; I am God’s offspring.
3) Walk in the Multifaceted Dimensions of Christ
Have you ever asked yourself what subdued Jesus Christ while He was on the earth? Was it sickness? Was it Satan? Was it death? Nothing subdued Him.
At one time, Jesus was speaking to five thousand men, not counting women and children, for three days, and no one even noticed the time passing.
Was that merely a lecture that people could sit through for so long? Jesus Himself said, “The words that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life.” When Jesus speaks, He animates you, energizes you, and imparts life.
When someone is in the hospital and cannot eat because of illness, they may be connected to an intravenous (IV) line, often used for total parenteral nutrition (TPN). Through this IV, fluids and nutrients are delivered directly into the person’s body. That individual may not eat for two weeks and yet not feel hungry because all the vital nutrients the body requires are being supplied through that apparatus.
In the same way, when Jesus is speaking to you, every nutrient your destiny requires is being poured into you.
When Jesus is speaking, there is a cloud of glory that covers your soul. When you hear Jesus speaking, every sickness in your body disappears. When you hear Jesus, favor comes upon your life. When you hear Jesus, your mentality is upgraded; that is glory.
He said to His disciples, “The words I have spoken to you have made you clean.” He washes men with His words.
4) Kings Walk in Dominion Over All Things
When Jesus finished speaking, they suddenly realized they were hungry; they had not eaten for three days. Jesus said, “Give them something to eat.”
The apostles replied, “All we have here is a young lad with five loaves and two fish.”
Jesus said, “Bring it.”
He collected it, gave thanks, and distributed it to five thousand men, not counting women and children. After they had finished eating, they gathered the fragments, and twelve baskets were left over. Glory means you dominate all things, including resources. Jesus did not know lack.
On another occasion, Jesus went to pray, and by the third watch of the night, all the boats were gone. When boats were available, Jesus used them. But when they were no longer there, He was not stranded by the riverbank, crying, “What do I do? Why did they leave Me?” There was no time for lamentation. The Bible says He walked on the water. And guess what? He overtook those who had left nine hours earlier. Was He walking or gliding? Nothing dominated Jesus. He functioned as the God-man.
Why are so many of us sick? Why are so many of us confused? Why are we overwhelmed by everything? It means we have not yet entered the realm of our sonship. We have not entered the glorified order of existence.
Glorified life is our calling, and we must walk in it. We are called not only to function in glory but also to show it forth.
1 Peter 2:9: “But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, His own special people, that you may proclaim the praises of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.”
5) Kings Thrive and Do Not Merely Survive
It is our calling to manifest the multifaceted dimensions of glory. Every dimension of glory that Jesus manifested, it is our calling to reveal as well.
Christians should be dominating sickness by healing every sickness they encounter. Some should be dominating death, others should be dominating poverty, and all of us should be dominating sin. We should be influencing and leading in every mountain of influence because we were sent to manifest glory.
Yet look at us—people are literally begging just to survive. Something is wrong. We have not yet entered into the economy of glory.
Obadiah 1:17, 21: “But upon Mount Zion there shall be deliverance, and there shall be holiness; and the house of Jacob shall possess their possessions… Then saviors shall come to Mount Zion to judge the mountains of Esau.”
6) Kings Contend for Territories and Enforce Authority
God’s focus is not to fill an auditorium during a crusade. The purpose of a crusade is to bring people into an encounter with Jesus.
The Bible says, “You have come to Mount Zion, the city of the living God.” We are brought into the classrooms of Zion—which is the church—where we are discipled, made holy, and receive our inheritance. But if we stop there, the process is incomplete. After you are discipled, you are sent to judge the mountains of Esau.
We were not meant to shine only in the church; we were meant to shine in the world. It does not end with a ten-thousand-seat auditorium filled while no one manifests God in the marketplace the next day, no one manifests God in the media, and no one manifests God in government. When we manifest only in the church, something is wrong, and kings have not yet risen.
When kings rise, they contend for territories, establish dominion, and enforce the authority of God in every sphere of human endeavor.
Many Christians hide in church under one anointed man, simply practicing religion. If you have truly met God, it will show. If you have entered your reality, it will show.
When the apostles encountered God, they could not remain in the upper room. They went out, and the record was not called the Messages of the Apostles but the Acts of the Apostles. They had tangible demonstrations to show. It was a record of the demonstrations of the apostles, not merely their exhortations.
“When I came to you, I did not come with excellence of speech or of wisdom, declaring to you the testimony of God. For I determined to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and Him crucified. My speech and my preaching were not with persuasive words of human wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power.”
7) Take Responsibility to Operate as a King
Where are those who will demonstrate God and manifest His authority? It is not just about church. If all the power we see is confined to a vigil or a church program, then we do not truly understand power. Jesus manifested power in the marketplace. The apostles demonstrated power in the world, on the mountains of influence. That is where you wield your scepter. When we come to church, only Jesus is King, but we carry His dominion into the world.
Why is it that we say so many lofty things in church, yet when we go out, we become beggars on our jobs? In our businesses, we act like beggars. Some Christians make a mess of their opportunities in government and in business. They speak from both sides of their mouths. You find a Christian who, within four years, has shifted his convictions like a puppet, yet still dares to say, “All glory to God.”
Kings must rise. You are not trying to become a king; you have already been made one, and your responsibility is to function like one.
Revelation 1:6: “…and has made us kings and priests to His God and Father, to Him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.”
A whole generation has been made kings and a royal priesthood. We have all been made kings, but if we do not acknowledge it, there will continue to be an evil under the sun. You must awaken not only to the realization that you have been made a king, but also to the responsibility of operating as one. If you do not take responsibility, you may be a king and yet never manifest as one.
8) Kings Walk Daily in the Awareness of Who They Are
Galatians 4:1: “Now I say that the heir, as long as he is a child, does not differ at all from a servant, though he is lord of all.”
The heir, so long as he is a child, does not know who he is and lacks understanding. He is an heir, yet he functions like a servant.
When an heir operates as a servant, it is an abomination on the earth; it is an evil under the sun. Some Christians think evil exists only when Satan is at work. But when you fail to manifest who God created you to be, that too is an evil on the earth.
Ecclesiastes 10:16–17: “Woe to you, O land, when your king is a child, and your princes feast in the morning! Blessed are you, O land, when your king is the son of nobles, and your princes feast at the proper time—for strength and not for drunkenness.”
The rise of kings is now. Otherwise, our lands will continue to be overtaken by wickedness, and no one will be able to stand and cry, “Restore!” because we have failed to wield our scepter.
You must acknowledge who you are. When you do, the power begins to flow.
Philemon 1:6: “…that the sharing of your faith may become effective by the acknowledgment of every good thing which is in you in Christ Jesus.”
You need to acknowledge that you are a king, born to rule. You are the head and not the tail. You need to acknowledge that you are God’s representative on the face of the earth. When people see you, they should see a reflection of God. If they cannot see God in us, it will be difficult for them to see Him elsewhere.
We are meant to be the first point of reference when people ask, “Who is God?” We do not merely talk about Him—we model Him, reveal Him, and reflect His nature before the world.
Inspired by Apostle Michael Orokpo’s Sermon
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