We live in a nation that is desperately trying to redefine “family” – what family is and what family looks like. It’s time for the family of God, those who believe and have received the salvation of Jesus Christ and call Him, “Lord,” to rise up and manifest the family He died and was resurrected for. It’s time, through yielding to the leading and empowering of the Holy Spirit, to live “in Christ” with regard to every circumstance and every individual. As Christians, we have been adopted through Christ into the family of God, and we have the Bible and the Holy Spirit to give us daily direction and revelation on how being, walking, loving, and living in Christ should look to a world that is desperately searching for Him; looking for what only the Lord can satisfy in so many wrong and dead-end places. Many of these things are currently being shaken and the world is looking for foundations and security that can only be found in Him.

As the Body of Christ, it’s time to mature and walk in love with one another. It’s time for us to truly put Him first in our lives in every area, especially our time; in His presence He will reveal every strategy for every daily need. It’s time for the family of God to unite hearts, minds, souls and strength to the heart and will of our Heavenly Father, and through being “in tune” with the heartbeat and strategies of Heaven (seeing and hearing the Father’s heart and will, just as Jesus modeled), bring Heaven to be manifested here on Earth for all to see, that He would be glorified and exalted.

It’s time to put all of our personal and individual differences aside, stand unwavoringly and uncompromisingly to the principles and truths of Scripture, and unite as the family of God. It’s time to see and understand that our battle is with powers and principalities, not people. It’s time to put every fiber of our being in to loving God and loving others; uniting our hearts to the One who sees and knows all things, and obeying what He reveals so that we can defeat the real enemy (Satan and His kingdom of darkness); one revelation at a time, one day at a time. It’s time to move beyond just knowing we are children of the King, and let Him lead us into the manifestation of being children of the King for all the world to see. It’s time for us to let Him draw others unto Himself through our every thought, word and deed, that the world would also come to know His infinite love and amazing ways; His Spirit, His peace, His healing, His provision, His wisdom and understanding, His counsel and might, His knowledge, His goodness, His faithfulness, etc., etc…etc…all good!

It’s time to be the Church that Jesus spoke of when He walked this Earth. It’s time to live for and advance the Kingdom of Heaven on Earth, for it truly is at hand. It’s time family of God…it’s time.