Why Homeland
One of the most important steps for the individual who is called, chosen and set apart by God is to – Go – in faith – to a PLACE!
God said – Abram, GO to a PLACE – that I will show you! The Father of all nations – his journey started out with being told to go to a place. When God is looking to start a nation from a family what he first does is find a place to plant that man and his family. It is not a place the man chooses, it is a place that is Holy unto the Lord. A place that God chooses. A place most of the time would have never been chosen by the individual.
I pulled up our website that Monica just worked on the night before for the first time. She stayed up late working on it and on the home page the first thing you see is the definition of HOMELAND.
/ˈHŌMˌLAND/
A homeland is a place where a culture and identity has formed.
HOMELAND IS A PLACE!!! God has yet again brought a family to a PLACE byway of faith – calling that man to leave everything and everyone in order to GO.
Genesis 12:1-3
Then the Lord told Abram, “Leave your country, your relatives, and your father’s house, and go to the land that I will show you. I will cause you to become the father of a great nation. I will bless you and make you famous, and I will make you a blessing to others. I will bless those who bless you and curse those who curse you. All the families of the earth will be blessed through you.”
Then God began to show me that in that place, culture and identity will begin to form. Places have culture, the city has its own culture, the country has its own culture and the Kingdom has its own culture.
City culture – Vibrant, fast paced, complex, stressful, not much nature, full of artificial lights and highly concentrated.
Country Culture – Slow, simple, peaceful, full of nature, night lights from stars, spacious
God has chosen a place to establish Kingdom culture – What is kingdom culture? Outside of the infrastructure component, Kingdom culture at it’s core is a culture of love, peace, joy, patience, kindness, gentleness and strength of Spirit. It’s a culture that exudes the fruits of the Spirit found in Galatians 5:22-23. What I am beginning to realize is God is not as concerned with the external infrastructure components of the Nation He establishes as much as He is with the internal infrastructure of the individuals found within this place.
HOMELAND IS A PLACE WHERE A CULTURE AND IDENTITY HAS FORMED. So God has brought us to the place, now the culture will be established which then will lead to a people rooted in Beloved as their identity.
The place lends way to the culture which then lends way to the identity. To break it down further, there are places that God has chosen that are anointed in such a way that the people who began to move and be birthed in a certain place that God has chosen will naturally take on the culture/identify of that place. When you are born in the country you don’t take classes on how to be country. If you move to the country you don’t take classes on how to become more country. The place begins to transform that city slicker into a country bumpkin!
What God was showing me at a deeper level is when you have arrived at the place you will begin to be transformed to possess the fruits of the Spirit, becoming rooted in Beloved identity, subsequently the family living within the place will be transformed into a mighty nation which leads to all Nations being blessed by that family.
Isaiah 60:21-22
“Then all your people will be righteous and they will possess the land forever.
They are the shoot I have planted, the work of my hands, for the display of my splendor.
The least of you will become a thousand, the smallest a mighty nation.
I am the Lord; in its time I will do this swiftly.”
We responded to that word – GO – many years ago and finally after years of following, years of being hidden, years of waiting we are being planted in the place! We are going to be rewired not byway of classes but byway of God’s Kingdom culture that we are being immersed in. That then will begin to transform us as we become citizens of “God’s Country” the wilderness, the place of the soil that will germinate the seed of a new nation. We are going to be transformed with the fruits of the spirit. What we have wanted we will be filled with here because this is the place where God has chosen for Kingdom culture to be established.
Try overtaking city culture with county culture. HA! It would NEVER work. God is saying I have chosen places for my people to be immersed in my culture but one has to have the faith to leave their family, their country and their culture in order to make the journey into God’s family that are living in the place He chooses – immersed in His culture.
There is so much more depth to all of this and I honestly will probably spend the rest of my life writing on just this one topic. We’ve made the mistake thinking we as humans can choose the place and ask God to bless it, we go into places for example New York City, establish our mega ministries all the while getting our butts kicked because from the very beginning God outlined the blueprint and we have ignored it.
God tells you to Go, you then have the faith to leave, often not knowing where you are going. God will guide you to the place of His choice, the place where He has anointed. Even if other countries and cultures are present you are sent so that you can then reflect and represent Kingdom culture.
1 Peter 2:9
“for you are a chosen people. You are royal priests, a holy Nation, God’s very own possession. As a result, you can show others the goodness of God, for he called you out of the darkness into his wonderful light.”