Privileges in the Kingdom: Positioning, Righteousness, and the Life of Christ Within You

The privileges God has ordained for His children are not automatic — they are accessed through death to self, alignment with Christ living within you, and righteousness before God.

There are privileges in the kingdom of God that most believers are unaware of, and not every believer walks in the same measure of those privileges. God does not treat everyone the same, and understanding how divine positioning, righteousness, and the indwelling life of Christ determine the reach of your prayer and your destiny is essential to rising into what God has called you to be.

Privileges in the Kingdom: Positioning, Righteousness, and the Life of Christ Within You

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Teaching Overview

God has favorites — not everyone in the kingdom is positioned equally, and spiritual privilege is determined by righteousness, capacity, and alignment with God.
Prayer builds character, but situations build capacity — God preserves you through difficulty so that your capacity can increase and you can take advantage of spiritual privileges.
Faith is not something you do — it is something that becomes part of your nature; the faith that attracts God is the faith of Christ living within you, not your own.
Dying to self means embracing your death in Christ so that it is no longer you living, but Christ living in you — and when Christ prays through you, God responds to Himself.
The doctrine of men is killing people's destinies — God's righteousness is unto Himself, not unto men's standards, and He uses people regardless of their circumstances to fulfill His sovereign purposes.

Key Distinctions

	Prayer	Faith
What it is	A verbal act of communication directed toward God	An identity — something that becomes part of your nature and reactions
What it builds	Character	Must become the faith of Christ within you to produce results
What God responds to	Faith — not the act of prayer itself	Faith that is the faith of the Son of God
Common misunderstanding	That more prayer automatically produces results	That quoting or memorizing scripture equals faith
When it is effective	When it flows from righteousness and the indwelling Christ	When the Word has become flesh — part of you — not just known

	Character	Capacity
What builds it	Prayer	Situations and difficulty
What it produces	Moral formation and discipline	The ability to bear and steward what God wants to give
Can God bypass it?	No — capacity must be present before privilege can be accessed	No — God preserves you through situations specifically to build it

	Doctrine of Men	God's Own Representation
Source	Human imagination of what God ought to be like	God's own word and His individual purpose for each person
Effect on destiny	Kills people who have been destined by God to reach a certain place	Liberates — God uses people regardless of their circumstances
Example	Religion declaring Rahab disqualified by the Law of Moses	God declaring Rahab righteous — to Himself — and directing her rescue

	Righteousness unto God	Righteousness unto Men
Standard	God's own definition — alignment with His purpose and heart	Legal or religious codes constructed by men
Example	Rahab hiding the spies — God called her righteous	The Law of Moses would have demanded she be stoned
Who determines it	God alone	Religious and legal systems
Effect	Opens spiritual privilege and divine protection	Can condemn and disqualify people from their destiny

	The Law of Moses	The Law of God
Origin	Moses — given permission by God but constituted by Moses to restructure a displaced nation	The Ten Commandments — summarized in love
Purpose	To bring order to a people who had lived in Egypt for 400 years and adapted foreign ways	To govern all who walk in love — anyone walking in love will not break any of them
Scope	Hundreds of specific statutes, some divine and some not	General, eternal, and universal

	Religion	God's Individual Purpose
Approach to people	Assumes it knows how God ought to deal with people	Moves sovereignly according to His own plan for each life
Effect	People become managers of God's destiny for others	God uses people from all circumstances — including sin — for His redemptive plan
Who it controls	Those who have not died to self — still influenced by what people say	Those who are dead to self and alive to Christ are freed from this control

	Faith as Identity	Faith as Action
What it is	Faith that has become part of your nature and reactions	Quoting scripture, memorizing verses, invoking faith as a technique
What produces results	The Word becoming flesh — part of you	Produces nothing if the Word has not become part of you
What God responds to	The faith of the Son of God living within you	Does not attract God's response on its own

You Are a Positioned and Purposeful Person

Every believer is strategically placed by God — not just for themselves, but for a whole community of people whose lives they are meant to transform.
God protects your life because there is a destiny within you — you are alive because He is guarding something He intends to accomplish through you.
Being a benefit to others — physically, materially, and spiritually — is how the children of God demonstrate their identity beyond words.

"You are an answer to somebody's prayer."

"When you cannot benefit people, you are not of kingdom use."

God Has Favorites — Understanding Kingdom Privilege

God does not treat everyone the same and does not minister to everyone the same — acknowledging this is the beginning of knowing how to position yourself in His good graces.
Spiritual privilege is not automatic — it is accessible to those who have positioned themselves through righteousness, capacity, and alignment with God.
Jacob was loved by God yet received no intervention until he repositioned himself — love alone does not activate God's hand on your behalf.

"God has favorites."

"God is not intervening for Jacob. Until Jacob positions himself to become God's favorite."

Prayer, Faith, Character, and Capacity

Prayer builds character, but situations build capacity — if you have not gone through anything, you do not have the capacity to receive what you are praying for.
God measures your capacity to bear what you are asking for before He releases it — your positioning spiritually must match what He intends to give you.
Faith is not an act you perform — it is something that must become part of your nature; the Word must become flesh in your reactions before it can produce anything.

"Prayer builds character but not capacity. Situation build capacity."

"If that word has not become part of you and your reactions, you have no faith. It doesn't matter how much scripture you know."

The Righteousness Privilege

The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous person avails much — righteousness opens a dimension where God answers prayer before others.
Faith is what attracts God — not the volume or frequency of prayer; God responds to the faith of the Son of God, not the effort of a person.
Even a lost person calling out to God in genuine faith receives a response — what moves God is not religious performance but the positioning of faith.

"The prayer of a righteous person matters most."

"Your prayer is not what God is listening to. It is faith that attracts God."

Dying to Self and the Indwelling Christ

Dying to self means denying every tendency of the heart that is contrary to what Jesus has accomplished — it is the soul, the self, choosing to align with Christ rather than its own inclinations.
God established law for the living — but when believers embrace their death in Christ, the law no longer has claim over them, and generational curses and cycles lose their hold.
When Christ lives within you, your prayer is no longer a mortal calling to God — it is God within you calling to God, and the deep calls to the deep.

"You don't owe the devil anything because no one collects anything from the dead."

"I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me."

The Gospel Does Not End at the Cross

The cross was not the conclusion of the gospel — it was the beginning; the full work of Christ includes His life now living within believers.
Jesus found a strategy to make God hear His people — He said He would live inside them so that when they open their mouths to pray, it is no longer them speaking but Him.
When you minister to others from this place, you are ministering Jesus Himself — "I was hungry and you fed Me" is not poetry; it is the incarnational reality of Christ in you.

"The cross was the beginning."

"Deep calleth unto deep. But will always be moved by himself, not by a person."

The Doctrine of Men vs. God's Sovereign Purpose

There are two doctrines at war in the church — the doctrine of men about what God ought to be like, and God's own representation of Himself in His word.
Religion kills destiny because it appoints people as managers of God's individual purpose for others — it tells people what is acceptable in their personal journey without knowing what God intends to do with them.
Those who have not died to self are still controlled by what people say — and God cannot give them what He truly wants to give them while they remain under that influence.

"The doctrine of men and their imagination of God is killing people who have been destined by God to get to a certain place."

"Religion is killing people simply because people have now become the managers of God's destiny for others."

Rahab and Samson: God's Righteousness Is Unto Him

Rahab was declared righteous by God — not by the Law of Moses — while she was still in her circumstances, because God's standard of righteousness is unto Himself, not unto men.
The Law of Moses was constituted by Moses to restructure a displaced people — it was not entirely the law of God; the law of God is the Ten Commandments, summarized in love.
God's sovereign plan for Rahab was in motion before she understood it — she ended up as the great-grandmother of David and an ancestor of Jesus Christ, positioned there by divine design.

"Righteousness is unto God, not unto men."

"If he cannot take a mess and turn it into a message... how does that make him God?"

Key Definitions

Righteousness — Being in right standing before God according to His own standard — not the legal or religious standard of men; God declared Rahab righteous to Himself while men's law would have condemned her.

Capacity — The God-given ability to bear and steward what He desires to release; it is built through situations and difficulty, not through prayer or worship alone.

Dying to self — Denying every tendency of the heart that is contrary to what Jesus has accomplished, so that Christ — not the soul's natural inclinations — governs every reaction and decision.

Faith (as identity) — Not a technique or action but a transformed nature; faith is the Word becoming flesh in your reactions; "You don't invoke faith, faith becomes part of you."

The Law of Moses — A body of statutes constituted by Moses — with God's permission — to restructure the nation of Israel after 400 years in Egypt; distinct from the law of God, which is the Ten Commandments summarized in love.

The Doctrine of Men — Human imagination and religious assumption about what God ought to be like and how He ought to deal with people — in contrast to God's own representation of Himself in His word and His individual sovereign purpose for each life.

Key Takeaways

God has favorites, and spiritual privilege is determined by positioning — understanding this prevents passivity and motivates believers to pursue the righteousness and alignment that open greater access to God.
Prayer builds character, but situations build capacity — enduring difficulty is not a sign of God's absence; it is God's method of expanding your capacity to carry what He wants to give you.
The faith that moves God is the faith of Christ living within you, not your own — until the Word becomes part of your nature and reactions, no amount of scripture memorization or prayer volume will produce results.
Dying to self is not denial of personhood — it is the death that sets you free from law, curses, and the opinions of men — when you are dead in Christ, nothing the enemy claims over you has legal standing.
God's righteousness is unto Himself, not unto men's standards — He can anoint, use, and declare righteous people that religion has written off, because His sovereign purpose is not managed by human doctrine.

Reflection Questions

In what areas of your life are you still functioning in your own faith rather than the faith of Christ — trying to do something rather than allowing something to become part of you?
Where have you allowed the doctrine of men — what others say is acceptable for someone like you — to limit what God is trying to do in and through your life?
If prayer builds character but situations build capacity, how are you responding to the difficult situations God has allowed? Are you building capacity or resisting the process?
What would change in your prayers, your confidence, and your spiritual authority if you genuinely believed that when you open your mouth, it is Christ within you speaking to the Father?
Is there an area where God has declared you righteous — for a purpose — that you have dismissed because religion or the opinions of others have told you that you are disqualified?

Prayers and Declarations

After teaching on the voice of the righteous and the dimension of prayer that God responds to:

"I prayed that after today your voice will have waiting in the spirit. I receive your voice from the Spirit. I receive that when you call on to God, God will respond."

Scripture References

James 5:16 — "Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much." (KJV)
Galatians 2:20 — "I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me." (KJV)
Philippians 2:5 — "Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus." (KJV)

Golden Nuggets

"You are an answer to somebody's prayer."

"God has favorites."

"Prayer builds character but not capacity. Situations build capacity."