Living Life in God's Kingdom: How to Live in God's Kingdom on Earth, and build an intimate relationship with Him

By Dale Heil

The first words, recorded in scripture, which Jesus spoke after He began His ministry is "Repent, for the kingdom of heaven (or God) is at hand." So what is the kingdom of God? How can someone enter? Do born-again believers live in this kingdom right now? Is it a vesical k

• Language: English
• Publisher: Book Vine Press
• Release date: Sep 27, 2021
• ISBN: 9781955885683

Dale Heil

Dale Heil grew up on a cattle ranch near Boulder Colorado. Despite his Christian upbringing, he became disobedient and unruly in his teens and early twenties. After many confrontations with law enforcement he ended up in prison in his mid-twenties with a lengthy sentence. Remembering his upbringing he turned to the Lord and truly dedicated his life to God. After being born again, he became a serious student of God's Word and searched through the scriptures many hours each day. After a few years he began to teach bible studies to other inmates, and had a very productive ministry on the inside called "Spirit and life". Then one day God spoke to him and told him to write down everything that He had taught him over the years. He soon began to do so, and after being released from prison became the author of several books. His first book, "Spirit and Life", is named after his ministry in prison. He is also the author of, "The Making of a man of Faith", "The Threefold Cord of Giving, Prayer, and Fasting", and "God's Sovereign Reign over His Creation". He is now a cattle rancher in Meeker Colorado, teaches bible studies, and continues to write down everything that God has taught him.

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Copyright © 2021 by Dale Heil.

ISBN 978-1-955885-67-6 (softcover)

ISBN 978-1-955885-68-3 (ebook)

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All scripture references are taken from the King James Version of the bible.

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CONTENTS

Chapter 1 True Repentance

Chapter 2 True Salvation

Chapter 3 A New Creature (Creation) in Christ

Chapter 4 Living the New Life

Chapter 5 Growth and Strength through Afflictions

Chapter 6 The Believers Authority

Chapter 7 Eternal Salvation

Chapter 8 God’s Purpose for the Church

Foreword

What an honor and privilege to write this foreword for my dear friend; a friend who has impacted my walk with the Lord in a great and powerful way. I was a service center manager with Prison Fellowship Ministries in the Colorado prisons. I was blessed by his presence whenever I visited a prison during our events inside, even though I never remember personally meeting him on the inside.

As a volunteer you are trained to put blinders on and to never take with you the names of your inmates and they don’t know yours. This is a protection for the volunteers and for the inmates. Nothing in and nothing out, especially personal info. But other volunteers that are in prisons would report back and talk of this man named Brother Dale as he was moved from one prison to another. I would hear on phone calls to Prison Fellowship office and other volunteers about this same man. Who is this Brother Dale?

See when a prisoner is getting lifted up for God’s glory, the manifold grace and blessings start to pour out of the prison walls. God starts allowing a good report to flow out to those in authority through the volunteers, the jailers, the wardens, and other inmates. The name slips out in the moment of testimony as other prisoners share with you how they found their new creation in Christ, and how Brother Dale would make the bible come alive to them. The authorities would realize that a prisoner is doing something powerful. Great enough that they start to take note of the name.

It humbled me and caused jealously within me to want to know what this brother had that I didn’t have. I grew envious of a prisoner and wished silently and secretly that I was a prisoner myself! I wanted to have the same in the Word of God as this brother did! THAT IS WHEN I began to grow deeper into God’s Word.

We are now close friends. After Dale’s release from prison the Lord brought him and I to the same little town to live as neighbors and friends. We ended up sitting in the same church on a Sunday morning! Now on the outside of prison walls I finally get to sit alongside this man. My husband and I get to share dinner and fellowship with this beloved brother.

I share his teachings still today in the prisons, by taking his first book with me, Spirit and life. The book you have in your hands is another set of Dale’s teachings that profoundly affected the inmates and changed their lives.

Get ready to be blessed! Take time to meditate on each chapter before going to the next, and prepare to grow.

Janny Varland

Vernal, Utah

INTRODUCTION

We do not have to wait until Christ’s return to live our lives in His Kingdom. A careful study of God’s Word reveals that every born again believer enters into God’s kingdom upon salvation. Whenever one is born of God they immediately become a citizen of His Kingdom. In this kingdom is every benefit and blessing that salvation has to offer. So why do many believers lack most of the benefits and blessings they are entitled to in God’s Kingdom? Could it be the spiritual condition of the church and what is being taught from many pulpits?

As we look at the condition of what is considered to be the church today, it is more and more evident that we are becoming the lukewarm church spoken of in Revelation 3:15-16. Many confessing Christians are neither cold nor hot, and are in danger of being of those whom God will spew out of His mouth.

Many so called believers take Christianity for granted. They want to hold the title of being a Christian, but do not live the true Christian lifestyle. The apostle John warned us of these in the epistle of 1 John. He often referred to those who say they are of God, but their life does not line up with being a true child of God. Jesus also informed us that many who say unto Him, Lord, Lord, will not enter into the kingdom of God because they do not do God’s will (Matt. 7:21-23). This passage of scripture makes it clear that there are MANY who think they have received salvation, but have not.

God’s Word tells us, Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates? (2 Cor. 13:5). Rather than examining their own lives to make sure that Christ is in them, many compare themselves with other confessing believers. God’s Word tells us that this is not a wise thing to do (2 Cor. 10:12). These can convince themselves that even though their life is not all it should be, it will do. Some still just accept the word of others that they are saved because they have said the sinner’s prayer at some point in their lives. We take Christianity far too lightly.

The condition of the church has come to the point that we have actually convinced the people of the world that there is nothing special, nor is there any real advantage in Christianity. Many therapists actually claim that Christian’s have just as many mental problems as anyone else, and are just as likely to commit crimes as any other person. Prison officials, and members of Parole Boards, no longer even want to hear about Christianity. There have just been too many that have claimed to have found God while incarcerated, then reoffend and go back to prison. For the most part, God’s Word has been rejected as a means of rehabilitation.

We even find confessing Christians go to Therapists, who reject God’s Word as a means of help or rehabilitation, to get help from their problems. The wisdom of the world, the very wisdom by which the world knows not God is what many resort too (1 Cor. 1:21). So what is the problem with the church? To put it simply, a large number of those who profess to be Christians are not actually saved. Much of the church has lost sight of what it is to be truly saved. More often than not we are instructed to just say a prayer and ask Jesus to come into our heart and be our Lord and Savior, without really knowing the fullness of what that means. We often ignore the requirements of repentance and what it is to truly believe in Jesus Christ. Many expect to get saved and go right on living their lives much the same as before. There is much more to salvation than that.

True salvation is to be born of God’s