I’d like to introduce you to Bob.

Bob is about to have a very bad day.

You see, Bob works on the second story of a corporate office building, and he’s gotten it into his head that gravity isn’t quite the big deal everyone makes it out to be. Which is why, in spite of his coworkers’ frantic warnings, Bob is confidently striding toward the open window of a corner office.

“Bob!” shouts a concerned friend, “Have you lost your mind?!”

With one foot already on the sill, Bob turns around with a confident grin. “Don’t worry,” he assures the panicked crowd. “I don’t believe in gravity anymore!”

Thankfully most people aren’t like Bob. Most of us know what the law of gravity does and unconsciously shape our actions around it.

The laws of the universe do not change

The thing I love most about gravity is that it’s dependable. When toast pops out of my toaster, it doesn’t keep going till it hits the ceiling. When I turn on my faucet, water droplets don’t start floating listlessly through my kitchen. When I trip, I don’t go sailing off into the stratosphere like a balloon.

As a fundamental law of nature, gravity does what it does all day, every day. No exceptions.

This is a good thing. It’s hard to say exactly what would happen if gravity took a day off, but the best guesses all agree: It would be unpleasant.

For starters, our atmosphere would be sucked into the expansive vacuum of space. Everything not anchored to the earth’s surface would begin to float away, including our oceans, which would start boiling in the absence of atmospheric pressure. As if to add insult to injury, the molten layers of the earth would likely force their way to the surface, destroying our planet in an apocalyptic swirl of lava and death.

According to James Overduin, a physicist at Towson University in Maryland, without gravity, the universe would be “completely flat and featureless.”

Also, you would be dead, so there’s that.

Opinion cannot overrule physical or spiritual laws

Remember Bob from a few paragraphs ago?

No one can stop Bob from ignoring gravity, but neither can Bob stop gravity from giving him an impressive collection of broken bones. Gravity isn’t a matter of opinion, and it doesn’t matter how you happen to feel about it—if you jump, you’re coming back down. There are no alternatives. Anyone insisting differently would have to be delusional.

So, why is it that every day, billions upon billions of people insist on believing something just as delusional—and even more dangerous?

There’s more to what makes the universe tick than the laws of physics alone. The same God who established physical laws also established a set of spiritual laws that are just as real and just as important.

Unchanging constants

For millennia, the human race has approached the law of God the same way our dear friend Bob approached gravity—and the impact has left us reeling. People have a lot of reasons for disregarding God’s law, but none of those reasons mitigate the damage that comes from ignoring it.

The spiritual world isn’t as tangible as the physical world—it can’t typically be touched, seen or heard—but the consequences that come from ignoring spiritual laws can be even more painful than the consequences of ignoring physical laws. Take that, multiply it by thousands of years of disobedience, and you’ll begin to see the reason why our world is unraveling.

Like gravity, the spiritual laws of God are constant and unchanging. They do what they do all day, every day. No exceptions. And just as scientists have developed equations to help us better understand the physical laws of our universe, the instructions God gives us in the Bible help us understand how the spiritual laws around us operate.

Changing or reinterpreting these instructions has no effect on the spiritual forces they describe—it just makes the instructions wrong.

4 spiritual laws

God gives us many spiritual laws to study and understand, but here are four big ones:

Spiritual law #1: You reap what you sow

You’ve probably heard some version of this spiritual law: “What goes around, comes around.” “You get out what you put in.” “Chickens come home to roost.” But no matter how you say it, the underlying message is still the same.

Here’s how God inspired the apostle Paul to put it:

“Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap” (Galatians 6:7).

One of Job’s friends remarked, “Those who plow iniquity and sow trouble reap the same” (Job 4:8). Through Hosea, God told Israel, “Sow for yourselves righteousness; reap in mercy; break up your fallow ground, for it is time to seek the LORD, till He comes and rains righteousness on you. You have plowed wickedness; you have reaped iniquity. You have eaten the fruit of lies” (Hosea 10:12-13).

It’s easy to picture God with His hand hovering over a big red button labeled “SMITE”—just waiting for us to mess up so He can rain down punishment from the great beyond. But the fact is, it’s rarely God who punishes us. Most of the time, we punish ourselves. The laws established by God are not arbitrary; they serve to protect us from decisions and actions that would otherwise lead to painful consequences for ourselves and others.

Do you want to grow good things in your life? Then plant good things. And if you’re tired of rotten things in your life, take a close look and see if you’ve been planting the wrong seed without realizing it.Do you want to grow good things in your life? Then plant good things. And if you’re tired of rotten things in your life, take a close look and see if you’ve been planting the wrong seed without realizing it.

Jesus asked, “Do men gather grapes from thornbushes or figs from thistles? Even so, every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit. A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a bad tree bear good fruit” (Matthew 7:16-18). It is completely impossible to grow something good from a seed of wickedness.

(For more about discerning between good fruit and bad fruit, read “By Their Fruits.”)

Understanding this spiritual law is vital for understanding so many of God’s other laws. Our Father in heaven wants us to sow seeds that ultimately result in happiness, not pain and sorrow. And we’re more likely to do that when we realize …

Spiritual law #2: What we sow takes time to grow

Wise King Solomon once bemoaned that “because the sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil” (Ecclesiastes 8:11).

In others words, a lot of bad people do a lot of bad things, and instead of being incinerated by a divinely aimed bolt of lightning, these people seem to prosper.

It can be maddening. The previous spiritual law promises that we reap what we sow, but the world is full of examples where people suffer for sowing good or profit while sowing evil. Why can so many people get away with doing the wrong thing? Why don’t good things always come to those who do the right thing?

The first spiritual law is still true. This second spiritual law adds clarity: results take time. No one plants an apple seed expecting it to produce fruit the next day. That process takes years.

But it happens. Eventually, that seed produces fruit. And so do our seeds.

Solomon knew that. He looked at the bigger picture and continued, “Though a sinner does evil a hundred times, and his days are prolonged, yet I surely know that it will be well with those who fear God, who fear before Him” (Ecclesiastes 8:12).

Sinners may have their days—or years, or decades, or lifetimes—of apparently getting away with evil, but the bigger picture is bigger than any single lifetime. The plan of God extends on into eternity, when those who reject God and insist on living a life of sin will be destroyed forever, while those who choose God’s way of life will live forever as His children.

(Learn more about this part of God’s plan in our article “What Are the Resurrections?”)

Acts of evil don’t always bring immediate punishment, and it’s rare that acts of good are instantly rewarded—but every act sows a seed, and the harvest is coming.

Spiritual law #3: Sin does not subtract; it destroys

On that note, it’s easy to think of good actions and bad actions as deposits and withdrawals in a spiritual bank account—every good action increases our balance, while every bad action reduces it. But that’s not the way this spiritual law works. Sin doesn’t simply “take away” from our bank account—it completely eliminates it.

God presented the prophet Ezekiel with two hypothetical situations: a wicked man who “turns from all his sins which he has committed, keeps all My statutes, and does what is lawful and right” (Ezekiel 18:21) and a righteous man who “turns away from his righteousness and commits iniquity, and does according to all the abominations that the wicked man does” (verse 24).

In both situations, the earlier spiritual state of the man is irrelevant. For the formerly wicked man, “none of the transgressions which he has committed shall be remembered against him; because of the righteousness which he has done, he shall live” (verse 22).

For the formerly righteous man, “all the righteousness which he has done shall not be remembered; because of the unfaithfulness of which he is guilty and the sin which he has committed, because of them he shall die” (verse 24).

Paul explained that “the wages of sin is death” (Romans 6:23). No amount of righteousness can undo or balance out a sin, and a single sin can earn us an eternal death penalty that can only be paid for with the sacrifice of Jesus Christ.

(You can find more about that process in our article “Repentance From Dead Works.”)

The good news is that we don’t have to dig our way out of a spiritual hole when we turn to God seeking forgiveness and change. Christ’s sacrifice wipes our slate clean whenever we repent.

The difficult news is that Christianity doesn’t allow for “coasting”—this spiritual law requires us to be constantly focused on moving forward instead of trying to cash in on past achievements.

Spiritual law #4: The righteousness of God transforms us

The prophet Malachi describes God as a refiner’s fire, purging His people like gold and silver, removing their impurities and bringing them toward perfection (Malachi 3:2-3). Nothing about that process sounds pleasant or comfortable, but the end result makes it worth it.

Concerning “those who fear the LORD and who meditate on His name,” God promises, “They shall be Mine … on the day that I make them My jewels. … Then you shall again discern between the righteous and the wicked, between one who serves God and one who does not serve Him” (Malachi 3:16-18).

Why is God so concerned with righteousness? Because He created the human race with the potential to one day become like Him—to live forever in His family. To be part of God’s family, we must learn to be like God, hating sin and loving righteousness.

(Want to learn more about God’s plan for His family? Read “Are We Children of God Now?”)

Sin is a way of life that causes pain, whereas righteousness comes from obeying God’s law—a way of life that produce unity, peace and joy. God does not want His family to be filled with pain, but with a desire to pursue righteousness.

Our own human flaws and shortcomings mean we often fail to meet that standard of righteousness—but part of Christ’s sacrifice means we’re able to share in His righteousness. Paul wrote of his desire to be a true Christian, “not having my own righteousness, which is from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith” (Philippians 3:9). That same righteousness is available to all Christians as they seek to obey God.

The pursuit of righteousness brings us into a closer and closer alignment with the character and nature of God.

Isaiah, another prophet of God, described a future time when “justice will dwell in the wilderness, and righteousness remain in the fruitful field. The work of righteousness will be peace, and the effect of righteousness, quietness and assurance forever” (Isaiah 32:16-17).

Righteousness—obedience to God—produces a positive change both in us and in the world around us. And ultimately, the family of God will be defined by that righteousness as it transforms a chaotic, uncertain world into one filled with peace, quietness and assurance forever.

Will you use these four spiritual laws?

These four spiritual laws are powerful and life-altering … but you don’t have to believe them.

You don’t even have to believe God. Do you know why? Because your beliefs have absolutely no impact on reality. The universe works the way God designed it to work, both physically and spiritually, and no one can change that. Not you, not Bob, not anyone.

We can ignore those laws, or we can work hard to put them to use in our own lives. Either way, the laws themselves aren’t going anywhere.

We can choose whether we’ll plant seeds of righteousness or sin in our lives—and we can rest assured that, in time, those seeds will grow. Sin earns us death, while righteousness brings us into a closer relationship with the God who loves us and wants us in His family.

These are the spiritual laws we need in order to get the most out of this life—and the next.

If we’re smart, we won’t let that go to waste.

Read more about the spiritual laws recorded in the Bible in our section “Biblical Laws.”

Spiritual Laws Of God – Seven Power Laws

Spiritual laws of God are fundamental. Now that you are born again, it’s important to learn how to live out of the laws of the Kingdom of God.

Perhaps you have never heard that terminology before, but it’s important to consider. Every kingdom has its way of doing things, so is the kingdom of God. Because we were born into the Babylonian way of doing things we are not aware of the principles of Christ’s kingdom. This is where we have to get schooled. It’s not good enough to only focus on getting saved because we have so much to accomplish with our lives after we get saved with the remaining years He has given us.

I know you want to make a difference with your life. You’re not like everybody else that’s just droning around in some reality television haze. No, you are part of God’s remnant. The remnant is hungry, thirsty, and press into the Word and ways of God. Everything in you wants more of the Holy Spirit. You feel like Micah with power shut up in your bones.

To understand how the kingdom of God operates, it’s helpful to look at how Christ taught his disciples. Most of what he did was to teach them about the Dominion power of the anointed Word of God in this earth realm. You can study all the individual lessons like healing the sick, casting out demons, cursing the fig tree, rebuking storms, or multiplying fishes and loaves, but the big picture was the dominion power and authority of the Word of God in this earthly realm. That’s apostolic lesson one.

So starting from that big picture of the Word’s authority we can add seven vital principles to help us understand how we function within the kingdom of God. I call these “Seven Power Laws of the Kingdom of God”. Here we will simply introduce them and later we will explain them more.

1. THE LAW OF BEGINNINGS

The first power law is the Law of Beginnings. The Law of Beginnings states that everything new in your life starts with a Word from God. I know you are trying to do everything possible to get your life moving in the right direction. That’s good, but it’s vital you understand how the sons of God get things going within the kingdom. They start by waiting for the Word of God. By that I mean they are listening carefully for the Holy Spirit to release a rhema word into their spirits. That rhema word is the unlocking of a new season. Within that revelation is the entrance to another level, another thing you need to do, clarity of purpose, or what decisions to make with your life. Notice that this prophetic announcement in Isaiah opens a new thing. Scripture says,

“Remember ye not the former things, neither consider the things of old. Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spri­­ng forth; shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert.” (Isaiah 43:18-19)

2. THE LAW OF THE SEED

The second power law is the Law of the Seed. The Law of the Seed is this; the seed knows what to do. As Christians, we associate seed in this context to the revealed Word of Christ in our spirits. I get excited about this power law because the revealed word is like a seed released into our lives. Jesus taught his disciples that the kingdom of God is like a man that cast seed into the ground and that seed knows what to do. Awesome! That means that once you receive a revelation, the seed of His Word is fast at work and cannot fail. This means you don’t have to figure everything out. All you have to do is go about your business in faith, and the seed will do what’s it’s designed to do, produce a harvest. Not any harvest, but your harvest.

“So is the kingdom of God, as if a man should cast seed into the ground; And should sleep, and rise night and day, and the seed should spring and grow up, he knoweth not how. For the earth bringeth forth fruit of herself; first the blade, then the ear, after that the full corn in the ear. But when the fruit is brought forth, immediately he putteth in the sickle because the harvest is come.” (Mark 4:26-29)

3. THE LAW OF THE SOWER

The third power law is the Law of the Sower. The Sower is a spiritual warrior. He understands the five demonic assignments Satan uses to steal, kill, and destroy the rhema out of the heart of the sons of God. Following the Law of the Sower will move you beyond the powers of darkness that steal through pressure, ill-treatment, debt, wealth answers all, and things forbidden and launches you mightily into your harvest.

“And he said unto them, Know ye not this parable? And how then will ye know all parables? The sower soweth the word. And these are they, by the wayside, where the word is sown, but when they have heard, Satan cometh immediately and taketh away the word that was sown in their hearts. And these are they likewise which are sown on stony ground; who, when they have heard the word, immediately receive it with gladness; And have no root in themselves, and so endure but for a time: afterward, when affliction or persecution ariseth for the word’s sake, immediately they are offended. And these are they which are sown among thorns; such as hear the word, And the cares of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in, choke the word, and it becometh unfruitful. And these are they which are sown on good ground; such as hear the word, and receive it, and bring forth fruit, some thirtyfold, some sixty, and some a hundred.” (Mark 4:13-20)

4. THE LAW OF DOMINION

The fourth law is the Law of Dominion. The Law of Dominion states that the anointed Word of Christ has dominion in this realm. The Centurion understood this law. He told Jesus his servant was home sick. Jesus said he would come and heal the man. The Centurion amazed Christ when he declared, “Speak the word only and my servant shall be healed.” This is one of the greatest lessons you can learn, the power of the anointed word to take dominion in this earthly realm.

“So shall My word be that goes forth out of My mouth: it shall not return to Me void [without producing any effect, useless], but it shall accomplish that which I please and purpose, and it shall prosper in the thing for which I sent it.” (Isaiah 55:11 AMP)

5. THE LAW OF FUTURE HARVEST

The fifth law is the Law of Future Harvest. The Law of Future Harvest understands that the seed of revelation enters the future and waits for your arrival. One day Christ demonstrated this law when he cursed a fig tree. Speaking to the fig tree, he said, “No man eat the fruit of thee hereafter forever. And his disciples heard it” (Mark 11:14). Can you imagine this? Surely the disciples were amazed. Here is Christ talking to a tree. They said nothing and saw nothing, but the next day they did. They saw the fig tree withered up from the roots. Christ was not teaching how to curse fig trees. The lesson was the Word of God released did what it was sent to do. Notice the results, however, of that seed were waiting in the future for the disciples to pass by.

“And in the morning, as they passed by, they saw the fig tree dried up from the roots. And Peter calling to remembrance saith unto him, Master, behold, the fig tree which thou cursed is withered away.” (Mark 11:20-21)

6. THE LAW OF THE BUILDER

The Law of the Builder states that you can frame your world with the Word of God. In Genesis Chapter One, God reveals himself as the Voice that Speaks to create. In John Chapter One, God reveals himself as the Word that Speaks to create. Christ said, “If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, you shall ask what you will, and it shall be done unto you. Herein is my Father glorified, that you bear much fruit; so shall you be my disciples” (John 15:7-8). Just as God framed the world with words you can frame your world with His words.

“Through faith, we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God so that things that are seen were not made of things that do appear.” (Hebrews 11:3)

7. THE LAW OF THE RUDDER

The Law of the Rudder teaches that you steer your life with words. Life is a journey. Some walk through life without direction, focus, or purpose and are blown here and there and everywhere by all kinds of circumstances. These never seem to find their lane. That’s not you. You understand the powerful principle of the Law of the Rudder. Apostle James taught that you are the captain, your heart is the boat, and your tongue is the rudder.

“Behold, the ships also, though they are so great and are driven by rough winds, are yet turned about by a very small rudder, whither the impulse of the steersman willeth. So the tongue also is a little member and boasteth great things. Behold, how much wood is kindled by how small a fire!” (James 3:4-5, ASV)

These profound truths belong to you. Because you were created in the image of God, it’s okay to act like your heavenly Father. In the Old Testament, He was the Voice that created. In the New Testament, He was the Word that created. In closing remember, “The word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and in thy heart: that is the word of faith which we preach”(Romans 10:8). God bless you.

Your partner,

© Apostle Jonas Clark
www.jonasclark.com