Spirit First

Blueprint or Pattern: The Two Ways to Build

There are two ways to build. The blueprint of God cannot live inside another person’s pattern. They don’t fit together. One is temporary shelter — man-made, shaped by survival and good intentions. The other is a city not built by hands — birthed in holiness, designed from above.

I’ve lived long enough now to recognize the difference.

A pattern looks like progress. It moves. It builds. But its foundation is often fear, not faith. It gathers, but it doesn’t sanctify. It shelters, but it doesn’t transform.

I’ve been placed in spaces all over our nation where people build what they know — small communities stitched together by goodwill. They mean well. But the Spirit is not the builder of these communities.

God’s blueprint for His Kingdom Coming is different. Heaven’s design cannot be squeezed into man’s patterns and plans. The difference is this: it begins in the Spirit, not with man. What is birthed from above flows from holiness — Spirit first, then physical.

All of creation began with a word — “Let there be…” — spoken by God (Spirit) before the material formed. The entire created world is evidence of Spirit first, natural second. But we’ve reversed it — ever since the fall, we’ve built from survival, not surrender. We build with human hands, then ask God to bless it. It’s backwards. And it’s why we keep repeating the same patterns, expecting a different outcome. That’s not faith. That’s futility.

It’s time we stop calling man’s survival strategies — or religious strategies — Kingdom vision. They have all fallen short of the glory of God, because they were powered by human good intentions. And good intentions don’t always stay good.

What is built by the Spirit will be His Kingdom Coming — and that will last the thousand-year reign.