Jesus taught us to pray and in that pattern He said to pray “Thy Kingdom come thy will be done on Earth as it is in Heaven”. It is inconceivable that Jesus would have us pray for something to manifest but would not appear. How many times have we repeated what we call The Lord’s Prayer, and never dreamed that God is about to answer in an incredible way?
The ministry of Jesus and most of His parables that He taught deal with this good news of the Kingdom; a concept that He continually taught. What is this Kingdom that Jesus proclaimed, or maybe let us ask this question, where is the Kingdom of God? Jesus answered this in Luke 17:20-22. He basically says to the Pharisees who asked “Show us the Kingdom”. Jesus answered and said the Kingdom didn’t come by the laws they observed or because someone pointed this way or that, but rather the Kingdom was inside of them! The same ones Jesus said were hypocrites, the ones that Jesus said we had to be careful of their infectious sin, in them was the Kingdom! Today in Christianity there exist a condition that prevents the answer to the very prayer that Jesus prayed when He cried out to the Father to make us all one. Churches all over America in their various denominations and even in non-denominational churches refuse to lay down their kingdoms and embrace the Kingdom concept of Christ. Within all of us God has planted a seed and the reality of the seed is this irrefutable fact that one seed has the exponential power to be infinite. But if this seed with all this powerful potential is not planted and allowed to die then it remains alone. I didn’t say this, Jesus did! Our personal kingdoms must die in order for God to bless us with the coming of His Kingdom in manifestation on this Earth.
God is calling Christians to a new level of cooperation and I believe this will be the fulfillment of the very thing Jesus said would prove to the world that we are the disciples of the Lord, by the love we show to each other. Jesus said also that no man has any greater love than to lay down his life for a friend, or to put it in perspective, to lay down your ministry, your kingdom, for a friend named Jesus. The impression the world has of Christianity ranges from the stuffy pretension of lofty religious cathedrals, to the small dysfunctional groups and tiny storefronts, and every other kind of church imaginable with various degrees of disconnection in between, all of which point their fingers of condemnation at each other. The problem is not you or me, it is us! You can not embrace someone else if you are currently holding on to what you believe is rightfully yours. The apostle Paul gave up what he had worked all of his adult life to obtain, he literally counted all of his educational and religious triumphs as fecal matter in comparison to the excellency that is in Jesus Christ. We have a limited time on this Earth to accomplish the mission given to us by Jesus to go to all of the world and take this born again experience to everyone. I realize that many churches will never change how they operate or what they think they believe to reflect the truth of the Word of God, but that should not stop the determination of those of us who by the power of the Spirit have the ability to allow our minds to be renewed and our lives transformed. I believe in these last days God is giving to us many opportunities to come together and prove to this world and the forces of evil that Jesus Christ is the only true power that exists. When we truly take upon ourselves the attitude of servants to each other in Christ, the strategy of spiritual warfare will become evident, new areas of ministry and technology that will be effective will emerge and entire nations will come to the cross of Christ and bow their knee. I believe if we can ever learn to bow our knee that the Kingdom of our God will finally come and we will step into the position that Jesus said we would occupy; the light of the world.
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