Jesus preached the kingdom of heaven. (Mt 4:23) Many of His parables began with, “the kingdom of heaven is like...”. He taught His disciples to pray for this kingdom to come operate on earth like it does in heaven. (Mt 6:10) He told us to seek the kingdom as our first priority (Mt 6:23), that it had to be forcefully laid hold of (Mt 11:12). The good news is that it gives Him pleasure to give the kingdom to us. (Lk 12:32) So what does this kingdom look like?
We know it’s heavenly, not of this world (Jn 18:36). It probably exceeds our expectation and imagination. But we do know it brings righteousness, peace and joy. (Rom 14:17) We also know it’s full of power. (1 Cor 4:20) In fact, Jesus said that supernatural healing was evidence that the kingdom was nearby. (Lk 10:9) And we know it’s founded on love (Col 1:13), and it is unshakable. (Heb 12:28)
When Jesus returns He will literally bring His kingdom to earth with Him. (2 Tim 4:1, Rev 12:10) Awesome! But we don’t have to wait until then to experience His kingdom. The truly amazing thing is that He’s already placed His kingdom inside everyone who believes in Him. (Lk 17:21) Consider Ephesians 3:20. “Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us.” Jesus wants to flood the earth with the manifestation of the kingdom of heaven, but until He comes, we are the faucets.
When He taught His disciples to pray the Lord’s prayer, he was asking them to volunteer to be a conduit of the kingdom of heaven to the earth. How about you?
“Your people shall be volunteers In the day of Your power” (Psa 110:3).
Seriously, I can't believe no one reads your blogs... I don't see any comments. You still have not given any slightest evidence that the words from the bible are true.Don't say because the bible says so. Explaining logic to theists is impossible. No matter how much I have dumbed down my arguments you still have faith like the king of EGYPT with his gods. People pray in all sorts of ways in their own types of religions it still does not make them true. So your saying we all can "experience", this heavenly feeling that is inside of us? I assume you know this heavenly experience from your own "personal" experience. because "GOD" knows you so well, or you know god so well. I am sure those from the history books prayed to their greek and roman gods and knew their heavenly gods and goddesses too. Do you really "seek" the kingdom of GOD first in your life? I think your like every other preacher who uses technology made by secular minded individuals. Most of the technology you use to blog, tweet, facebook, smartphones, ipads, ipods to spread your infectious religious garbage. It's because if you used the crap from the 80's no one would give you the time of day in your preaching. In fact, if you became a nomad like jesus. NO home addresses, not married, sold everything, and preached the bible.... you would be considered not fit for society. let me tell you what I think of prayer preacher.. It doesn't work, that includes every religion that practices it. You feed a man a fish, and you feed him for the day... You give him religion he will starve praying for the fish. I can't believe you wasted your whole life with this bible junk. Show me evidences.. I push you a mile you have to walk 2 miles to burn coals on my head. SHOW ME THE EVIDENCES of the first two chapters of genesis. show me the evidence of the flood... All you are doing is polluting minds. Allah, Jesus, Yahweh, Elohim, Kristina, APOLLO, and any other God from the past or present IS NOT REAL... If you have prayed for me it has not worked. I liken your prayers to the big prayer rally that happen in TX with PERRY(IT WAS ACTUALLY FOR POLITICAL GAIN)... Millions of people gathered like muslims on a mecca journey all PRAYING FOR GOD TO HEAR THEM....Since then, the economy has dropped in ratings, hurricane irene, navy seal team soldiers died, TX is going threw "hell" with fires ragging across the land. Africa is going through a terrible famine with millions of people about to die.... You want to talk about the kingdom of heaven is near, when god is not listening priest, or what ever you want to be called. Sir, give me reason to believe in god without pointing to a book, because people can do that with the quran or the methodist discipline book, hindu scrolls, and etc. AND THE CAN SPEAK FROM THE THEIR EMOTIONAL CONVICTIONS AND EXPERIENCE OF HEAVENLY FEELINGS ALL DAY LONG.. It's called being highly religious(IGNORANT).
ReplyDeleteI can quote scripture all day back to you... Why is it when a person actually reads the bible two things could happen?... One, they notice they can make money by appealing to those who don't really read the bible, and influence young minds who don't understand yet. TWO: he or she realizes it's bull like the rest of the religions of the past;therefore, they commit anyways not to be a part of a community... But your beliefs aren't in God... They are of your ego... God is you, that is why he knows you so well, and knows exactly how to make you feel better when you pray to yourself. Your beliefs is merely a representation of your ego in what you think god is like... News flash... there is not a god... How do you feel when i say that? Sad? Mad? out raged? Rejected? Did you know the brain when it feels rejected produces a chemical that you feel despair,anger, and all those things. Your trying to represent something that is not actually there and when I reject something not based off evidence, but your false beliefs and lack evidence... You will feel anger, because your Ego (GOD) is you, and no matter what you say or preach from your religious text... It does more harm than good. For example, A little boy prayed for a bike. Then he realized God doesn't work that way so he stole a bike and asked for forgiveness. I know you're waiting for the end to take you to paradise... The end is not coming in your life time or mine, or even a 1000 years form now... earth will still stand. If the love of money is the root of all evil, then why do churches want it so badly? Did Noah bring termites with him on his ark? If God's love is unconditional, then why does hell exist? The religion of one age is the literary entertainment of the next.... You sir are a funny man.
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