OPERATING WITH THE KINGDOM POWER.

The Lord`s prayer goes thus...Our Father who hath in Heaven, thy Kingdom come...We always pray that God`s Kingdom should come on earth. John the baptist came to preach the gospel...preparing the way for Jesus and baptizing people. He was a man that told the truth as presented by the word of God. When Herod took Herodias...his brother`s wife as his own wife, John told Herod to his face that what he did was wrong. It came a time that John was arrested and taken to the prison. He further sent his disciples to Christ to ask if Christ was the messiah or should they be expecting another one. Why the question? He was expecting the messiah to come and save him from the situation that he found himself. Once he did not see the manifestation of the messiah in his situation, he started to doubt. Christ`s reply to John`s disciples was straight as He said that they should go and tell John what they saw Him(Christ) do...the miracles and the preaching of the good news. Christ further told the crowd about John the baptist. He said that none had risen greater than John the baptist among mankind that is born of a woman but the least in the Kingdom of God is greater than John. This implies that John had the Kingdom of God within him but sadly, he was looking out for a Messiah. Christ could have easily delivered him from the prison but He was expecting John to respond as a man of the Kingdom. Christ was talking about the Kingdom of God suffering violence and the violent taking it by force. For John to have been delivered, he needed to have been violent by taking his place in God`s Kingdom. As a child of God`s Kingdom, we need to forcefully take what belongs to us. Christ expected much from John as a man who knew a lot about the Kingdom. God knows what to do about situations and challenges we go through but he needs us to react to those situations before He takes action meaning that it is our reactions that determines God`s actions. Come to think of it...why would Jesus Christ be praying while His disciples were sleeping. The burden he was bearing was just more than the disciples reasoning and He needed to be violent in His own context for actually achieving what He came to do. The Kingdom of God is yours not by complaining that your situation will change but by action. David made inquiry when he lost all that he had and he was able to reclaim all that he lost. My friend, to take back all that the enemy has stolen from you...you must stand up and operate with God`s Kingdom power. When Christ`s time was not yet up, he did not allow Himself to be arrested because He knew that it was not yet time...a good example of operating in God`s Kingdom power. It is our responsibility to operate with God`s Kingdom power by not accepting anything that comes our way but to be ready to stay firm and not to take NO for an answer. At this point, I will like to inform you that if you put your hope in the kingdom of this world, please try and have a re-think because the Kingdom of this world is already failing big time. See how the global economy is crashing and people can`t really explain it. The Kingdom of this world is already collapsed. The Kingdom of God will cater for your welfare as it is of great concern to God and as such, you cannot fail. How can you operate in God`s Kingdom if you don`t know the King and if you are not sure if you are a bonafide child of the Kingdom?