And when he was demanded of the Pharisees, when the kingdom of God should come, he answered them and said, The kingdom of God cometh not with observation: Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you. And he said unto the disciples, The days will come, when ye shall desire to see one of the days of the Son of man, and ye shall not see it. Luke 17:20-22
We have undeniable proof of this when we saw a monstrous storm coming, and we collectively prayed to calm that storm and then watched it break up before it hit Florida. We still had devastation, but not total annihilation of life. We know that it could have been worse, but we harnessed the power within us that God gave us, to decrease the storm's power. This collective power only happened because of our faith in Jesus. In scripture, Jesus told us repeatedly that the kingdom of heaven is within us. Why don't we believe him? If you lack faith, pray, and ask God to increase it. We can live the life that is becoming of a person saved by grace if only we believe with our whole hearts that the kingdom of God is within us, just as Jesus told us. We need to do the same type of praying, collectively as the Church, to overcome the enemy's plan to take us out and try this again, but on a grander scale so unbelievers can see it with their eyes and believe.
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