Aliens, these people could be aliens! That was an actual humorous thought occurring in my mind as I sat there in the huge conference room at the base of a major hotel located on the Northside of Atlanta. It was January 2007 and I was attending my first conference focused on God being involved in our work life. Though I had been walking with the Lord for 12 years at that point, and attending a biblically-based Spirit-led church, God-at-work was a brand-new concept to me. In that gathering, for 3 days I listened to leaders operating in various areas of society (Business, Government, Entertainment, Family, etc.) sharing stories of real experiences involving the Power of the “Kingdom of God” in all aspects of their lives, including professionally.
After facing the reality that I may not be “in Kansas anymore,“ I figured I better consult my “Owner’s Manual” immediately to see how these ideas aligned with the Word of God. I had my Bible with me and I began to take a fresh look at the Gospels to match in real-time what I was hearing from the speakers.
I didn’t even get out of the first book of the New Testament before I realized that all Jesus was talking about was this “Kingdom of God”. In fact, in the book of Matthew the Kingdom of God is referred to over 50 times. Somehow I had overlooked this for years. It was beginning to look like the “point” of the Lord’s Gospel was this Kingdom.
But it was in the book of Luke where Jesus‘s words launched the full-scale assault upon my paradigm…
The Coming Kingdom
Now when He was asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God would come, He answered them and said, “The Kingdom of God does not come with observation;” nor will they say, “See here!” or “See there!” For indeed, “the Kingdom of God is within you.”
Luke 17:20-21
Within you?! What does that even mean? How does that work? And the questions began to stack up my mind.
A NEW DAY
Over the years following that earth-shattering encounter in Atlanta, I traveled the globe and discovered the simple Truth that the Treasure I had been seeking over the course of my life, had been hidden inside of me and other people all over the earth. For too long we have been looking up and around for the Kingdom of God. The Kingdom isn’t coming TO us…that has already been accomplished. It is now coming THROUGH us. As we grasp this truth of the Gospel of the Kingdom, we will see the manifestation of what Jesus was referring to in these words…
The Parable of the Leaven
Another parable He spoke to them: “The kingdom of heaven is like leaven, which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal till it was all leavened.”
Matthew 13:33
The more we become this Truth of the Gospel of the Kingdom, we will see the “leaven” of the Kingdom begin to work into every area of our being. Eventually, the leaven will move into every area of our lives as it appropriately, powerfully impacts the people and environment around us.
For many of us, our day and age has been considered to be what the Bible refers to as the “last days”. Regarding God’s plan for this era there are many details we can spend our lives disputing. What Believers can know for sure, is that for 2,000 years the Kingdom of God has been, literally, right under our noses; it had been deposited within our earthen vessels. The question we each need to answer daily is…
What are we going to do with it?
Omega Provision 