Reading Time: 7 minutesHere’s how I like to think about it. I imagine going before God to make a request, to submit my prayer. I’m waiting for my turn in an antechamber outside God’s throne room, there’s a tall, wide, doorway open to God’s throne room. As I look through the doorway I see God’s throne a ways off. Then I see, carved into the stone above the doorway, these words,
“Ask and it shall be given you… for everyone that asketh receiveth.”
Reading Time: 15 minutesIn his hometown synagogue, Jesus proclaimed the scripture fulfilled, he said the authority of the anointed was come, that the kingdom of God had at last arrived, the same message that had produced such tremendous results in Capernaum and throughout Galilee, but in Nazareth nothing happened. There were no miracles in Nazareth, no demons cast out, no eyes given to the blind, no lame walked. The kingdom of God had indeed arrived but the unbelief of the people of Nazareth hindered Jesus’ authority to deliver them. Unbelief prevented God from reigning in their circumstances. Unbelief thwarted the Gospel of the Kingdom of God. The kingdom of God has been here and people have been not believing and not receiving ever since.