Author: Caroline Dennis

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Prayer: a kingdom principle

Jesus confronted the corruptions that had crept into the temple in his day. He quoted Isaiah's prophetic declaration that the temple was to be a place of prayer for all nations. God doesn't want people to treat His "house" (the church) as a hotel or museum, or like a club or restaurant. It a house - a home to be honoured and respected - of prayer, of communion with God. Jesus' church is intended to be for encountering Him, a place of communication and spiritual communion with God.

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Kingdom: A woman, yeast and dough

Jesus told many stories (parables) as illustrations that reveal aspects of the Kingdom of God. One of the shortest parables is a simple one-sentence description of a woman mixing yeast into a huge quantity of flour to make dough. This simple image offers some profound insights into the way the Kingdom of God permeates and influences, “He told them still another parable: ‘The kingdom of heaven is like yeast that a woman took and mixed into about sixty pounds of flour until it worked all through the dough.’” Matthew 13:33

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The Kingdom of God (Part 3) – From the smallest seed

God's kingdom is of heaven, but in Jesus and through his ministry God's kingdom is becoming manifest on the earth. To illustrate this, Jesus told a story of how God's kingdom is like the planting of a tiny seed that grows (initially in secret) and becomes something far greater that changes the environment around it, creating blessing and benefit where it flourishes.

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