My Zeal for the Kingdom of God

This is raw, I’m going to warn you. I keep saying I have a whip to weave – and I try, I do – but this subject matter burns me from the inside and the outside. I’m frightened by it. It’s difficult to face head-on, I get so raw and angry. Let’s talk about the Cuckoo chick in God’s nest.

To sit down and focus on this treacherous trick of the devil day-in and day-out in order to birth a book revealing the truth (that no one wants to hear), is utter misery. Ultimately, there’s no running to hide from God to get away from what He has tasked me with. Run from responsibility and there will be a whale waiting to escort you to Hell. Furthermore, that whale will have a nice crispy treat if you’ve also managed to get torched by the fiery dragon on your heels which you can’t manage to shake.

Enter: my internal landscape of torment. I told you, it’s going to be raw…

Things That Keep Me Up At Night

There are 46,876 Southern Baptists church buildings in the United States.

Now compare that with 43,477 McDonald’s restaurants GLOBALLY. Let us sit in that lukewarm stew for a moment…

Now, shall we squeeze those statistics through some abstract financial math for the Kingdom of God?

And the Catholic church? Try this number on for size: Catholic parishes operate on a budget of between $100,000 to $1 million per year. (Urban parishes may face higher costs for utilities, property taxes, and potentially staff salaries, while rural parishes may have lower costs in these areas)…..

Gotta clothe the vicar in the finest attire and accoutrements~

[Pro tip: if the previous statement angers you it is because your identity is wrapped up in a manmade concept of who God is and how one should defend a manmade idea of worship. You’ve been duped.]

Here’s the whole of Christianity’s sacrifice to their structural idols:

“Christian churches in the US spend approximately $84 billion annually on operational costs, including staff, facilities, and programs.”

-ChurchTrac The State of Church Giving: Trends and Statistics [2025]

The Cuckoo Chick in God’s Nest

Church buildings have become devouring monsters with every brick and ritual requiring a scandalous sacrifice of mammon. They are the imposter cuckoo that demands resources from and enslaves God’s children. Satan has tricked God’s servants to feed a lie and deprive His children of resources, kicking widows, the hungry and the broken out of His nest. Tell me again how God’s original idea was to build a bunch of buildings, divide them by denomination and then fill them with people who identity more with the denomination than with Christ?

I’ll wait………………….

Did God not instead show us how to identify with Christ, grow into His stature and build a Kingdom to save the lost, feed the hungry and take care of widows?

Instead we use the latter to justify our pride in the former.

Did Jesus Christ travel from place to place building temples in His name?

We are full of our own will which blinds us to the truth. The problem is the fundamental hazard of attaching our identity to anything outside the human being. Because remember, we are formed in His image, given the mind of Christ, clothed in His garment and the Holy Spirit dwells within us. If we mistakenly attach our identity to anything outside of ourselves, we become divided and fall out of union with the Body of Christ.

But the devil will tell you that the Body of Christ IS religion. That’s a lie. He’ll also tell you that Jesus is Christianity. That’s a lie also.

The Folly of Placing Our Identity in Manmade Constructs

Christianity seemingly worships itself, the number of buildings it can build, and who can take the most pride in their architecture.

God is going to judge this.

“God who made the world and all things therein, seeing that He is Lord of Heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands.”

“Do you not know, you are the temple of the Holy Spirit.”

The marker of success in the Kingdom of God is not the recruitment of individuals into a religious ideology or denominational church. God does not recognize religious institutions, ideologies or denominational substructures. We need to realize and accept how prone we are to identify more with these secondary garments than with Jesus Christ alone, otherwise we will never grow into the fulness of the stature of Christ. We are encased in a shell we can’t see, (or perhaps, more to the point, blinded by it) obscuring our understanding of how it limits the Body of Christ.

Christ is not Divided

God isn’t a denomination. People choose denominations that have fashioned God in a way that fits into their life, their personality and attitudes. The binding of identity to religion tears everything else apart because the Body of Christ is not a particular church construct, or one specific denomination or a set of manmade formalities. It only causes rupture of the fabric of being – we are made in God’s image, not man’s image of God. Please, for the love of God, understand this~

People form denominations. God does not. And all churches are denominations because they all divide.

Christ established The Kingdom of God on earth, not church buildings. God is not religion, and until we break free from this misconception of who He is we will never understand who we are and who Christ said we could become in Him. We must grow into the stature of Christ, not the stature of a manmade church doctrine. This also prevents us as believers from doing what Christ instructed us to do – all those greater things He mentioned. We now have the Holy Spirit within us.

Yes, God in you, the hope of glory.

To them God willed to make known what are the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles: which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.

Colossians 1.27

Satan will stop at nothing to kill the spread of this knowledge and keep it from being embodied and acted upon by the children of God. He’ll even create and drop an imposter cuckoo in God’s nest and deceive anyone who isn’t paying attention to what they are identifying with and feeding.

But, God’s word never falls to the earth unproductive, dear children of God. On the contrary:

My word that comes from my mouth will not return to me empty, but it will accomplish what I please and will prosper in what I send it to do.

Isaiah 55.11

God’s getting ready to show the world that victory runs to meet His every step~