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Matthew 7:7-8: ‘’Ask and it shall be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you; for everyone who asks receives, the one who seeks find, and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.’’
Read the above Bible text between the lines and you will be able to sense the seriousness in the tone with which Jesus spoke, when he tried to emphasize how important it is for you to get what you need to get, having in mind your time on Earth is limited.

In trying to get this your crucial need, Jesus recommended three kinds of actions.
They are; asking, seeking and knocking.
To ask involves using the mouth.
The mouth is used in praying to God.
To seek involves using eyes, ears and legs.
Whatever your eyes long to see, the legs have to take the eyes there.
And also your ears are used in listening.
These are the facilities you can employ in your attempt to find what you need.

In summation, you have a total of nine tools at your disposal which you can effectively employ in your attempt to ask, seek and knock.
What are they?
They are your two eyes, your two ears, one mouth, two legs and two hands.
Though one hand is required to knock, but when exhausted out of perpetual knocking, then the other should continue.
You do not have to stop knocking.

You have to be moved by Love to be actually able to ask, seek and knock for this thing your complete wellbeing solely depends on, using all your powers, might and soul, using all this nine tools at your disposal.

But despite the easiness in carrying out these actions of asking, seeking and knocking, you still find it impossible to actually find. When you in the least pray, answers seem so far reaching.

Why?

James 4:3: ‘’when you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasure.’’
This is the reason you do not receive on asking, find not when you seek, and get the door not opened, no matter how intense you knocked.

Everything you think is yours is actually God’s. All you have is primarily given you in God’s service.
When you basically use these gifts for fleshly reasons which is usually founded on fears, you are acting in disservice to God.

To be more frank, when Jesus asked us to ask, seek and knock, he wasn’t telling us to chase the way of worldly people. We must chase quiet right, because to chase is to live, but it mustn’t be done by us the
Worldly way. If we did it the worldly way, what is then the difference between our lives and that of those who haven’t encountered Christ?
What is the use of the salvation we claim to have?

Now, what does Jesus expect you to chase after while you dwell in this world as a child of light with all your power, might and soul ?

Matthew 6:33: ‘’But seek first His kingdom and His righteousness and all this thing will be given to you as well’’.
From this quotation, it is clear we are supposed to chase after two things; first, the kingdom of God, and second, God’s righteousness.

We cannot please God by our own righteousness.
The only true righteousness we can possess is the righteousness of God.

We do not need to ask for every other good things before getting them.
They naturally come to us as a result of our seeking the proper thing; spending our life or time the right or the Godly way.

But what did Jesus say concerning kingdom of God?
Luke 17:21: ‘’Nor will they say, see here or see there, for indeed, the kingdom of God is within you (NKJV).’’

The above quotation is indicative of how close the kingdom of God is to you. It is closer than you could ever imagine.

But how on Earth could a whole kingdom of God which most of us literally take for a huge, supra splendid city with mind-blowing splendor; how could this small body frame of ours contain it; since it’s mentioned we have it inside of us.

God is absolute. All powers belong to him. He has the ability to exist in uncountable forms.
According to one of the great men of God I so cherish, he would usually begin his prayers with phrases like: God, you are bigger than the biggest, greater than the greatest, richer than the richest, wiser than the wisest, and so on.
But I’m adding to all of that here.
God is smaller than the smallest. Oh yes! He is!

He has the ability to be smaller than the smallest and that is what makes Him God.
When we say an entity is everywhere, who are we talking about?
We are essentially talking about God.
In the innermost recess of the smallest of atoms is God.
Pervading the expanse of the biggest of galaxies is God.
He is inconceivable and cannot be completely perceived either in His biggest or smallest form.




According to the online Wikipedia, over a century ago, Orville and Wilbur, the children of Wright, otherwise known as the Wright brothers, invented the airplane. For the first time, the plane was flown in December 1903.

Before the airplane eventually became a tangible idea on the outside for the world to behold and identified with, it existed in the minds or mind of one of the two brothers as mere molecules of thoughts. These thoughts ordinarily would have been undoubtedly incredible to this folks when they conceived them, but by faith and willpower, those thoughts were activated and the rest became history.

This is to show that precursory to any tangible project witnessed in this world, is an idea.

In the same vein you did not become the wonder you are today by accident or came out of the blue just like that.
Yes, it is true you are full of wonders.

Is it how your brain works?
Or how your different body organs work?

Your body began with a lifeless clayey body, which the breath of God, which is as well His Spirit or His idea, impregnated. Thus resulting to a living soul which is you.

A living soul means a creative soul. It means an inventive soul.
Before the Spirit of God impregnated the body you carry, it was lifeless or non creative.

Remember I mentioned the spirit of God is non- different from His word or idea.
The Bible mentioned the word of God being spirit and life (Hebrew 4:12).

The word of God, a bunch of blueprint embedded in you, is the idea of God behind you- a creation or a project.
This blueprint is the source of your life.
It is the source of your creativity.

John 1:1-3: ‘’In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.’’
‘’ The same was in the beginning with God.’’
‘’ All things were made by Him; and without was not anything made that was made.’’

Nothing was made that wasn’t by the Word, including you.

Once this spirit or word of God leaves your body, your body returns to the Earth it came from.
Once the spirit leaves your body, nobody wants to associate with the corpse left behind.
This shows that the only attractive factor in you is the idea of God indwelled in you which is as well God’s spirit.
Every other seemingly attractive thing is a mere illusion.

This idea of God concerning you should be your mindset.
This is the mindset Jesus was trying to give to the man seeking perfection, which Jesus told he has to discard the old one he received from the world, meaning he should return back to the world what he received from it, so he can receive a new and godly one. So he can receive Christ- the Word of God.
Now, if our idea of what the kingdom of God is, is a gigantic picture of a splendorous estate or city with a more-than-awesome infrastructure, and with streets paved with gold of heavenly quality and standard, then we could as well see this awe-inspiring picture also having the capacity to exist as chains of thoughts in the heart, without necessarily being in a tangible form yet.

This is to say the kingdom of God Jesus said is indwelled in man is a splendid spectacle of a city to behold, though not necessarily a literal city, but whatever entity or form it appears to our mind’s eyes, it is nothing but an idea yet in the heart.

Knowing that the word of God which made you is God’s idea or His spirit embedded in your heart; knowing it is the life you received from Him, is the beginning of knowing the kingdom of God.

Knowing the purpose you were given the life, is knowing the kingdom of God in completeness.

It’s like comparing the name Emmanuel and Jesus.
The name Jesus revealed by an angel is more detailed than the name Emmanuel as revealed by a prophet. By the name Emmanuel, we were aware we have God in our midst but we do not know why He dwells amongst us. But with the name Jesus, we were aware we have God in our midst and as well know why we have him.

This analogy is applicable also to our knowing we have life but not knowing why we have that life.
And most of us, in our confused state-of-mind ask ourselves all the time, why we are here.

Therefore, seeking the kingdom of God is seeking for the purpose for which you received the life you were given by God.

And what is that life?
It is the breath of God in you.
God’s idea embedded in you, or His spirit at the core of your heart.

The second thing Jesus admonished you to seek is God’s righteousness, and not your own, because you can never be successful in keeping the Mosaic Law, trying to be righteous.
Hence, you can never be righteous on your own.

This God’s righteousness is supposed to be your righteousness.

A lot of people keep wasting the only resource available to man- TIME.
They hopelessly try to perpetuate a hypocritical holier-than-thou kind of righteousness.
Who told you, you have the ability to impress God by your self-righteousness, when the scriptures already said your righteousness before God is like a filthy rag.
Maybe you do not see that comment the way I see it.

The only righteousness you could ever possess is the righteousness given you by God.
Now, what is that righteousness?

Let me begin by saying there is no way you can practice God’s righteousness, except you have discovered God’s kingdom.
God’s kingdom as I have explained.

To be righteous by God’s standard is achieved by spending the life you received from God the way He wants you.
Using your life in working out the will and purpose of God buried in the core of your heart as the Word of God, concerning you or can be otherwise stated as the Christ in you.
The Word of God in you or the Christ in you which is the source of your life embodies God’s Will and Purpose for you.

Working it out with faith, so it could emerge on the outside in tangible form like the airplane I earlier talked about, So that the glory accrued to it could return to God, is the only way to be righteous before God. It is only when your life is spent in this manner, you’ve actually lived a successful life, and it is the only way to be righteous before God which is parallel to being righteous before men.
The parable of the two sons a father sent on an errand; how one pleased the father and the other did not, actually lend credence to this perspective.

Men did not give you even a quarter heartbeat, so I wonder why you feel so accountable to them regarding what you use every beat of your heart for.
You are only accountable to God.

The purpose you received the life you have is inscribed on the tablets of your heart.
That is the scriptures specifically written for your purpose.
Mind you, I am not saying this to trivialize the Bible but yet check the quoted Bible text below.

Jeremiah 31:32-34: ‘’….not like the covenant I made with their fathers in the day I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, my covenant which they broke, although I was a husband to them, declares the Lord.’’ But this is the covenant which I will make with the house of Israel, after those days, declares the Lord.’’ I will put my law within them, and on their heart I will write it, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.’’ ‘’ They will not teach again each man his neighbor and each man his brother, saying, know the Lord, for they will all know me, from the least of them to the greatest, to the greatest of them, declares the Lord, for I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin I will remember no more.’’

You need the Bible to guide you in working out the purpose and will of God for you but God Himself declared a time is coming when His people will need not one another as teacher.
He said His laws will be written on their hearts and they will be aware of these laws, unlike the pattern employed during the time of Moses, in which they actually failed in its execution. And that era when there won’t be need for teachers, when people will start getting access to the laws of God written on their heart and solely live by it, began with the advent of Christ.

When you are able to key in unwaveringly in the explained perspective regarding what the kingdom actually is, and practicing God’s righteousness, every other good thing will be added.

Let me give you example of a man who was able to discover God’s Kingdom for him and was righteous even only at the level of thoughts, having other things added to him.
Can you guess who the man is?

His name is Solomon; the Biblical king Solomon.

According to the Bible, he was given his life, so he could succeed his father king David.
That was God’s plan for him; the idea of God behind his coming to planet Earth. That is what the word of God written on the tablet of his heart which is the life-force behind his creation, embodies.

Therefore, it was Solomon’s life-purpose to rule the Children of Israel.
David or whoever or however Solomon caught a glimpse of this truth was an instrument used by God to reveal this truth to Solomon (1st King, chapter one).
Solomon’s going to God in the dream to seek for wisdom and grace to obey God’s command to him (ruling the people of Israel), is tantamount to his seeking God’s righteousness, for he had already found the kingdom or getting the LIFE(he had already known he was born to rule the Israelites).
His endeavoring to do God’s will is the supreme righteousness. And as a result, God added all other things which included wealth (1st King 3:5-15).

1st King 3:10 reveals God being pleased with Solomon’s works of righteousness by his praying for wisdom not to make money or getting his enemies killed but to effectively do the work assigned him- ruling the children of Israel in manners that would be pleasing to God.

In fact, the above instance equally applies to Abraham when God revealed His kingdom regarding his person to him.
God showed him a picture of what he carried inside of him which he was unaware of.
Abraham was made to realize he was given his life for a more important purpose of becoming the father of many nations depicted by the countless stars pervading the night-sky God compared his children with.

Despite his being without a child at seventy-something, God revealed this reality to him and he believed.
His believing was the parameter used by God to adjudge him righteous (Genesis 15:5).

When your righteousness is patterned in the above explained form, every other thing would be added.
Why?

It is because your initial righteous action would compel God to return a latter righteous reaction to you. It is like the physical law of action and reaction.

Seek out your path.
Walk in it graciously.
And every other thing will be added as heaven celebrates you for who you are and becoming.

Let us consider the story of Nicodemus, a Pharisee; a teacher; a member of the Jewish ruling council (John 3:1-21).

I want to believe you can picture the kind of social status symbol the above description is capable of painting.

I can liken Nicodemus to the contemporary PhD degree holder, well-to-do financially and a highly respected personality with coveted wisdom, knowledge and understanding regarding his line of discipline; being a discipline that has to do with humanity and social relationships for that matter.
The kind of man people are quick to run to for answers to their questions.
He is a kind of man a lot of folks look up to being like.

I picture him in his kiddy days growing up just fine, facing his studies squarely, flocking with ‘’normal’’ kids doing ‘’normal’’ things.
Perhaps he didn’t club in that era’s kind of club, had respect for older ones, his mates, teachers, just everybody.

Presumably, Nicodemus had been a good guy living a good life from cradle, even until the day he met Christ.

But I think before the day Nicodemus met Christ he had been going through a lot of emotional torture which only he was aware of. If not, he won’t be so desperate to meet with Christ.
He had been living an empty life secretly all along.

For Heaven’s sake, what else should one do in addition to leading the normal life Nicodemus presumably led and getting to the level he was when he met Christ (a member of the Jewish ruling council), to be happy?

What else does he actually want, making him desperate to meet with Christ?
Afterall he sheepishly followed all the societal laws and rules as presumed; yet ended up feeling dead and beaten.

WHY?

To Nicodemus, life SUCKS.
I think he did not want to get further deluded; the reason he didn’t go to his fellow ‘’professors’’ to get answers to all his BUTS AND WHYS.

But one quality about Nicodemus stood out; he was a smart guy.
He played out Jesus’ phrase: ‘’since the time of John the Baptist, the kingdom of God suffers violence and the violent takes it by force.’’ He played it out nicely.

What can you make of this phrase, because you’ve heard it uncountable times as well, what?


In the book of Matthew 21:28-32, Jesus gave a parable concerning two sons their father gave an assignment. One didn’t show any kind of hesitation but ended up not doing the job while the other hesitated but finally got the job done.
It was concluded the one who eventually did the job pleased the father.

To please God is in doing and not in saying. Even when you are saying the right thing but not doing it, you are just wasting time. Jesus was using this parable to explain what entering the kingdom is like.
In this same Bible chapter, he told the highly exalted Pharisees the prostitutes and tax collectors would get in the kingdom of God before them.

But why on God’s green Earth would he say that?

The kingdom of God is for people who are violent, not in the sense of bombing, shooting, murdering, raping and looting.

The violence is in the sense of not allowing the consensus, the laws, and the criticism from men, deter one from getting the freedom one truly desires and deserves.
But what kind of freedom am I talking here?
It is the freedom to live your life exactly how God wants you; the freedom to be in charge of your world; to enter into the Kingdom and rule in it as the king that you are.

Matthew 23:13:
Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You shut the door of the kingdom of heaven in people's faces. You yourselves do not enter, nor will you let those enter who are trying to.

From the above Bible quotation, you would see Jesus referring to the Pharisees as preventing people who are normal everyday people like me and you from entering into the kingdom. This is an indication that living in the kingdom is perpetuating a kind of lifestyle right here on Earth. We don’t start living in the kingdom until when we get to one heaven beyond the skies.
The kingdom is experienced right here on Earth.

In Matthew 23:13, Jesus accused the Pharisees of being hypocritical, thereby not entering into the kingdom and preventing others who are trying to get in, meaning; hypocrisy is a stumbling block to entering the kingdom.
The moment one stops being real, continues living fake and pretentious life, then, the kingdom of God is out of sight of such person. Classical examples of category of humans who do not know how to pretend are little children. Remember that classic Jesus gave as; the kingdom of God belonging to people like little children? He meant people with mindset of kids (Matthew 18:3).

Like I earlier said, paraphrased; to be good is to live life that is not pretentious. It is to live your life being who you are.

Whoever the son of man has set free is free indeed.
We need freedom as a set of lost people.
We need a sense of fulfillment, and as such, it is our responsibility to seek, ask and knock for it earnestly with all our might and soul.

These violent people shaking up the kingdom are the people responsible for the violence witnessed or ‘’suffered’’ by the kingdom.

But do you know what?

The kingdom is not complaining in any bit about their violence.
In fact, the violence is good for the heart of the kingdom.

In pre John the Baptist era, that is, in the era when the Mosaic Laws were highly prevalent; the authoritarian era; the era of immutable laws; the era of compulsive conformity.

What was peculiar with this era?

The kingdom’s heart had been bleeding profusely because it was an abandoned city.
It knew no buzz created by the violence of the violents.

Meaning:

The era of Moses, era where you have to blindly fool around laws, is a barrier to knowing anything like the Kingdom exists, let alone forsaking all one has, running at the speed of hare to make sure one gets into it.

Playing the game violently is what Nicodemus did.

To avoid any form of resistance to his running into the kingdom of God, he decided to sneak out at night to reach out for Jesus. He gave it all he felt it takes.
And when He got to Jesus, he discovered he had being merely existing.
He discovered he had been a dead man in the spirit sense.
And what happened?
Jesus told him to get the life!
He told him to be born again which implicitly means he should get a new life.
To get a new life is achieved by getting your mind renewed by the Word of God.
It means to be born of the Word of God or His Spirit which is non different to His Word.
It means operating by a new kind of mindset.

The man Jesus showed how to become perfect in Matthew 19:21 got it all wrong when he was told to sell his belongings and distribute the proceeds to the poor and follow him.
Jesus didn’t actually mean for him to sell his cars, mansions, electronic gadgets, and so on.
Remember Jesus also saying that man’s life is not measured by the abundance of his material possession (Luke 12:15). This means the only true possession we have is our mindset. As a man thinks in his heart is he, meaning we are our thoughts which is our only true possession.

So what is it one’s life-worth is measured by? It is by what you carry inside of you- your mindset. But mind you, mindset could be wrong or right, and in this context, I am talking about the right mindset. The awareness one is supposed to have as a result of being in touch with the truth.
So, what Jesus was requiring the rich young man in Matthew 19:21 to give to the world is the mindset with which worldly people operate with, the mindset he acquired from the world, in order for him to receive the one He is going to give him and which will make him to start storing up wealth in a way parallel to how worldly people do.
At this point, his wealth would cease being Earthly, but rather, Heavenly; Oceanic; the type Psalm 23:5 described as having its source to be that cup which never ceases to overflow. Before he had contact with Christ, he had been surviving on a mindset he acquired from the world, and that is what Jesus required him to do away with, so he can receive the actual mindset- the Word of God as it is, concerning his person.

Now, let us return to Nicodemus issue. After Jesus talked to him about getting born again, funny enough, this educated Nicodemus got more confused than before he came to Jesus.

Jesus told him except a man is born of water and spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.
Three things were prominent here: Water, Spirit and Kingdom of God.

Therefore entering the kingdom of God requires one to be born of two things.
One is water, the other spirit.

Before the one who baptizes with spirit came, was the one who baptizes with water.
The one who baptizes with water was called into this world to help the world recognize the one who is to baptize with the spirit, for the one who baptizes with the spirit is the ultimate(John 1:31-33).

The baptism by the spirit follows the baptism by water and then leads to entering the kingdom.

Why the water baptism was needed then was because the order was new to the people of that dispensation, therefore somebody is needed to help identify who the messiah is; to help recognize through whom the anticipated new world order will come.

The prophets already foretold the messiah would be born and his name shall be called Emmanuel.
Meaning God with us, but while God was in the Israelites midst for thirty years, nobody knew.
And this was why John was needed to help the people identify who the Messiah is.

But the gracious God granted Joseph the father of Jesus the grace to know the purpose of God being in their midst. The purpose was revealed by an angel to Joseph in a dream, stating; ‘’HIS NAME SHALL BE JESUS, FOR HE SHALL COME TO DELIVER HIS PEOPLE FROM THEIR SIN.’’

What was their sin?
It was their living outside the kingdom of God founded on ignorance.
They did not even know such thing as kingdom of God exists, let alone knowing what it’s like.

And for thirty years, God incarnated as the Son was amidst the Israelites as Emmanuel and they never knew, until John the Baptist pointed to God coming to save His people from their sin for the Jewish people to see.

The order is: Getting born of the water, followed by getting born of the spirit and then entering the kingdom.

Being born of the water according to the prevailing circumstance in those days of John is to believe John the Baptist assertion that Jesus is the Christ. That is all the statement means. The kingdom of Heaven at hand which John the Baptist was hollering is Christ. Christ is the word of God, and this word of God is indwelled inside everyone of us. Christ is like the word of God indwelled inside of us revealed to us in human form, as Jesus the Christ.
And the sign required to show one’s allegiance or belief in this Christ is to go to John the Baptist to be baptized by water, which the prostitutes and tax collectors were rushing to do but the Pharisees and their adherents were hesitant.

This was the reason Jesus made the comments of prostitutes and tax collectors getting in the kingdom before the Pharisees, because believing the words of John the Baptist would get them in the kingdom faster than the hesitant Pharisees, for their believing John the Baptist is a sign they would find it easy to believe the teachings of Christ.

Being born of the spirit is to believe the teachings or the Words of Christ.
It is to believe in the goodnews and live by it.
It is just this simple.

From all said, it is obvious that all that is ultimately needed to get the life and not just a life is to enter into the kingdom of God. But how can you enter into the kingdom when you don’t know what the kingdom is like.

This morning you woke from your sleep.

If you were the type that puts God first before anything, then your first comment for the day is most likely: THANK GOD.

Whether you did the thank-God –thing with your mind or mouth; to God, either way is just fine.
To His ears, both ways are loud and clear.

After this your first-thing-in-the-morning thing, what follows?

You swiftly jump out of your bed to begin a routinal preoccupation that keeps you running in circles just like the clock hanging on your wall, repeating all that was done yesterday and days behind.

This circle is vicious and excruciatingly boring.
And you know it.
But your need to keep existing is the seemingly uncontrollable factor marrying you to this dead life.
And hopeless enough, it seems there is nothing you can do to break away from it.

It is existential for man to eat, sleep, get protection (in terms of clothing and shelter), and mate (chiefly for recreational purpose and secondarily to procreate).

No doubts, all these are essential to man’s continued existence on Earth.

But merely existing is a kind of life.
And I want to show you there is another.
One that is higher.
It is called LIVING which I will explain what it means in this piece.

Staying here on Earth solely for the purpose of eating, sleeping, getting protection and mating solely for the singular purpose of continued existence should be left to our fellow Earth dwellers we refer to as lower animals.
A life founded solely on the above four pillars will certainly not be able to stand the test of time (Isaiah 55:1-2 & Matthew 6:31-32). It is way too base for humans and should be left for the animals.

I included SEX because it is the inspiration behind a whole lot of pettiness we mindlessly chase after in the name of seeking pleasure. It’s no lie that one of the fastest selling commodities right now around the globe is sex. Infact, it is employed in pushing the sales of other commodities by subtle or sometimes pronounced use of it in advertisement.
If we were able to achieve having less need for sex, we would automatically and simultaneously be able to have less urge for hankering after these frivolities at a very immense magnitude.

Anything you want to do, do for LOVE.
So they say.
But to a man who is lost and needed to be found, what is Love?
To him, LOVE IS NOTHING MORE THAN SEX.

Live your life.

You are here to live and not to merely exist.

To live is to do good, have a chaos- free life and bask in the euphoria of an unending joy, which is all the kingdom of God stands for; righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Ghost.

Jesus said I am in this world but not part of it.

This should be same for everybody born of God.
You are supposed to be no partaker of the idea that rules this world.

The world which you brought to this world at birth should be your world.
You came with this world of yours buried in the core of your heart.
It is the primal gift you received from God, from which other good gifts would stem from.
It is the life you carry in your body.
Your lifestyle is supposed to be an embodiment of this said life.

How come you are going to stand out living a world everybody is living?
How are you going to ever live a distinct life doing what everybody is doing?
You are phenomenal, and the only way you are going to prove that is by living your phenomenal life as you received it from God.
This is what it means to be you and as well to be good, because the only way to be good is to be you, if I may let you know.

That world you brought to this world at birth is your bonafide world as I’ve already mentioned.
You are the king of that world.
You have the crown on your head and the scepter in your hand but you don’t know it.

GO ALL OUT AND RULE THIS WORLD OF YOURS!

When I hear people call out the name of this phenomenal world, I felt sorry for most because they only know it by name.
But in context, they are lost.
And that’s why I wrote this piece.

I will like to mention its name again to your hearing, regardless your having heard it tons of times.

It is called: THE KINGDOM OF GOD.

But why has it been pretty difficult for you not to be able to figure out what this name stands for in its supposed context all this while?

I think your problem is emotional. The heartfelt attachment you’ve over the years developed for words, phrases, and extremes created by dividing lines, put you in this paralyzing mess.
These are the barriers to your understanding what the kingdom of God stands for.

Now, let me help you by rephrasing the name kingdom of God perhaps you might be able to catch a glimpse of what it contextually stands for.
IT IS: The kingdom of god.

This is the kingdom Jesus required you to ask, seek and knock for.

Who is that god?
It is YOU.

God is so infinitely vast that not even the angels can fathom Him in His entirety.
Now imagine this God so very big that He cannot be found in totality; what should we expect of His kingdom?
By every sense of rationality, the kingdom is expected to be bigger than the king; looking at it from a human perspective which is the perspective we only have to analyze and conclude on spiritual matters. After all Jesus used earthly examples to explain spiritual concepts.

Now, is this the kingdom- kingdom of God Almighty, we mere humans were asked to find? This for me is way too ridiculous. We are too limited as humans to find such kingdom.
Remember I mentioned the angels as well being unable.

You are here to fulfill a destiny written by God for a god-YOU. Part of the destiny or the beginning of it better still, is to find your specific and designated space in this world; to find your kingdom.
Find where you belong and plant yourself in the soil of that environment: Find that kingdom of god which is yours.

This is the kingdom Jesus asked you to ask, seek and knock for, ok?

It is not a fallacy when you wade through the resisting steep slope of the highest mountain, reaching the summit, and screaming at the top of your voice: THE WORLD IS MINE!

It is truly yours, in as much you are referring to the one heavens made you king over- the kingdom of a god- your kingdom which you are god over.

We are no safety-conscious people.
All the companies you see placing ''safety begins from here'' signs at their gates, do it because the laws left them with no choice of treating safety with gross disdain as they would have enjoyed doing.

They treat the laws of men as though they are God's.
But whoever Christ has set free is free indeed.

The authority should swiftly do the needful.