Thy Kingdom Come, Thy Will Be Done
Becoming Soldiers in God’s Kingdom
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A story is told of an American Indian brave who found a nest of eagle eggs and placed one in a nest with eggs of prairie chickens. So the young eaglet grew up scratching in the dirt for food. On one occasion, a shadow on the ground caused him to look up where a mature eagle was soaring. But prairie chickens fly only a few feet off the ground so the young eagle was told, “He’s the king of the air and you can’t fly like him! So the young eagle died as he lived, unaware of potential to soar as do eagles (from Thy Kingdom Come, Thy Will Be Done).,/I>
It’s a harsh truth most who profess Christ scratch in the dirt of life like the unsaved. Polls comparing those churched and unchurched reveal little difference in divorce, addiction, depression, or premature death from disease if not suicide. Most believers fail to recognize their full inheritance “in Christ” and as far as soaring on spiritual wings like eagles (Isaiah 40:31), the opposite is usually the case.
A rarely mentioned “kingdom of heaven” is the subject of this book by a medical doctor who has witnessed God’s miraculous power both in and through his life to touch others. A graduate of Northwestern Medical School, Ralph spent half of his career as director of radiation oncology at the National Cancer Institute in Maryland and piloted research on several cancers including Hodgkin’s disease for which he received an award from the U.S. government. The remainder of his medical career was in private practice in St Petersburg, Florida.
While in practice, Ralph received baptism in the Holy Spirit and cures of even terminal diseases including cancer took place without medical intervention following prayer. Many under demonic influence were set free and a man who died from total liver and kidney failure due to alcohol abuse was restored to healthy life. The healing power of God has touched Ralph, having survived 24 years with metastatic prostate cancer and now off treatment without symptoms and a normal PSA. It’s been 16 years since diagnosis of severe autoimmune disease that combined rheumatoid arthritis, lupus and multiple sclerosis (again in remission), and 7 years since congestive heart failure which resolved and requires no treatment.
Ralph experienced a sharp decrease in referrals as news spread about healings by prayer without medical intervention. Physicians strongly objected to not having all patients given orthodox treatment. So after a series of medical missions and caring for indigent patients in a local Free Clinic, Ralph left practice in l997 and served for 12 years as a volunteer chaplain in correctional institutions. During that time, six self-published books were used in these institutions as well as in local churches, and training pastors in bible schools in Africa and India. A Doctor of Divinity degree was conferred in 2007 by Emmanuel Bible College and Loving Hands Theological Seminary in Hyderabad, India for contributions to their programs.
Thy Kingdom Come, Thy Will be Done was birthed in a dream in 2005 when Ralph was told to write a 7th book about intimacy with Jesus. Six phrases in the dream were written before returning to sleep, and became chapter headings in the order received. The book includes an autopsy on dying if not dead churches where the miraculous power of Holy Spirit is rarely seen. But the major focus are five steps to restore manifested power in the life of believers known as the “kingdom of heaven.” Jesus brought to earth a kingdom for purpose of destroying works of the devil and preached as did the disciples the “gospel of the kingdom” which embraces God’s supernatural power (Matthew 4:23).
For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that He might destroy the works of the devil. 1 John 3:8
Godly men in the OT were used for the miraculous, including healing of the sick and raising the dead. But until Jesus brought the “kingdom of heaven,” there was absence of power over the demonic.
But if I cast out devils by the Spirit of God, then the kingdom of God is come to you. Matthew 12:28
The kingdom of God is linked not only to healing and “righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost” (Romans 14:17). It involves authority over the demonic and Jews recognized expelling of unclean spirits as unseen: “What new doctrine is this? For with authority He commands even the unclean spirits, and they obey Him” (Mark 1:27). And this same authority exists today for those in the kingdom.
Following teaching at our county jail, an inmate with injury that left him with loss of strength and pain in a withered right arm asked for prayer. But Holy Spirit said “Don’t pray for healing! Cast out a demon!” So I commanded a spirit of infirmity to leave in the name of Jesus and all were astonished at immediate pain relief. Weeks later this man visited our church and I told my wife, “This is the man I spoke of with a demonic spirit causing a painful withered arm!” We shook hands and his grip was similar to a steel vise. There had been total restoration of all muscles to the praise of God’s glory (from ‘Thy Kingdom Come, Thy Will be Done’).
Today’s focus is nearly exclusively on being “saved.” Ignored is the “kingdom of God” (John 3:5), conditions for entering which are different than for being born again although not recognized in most bible schools and seminaries as well as churches. Signs and wonders to follow preaching of God’s Word are essentially nonexistent (John 14:12; Acts 4:29,30). Jesus speaks of churches reputed to be alive but calls them “dead” (Revelation 3:1) and exhorts, “He that has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.” This book is a must read for all who desire to be soldiers in the “kingdom of heaven” here upon earth.
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After receiving baptism in the Holy Spirit in l988, Ralph began to pray for patients with cancer and other life-threatening illnesses. Immediate healing occurred without medical intervention including raising of a certified dead man from complete liver and kidney failure to active healthy life. As news spread in the medical community, patient referrals declined when doctors objected to not having all of their patients receive an ‘orthodox’ treatment. The present book, Thy Kingdom Come, Thy Will Be Done, is an autopsy on dying if not dead churches where the miraculous power of the Holy Spirit is not in evidence. It presents biblical steps for restoring the sovereignty, glory and manifested power of God known as the “kingdom of heaven,” a subject rarely if ever discussed from the pulpits of most churches.
About the Author
A graduate of Northwestern Medical School, Ralph served as director of radiation oncology at the National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, piloting curative treatment for several types of cancer including Ewing’s sarcoma, small cell lung cancer, and Hodgkin’s disease for which he was recipient of a U.S. superior service award. He entered private practice in l978 to organize a cancer center in Pinellas County, Florida. After several medical missions overseas, he left medicine in l997 to become a volunteer prison chaplain. Six self-published books were used both in local churches and correctional institutions as well as in bible schools in Africa and India. A Doctor of Divinity degree was conferred by Emmanuel Bible College and Loving Hands Theological Seminary in Hyderabad, India in 2007 to recognize his contributions. He and his wife Sylvia live in St Petersburg, Florida where he authors a website (newwineministry.org) having wide international readership.