Recovering What Was Never Destroyed

The Lost Kingdom of God Within

Recovering the Indwelling Kingdom and the Transformation It Was Sent to Bring
The Lost Kingdom of God Within by Lloyd Krein

What if the Kingdom you’ve been waiting for was placed within you the day you believed?

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You haven’t said it out loud.

Saying it out loud feels like a betrayal of the gospel you were given. But it has been in you for a long time.

The cleansing was real. The forgiveness was real. The day you were born again was real. The relief when the weight came off was real, and it has never left you.

But the transformation that was preached over you, the power, the freedom, the change inside that was promised, is not what came.

You were promised power, and most of your Christian life has felt like weakness. You were promised freedom, and the old bondages stayed. You were promised a new mind, and the old one kept running you. You were promised peace that passes understanding, and anxiety has owned more of your hours than peace has.

And in the quiet place where no one hears, you’ve wondered for years whether the gap between what was promised and what you’ve lived is a gap in you, a gap in the preaching, or something you can’t quite name.

You haven’t been imagining it. The gap is real. And you have not been the problem.

The Kingdom came when the Spirit came

Here is what this book exists to plant in you, and it’s simple:

There is a Kingdom of God that was given to you the day you were born again. The Holy Spirit placed it inside you. You didn’t earn it. You didn’t produce it. You didn’t have to wait for it. It came when He came.

And most believers, including most of the people who have preached to them, have never been told that the Kingdom they’re still waiting for was already given.

The transformation the Bible promised, the power that raises a dead soul, the freedom no chain can hold, the change that turns a worldly mind into the mind of Christ, is that Kingdom at work inside you. It isn’t a separate thing God does over your head while you wait. It’s what the King is doing in the place He has already moved into.

It is not lost because it was destroyed. It is lost because it has not been pursued.

This book is the recovery.

“The garage is not the house.”

Imagine a man who has inherited an estate.

The deed is in his name. Every room is his: the library, the kitchen, the great hall, the upper rooms, the gardens. There’s no debt on it. The will has cleared. It’s all his.

But no one has ever walked him through the house. No one has opened the doors. He believes he’s the heir, but in his daily life he has only ever stood in the garage. He sleeps in the garage. He eats in the garage. He prays in the garage.

When other heirs ask him how the estate is, he tells them the garage is wonderful. He defends the garage. He’s built a whole theology of the garage. He’s heard preachers preach the garage and call it the gospel.

And all the while, the whole house is waiting: every room furnished, every fire lit, every table set, and the King Himself in the upper room, waiting to welcome the heir whose name is on the deed.

The garage is real. It’s part of the inheritance. But the garage is not the house.

The Lost Kingdom of God Within is the walk-through of the rest of the house.

Three Doors

Three passages stand at the door of this book

The Kingdom is within you. When the religious leaders asked Jesus when the Kingdom would come, they expected an announcement, a sign, a date. Jesus answered: “the kingdom of God is within you” (Luke 17:21). Not above you. Not ahead of you. Not waiting for you in another age. Within.

The King has moved in. Paul called it the mystery hidden for ages and now revealed: “Christ in you, the hope of glory” (Colossians 1:27). Not Christ for you. Not Christ near you. Christ in you. And where the King lives, His Kingdom has come with Him.

The change is already in motion. “We all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory” (2 Corinthians 3:18). Transformation isn’t a destination. It’s a process that the Spirit carries out from the inside.

Not a book against the Church

To name what has been lost isn’t to accuse anyone. The pastors who preached the garage preached what they had, and most of them carry the same gap you do.

This is not a book against the Church. It’s a book for the Church, and for the soul who has been quietly carrying the question for years and is about to discover that the answer isn’t somewhere outside of him.

The answer is in him. It has been since the day he believed.

What’s Inside

The journey, room by room

A Note to the Reader on the Two Comings

A Word Before We Begin: The Spirit, the Soul, and the Indwelling Kingdom

Introduction: What Has Been Lost

Naming the gap honestly, because if the loss isn’t named, the recovery can’t begin.

Chapter 1

The Kingdom Came When the Spirit Came

John the Baptist said the kingdom was “at hand,” and “at hand” means now, not two thousand years from now. What if the Kingdom he announced actually arrived, and we’ve spent centuries watching the wrong horizon? The hidden coming of God, by His Spirit, into every soul who believes.

Chapter 2

The Father’s Eternal Purpose: A Kingdom Inside You

Why am I here? God didn’t save you to park you here until heaven. From before the world began, He has been working toward one thing: living inside you. The Father didn’t save you to store you. He saved you to finish something in you.

Chapter 3

Filled and Flooded with God Himself

Paul prayed that believers would be “filled with all the fulness of God” (Ephesians 3:19). Most of us have known a trickle. Was Paul exaggerating? Are you the problem? Neither. This chapter shows what the Kingdom inside you is meant to fill you with.

Chapter 4

The Kingdom Must Be Sought For

If all of this is true, why hasn’t it been your experience? The answer isn’t that Scripture exaggerates, or that you were shortchanged at the new birth. It’s the one answer Scripture supports: what is given must be sought.

Chapter 5

Press On to Lay Hold

The moment you begin to seek, the resistance comes. The flesh gets loud. The old thoughts run their circuits. This chapter gives you the sharper vocabulary of the New Testament: pressing on to lay hold, and the violent taking it by force.

Chapter 6

The Father’s Good Pleasure

If I must pursue this hard, is the Father holding back? No. “It is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom” (Luke 12:32). The drawbridge was never up. The Father has been at the door the whole time, watching the road.

Chapter 7

The Exodus of the Soul by the Spirit

You’ve been told the Spirit is at work in you. No one has shown you how. This chapter is the map: the Spirit leading the soul out of bondage, through the wilderness, and into the land, in five ways you can recognize. The dry seasons you read as God’s silence were often the places He was doing His deepest work.

Chapter 8

The Warning: Those Who Do Not Pursue

What if you close this book and nothing changes? The honest question every reader has to face, and the answer Jesus Himself gave His own people about what the soul that does not pursue stands to lose.

Read it slowly

This book is designed so that each chapter doesn’t just lead to more reading. It leads you into the moment. At the end of each chapter, you’re invited to stop, speak your agreement out loud, and wait.

As the Introduction says: Don’t measure the truth of what’s written here against the dryness of your past. Measure it against the Word.

You won’t need to climb. You won’t need to manufacture anything. You won’t need to wait for another day or another anointing or a better version of yourself.

You’ll only need to see, agree, and enter.

This book is for you if…

One teaching, given twice

The Lost Kingdom of God Within follows A Living Soul: A Christian Guide to Walking in the Divine. Together they form one teaching, given twice. The first names the destination: what a living soul is. The second names the way: how the soul becomes living again.

Walk into the house

The Lost Kingdom of God Within
The Lost Kingdom of God Within
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Scripture quotations in the book are from the Classic Amplified Bible.

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You are not too late.

You are not too far gone.

You are not the exception to the promise.

The King is in residence. The Kingdom is within you. The change has already begun. And the Father is more pleased to give you the Kingdom than you have ever been to receive it.

You are the one the King has been waiting to be known by.

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About the Author

Lloyd Krein

Lloyd Krein is a husband, father, grandfather, teacher, and servant of Christ. He has spent decades in worship and teaching ministry, and for many years he has served as a teacher and volunteer pastor at the Coachella Valley Rescue Mission, where the gospel is lived out daily among people seeking restoration, freedom, and hope. He writes not as an academic, but as a man who has walked the wilderness himself. He is the founder of A Living Soul Ministries.

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