Seek 1st His Kingdom

“But seek ye first the Kingdom of God, and His righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.” Matthew 6:33

If we seek first the Kingdom of God and if we seek first His righteousness, then we shall receive from God all of the things that the gentiles of this world so desperately seek! “(For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.” Matthew 6:32 Our Father knows that we need clothes, food, and housing and He has shown us the way to have Him add them all unto us!

Now our Father is God, and nothing that He ever does is done half way! So look at just how great the things of this earth are that He will provide for us. “And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to day is, and to morrow is cast into the oven, shall He not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?” Matthew 6:28-30 Our Father wants our clothes and the things that He adds unto us to be more beautiful than the lilies of the field! As God’s children we should have the best and because of Jesus we can have the best! But we are not to obtain these things as the world seeks to obtain them through toil and labor. All of these things are added unto us by seeking first God’s Kingdom and God’s righteousness! Actually we aren’t even take thought for having them, we are only to take thought for the Kingdom and for righteousness, and then all of these things, all of the things that the world seeks for, all of the things that they lie and cheat for, that they deceive for, and that they go to war for, will be added unto us.

And all of these things will be added unto us at a level that exceeds the level of possessions that God gave to Solomon! “Verily I say unto you, Among them that are born of women there hath not risen a greater than John the Baptist: notwithstanding he that is least in the Kingdom of Heaven is greater than he.” Matthew 11:11 The least in our Kingdom, the Kingdom of God, is greater than the greatest ever born of a woman! So the least in God’s Kingdom is greater than Solomon, and God wants to bless us with all of the things that the gentiles seek, and He wants to add them unto us at a level greater than what He added them unto Solomon!

Now here is the great Truth of our freedom concerning these things! “The Lord is my Shepherd [to feed, guide, and shield me]. I shall not lack. He makes me to lie down in [fresh, tender] green pastures; He leads me beside still and restful waters. He refreshes and restores my life (my self); He leads me in the paths of righteousness [uprightness and right standing with Him-not for my earning it, but] for His Name’s sake.” Psalm 23:1-3 Amplified Bible.

For us to have God add all things unto us, all of the things that the gentiles seek: clothes, food, housing, we need to seek first His Kingdom and His righteousness! So what did our Father do for us, He gave us Jesus, and Jesus now leads us in the paths of righteousness, not because we have earned it, not because we have worked hard and took thought for it! No, Jesus did it for us freely for God’s Namesake! Jesus does leads us so that our Father will receive the praise and glory and so that we will live fully in the provisions of God! Jesus is our Shepherd and because of Him we do not want and we don’t want because through Jesus we have all things added unto us that pertain unto life and unto godliness! “According as His divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him that hath called us to glory and virtue:” 2 Peter 1:3 God has called us unto glory and virtue and by His Divine power we are able seek first His Kingdom and His righteousness! Our Father wants the best for us, so He has given us His best to insure that it would be added unto us!

“(For he saith, I have heard thee in a time accepted, and in the day of salvation have I succoured thee: behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.)” 2 Corinthians 6:2 Today is the day that Jesus will lead us into the paths of righteousness and right now is the time that our Father's Divine power is giving us all things that pertain unto life and unto godliness! And today is the day that God is empowering us to live fully in His glory and in His virtue! The yoke is light and the burden is easy to be borne, because greater is He that is now within us than he that is in the world. We can now be used by our Father to do all things, and God is able to use us through the power of His Anointing, Christ, that strengthens us!

The world seeks out clothes, food, and houses by working hard to obtain them. The abundance of their hearts is how to get and keep these things. It’s very popular right now for preachers to preach that we have to sow seed to get them! Millions of our prayers ask for them. Yet Jesus said so simply that we are to take no thought for these things! Jesus proclaimed that through His power that is at work within us, these things would just be added unto us! Life is more than clothes and the body is so much more than food! God has called us unto His glory and unto His virtue and He has chosen us to be as He is, even while we are in this world! “Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the Day of Judgment: because as He is, so are we in this world.” 1 John 4:17

I see so many Christians who are in need. So many listen to prosperity preachers and all they hear is give money and you will receive. Even though Jesus taught us that we are to consider the birds of the air, which do not have to sow to reap! “Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?” Matthew 6:26 Or they listen to preachers who tell them that we are to be poor because it is the will of God. Even though Jesus said that all of these things would be added unto us! The Truth will set us free and the Truth is that faith comes for us by hearing the Word of God. And the Word of our Father tells us that we are to be super blessed, blessed above Solomon, and that all of these blessings will be added unto us by God Himself as He leads us into first seeking His Kingdom and His righteousness!

Absolutely we will be used by God to sow into furthering the Gospel of His Kingdom and we will be used by God to give to meet the needs of the poor! But our provisions, that exceed the beauty of the lilies of the field, do not come unto us by these worldly actions! We are not sowing these things to reap them! We do not buy them from our Father! The blessings of God are added unto us and they are added unto us because Jesus is ever living to insure that we seek first God’s Kingdom and His righteousness, so that we might be saved to the uttermost! The Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!

Father I ask that You empower all of us with the full knowledge of Your Truth! I ask that You lead us and guide us so that we all may be fully pleasing to You and that through Your Anointing that strengthens us, we may be able to glorify You by allowing You to add all things that pertain unto life and godliness unto us! Father the poverty message is a lie and the sow seed to receive message is a lie! Father I ask that You use all of us to sow the Word of Your Truth, the sower sows the Word, the Word that will set the world free! Father I ask that You are faithful to cleanse us from all unrighteousness and that there is no lie within us! Without Jesus we are nothing but sin, but through Him Father You have made us accepted! Today is the day that You have made Father and today You have given us Jesus as our Lord and Savior! Your will be done Father as You are glorified!