But seek ye first the Kingdom of Heaven and His Righteousness, and all these things shall be added unto you.

Matthew 6:33

There are many things we see in church today.

We have programs.  We have buildings.  We have ministries.  We have ministers.  But seek first the Kingdom.

James 3:16 says that where there is jealousy and selfish ambition, there is confusion and every evil thing.  Competition between brothers rises, looking to a particular gifting or position in order to get attention abound.  Attempts to fill unmet needs in the soul by some level of attainment in the spirit are present in our ministers.

Many people have eyes towards books, towards crowds, or towards other things, either for the sake of fame, for a sense of accomplishment or stability, or, some, simply, because it is where their paycheck comes from.  But seek first the Kingdom.

What man cannot satisfy, what no position could ever equate to in lasting significance, what no amount of finances can every cover in terms of lack, the Kingdom does.

What wounds and lacks a person has, that which no amount of human counsel could ever correct, the Kingdom can.

What no amount of programming could ever coerce, the Kingdom has the Ability.

What do we look for, and to what is our heart set upon?  Can we see with the eyes of the Father, to what really counts on Earth?

They said of Daniel Nash, “No books tell his life story, no pictures or diaries can be found, his descendants (if any) cannot be located, and his messages are forgotten.  He wrote no books, started no schools, led no movements, and generally, kept out of sight.”  Yet, Heaven knew his name.  And, Heaven moved at the sound of his groans.  Yet, in every prayer meeting today in the West, you will have never met anyone like him.  In fact, he would be thrown out of nearly every prayer meeting I know of.  Because He prayed like it wouldn’t happen if he didn’t, because he knew it wouldn’t.

They make “travail rooms” for people like that these days.  They take you down the hall, if you have a bright enough light bulb, say, a hundred watt-er in a room led by 20 or 30 somethings, they take you down the hall, set you down real nice, and smash your light bulb.  But seek first the Kingdom.

There really is something there.  It really is find-able.  There really is something for you.  You really will find what you seek, for the instructions clearly say, seek and you WILL find.

Jesus in the desert, alone with the devil, really could have had all the nations of the world, and made every single one of its inhabitants bow to Him, without the cross!  All he would have had to do was bow to satan.  He could have had the people, if He wanted it that way, but His eye was on the throne.  He looked Beyond, to the greater thing.  He looked higher, to the Eternal realm.  He looked deeper, to the Truth of all Truth.  Had He gone another way, for a brief, passing moment, he would have had honor.  And for all Eternity, He would have burned in God’s judgement fire, ashamed.  But He sought first the Kingdom, and He was His righteousness, and he never begged bread.

In times when many ministers cannot seem to make out the difference between feeding and covering and fleecing the flock, seek first the Kingdom.

One thing I ask of the Lord, this one things I seek, that I may love Him.  What more are you looking for?  His love *IS* enough!  Being His child is identity.  Being with Him makes me happy.  Anything else is in addition to that, but without that, none of it matters.  Until that worship is your core, you’re off center.

Lose your life, lose your mind, lose your heart, lose your soul to love.  Lose everything you know, and surrender to the master, to the flame.  For love is a mighty flame, the very flame of Yah.  Many waters cannot quench love, nor floods sweep it away.  Though a man were to give all he had for love, it would be utterly scorned.

What is the Kingdom?  It is the power of and demonstration of God.  It is the humility and meekness of the Creator.  It is the perfection and beauty of the only begotten son.  It is His Heart.

One thing I ask, oh Lord, this thing do I seek…  Your beauty.

It is Him.

When the eye is single, the whole body is full of light.  The heart, the spirit, the soul, are powerful.  Yet, the treasure goes both ways.  If you SEEK, you WILL FIND, good or bad.  And what you sow, you will reap.  If you look for any other things, it too will you find, if you have eyes split.  Yet, the mind stayed on Him He keeps in perfect peace.

What is it that pulls your glance away, even for a moment, from off of that throne?  What distracts your gaze even a hairs breadth from that focus of His gaze.  That is where the rubber hits the road, that is where blind eyes and cancers are healed, that is where lives are changed in an instant.

Live for the one, and trust Him to take care of the rest.  Eyes looking away simply belie heart that is not trusting, but is relying on something else in fear.  It is a trusting of the enemy and circumstances.  But, seek FIRST the Kingdom of Heaven, and His Righteousness, and He will take care of the rest.  You might not get your sailboat, but you’ll get heaven, and you’ll get the King.

So Seek First….

All the other accomplishments, all the other deeds will pale and fade, until at the end, all you end up with is that which remains.  If you haven’t filled your life with these three (1 Corinthians 13:13), your estate will be small in that day.  If, however, you lose your life to find Him, you will be happily surprised to find Him waiting, with the biggest mansion you’d ever set yours eyes on…  Filled with love, and joy, and peace, and the only things that ever mattered in the first place.  Father.

And if He doesn’t deliver you from death, so what.  Just go home from work early.  What have you got to lose?