Mat 6:33 But seek (aim at and strive after) first of all His kingdom and His righteousness (His way of doing and being right), and then all these things taken together will be given you besides.
Mat 6:34 So do not worry or be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will have worries and anxieties of its own. Sufficient for each day is its own trouble.
We have been brought out of darkness and into the light of His Kingdom. Do you know the bible refers to us as ambassadors for Christ? Think about in the natural what an ambassador does, and his role. They are sent to foreign nations to be representatives at meetings, will smooth relations between countries, they act as a figure head for their country of origin, etc. That is a pretty big responsibility, and we have been called that!
2Co 5:20 So we are Christ's ambassadors, God making His appeal as it were through us. We [as Christ's personal representatives] beg you for His sake to lay hold of the divine favor [now offered you] and be reconciled to God.
2Co 5:20 So we are Christ's ambassadors, God making His appeal as it were through us. We [as Christ's personal representatives] beg you for His sake to lay hold of the divine favor [now offered you] and be reconciled to God.
We are called ambassador's to represent our King Jesus, we don't have to say I think its so, we can say " Jesus said" we are to take over not take sides, making a Godly nation!
Col 3:17 And whatever you do [no matter what it is] in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus and in [dependence upon] His Person, giving praise to God the Father through Him.
That is our position in the Kingdom of God! We will have to choose whom we serve in this life Jesus said it this way in Mat 6:24 No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will stand by and be devoted to the one and despise and be against the other. You cannot serve God and mammon (deceitful riches, money, possessions, or whatever is trusted in).
This world system is all about storing up treasures, its not about saving souls it all about saving money! Do we need money, absolutely, money in its self is not bad, its the love of it that will entice you. It will cause your eye not to be single and full of light like Jesus said again in- Luk 11:34 Your eye is a lamp, lighting up your whole body. If you live wide-eyed in wonder and belief, your body fills up with light. If you live squinty-eyed in greed and distrust, your body is a dank cellar.
All that is saying is having a single eye will keep you full of revelation to live this Kingdom life! Without Jesus this sense realm is the boundary of life. If it feels good, taste good, looks good, then I want it. That is a trap to many, and the down fall to many believers. Do we get to experience all those feelings "Yes" but its not at the cost of stepping outside the Kingdom of God ! God wants to give us all things richly to enjoy!
In the Old Testament Danial was a true representative an "ambassador" for God. He never changed his belief or lifestyle because of laws that the king issued. He knew whom he served, and was under Gods Kingdom! He prayed with his windows open when he was told not to, and he never backed down from what God showed him. For that, he was thrown into the lions Den, BUT, lived to tell about it!
Dan 6:22 My God has sent His angel and has shut the lions' mouths so that they have not hurt me, because I was found innocent and blameless before Him; and also before you, O king, [as you very well know] I have done no harm or wrong. [II Tim. 4:17.]
Have you been thrown into something that you believe you can come out of- rise above- and live to declare about?
Do you know that Jesus also said he knows what we have need of in Mat 6:32 For the Gentiles (heathen) wish for and crave and diligently seek all these things, and your heavenly Father knows well that you need them all.
Isn't He such a great Father God, I tell you every time I read and meditate on these kind of verses I am so thankful my Heavenly Father is so good to me!
Jesus also said not to store up treasures here on this earth where thieves break in and steal!
,Mat 6:19 Do not gather and heap up and store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust and worm consume and destroy, and where thieves break through and steal.
Mat 6:20 But gather and heap up and store for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust nor worm consume and destroy, and where thieves do not break through and steal;
So what that's saying is we are to deposit our treasure on a higher plane " heaven" because their ain't going to be any thieves or any kind of any thing come and break into heaven and steal from you!
So seek first the kingdom of God and everything will be added to you, not taken from you! Go fourth as an ambassador for Jesus and know who you are in Him!
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