James 1:5
I'll be honest here, I didn't plan to start with this verse, but since it came, then it has come. There is something amazing to take note of within the ministry of Christ, that is boldness, humility and total assurance. I am not writing this as a prosperity post, nor am I going against anything about God prospering us, but I'd like to shift the focus a little here.
"But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus."- Philippians 4:19
We need to know one thing is true, our God is a great God, able to provide, and is rich, and never is He once an unwilling person to give, but the focus should not be on riches, but on God, Him and Christ Jesus, let our eyes be fixed on Him and I can guarantee all these things will be most assuredly added.
"Steep your life in God-reality, God-initiative, God-provisions. Don't worry about missing out. You'll find all your everyday human concerns will be met." - Matthew 6:33 TMB
Well above is the more famous verse of seek first the kingdom of God and all these things will be added, but this is the message version, I liked the way they said, steep your life in God basically, to consider God in all things, to follow Him first, and not to worry or focus so much on lack, or prosperity, because you know it'll always be there.
We can see that Christ has always cared about little things, even when His time was not yet ready He turned water into wine, to help salvage a wedding ceremony, whilst he could simply of not done it at all. while the miracle might be an amazing thing, and the blessing tremendous, all glory should still go back to God, our focus and our thanks giving should be of that towards God in all things, don't seek the blessing, seek the blesser.
"5 One day as Jesus was standing by the Lake of Gennesaret,[a] the people were crowding around him and listening to the word of God. 2 He saw at the water’s edge two boats, left there by the fishermen, who were washing their nets. 3 He got into one of the boats, the one belonging to Simon, and asked him to put out a little from shore. Then he sat down and taught the people from the boat.
4 When he had finished speaking, he said to Simon, “Put out into deep water, and let down the nets for a catch.”5 Simon answered, “Master, we’ve worked hard all night and haven’t caught anything. But because you say so, I will let down the nets.”6 When they had done so, they caught such a large number of fish that their nets began to break. 7 So they signaled their partners in the other boat to come and help them, and they came and filled both boats so full that they began to sink.
8 When Simon Peter saw this, he fell at Jesus’ knees and said, “Go away from me, Lord; I am a sinful man!” 9 For he and all his companions were astonished at the catch of fish they had taken, 10 and so were James and John, the sons of Zebedee, Simon’s partners.
Then Jesus said to Simon, “Don’t be afraid; from now on you will fish for people.” 11 So they pulled their boats up on shore, left everything and followed him." -Luke 5:1-11
Learn this, that Jesus first used the boat, prospered the fisher men with a large catch, and asked them to follow Him, now there's something amazing about this very fact, imagine, Jesus came to you, literally gave you a lottery ticket that made you just strike the jackpot, now imagine this, you ditch that jackpot and literally leave it all behind, and just follow the man who helped you get the jackpot to begin with, this is exactly what you can see Simon(peter), James and John did on that day, a jackpot of fishes, yea it was amazing, yeap they were set for life, BUT there stood a man who was worth much more than all of these, no there stood the man who literally blessed them beyond all they could ever dream of, taking off selfishness and green, following Christ in Humility, risking all of it, but having faith of the full assurance that if this man could bring a boat sinking net breaking experience, there's nothing to really fear when following Him.
"Then Jesus said to them, "When I sent you out with no money bag, or traveler's bag, or sandals, you didn't lack anything, did you?" They replied, "Nothing." "- Luke 22:35
So I say to you, no matter the situation, When Christ sends you to do anything , there is no lack, follow what He has commanded, do what He has said, and run after His heart, For blessings and love, kindness and grace, comes from God, and God loves to give to those whom He loves, but always no matter that never let our eyes stick to the blessings, but always to Christ.
I will leave you with this:
""24 “No one can serve two masters. The person will hate one master and love the other, or will follow one master and refuse to follow the other. You cannot serve both God and worldly riches.
25 “So I tell you, don’t worry about the food or drink you need to live, or about the clothes you need for your body. Life is more than food, and the body is more than clothes. 26 Look at the birds in the air. They don’t plant or harvest or store food in barns, but your heavenly Father feeds them. And you know that you are worth much more than the birds. 27 You cannot add any time to your life by worrying about it.
28 “And why do you worry about clothes? Look at how the lilies in the field grow. They don’t work or make clothes for themselves. 29 But I tell you that even Solomon with his riches was not dressed as beautifully as one of these flowers. 30 God clothes the grass in the field, which is alive today but tomorrow is thrown into the fire. So you can be even more sure that God will clothe you. Don’t have so little faith! 31 Don’t worry and say, ‘What will we eat?’ or ‘What will we drink?’ or ‘What will we wear?’ 32 The people who don’t know God keep trying to get these things, and your Father in heaven knows you need them. 33 Seek first God’s kingdom and what God wants. Then all your other needs will be met as well. 34 So don’t worry about tomorrow, because tomorrow will have its own worries. Each day has enough trouble of its own." - Matthew 6:24-34
-Chris
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