Seek...

The Bible, God's word to the human race tells us to SEEK first the kingdom of God and his righteousness and all these things will be added to us (an addendum; it's talking about our needs in this verse. Let's not extrapolate that verse to mean if we go to church we should have a bunch of stuff. Stuff Is cool...I really like stuff in fact, but let's be more spiritually mature than to feel the need to justify our greed for stuff by using scripture and our vain puffed up imagination to think that because we can take this text out of context to show that if we read our bible, pray and go to church we are qualified for a godly inheritance we somehow have amazing revelation. And preachers...lets not ever feel the need to conform ourselves to the thinking of greedy individuals who can only get pumped up to come to church if they are going to get taught how to get blessed. I absolutely whole heatedly believe in Godly prosperity. I believe that God NEEDS his children to inherit wealth because he has things on Earth that he wants to accomplish using the wealth of the Godly to do it! I believe he does want to bless us in every way..."beloved I pray that you prosper and are in health even as your soul prospers" - 3rd John:2. But blessing lets remember is a direct result of obedience (Deuteronomy 28) not church attendance. So let's be obedient to ALL of God's word, and remember that faith at it's core is a fight and the destiny of all believers is to be conformed to the image of Jesus (Romans 8:29), not be millionaires. I believe that true and Godly prosperity as indicated in 3rd John comes from a prosperous soul. It's a process y'all. Let's fight this fight...be faithful over little and God will MAKE you ruler over much...Okay got that off my chest.) So Gods word tells us to seek him first...before anything, above everything in our life we have got to begin to seek God. Beyond providing for our needs the Bible says God is a rewarder of those who diligently SEEK him. David says to Solomon that if you seek God you will find him. Jesus tells us in Matthew anyone who seeks finds. I ask...is there any greater reward than finding God. Not simply in a sense of "I received the free gift of salvation I'm going to heaven." Don't misunderstand me...going to heaven is a great thing and considering the alternative...it's the only reasonable choice to make (believing in you heart and confessing with your mouth that Jesus is the son of god, he died for our sins and was raised from the dead). But once that salvation experience takes place there is so much more that is offered to us. 2nd Chronicles 16:9 says the eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth SEEKING to show himself strong through those whose hearts are loyal to him. So not only should we be seekers, because God has a reward for seekers. But God himself is also a seeker. He is seeking those who's hearts are loyal to him, and them whos HEARTS are loyal he desires to show himself strong! God showing himself strong through me...is to me a greater reward than any THING i could ever receive from him. Jesus told us that the works he did and greater works will we do...but that offer does not come without a price.

God says that when we seek him we will find him, when we find him we have an opportunity to begin to be conformed to the image of Christ. As we pay the price to seek God and be conformed to the image of Jesus through reading of his word, worship, being instructed by spiritual authority and spiritual leaders...and just flat out seeking God however he personally instructs us. I believe at that point...in the midst of our seeking journey and in a progressive manner God will qualify us as those whose hearts are loyal to him and begin to show himself strong through us! Suddenlys' follow everydays...we have to live a seeking lifestyle.

No matter where you are in this journey there is always another step. If the destiny and goal is to be conformed to the image of a perfect Savior, and there is no man that is perfect, we must realize we are never there...but I believe the more we pay the price the closer we will get, and the closer we get the more of the works that Jesus did and greater works will begin to be poured out through us into the earth. We have a world desperately in need of a Savior, in need of a shaking, in need of an awakening. Will you be one that pays the price to be one that God can use in a mighty, beyond anything we can ask or think according to the power that works in us though Jesus way? The world is crying out for you! Fight the fight! And always remember the greatest reward of our seeking is not the works that will be done through us, it's not the prosparity, it's not even the harvest of souls. The greatest reward we can ever obtain in our seeking is a deeper personal relationship with the Holy One, our creator, the God of the universe.

Produce Fruit,


Chad