Most people approach\nthe New Year with many hopes, goals and aspirations whether individually or\ncollectively. However, I would like to share with you the most strategic way to\nlive in 2019 and beyond in the eyes of the Sovereign one. This is the only way\nto become and remain relevant to your creator, humanity and the planet. <\/p>
You were made to\nmanage the earth for God and to use his resources in the earth for the\nadvancement of His kingdom. The fall of man was such a sad day on the divine\ncalendar and a dislocation in the purposes of God for man and the earth. Man\nswitched focus on the kingdom for things. Anytime you feel incomplete without\nthings, find relevance in the things you possess or you are defined by things,\nyou have lost kingdom focus. When you lose your focus on the kingdom you will\nbecome a helpless slave of things. <\/p>
Humanity had been\nplunged into a blind and insatiable pursuit of things. The entire human race has\nbeen reconfigured by Satan to put things first. This is an apparent discord\nsince man was not made for things but things for man. By the time the Word\nbecame flesh in the person of Jesus, the entire human race had their aspiration,\nvision, focus and purpose on things. In Matthew chapter 6, Jesus interrupts the\nstatus quo with the following statement:<\/p>
Matthew 6: 31-33 KJV<\/p>
\u2018Therefore, take no\nthought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal\nshall we be clothed? (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for\nyour heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things. But seek ye\nfirst the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be\nadded unto you\u2019.<\/p>
Prioritise\nthe Kingdom<\/strong><\/p> The scripture above\ndoes not say, \u201c\u2026seek ye the kingdom\u2026\u201d but \u201c\u2026seek ye first<\/strong> the kingdom\u2026\u201d seek the kingdom first or don\u2019t seek it at all.\nThis is the seriousness of the law of priority. If you are born again and have\nthe life of God in you, you are already in the kingdom. This means that when\nyou contextualise the scripture above as a child of God, you are not seeking the\nkingdom as though it is missing but as one who prioritises the kingdom every\nday as a lifestyle. A chronic and an unbridled pursuit of intimacy with the\nKing and a vigorous engagement of the laws of His domain. This should be the\npriority of your life. God\u2019s overriding passion is His kingdom; if it is not\nabout His kingdom, He is not interested. In other words, Jesus is saying, if he\ncan find a man who will prioritise the kingdom, all the things humanity is seeking\nfor will be added to him. If you will make the kingdom of God your focus,\nthings men seek (food, clothing shelter etc.) will make you their focus. <\/p> Love\nGod Enough to Spend Quality Time with Him first<\/strong><\/p> \u2018He\nwho runs away from God in the morning will scarcely find Him the rest of the\nday\u2019- John Bunyan<\/em><\/p> Mark 12:28-30 KJV<\/p> And one of the scribes\ncame, and having heard them reasoning together, and perceiving that he had\nanswered them well, asked him, which is the first commandment of all? And Jesus\nanswered him, the first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our\nGod is one Lord: And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and\nwith all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is\nthe first commandment<\/p> God is the king in the\nkingdom. You cannot truly seek the kingdom without seeking God. Determine to\nknow God like never before this year. Spend time with God and explore Him. Get\nto know Him intimately through ample times of solitude. <\/p> Have a monomaniacal\napproach towards the kingdom of God. Have one priority in 2019: the kingdom.\nWhen you wake up in the morning, don\u2019t think of your phone first; think of the\nkingdom. Let your only vision, focus, priority and orientation be the kingdom.\nAs you set out to pursue the kingdom, you will know God, reflect Him and represent\nHim on the earth on a daily basis.<\/p> Rule and subdue the\nearth!<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Most people approach the New Year with many hopes, goals and aspirations whether individually or collectively. However, I would like to share with you the most strategic way to live in 2019 and beyond in the eyes of the Sovereign one. This is the only way to become and remain relevant to your creator, humanity […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":692,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,55],"tags":[201,217,163,209,90,208,216,220],"class_list":["post-569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-kingdom","tag-focus","tag-intimacy","tag-priority","tag-reflect","tag-relevance","tag-represent","tag-solitude","tag-things"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":6}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kingdomexpression.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kingdomexpression.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kingdomexpression.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kingdomexpression.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kingdomexpression.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=569"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kingdomexpression.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":570,"href":"https:\/\/kingdomexpression.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569\/revisions\/570"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kingdomexpression.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kingdomexpression.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kingdomexpression.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kingdomexpression.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}