Seek God's Kingdom

 

Have you had the experience with Jesus when He has kept some passages of scripture in your mind? Well, I have a had that experience several times, the last of which was this past week. Jesus has kept three verses on my mind for several days and has given me a chance to share it with a lot of people over those days.

 

The first verse that Jesus put in my mind was Matthew 6:33. That verse says, “But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness and all these things will be added to you.”

 

We are to seek God and His kingdom and His righteousness. The idea of seeking first is not put at the it at the top of my top ten list. It is not first as the top of a list, but it is first such as first above all else. It is first with no rivals or competitors. I seek God’s kingdom above anything else.

 

Raise the Roof and Remove the Walls is seeking God’s kingdom and His righteousness above anything else in my life.

 

The second verse explains what God’s kingdom, that I am seeking, is. It is 1 Corinthians 4:20. It says, “For the kingdom of God does not consist in talk but in power.”

 

The kingdom of God is not just words but it is the power of God being displayed through our lives as followers of Jesus.

 

The word “power” is where we get the word dynamite. It is explosive power. It is the power that transforms lives, that heals people, that changes cultures, and that delivers people from the slavery of sin.

 

It means that when I seek God’s kingdom, I will experience the power of God exploding within me and God using me to impact others’ lives.

 

Raise the Roof and Remove the Walls is experiencing through the Holy Spirit the power of God working in and though you.

 

The third passage is Micah 6:8. It says, “He told you, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?”

 

Seeking God’s kingdom above everything and letting the power of the Holy Spirit guide will lead you to:

Doing Justice – making justice what God does through His power through your life

Loving Mercy – making mercy what God displays through your life

Walking Humbling – making humility what God characterizes your life with

 

Raise the Roof and Remove the Walls is living lives characterized by justice, mercy, and humility.  

 

We as followers of Jesus are to seek God’s kingdom above anything else in our lives, and as we enter the kingdom, we allow the Holy Spirit to fill us and give us the power to display the characteristics of the kingdom, which are justice, mercy, and humility.

 

When the church proclaims the truth of God’s kingdom but doesn’t live it out, it causes the world to reject Jesus and see the church as a bunch of hypocrites.

 

When the church proclaims the truth of God’s kingdom and lives it out, it causes the world to notice and many to receive Jesus as their Savior and Lord.

 

The world needs the church to proclaim the truth of God’s kingdom and live it out.

 

Living the Truth of God’s Kingdom and

Raising the Roof and Removing the Walls,

Joe