First Thing

Love you all, praying for you,
 
I just love God’s Word.  It helps you put first things first.  What if you didn’t?  You’d have second things first… or third or tenth things, or things that shouldn’t even be… before the thing and things needed most.  What is the first thing that hit your mind this morning?  Was it the long list of to do’s for today?  Was it the worries of the day?  Was it the most pressing need of the day? financial pressures? Work pressures?  What did you do?  Did you rush to get ready? Did you rush to the first to do on your list?  Did you check your email? Or social media? Or facebook marketplace, or your favorite app?  What did you seek first?  What did you think about or look at first?  All those things that you fear, or desire, or need, God meant them to be added, not pursued.  They were meant to be add-ons, not your focus.  He said, “If you will seek me first, look at me first, come to me first, think about me, and my presence, and my word, and my promise – first.  All the rest of those cares that are pressing in will be removed from you, and all those things that you need, will be added to you.  He will add them.  And His addition is really multiplication.  His subtraction is total removal.  Any fear or concern or doubt or failure… any care that you cast on Him, He completely takes from you, and gives you instead His peace, and his joy, and his hope, and his promise.  And everything you need, beyond what you can even imagine, if you seek Him first – is already on it’s way – it’s already in motion coming to you.  Matthew 6:33 -  (As for you) You - Seek first the kingdom of God (where the King has dominion – where what He tells you – you do… where His presence and His Word is your first choice your first thought, your starting point, and your first come back to…) and if this is true of you… all these things, everything you need, and more… will be added to you.  Not earned, added, not preoccupied with – given to you just in time.  This is a promise from God.  A promise that comes with a condition.  Praying that you will make Him your first choice today.  That PRISM has your mind transformed, that PiVAT has you obeying in this hour – the perfectly best thing that you could possibly do… because He reveals it, that your testimony has you overcoming that constant distraction and temptation to seek something else first.  So that all the good that He wants to give you and to give others through you, and because of you – that every good thing – He can add them to you…
 
Love you all,
dad