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Your Life Is An Heavenly Investment

“You guided my conception and formed me in the womb.”

Job 10:10

I woke up today with a song in my Spirit. I woke up today with a heart opening to the mercy of a faithful God. I wish I could claim that this happens every day, but it does not.

I wish I could say this purpose-driven, grace-given, mercy-receiving heart of mine wakes up abandoned and surrendered to God’s will all the time, but it doesn’t. Yet, I strive.

It dawned on me this morning on the drive to work, that my life is heaven’s investment.

As I thought deeper on why some of us wake up feeling unfulfilled and unexpecting of greatness, I was reminded by the Spirit of God that it was due to the failure to remember that heaven deposited something in us when the Lord formed us in the womb.

I, much like you, am a living investment of heaven.

Often, we forget. We forget Whose we are, we forget that we are not our own, we forget that Christ was ransomed for us, to live a life of purpose, God’s purpose, a life of intentionality as purposed by the Creator. So we drift.

I wonder if like me, you too wake up with your own thoughts of how to invest time, effort, heart, and love, into everything and everyone, but God.

I wonder if like me, you forget that the grace to wake up each new day to behold new mercy, has nothing to do with luck, but everything to do with the investment of heaven inside you.

Friend, God deposited something greater than you inside you to manifest for His purpose. When He formed you in the darkness of the womb, in the seclusion from any other living being, when He alone breathe life inside you, a heavenly deposit was made in you.

Your life is not a random map of random places with random people because we serve an intentional God.

So you and I can no longer permit a random way of thinking or doing.

Destiny awaits you. Purpose awaits you. Manifestation awaits you. And this is the season to catch up to, to meet up with, and to deliver on Heaven’s investment.

For some of us, this is the season to catch up to destiny. For some, it is the time to meet up with purpose. And for the rest of us, it is the season to deliver on Heaven’s investment.

Now that you and I have been reminded, now that we are sure Whose investment gives us life, how about we begin living this life knowing that heaven is invested in us? How about we begin living life knowing that our life was given to bring forth that which God has deposited?

I pray for the both of us. I pray that our eyes are open to see the Heavenly hosts encamped about us, to begin to see according to heaven’s perspective. I pray that we begin to think with divine wisdom. I pray that we begin to walk and talk and BE that which HEAVEN declare that we are in Jesus name. Amen.

Seek Ye First…(Part 2)

seek ye first

 “Let all those that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee: let such as love thy salvation say continually, The LORD be magnified.”

Psalm 40:16

We seek the success among peers. We seek leadership and influence. We seek fruitfulness and productivity. We seek loyalty in our friendships and families. We seek money, nice cars, and homes. We seek fame and popularity. We seek titles and acclaimed positions. We seek peace and happiness. We seek validation from a world that turns its back on the Word.

And truth be told, there is nothing, absolutely nothing wrong with wanting the best of everything. We ought to want the best, for ‘Great is He that lives in you.’ God did not create us with greatness so we can settle for small things or small places. It is HIS will to enlarge our territory so HE can get the glory.

But He does command that we seek first HIS kingdom above all things.

You and I have a grace that money, gold or silver could never buy. The blood of Christ purchased grace. Is there a supplement for the blood of Christ?

Friend, don’t you know that you could never buy your way into the kingdom?!

There is nothing, absolutely nothing that you need that the Lord your God would ever withhold from you. So why are you so convicted by empty wants that you fail to glorify God by seeking everything else first before the kingdom?

IS GOD YOUR FIRST OR LAST CALL?

Friend, what do you seek with your life today? What have you been searching helplessly for with your own knowledge and not God’s wisdom? And where does the search for God’s kingdom fit in?

Are you seeking God’s kingdom first in that intimate relationship?

Are you seeking God’s kingdom first in that job?

Are you seeking God’s kingdom first on that project?

Are you seeking God’s kingdom first in that end you are relentlessly chasing?

Are you seeking God’s kingdom first in that friendship?

Are you seeking God’s kingdom first on that road you’re confidently passing through?

Are you seeking God’s kingdom first in your marriage?

Are you seeking God’s kingdom first when you raise your children, your nephew, your niece, your cousin?

Are you seeking God’s kingdom first in you family relations?

Are you seeking God’s kingdom first in your dreams and ambitions?

Everything. Everything must glorify your Maker and His divine plan. There is no way around God’s purpose. HE IS THE ‘I AM THAT I AM.”  You cannot leave anything out and claim that you are truly seeking the kingdom first.

Believe me, I know it is hard, and feels even gruesome at times, to drop everything else and look to God. To stop all ways of former living, and seek the kingdom in total surrender to the One who strengthens us.

I am praying fervently for you, for your purpose and mine. You are important to the kingdom. And I speak truth into your life today, that the Lord of Hosts who has gracefully endowed you and me, will redirect your steps, rearrange your steps, and confirm your will into His, to seek first the kingdom in Jesus name. Amen.