A teaching by Apostle Ja’net Reid-Jones
A Word in Season
“But seek ye first the “Kingdom of God”, and HIS righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.”
Matthew 6:33
A simple command easy to hear yet difficult to truly receive in our hearts. Truly our Father knows what we have need of, sees our suffering and hears our prayers, yet we often lack faith not only in His word, but in His love. The enemy comes in and deceives us into thinking our loving heavenly Father is not concerned with what’s happening in our lives on a “daily” basis. Literally, what the enemy of our soul and of the Kingdom of God has done, is “called those things that are not as though they are” and many of us have believed him! He has in his craftiness flipped the script or reversed the Word of God on us. Thus, making that which is true into a lie in our minds.
God has established two priorities for mankind: The Kingdom of God and the Righteousness of God. First people of God, NOW is the time to “seek first the Kingdom of God”, which is not temporal things that will perish, or can be taken away, it is the things of God. Since the Kingdom of heaven is the earthly sphere of the universal Kingdom of God, the two have almost all things in common. When God said, “whatsoever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven”, God meant exactly that!
Secondly, as the passage Matthew 6:33 also calls for seeking God’s righteousness, we are to be rightly aligned relationally with God. Jesus emphasized the Kingdom and the need to be righteous that we may receive all God has for us. “. . . and all these things shall be added unto you” include our physical, emotional, social, psychological, financial and security needs, and anything else that pertains to life. Your highest priority and greatest desire should be to enter the Kingdom of God and thirst for a righteous relationship with Him. Matthew 5:6 tells us, “Blessed are those that hunger and thirst for righteousness for they will be filled.”
We must remember man’s first assignment was given by God in Genesis 1:26, to have dominion over the earth. This is God’s plan for you. Understand you are to take dominion and not be dominated by the things of this world, your flesh or of the demonic, but use the authority, power and privileges given to us as children of the Lord God Most High! TODAY, let it be the end of your bowing down to oppression, depression, self-pity, poverty, lack, insecurity, loss of identity, sense of inadequacy, condemnation and a victim mentality and rise up into your rightful position in the Kingdom.
We pray right now the Scriptures over you all, in the name of Jesus, “that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him: The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of His calling, and what the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints, and what is the exceeding greatness of His power to us-ward who believe, according to the working of His mighty power, Which He wrought in Christ when He raised Him from the dead, and set Him at His own right hand in the heavenly places, Far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come.” Amen.
Beloved, know for a certainty and believe the Word of the Lord that truly He has raised you up together and caused you to sit together in “heavenly places in CHRIST JESUS”, of whom all things have been placed under His feet. Take your rightful position with the King of Kings and possess, dominate and influence those around you and the world with the Word and things of God! God has already called you to be fruitful, blessed and a blessing, will you answer His call? We pray you do hear the call of the Lord and answer, yes! We love you much in JESUS,
