Seek Ye First The Kingdom of God and His Righteousness

During the Sermon on the Mount where our Lord Jesus was advising people who worry about food, clothes, drinks and needs things of life, he said in the gospel of Matthew 6:33, “Instead, be concerned above everything else with the Kingdom of God and with what he requires of you, and He will provide you with all these other things”.

Sometimes, we hear people who say when they have made it in life then they will serve God. By making it, such individuals mean having money to live the good life and buy whatever they want.

The question now is how easy is it to make it and serve God? Stories abound of many known and wealthy individuals, businesspersons, actors, actresses, musicians, sportsmen and women, etc who have the wealth but indulge in destructive habits that sometimes lead to their death.

There are those who believe you cannot serve God and become wealthy because as a businessperson, one has to engage in vices to achieve and those who engage in vices cannot serve God. Such people have the motto, “if you cannot beat them, join them”.

But we see Jesus tell us in scripture to first seek God’s Kingdom and God will provide all our needs including wealth. So what exactly did Jesus mean by this?

What Jesus meant is contained in Proverbs 3:5-6, “Trust in the Lord with all your heart. Never rely on what you think you know. Remember the Lord in everything you do, and He will show you the right way”.

Now what most people are unaware of is the power that resides inside of them as given by God Almighty. This is possible because we are created in God’s image and likeness. God calls men gods in Psalm 82:6, so we are able to do the things God does as evidenced by the many astounding miracles of Jesus.

For instance, Jesus walked on water, turned water into wine, raised people from the dead, fed over 4,000 and 5,000 people at different times, cast out demons, instructed the wind and waves to be calm, cursed a fruitless tree that withered and so on and so forth.

Every Christian who has faith can perform these same miracles! This is a statement of fact. But you cannot have the kind of faith to do such great feats unless you have connected your mind with the mind of God.

There is only one way to connect your mind with the mind of God and that is through your thoughts. This is exactly how you seek first the Kingdom of God and what He requires of you.

For if you are able to connect your mind with the mind of God, you will always be directed in His righteousness and you will always be able to have whatsoever you want!

This is only possible when you are able to think sanctified thoughts. The individual who connects his mind with the mind of God will achieve whatsoever he or she wants.

Whatever you think consistently will happen and when you connect your mind with God, He will direct you to right achievement consistently too via your thoughts.

You will come to understand that the way to genuine achievement in life is when you do not engage in wrongdoing but are able to trust God completely by faith because God can never fail. It is that simple and it is very possible for those who believe.

This is why Jesus said seek first the kingdom of God and what He requires and God will provide what you need.

© copyright Gabriel Ama

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Focusing On What Is Important

The Pareto Principle, also known as the 80-20 rule or the law of the vital few or the principle of factor sparsity states that for many events, roughly 80% of the effects come from 20% of the causes.

Italian economist Vilfredo Pareto, after whom this law is named, observed back in 1906 that 20% of the population owned 80% of the land in Italy; he developed the principle by observing that 20% of the pea pods in his garden contained 80% of the peas.

Over the years, this principle appears to have taken the manner of a natural phenomenon because of its application to many areas of human enterprise, including but not limited to customer sales, customer relationship management, human developmental biology, health care and even criminology studies that show that 80% of crimes are committed by 20% of criminals!

The focus of this article using this principle has to do with what we desire to achieve in life. Everyday, we have so many activities in which we are engaged. Without a conscious effort to account for each activity and the value it adds, it is so easy to lose one’s self and focus in the midst of all these activities.

By value here, I mean every activity should be scrutinized to determine whether it is leading us to our goals in life or not. If you do decide to take this seriously, you will discover that it is roughly about 20% of your activities that are focused on what you want to accomplish in life.

Most of the other events representing the remaining 80% will just be on mundane things that have taken your time for the day.

It now behoves on you to concentrate your energies on those 20% of activities because it is in their doing that you will get to your destination, purpose or life’s goal.

In life, so many things are required but only few are important. A typical example of this is found in sacred scriptures (Luke 10:38–42) when our Lord Jesus visited Martha, Mary and Lazarus in their home.

While Mary sat down and was listening to Jesus speak, Martha was busy preparing what was to be used in entertaining Jesus. Martha later got upset that Mary was not coming out to help her and she then came and complained to Jesus to ask Mary to come give her a helping hand she was the only one handling everything.

Jesus then responded (Luke 10: 41-42), “Martha, Martha, you are full of care and troubled about such a number of things.  Little is needed, or even one thing only: for Mary has taken that good part, which will not be taken away from her”. (Bible in Basic English).

 As painful and hard hitting as that statement could have been to Martha as that was not the response she was expecting, Jesus was passing a very important message to her as to every other Christian and indeed everyone else.

That message is also found in Jesus’ response to satan’s temptation in the wilderness (Luke 4:4), “It is written, That man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God”.

Jesus’ message to Martha and the rest of us can equally be applied thus: in all the many different activities we do engage in from second to second every moment of our lives, there are only very few things that are very important that we need to focus our attention on.

As I said at the start of this article, if you have a purpose or an objective in life to accomplish, you will need to scrutinize your activities and focus more of your efforts on those activities that will give the greatest results.

As I will continue to emphasise, it all begins with your thought process. You can achieve all you desire as long as your thoughts are predominantly on what you want; thus will your actions move you in the right direction to achieve your purpose.

(c)   copyright Gabriel Ama

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In Reality, There Are No Hopeless Situations

In life, people encounter different kinds of challenges of varying severity. While some are able to overcome, some are seemingly unable to make progress towards resolving their challenges.

It is even possible to see two different individuals facing the same challenge and while one resolves it with finality, the other remains steeped in the challenge and appears to have no hope of a resolution.

So what really makes the difference between these individuals? It is actually in their perception of the challenge in their minds.

If you have been reading my write-ups of late, you would have noticed a trend where I constantly refer to how our thoughts give direction to our lives.

The difference between the individual who is able to overcome every challenge in his or her life and the one who is not is simply in the way they see the problem in their minds via their thoughts.

According to Dr Caroline Leaf, human brain researcher and author of the best selling book Who Switched off my brain?, when God created us, we were wired up with faith based emotions (love, peace, joy, etc) but we humans learn our fear based emotions (anxiety, fear, doubt, etc).

Drawing from Dr Leaf’s comments, it is obvious to see that humans by their very nature create their own problems. Dr Leaf has further said that after God, our thoughts are the second most power tool we have!

For those who do not know, we have control over our thoughts. Now what all these means is that by your very thoughts, you can get out of any situation because according to Dr Caroline Leaf, there is a part of your brain called the free will where you can process what comes from the outside into us.

Now as long as you are able to consciously screen off negative thoughts or fear based emotions before they get into you, only positive thoughts and faith based emotions would pass.

What happens next is that you will naturally attract into your life the things you focus your thoughts on. Unfortunately, on the other hand, if negative thoughts and fear based emotions enter into your system through your brain, it will also naturally attract your very fears into your life.

Your brain/mind would not filter negative thoughts out but would accept whatever gets in as long as you consciously allow that to happen. This explains why many people fall sick and remain so for a long time because they have consciously allowed it via their thoughts.

It also explains why many people struggle through life to get things done. Their thought life is the one thing they need to work on to change their lives for good.

Accordingly to the late American playwright and Congresswoman Clare Booth Luce, “there are no hopeless situations; there are only people who have grown hopeless about them”.

In essence, what this means is that there are really no hopeless situations in life. You have absolute control over your life’s situations and you can turn around any situation in your life for good.

It also means you can achieve whatsoever you desire without struggling for it. It all begins with your thought life. Isn’t God our Father wonderful to have given us this beautiful gift of thoughts?

It is His greatest gift to humanity and we should be grateful to Him always.

(c)   copyright Gabriel Ama.

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