Discovering Our Kingdom Priorities

Your First Priorities

The reason why many of us fail and are defeated in life is because we do not set our priority straight, we do not do things in the order of priority.

It is not enough to know what to do, you must be able to know which one is to be done.

We all are victim of having loose priority, following what are not our priority or not having priority for our live.

What is priority?

Priority:

It is a status established in order or importance or urgency

Priority simply means importance.

To have things in order of priority means to arrange or plan things in order of importance.

As God's children, God has given us what should our first priority in life and especially for this year.

Our First Priority - The Kingdom of God

Matt 6:25-34

25 Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment? 
26 Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they? 
27 Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature? 
28 And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: 
29 And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. 
30 Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to day is, and to morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith? 
31 Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed? 
32 (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things. 
33 But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you. 
34 Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof. 

Why many people are worried for safety, what to eat, what to wear and what to drink, Jesus said our first worry is to seek and have the kingdom of God.

Because in the kingdom of God there are:
Peace
Prosperity
Comfort
Abundance
Security
Joy
Blessings

At this critical time in our country and in the world, make the kingdom of God your number one priority.

You cannot have the kingdom of God and live in fear.

Once you are in the kingdom of God, you are free from all the harassment of the kingdom of the devil.

What is the kingdom of God.

The kingdom of God simply means God's influence our your life.

Seek to be influenced by God not by what the world or situation is saying.

Make your heart and life the dwelling place of God's influence.


Our Second Priority - Right Relationship With God

Our second most important thing as our priority is God's righteousness.

Our own righteousness is not a priority because our personal righteousness is like a filthy rag (Isaiah 64:6)

But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away. -Isaiah 64:6

Because our righteousness: trying to please God in our flesh is like a filthy rag, Jesus now said we should seek the righteousness of God.

We must make right relationship with God as our priority.

You must make you mind to leave sin alone and embrace the righteousness of God.
Romans 6:12-16

12 Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof.
13 Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.
14 For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.
15 What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid.
16 Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?


Whenever you are in a right relationship with God, God moves to supply all your needs.

When we make righteousness a priority, the peace and provisions of God become our portion.

Isaiah 32:17-18

17 And the work of righteousness shall be peace; and the effect of righteousness quietness and assurance for ever.
18 And my people shall dwell in a peaceable habitation, and in sure dwellings, and in quiet resting places;


Our third Priority - The Word of God

But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.  -Matthew 4:4


The kingdom of God is ruled by the word of God. We live in the kingdom of God by the word of God.

The word of God is the conveyor of the righteousness of God.

Embrace the word of God like never before this year.

In the midst of all these challenges, go for the word of God.

Let the word of God be your confidence and security.

There is no darkness the word of God cannot light up, because the word is light

Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path. -Psalms 119:105

Your growth in the word of God will determine the level of blessings and peace you enjoy in the kingdom of God.

The more you grow in understanding the word, the more you make yourself available for the blessings of God.

2 Peter 1:2-3

2 Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord,
3 According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue:

All things you need for peaceful, comfortable and prosperous life is right in the word of God. But you can access them through your knowledge in the word of God.

Proverbs 4:20-22

20 My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings.
21 Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart.
22 For they are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh.

The word of God is life and health.

The Kingdom of God is the place where all your needs are met.

The righteousness of God gives us boldness to stand before God to demand for our inheritance in His kingdom.

The word of God gives us access to our benefits in the kingdom of God.

Make these three your priority for life and you will never regret it.

However, you need to be born again to become a member of the kingdom of God before you can access your blessings in the kingdom of God.