So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. But seek first His Kingdom and His Righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Matthew 6:31-33.
Today your LORD (יהוה) God (אלהים) says:
I am the LORD who sees ahead and provides. Genesis 22:14. There is nothing I have not already taken care of for your life—spiritual, physical, emotional, and financial.
Now may the God of peace Himself sanctify you entirely; and may your spirit and soul and body be preserved complete, without blame at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. Faithful is He who calls you, and He also will bring it to pass. 1 Thessalonians 5:23-24.
Do not worry about anything, you who have received the gift of Jesus already have it. You have before you a life of good deeds that I prepared for you in Him in advance that you may live it out with joy. And the more you grow in the knowledge of Him the more confident you are in provision, protection, and predilection.
Grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord; seeing that His divine power has granted to us everything pertaining to life and godliness, through the true knowledge of Him who called us by His own glory and excellence. 2 Peter 1:2-3.
Jesus spoke a lot about the Kingdom, in fact His ministry, as well at that of His precursor, John the Baptist, had the Kingdom as its opening call.
Now in those days John the Baptist came, preaching in the wilderness of Judea, saying, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.” Matthew 3:1-2.
Now after John had been taken into custody, Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the gospel of God, and saying, “The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand; repent and believe in the gospel.” Mark 1:14-15.
Jesus told parables about what the Kingdom of Heaven was like and told you that it is accessed within you. And He told you that it pleased Me to give you the Kingdom who are the flock of His followers as the great good Shepherd.
If you will notice when I talk about the Kingdom, I am talking about provision from My Kingdom to you who are its citizens on earth by being born again by the imperishable seed of My Word in Jesus.
So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. But seek first His Kingdom and His Righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Matthew 6:31-33.
And it is all about no fear of any lack in any area of your life. If you look at the forthtelling in Psalm 23 it is the same. Which is the definition of shalom. And shalom is My plan for your life since the beginning. It is the blessing with which I blessed you on the day I conceived you in My heart, which was the sixth day of creation. No one I conceived, though I conceived you all that day, was born until I birthed you forth and formed your bodies and breathed the life breath into your nostrils.
Thus the heavens and the earth were completed, and all their hosts. By the seventh day God completed His work which He had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had done. Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because in it He rested from all His work which God had created and made. This is the account of the heavens and the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made earth and heaven. Now no shrub of the field was yet in the earth, and no plant of the field had yet sprouted, for the LORD God had not sent rain upon the earth, and there was no man to cultivate the ground. But a mist used to rise from the earth and water the whole surface of the ground. Then the LORD God formed man of dust from the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being. The LORD God planted a garden toward the east, in Eden; and there He placed the man whom He had formed. Genesis 2:1-8.
No man or woman took being and was birthed from the conception of you in My heart on the sixth day, the day before the Shabbat rest, until the eighth day, the new beginning. And that also is the day of the week I raised My Son from the dead and you were all born again who would receive Him. The third day from your conception in My innermost being is the eighth day, the first day of the week. From the eve of the rest to resurrection and from resurrection to the rest. Just like the death and resurrection of Jesus. Every one of you was in His heart as He hung on the Cross, He had the sins of every one of you on Him, and there you were conceived for the new birth, and then raised up with Him as new creatures in Christ on the third day, which is the eighth day. Sanctified in Christ Jesus your Lord and set apart unto the Kingdom with the Heavenly Host serving you as the heirs of Salvation, for you are then in the jurisdiction of the army of Heaven.
And I have made you My ambassadors upon the earth. And ambassadors are protected and provided for by their home country and delivered from wars, riots, and upheaval in the host country by the armies of the home country. Supplies and medical care come from the ambassador’s home country not the host country that houses the temporary home of the ambassador in the citadel of the home country’s embassy.
Do you understand why it has pleased Me to give you, the little flock of My Son, you who are His body and My ambassadors on earth, the Kingdom? It is your source of supply as you sojourn as strangers upon the earth.
All these died in faith, without receiving the promises, but having seen them and having welcomed them from a distance, and having confessed that they were strangers and exiles on the earth. For those who say such things make it clear that they are seeking a country of their own. And indeed if they had been thinking of that country from which they went out, they would have had opportunity to return. But as it is, they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God; for He has prepared a city for them. Hebrews 11:13-16.
Do not get caught up in the lusts that lead to the sins of the world, the flesh and the devil because these are not the actions of your home country, of who you are in Jesus Christ.
Beloved, I beg you as sojourners and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts which war against the soul, having your conduct honorable among the Gentiles, that when they speak against you as evildoers, they may, by your good works which they observe, glorify God in the day of visitation. 1 Peter 2:11-12.
I have prepared a life of good deeds for you in Christ Jesus in advance that you may walk them out among the worldly and they may see your good works and give glory to Me, your Father in Heaven for all the goodness I shower down through, with and in you. Show them Kingdom living through Kingdom giving.
And as you go, preach, saying, ‘The kingdom of heaven is at hand.’ Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out demons. Freely you have received, freely give. Matthew 10:7-8.
Seek first the Kingdom and My way of righteousness, which is to give you Mine in Christ Jesus. You are clothed in Christ, the garments of the citizens of Heaven. Ambassadors have diplomatic immunity. Therefore, they are protected against prosecution in the host country for the entire period in which they hold their diplomatic post. There is no snatching out of My hand, no weapon formed against you shall prosper for your vindication, your righteousness comes from Me.
An ambassador in a foreign host country looks to his or her home country for supplies, justification, deliverance, and rescue in the host country. They look to and seek what is their own as their source and not that of a stranger. You cannot serve two masters. If you go over to the side of the host country and betray your home country, you have committed treason.
But like Adam they have transgressed the covenant; there they have dealt treacherously against Me. Hosea 6:7.
As My ambassadors are you busy about My business and affairs, representing My Kingdom in your host country (wherever you are in the world as far as the nation in which you dwell in your earthly sojourn)? Or are you seeking only your own interests and abusing My trust in placing you as My ambassador?
The Lord answered, “Who then is the faithful and wise manager, whom the master puts in charge of his servants to give them their food allowance at the proper time? It will be good for that servant whom the master finds doing so when he returns. Truly I tell you, he will put him in charge of all his possessions. But suppose the servant says to himself, ‘My master is taking a long time in coming,’ and he then begins to beat the other servants, both men and women, and to eat and drink and get drunk. The master of that servant will come on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour he is not aware of. He will cut him to pieces and assign him a place with the unbelievers.” Luke 12:42-46.
Each day, who and what are you seeking? Remember you are an ambassador of My Kingdom. I provide for all your needs according to My riches in glory in Christ Jesus. Even to providing for your food, shelter, clothing, and healing. The embassy is usually a beautiful and luxurious building compared to the surrounding homes.
When the LORD your God brings you into the land He swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, to give you—a land with large, flourishing cities you did not build, houses filled with all kinds of good things you did not provide, wells you did not dig, and vineyards and olive groves you did not plant—then when you eat and are satisfied, be careful that you do not forget the LORD, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery. Fear the LORD your God, serve him only and take your oaths in his name. Do not follow other gods, the gods of the peoples around you. Deuteronomy 11:10-14.
You cannot be serving Me and going after the idols of the worldly. You cannot straddle the fence. You must make a choice of whose Word you will seek and obey as your own.
“No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon. For this reason I say to you, do not be worried about your life, as to what you will eat or what you will drink; nor for your body, as to what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air, that they do not sow, nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not worth much more than they?” Matthew 6:24-26.
I love you. Faith is a rest. Know what Kingdom you belong to. You were conceived in Me on the sixth day and on the third day I raised you up for just such a time as this. New beginnings are always there for you. Jesus is the resurrection and the life. He is My Way of righteousness and He will always lead you to the Kingdom.