"But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things will be added to you."
How may we increase our focus on seeking the kingdom of God? We must take away our worries, our weeds, first.
Don't be worry about what we wear, eat, or drink because God even took care of birds of the air and the lilies of the field. In this chapter, God's telling us to spend our time thinking about God not about the things of the world because God will take care of those things. God will take care of what's outside of our walls just like how God took care of what's outside of Hezekiah's kingdom. In fact, Hezekiah's name means "the Lord is our strength". Hezekiah decided not to be weakened by 185,000 enemies out of the walls, so he seeked the Lord for His strength and He answered, "Your prayer to Me about Sennacherib king of Assyria I have heard" (2 Kings 19:20). Then the angel of the Lord came out to the battlefield around Hezekiah's kingdom to fight for him. The top secret weapon! "And that night the angel of the Lord went out and struck down 185,000 in the camp of the Assyrians. And when people arose early in the morning, behold these were all dead bodies." -2 Kings 19:35
Hezekiah had the top secret. Elijah had the top secret too, but he once lost it in 1 Kings 19 when he flees Jezebel. When Elijah lose his top secret, what did he do? He listened to what the angel commanded him to do: "Arise and eat, for the journey is too great for you." So Elijah "arose and ate and drank, and went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights to Horeb, the mount of God."
Wow! Elijah fasted for 40 days and nights! What is the top secret for his fasting? Let us look at "went in the strength of that food". What food? Jesus said, "I'm the spring of living water and the bread of life." The Word in the "manna" is probably the top secret food that strengthened Elijah for the journey to seek God. While Elijah fasted for 40 days and nights to seek God, God gave Elijah His top secret voice: a whisper among the loud! Unlike deer that didn't hear a vehicle among the people and the vehicles, Elijah heard God's voice even among the earthquake, the fire, and the wind.
Hezekiah prayed. Elijah fasted. God took care of them and added the top secrets to them. The top secret weapon and the top secret whisper!
Before we may expect any top secrets from Him, we shall seek Him better by increasing our giving, praying, and fasting before the Lord to reduce our tendency to be worried about things around us. Three guides to increase our focus:
-We shall give without letting our left hands know what our right hands are doing.
-We shall pray a heartfelt prayer without any intelligence empty lengthy phrases.
-We shall wash ourselves and put lotion on us to look clean so that no one may know we are fasting, but our Father.
When we increase our focus, we shall seek the Lord better and the Lord shall add His top secret to us!
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