Right now, millions of people are scrolling… searching… reaching for something. The next notification. The next distraction. Something to fill the emptiness. We’re all seekers. Some of us seek success – the career that will finally prove we matter. Others seek security – enough money, enough control to quiet the anxiety. Many seek significance – wanting to be seen, to be valued, to know we’re enough. But here’s the question Jesus asks us today: What are you seeking? Not what you say you value… but what does your life actually pursue? What dominates your thoughts and drives your decisions? Your life’s focus determines your life’s outcome. Discover how putting God’s kingdom at the top of your list transforms everything.
In today’s message titled “What are you seeking?” Evangelist Paul Acquah invites us to examine our hearts. To be honest about what we’re really seeking. And then shows us the one pursuit that brings everything else into focus. Be blessed as you listen!
Jesus said seek and you shall find. If you seek for something, Jesus says, “Seek and you shall find.” You’re going to seek after something and something that God’s put in your heart and Jesus said you’ll find it. How much we apply or gain from this simple principle, or this attribute is completely up to us a lot of times. So, let’s go to the scripture and look at Matthew 7:7. It says, ” Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you”. And then let’s go on to verse eight. It says “For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened”. Remember, ask, seek, and knock, are all verbs. They’re action words, which means we have a part to play in that. God has a part, and we have a part to play.
Jesus literally just said, “Seek and you’ll find.” The same as ask and it’ll be given. It’s so simple that if you look at that, Jesus repeated himself again. I think it was so simple he was just like, “Uh, wait a minute. I just need to repeat that just in case you weren’t paying attention.” And so often we see this and you’ve heard this probably before: When something is mentioned twice in the word, usually you want to pay attention to it. There’s usually an emphasis on it and there’s something that needs to be looked at. I believe Jesus was really trying to highlight this point and show us the simplicity of the gospel. Jesus said, “Seek and you’ll find”. So, what are you seeking after? What are the things that you’re seeking after? We all have to ask ourselves this. What are we seeking after? I feel like the Lord wants to encourage somebody today with this.
Jesus simply said, “Seek and you’ll find.” We need to seek to find. So, what is the main thing that we are to be seeking after? There’re all kinds of things that we can be seeking after, but what’s the main thing that we’re supposed to be seeking after? Well, let’s go over to Matthew 6:33. A lot of us know it. It says, “But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added unto you.” Let’s look at another version in Luke 12:29. It says, “And do not seek what you should eat or what you should drink, nor have any anxious mind. For all these things the nations of the world seek after, and your father knows that you need these things.” So, what is he saying here? He’s saying, “Don’t seek after the things thateverybody else seeks after. Your father knows you need these things.” Then he goes on to say in verse 31, “But seek the kingdom of God, and all these things shall be added to you. Do not fear, little flock, for it is your father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom.” So, what do we have there? We have Jesus saying, “Seek first the kingdom of God, and all these things will be added unto you.” And then in Luke, he ends it with, “It is the father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom.” This should excite and motivate you more. God is not keeping anything from you.
Again, he’s excited to give you the kingdom, but you must do your part to seek it. What’s the kingdom of God? The kingdom more often applies to His rule in and through those who are submitted to Him. “The Kingdom of God” more specifically refers to Christ living and ruling in our hearts. So, praying “thy kingdom come” is praying for the expansion and influence of God’s rule in the hearts of men everywhere and, ultimately, the establishment of His physical Kingdom here on earth at His second coming (Rev. 11:15; 20:4). So, Christ living and ruling in your heart is the kingdom of God. Jesus said, “The Kingdom of God cometh not with observation . . .behold, the kingdom of God is within you.” (Luke. 17:20-21). Paul says we are already in the Kingdom of God (Col. 1:13). The Kingdom of God is therefore Christ’s “invisible Church,” His body. The Kingdom began during His earthly ministry and is still ruling the hearts of men today.
The new birth ushers us into the Kingdom of God which is infinitely greater in wonder and benefits than our finite minds can comprehend. If we understand how God’s Kingdom works and apply our lives to it, we can experience heaven here on earth. Pray for a release into the physical of what is already present in your spiritual being. The Kingdom is not by observation. Jesus was speaking of the fact that His kingdom was in the hearts of people and not in visible things (Luke 17:20) such as buildings or palaces. It is true that there will be a future physical kingdom that will rule here on earth, but Paul said that believers are presently in the kingdom of God’s dear Son (Colossians 1:13). That makes it clear that the kingdom of God is already a present-tense reality in the hearts of God’s children.
When we talk about God’s kingdom, seeking implies that we seek to belong to it. Are we seeking to belong to God’s kingdom more than we belong to this world? Because that’s really where our home is. We seek to know God’s will and to do it. But you’re supposed to get into the word to know God’s will. And you must get into the word to know God’s kingdom.
We are also seeking to promote the interests of this kingdom. That’s another thing that we need to be seeking. We need to do everything we can to promote the kingdom. We must have that attitude as believers and say to ourselves, ‘I’m going to promote the kingdom of God in every opportunity I have’. If we all took this attitude, I’m telling you, we’d see miraculous things happen. This is what we do when we live in a country or a kingdom. We promote it.
We are to promote God’s will. What is God’s will? Let me give you the best, and the simplest illustration of that. Jesus said in the Lord’s prayer, “My father which art in heaven, hallowed be thy name, thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.” What’s God’s will? His biggest will is for us to help bring heaven here on earth. And what is that? That’s promoting the kingdom of God. So, if we’re going to seek first the kingdom as Jesus said, the simplest form of God’s will for each and every one of us is to bring heaven here on earth. God’s kingdom come here on earth.
