TRUSTING GOD: THE FOOD & CLOTHING PROMISE (PART 1)

THE PROMISE TO SEEKERS

Seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness and ………………… shall be added unto you.

What will be added? I suspect you think it’s, “every other thing” like most Christians.

Is it the Lord’s promise that when we seek His Kingdom first, He will give us EVERYTHING we want?

The passage is Matthew 6:33 – But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you. (NKJV)

If the Lord’s promise is to add “all these things” to us as we pursue His kingdom and righteousness, then what exactly are “these things”?

What does the Bible really say? Let’s think through this.

SCRIPTURAL PERSPECTIVE

“Therefore I say to you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air, for they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? Which of you by worrying can add one cubit to his stature? “So why do you worry about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin; and yet I say to you that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.

Now if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will He not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? “Therefore do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ For after all these things the Gentiles seek. For your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you. Matthew 6:25‭-‬33 NKJV

If you’re doubting what you just saw from the passage above, we’ll let the matter be established by a few more witnesses in the following episodes.

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