Tremendous according to Cambridge dictionary means very great in amount or level or extremely good.
Some synonyms of the word “tremendous” includes the following:
✓ Awesome ✓ Superb ✓ Massive ✓ Hot
✓ Superb ✓ Groovy ✓ Grand ✓ Huge
✓ Colossal ✓ Super ✓ Gigantic ✓ Herioc
✓ Fabulous ✓Great ✓Mighty ✓ Vast
✓ Fantastic ✓ Powerful ✓ Stupendous
✓ Astounding ✓ Sensational ✓ Titanic
✓ Incredible ✓ Formidable ✓ Glorious
The word “Blessing” on the other hand means a special favour, mercy or benefit, a favour or gift bestowed by God, thereby bringing happiness, the invoking of God’s favour upon a person. This is according to dictionary.com.
Some synonyms of the word “blessing” includes the following:
✓Godspeed ✓ Prayer ✓ Sanctified ✓Felicity ✓ Appeal ✓ Supplication ✓ Benediction ✓ Good ✓ Grace ✓Invocation ✓ Benefits ✓ Manna
✓ Intercession ✓ Petition ✓ Windfall
Our Biblical verse of the year 2021: Matthew 6:30 – 33 [NIV Translation]
30:If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you—you of little faith?
31:So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’
32:For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them.
33:But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.
To walk in “tremendous blessing” come year 2021, must first of all seek God’s kingdom and his righteous.
The question that readily comes to mind is “how do I seek first God’s kingdom”.
To answer this question, let’s go back to Matthew 6:25 all the way to verse 33 to properly understand why Jesus gave the rule of prosperity or blessings by seeking first God’s kingdom and his righteousness.
Let’s take out a little time to go through the verses from Matthew 6: 25 – 33.
Verse 25 :
Jesus was asking us not to worry about our life’s as regards the following basic needs of man:
✓ what to eat (food)
✓ what to drink
✓ what to wear (clothes)
He reminded us that our life is more important and precious than meat and our bodies more important than what we put on it.
He was teaching us to value what is valuable – our life and body more valuable than what we need to live our lives and what our bodies need to feel and look good.
Verse 26:
In this verse Jesus tries to compare the man who worries about life to birds of the air that doesn’t cultivate, nor plant seeds, nor reap, nor gather into bans, yet God feeds and cares for them adequately.
This comparison is devastating because a bird unlike man does not till to get what to eat but yet it’s belly is fully satisfied.
If you can wake up every morning with the realization that God is big and wealthy enough to care and feed you every single day of your life, then worries will automatically disappear.
Jesus was trying to let you know and understand that you are more valuable than birds.
Verse 27:
Worrying according to Jesus will not add anything to your life.
Worrying makes you feel like you are concerned about the issues or challenges you face but in contrast, it exposes your faithlessness and makes God appear as do He is not able to take care of you.
Always remember this: ” worrying is a display of your disbelieve in God’s ability or capacity to take care of you”.
Verse 28:
In this verse, Jesus once again is comparing a man who worries to lilies of the valley.
They grow effortlessly with God’s supplies – rain, soil rich in nutrients.
The same way these lilies grow without struggling is the same way you should grow depending on God and not on your efforts.
Verse 29:
Jesus was explaining how glorious these lilies are adorned and in doing that, he compares
king Solomon (the greatest king on Earth second only to King Jesus) and the lilies and concludes that the lilies of field are more gloriously arrayed than king Solomon in all his glory.
Verse 30:
Jesus brings to bear how powerfully endowed God is to provide us with clothing. He does this by explaining how he cloths the grasses of the field which today is and tomorrow is trashed and burnt.
He concludes this verse by throwing more lights on the fact that our worries originates from our little faith in his ability to provide for us.
Verse 31:
When you think and worry about what to eat, drink or what to wear, you actually displease God because you are doubting his abilities to adequately provide all your needs.
Verse 32:
The people of the world also refered to as gentiles are those who donot believe or have faith in God.
They are unbelievers because they don’t believe in God and as such are ruled by the desires of the flesh and are driven by such desires to enguage in all manners of ways displeasing to God to get wealth by their intellect, strength, efforts thereby despising God’s ability to provide.
Jesus admonished us not to be like them, because all they seek after are the things of this world – whatever money can buy but instead we should seek God and his righteousness first then He (God) adds all we will ever need to our lives.
Verse 33:
These are 7 (seven) ways to seek first God’s kingdom and his righteousness:
- PRAYER/FELLOWSHIP:
We are admonished to pray continually according to 1 Thessalonians 5:17. prayer grants us the opportunity to build intimacy with God through Jesus our Lord (Matthew 26:39, 42, & 44).
Don’t forsake the gathering of yourselves together.
- BIBLE READING/STUDY:
Depending only on pastors and spiritual leaders for God’s word is not good enough for use.
God wants to meet with us on a personal level and the way He can do this is through you studying His words.
When you study God’s word you become more like God. Psalm 119:9 and Psalm 119:105 shows that God’s word is a light unto our path and a lamp for our feet.
- WORSHIP:
Worship recognizes God as the Almighty and honours Him for who He is a d helps to usher us into His presence. - REPENTANCE:
John 3:16 is a necessary heart attitude for salvation and keeping with the righteousness of God. Repenting is a lifelong activity for the Christian.
Repentance for the unbelievers leads him to salvation but repentance for the believer in Christ is a daily heart check-up.
To seek first God’s kingdom we must learn to trust in the grace of Jesus Christ and always repent as the spirit of spirit of God prompt us to do.
- BIBLE VERSE MEMORIZATION/MEDITATION:
A proven way to stay off worrying is to know God’s word through memorization and meditation.
Memorization stores the Bible in your mind while meditation drives it down into your spirit where it takes root and produces what it talks about in your life.
Ephesians 6 depicts the word of God as our only offensive weapon in our spiritual arsenal Psalm 119:11 talks about meditation which follows these steps: memorize it – internalize it by repeatative mothering under your breath – understanding it.
- PRAISE / THANKSGIVING:
You know how you feel when someone praises you- how much more God.
Psalm 100:4 indicates that we enter His gate with thanksgiving his court with praise while Psalm 22:3 tells us that God inhabits the praises of his people.
You unleash tremendous blessings when you enguage always in the act of praise and Thanksgiving.
- EVANGELISM:(Looking out for the lost):
Evangelism comes naturally to anyone who is in constant fellowship with God.
Evangelism would do the following for you:
✓ It will help to keep the gospel Central in your life. Collosians 1:5-6, 1 Corinthians 15:1-3 and phillipians 1:6.
✓ It helps us understand the most fundamental truths of the Bible’s. Pilemon 1:6. I pray that you may be active in sharing your faith so that you will have a full understanding of every good thing we have in Christ.
✓ it helps to grow our love for God and neighbors. Mark 12:28-31. There’s a kind of joy feel whenever you lead an unbelievers to Christ . This journey is unexplainable.
✓ it brings to our notice that those around us needs to be saved
✓ it leads to persecution for the gospel, which leads to our growth Romans 5:3-5.
When you enguage in these seven activities and more as the Spirit of God leads you to do, you’ll discover a gradual shift of your attention and focus from the things that would normally upset and worry you to GOD who has the capability to take care of all your needs according to His riches in glory through Christ Jesus our Lord.
According to Philippians 4:19.
To experience 100% of ” tremendous blessings” this year 2021 – you must indefinitely seek first the kingdom and it’s righteousness, then shall every other thing that you would ever want or need be added to you in abundance.
God is waiting and ready to give you the shoke of your life only if you’ll follow his layed down instructions.
Yours in His LOVE,
Emmanuel Obani.
President,
Kingdom Lovelife City Inc.
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