Blessed Every Single Day

Why is seeking the Kingdom important? Because when you seek the Kingdom of God and His righteousness first, everything that you need, or would generally worry about, will be taken care of for you. When you know those things are being taken care of, we can spend our time on other things such as praise, worship, giving thanks and recognizing our daily blessings. How many of you continue to worry about something after you have been told that everything was okay? This is the state that we should be able to walk in because God says all things will work to our good. That does not mean that we will always get what we want, but things will always work out. I said this before, it is easy to rejoice and praise God when we are not focusing on everything missing in our lives.

In the last verse, Jesus said that we should not worry about tomorrow because tomorrow will take care of itself. He also said that every day has enough troubles of its own so why spend time worrying today about things of tomorrow. Remember this, when we are worrying about tomorrow, we miss the blessings of today. When we begin to understand that seeking God’s Kingdom first leads us into a life where our expectations are that God will meet our needs, we begin to actively look for the blessings versus being surprised when they appear. We should not ever be surprised when God blesses us, we should be expecting them. But understand, because we expect the blessings, we do not take them for granted. Our blessings are to equip us to be able to fulfill our daily role in His Kingdom, not to sit back and say I am blessed so I am better than you. The two biggest slaps in the face to God is first when we do not recognize the blessing and second when we recognize the blessing and are not grateful for them. I want us to be mindful of the first in this message because I believe once we consistently recognize when we are being blessed (everyday) we will be grateful because many of us do not think we are blessed. Once we get used to the idea that we are receiving blessings daily, then we can deal with ensuring we are always grateful.

Conclusion

I want to close by going encouraging you to look at, ponder over and accept all of the blessings you receive each day. You do not have to wait for that one big one to know that you are being blessed. I want each of you under the sound of my voice, or for those of you reading this, to take a moment and think about the following:

• When was the last time you did not plan what you will be doing tomorrow?

• When was the last time you went through a whole day not feeling that you got anything accomplished because you had so much on your list of things to do?

• When was the last time you admired something that God created – a sun set, full moon, fresh fallen snow?

• When was the last time you thanked God for the little things – a kiss, a hug from a child, good grades, etc?

• When was the last time you looked at your spouse, kids, parents, friends, etc and said “Lord I thank You for I am blessed.”?