Weekly Missions Reflection: Embracing God's Love for You Jesus commands you, “As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Abide in my love” (John 15:9 NIV). God’s love for you—and the nations—is extravagant beyond description. Do you look at yourself through the lens of God’s love for you? How or how not? If not, what scriptures can you meditate upon to align your self-vision with God’s love? We invite you to take a moment to pray, meditate, and privately journal your thoughts. 🕊️ Never miss a reflection! Subscribe for 52 weeks of growth in God's call at https://bit.ly/growingodscall (fb)

In Matthew 6:33, Jesus gave every Christian ambassador a clear mandate: “Seek first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness” (Matthew 6:33 NKJV). Our Lord couldn’t have spoken the heavenly call more clearly. But today, many believers don’t even know what God’s kingdom is. It’s time for that to change. You see, God has given the church a primary mission: seek the Kingdom of God—welcome the transforming influence of Jesus’s reign in our lives and our world. The original Greek shows the importance of this command: the word translated “seek” is zēteite (ζητεῖτε), which means desire, endeavor, or enquire for, and the word translated “first” is próton (πρῶτον), which means before, at the beginning, chiefly, at first or first of all. Jesus commands us to seek, desire, enquire after, and endeavor for the Kingdom of God and His righteousness, and to do it first, chiefly, and before anything else! No longer can we allow the transformative call of God’s kingdom to occupy a small part of our lives—it must become our lives! We should be consumed with our pursuit of God’s kingdom and its redemptive influence in the world. And that’s exactly the problem. Many of us rarely think of God’s kingdom, let alone pursue it before anything else. Truth is, most of us have forgotten we belong to this worldwide revolutionary kingdom, so we see no further than our local churches and denominations. As a result, we waste away the years, devoting our attention solely to our family leisure, hobbies, home church, or personal ministry, and leaving God’s worldwide invasion of light to others. We desperately need to recover a vision of God’s kingdom so we can experience its redemptive power and spread it to the whole world. That’s the ambassador’s job description, after all! From the book, Invasion of Light: How Jesus Can Use You and Me to Win the Battle for Souls and Societies by Brian Mark and JJ Weller 📚 Read the book or listen to the audiobook 🎧 today at amzn.to/3YyqDBf Also available on Kindle Unlimited 🌟 Love the book? Leave a review at https://amzn.to/3ytIJto (fb)