2025 Going Deeper
I’m super excited to share what I believe the Lord is saying about 2025! I have no doubt that it will be a year of tremendous blessing and favor—a year of Kingdom increase like we’ve never experienced before! I can’t wait to dive into the details of these exciting revelations with you all! Before we jump into them, I want to share a couple of things with you that will help establish our path forward.
First, I am not trying to sell you a bill of goods that would have you believe everything is always sunshine and roses. I am not saying there won’t be any dark or hard days. Even Jesus said, “In the world, you WILL have trouble. The good news is He followed it by saying, “Be of good cheer, for I have overcome the world.” The latter half of the statement means that when we begin to trust His Lordship, we can rejoice in the fact that He has already overcome all of our adversities! It’s a Kingdom Factor; it changes everything!
Secondly, there is a word that has been on my heart for the past three or four months regarding the new year and the richness of His blessing. It is a word of caution and encouragement meant to precede and accompany the message of promise. It represents an essential principle in the stewardship of blessing. It also serves as a roadmap for reaching, embracing, and sustaining the promise of 2025 and beyond. The word is: GO DEEPER!
**Going Deeper**
Often, during times of great blessing and abundance, we may be tempted to ease off on our commitment, diligence, and discipline—essentially abandoning stewardship and slipping into a lottery mentality. This mentality can easily lead to a position of entitlement and prodigal living. Before we know it, we find ourselves coasting through life on the comforts of easy street in the midst of the blessing. It’s a shallow-minded, self-important place where the emphasis of trust ends up on the blessing instead of the Blesser and the blessing soon runs dry.
Please don’t misunderstand me. I am not implying that our hard work can earn or sustain God’s blessings; they are a gift of His grace. By the same token, there’s nothing we can do to disqualify ourselves from them either; it is the same gift of grace. However, there are decisions, mindsets, and actions we can engage in that ultimately deny the power of His blessing a place of manifested reality in our lives. It is, in fact, true that the seeds we sow are the seeds that grow! That’s bible, folks.
Going deeper means moving beyond a superficial lifestyle of casual acquaintance and half-hearted commitment. Just like with Adam and Eve, it is a life lived tending our garden in the glory of the Father’s presence, so to speak. It is the place of relational investment, where we are forever changed by the Power of Heaven’s Transformational Influence. This is a foundational concept from my soon-to-be-debut book, “The Kingdom Factor.” We will discuss this term more in-depth at a later time.
It is intentional Kingdom living that leads us to an abundance of sustained blessing. Jesus clearly made this point in Matthew 6:33, commanding us, “Seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.” In John 15, He used another word for sustaining a blessed and fruitful life that glorifies the Father, abide. Both are intentional.
We do not accidentally become or sustain anything. Just as the Father is deliberate in His love, favor, and blessing for us, He expects us to walk in them as a result of our pursuit of His Kingdom. Hebrews 11:6 declares, “Whoever comes to Him must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him!”That is intentional faith and it pleases Him.
Intentional Kingdom living causes our trust, loyalty, affection, and focus to become anchored in the Father as a result of relational equity. It’s an investment that returns a life-changing impact as we become fully immersed in His transformational influence. It’s a choice that reflects the mentality of the Apostle Paul in Philippians 3 where he encouraged us to make every effort to lay hold of that for which Christ Jesus has laid hold of us! It is about living with a predecided intention of daily devotion and deepening our relationship with Him. It is the perpetual seeking of the King and His Kingdom above all else. It is a place of relational trust in the Lordship of Jesus, no matter what!
As we enter this new season of increased favor, blessing, and promise, I believe the Father’s encouragement to us is to steward what He is doing by embracing Him and daring to live beyond the superficial. It’s not a season to let up or coast; it’s a season for hard-charging kingdom-seeking! It’s a season to go deeper!
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Until the next week, blessings!
Jason
